jeno and jaemin were peacefully making out in jaemin's living room when the doorbell rang.

obviously, both boys were too busy with each other's mouths to even register that someone was at the door, until the finally acknowledged it.

"you said your parents weren't supposed to come back." jeno spoke, detaching their lips.

"my parents wouldn't ring; they have the key." jaemin informed.

"who can it be then?" jeno frowned, sitting up and making jaemin land on his lap.

"i don't know. i'll go and see." he declared, standing up and turning around to walk to the door.

"wait." jeno caught his wrist, standing up as well and pulling him close. "you have a hickey."

jaemin chuckled. "i wonder whose fault it is." he wiggled his brows.

"don't you want to cover it? or wear a scarf to hide it?" jeno asked. jaemin and his relationship was still quite secret.

"i don't think the postman would care seeing a hickey on my neck. and he couldn't care less who made it to me."

"not false." jeno shrugged, kissing jaemin's lips quickly before letting the younger head to the door.

jaemin passed a hand through his hair as he opened the front door of his house a strangled gasp escaping his lips when he saw who had been ringing his doorbell for the past five minutes.

"r-renjun..." he let out; eyes widened.

"hi jaemin, hum..." the smaller boy fidgeted his fingers. "i'm sorry to disturb... i was just feeling very lonely, and i really needed some comforting company so..."

"y-yeah, please come in." jaemin stepped aside, inviting renjun inside.

"thank you." renjun mumbled as jaemin closed the door.

"so, who was at the door bab... jaemin?" jeno changed his sentence as soon as he noticed renjun standing in the middle of the living room.

"hi..." renjun waved at jeno.

"hi renjun." jeno smiled, glancing at jaemin for an explanation. "you were here to see jaemin?"

"huh... actually... i was looking on the snapmap, and i noticed you were both here, so... yeah... as i said to jaemin i needed some company..." renjun explained, avoiding eye-contact with both boys.

"o-oh..." both jeno and jaemin let out, their hearts absolutely loving the words renjun had just pronounced.

so, renjun had been spying on them?

he had been looking at what they were doing on the snapmap, and he had come all the way from his house to here to spend some time with jaemin and jeno?

could things even get better for the two lovers?

"so... you were feeling lonely?" jaemin asked, bringing renjun to the couch as he allowed him to sit on it.

"yeah, kind of." renjun nodded, looking as jaemin and jeno both plopped on each side of him.

"but why?" jeno questioned.

"well... we haven't hung out with donghyuck for weeks and... i don't know... it's weird..." renjun said shyly, lowering his head. "i don't want you guys to make fun of me..."

"come on renjun, we would never make fun of you." jaemin replied immediately, placing a comforting hand on renjun's thigh to rub it.

"don't think of us that way, we'd do everything we can to help you. you can tell us anything, really."jeno nodded, confirming jaemin's words.

"okay..." renjun gulped the lump forming in his throat. "well... we used to be a very united group with donghyuck and chenle and jisung, but since we had the argument because of donghyuck's plan, we all stopped hanging out, and... and i miss it..." he explained, trying his best to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall from his eyes. "a-and also... i... i feel lonely... i... i want to have a special someone... b-but i have no one and..." now renjun was fully crying, alarming both boys next to him. 

"oh god, renjun, shh... don't cry, it's okay." jaemin said quickly, pulling the smaller boy on his lap with jeno's help.

as soon as the older was placed straddling jaemin's lap, he wrapped his arms around the boy's neck and cried on his shoulder. jeno shuffled closer, placing a comforting hand on renjun's back that he caressed lightly.

"renjun, it's okay... we're here. you have us, never forget that..." jeno whispered.

"yes, renjun. we will never leave you alone. we'll stay with you forever, okay?" jaemin continued. "now stop crying, baby... it's okay, we're here."

jeno's brows furrowed at the pet name that slipped past jaemin's lips and he silently scolded his boyfriend whose eyes widened in surprise too.

"i-i... i saw mark and dahyun at school and... and they look so happy..." renjun continued sniffing. "t-they are such a perfect c-couple..."

"why are you talking about them, renjun?" jeno asked.

"b-because... i want someone like mark to t-take care of me... i w-want someone to bring me on picnic dates... someone w-who brings me chocolate and flowers... b-but i have n-no one..." renjun explained as more tears escaped his eyes.

jaemin sighed, pulling the boy closer to his body.

"renjun, you are an amazing person, you will find your special someone, don't worry about this. they may not appear right now, but you will eventually find them, i'm sure of that." jaemin whispered in his ear, smiling to himself as he realised renjun's cries had softened.

