"i don't even know what to do anymore..." renjun sighed. "i told them everything i felt towards them. i said that they needed to give me an answer about this, but i'm not sure i want to hear their answer."

donghyuck smiled sadly, taking renjun in his arms and hugging him tightly.

he conceived perfectly that the ability he had to see love wasn't the ability of everyone, meaning that renjun couldn't know about jeno and jaemin's feelings towards him.

but he couldn't leave his friend like this. he needed to help him feel better.

"you have nothing to worry about, renjun." donghyuck said calmly.

"i told them everything i had inside my head! it's as if i was completely naked in front of them... well, not really, but... you see?"

"you're torturing yourself for nothing." donghyuck tried reasoning him.

"jeno and jaemin aren't nothing..." renjun sighed again, leaning his head on donghyuck's shoulder.

"tell me more about them."

renjun's eyes closed as he imagined jaemin and jeno's beautiful faces.

"t-they both are so perfect in their own way... i know jaemin and i used to fight a lot, but i guess it was just playful, as if we wanted to prove the other we were worth their friendship or love... these endless fights got us close without us realising, and so, i eventually fell for jaemin... everything seemed simpler with jeno. he has always been charming with me, taking care of me as if i was something precious. i guess i fell for jeno first, but at the same time, how couldn't i? and i think jeno and jaemin are a good combinasion. at the same time, they're so much alike, but they have huge differences that combine perfectly. i don't know how to explain, i just... see it... i am sure that i like both of them. and knowing that they are about to get together saddens me, because they look so good together, without me... why would they need me when they already have each other...?"

donghyuck listened carefully to renjun's speech, also concentrating on the boy's heartbeat which was slightly faster than normal, reflecting the boy's nervousness mixed with his love for the two boys.

donghyuck smiled at the end of the speech, tightening his embrace on his friend's body.

"are you sure they don't need you?" donghyuck asked, brushing renjun's hair off his face.

"they already have each other..." renjun spoke, his voice trembling.

"and what if they wanted more? what if jeno and jaemin wasn't enough. what if you needed to be added to them?" donghyuck continued.

"they don't need me." renjun replied, a tear escaping his eye.

"that's not what i'm seeing." donghyuck said confidently, making renjun lift his head immediately.

"w-what do you mean...?" he asked, sniffling.

"listen carefully..."

renjun raised a brow as donghyuck opened one of his hands and placed his palm over his chest, just above his heart.

renjun was about to ask what donghyuck was doing when he felt like passing out, his vision becoming blurry and the smallest noises around the room resonating in his ears.

he's cute, don't you think?

you two are cute like this, so, i don't mind.

would you like something to drink?

is someone eager to see me half-naked?

you're not too bad yourself, it's a shame you're wearing a shirt and i can't see you fully...

jeno made me change my mind about you.

he said that our fights to know who was the best were stupid, because we both have different ways. we could actually both be the best in our domain.

you're not so bad after all.

i'm glad i didn't find a hot girl to do my quest.

renjun immediately recognised jaemin's voice, repeating words he had told him during their few days together, when they had started to get closer.

soon, his mind was filled with other sentences pronounced by both jeno and jaemin, and these sentences were illustrated by scenes renjun had already lived.

he saw jeno having a friendly talk with him in his comfort place in the half-blood camp.

he saw jaemin trying to defeat him during a fight, their faces so close.

he saw jeno checking on him every single time.

he saw jaemin placing him into the bed, in las vegas.

he saw jeno falling asleep next to him in vancouver.

he saw jaemin smiling at him when they were in the disney store in new York.

he saw jeno talking to him, after renjun caught him and jaemin being intimate.

he saw it all.

the smiles, the laughs, the winks... everything.

all those little attentions that jeno or jaemin would give him.

all those things that would make his heart melt.

all those things that made him fall even deeper for them.

and all those things that could make him believe that jeno and jaemin would need him too.

donghyuck pulled his hand away from renjun's chest, the images as well as the voices in renjun's head fading so that he could come back to his senses.

his first reflex once he was awoken was to look at donghyuck expectantly, and ask him a question that he thought he had the answer.

"t-they n-need m-me...?" he asked, his bottom lip trembling.

"isn't that what you saw...?" donghyuck smiled.

"b-but... is this real...?" renjun gulped.

"my mother is the goddess of love, renjun. i know about your feelings, and i know about their feelings. what you saw is real. and as i said, you're worrying for nothing."

renjun blinked a few times, not believing his ears.

