Mark checked his phone for the time. It was 12:34. Jaehyun and Lucas still hadn't shown up. That meant the thing with the detective was probably taking ages. He dropped his phone back onto his bedside table and shoved the bed sheets over his head.

When Wonho had dropped him home, he had tried to follow Mark into his apartment. He had said he just wanted to make sure he was alright, but Mark knew that was bullshit. Thankfully, Wonho had needed to go back to work.

“I'm coming to check on you when I get home from work, so don't even think of going anywhere.” Wonho had ordered before Mark had slammed the door shut in his face.

At least Wonho wouldn't be home until around 5.30, so he had plenty of time to himself. He let himself drift off to sleep, ignoring the aches and pain coursing through his body.

***

There was a quick succession of knocks at the door, and Mark stumbled out of bed.

“I'm coming, I'm coming. Keep your pants on.” He muttered.

He opened the door and let Lucas and Jaehyun in.

Lucas slapped him enthusiastically on his back as he came in. “Wassup!” He boomed loudly.

Jaehyun winced as he took a look at Mark. “You look sore.” He said, his tone apologetic.

Mark shrugged. “It's all good. I can take it.” He replied, flashing Jaehyun a small smile.

Jaehyun nodded and took a seat next to Lucas on the couch. He looked a little nervous.

“What's with you, Jaehyun?” Mark asked him as he sat down cross legged on the floor with his back facing the TV.

“Jungwoo scared him.” Lucas answered with a snigger.

Jaehyun shot him a dark look. “Shut up, it's serious.” He turned to Mark. “Jungwoo said that there was someone else there in the bathroom when we beat up Doyoung. At first I thought he was just being a dick and trying to trick me, but he seemed so confident about it. Like he knew who it was and that they would tell.” Jaehyun explained.

“Did he say who it was?” Mark asked.

“Na, he just kept smirking at me.” Jaehyun replied with a frown.

“But there was no one else there. We would have noticed.” Lucas retorted, clearly not agreeing with Jaehyun.

“I guess someone could have been hiding in one of the cubicles.” Mark thought aloud. If what Jaehyun was saying was true, they needed to find out who it was and how much they had told the cops. “Fuck.” Mark muttered under his breath.

“What about Jungwoo? We could try and beat it out of him?” Jaehyun suggested.

“That could work, especially with what I've got planned for him.” Mark pondered. “But not at school. He's got his guard up at school; he’ll be expecting it there.” He said, looking at both Lucas and Jaehyun with a dark smile.

Lucas grinned back at him and loudly clicked his knuckles.

“Show me the photos you got of the two faggots.” Mark told Lucas.

Lucas fished his phone out of his pocket, unlocked it and threw it over to Mark who caught it two-handed. He opened up the gallery and stared down at the phone screen with a look of disgust.

Lucas had got it alright. The photo clearly showed Jeno and Jaemin standing close to each other. Jaemin had his eyes closed as Jeno kissed his cheek with his hands cupped around Jaemin’s face. Mark scoffed in disgust and flicked the screen. Another photo appeared, this one of the two of them with their noses touching. Jeno was staring affectionately at Jaemin, who had a small smile on his face.

“Fucking faggots.” Mark snarled in revulsion. He threw the phone back to Lucas. “We can use that against them though.”

“We could make heaps of copies and cover the school with them to out the two of them.” Lucas suggested.

“Possibly, but I want to make them suffer slowly.” Mark replied. “Jaemin’s obviously the weaker one. You should have seen him trying hide behind Jeno when I walked past them earlier today. We just need to get him alone, without Jeno knowing. It'll be easy to break him.” Mark smirked at the ideas running through his head.

“But they're always together, how do we do that?” Jaehyun asked.

“You two just deal with Jeno and I'll handle Jaemin myself. I bet he also knows who was in the bathroom that day.” Mark replied. “Anyway, how was the interview with the detective?” He asked.

“Boy, she was really hot.” Lucas replied with a huge grin on his face. He relaxed back on the couch with his arms behind his head.

