"so, how's our new idol feeling today?"

"i'm not an idol!" donghyuck whined, trying to hit chenle's head playfully but missing him of centimetres.

"you aren't one, but you sure are getting closer to it every day." jisung pointed out.

donghyuck rolled his eyes at his friends' words before focusing back on his drink.

three days had passed since super m's concert at namsan park, and everything felt so much better now.

the hate and violence that used to be directed towards donghyuck had been transformed in desolation and friendliness, and this change was considerable in donghyuck's life. the boy didn't fear being slaughtered by a group of crazy fans in a back alley anymore, it was much more peaceful and calmer in his life. he even received long messages of apology from super m fans, and had endless conversations with people at his school who blamed themselves for judging the tanned beauty without knowing the whole story.

the hate that had been directed towards mark faded as well. in fact, all the support lucas and donghyuck had been receiving for the 'relationship' in the past transferred to mark and donghyuck, the real couple. it felt good for both boys to be able to act normal in public, and not refrain their feelings for the sake of lee sooman.

speaking of which, lee sooman was having a much more difficult time than super m or donghyuck. people obviously started blaming him for everything that happened, and his popularity among fans decreased quite a lot – reducing it to very little, considering that most fans already hated him.

despite all the new hate he received, lee sooman kept his seat as the ceo of sm entertainment. he knew that an effect of his and mark's deal would mean losing popularity, but in his scale of values, money was worth way more than popularity, so he was fine with what was happening as long as he kept earning money from very talented groups.

"so, what's the plan for the next days?" renjun asked, taking a sip of his own drink.

"go to school and do my homework." donghyuck shrugged.

"nothing involving idols?" chenle pouted.

"life doesn't always involve idols, you know?" the tanned male rolled his eyes.

"well..." jaemin snorted. "it does when your boyfriend is one."

"yeah, well, there's nothing planned with- hey! have you guys noticed that shotaro and sungchan seem awfully close?!" donghyuck cut himself in the middle of his sentence to point at his two friends who immediately flushed red.

all heads turned towards the new couple as the two boys concerned tried their best to disappear.

"yeah, they think they're discreet, but they're not." jisung nodded.

"hmm. i saw them kiss each other just before they entered the café." renjun added.

"and they were holding hands a few days ago at the mall." jaemin pointed out.

"oh, don't forget about when they- "

"stop exposing us!" sungchan exclaimed, his cheeks as red as tomatoes.

"well, then tell us the truth." jeno raised a brow as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"alright, sho and i are a couple now." sungchan admitted without much trouble. all of their friends had figured it out at that point, anyway.

"since when?" donghyuck frowned.

"that day at the mall last week. but we didn't want to announce it when donghyuck was having boyfriend problems." shotaro explained, shyly glancing at his friends.

"how considerate of you." chenle clapped his hands.

"so, this means we all have our own boyfriends?" donghyuck looked around the table.

"yeah. no one is part of the single squad anymore." jaemin nodded. "woooo!"

the tanned beauty chuckled as he pulled his vibrating phone out of his pocket to look at the id of the person that had just sent him a message. the id and the message made a smile creep up on his face immediately.

my mark<3

hey love

how about sleeping at the dorm tonight?

i miss you and i want to see you

"oh, looks like donghyuck discovered he had more fans." renjun stated when he noticed donghyuck's silly smile.

"shut up! it's just mark." he rolled his eyes.

"and what's your prince charming texting you?" chenle asked, leaning against donghyuck's side to peek at his phone.

"he's asking if i can sleep with him at the dorms tonight." donghyuck replied, immediately hiding his phone from his friend. "i'm telling him that i can."

"oooh, guys! donghyuck is having some funny time tonight!" jaemin exclaimed loudly, wiggling his brows.

the tanned male flushed red as his friends burst out laughing in unison.

"his dormmates will be there, idiots!" donghyuck replied.

"which means there would have been funny time if they weren't!" jisung immediately gasped.

"i'm sure we will find a way to make them leave the dorm for a while." jeno smirked. "how long do you need? half an hour? an hour?"

"you're not generous." renjun snorted. "maybe there will be multiple rounds."

"says the one who always falls asleep after the first one." jaemin slipped, poking his older boyfriend's side.

"hey! having two boyfriends is twice more effort! one round with you two is equals two normal rounds!" renjun hit his boyfriend's shoulder.

"okayyyy, i think we didn't need to hear any of that." sungchan interrupted their bickering. "i think three hours would be sufficient for donghyuck and- "

"stop with that!" donghyuck became even redder. "nothing will happen, and none of the super m members will go out of the dorm!"

"you're no fun." jisung shook his head.

"we're teasing you, hyuck." jeno ruffled the boy's honey curls. "we're glad that you have your boyfriend back and that you're happy again. that's all we wanted."

the tanned male's scowl slowly disappeared from his face as it was replaced by a wide smile.

"thank you, guys." he spoke. "you've always been there for me, and i'm so thankful of that."

"it's normal, hyuck." jaemin grinned, his eyes darting between his best friend, his boyfriends and his other close friends. "we'll always be there for each other."

♪

"it's great being by your side again after all this time."

"it is." donghyuck nodded. "i missed it."

"are you planning to talk all night long or are you going to switch the tv on one day?" kai asked, plopping on donghyuck's other side on the couch in the super m dorm.

"yeah, yeah, sorry."

the tv was switched on, displaying the people channel which replayed images of mark and donghyuck's kiss at the namsan park, right after the concert.