"r-really?" he asked, his face still hidden in jaemin's shoulder.

"of course." jeno spoke. "you are such a precious boy... you deserve to be spoiled by your loved one... and if this person don't treat you like the most precious being in the universe, i swear jaemin and i are coming to beat the shit out of him, because you deserve the whole world. you deserve to make everyone jealous of how beautiful your relationship is."

renjun giggled in the crook of jaemin's neck, ticking the younger boy.

"t-tank you." he whispered, sitting up while rubbing his eyes to have a better view of both boys.

"we're here for you, renjun." jaemin smiled. "never forget that."

"and we'll always be, until you find your special someone." jeno added.

"actually... i already have an idea of who they might be..." renjun said, looking at his lap.

"r-really?!" jaemin exclaimed, his heart tightening in his chest.

"who are they? tell us, renjun, we'll help you." jeno said, feeling the same as his boyfriend.

"w-well..." renjun lifted his head to look at both boys. "they are sitting just- what's that?"

jaemin and jeno's brows furrowed as they noticed renjun's eyes were focused on a certain spot visible on jaemin's neck.

oh fuck.

"nothing." jaemin immediately slammed his hand on the bruise.

"i-it's a hickey!" renjun exclaimed, fresh tears welling in his beautiful eyes.

"n-no, no!" jaemin shook his head.

"i know what a hickey looks like! it's a hickey!" renjun started crying again.

"no, renjun, please, don't- "

"nobody loves me!" renjun exclaimed lifting his hands to hide his face.

"no, renjun it's not that..." jeno tried reassuring the boy.

"no!" renjun jumped off jaemin's lap and took a step back. "i came here because i needed comfort. i needed to have people who truly cared for me to reassure me. i needed you to tell me that everything would be alright and that you'd be there for me."

"b-but we are..." jaemin stood up.

"shut up!" renjun held his hand out in front of him. "if you truly cared for me, you'd have realised that i had fallen for you both. and if you truly cared for me, you wouldn't have had a fling with whoever wanted to have an adventure with you!"

as much as they wanted to pull renjun into their embrace and comfort him, both jaemin and jeno was shocked by renjun's sudden interjection.

you'd have realised that i had fallen for you both

did that mean that renjun liked them. both?!

this was surely the best day of their life...

"i fucking hate myself for developing feelings for you two. i tried contenting of one, but i can't. and i know that you two would rather make out with other people and live a normal teenage life than hang out with your polyamorous friend. you know, i think this is the best moment for us to separate paths. our whole group has split up because of donghyuck, we're already all affected, so, i guess we can separate too." renjun continued speaking through the tears as jaemin and jeno were still frozen in front of him. "no answer?" renjun snorted. "of course not. why would you two give an answer to your poor miserable friend who can't deal with loneliness and needs two fucking boyfriends to be happy?!"

with that said, renjun stormed towards the front door just as jaemin and jeno unfroze.

"fuck, get him!" jaemin exclaimed running behind renjun with jeno.

the two boyfriends ran as fast they could, reaching the front door in a record time. jeno's arms wrapped around renjun's waist as he lifted him up with ease while jaemin slammed the door shut.

jeno then carried renjun all the way to jaemin's bedroom, dropping renjun on the bed.

jaemin entered his room a second after, jumping on the bed, on top of renjun and blocking him so that he couldn't leave or try to kick them away.

"renjun, please, listen to us." jaemin begged.

"no! go back to your fling!" renjun cried, trying to wiggle in jaemin's hold to break free.

"do it, jaemin." jeno nodded, placing his hand on jaemin's back for moral support.

with a last glance to his boyfriend, jaemin leant forwards, his chapped lips capturing renjun's in a sweet kiss. it took a few seconds for renjun to calm down and stop wiggling, and instead replying to the kiss in which jaemin was pouring all his love.

soon, every ounce of anger held in renjun's body vanished, his loving feelings overwhelming him as he arched his back to glue his body to jaemin's – he was trying to wrap his arms around jaemin's neck, but the younger had his hands pinned above his head.

unfortunately, both boys needed to breathe, so they had to part.

jaemin pulled his head back, looking nervously at renjun whose teary eyes were still closed as he inhaled jaemin's scent that was still lingering in the air.

"y-you..." renjun's eyes opened and fell into jaemin's chocolate orbs. "you smell like jeno..." he declared, turning his head to the side to find jeno looking at him with a fond smile.

"renjun, jeno and i may not have been very honest with you..." jaemin whispered.

"w-what...?" renjun blinked.

