~Time skip because I'm an idiot lmao~

Also Dunno how football really works so bare with meeee

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Jeno hated going out, unless if it's for his job. He never went to parties nor any school events and even though the teacher said some of them are required or their attendance is, he would just sneak out and go somewhere else.

Thus, when it was football season, he of course decided on staying home to either study or laze around. Donghyuck was going obviously, he's part of the team, while his stepmother is having a business trip for a week.

He has done this since freshman year, but now he's in his Junior year, he has forgotten he had made a new friend.

So when he was about to grab some chips and a book to read after he has finished homework, his lovely friend, Renjun, called him.

"Hello?" Jeno answers as he tried to open the bag of chips.

"Jen, let's go to the football match," by the mention of this, Jeno teared the bag open harshly making a mess.

"I'm sorry, what?" The younger asked baffled as he grabbed a fallen chip from his bed, it's still clean anyways.

Renjun sighed, "Listen," he paused, "I love you and all and I also know you despised the thought of going out of your house unless if it's something else, I think we should atleast go to one before we graduate y'know?"

Jeno munches on his chip, "Why can't we just laze around? You can come over you know?" He shrugs even though the elder can't see it.

He heard a tsk before Renjun spoke again, "I know that, but I'm like, bored I guess?" He paused, "I don't know, I just want to try going to one or something, I do like watching hotties fight over some ball," he chuckles.

Jeno rolled his eyes with a smile, he learned Renjun had a bad breakup but was also boy crazy, the elder can be nice and can be bitchy, depends on how you treat him.

The raven haired ponders for awhile, unsure. I mean, he is bored in the house, he doesn't have a shift today at the bar, he already read the book he picked and finished his homework, plus what if, "will you buy me food?"

Renjun snickers, "Fine, whatever," Jeno smiled excitedly, "just be sure to come with, it's about to start in a few," he pouted but listened anyways.

"Alright," he nodded out of habit, "pick me up please," he said licking his fingers that were covered with powdered cheese.

Renjun laughed, "will do, see ya Jen," he said before the line went dead. Jeno sighed and walked to his closet.

He really doesn't know what to wear since he doesn't have much clothes, normally he saw other siblings borrowing each other's clothes, but in his and Donghyuck's whatever it is called, can't have that.

He took a sniff on himself and nodded with a hum, he still smells good, he had a bath when he got home and is glad the scent of strawberries and mint are still there.

He finally picks an outfit and tries it on.

He brushes his hair with his hands and grabs his phone and wallet before leaving the house, he also made sure the lights were off, the windows are closed, the doors are locked and everything was unplugged.

There was almost an accident where one time Donghyuck left the house with one of his scented candles were lit, no one was home at that time since Jeno was having his shift at the bar and their mom was out of the city.

Luckily, Jeno was finished early and his boss, Johnny, was a kind one, the elder had let him off and he arrives at his house and sees the curtains were almost burning.

So that was terrifying, he somehow got the blame for that but didn't really question it anymore, he already learned Donghyuck got away with anything from anyone at this point.

He walks to the nearby bakery and sees Renjun, "injunnie~" he runs and tackles the elder with a hug.

Renjun chuckled and hugged back, they pulled away and heads over to the school's football match.

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It was almost halfway done of the last match and Jeno was getting bored, he didn't really know anything about football, well except the part where everyone is wrestling over some damn ball.

He has begged and asked Renjun a few times to buy him those hotdogs and burgers some guys were selling and now he's full, he lays his head on his friend's shoulder as the latter was so engrossed at the sport.

Jeno has seen his stepbrother and his friends, including Jaemin as always, ugh that name really bugged him, it was always Jaemin Jaemin Jaemin to almost everyone in the school like it's the only topic they could think of.

Although they were somewhat enemies, or well Jaemin hated Jeno and the younger hated him back for hating him. You get it right?

Anyways, even though Jaemin and him didn't mixed well together, the caramel haired boy has not been really focusing on him that much as usual.

They did have the usual bumpy mornings, no pun intended. But other than that, Jaemin has busied himself with either his studies or his favorite sport.

Renjun had once pointed out that Hana was also somewhat busy, in a different way, but the two brushed it off. It's not really their place to talk about it since they're not even friends with them.

Though, that doesn't mean the bullying stopped, Jeno did get bullied still, but not from Jaemin nor his friends most of the time.

Jeno yawns as he adjusted his posture on the uncomfortable bench, he trailed his eyes everywhere, seeing Donghyuck passing the ball to Jaemin and earning another two points.

It was when the horns blew and people standing up as they cheered made Jeno jolt on his seat, he rubs his eye and claps tiredly as the people were now calming themselves down.

Jaemin's team had won, the winning team cheering together as Jeno sees one of their teammates, Chenle, cussing at the opponents and flipping them off when Jisung pulled him back.

They were now standing at a small stage with Donghyuck holding the prize, some t-shirts for each team member.

The announcer gives Jaemin the mic as the boy was telling some speech to which Jeno didn't listen to, as the members were smiling and cheering their most valuable player in the team, Jeongin suddenly snatches the mic away.

"Is everybody listening?" He checks as the crowd goes silent, he nods to himself and looks around, "we had a great game, it was fun and we also won obviously."

He paused and turns to Jaemin with a shit grin, "ah, our dear quarterback Na Jaemin," he said as the boy raised a brow, "you're mister perfect, the school's king or whatever, people falling down on their knees for you and those type of shit."

