Na Jaemin is in a sticky situation because he has an unrequited crush on Lee Jeno, his extremely close friend and fellow member of NCT Dream. He had finally mustered the courage to confess to Jeno when he walked in on him doing something which broke...
I was exhausted; completely and utterly exhausted. I've been practicing the same choreo for almost 2 months now, and I still couldn't get it right. Lee Jeno is partially responsible for that. When there are group practices, I anyway can't focus but whenever I try t practice alone, he shows up to watch and help. We have our comeback stage in a week and I still mess up the choreo, and it's all his fault.
This time, I snuck out of our dorm to go to the conjoined studio in the middle of the night so that I could practice in peace. After three rough and rigorous hours of non-stop practice, I had finally perfected the routine. I carefully tiptoed my way back to the dorm only to be stopped by fuming Jeno blocking the entrance.
"Why are you up so late? Why aren't you in bed? Jaemin, what is this behavior?", he asked. I seriously thought he might have murdered me.
"I wanted to practice a bit more, I finally perfected the routine, you see!", I said, shoving a phone recording under his nose.
He snatched the phone and started walking towards me. I kept moving back until I hit the studio wall. He placed his hand on the side of my head, dangerously leaning on me. He was still furious.
"Next time, make sure that you inform someone beforehand. I don't want everyone scared to death!", he said and hugged me.
I blushed as red as a ripe tomato as he ran his hand across my back and gave me a smile as he went back to his room. He had his own room, just like Donghyuck, who used to share his with Mark Hyung, but he graduated. Huang Renjun shares a room with Zhong Chenle so that they won't feel homesick. Lastly, Park Jisung and I share a room, the smallest one, because we are the least bothered with stuff like this. We are used to adjusting and it honestly isn't even a problem anymore.
I started liking Jeno right after we released our debut song. It was a silly song and I didn't like it much, but, he made it so fun and interesting to do that, it's one of my favorite songs now. It reminds me of his optimism and love.
The song I'm talking about is called Chewing Gum. It's basically just us singing and Mark Hyung rapping about our love for chewing gum.
We all are very affectionate towards each other because we practically grew up together. Jisung is the most affectionate one, but we're told to hide our closeness when being filmed so that each of our 'personalities' remains unquestioned. Kisses on the cheek, cuddling till we fell asleep and back hugs are pretty normal routine activities for us. We have even seen most of each other naked except for Jeno and Mark Hyung, but Donghyuck claims otherwise.
But over time, things changed and we actually became our 'personalities'. Donghyuck and I were the only ones that remained affectionate. That's why I was so surprised when Jeno hugged me. He usually hates this kind of stuff. Renjun is my best friend. We never hid anything from each other except the identities of the guys we liked. We agreed to keep them a secret until something worked out. I always thought he liked Yangyang because of all those little signs. Renjun loves to talk about Yangyang, I mean, he can rant for hours non-stop. He even tried to learn a little bit of German so that he could be closer to him, but Renjun is an unpredictable person. You never know with him.
I climbed into my bottom bunk just to find Jisung shivering in my bed, hugging the pillow. Sometimes, when he is tired, he hates to climb up to his top bunk. So he deliberately falls asleep on my bed before I come because he knows that I wouldn't have the heart to wake him up. But this time was different, I could easily sense that something was wrong. I took the pillow's place and caressed his face, slowly pulling a blanket over both of us. He's a light sleeper and I knew he'd wake up when I did that. His eyes opened slowly and then widened, seeing me so close to him. He tried to free himself from my grasp but I held onto him tightly. I told him to calm down and a few seconds later, he finally did.
"What's wrong?", I asked with visible worry on my face.
"Mum is a little ill, and I haven't seen her in ages, and won't be able to for an even longer time. She has been falling ill on a very chronic basis and it scares me.", he said, almost in tears.
I sat up and put his head in my lap so that I was facing him if I looked down. I softly played around with his hair and said just one thing.
"As soon as we're done touring, I'll drive you home myself, okay?"
That little devil started sobbing. He knows well enough that I can't see anyone cry without tearing up myself. And his sobs were way too loud. I lay back down and wrapped my arms around him. I told him to stop crying and to go back to sleep.
"This is only for tonight. Tomorrow, you're back in your own bed!", I whispered.
He giggled and soon fell asleep.
I sometimes feel like my life is incomplete without the dreamies. They're the best things that have ever happened to me.
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I was woken up by Chenle's dolphin screams as he skipped in to wake Jisung up, as was routine. But when he saw Jisung in my bed, with his arm and leg thrown across me, his expression immediately turned murderous and he stormed out of the room. I didn't understand what just happened so I waited until Jisung woke up, to ask him. As soon as he woke up, he retreated from my body as he was hugging a snake. I laughed and asked him about Chenle'sreaction. His expression also dropped and he said, "Chenle saw us? He saw the way we were sleeping?".
I nodded and he lost it. He ran out of the room repeating the word shit continuously. Hey! I know enough to identify young love. I could easily tell that they both liked each other and were together, not officially though, at least to the rest of us.
I stayed where I was because I didn't wanna leave the warmth of my bed. Soon, Jisung stumbled in, redder than I'd ever seen him. He almost ripped his jumper off as he ran into the bathroom.
"I'll take long, use the dorm shower, nobody uses it!", he yelled from inside. Like I already told you, this sort of stuff isn't a problem for us, we're used to adjusting. Jeno usually gets up really early and goes off to practice so I thought he'd already left. I took off my upper and threw a towel over my shoulder, heading towards the dorm shower, which was usually used by Jeno. I got in, humming Jeno's part in DNYL.
"Gosh, I love his voice!", escaped my mouth as soon as I finished his part. I was looking in the mirror, humming, and dancing as I usually did when I saw an extremely familiar eye-smile™ peek out from behind the shower curtains. At first, I thought I was imagining things, so I just blinked and rubbed my eyes. But Jeno was still there. I facepalmed myself and said, "Jaemin stop! Stop imagining him here. There's no point. He'll never shower with you!"
He almost fell down when he heard this. Seeing him almost fall, I realized that he was actually in here, only way too late. I had already slipped my pajamas off(I luckily still had underwear on). I covered my nips but looked down and screamed. I covered my crotch with one hand and my nips with the other, screaming even louder.
"JAEMIN, stop screaming. There's no point! Both of us are naked, neither one can leave!", he yelled.
"Get behind the curtain, Jeno!" I yelled even louder, turning into the darkest shade of red one could imagine.
"God, you look like a tomato, LOL!", he chuckled at me.
"JENOOO!!!"
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