"you promise you won't try to run away if i let your hands go?" jaemin asked, making renjun nod.

jaemin got off renjun, sitting on the bed as he helped renjun sitting up as well.

the smaller boy looked at both jeno and jaemin with confused orbs, making the two boyfriends want to cuddle him to death because of his cuteness.

"okay so..." jaemin coughed. "this is a hickey, you're right..." jaemin explained, reaching for his neck that jeno had marked. "and in fact, it wasn't done by a random fling, but by my four-month boyfriend..."

"b-b-boyfriend..." renjun repeated, his eyes filling with fresh tears.

"me." jeno intervened, catching renjun's attention. "i did that hickey on jaemin."

"y-you... j-jaemin... b-boyfriend...?" renjun hiccupped, looking between both boys.

"you remember that costume party where you disguised as a goddess, five months ago?" jaemin asked, to which renjun nodded. "you had seen us for five minutes at the beginning of the party, and after we had disappeared and no one ever saw us again."

"if fact, we both had gone completely crazy after seeing you looking so pretty in that dress that... we locked ourselves in a room and expressed our... sexual frustration on each other, both agreeing on the fact that we wanted you." jeno continued telling the story.

"and, yeah... for one month straight we met each other often to just release the pressure and talk about how beautiful you were and how we wanted to be with you. and i guess... we both fell for each other in the process." jaemin nodded.

"so, we have been dating for a while, but we promised ourselves not to let you know until you would return our feelings back, because we could see how you tried to get closer to us, but we didn't know if you had a preference, so we didn't want to pressure you with polyamory right away..." jeno finished, looking at renjun. "c-can you... understand...?"

renjun blinked, looking successfully at jaemin and jeno.

"y-you... you both... like me...?" he asked, bewildered.

"pretty much, yeah." jaemin nodded. "and... we like each other as well."

"we've been wanting you to join us for so long..." jeno admitted.

"me?" renjun asked again, still not believing everything he had just heard.

"yeah, you." they nodded in unison.

renjun started crying again, but this time, as the two younger boys approached him to console him, renjun jumped on them, embracing both boys in a bear hug and holding them tighter than he had ever had, inhaling their mesmerizing scents.

"so... you like us back?" jeno asked, wrapping his arms around the two boys as well.

"yes..." renjun hummed.

"both?" jaemin asked, just to make sure.

"both of you." renjun nodded again.

"oh god... this is the best day of my life..." jeno mumbled, dropping a kiss onto renjun's pale neck, something he had wanted to do for so long now.

＃

"mom? dad? why are there suitcases in the living room?" donghyuck asked with his brows furrowed.

"well, your father and i are taking a little vacation time to celebrate our 20-year anniversary." soyun explained with a beaming smile as she wrapped her arms around sangkyu's torso.

"in the middle of the year?" donghyuck raised a brow.

"our anniversary is in three days." his father informed.

"and i bet we're not invited..." donghyuck sighed, counting the luggage.

"well... you have school." his mother smiled sheepishly.

"of course..." donghyuck's eyes rolled to the back of his head.

"don't worry, i'm sure you'll have a good time. you can invite people over, have parties... do whatever you want while your parents are away! you have the house for your sister and yourself for a bit more than two weeks." soyun informed. "well, you'll have it for yourself if you manage to convince dahyun to go and live at mark's. but i know you'll managed to make things turn the way you want them to."

"yeah, sure..." donghyuck nodded absentmindedly as he thought about something else. "wait."

both parents looked at their son as a wide grin appeared on his face.

"oh my god, i know!" he exclaimed.

"yeah, very good." his father nodded. "as long as you don't burn the house down or end up at the police or the hospital, do whatever you'd like."

"dahyun!" donghyuck exclaimed, ignoring his parents to run to his sister's bedroom.

he pushed the door open without knocking entering it immediately and walking to his sister who was applying a face mask in front of her mirror.

"what again, donghyuck?" she asked, her eyes focused on her reflection.

"mom and dad are leaving for two weeks." he informed.

"yeah, they've been talking about it non-stop for like a month." dahyun rolled her eyes.

"and you know what would be super cool during those two weeks?" donghyuck smirked.

"enlighten me."

"if mark came to live with us." donghyuck stated.

dahyun's head immediately turned so that she could face donghyuck, her face mask fallin on the floor in the process.

"you would let me do that?!" dahyun asked with a bright smile.

"you bet i would!" donghyuck winked.

"oh my god! i'm so calling him right now!" dahyun declared, jumping on her bed to grab her phone, the face mask long forgotten on the floor.

donghyuck devilishly smiled to himself.

two whole weeks with mark inside his house...

things were about to get almost too easy for donghyuck.