"jaemin!"

the teenager turned around, seeing a girl wearing a bright pink outfit hopping towards him with a big smile.

"you're back!" she said when she got next to the boy. "i missed you yesterday!"

yeah, jaemin hadn't gone to class the day before.

after burning down the lab, he had had a very long night, talking with donghyuck, and then crying. he hadn't been able to wake up to go to school in the morning.

so, he didn't go.

but he did the day after.

"yeah, sorry." jaemin smiled sheepishly. "i had another appointment for my thigh."

"i hope it's getting better!" mina exclaimed, clingling onto the boy's arm.

"slowly, but it is." jaemin replied with a smile.

his heartbeat unconsciously fastened at the girl's clinginess.

also, he had found himself staring at her a bit more than usual.

let's say he found her really pretty today, with her pink set.

"that's good to know! now let's go to class!" she beamed, making jaemin chuckle and follow her towards their classroom.

they sat behind their desks as mina was telling jaemin everything he missed the day before.

she eventually mentioned the fire at the lab, explaining that because of that, NA wouldn't be caught easily, and that he was still hanging around, ready to kill people.

jaemin felt uneasy when she mentioned this event, feeling the urge to throw up once again. but he managed to keep it in.

"you okay?" she asked with her brows furrowed slightly.

jaemin looked at her, swallowing his saliva. "yeah..." he let out.

"you look a bit pale..." mina told. "did you catch a fever?"

the girl used the back of her palm to measure the temperature on jaemin's forehead before cupping his cheeks and looking at him deep in the eye.

"you don't have a fever, but you look tired..." she stated, their faces a few centimetres apart.

she didn't seem bother by their proximity, and jaemin wasn't either.

in fact, his heart was beating at a fast pace in his chest, and he found himself wondering if the gloss she had on her thin lips was strawberry flavoured.

"do you want to go back home?" she asked worriedly.

jaemin woke up from his trance, trying to calm his erratic heartbeat.

"no, no." he replied with blushing cheeks. "it's okay. i'm fine."

"and now you're red..." she added, inspecting jaemin's face. "are you sure you are okay?"

"i am, mina. don't worry..." jaemin replied, looking at her in the eye.

"okay." she said, pulling back.

jaemin's cheeks became normal again, his blush disappearing with mina's mouth getting further form his.

however, it didn't last long. the girl turned towards him once again, placing a delicate hand onto his not-injured thigh and rubbing it softly.

"if anything is bothering you, you can tell me, okay?" she asked, tilting her head in a very cute way.

"yes..." jaemin replied, trying to control his blushing, but failing miserably.

"i'll always be here for you, jaemin."

and here goes his heart beating at a inhuman speed once again...

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"what are you doing?"

jaemin got startled as he was lying on his bed, looking at his phone.

he turned his head to look at donghyuck that had just appeared in his house, leaning against the kitchen counter.

their relationship had improved.

jaemin now couldn't say that he hated the demon.

he had been there for him when jaemin was at his worst.

he was willing to help him.

he had promised it.

"nothing." jaemin lied. "checking some new songs."

"liar." donghyuck replied, approaching the bed, the fact that jaemin tightened his grip on the device confirming his suspicions. "plus, i can read you mind."

"you said you wouldn't do it anymore." jaemin defended himself.

"yeah. but you're lying to me. and there's no need to." the demon replied, trying to catch the phone.

jaemin rolled on the bed to get away from the demon so that he couldn't take his phone.

however, donghyuck snapped his fingers, and the phone magically flew across the room, landing right in donghyuck's palm.

"so... you were stalking mina?" donghyuck said, scrolling down mina's instagram account.

"and what if?" the human asked.

"nothing." donghyuck replied. "i was just curious."

the demon looked carefully at every picture of her account.

he could hear jaemin thinking out loud how cute and pretty she was.

he didn't agree with him.

sure, she had some assets, but she nothing compared to him – well, that's what he would like to hear.

"she's okay." donghyuck shrugged before throwing the phone back to jaemin.

"okay?!" jaemin exclaimed. "she's more than just okay!"

"not my taste." donghyuck replied.

jaemin looked through her account once again, inspecting each of her pictures.

"she's absolutely gorgeous." he said. "look at her bambi eyes... they're magnificent. and this cute little nose... and... those pouty lips... she always wears gloss..."

donghyuck rolled his eyes at jaemin's sayings.

he couldn't understand what the human liked in that girl.

she was cute, okay. but no need to get head over heels for her like that.

"i don't find her that amazing." donghyuck spoke again.

the demon surprised himself saying those words on this tone.

he shouldn't be bothered by what his human was saying.

it was normal for humans to find someone to love.

jaemin may be his human, he still needed to have a social life.

and this meant having a girlfriend – or a boyfriend.

so, why was donghyuck this bothered by the fact jaemin found that girl pretty?

"you're a demon." jaemin replied. "we don't have the same standards."

donghyuck snorted. "i may not be human, i know when i see someone beautiful."

"apparently no." jaemin replied. "if you don't find her beautiful."

the demon rolled his eyes as jaemin listed all of her qualities once again.

he lost it when jaemin stopped talking about her physic and started explaining how much of a kind person she was.

"you like her or what?" he asked, slightly annoyed by the situation.

a long silence followed this question.

donghyuck thought that the human would immediately reply that he didn't.

let's say he heard his heart breaking when jamein didn't answer right away.

"i don't know..." jaemin shrugged, his eyes wandering to his phone again. "it wouldn't surprise me..." he said with a smile.

"oh god..." donghyuck rolled his eyes, snapping fingers to disappear.

jaemin didn't pay attention to him.

instead, he stared at her latest post, a picture of her wearing the pink set jaemin loved on her.

"okay, maybe i do like her..."