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sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 23

"You're going to fail." Jaehyun commented, rolling his eyes and then scoffing as Mark dropped onto Donghyuck's bed. Ever since Donghyuck had disappeared to the dream dorm, Mark had started sleeping in Donghyuck's bed, mostly because it was much more comfortable than his own, and because he read in some book that by sleeping in someone else's bed, you fall asleep quicker. It was definitely not because he was missing Donghyuck.

"How are you so sure?" Mark asked, stuffing his face into the pillow and spreading his limbs across the bed, tangling himself with the sheets. "I'm confident."

"Ha ha, so funny!" Jaehyun laughed sarcastically, and then looked back down to his phone. Mark was annoyed, because Jaehyun didn't believe in him. After Mark told him that he was going to try his best and fluster Donghyuck in public, Jaehyun only laughed, like the other members, and shrugged the idea off. Mark didn't understand what was so funny, all he was going to do was be all lovey with Donghyuck to see him blush for once.

"I'll show you." Mark grumbled, shutting his eyes and then immediately falling asleep, thankfully managing to not hear the taunts Jaehyun gave from across the room.

-☀️-

"Just be lovey." Mark mumbled to himself as he watched Donghyuck tighten the tie on his suit. It was finally ISAC again, and as much as Mark had hoped that Donghyuck would be on the archery team with him, resulting in more time spending with him, he wasn't. Instead he was a floor MC, and Mark didn't understand how he got the role but didn't really care because he was so proud of him, which meant that they won't be able to spend much time together.

Before Mark could do anything, like go up to Donghyuck and greet him properly, Donghyuck yawned and hurried out of the door, holding a few pieces of card with script written over then. Mark internally groaned as he realised he missed his first chance, but believed he could redeem himself sometime throughout the day.

The group got called out, and Mark glanced down at the paper attached to him which read 'NCT 127'. He chuckled to himself as he remembered how people kept joking around about the way he shot the arrows last time. Truth be told, Mark had his contact lenses in, but could still not see anything, so shot with guesswork and actually managed to get a decent score.

He also remembered how Donghyuck had called him up the next morning and laughed at the top of his lungs at the expression Mark had made. He didn't understand what was funny, but if it made Donghyuck gasp for air because of laughter, he was glad he did that.

"Haechanie!" Johnny yelled from besides Mark as Donghyuck appeared on the large screen. The cameraman clearly liked Donghyuck, since he zoomed into his face, and Mark couldn't help but smile at the confused and nervous expression Donghyuck had. As much as Donghyuck boasted around and said that he was confident, he got nervous quickly.

"Whoo!" Mark cheered Donghyuck up as he stuttered through some speech and then laughed it off. Mark raised his hands and then wiggled them, his smile got even wider as he locked eyes with Donghyuck, who quickly looked away to stop himself from smiling as well.

"He looks good in a suit." Jaehyun commented, nodding his head as Doyoung agreed with him and then Johnny joined them. Mark shot them a look, to which they replied with a, 'not in that way dude'.

After a while, Donghyuck walked out of the cameras view and jogged down the area, making his way to the members who were seated on the floor. They weren't tired, just bored and looking for a way to pass time quickly.

"Hey." Donghyuck said as he passed by Mark and then stood next to Jaehyun. The members quickly shuffled closer to him and then bombarded him with questions. "Woah guys calm down, one question at a time."