Smile ✦ Nomin

四

Jeno entered his room with Jaemin in tow. "And this is my room," Jeno gestured around them.

Jaemin looked around and smiled softly, then turned to Jeno. "I like the green walls," he complimented.

"Thanks," Jeno smiled.

The boys spent the next few hours lounging around and talking about anything and everything. Jeno had never been so comfortable around Jaemin, and Jaemin felt like he was right where he was supposed to be.

After a while, the door to Jeno's room creaked open and his mother poked her head into the room. "It's 11:43, you guys should get to bed soon. I'm about to go to sleep as well," she lectured.

"Alright mom. Love you." Jeno yawned.

"See, you're tired! Sleep." she said. "I love you too," The door gave a soft click when it closed before the soft patter of feet could be heard going down the hall.

"Your  mom seems nice," Jaemin commented.

"She is," Jeno's smile made it clear he adored her.

A moment of comfortable silence passed. "So...where do I sleep?" Jaemin asked hesitantly.

Jeno thought about it for a moment. "Ummmm, you can sleep on the bed and I'll sleep on the floor." he proposed.

"Oh, no, I don't want to take your bed. I'll just sleep on the floor." Jaemin protested.

"Oh, um, ok. I'll go grab some blankets from the linen closet." Jeno awkwardly left the room.

A few moments later, Jeno huffed as he dropped a pile of blankets and pillows onto the floor. "I didn't know how many you wanted so I brought a bunch," he said.

Jaemin just smiled and got to fixing his bed. Jeno crouched to help him. "So, what's your family like?" The raven haired boy asked to fill the silence.

Jaemin chuckled at the random question. "They're pretty interesting. I have an older brother. His name is Jaehyun."

"Oh,"Jeno said. "For me it's only ever been my mom and I. I don't know what happened to my father, and I have no desire to know."

The peach haired boy hummed as he flopped his pillow onto the sheets. Jeno stood, "we should go get changed and ready for bed,"

Jaemin nodded and stood, "I'm going to need some pj's."

"Oh, of course!" Jeno exclaimed then rushed over to his dresser. Jeno yanked open a drawer and rummaged through it till he eventually pulled out a set of blue pajamas, "here," he said with a smile on his face. Jaemin thanked him then disappeared down the hall to get changed in the washroom. While Jaemin was gone Jeno wiggled into his pj's and hoped into bed, ready to pass out.

Jaemin crawled into bed and turned to Jeno who was already facing him. Jaemin smiled directly at Jeno and Jeno's heart went into a frenzy and his cheeks turned pink. Jeno let out a sigh of relief as he realized that Jaemin couldn't see his blush due to the darkness of the room. As the moon cast a gentle glow across Jaemin's face, Jeno noticed just how beautiful he was. A voice broke through Jeno's thoughts, "goodnight Jeno," Jaemin whispered into the quiet room.

"Goodnight," Jeno whispered back.

Jeno clawed at his neck trying to breathe as fear gripped him in its claws. He sunk deeper and deeper into the darkness as his mind taunted him over and over again. Jeno continued to claw at his throat even when it started to bleed, the blood ran down his neck and soaked into his shirt creating a pattern of dusty red across white. Jeno, with one last attempt to breathe, let out a blood curtailing scream.

A scream split through Jaemin's peaceful sleep and his head whipped around to look at Jeno as he jolted awake. Jeno was sitting up and breathing raggedly, and Jaemin could just barely make out tears streaming down his face in the pale moonlight that streamed the the window. Jaemin quietly stood and made his way over to Jeno. As he got close he saw Jeno reach up and touch his neck, then cry harder. The pink haired boy quickly sat down on the bed and pulled Jeno into his chest. "Shhh, you're ok, I'm here," he whispered in Jeno's ear as he ran his fingers through his hair. Jeno wrapped his arms around Jaemin's waist and dug his head into Jaemin's chest. "Don't worry, I'm here," Jaemin reassured.

Once Jeno calmed down Jaemin pulled back to look into his eyes. "Hey, I'll always be here for you, whatever it is you need, always come find me yeah? I'm not going to leave you behind." Jaemin smiled. Jeno sniffled then nodded. "Do you wanna talk about it?" Jaemin asked, "if so I'm all ears."

"No thank you," Jeno said softly, "I'd rather not think about it right now," he said then reached to his neck. Jaemin turned on the lamp on jenos nightstand, then gently pulled jenos hand away from his neck so he could see. Jaemin almost gasped but held it in, figuring it was not a good idea as it might get Jeno riled up again. His fingers brushed the skin of Jeno's neck where he could see red scratches, Jeno grimace in pain and Jaemin immediately retracted his hand. "I know you don't want to talk about it right now, but, when you're ready please talk to me." Jaemin pleaded. Jeno nodded. "Okay, I think it's about time we both went back to sleep," Jaemin stated.

"Don't leave!" Jeno panicked and grabbed Jaemin's arm.

"That was the plan," Jaemin smiled, then proceeded to join Jeno under the covers of his bed.

"Thank you," Jeno whispered. Jaemin smiled again and pulled Jeno into him,

"You're welcome," Jaemin replied and kissed Jenos head. Jeno snuggled into Jaemin and soon after fell into sleep. Jaemin pulled him impossibly closer and kissed his head one more time before he too, fell asleep.

Jaemin yawned and snuggled closer to Jeno, Jeno's arms tightened around Jaemin as he mumbled sleepily. Somehow throughout the night Jeno and Jaemin switched positions, Jeno was cuddling Jaemin instead of the other way around, but Jaemin wasn't complaining. After around ten minutes Jaemin opened his eyes to look at Jeno, he smiled when he saw how beautiful Jeno looked despite him still being asleep. Over the short time Jaemin had known Jeno he started to developed a bit of a crush on the black haired boy, but Jaemin didn't care, he couldn't think of a better person to like than the boy holding him in his arms.

Jeno stired and slowly opened his eyes, he blushed when his eyes met Jaemins and he looked away. Despite him being nervous he didn't want to let go of Jaemin, so he didn't. "Are you ready to talk about your dream?" Jaemin asked softly. Jeno stilled, then nodded as he dug his head into the crook of Jaemins neck and tightened his hold.

"We were hanging out, I don't know where, but it was really dark. At one point you turned to me, but you weren't you, you were, I don't know, but it was scary, and you pushed me, and I fell, and just kept falling, and falling. I couldn't breathe and my mind, it was so dark and, and it kept laughing at me as I scratched my neck to try and breathe. At one point I think I even made myself bleed, somehow at the end of the dream I was able to scream, and then I woke up," Jeno spewed, his breathing became harsh as he tried to hold back his tears. Jaemin felt Jeno tense, he wiggled out of Jenos grasp and reached out to cup his face.

"Everythings ok," he whispered as he looked into Jeno's glassy eyes, "I'm here. I've got you," Jaemin kissed Jeno's forehead.

Once again sorry for not posting, I was away with no wifi. Also sorry this is late, my friend that edits this for me was busy and couldn't edit for awhile, but she made time so that I could get this up without it being up days late. Thank you Genie. Also I'd like to thank Yuta for growing out his hair because yes. Hope you enjoy.

~Xixi