"let's gooooo!" donghyuck exclaimed as he ran towards the front door, pulling mark by his wrist.

"wait!" mark shouted.

donghyuck ignored him, opening the front door. "i haven't been outside in ages, i'm so- "

before he could slip out, mark pulled him away and slammed the door shut again.

"you said you would take me out..." the doll-boy said with puppy eyes.

"i am taking you out, but not in those clothes."

"huh? what's wrong with them? i look pretty." donghyuck's brows furrowed as he spun around to show his outfit.

"you sure look good, but it's fall, and you're going to freeze to death wearing only shorts and a thin tshirt." mark explained.

"oh..." donghyuck nodded slowly, looking at his feet to find a solution. "can you lend me some clothes then? i don't have anything else to wear."

mark sighed, looking at the doll who was once again doing puppy eyes. "fine... let's go to my room."

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"woah, mark! look! a fluffy puppy!"

"yeah..." mark rolled his eyes as donghyuck ran to the small animal which was running around the park.

"puppy! puppy!" donghyuck ran after it, giggling like a little kid.

mark sat down on a bench, keeping an eye on his sister's human doll while he chased the poor puppy.

he was wondering why things like those happened to him...

were those things even real? were dolls supposed to be able to become human?

he had been wondering if he was dreaming for a long time, but he kept pinching himself, and he didn't wake up, so he assumed that it was, indeed, reality.

"mark..." donghyuck whined loudly, walking towards mark dragging his feet. "the puppy doesn't want to play with me."

"it's because it thinks you're chasing it." mark explained.

"but i'm not. i want to pet it." donghyuck pouted.

mark sighed.

donghyuck looked cute pouting like this.

actually, he was pretty, but this was normal since he was a doll, right?

and mark liked the way his clothes fit on him. he even wondered how donghyuck could pull out his joggers this well. mark looked like a homeless when he wore them, but they were complementing donghyuck's forms perfectly. and the sweater he had lent donghyuck was too big for him, obliging the doll to pull the sleeves up every now and then, making him even cuter than he intended to be.

"woof!"

both boys were startled by a barking sound next to them.

"oh! puppy!" donghyuck jumped in excitement at the sight of the white fluffball wiggling its tail in front of them.

"stop, you're going to scare it." mark warned, gripping donghyuck's arm to prevent the doll from jumping on the little creature immediately.

"woof!"

mark let go donghyuck's arm and approached the dog, crouching next to it.

"hello pup, how are you doing?" he asked, holding his hand out to caress the animal.

"woof!" the dog barked again approaching mark's hand.

"you're a cute pup!"  mark continued praising the dog as he passed his fingers in its fur under donghyuck's mesmerized eyes.

after a few caresses, mark picked the dog up in his arms, allowing it to nuzzle there.

mark then turned around, facing donghyuck.

"you want to pet it?" he asked.

"yes!!" donghyuck bounced in excitement.

"donghyuck." mark spoke sternly.

"sorry." the doll smiled sheepishly. "i'm calming down."

"great." mark nodded. "come here."

donghyuck approached mark, his eyes never leaving the white puppy that was squirming in his arms.

"hold your hand out for it to scent you first." mark explained. "and after, you can pet it."

donghuck did as he was told, gently holding his hand out and allowing the puppy to snif the back of his hand before he intertwined his delicate fingers with the white fur.

"o-oh!!" donghyuck happily let out as the dog let himself getting pet by donghyuck.

"cool, right?" mark asked with a smile, finding the way donghyuck acted like a little kid excited to receive his dream present too cute to handle.

"it's so soft!!" donghyuck continued.

"yeah."

after a few more minutes of petting the dog, mark placed it back down on the grass and allowed it to play with his other dog friends.

"so? what do you want to do now?" mark asked, looking at his watch. "we still have an hour before i need to go back to school."

"how long have we been out already?" donghyuck raised a brow.

"almost an hour and a half." mark replied.

"we need to go back home then."

mark's brows furrowed. "why? don't you want to have a drink or anything?"

"it's not that...." the doll looked around before leaning forward and whispering in mark's ear "i can't stay in my human form more than 2hours straight." donghyuck explained.

"o-oh!" mark stammered, his insides feeling all jittery at the feeling of donghyuck's lips brushing against the shell of his ear - he wasn't used at all to receiving any kind of touch. "well... let's go back home then."

"okie!" donghyuck nodded, passing his hands around mark's arm.

"huh..." mark raised a brow. "w-what are you doing?" he asked.

"nothing." donghyuck replied innocently. "we should hurry to go back home."

mark stared for a few seconds more at the beautiful boy that was clinging onto his arm.

he didn't seem to understand that he was doing something ambiguous, so mark didn't argue further.

the two boys walked across the street with arms linked in silence.

mark's head was full of questions. he was now sure that he wasn't living a dream, but there were still things that were unclear for him.

"how were you born?" mark asked curiously.

"how was i born?" donghyuck repeated.

"yeah. like, were you made as a doll?" mark explained further.

"i don't remember. it was too long ago." donghyuck told.

mark shrugged it off, continuing his way back home.

thankfully, they weren't too far, so they got there in a few minutes.

mark opened the door, and donghyuck walked it, jumping on the couch as soon as he had kicked his shoes off.

"i loved our little hangout!" he exclaimed with a sigh.

"yeah." mark nodded, not paying much attention as he looked at his phone.

"thank you so much for being kind with me and not throwing me out like my other owners did before."donghyuck continued.

"of course." mark agreed, as he typed on his phone for a few seconds.

however, once his message was sent, donghyuck's words came to his mind, and he realised what the doll had actually said.

"wait, what?!" he asked, looking at the boy on the couch.

sadly, donghyuck wasn't there anymore, but haechan was, a beautifully tanned male doll, wearing a miniature version of mark's set of clothes.