"are you okay, baby?" a worried mark cupped donghyuck's cheeks to examinate his face closely before turning around to glare at jaemin when donghyuck had nodded.

jaemin stood up from the ground, holding his jaw that felt sore because of mark's hard punch.

he glanced between donghyuck and mark, his brows furrowing when he recalled the words that mark had used to speak of his best friend.

"what does 'what's mine' even mean?" he asked, glaring at mark. "donghyuck is my best friend. if he's someone's it's mine."

donghyuck coughed lightly, catching the attention of both males.

he stepped in front of mark, facing jaemin.

"i swear i wanted to tell you, but i really didn't know how you would react..." donghyuck mumbled.

jaemin raised a brow, not knowing what his best friend would tell him.

"tell me what?" he asked, sounding meaner than he expected.

"hey! don't talk to him on this tone!" mark intervened.

"stay out of this, gryffindor." jaemin spat, making mark clench his fist.

donghyuck noticed it, and he slid his hand down mark's arm until he reached his fist, and the brunette managed to make mark open his hand and intertwine his fingers with his.

jaemin looked at what was happening with a confused face.

"i like mark." donghyuck said, head hanging low because he was scared of jaemin's reaction.

"what?!"

"can you- " mark started, but got cut off by jaemin's fist.

"jaemin!" donghyuck exclaimed, helping his lover up and making sure he was okay.

when donghyuck looked at his best friend, jaemin was fuming red.

his jaw was clenched, his brows were furrowed, and he would have sure jumped on donghyuck to hit him if it wasn't for the very little amount of self-control he had.

"since when?" jaemin asked.

"the day i came back with wet hair from the lake." donghyuck answered.

"why didn't you tell me?"

"he surely didn't want you to react like that." mark stated, making jaemin raise his fist in the air, as if he was ready to hit him.

"please, stop." donghyuck said. "both of you."

jaemin slowly lowered his arm and mark took a small step back.

"jaemin. i was scared you would get mad because i liked a half-blood gryffindor." donghyck explained. "i wanted to tell you. i wanted to make you guess it. but i didn't get the opportunity to do so. i'm really sorry."

jaemin listened carefully to his best friend's words.

he crossed his arms on his chest when he finished talking and glared at the boy his best friend had fallen for.

"you better take care of him." jaemin said. "he's precious."

donghyuck flushed at those words coming from his best friend's mouth.

mark nodded, wrapping an arm around donghyuck's waist to pull the boy closer.

"i will, that's for sure." he said, making jaemin smile a slight bit.

"are you okay with this?" donghyuck asked his best friend hesiatantly.

"why wouldn't i?" jaemin raised a brow. "as long as he makes you happy, i'm okay with this."

donghyuck ran off mark's grip to jump into jaemin's arms.

jaemin gladly hugged back, inhaling his best friend's scent as donghyuck mumbled 'thank you' in his ear.

they pulled away after a few seconds.

"i'll leave you two alone then." jaemin smiled at the two lovers. "enjoy your time together."

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"here we go... another couple making out..." jaemin mumbled as he passed by a boy and a girl kissing passionately in the middle of the school corridor.

jaemin sighed, passing by them without giving them a glance.

he felt like everybody had a boyfriend or a girlfriend around him.

he felt like he was the only lonely one.

his thoughts soon wandered to the kiss he had shared with jeno again, and it took him all of his self-control not to slam his head right into the stone wall next to him.

jaemin's heart was beating hard in his chest.

he kept thinking about jeno kissing him.

he kept thinking about the feelings it provided him.

he kept thinking about him kissing donghyuck.

and he kept thinking about the non-feelings it provided him.

kissing jeno felt like paradise.

butterflies erupting in his stomach.

the need to push the kiss further.

and overwhelming sensation.

kissing donghyuck felt wrong.

him not even finding his best firend's chapped lips soft.

the urge to push him away.

nothing happening.

jaemin felt scared.

could this mean that he had developed feelings for jeno?

and could this mean that he still had those feelings for renjun?

truthfully, jeno was likeable – if you forgot that he was a muggle.

he is tall, muscular and handsome.

he can act nice, and surely does towards others.

he seemed to be cool to hang around.

and god he looked like a hot piece of meal.

quite the opposite of renjun who was a cute baby, sassy yet adorable.

"get out of my fucking head!" jaemin mumbled when he found himself smiling at the thought of jeno. "i hate you."

"here he is!"

jaemin looked towards the end of the corridor where he saw two boys running towards him.

at first, he thought they were talking about someone else, but he rolled his eyes when he saw them stopping in front of him.

"hello, jaemin!" the smaller exclaimed. "i'm chenle and he's jisung. we need to tell you something."

jaemin shrugged, not the slightest weirded out by the fact chenle knew his name. jaemin had already met jisung around school, and he surely was the one to tell chenle about jaemin.

"you see renjun?" chenle asked.

"yeah?" jaemin raised a brow, wondering what those two could want to tell him.

"do you like him?" he continued, catching jaemin off-guard.

"why would i tell a stranger about my feelings for a boy?"

"we just need to make sure. if this can help, renjun does like you." chenle told, making jaemin flush red.

renjun liked him?

huang cutie renjun did like him?!

like, they could become a couple?

"okay, so... i guess you do." jisung chuckled seeing jaemin's smiling face after chenle's words. "but we're not done with the questions."

"what?"

"do you like jeno?"

jaemin became red once again.

they had asked him the question that had been on his mind for the past hours.

and he still had no clue how to answer.

"just to tell you, he might like you as well." jisung added, making jaemin gasp.

"he what?!"

jaemin didn't know why his heart started beating so loud at the thought of jeno liking him back.

he gasped again when he thought about the fact that he was glad jeno liked him back.

did that mean that he genuinely liked him?

his feelings were so confused at the moment.

"you three should definitely have a talk." jisung chuckled.

"wait- "

"bye jaemin!"

and with that said, the two young boys ran away, leaving jaemin alone in the corridor with a racing heart and a confused mind.

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jaemin continued wandering around the corridors for a while, trying his best to ignore the many couples he met.

he couldn't bear seeing them anymore.

it made him feel even lonelier.

however, one couple made him stop in his tracks.

he thought about chenle and jisung's words again.

renjun likes you.

jeno might like you too.

they sure did.

yeah.

which is why they were both kissing each other like there was no tomorrow right under jaemin's pained eyes.