not your mate | jjp

c h a p t e r 4

"Happy birthday, Jinyoung." Mark smiled at him, one hand in his pocket.

"Thank you." Jinyoung smiled back at Mark, his birthday was going great so far.

"So, have you found the one?" Mark smirked, leaning against the locker for support.

"Nope, but my locker is stuffed with notes saying that they're my mate." Jinyoung laughed, opening up his locker to show Mark the dozens of cards in his locker.

"You really are loved by everyone." Mark laughed, taking an unopened card and studying the outside of it.

"Guess I missed one." Jinyoung shrugged, urging Mark to open it.

Mark tore open the top and took the letter out, immediately they were hit with the strong smell of an expensive smelling perfume.

"Oh damn, that just burned off all my nose hairs." Mark coughed out, placing a hand on top of his nose and handing the card to Jinyoung.

Jinyoung read the card and yeah, it was the same thing that the other cards had. He put it back into the envelope and tossed it into his locker with the rest.

"Let's just go to class, that perfume is giving me a headache." Jinyoung sighed, closing his locker and walking to class with Mark following close behind.

*

"Jackson what the fuck are you doing?" Jaebum asked when he saw Jackson sniffing the air like a lunatic.

"Dude, I swear it smells like shit." Jackson said, scrunching up his nose in disgust.

"Then why the fuck do you keep smelling it?" Jaebum questioned, rolling his eyes at Jackson.

Jaebum was about to go to class when a smell hit him, it was an intoxicating smell, it was almost drawing him in. Just when Jaebum was about to take another sniff, it was replaced with the smell of strong perfume that almost burned his nose.

"Dude, what was that?" Jaebum asked, covering his nose with his hand.

"It smells bad, right?" Jackson said, shaking his head.

Jaebum wondered if he had just imagined the smell, it was probably that. And so with a shrug, Jaebum walked off campus, not wanting to have to smell the perfume that just so happened to mask the smell of his mate.

*

"You celebrating your birthday?" Mark asked when school was over.

"Nah, my parents wouldn't want that." Jinyoung shrugged, adjusting the backpack on his shoulder.

"Let's go to the cafe, my treat." Mark suggested, he didn't want Jinyoung to be unhappy on his birthday just because of his parents.

"I don't think my parents would like that." Jinyoung hesitantly said, looking down at the floor, not wanting to make eye contact with Mark.

"I'll take the blame, I'll tell them that I forced you. Please." Mark begged, shaking Jinyoung's shoulders slightly.

It's been a while since Jinyoung has been happy with his parents and Mark wanted to cheer him up, especially since it's his birthday.

"Fine." Jinyoung gave up, a smile blooming onto his face when Mark beamed at him.

"Great, let's go." Mark cheered, dragging Jinyoung down the street.

Jinyoung's smile started to disappear once he realized what will happen when his parents find out, but with one look at Mark, he knew that it'll be worth it.

Mark dragged Jinyoung all the way to their favorite coffee shop and ordered the usual. Iced caramel coffee with chocolate cake on the side.

"Sorry I couldn't do more." Mark sighed, setting his fork down and looking at Jinyoung.

"Mark, you know that I don't ask anything from you. This was more than enough." Jinyoung smiled, urging Mark to keep eating the cake.

After a couple of minutes of laughing and joking, Jinyoung found himself straightening his back at the odd smell in the air.

"What's up? Did you find a hair on the cake like I did?" Mark asked, gazing at Jinyoung with wide eyes.

"What's that smell?" Jinyoung asked, ignoring Mark's initial question.

"What?" Mark asked, sniffing the air.

Jinyoung was on cloud 9, the smell was so intoxicating, that it made him want to chase down what it was.

Jinyoung felt his eyes flash for a second before his eyes locked in on something.

"Jaebum?" Jinyoung whispered, locking eyes with Jaebum, who was already looking at him.

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sorry for not updating :(

i've been swamped with work and school started and i'm already falling behind on homework.

i just wanted to post cause y'all don't deserve to get slow updates.

i'll try to update soon, love ya <3