donghyuck rang the bell of mark's house with a smile. maria was too busy playing with sungie to the point she had almost forgotten about haechan's existence. so, this gave donghyuck some free time to enjoy his life as a human.

the doll boy chuckled as he heard someone screaming "that's for me!" on the other side of the door. and soon after, the front door opened, revealing a grinning sungchan. "hello donghyuck!"

"hi sungchan!" donghyuck waved at him. "i love your shirt!"

sungchan blushed, looking down at his white shirt on which was printed a big sun.

"thanks." he mumbled, flustered. "come in."

donghyuck stepped inside, greeting mark's mother and sungchan's father before following the boy to his bedroom.

when walking in the corridor, donghyuck kept his eyes for a few seconds on mark's closed bedroom door, wondering what mark was doing, and if he would be happy to see donghyuck now.

"i'm so happy you agreed to come back and play videogames with me!" sungchan pulled donghyuck out of his daze.

"sure." donghyuck smiled, entering sungchan's room and closing the door behind him. "i lost a few days ago, and now, i want my revenge."

"revenge it is then." sungchan smirked. "catch!"

donghyuck swiftly caught the expensive controller sungchan had thrown him and he sat down crossed-legs in front of the tv while sungchan switched everything on.

by the time the game started, sungchan had sat down by donghyuck's side, giving glances at the beautiful boy while he was concentrated on searching which avatar he would choose to beat sungchan.

"you think you're going to beat me with this?" sungchan snorted, perplexed by donghyuck's choice of avatar.

"i don't think so, i know so." donghyuck grinned.

"oh..." sungchan's brow rose on its own. "let's see then..." he added with a smirk as he pressed 'play'.

🎀

crackheads

johnny, taeyong, yuta, ten, doyoung, jaehyun, jungwoo, mark

yuta

not gonna lie

donghyuck's cute

doyoung

a literal angel

johnny

approved

ten

yah!!

you're already taken

but yeah he's def a cutie

jaehyun

i had told you

mark has got some taste

mark

can we stop talking about me for once?

you guys always embarrass me

taeyong

that's because you're the youngest

we baby you

mark

well

i don't want to be babied

i'm an adult now

taeil

tell me if i'm wrong but

you still have your v-card

mark

i don't see your point

doyoung

then you're not an adult yet

mark

this has absolutely nothing to do with being an adult

jungwoo

yes it does

mark

what the hell

jungwoo

you haven't lost it either

jaehyun

oops

i think you don't know the great news...

mark

what???

jungwoo???

jungwoo

yeah...

i may or may not have gone to a party yesterday

and... lucas may or may not have been there

mark

woah woah woah

you had sex with lucas??

are you even together?

jungwoo

well... he seemed really drunk

and i was too

i'm not sure he realised we had sex when he woke up this morning

and i'm sure he doesn't even remember about me

mark

what kind of shit is that shit??

jaehyun

hum hum

sorry to interrupt this very interesting convo

but

we were talking about donghyuck

and eventually mark

jungwoo

right

doyoung

right

taeyong

right

mark

can we stop with that?

yuta

you know very well we won't as long as you two aren't together

mark

but we won't end up together

i may have feeligns for him

he doesn't like me back

taeil

i hear bullshit

johnny

mark your eyesight hasn't gone better

mark

guys stop

ten

don't you see the way he looks at you?

or the way he looks after you?

and haven't you heard how he keeps talking about you?

and how just everything in his life revolves around you?

mark

that's just his nature

he's like that with everyone

jaehyun

no he's not

mark

plus, he's super shy

he would never admit his feelings out loud

if he even had any

yuta

how can you even know that?

mark

because i know him

taeyong

eww

love is in the air

ten

you know what?

maybe he needs to loosen up a bit

and then he'll talk to you more freely

mark

yeah and??

johnny

bring him to the club with us tomorrow

mark

what???

you guys are crazy

i'll never bring him in a club

he's not the type of person to go in those places

jaehyun

yeah

it's not as if you met him there

doyoung

oooooh

taeil

oooooh

taeyong

ooooh

jaehyun

what do you say now?

mark

i hate you guys

yuta

we love you too

but i love sicheng more

and he's gonna be the bartender at the club this saturday

i'm excited to go there

for our usual end of break party

jungwoo

so mark

we'll see donghyuck there?

mark

i'll invite him

but i won't force him

if he doesn't want to go there, he won't go

ten

yayyyyy

🎀

"boom!!" donghyuck exclaimed, letting his controller fall ontohis lap before turning around to face sungchan with a wide grin. "so, who said my avatar wasn't the best choice to win the game?"

