It's Been A While

Apart

The sun rose from its slumber as the sky turned colour from light orange to blue. It was December and God knows how cold it was. Mark woke up with goosebumps crawling all over his body and he shuddered in response. Still laid back on his pillow, his mind drifted to what had happened the day before.

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The secret meeting with the lucky IGOT7s was held at night. Everybody was covered up in layers of thick apparel, why wouldnt they, it was 2 degreess outside! The boys pulled off elegant long coats and thick scarves, looking attractive as ever.

The charismatic leader, Jaebum was dominating the microphone, babbling something about their showcase. Shrills of excitement passed around in the audience while the other members were playing around. After a long day of practice, they decided not to focus much because focusing leads to hecticness and they had too much of that already. But then they still had sincere smiles on their faces and interacted with the audience.

Jackson was fooling around with Bambam, making ugly faces. As expected, though. Well, that was their specialty after all.

Meanwhile, Youngjae was making aegyos for his stans and waving to them every now and then.

Then.. There was Mark.

Everyone is well aware of Mark's behaviour. He's the quiet type, the one who talked the least during interviews, and just practically smiles and all, BUT the eldest tends to get the spotlight when he laughs. The high pitched and cute giggle may be the main reason why his stans adore the once-red-haired boy. Besides, he's GOT7's visual after all.

Stiffly standing there, the Tuan posed for pictures and basically smiled. He took a glance to his right just to see that Jinyoung was having fun with someone else who was n o t him. Yugyeom.

"Ya hyung! Stop tickling me!", the huge maknae exclaimed as Jinyoung tickled him all over. He knew it was Yugyeom's weakness. He's super ticklish! Yugyeom laughed until tears streaked down his face as his body sprawled out on the stage and a series of laughter could be heard from the ahgases.

Looking away from the scene, Mark was disappointed. And kind of hurt because of the fact that Jinyoung knew how much Mark felt out of place at this kind of event and Jinyoung would always be there beside him to talk and do everything to make him comfortable.

Well, Jinyoung was beside him alright. It was just that his attention was elsewhere.
The elder questioned himself, 'Does he even notice?'. But he never got the answer.

20 minutes passed and the mic was in Jinyoung's hands now. He was saying something about the fans and Mark pulled his hand to say something about it too to Jinyoung. But the response he gave left Mark dumbstruck. Jinyoung looked at him and back to Jackson, and passed the mic to him. Not a word to Mark.

"Ya Jinyoungie, i was talking to you. Didnt you hear me?", mentioned Mark with irritation through gritted teeth (wasnt visible though).

"Eo? You did? Mianhae, what did you say Mark hyung?", said Jinyoung blankly. The elder just replied with an incoherent 'never mind' and turned his gaze away.

It had been enough of ignorance that he got from Jinyoung, he definitely didnt need another one.

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"Ahhh, what a long day. Make sure to get a good sleep tonight, kids. Tomorrow's another day. Get in!", the leader motioned to get inside the van after a long hour of the event. Jaebum called shotgun first, so they went into the back. It was Jinyoung who went in first.

"Mark hyung, sit here", he said, a little bit too enthusiastically.

'Whats the use of sitting beside you if im gonna get ignored all over again', Mark thought and pretended not to hear the younger's invitation. Swiftly, Mark went to the back and sat by the window. He popped his earphones into his ears, leaned his head on the window, and shut his eyes.