"if that isn't the most romantic kiss..." the idol whistled before ruffling donghyuck's hair. "lucky you."

"hey! hands off my boyfriend!" mark declared as soon as he walked inside the living room, witnessing lucas being touchy with his donghyuck. "he's not your boyfriend anymore, so back off."

"he never was, actually." lucas snorted, standing up to allow mark to sit down by donghyuck's side as he walked to another couch.

"right. that's even better." mark wrapped both arms around donghyuck, allowing the tanned male to cuddle into his boyfriend's side.

"yeah, but you seem to forget one thing..." lucas smirked, making mark look at him.

"what?"

"i'm still his favourite super m member... and you can't take that away from me." lucas grinned as mark snorted.

"that's false. i'm his favourite now."

"sure." lucas nodded. "just look at his home screen then." he added, pointing at donghyuck's phone.

mark picked donghyuck's phone up, clicking on the screen to make it light up. as soon as he saw the background picture, the canadian male smile, showing the first selfie of him and donghyuck to his band mate.

"you're wrong. i'm the one on the picture." mark declared proudly.

lucas' smirk widened. "i said home screen, not lock screen."

the youngest idol immediately frowned, pressing donghyuck's code in to peek at his home screen. mark screeched in horror at the sight of a picture of lucas and donghyuck in chicago.

"oops... i think i was right." lucas grinned.

"love? what is this?" mark asked with a frown, showing the younger his phone.

"well... he's still my bias so... yeah..." donghyuck admitted, his cheeks flushing as lucas laughed loudly. "but you're my boyfriend, and i love you. i don't love lucas, i only admire him. this is another kind of love, you know? like you're on top of the top and he's not even in the same scale because i don't like him like that."

mark looked at his boyfriend in the eye for a few seconds before his frown turned into a content smile.

"okay, excuse accepted." he declared before pecking donghyuck's lips.

"guys?" kai interrupted them. "do you know who posted the picture of you two in san fransisco?"

"yeah, the i.t. team said it was someone with the username 'ryuwong' or something like that." lucas told.

donghyuck frowned as he heard the username, trying to recall where he had heard it. thankfully, it clicked after a few seconds.

"isn't the username 'ryu_wong'?" he asked.

"yeah! i had forgotten the underscore!" lucas nodded. "that's it. 'ryu underscore wong'." he repeated. "why? do you know that person?"

"do you guys remember the girl that stayed with lucas during the 'one day with super m' program? her name was ryuwon." donghyuck stated.

"yeah, i can recall." kai nodded.

"oh! ryuwon, yes!" lucas nodded as well.

"you had said she didn't seem to like you." mark added.

"well, i'm pretty sure she doesn't." donghyuck chuckled. "it's her username on social media. after meeting the six other fans, i added them on social media, and i remember her username and her bio because it irked me."

"huh?" kai raised a confused brow.

"yeah, her bio was something like 'gonna go from won to wong soon thanks to my man lucas.'. and her username is 'ryuwon' but she added a 'g' to make it look like she was a wong already." donghyuck explained what had taken him hours to decipher.

"wow. okay." lucas let out. "you're ten times more intelligent than all of us combined and that's scary."

donghyuck let out an airy chuckle at lucas' words.

"yeah, he's not my boyfriend for nothing." mark told lucas.

"oh, this actually make sense. she has lots of pictures taken from san fransisco." kai stated, scrolling on his phone on ryuwon's instagram account.

"yeah, she told us she was korean-american from san fransico." donghyuck nodded. "so, i'm pretty sure it's her."

"wow, you're a real sherlock holmes..." lucas clapped, congratulating donghyuck.

"there's still something i don't understand... why would she publish that picture of you and mark?" kai questioned after a few seconds.

"surely because she was jealous that lucas was my boyfriend, and she wanted us to break up. i'm guessing she thought that if she revealed that i was cheating on lucas, he would break up with me."donghyuck explained with a shrug.

"all of that to have lucas for her..." mark whistled.

"yeah, well." lucas shook his head. "too psychopathic for me. i hope she's aware that i'll never be interested in her."

"i'm for sending her a message." kai raised his hand. "i'd love to see her ridiculing herself."

"oh that's actually- "

"DINNER'S READY!!"

the four boys in the living room turned around to look at the dining table – donghyuck fighting the urge to sing the next lyrics of tiger inside after taeyong's interjection.

"great, i'm so hungry." lucas stood up to run towards the table.

"wash your hands before anything!" taeyong hit the back of his head before pushing him towards the bathroom as the others laughed at him.

"let's go?" mark asked, standing up and holding his hand out for donghyuck to take.

"yeah." the tanned male answered, intertwining his fingers with mark's before standing up and following him to the bathroom under taeyong and ten's proud eyes.

"ah... it's great seeing the both of them together finally..." ten declared.

"yeah." taeyong nodded. "i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes not to see him being all lovey dovey because of donghyuck in the united states..."

"are you kidding me?!" baekhyun interrupted, stepping between the two other members. "i've been witnessing that shit since the day we met donghyuck!"

"wow, that long?!" taeyong laughed. "i never imagined mark to be a helpless romantic."

"yeah, never imagined he would be able to get himself anything more than a friend with his cringey flirting." baekhyun nodded.

ten snorted, his eyes falling on mark and donghyuck who were sharing a kiss before walking in the bathroom to wash their hands.

"jokes on us, he's the only one to have a boyfriend among us..."