then again, ends mean new beginnings ; nct markhyuck

4/?

Unknown Number
- Haha! It seems that I stand corrected.
- Hey, Hyuckie.
- How have you been?

Donghyuck stared at his phone screen, confused. Should he going to answer his question? "Hey, Mark hyung! I was doing pretty well until I remembered you and now I feel like a sack of shit. How about you?" Just like that?

Questions kept popping up in the back of his brain every time he took a step to get out of the train and they kept popping up until he started feeling fuzzy.

Before he could fall into a mental breakdown in front of the train door, his phone buzzed in his hand once again.

Unknown Number
- Wait.
- Are you by any chance...
- in the train station?
- I think I can see you.

Donghyuck stopped in his tracks and looked up, immediately trying to spot wherever the stranger texting him was.

He didn't want to believe that he was Mark just yet. What if this person was messing with him? He didn't want to fall for it. No, not again.

He wanted to see for himself whether it really was him.

However, his heart was already hoping it was him.

The station was flooding with people coming from different places, making it difficult for Donghyuck to scan the area. His loud, distracting heartbeat and his blurry, before-a-breakdown vision was not helping him at all.

Besides, it's been five fucking years. Who knows what he looks like after all that time? He could be hiding himself under a beard or layers of plastic surgery for all he knows.

Finding him was no easy task when there are a several doubts severing his vision of him.

Fortunately, one cannot easily change their eyes, and the heart never forgets a pair of eyes when it's fallen for it.

Donghyuck stopped. The stranger he was looking at did, too.

Hold on.

He wasn't any other stranger.

It was him.

It was Mark fucking Lee.

"Donghyuck!" Mark called out, excitedly waving at Donghyuck from afar. His voice almost drowned in the noise of their atmosphere, but Donghyuck's ears caught it before it completely disappeared.

Donghyuck merely stared at Mark, not sure how to react.

This...

This is another dream.

This has to be another dream.

...but if it was another dream...

Donghyuck wants to make sure that he never wakes up from this one.