punch drunk love | renmin

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yesterday they talked for quite some time, and they somewhat became friends. actually, they found each other pretty funny, their humor was similar, it wasn't too hard for two of the same kind to befriend. renjun was still deciding which one of his two neighbors was the most annoying. at least jeno isn't a fucking pervert, he thought.

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if at first glance renjun seemed, a really chill, timid and docile guy, jeno soon found out he was the total opposite. if needed to he was able to be cooperative, but in the every day he was more chaotic than he expected, anyway, it's nothing new from jeno's side. in case you already forgot, his best friend is a whole fucking na jaemin. if renjun's description has to be accurate though, he has to precise something, the older was chaotic for a span of time that swings between the 30 minutes to 3 hours, before discharging his batteries and becoming tired, in poor words: a concentrate of chaos.

jeno, as before said, wasn't bothered one bit, he actually found it extremely funny. they have been friends for about a four days now, they went to the cafeteria together, ate, hang out to the library or the yard, go home, either both at renjun's or at their own. what's the point of telling this? you may ask, he has ditched his group for the entire time (except for tuesday, renjun goes to the library on that day, he followed him and meet heachan and bora coincidentaly) he wouldn't address it that way thought. his initial plan was to befriend renjun and then hang out with him and the rest of the group, but he's scared it won't work as he hoped for. turns out renjun found jaemin a creep. he didn't explain why, but even if jeno tried to excuse whatever jaemin had done, he wouldn't manage to change his mind.

"YOU BITCH, JENO! i won't let you ditch me today, i've been using your bike to go to school since the other day, and your bike sucks! going alone sucks!" jeno could hear jaemin complaining as a toodler as he ran towards him, who was outside waiting for his other classmate to come out and go to school together as he has done in the past four days.

"YOU'VE BEEN USING MY BIKE? WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?"

"YOU'VE BEEN DITCHING ME WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! ARE WE GONNA FIGHT? I'M READY"

"AM I REALLY DITCHING YOU IF I ASK YOUR PERMISSIO? ENLIGHTEN ME WITH YOUR WORDS."

while the two best friends were arguing at an extremely loud voice given the hour (normal morning routine), renjun was seat by his window, just watching them, he sighs.

what a hassle, sigh. time to use the back door. when he lived in china he had a usefull back door too, and when things i't go well he just, you know, slips away from it.

and so he did, he took his school necessities, made up by some books, a ridiculous amount of pens and pencils, and a beanie, which he put on as soon as he got out of the back door. luckily, renjun's house had two ways out, he discovered many houses in korea didn't, when looking for a house, him and his parents visited a few of them but this was the only one to have a back door.

the front door, which led to the door of the gate, and the back door, an opening to the garden. there's no way out of the garden, but you can't stop renjun that easily, in a bothersome situation like this, he promised to himself to never ever confront jaemin again. still, there's no way out, but he can still jump over the wall that divided jeno's and renjun's houses.

he threw over his backpack first, then took jeno's bike. not the most moral thing to do, but he had no other choice, this or facing jaemin. he didn't waste another second questioning the legalicy of his actions and brought the bike out of jeno's yard.

jeno and jaemin were still arguing by themselves when they heard a bike shoot past them at an extreme speed. after some time of processing, they both looked at each other and ran. occasionally shouting something along the lines of 'stop you asshole' or 'i swear to god renjun when i lay my hands on you' and so on.

renjun wasn't affected by their words, but his body fast began to get tired, as you may have deducted already he wasn't really a sport kid, he liked basketball, dancing, it's just that his stamina didn't last long. as he started slowing down his pace the other two caught up with him.

"why do you even try if you know you won't make it." jeno said as he finally caught the back of his bike stopping renjun from carrying on. all of them just stayed still to catch their breath the youngers' hands on their knees sweating as if they just finished their physical education class.

"DID YOU MAKE US FUCKING RUN BECAUSE YOU AREN'T PLANNING ON APOLOGIZING TO ME?" there was silence until jaemin breathed out his sudden realization, still, renjun didn't spare him a glance, it infuriated the other even more. jeno begging his best friend to not fight the shorter for some unknown reason to him, by just holding him back from his shoulders.

usually renjun was a a fair person, but in this case he already stole a bike, he couldn't do worse. he took a deep breath before sprinting away once again.