Jeno gets up and wobbles a little as he grabs his clothes that were thrown on the ground and puts them back on before taking the money that the man had left for him.

He opens the door and glances at his client rolling his eyes when he heard him snore like a pig before taking his leave.

He checks his phone to look at the time and sighed, 6:01 am it shows. Guess he can't take a rest for today or he'll be late.

He hurries to get back home and sneaks through the window changing into clothes that weren't revealing and opens his drawer.

He widens his eyes when he noticed he doesn't have any makeup to cover his marks, he begins to panic as he rushes to Donghyuck's room and maybe borrow some of the boy's makeup.

Jeno opens and closes every cabinet or possible containers that has a single makeup to cover his hickeys, but found none.

He groans and rushes back to his room grabbing one of his big sweaters putting it on and checks himself on the mirror.

"Good enough," he told himself before rushing to get his schoolbag stuffing his homework inside and heads out.

"What's with the sweater, Jen? It's hot outside today," his father said curiously when he passed by heading towards the door.

Jeno stops and turns his head shooting a small smile, "I-uh just like to wear sweaters," he said scratching his nape.

Seeing his father not convinced at his excuse, he pursed his lips, "I have a t-shirt underneath, I'll take it off later. I just like big clothes," he said.

His father hums before nodding his head seemingly buying it. He sighed in relief when the adult waves him off heading back to the kitchen, "well have fun in school!" He said.

The raven haired chuckled, "bye dad!" He yells back before opening the door and abruptly stops when he meets his stepmother at the pathway. "Hi mom," he mumbled.

The lady scans his outfit with her eyes trailing up and down before squinting it with a judging glare, "wearing like a slut now." She scoffed, "tsk, should've known you were a whore."

Jeno bit his lip trying to hold back a sob as his eyes began tearing up, "whatever, if you get a disease or get pregnant we'll kick you out," his stepmom adds before heading in.

The boy sighed and wipes his tears away before continuing to walk his way to school with his stepmother's words lingering in his head.

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Jeno arrives to school already in a bad mood after what happened this morning and also the fact that he ran out of makeup to cover his hickeys.

He heads to his locker and flinched when an arm wrapped around his shoulders, "you should wear things like this more often," Jaemin comments.

The raven haired bit the inside of his cheek, "why? Because I look like a slut?" He hissed.

The caramel haired raised a brow, "what?" He asked baffled. "No? I meant you should wear these kind of things more often because you look really good, like look at those thighs and small waist!" he explained.

Jeno blushed at the sudden compliment and turns his head muttering a thanks, "might be my favorite outfit actually," Jaemin continued.

The boy rolled his eyes as the caramel haired spoke again, "why are you wearing a sweater? it's like Arizona outside," Jaemin said scanning his clothes.

Jeno sighed grabbing his book, "I just have a cold," different excuse for the same question. Totally doesn't make sense.

The caramel haired hummed, "you sure don't look like it," he muttered with furrowed eyebrows.

"I'm just sick okay?!" Jeno yells surprising not only himself and Jaemin but also the people around them by his outburst from stress.

He sees Hana staring at them from her locker leaning in to the wall as Jaemin taps his side.

Taking a deep breath, Jeno shuts his eyes for a moment, "sorry," he whispered out.

"Tough morning?" Jaemin asked feeling bad towards the younger who looked more stresses than sick.

Jeno shrugs, "guess you could say that," he pursed his lips as Jaemin hummed cradling his head making him confused and surprised at the same time.

"Things, just– didn't go my way," he adds trying to calm down before he bursts out again.

The older nodded understandingly, "I get that," he said patting his back before leading them into the hallway. "Everything will be fine," he reassures with a shrug.

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Everything did not go fine at all.

Jeno had gotten in trouble for something he didn't do, some guy tried to ask him out in science class, he doesn't have enough money for lunch so now here he is waiting for Donghyuck to get their food and worst of all, he has a headache.

He's always hated headaches, he usually preferred a stomachache since all you have to do is shit in the toilet and it'll get slightly better.

"My head hurts!" He whined laying his head on Jaemin's shoulder unconsciously making the boy froze on his spot knowing well it wasn't an act, Hana is at detention anyways.

Without thinking, Jaemin wraps an arm around his shoulder and pats his arm as the raven haired was whining, "guys, don't be too loud! Ugh!" He grits his teeth.

Renjun reaches over to pat his friend's head gently as he smacks Mark on the back of his head after before sitting back down jabbing his elbow in Jisung's ribs and kicking Chenle's shin.

The three groans in pain as they glared at the Chinese who glared back just as deadly and strongly.

Donghyuck comes back with his and Jeno's lunch with the latter's tray having a plate of jelly and a strawberry smoothie.

"Eat up baby bro!" The tanned male chirps cooing at his brother as if he's a baby, to which he is for him and the others.

Jeno whined and rubs his temples before hiding his face into Jaemin's neck, the caramel haired boy sighed and grabbed the spoon taking a scoop of the jelly.

He feeds it to Jeno who lets himself get babied by his friends as he just lays his head on Jaemin's shoulder and cuddling closer.

Of course, gossips and a few people were looking at them both cooing at how cute they looked and also worried mixed with confusion because of the rumor about Hana and Jaemin.

Jeno finishes his lunch after awhile as they all just waited for the bell to ring. He started to sweat and really regretted wearing long sleeves on a sunny day.

"Hey what's this?" Jaemin asked curiously pulling Jeno's turtle neck down to look at the purple mark.

Mark, oblivious and genuinely dumbfounded at the commotion and the obvious thing on Jeno's neck gapes his mouth.

"Wow! You put makeup on to look like Jaemin gave you a hickey! That's so cool, it looks so real!" He exclaimed.

When the others were silent as awkwardness filled around their table with the four boys looking around as Jeno stared on his lap biting his lip while Jaemin was just staring at the hickey on his neck.

"Oh," Mark breathes out, "it's not fake is it?" He said feeling bad and also embarrassed by himself but mostly the former.

Jeno pursed his lips shaking his head before widening his eyes when Jaemin suddenly stood up pushing him away before storming out of the cafeteria.