donghyuck speed-walked to the rainbow café as soon as his classes of the day ended, his mind clouded with his friend's words.

this boy, 'the one and only', sounds awfully like your boyfriend, or at least your soon to be.

it's not that this displeased donghyuck – far from that actually – but donghyuck had almost been busted today, and that's what worried him the most.

now, his five friends knew about him having a friend other than them. and they knew he had a certain interest in him. he was (a bit, for the moment) screwed.

"welcome to rainbow café!" the barista donghyuck recognised as lucas greeted. "oh! you're that guy mark brought the other time!"

"huh... yeah, it's me." donghyuck replied.

"you can sit in this booth. mark is in the toilets. he'll be back in an instant."

donghyuck nodded and did as he was told, sitting on the empty seat.

thankfully, mark arrived a minute later.

"oh! you're here already." he smiled when he saw donghyuck. "it's pretty early."

"yeah, i walked quickly."

mark smirked, brushing his hair back allowing donghyuck to see his forehead and his eyebrow piercings.

"eager to see me?"

donghyuck flushed red.

honestly, yes. he was eager to see mark.

he had been for the whole day. and talking about him with his own friends during lunch didn't really help.

"i'll take that huge blush as a 'yes', baby boy."

and here was donghyuck blushing even more at the given nickname.

it looked like mark loved teasing donghyuck.

"here is your order." lucas announced, slamming between the two boys a glass full of rainbow liquid with candies and two black straws poking out. "it's on the house. don't bother taking out your wallets." he added with a wink before leaving.

"CANDIES!" donghyuck exclaimed before picking the candies and shoving them into his mouth, moaning at their divine taste, and doing that so quickly that he spilled some of the whitish liquid on his chin.

mark chuckled at the childish – yet almost sexual – scene that unfolded in front of him.

he took a napkin and used it to wipe donghyuck's mouth.

"my friends would be surprised to see who you actually are." he told.

donghyuck looked at him with eyes wide.

he swallowed his candies quickly before talking. "you told them about me?"

"they saw the first message you sent me." mark explained. "i told them everything. except your age. they said you seemed like the perfect guy for me. caring and all. but their vision will change when they'll discover we're three years apart."

donghyuck nodded sadly.

"three years seriously. what is it in a lifetime?" mark asked angrily. "there are tons of people out there who are married to people way older or way younger!"

"true." donghyuck said before taking a sip of the beverage. its taste was wonderful, but now was not the time to saw it.

"so why are people making such a fuss about us being three years apart?!"

donghyuck shrugged. "i mean there's not only that..."

mark raised a brow.

"you know... you're a biker... i'm a nerd... we're not meant to be... that's what people say."

mark slammed his fist against the table making the glass almost fall.

"i don't care what people say!" mark groaned. "if i want to be with you. then i'll be with you. even if the world is against it."

donghyuck blushed once again. he took a sip to refresh his system, in hope to stop his blushing.

"three fucking years is nothing. i don't care. my friends can say whatever they want. they won't stop me from what i want to do."

donghyuck kept the straw in his mouth, even if he wasn't drinking. it was a good excuse for him not to talk.

"from now on, i am the one who decides." mark said before talking the second straw and drinking a good half of the drink in one gulp, his face inches away from donghyuck's.

"hmm, that's so good!" he said, his mood changing completely.

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"i guess i'm quite on time tonight huh?" mark asked when donghyuck and him arrived in front of donghyuck's house.

it was around seven, the time donghyuck's mother had asked her son to come back home.

"but i don't want you to leave yet..." donghyuck pouted.

mark smirked, wrapping an arm around donghyuck's shoulders. "neither do i, baby boy. but your parents make the rules."

donghyuck flushed. "i-i thought y-you said that f-from now on y-you would be t-the one to d-decide." he stuttered.

mark chuckled, remembering his small tantrum at rainbow café.

"i'll decide when i can. obviously, i have no power over your parents."

"sadly..." donghyuck whispered.

the two boys stayed in silence for a few seconds, just enjoying their warm embrace.

"donghyuck?" mark asked, facing donhyuck.

"yes?"

the older boy took a deep breath, looking at the smaller.

"let me be honest with you, you're different from the others. you got that thing... i don't know how, but you got it."

donghyuck smiled innocently. "what thing?"

"the thing that makes my heart go crazy." mark told.

donghyuck turned redder than a tomato in a nick of time, but that didn't stop mark.

"since that day at the library, you've been intriguing me. i don't care about the fact we're years apart. i just care about love and feelings. and honestly, i would have loved you the same if you were ten years older than me. yes donghyuck. i love you. i don't know how, or why, but it happened. i fell for you and i can't help it."

donghyuck stayed there, petrified on the spot, facing mark. how much he would like to voice his own feelings, but right now he couldn't. not that he didn't have them. he just couldn't move. he was too shocked to do anything.

"and let me be honest again, looking at you right now only makes me want to kiss the shit out of you." he finished, his eyes glued on donghyuck's lips. "so... can i?"

donghyuck – who still hadn't moved a limb – only blinked multiple times, registering what mark had just said. kissing?! he had never done that before. he had never had a boyfriend or a girlfriend. he was totally unexperienced. and he didn't want to embarrass himself i front of mark. he just wanted this kiss with mark to be perfect. but at the same time, he wanted his first to be taken by someone he loved, and mark seemed like someone perfect because woah, mark was so much boyfriend material and he took very good care of him.

and it seems like he had given the older boy his consent, because mark had his hand on his nape, and his face was dangerously close from his own.

and then... it happened. their lips touched. and donghyuck's body unfroze.

it felt truly magical. well, weird but magical.

mark's lips were soft, and kind of wet but not too much, and they were moving a bit against donghyuck's lips, but as he was unexperienced, he didn't do anything. he just let himself being drowned into mark's embrace, his eyes closed and his nose inhaling mark's divine scent.

and to his dismay, they parted way too fast.

mark looked at him with heart eyes and a beautiful smile as donghyuck smiled shyly.

"will you be my boyfriend donghyuck?" mark asked, taking donghyuck's hand in his own. "i know i won't be the best boyfriend out there. i know we won't be accepted. and i know we'll have to be hidden. but i really want you to be mine. i promise i'll protect you at all costs and do all i can to keep you safe, donghyuck." mark said sincerely. "but, everything i want right now is just to call you mine."

donghyuck smiled brighter than the sun before nodding. "yes. i want to be your boyfriend, mark."

and here began a very particular love story. why particular?

because it grew against the rules...