"you were lucky, that's all." sungchan tsked.

"i was lucky yeah." donghyuck laughed. "six times in a row."

sungchan looked at donghyuck as the beautiful male was rolling on his back while laughing.

he couldn't help but realise how amazing donghyuck's laugh sounded. it was light and stirring, and it made sungchan's heart miss beats.

"you don't know how to lose, sungchan." donghyuck concluded with a smile.

"i'm usually the best at this game." the boy explained.

"well, not with me." donghyuck shrugged. "i am the best at it."

sungchan got mesmerized by donghyuck's intense stare.

he didn't mean to stay silent, with eyes wide open as they looked through donghyuck, but the boy sitting in from of him was so ethereal... he couldn't help himself.

donghyuck was everything a boy could wish for.

he looked gorgeous.

his honey voice sounded like a melodious lullaby.

he was kind-hearted and open-minded.

and he was just everything sungchan was searching for in terms of lover.

"sungchan?"

the younger boy was pulled out of his daydream by donghyuck waving his hand in front of his eyes. "y-yeah."he stuttered.

"you spaced out." donghyuck chuckled, making sungchan's heart missanother beat.

"actually..." sungchan took a deep breath. he knew that he shouldn't tell donghyuck this. he knew there was no way donghyuck would agree. he knew he had no chance, and he knew why... but everything was worth a try. "...i wanted to tell you something..."

stress started building up in the pit of his stomach as his palms got sweaty, making him rub them on his trousers.

"sure, tell me." donghyuck tilted his head to the side as he showed a gummy smile.

and there goes sungchan's heart once again...

anyway, the boy used all the courage he had in him to take a deep breath and finally voice out his feelings.

"well... huh... i think you're an amazing person donghyuck, and... and yeah, i'm so glad i met you at the beginning of the holiday... i... i-i know it's been only a bit more than a week but... b-but i feel good when i'm around you... i'm not saying i-i like you yet... but... yeah, i definitely took a liking to you... and... well... that's it..."

donghyuck gulped, looking at songhcan whose eyes weredoing everything to be away from donghyuck's figure.

"w-well..." donghyuck stuttered. "i-i... i don't know what to say..." he breathed out a bit shaken up by the sudden reveal.

he wasn't aware that sungchan could have developed a liking to him. he didn't even know why sungchan would like him... he wasn't even fully human...

plus, he had never really experience anything like this. how was he supposed to react when people confessed their feelings to him? donghyuck didn't even like sungchan more than in a friendly way...

"look, it's okay donghyuck, don't feel bad about this, please." sungchan told as he saw donghyuck internally panicking.

"b-but... i-i..."

"i know you don't like me back, and it's okay." sungchan assured. "i just needed to get that off my chest. but it's okay."

"i'm sorry..." donghyuck mumbled, his head lowering.

"donghyuck don't worry about this. i know you like mark, and it's cool. you guys look great together."sungchan continued.

"what?!" donghyuck's head shot up when he heard sungchan's sentence.

"what makes you happy makes me happy so- "

"i don't like mark!" donghyuck yelped as his cheeks got redder than ever.

"come on, you don't need to lie to me..." sungchan rolled his eyes. "i can see how you look at him, and how you are amazed by everything he does... i can see you're always looking for his attention, and that's okay."

"b-but..." donghyuck let out, dozens of thoughts clouding his mind and making it hard for him to think logically. he liked mark?? had this feeling been love since the beginning?

"look, mark is an amazing guy. i've known him for more than a month now, and i have been living with him for a week straight, and i can tell you he's the perfect man for you. you guys complete each other so well..." sungchan continued rambling.

donghyuck's heart started beating super-fast inside his ribcage as he replayed in his mind all the memories he shared with mark, realising that love had been there since the beginning...

when mark had been the first one to find him.

when mark had said he would keep his secret safe.

when mark had given him his clothes to wear.

when mark had helped him caressing the puppy.

when mark had saved him from being drugged at the club.

when mark had taken care of him when he was drunk.

when mark had stopped talking to jaehyun to stay with him.

when mark had gone to maria's school to get him because his sister had forgotten him.

when mark had gotten super worried about him.

when mark had called him baby.

when mark had kissed him on the nose and forehead, and almost on the lips.

all those things that had made donghyuck's heartbeat accelerate... everything was because of love... everything was because donghyuck had developed a crush on mark... and he hadn't even realised that...

"oh my god..." he mumbled as an army of butterflies tickled the insides of his tummy. "i like mark..."