𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐄𝐋 | markhyuck

n°4 - klutz encounter

Mark pretended not to hear what his brother said.

It's wrong.. he told himself. so wrong.

Mom told me not to love him like that, this is incest.

The walk home was awkward and the two didn't talk.

Donghyuck sighed in defeat at what Mark said as he plopped down onto his bed.

"Uh, what did you say? Let's just go home, okay?"

Donghyuck knew they weren't blood related, and he found out by accident.

Five years ago, Mark and their mom went to sign Mark up for a guitar class, leaving the nine-year-old Hyuck at home.

He was feeling excited once they left the house, and rushed upstairs to steal candy from their Mom's room.

Donghyuck tried to climb up the closet and check if there was any goodies on top, but he ended up falling onto the floor.

Under mama Lee's bed, there lay a dusty, old shoe box.

Donghyuck opened it in curiosity, thinking he hit the jackpot.

Instead, he found a journal.

The entry read:

06/06/2000

I found a baby hidden in the tree, and I decided to take him in.

I'll name him Donghyuck.

Mark will be so happy once he finds out about this.

I'll convince them both that they're brothers, I don't want any awkward or strange feelings between them.

Donghyuck remembers the moment he found this letter so very well, the tears welling up in his eyes, wetting the sleeves of his sweater with tears and snot. He had always found Mark to be a cool brother before this incident happened.

After that, he could never look at Mark the same way. Whenever they would do something of brotherly manner, the journal would pop up in his mind and keep him from expressing genuine feelings.

It was until he turned 12 when he decided to stop hiding his affection.

Donghyuck found out about gay couples and the LGBTQ+ community around that time, and he couldn't help but wonder if he was apart of it.

One day, he walked in on Mark changing, which was a rare occurrence nowadays because they had gotten older and had grown to care more about things like privacy.

It didn't take him much longer to figure out the rest after that.

Hyuck became more affectionate, more than it was safe. Donghyuck didn't bother to act correctly when Ms. Lee was gone.

He loved mark. He was grateful for everything the older has done for him and taught him, and he was willing to express it in the way that his heart wanted to.

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Mark, being the dense ass he is, always thought of the newfound affection Donghyuck started to have for him as childish and playful, and he got used to it.

But this— this was too much for Mark to handle.

He decided to take a walk in the park to clear his mind, not even telling his brother.

He closed his eyes and spread his arms out, kinda like a T-Pose but more graceful.

A girl named Koeun from their school saw him from behind the tree which she sat under, smiling. She had a crush on him.

She had the sudden sick idea to buy an ice cream, then bump into Mark.

She ran off to the food stand and began to take her plan into action.

Meanwhile in the Lee household, Donghyuck knocked on Mark's bedroom door in attempts to apologize.

"Mark?" he said while knocking.

"Maaark~"

"Cutie Mark?"

"MURKUS."

"HellOooO?"

Donghyuck gave up, then sat by the window in his room. There was a nice view of the park from here.

He saw his brother standing in that weird pose with his eyes closed, and he smiled.

His smile quickly turned into a frown when he saw a girl wearing their school uniform dash towards Mark headfirst with an ice cream cone.

Donghyuck cursed her in his mind when she fell on top of Mark and got her ice cream on him, clumsy bitch.

Out of worry, he ran down to the park as fast as he could to take his brother home.

"Oh! I'm so sorry Mark I didn't see where I was going!" Koeun whined in a (sickeningly) cute way.

"It's fine Koeun, it was an accident." Mark mumbled, trying to keep the frown on his face from emerging. The shirt he was wearing was his favorite, too.

"Oh my god I-"

"Mark!" Donghyuck shouted as he ran closer.

"Hyuckie? What are you doing here?"

"I saw you get trampled by this hoe and thought it was best to take you home.."

Mark hugged the younger, even though he knew it would get ice cream on him too.

"Thank you. Let's go home."

Donghyuck smiled to himself, and when Mark wasn't looking, he turned around at Koeun and made the slitting throat sign at her.

Mark was feeling mischievous at the moment because Donghyuck told the annoying bitch off, and he asked a really strange question.

"Hyuck, you have ice cream on you too. Wanna take a bath together?"