why can't you? || Markhyuck

~•Friends•~

"It's okay Mark, he'll be fine." Jaemin said. "He does that when he's shy."

Mark nodded.

"We should probably just go sleep. Goodnight!" Chenle said with Jisung following behind him.

"Goodnight!" They all exchanged goodnight and went to bed. Mark went to his shared room with Heachan.

He opened it and saw Haechan on his bed scrolling through his phone.

When Haechan noticed the older staring at him, he turned off his phone and covered himself up and went to sleep.

Mark didn't buy it. He went over to the red head's bed and sat on it. "Why are you avoiding me?"

Haechan started to fake snore, as a sign to tell the older that he is sleeping, but Mark didn't buy that either.

"You literally just went to bed, you can't be asleep already." Mark chuckled.

Haechan felt his cheeks getting warmer.

His chuckle is so cute, Haechan thought.

"Oh come on." Mark said.

"I'm trying to sleep." Haechan said, still covering his whole body under the blanket.

"Fine. Goodnight Haechan." The older said and went over to his own bed.

Haechan's heart was beating too fast he couldn't reply to the older.

Mark frowned when he didn't hear any reply, but shrugged it off and went to sleep.

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Next morning came, Mark woke up to an empty bed beside him. He did his usual morning routine and went downstairs. He saw everyone making breakfast.

"Goodorning, Mark! We were about to wake you up." Jaemin said.

"Morning." Mark replied with a smile.

Mark saw Haechan helping out Jaemin. He didn't glance up to look at Mark or anything. Mark frowned, it wasn't like Haechan.

He is avoiding me. Mark thought to himself.

Jeno came beside him and patted his back. "Haechan can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but he's totally worth it."

Mark smiled and nodded.

The older went over to where Haechan was. "Haechannie," he called out his name.

Haechan froze for a second but turned his back to look at the older. "Yes...?" He mumbled.

"Why are you I ignoring me?" He inquired with a frown.

Haechan nervously chuckled. "I'm not."

"Liar." Mark said.

Haechan clicked his tongue. "Just go, can't you see I'm busy?"

Mark moved closer to Haechan and shook his head. "No."

Everyone paused whatever they were doing and fouced on these two arguing like a cute couple. They all hoped it'll come true someday, but they knew how their friend Haechan was.

"Mark." Haechan said, as a warning.

"Haechan." Mark said with his famous cute smile. Haechan wanted to punch his face because he was too cute to resist. So he just sighed and gave up.

"What do you want, Mark?"

Mark smiled even brighter. "Stop ignoring me."

"I wasn't- okay fine, whatever." Haechan groaned.

Mark giggled and started squeezing the younger's cheeks. "You're so stubborn."

Haechan's was painted red at this point, his friends couldn't help but laugh at the two and say a few phrases like "Haechannie is red" and "get a room." Which only made Haechan even more frustrated, he removed Mark's hands from his cheeks and growled.

Mark wasn't even trying to hide to his feelings or anything, and it made the younger thinking hard. Does that mean he likes him? He did held his hand yesterday, but maybe it was just platonic? They fell asleep at the same bed multiple times before, cuddling and all, but isn't that what best friends do? Was he and Mark best friends? Well he went through lots of trouble for him , that's what friends do, right?

Haechan's head was about to explode from these thoughts. He hated how he couldn't differentiate between whether Mark is just being friendly, or was he intending more. What if it was both?

"Hey, are you okay?" Mark asked as he saw the younger zone out.

Haechan snapped from his thoughts and just nodded. "Yeah, just got a lot on my mind."

"Well, I'm always here to help, you know." Mark said with a smile.

"Does that mean we're...friends?" Haechan mumbled.

Mark was taken a back from the question, he wasn't  expecting it. He was sure he had some type of feelings for the younger, but he was afraid of hoping for too much, so he just kept it in. Mark was shy, he doesn't  have it in him to actually come clean to Haechan, and he wasn't  ready to lost h as a roommate and a friend. So they are indeed friends, just friends.

"Yeah," Mark smiled, "we are friends."

Haven't updated in ages ik! I lost inspiration for this story for a while but now it's back and I really really wanna finish this story.