"h-hello..." donghyuck let out in a squeaky voice.

he still couldn't believe that his roommate for the week would be mark, the super handsome boy that had helped him a few days ago.

"donghyuck? is that it?" the raven haired asked, pulling his huge suitcase inside the room to close the door behind his back.

"y-yes. and... you're mark?" donghyuck tilted his head to the side.

"exactly. nice to meet you."

doonghyuck looked down as he fidgeted with his fingers.

he wasn't one to make conversation, and things became often awkward around him if jaemin and jisung weren't there to animate the conversation.

"there's only one bed?"

donghyuck lifted his head, his eyes falling into mark's confused ones.

"h-huh... y-yeah..." he replied.

"what?!" mark exclaimed, scaring donghyuck a bit. "i mean- yeah, okay."

donghyuck looked at his roommate strangely.

he was already acting weird.

"have you decided which side you'd like to sleep on?" mark asked to which donghyuck shrugged. "you have no preference?" mark continued, making donghyuck shake his head. "i'll take the left side then, if it's okay for you."

donghyuck approved, and so, mark started unpacking his things and placing his important stuff on the bedside table next to his side of the bed.

donghyuck decided to do the same thing and start unpacking his stuff.

the two boys stayed in silence while they unpacked their things, because they didn't really have anything to tell each other.

both were secretly nervous.

mark's eyes had already wandered once to the boy's curves, just to make sure he hadn't imagined his feminine body proportions.

donghyuck was still under the shock that his roommate was actually this hot boy.

and yeah, mark was also confused because of what the teacher had told him before he went to his room. she had given him a long speech about how donghyuck was a shy person, very fragile and easily scared, and that he had to be very careful and caring around him.

mark didn't really know how, or why he had to do such things.

a knock on the door caught their attention and stopped them in their unpacking.

donghyuck – who was the closest from the door – walked to it and opened it slowly to reveal a hype jaemin standing next to jeno.

"hey hyuck!" jaemin exclaimed. "is everything alright?"

"yes." donghyuck replied in a small voice before stepping aside to let jeno and jaemin enter the room.

jeno immediately walked to mark's side, and both boys started to talk.

jaemin closed the door and wrapped an arm around donghyuck's shoulders.

"how is he?" he asked slowly with a head motiong towards mark.

"very handsome." donghyuck replied with blushing cheeks.

"is someone interested?" the pinkette smirked, making his friend even shyer.

"i didn't say that!" donghyuck rolled his eyes.

"but you didn't deny it either."

"i don't know him yet. he's just very handsome." donghyuck explained.

"so, maybe?" jaemin raised a brow.

"we'll see how he is." donghyuck nodded slowly.

jaemin snickered, cupping the boy's cheeks and facing him.

"you're so cute, hyuck." he whispered.

"yeah?"

"the cutest." jaemin nodded. "make sure to be good, okay?" he told.

"yeah."

"and you don't forget to call me if something is bothering you." he added. "mark is a good person. he's jeno's best friend. i'm sure he'll take good care of you."

"i hope so." donghyuck smiled, glancing at mark and jeno on the other side of the room, and having a quick eye-contact with mark, making him blush again.

"anyway! now get ready, because we're all going to sleigh together!" jaemin added loudly.

✯

"i'm tired..." donghyuck whined as he was getting carried on jisung's back, his eyes shutting close on their own.

all the students had gone to the sleigh slopes after unpacking their stuff to enjoy their first evening in the mountains.

donghyuck, jaemin and jisung had tagged along chenle, jeno and mark during the afternoon, and they had had a very fun time altogether, sleighing and even having snowball fights.

after their evening activities, they had headed to a huge restaurant that had been reserved for them, and they had eaten very hot and good – but heavy – food.

long story short, the bus ride added to the evening activities and topped by the very copious dinner had literally killed donghyuck who was exhausted.

"which one is your room?" jisung asked, jumping a slight bit to make sure donghyuck wouldn't fall off his back.

"this one." mark replied, pushing the key inside the lock and opening it.

jisung followed mark inside and placed donghyuck on the bed slowly.

he then walked to the boy's open suitcase and pulled out his pyjamas before walking back to donghyuck.

"come on, hyuck. you need to change clothes." jisung said, shaking donghyuck's arm under mark's curious eyes.

"hmm..." donghyuck hummed, rolling towards jisung.

the tall boy pulled donghyuck up and carried him again before heading to the bathroom.

he needed both to brush his teeth and change him, and he wouldn't do that in front of mark.

so that's why he locked themselves in the bathroom before undressing donghyuck carefully.

"give me your hands." jisung said placing the long-sleeved shirt over donghyuck's arms and head – it was a shirt belingign to jaemin, but donghyuck loved to wear it.

"you brush your teeth alone? or do i have to do it for you too?" jisung asked, receiving a tired hum from his best friend.

jisung sighed before pulling donghyuck's toothbrush and placing a bit of toothpaste on it before starting to brush his teeth.

he was quite used to doing this, because donghyuck would often fall dead asleep, and he would have to brush his teeth.

anyway, after ten minutes, jisung unlocked the door and walked out of the bathroom with donghyuck in his arms. he placed the boy under the covers, inside the bed, and made sure that he was secured.

"lele dolphin..." the boy whined, making grabby hands towards jisung under mark's stare.

"yeah." jisung nodded before picking the dolphin plushie that had been offered by chenle.

he put it inside donghyuck's hand, making the sleeping boy smile and hug it tight as he fell completely asleep.

"good night, hyuckie." jisung said, dropping a kiss on the boy's temple before standing up again.

that's when he met eyes with mark and realised that he may have done a bit too much.

"h-huh..." he stammered, looking at mark.

"why are you treating him like a kid?" the canadian asked, staring at the sleeping boy hugging his plushie.

"well... he's... he's always like this when he's tired." jisung explained, not wanting to go further – donghyuck tended to slip into little space when he was too tired and couldn't fight back against it.

"oh..." mark nodded slowly. "okay."

jisung and mark exchanged a look in silence before jisung coughed.

"i'll take my leave." he said. "you can watch tv or do anything you want. don't worry about the noise, he sleeps like a rock."

"okay, thanks." mark nodded.

"good night." jisung smiled before walking out of the room and heading back to his own while sighing deeply.

this was a close call.