village girl › nct 2018

09

take note; some of their birthdays are moved and changed, so that the order would still be taeil (oldest) - jisung (youngest)

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3RD PERSONS VIEW。

"what do you mean you met a girl?!" mark exclaims after hearing jaemin's confession.

"shhh!!" jaemin harshly said, slapping a hand over his brother's mouth, trying to keep him quiet. once his brother finally calms down, he sighs and takes his hand off mark's mouth.

mark stared at him wide-eyed, "you're dead."

"well, then don't say anything!" jaemin crossed his arms.

"but, i can't just keep a secret from taeyong-hyung! especially such secret like this!" mark whisper-shouts, a bit worried that he had to pick sides again.

"come on, hyung! i trust you on this," jaemin whines, clasping both of his hands together as he faced his older brother with a pout.

mark looked hesitant, he didn't know if he should keep jaemin's, and the other's, encounter with the girl a secret, or just run up to taeyong and straightly tell him what they had been hiding for the past couple of days.

jaemin gave him a hopeful look, mentally praying that mark wouldn't tell taeyong. "you wouldn't dare! even donghyuck met her, you're gonna get all of the younger ones in trouble, including jaehyun-hyung and doyoung-hyung."

mark sighs, "just promise me that you won't get too attached like last time." he knew it was a bad idea to keep it a secret from the older ones, but he also knew his brother's consequences.

jaemin flashes him a bright smile, jumping up and down in excitement, "yes! thank you! just promise me that you won't tell them."

mark smiles at his happy brother and nods shortly, "i promise."

jaemin engulfs the older boy in a hug before letting go, "i'll go in now, see you later!" jaemin waves goodbye before dashing back into the palace. mark chuckles at his younger brother's actions, seeing his brother's happy is what he wanted the most because seeing his brother's happy was very rare.

the changes they had through the past years were big, especially after the incident. everything around him just suddenly changed, and what hurt him the most was, he had to pick sides. he had to choose between his younger brother's or his older brother's.

mark hung his head low as he stared at the pavilion's floor. numerous thoughts flooded his mind after choosing. he was afraid that was he did may cause something bad, something that would require a huge change again, he definitely didn't want that to happen again.

"prince minhyung?" the boy flinches at the sudden call of his name. he looks up and turns around and was met with a palace guard, mr. choi. "y-yes?" he stammers.

"you must go back inside, the queen is roaming around to check your rooms." mr. choi tells him and with that, mark nods and makes his way back into the palace.

mark was made his was to his own room. he was glad that he had clean up his room yesterday, that means his mother wouldn't scold him again for not tidying up his room. he takes a seat on his bed and stared at the empty space across him, he used to share the bedroom with jaehyun, unfortunately jaehyun had a rough time when the incident happened and decided to move to a room where he could be alone.

mark clutched onto the necklace beneath his white polo, his breathing hitched as memories flowed back into him. thankfully, a knock interrupted his reminiscing. he cranes his head towards the door and saw his mother standing by the doorway. "i'm glad you cleaned up, minhyung."