dazed and confused - norenmin

twenty

jaemin

"sshh, jaemin's still asleep..."

"should we wake him up?"

"what he doesn't know won't hurt him."

"come here, you can try after me"

jaemin slowly began to regain consciousness, vaguely aware that he was still on the beach, and drowsy from the afternoon's slumber.
distantly, he processed jeno and renjun's voices, murmuring to each other intently.

"ready?"

"it's...bigger than i expected"

"just hurry up, it's dripping all over me"

"well, there's one way to fix that."

ears turning red, the brown-haired boy blinked his eyes a few times and raised his head,
hoping that in his sleepy state he had misheard what sounded to be a conversation that he really didn't want to be taking place.

"how's your first time?"

"it tastes sweet."

"alright, let me show you how it's done"

"wow, you really don't have a gag reflex huh"

at that jaemin sat bolt upright and stared at the two with wide eyes,
both of whom jumped and met his gaze guiltily. it was clear at once to jaemin that his overactive teenage brain had been carried away, and that the scene before him was not that of a smutty fanfic.

sitting cross-legged opposite each other, renjun and jeno had been sharing an ice-lolly,
which, with the sticky juice melting quickly onto jeno's fore-arm, left him quite literally caught red-handed.
brushing aside both his instantaneous relief at what was happening and hurt at what was, jaemin's eyes narrowed as he caught side of the wrapper.

"is that a fab?"

"would you be eating a fab - which, as i'm sure you are aware jeno, is my favourite ice-lolly - without me?"

jeno gulped.
whenever jaemin spoke in that quite, measured voice...shit was about to go down.

"it's just...
renjun had never had one and the ice-cream van came just at that moment so i went to buy three one for each of us but there was only one left and it was melting really quickly and i wanted renjun to try it and i didn't wanna disturb you cause you looked so peaceful and cute asleep and i'm really really sorry i promise i'll buy you all the fabs in the world just please forgive me-"

jaemin held up a hand to silence him.

"for the sake of junnie here, i won't get into this now."

renjun, who was unsure whether or not to take jaemin's grave tone seriously, could sense that there was going to be a follow-up to this statement, and glanced at jeno, who had gone sheet-white and was cringing away in anticipation of the words that would drop from the other boy's lips.

"but this is very much not over."

"that's another thing you owe me now, jeno. you should take more care not to add to that list, otherwise..."