"t-they need me..." he breathed out.

"they do, renjun." donghyuck nodded.

Ω

jisung walked out of his bedroom, turning his head left and right as he searched for a certain male inside the corridors.

"are you searching for something?"

jisung jumped before turning around and seeing chenle, standing in front of his bedroom in his pyjamas.

"yeah." jisung coughed. "i found it now."

"okay, great." chenle smiled.

jisung didn't answer, not really knowing what to say.

he stayed still, admiring chenle who wasn't moving either, as if he was waiting for jisugn to speak.

a few seconds passed, and chenle pushed open the door of his room.

"i'm... going to sleep." he declared, looking away from jisung. "good night?"

"oh, yeah." jisung nodded. "s-sleep well."

chenle smiled at him again, before walking inside his room awfully slowly.

jisung stared at the chinese male, internally scolding himself for not asking the question he wanted to ask him.

as chenle's door was about to close, he ran there, pushing it open again, and scaring the smaller male.

"wait!" he declared.

"y-yeah...?" chenle asked nervously.

"w-would you like to... s-sleep... with me... a-again...?" jisung asked, stuttering a lot.

a smile appeared on chenle's face as he nodded happily. he had been waiting for this proposition all day long.

"really?" jisung asked, bewildered.

"of course. my room? or yours?" chenle flushed red.

"mine." jisung declared as he carried chenle bridal style to bring him to his room, making the chinese male let out a little yelp before wrapping his arms around jisung's neck.

both boys were fast asleep half an hour after, chenle's body caged between jisung's chest and arms as they snored in unison, their minds blank and completely peaceful.

a few rooms next to theirs, jeno and jaemin were in a similar position, sleeping soundly.

the two boys had talked about their mutual feelings all afternoon.

it was now no secret for them that they had both fallen for renjun and themselves at the same time, and that they needed to tell renjun about it.

they had tired approaching him in the evening, but renjun was nowhere to be seen, so they had decided to to it the next day – they would see renjun since they would arrive in europe then.

anyway, for the moment, jeno and jaemin enjoyed each other's presence, both of them dreaming of how perfect their lives would be if they were with renjun.

speaking of which, renjun still had his eyes opened and staring at the ceiling inside his own bedroom.

his heart was beating so quick it was impossible for him to sleep.

he was still so shocked about the news he had learnt today.

he had no clue jeno and jaemin could even like him back. but they did. donghyuck had told it, and he had shown him.

renjun still needed a bit of time to process that news, so that's why he had avoided the two boys at all costs in the evening, but he couldn't wait now to be with the two of them, wrapped in between their muscular arms.

but for that, he needed to fall asleep, which seemed to be an impossible task to do.

inside his own bedroom, mark was looking at the pitch-black sea through the porthole.

images of donghyuck were clouding his mind, as always, and he was mad about that.

why couldn't he stop thinking about him?

why had he fallen for him?

hades wasn't like that, and as his son, he shouldn't be like that either.

but it seemed like it was stronger than him. as if he couldn't resist the attraction from donghyuck.

who could he blame? donghyuck was a magnificence... no one could resist him.

and more than that, mark had the chance to have caught donghyuck's eye too, meaning that donghyuck was attracted to him.

he was the lucky guy whom the perfect boy liked. dozens of people would kill to be in his spot.

but mark had to be mad about this. he had to hate the fact that he couldn't resist donghyuck

but what could he do?

nothing.

he didn't want to be like his father anymore. but was it even possible?

he wasn't sure.

but what he was sure of for now, was that he loved donghyuck more than anything, and that he should maybe try stopping these feelings if he wanted donghyuck to stay safe.

donghyuck was also thinking about mark while being inside his bed.

he was sure as well of his feelings for the older demigod.

who wouldn't like mark anyway?

he recalled all those times people were warning him to stay far from mark and hades' sons in general. but it seemed that he had made a good choice by not listening to them.

now, mark was part fo their group of friends, and he had protected every single one of them.

maybe he had changed for donghyuck? maybe not?

donghyuck was quite bothered by something about mark actually.

he couldn't read his feelings. he had tried many times, bot mark was unreadable, as if he didn't have any feelings.

at first, donghyuck was hurt, because he thought that he was taking a liking to mark, who wasn't even starting to like him back at all. but with time going on, donghyuck understood that he could read nothing of mark's feelings like he could with the other boys.

he didn't know why. but it was a fact.

so, a doubt reigned there. did mark like him back?

donghyuck hoped so, because he liked him a lot himself.