Jaemin slipped his left shoe on and went to tie his laces, ignoring the hairbrush that sailed over his head. His friend's, and Yeosang's friends had agreed to all go to Haechan's first swim meet together. And Jaemin's friends are already chaotic on their own. So you can imagine the chaos of having both Yeosang and Jaemin's friends all together in one cramped college dorm.

Jeno and Yeosang, both being the quiet ones of their respective groups, were huddled in the corner, talking in hushed voices. Meanwhile Mark was rapping about how Jeffery was eating his chips with Chenle in the background making fun of him. Jaemin giggled lightly at the scene before he stood up.

"We ready to go?" He asked. Everyone all looked over to him and nodded. They all got up and walked off to the swimming area, Jeno and Yeosang holding hands as they walked.

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Haechan walked towards the bleachers with slumped shoulders. Warm ups were finished, the match was going to start anytime, and Haechan was already worn out. He reached his stuff and pulled a protein bar out of his bag. Hopefully he could get some kind of energy booster before the game began.

While he was fiddling with the wrapper, Doyoung was eyeing him.

"Are you really going to eat that?" He asked.

Haechan eyed him back, slightly annoyed by his attitude. "Well I'm not gonna snort it if that's what you think."

That earned a few snickers from some other members of the team. Doyoung turned red in the face which gave Haechan a satisfied feeling.

People started flooding into the building and sitting at the bleachers. Haechan looked up and saw his friends. He waved. He saw Jeno with them and waved at him too. Jeno blushed and looked away from him, hiding behind Yeosang. Haechan brushed it off. Jeno was shy, it was just gonna take him a bit to warm up to him.

A whistle sounding from behind Haechan signaled that the players needed to line up. The games were beginning. Haechan was one of the first racers so he went to line up with the other racers at the side of the pool.

He leaned forward above the water.

The whistle blew behind him and he gracefully dived into the water, followed by his teammates.

"Congrats Haechan!"

Mark slapped Haechan's back as the boy chucked and shifted his feet. His first game of the season, and his team won by a landslide. The group of boys all decided they would go out to Wendy's to celebrate.

While the group continued to praise Haechan, Jeno felt a hand on his shoulder gently turning him around. He wasn't all that alarmed at first, you run into people all the time in college.

When Jeno had his back completely turned to the group he got a good look at who wanted his attention. It was one of the swimmers from the opposing team. Some of his friends were standing close by. Jeno remembered this guy. He was a talented swimmer, and he was even the reason their school almost lost.

"Hi." The boy said. Jeno leaned forward to get a whiff of his scent, Alpha, of course.

"Hello." Jeno replied.

"I noticed you cheering in the bleachers during the game." The Alpha said. "You always seemed to be cheering when I was swimming."

That was partially true. Jeno only had the courage to cheer when Haechan was swimming. It just so happens that this boy was always in the water around the same time he was.

"I was just cheering for my friend." Jeno explained. The boy didn't seem convinced. An amused grin spread across his face when Jeno wouldn't meet his eyes.

"You're kind of cute when you cheer for me." The Alpha continued, "I like the way your eyes crinkle up when you smile.

Jeno shuddered when he felt the Alpha's fingers, that were wrinkled from being in the water, run along his face. He traced the highs of Jeno's cheekbones lightly.

"Like I said I was cheering for my friend." Jeno said while staring at the ground. The Alpha hummed, ignoring Jeno and continuing to trace the curves of his face with his wrinkly hands.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Well my first name is Not." Jeno said. The boy raised his eyebrows, interested to see where this was going.

".....Okay and what's your last name?" He asked, removing his hands from Jeno's face.

"Interested." Jeno replied. It was a line Renjun taught him. He used it many-a-time before this.

The Alpha's face turned red while his friends burst into laughter from behind him.

"Leave the kid alone, he's obviously Not Interested." The Alpha's friend came up behind him and slapped his shoulder, gently guiding him away from Jeno, just as they were walking away Haechan broke apart from the group to join Jeno.

"Hey." Haechan softly greeted. Jeno smiled back at him.

"So how do you think I did?" Haechan asked.

"I think you did great! You're such a good swimmer and you look so handsome when you're in the water!" Haechan raised his eyebrows with an amused smirk on his face. Jeno's eyes widened when he realized what he said and he slapped a hand over his mouth in surprise.

"I-I just meant that-"

"Don't worry Jeno I know I look handsome in the water because I always look handsome." Haechan chuckled and gently pulled Jeno's hand away from his face.

"Actually about that-I was kinda hoping we could hang out soon? Just the two of us."

"I'd love to. What did you have in mind?" Jeno asked once he recovered from his embarrassment.

"Well..... I was kinda hoping you could sneak me into the culinary building and you could try to bake some stuff to help me figure out what my scent is." Haechan asked as his eyes darted around the room.

Jeno smiled at him, "I'd love that Haechan, just text me when you're free." The two boys exchanged genuine smiles with one another.

But while they were talking they were being watched.

"Just leave it alone jAcKsOn the Omega made it clear he wasn't into you." The Alpha put his hand on his friend's shoulder who was aggressively glaring at Jeno from the other side of the pool.

"No! He was so rude! I can't just let this go!" Before any of his friends could stop him he reached down to grab a heavy, metal water bottle and chucked it across the pool right at Jeno's head. Jeno looked back and saw the bottle flying towards him and he quickly braced for impact.

Luckily someone else saw the bottle coming towards him too.

Haechan gasped and jumped in between Jeno and the bottle, pulling Jeno close to his chest for protection. The bottle harmlessly bounded off Haechan's back shoulder and clanged to the floor pathetically.

Both Jeno and Haechan turned around to see who had thrown the bottle. Haechan's eyes widened when he saw who was standing just across the pool; fuming at him.

The rest of the group caught onto the commotion and all turned around too. Haechan's group also gasped when they saw who it was.

"C'mon." Haechan ushered Jeno out of the pool room with the rest of their group not too far behind.

The walk back to the dorms was silent. Haechan stuck close to Jeno's side and refused to get further than a foot away from him. Since it was late at night and there were many drunk Alpha's roaming the campus, Yeosang was being watched too.

Once they made it back to the dorms it took a lot of convincing on Jeno's part to get Haechan to rest easy. He reassured Haechan multiple times that he was alright. Once Jeno's group reassured Haechan that Jeno would be taken care of Haechan finally gave in and wished the group a good night.

The walk to their dorm was filled with friendly banter but Haechan lingered in the back of the group, keeping silent.

Mark seemed to notice and went to join him.

"That was your ex who threw the bottle if I saw correctly." Mark said. Haechan nodded.

"Are you alright?"

Haechan sighed, clearly thinking deep about it. "I don't know Markie. He and I got pretty close, he really went off the rails after his dad started drinking." He said.

"You haven't dated since you broke up with him have you?"

Haechan nodded.

"That's another thing Mark." Haechan turned to his friend who looked back in curiosity, "Ever since my breakup with him I was completely opposed to the idea of dating...but lately I've felt a little different."

Haechan took a breath to steady himself before he continued.

"I think I'm ready to start looking for another boyfriend."

A/n: I'm stupidly proud of the Jackson thing

Also:

So I thought this was gonna be my last Bottom Jeno book, turns out it's not. I've got two more in the works (and let's face it those probably won't be the last either) The ones I have coming up are both Nomin books but I do plan to write other ships too, Just send and requests (for ships) you might have cuz I'd love some ideas!

Anyway that's all for today folks, stay healthy out there and I'll c u in the next chapter, byeeeeee!