Fake Smile | Jaeyong Nct

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What if I'm down?
What if I'm out?
What if I'm someone you won't talk about?
I'm fallin' again
I'm fallin' again
I'm fallin'

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After lying there for quite a while, he decided to go home at some point. He picked himself up from the floor and hissed immediately because of the stabbing pain in his side. He prayed to God that none of his ribs were broken. With slightly shaky steps he grabbed his stuff and left the dance studio. But before he left the building, he ran into the bathroom to clean the blood from his face. He leaned slightly against the sink and looked into the mirror. Tired and sad eyes looked back at him. His lip was quite swollen and was still bleeding a little while his nose had already calmed down. However, his whole face was smeared with blood. Taeyong was still too shocked by what just happened. Lei had literally beaten him, several times. For Taeyong it was now certain that he definitely wouldn't keep quiet anymore. He would tell the others and maybe they would help him in his fight against Lei. With totally shaking hands he started to clean the blood from his face under the water. The swelling in his lip didn't disappear, just like the sad expression on his face. It was definitely time to tell someone about it and Taeyong finally decided to tell his boyfriend. Jaehyun would know what to do. He always had a solution at hand and could help everyone in a great way. Taeyong encouraged himself one last time before he left the bathroom and afterwards the building. With every step he took, his side hurt incredibly and he automatically pressed his hands lightly against it in the hope of soothing the pain. Arriving in the dorm he wanted to go straight to his boyfriend and found him in the kitchen together with almost all the other members. All of them, except Jungwoo and Haechan, sat at the table with serious faces and looked up when Taeyong entered the room. Slightly confused Taeyong let his eyes wander over his band members. They all seemed angry and disappointed and he wondered what had happened. Lei also sat at the table between Johnny and Jaehyun. His eyes were reddened and it looked as if he had just cried. Why should he cry? Had the others found out what had happened and confronted him? Did Lei feel guilty about what he was doing and couldn't handle it? Taeyong couldn't imagine what had suddenly happened that the elder one might have cried. Jaehyun was the first to get up and walk towards him and Taeyong wanted to throw himself into his arms. After what just happened he needed the closeness of his friend and just wanted to cuddle up to him and hear his comforting words. Jaehyun, on the other hand, did not look at all enthusiastic and before Taeyong could even say anything, his head flew to the side as Jaehyun slapped him. Frightened, he immediately flinched back and held his cheek while looking at his boyfriend with big eyes. "How could you?!" Jaehyun's voice resembled the hissing of a snake and he looked at him incredibly angry before turning on his back and storming out of the kitchen. Johnny got up immediately, looked at Taeyong in disappointment and ran after his best friend. Taeyong didn't understand anything anymore and stood there paralyzed. With his eyes still wide open, he kept holding his cheek and wanted to run after his boyfriend and ask him what he had done wrong. He didn't understand what had suddenly happened, why he had deserved all this. But before he had the chance to follow Jaehyun, Yuta stood in front of him and looked at him with crossed arms in front of his chest and Taeyong felt even more uncomfortable than before. A little spark in him hoped that Yuta would take him in his arms and explain everything to him but the younger one didn't look like he was on his side. "I never expected all this from you, Taeyong." Taeyong looked at him. He didn't know what Yuta was talking about. He didn't understand what was going on and slowly got scared of the truth. "I... I don't understand, Yuta?" Yuta laughed slightly. "Of course not Taeyong. Keep playing innocent, but we're getting tired of your lies. We know who you really are now." Taeyong flinched slightly. What?
We know who you really are.
He didn't understand what Yuta meant and looked at him helplessly before he looked over at the table and looked at his other band members looking for help. Mark just avoided his gaze, just like Doyoung. Taeil on the other hand got up and walked towards him and Yuta. "Lei told us the truth. About how you treat him. How you had started an affair with him and now that he had ended it, since he had found out about you and Jaehyun, you try to get him out of the band and because of that you constantly hurt him." Taeil snorted slightly angry. "God aren't you ashamed of yourself? Treating Lei and Jaehyun like this?" Taeyong was speechless. His mouth kept opening and closing. He wanted to say something back. To tell them that it was not true but he was paralyzed and didn't utter a word. He could not believe that they thought that about him, that they saw him like that. Yuta hissed slightly. "I never thought we would learn about your relationship with Jaehyun by breaking his heart." During the last sentence Taeyong flinched immediately.
Jaehyun
Damn, he really needed to talk to him. To explain to him that none of this was true, that he would never do such a thing and that he loved him, really only him. He squeezed past the two of them and went after his lover. After he explained it to Jaehyun, he could take care of the others with his help. For now, only Jaehyun counted. He ignored the stabbing pain in his side and literally sprinted up the stairs and ran to Jaehyun's room. Jaehyun sat on his bed, his face buried in his hands, while Johnny sat beside him and stroked his back. Taeyong could hear his boyfriend sobbing softly and he immediately felt his blood freeze. "J-Jae?" Both Jaehyun and Johnny looked up immediately. Johnny's face immediately went cold. "What more do you want Taeyong?" He hissed angrily and grabbed Jaehyun lightly. Taeyong's heart tensed at the sight of his boyfriend. Jaehyun wept and looked at Taeyong with such a painful expression in his eyes that Taeyong himself wished to cry. "i..it's not true." Taeyong's voice was low but both boys heard him anyway and Johnny immediately laughed scornfully. "It's not true? Screw you Taeyong." Pleading, he looked at Jaehyun and ignored Johnny. "Of course it's true. Lei could prove it to us." He immediately turned his eyes to Johnny. "H..he, what?"
How could he prove something that didn't exist?
Jaehyun sobbed only slightly and Taeyong automatically took one more step into the room. He wanted to hug his boyfriend and calm him down. It hurt him to see him like that. So broken and infinitely sad. He only knew Jaehyun as a strong boy who was always in a good mood. This sight broke his heart. "Lei has a picture of you two kissing. On top of that he told me that you tried it again today and that he punched you. Your split lip proves that too."
Lei had a photo? How could he have a photo? They never kissed.
"Y..you have to believe me." Taeyong didn't know what else he could have said. The others seemed to believe Lei more than him and that although they didn't know Lei for nearly as long "Please, Jae, it's not true. It's really not true." Taeyong walked towards the bed and knelt in front of Jaehyun, taking his hands in his own. "Please believe me. You know me. You know I would never be like this. Jae, please..." But Jaehyun immediately tore his hands from Taeyongs and looked at him. In his gaze Taeyong recognized right away that Jaehyun had already made a decision. He believed Lei and not Taeyong, and this realization almost suffocated Taeyong and he stood up trembling. "Y-You don't believe me." Taeyong himself now began to cry and stumbled backwards.

Was he really about to lose everything?