"hello doyoung." yuta exclaimed as soon as he appeared in doyoung's room. "ready for your third day?"

"i guess i don't have the choice..." doyoung shrugged.

"you're right!" yuta giggled. "let's go!"

doyoung followed the demon inside the portal, instantly appearing inside jaehyun's red and black bedroom.

"welcome back doyoung." jaehyun greeted him.

♨/❄

doyoung followed jaehyun and yuta across the busy corridors of the demon realm's school.

in fact, he didn't have much choice since jaehyun was pulling him by the arm so that they could apparently get the best table for lunch.

"and... here we are!" yuta exclaimed, jumping on one of the chairs immediately.

"oof... i though we would never have it." jaehyun commented, sitting facing yuta.

doyoung pulled out the chair next to jaehyun with difficulty as he was completely out of breath.

seeing his state, jaehyun pulled the chair himself, and pushed it forwards to the table when doyoung was sat on it.

"you're not the sportive type." jaehyun noticed, handing him a bottle of water from his bag.

"in the... human realm... we learn... about art... and languages... and culture... no time for sports..."he informed between pants.

"too bad." yuta laughed. "here it's quite the contrary."

"anyway!" jaehyun exclaimed. "now that we have our table, let's eat! i'm hungry!"

while jaehyun was taking their meal out of his bag, doyoung took his time to calm his breathing and look around.

the view was very unfamiliar and yet beautiful.

they were sitting on a raised terrace, allowing them to see all the other tables and the school garden beneath them, and giving them a beautiful view of the horizon.

doyoung was kind of disturbed by the customs of this realm.

he wasn't used to living under a bright red sky. in his realm, the sky was blue.

he wasn't used to seeing people wearing summer clothes. in his realm, everyone was wearing jackets and fluffy clothes.

he wasn't used to feeling hot – or at least warm. in his realm, he was always freezing cold.

he wasn't used to being around strong and scary people. in his realm, everyone was more friendly, and used their brain rather than their muscles.

everything was different from his realm.

but surprisingly, he couldn't say that he hated it.

"doyoung?" a voice called him.

"yeah?" he replied, looking at jaehyun who was holding out a box for him.

"here is your meal. i asked a maid to cook vegetables because you don't eat meat." he explained.

doyoung thanked him, grabbing the box as if it was the holy grail, and trying his best not to pay attention to the fluttering inside his stomach – he was hungry, it couldn't be anything else.

♨/❄

"sorry, i'm a bit late." yuta excused as he walked across the portal later than usual.

"it's okay. i was late myself." doyoung assured before picking his bag up and heading towards the portal.

"let's go for your tenth day!" yuta said before following doyoung.

♨/❄

"hello, hello little human." a voice startled doyoung who had just walked out of the toilets. "remember me?"

doyong didn't really know if the fact that he had met taeyong was good or bad news.

"yes. taeyong?" doyoung asked, washing his hands at the sink.

"oh! you actually do! i'm flattered." taeyong replied patting the top of doyoung's head with his hand.

doyoung tried walking away from him to dry his hands with the hand-dryer.

however, taeyong followed him.

"how is your stay in the demon realm going?" he asked with a smile.

"huh... good i guess." doyoung replied.

"i hope jaehyun is treating you well." taeyong told. "i know how he can be."

"yeah. you were boyfriends." doyoung nodded.

this made taeyong widen his eyes.

"oh! you're up to date, i see." he clapped his hands.

"yuta told me." doyoung explained.

"well, then it's my duty to tell you. be careful around jaehyun. he's not someone very... huh... good to hang around?" taeyong stated.

"are you saying this because you two broke up?" doyoung asked.

"no, no, no!" taeyong shook his head. "i'm just warning you. there are better people to hang around to discover the beauties of the demon realm."

"huh... okay... but- "

"i could be one of them." taeyong clapped his hands. "it would be a pleasure!"

"huh..."

before doyoung could answer properly, the bathroom's door slammed open, and jaehyun entered.

"i was starting to think something had happened to you." he said looking at doyoung.

"nothing did. just a friendly talk." taeyong answered, wrapping an arm around doyoung's shoulders.

"nothing is friendly when it comes to you." jaehyun spat, taking doyoung's hand in his and pulling the boy towards him to steal him from taeyong. "leave doyoung alone."

jaehyun exited the bathroom with doyoung before taeyong could reply, and he pulled doyoung away.

after turning a few times and taking some stairs, jaehyun eventually stopped and turned around, his eyes falling onto his hand that was still intertwined with doyoung's.

he let it go before coughing.

"huh... sorry." he said. "i just don't like you being around taeyong."

"why?" doyoung asked, scratching his forehead with his hands to hide his blushing cheeks.

"i don't trust him that much." jaehyun replied.

"but he was your boyfriend."

jaehyun's eyes widened, surely because he didn't expect doyoung to know about his relationship with taeyong.

"he wasn't exactly my boyfriend, but yeah, the use of the past tense highlights the fact that there was a problem between us, and that now, i don't trust him anymore." jaehyun explained.

"did he cheat on you?" doyoung raised a brow.

"it's more complicated than that."

"he seemed to be friendly." doyoung said.

jaehyun sighed. "he isn't like that."

"but he was friendly with me!"

jaehyun's answer didn't come as verbal immediately.

first, doyoung was pulled by his collar and brought way closer to jaehyun than he previously was.

then, jaehyun bent down, his face being intimately close to doyoung's to the point their breaths were mixed.

and finally, jaehyun spoke, making doyoung blush madly and tremble in fear at the same time.

"listen, i was his boyfriend, meaning that i am the one who knows him the best. and i assure you that he isn't the person he pretends to be when he's with you. so, you better stick by me and trust me when i tell you not to hang around him."