started with a dare | NORENMIN

9 | PICTURE

"out of all the things you could've taken a picture of, you decided to take a picture of this?!"

jaemin was referring to the picture that was currently showing on his phone, one that was sent to the large group chat of twenty one boys just the day before. sicheng had taken a picture of renjun, jeno, and jaemin resting their heads and latching on each other while sleeping in the car, and once the picture went out in the group chat to all of their friends, the teasing came to the three of them in a storm, and it didn't stop.

it had been two days since the incident, but the teasing didn't seem to be dying down anytime soon. it was mainly donghyuck, ten, and johnny who did majority of the teasing, making the embarrassment come to the three of them thrice as worse.

it also didn't help that jaemin had mixed feelings with the picture that was showing on his device. the image of renjun and jeno resting their heads on each other seemed so perfect, almost like a detailed drawing of fanart or something along those lines, but then seeing the brown haired male's head resting on the chinese boy's other shoulder took the perfectness out of the picture.

it made it seem as if jaemin was the odd one out in the image, and the brown haired male couldn't stop himself from feeling hurt at it. the euphoric feeling he got was also mixed with disappointment, but there wasn't really any need to be disappointed.

renjun and jeno look really good together, and no matter how many times the korean male would like to deny it, even he, himself, couldn't agree against it. it made him feel upset and left out in a way, but he didn't necessarily know the exact reason as to why he was feeling this way.

maybe it was the jealously of renjun being able to get close to jeno. the brown haired male himself knew that he would kill just to get an opportunity to lay his head on jeno's shoulder (not that they don't already have an excessive amount of skinship among everyone in their friend group), but objectively speaking, it was mainly because of his crush on the other brown haired male. if jaemin didn't like the other as much as he did, then maybe he wouldn't be feeling these many emotions when it came to the picture.

and just because of the picture, the high school student ended up knocking on the chinese male's door during sicheng and yuta's cuddling time, which the youngest of the three had no idea that they actually had something like that. the japanese male was pouting and slightly frowning, upset that his cuddling time with the chinese male had been interrupted and all for what? jaemin to get a chance to complain to his roommate about the picture that was taken?

"i mean... what else would i take a picture of?" the chinese male asked, not really understanding what was so interesting in the city outside the car window that he had to take a picture of. the image of the three young boys in the back, leaning on each other and sleeping, was a much more interesting and entertaining sight to look at, and next thing sicheng knew, he had taken a picture.

"i don't know. maybe... buildings, or... yuta hyung?" the brown haired male suggested, but sounded unsure. after hearing the chinese male's comment on his complaints, he realized that they live in seoul, a large city in korea that has building for miles and miles outside the car window and nothing particularly interesting or out of the ordinary to actually look at.

jaemin hated to admit to himself that the other male had a point. there was really nothing else for him to take a picture of, and that exact reason would be the defeating point of his argument.

"then... did you have to send it to everyone else?" the brown haired male tried to turn the topic to a different perspective, yet he could still taste his defeat with this as well.

"why would i not? its a cute picture of three friends that were cuddled together in the back seat of a car and sleeping. stuff like this is exchanged all the time between us, so i don't see why this is any different."