ᴊᴜsᴛ sᴀʏ ʏᴇs | ᴍᴀʀᴋʜʏᴜᴄᴋ [ᴇᴅɪᴛɪɴɢ]

16

Jaemin raised his hand and hit Donghyuck's cheek. The loud sound echoed in the room and Donghyuck could feel his left cheek burning up. Donghyuck stared into Jaemin's eyes with shock. Why did he hit him?

"Jaemin-" Before he could ask, Jaemin got out of the bed and made his way to the door, bumping into a couple of things on the way there.

"Donghyuck" He hissed, when he opened the door to the room. "Get your feelings in check."

And with that Jaemin was out. Donghyuck kept his eyes locked on the door. He expected Jaemin to understand that his feelings were confusing and he thinks that he only likes Mark as a friend. But instead, Jaemin was cold to him, and even went to the extent to slap him.

The door reopened and Jaehyun entered. He looked at Donghyuck with concern filled eyes.

"Uh" Jaehyun sighed and then walked over to Donghyuck, who was still laying in bed. "Did Jaemin slap you?"

Apparently the noise was loud enough for everyone outside his room to hear. Donghyuck began to feel embarrassed, as he realised that everyone knew he had gotten slapped. If he had gotten slapped from anyone but Jaemin, he would've been alright, as it had already happened before. But this was Jaemin. Jaemin. The angel. The person who has never raised his hand at anyone even as a joke.

"Yeah..." Donghyuck muttered, and hoped that the dim lighting in the room would hide his red face.

"Why?" Jaehyun asked. He was too tired of seeing Donghyuck so dead. Donghyuck was always loud and he wanted that back. Ever since yesterday, Donghyuck had been too quiet for everyone's preference. Even Doyoung wanted him to speak, and that's saying something.

"Mark kissed me." Donghyuck said, and paused, letting Jaehyun take in the information. Jaehyun's eyes widened and he then nodded. "And he confessed to me, but I ran away. I told Jaemin that although I liked the kiss, I think I like him only as a friend."

Donghyuck watched as Jaehyun face palmed. He then face palmed again.

"Hyuck" Jaehyun reached his hand forwards and then brushed a couple of strands of hair that were on Donghyucks head back. "If you liked it, then that means that you do like him back, romantically"

Donghyuck shut his eyes closed and let Jaehyun continue to brush his hair with his hands. Jaehyun saw this and then pulled Donghyuck up and into a hug. At the moment, Donghyuck just wanted to get away from all of this. All he wanted in life was to become a big singer, which he had succeeded in doing, and have a cute boyfriend.

Jaehyun kept his arms around Donghyuck for a while longer, until Donghyuck pulled away and sighed.

"I'll think about it some other time" Donghyuck said, shaking his head in hope to get rid of the thoughts. "But right now I need to worry about the next comeback we're having."

Jaehyun stared at Donghyuck for a while before nodding. He knew that Donghyuck wasn't going to suddenly accept Mark's confession, especially since Mark had literally been rejecting Donghyuck for a good 3 to 4 years now.

"Get some rest kid" Jaehyun said, climbing into his own bed and switching the lamp off. "You've got a long day ahead"

Donghyuck dropped his head back onto the pillow and shut his eyes immediately. He had been sleeping for a really long time, and resting for even longer, but all the sleep he had lost for the past year came to him now.

And he fell asleep.

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Donghyuck pulled his hoodie over his head and grabbed a face mask from his drawer. He didn't want to talk to anyone today, and all he wanted to do was practice. As soon as he got out of his room, the hyungs all rushed to him and tried to make conversation, but he simply nodded and said a few 'okay's and 'yes'.

"Donghyuck."

Donghyuck never knew someone saying his name could scare him that much, except for when his mum called him to scold him. Donghyuck pretended as if he didn't hear it and continued to walk through the kitchen, grabbing a snack bar and hurrying to the door.

"Donghyuck." Mark repeated, now holding onto the handle of the door and staring down at Donghyuck. Although he wasn't much taller than him, he seemed to have had the height advantage over Donghyuck.

"Move out of my way Mark hyung" Donghyuck said, trying his best to hold in his emotions. He didn't want to sound mean, but he didn't want to sound sad either. He was going for an emotionless tone.

"We need to talk." Mark said, not removing his hand from the door. Mark waited for a while but when he saw that Donghyuck wasn't going to give in, he sighed. "Please."

"Maybe later." Donghyuck said, knowing that his excuse was a lie. As much as he wanted to talk to Mark, spend time with him, he didn't want to talk about their feelings for each other, or whatever Donghyuck had for Mark.

"Promise me we'll talk" Mark said, pointing out his pinky at Donghyuck.

Cute. Donghyuck thought, looking at the pinky. Only Mark hyung could do something so childish.

"Okay" Donghyuck said, interlocking their pinky's and then pulling away quickly, as he felt a blush rush to his face. "Now let's go practice"

"Yeah" Mark smiled, opening the door for Donghyuck. "Let's go practice."

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It had been exactly three days since Donghyuck had made the promise with Mark. Whenever Mark tried to talk to him, he would pretend as if he's either too tired to speak, or that he has something to do.

Donghyuck knew he was being rude, and honestly really horrible to Mark. But he needed to get his feelings in check before he could speak to him again. He didn't want to make Mark misunderstand anything that he says, so tried his best to not talk to him

He hadn't spoken to Jaemin either. Although they were best friends, after he got slapped, he felt betrayed. Donghyuck had expected Jaemin would understand that Donghyuck had mixed feelings, but he didn't.

The only people that actually understood what Donghyuck was going through, were Jaehyun and Jisung.

Jisung had gotten worried with the way Donghyuck had been avoiding Mark, so he had decided to confront him. He even used his height to corner Donghyuck, and overpowered him with his strength.

Donghyuck finally gave in and spilled the tea.

"Oh wow." Was all Jisung had said, before patting Donghyuck's back and saying, "Well good luck with that hyung, and just know we're here. Take your time with your emotions, but not too long of course."

Donghyuck didn't know how the youngers words actually helped him. He literally said the most unhelpful thing, but it was still good enough for him?

Jeno and Renjun seemed distant. Donghyuck guessed that Jaemin had told them about the incident and they agreed with what Jaemin said. But what was Donghyuck doing wrong? All he did was run away from Mark when confessed. He avoided his best friend of 6 years and was unable to get his stupid feelings in check.

"Don't worry" Taeyong said randomly. He ruffled Donghyuck's hair and then pointed at the clock. "Also, there's only 6 hours till your birthday"

Donghyuck's eyes widened as he remembered that it was in fact his birthday tomorrow.

"I completely forgot" He said, laughing slightly. At least now he was going to have a good day.