“You were practically drooling all over your desk. I hope you didn't try to make a move on her in your one-on-one with her.” Jaehyun replied, giving him a friendly shove.

“No. You know that's not how I work, buddy. I make them come to me.” Lucas replied smuggly.

Mark rolled his eyes. “I mean, what did she ask you? Use your brain not your dick, Lucas.”

Lucas glared at Mark, so Jaehyun answered him instead. “Well, she got straight to the point with me. She asked about whether we bullied Doyoung and Jungwoo, she also asked me about you.” Jaehyun replied.

“Me? What about Me?” Mark questioned in surprise.

“Well, about you getting beaten up this morning and how you said it was the same guy who beat up Doyoung. Then she pretty much asked me if you were a homophobe.” Jaehyun replied.

“And what did you say?” Mark asked. He leaned forward, looking at Jaehyun intently.

Jaehyun dropped his eyes to his lap and swallowed before answering. “Just that you don't think gay relationships between guys is normal but that you keep your thoughts to yourself.”

Jaehyun had given the right answer. Mark relaxed, leaning back onto his hands. Jaehyun noticed this and smiled shyly at him.

“Good. “Mark responded.

“She asked me that too. What I thought about gays.” Lucas interjected. “I just said why would any guy bother to look at another guy in a sexual way when there's so many beautiful women in the world. Then I winked at her.” Lucas laughed and raised his eyebrows enthusiastically at them, obviously proud of his cringeworthy playboy attitude.

Jaehyun burst out laughing. “So you did try to hit on her.” He said between fits of laughter.

Lucas clicked his tongue and then jumped up to stand on the couch. He put his hands out in front of him as if he were holding onto someone and started grinding his hips back and forth.

“I'm gonna get that sexy detective.” He yelled and then started making feminine sounding moaning noises as he continued to grind into his imaginary girlfriend.

Beside him on the couch, Jaehyun was dying of laughter. Mark couldn't help but laugh too at Lucas’s obnoxious behaviour.

They then spent the next couple of hours gaming on Mark’s Playstation. When Mark checked his phone for the time it was close to 5pm. Mark cursed under his breath. Wonho would be back soon, so everyone needed to leave.

“Hey guys it's already nearly five. You should probably go now.” Mark said as he stood up and took some empty glasses over to the kitchen sink.

“Fuck really?” Lucas said, double checking the time on his phone. He let out an irritated sigh. “I was meant to go to basketball practice after school. Now coach is going to be shitty at me again.” He picked up his backpack and slung it over one shoulder as he walked to the door. “Good gaming seche though.” He shoved his shoes on and waited with his hand on the door handle as Jaehyun slipped his shoes on.

“See you later Mark.” Jaehyun smiled.

Mark waved goodbye to both his friends and let out a sigh once the door was closed. He looked around his small apartment at the mess the three of them had made. Half empty chip packets were lying on the floor, and the controllers were left strewn over the floor and couch. Mark began cleaning up.

Not even ten minutes later there was a knock at the door.

“Fuck’s sake. He's early.” Mark muttered.

There were another two knocks.

“Mark!” Wonho called in an annoyed tone from the other side of the door.

Mark sighed angrily then yanked open the front door. Wonho stood in front of him in a clean black suit and tie. He held a plastic bag of takeout food in one hand and wore a tired, annoyed expression on his face. He took one look at Mark and clicked his tongue.

“God, your face is a mess.” He muttered. He reached up to touch Mark’s face but he moved his head to the side. Wonho grabbed his wrist instead.

“Come.” He ordered, pulling Mark out of his apartment.

Mark pulled back but Wonho didn't release his grip on him.

“No, why? I want to rest. Leave me alone.” He replied.

Wonho gave him a dark look. “It’s Friday. Now come.”

Fuck. Mark had completely forgotten that it was Friday today. He hated Friday's for this very reason.

He lowered his head and let Wonho lead him into his apartment.