Jeongin looks at his teammates to see them looking at him confused, it was dead silent as he gave a chuckle, "you have a beautiful girlfriend, right?" He mentioned.

Jaemin nodded slightly, Jeongin smirked, "too bad she isn't faithful for you," he continues as Hana steps up the stage and stands beside him.

Jaemin widens his eyes and flickers his gaze between Jeongin and Hana as they intertwined their hands, Hana then takes the mic and looks at him, "I have a confession," she announced.

Hana didn't look anything near scared or guilty, "I've been cheating on Jaemin for the past few months now with Jeongin," instead, she looked quite happy as she smiled and kissed Jeongin on the lips.

The crowd gasps as Jaemin balled up his fists, "I fucking knew it," Renjun mutters a bit happily that he was spot on, he looks at Jeno who was wide eyed as well, his jaw dropped.

Suddenly, Jaemin goes to Jisung and grabs the bouquet of flowers as he marches up to the kissing couple and throws them the flowers.

"Fuck you," he spits out as Jeongin was about to fight back and hit him, their teammates grabbed each boy to separate them as the announcer took back the mic.

"Uhm, have a lovely evening everyone, Congratulations Bulldogs for winning and uhm, all of you may leave now," the man chuckles awkwardly as the boys behind him were yelling at each other.

Renjun stands up and grabs Jeno's arm, "I think we should leave now," he said as the younger nodded in agreement, "but first, let me go to the restroom, wait outside or something okay?"

Jeno pouted but nodded again as they walk out of the field and Renjun rushes to find the nearest bathroom. It's been a few minutes and only a few people were left, they were busy with themselves and hanging out in their cars.

Jeno grabs his phone to text his friend where the hell he is until someone taps his shoulder, he flinches and turns around to see Jaemin now hair damped and in his new clothes.

He raised a brow, "what's up?" Jaemin looks around and chews the inside of his cheek.

"Let's talk somewhere else," Jeno was about to ask why until Jaemin grabbed his arm as he walks to a corner of the school, "follow me."

Jeno was too tired to complain, he just wants this to get over with so he could go home and sleep, they stand there with Jaemin leaning his back against the wall, his hands inside his pockets.

Jaemin looks up,"Can I ask you a favor?" He asked as Jeno tilts his head.

Jeno was really tired and really wants to go home, so he's in a mood to act like a five year old, "Ugh what now? It's late at night and I wanna go to bed," he whines.

"We'll get there," Jaemin clicks his tongue as Jeno heats up.

"What?" He widens his eyes.

"Nevermind, but uh," Jaemin paused and hesitates as Jeno only rolled his eyes and squints at him.

"Hurry up, I don't got al–"

"I need you to be my fake boyfriend," Jaemin cuts in,

Jeno chokes on his spit as he coughs a few times and tries to calm himself down, "....I need sleep." He coughs.

Jaemin just watches him as he finally calmed down and stares at him like he just showed his third eye, "what the fuck? Why?"

The caramel haired sighs a bit frustrated, "well as what you have witnessed back there," he points behind him with his thumb, "I need you to be my fake boyfriend to make Hana jealous."

The raven haired was really confused, "why me?" He asked fixing his mask, luckily Jaemin didn't bother to ask about it or yanked it off.

Jaemin ruffles his brown hair as a habit, "because she hates you, no offense," he adds quickly when Jeno gave an offended look, "and I just think it's better to be you than those obsessed girls and stuff."

"I thought you were straight?" The younger asked as Jaemin bursted in laughter.

He watches until Jaemin calmed down wiping a tear, "I'm bi," he said nonchalantly.

Jeno made an "ohhh," sound before Jaemin looks at him with pleading eyes making him huff.

"Please," Jaemin said now standing straight as his shirt was hugging his built body tightly, his muscles showing off from the moonlight.

Jeno raised a brow, "and why the hell would we do that?" He crossed his arms like a child.

Jaemin rolled his eyes, "so I could get her back," he shrugs. Jeno huffs, that's not fair at all.

"And what would I get out of this?" He glares and leans on his right side, his leg supporting him as Jaemin pursed his lips as he thinks.

"I'll stop the bullying," Jeno must've looked a bit doubtful, he then adds, "including me and my friends."

Now Jeno had the thought of agreeing, He's really done with this school's shit and the bullying, and maybe this is an opportunity to have peace for once.

He chews on his lower lip, "okay," he nods as Jaemin looks at him wide eyed and a growing grin itching on his face, "I'll do it, but you promise to stop it?" He really hopes the boy does, this maybe a chance to get peace.

Jaemin nodded hastily, "yeah," he answers the grin growing more visible, Jeno hummed and takes his hand out as the elder took it and shakes it, sealing the deal.

They retract their hands and Jeno looks at his phone where Renjun has spammed him saying he's literally waiting for him at the nearby tree.

Jaemin then speaks up, "we might need to come up with rules," Jeno looks at him with furrowed eyebrows, "like agreements, what we can do and what we can't do," he adds.

Jeno hummed with a nod as Jaemin took out his phone, "give me your number," he then rolled his eyes when Jeno gave a confused face, "so we can contact each other easily."

Jeno made a sound of realization before taking his cracked phone out, they exchanged numbers as Jaemin leads him back to the parking lot, "I'll go to your house tomorrow or something."

Jeno abruptly stops and looks at him, "no!" He said as Jaemin raised a brow, he cleared his throat, "I-I mean, no, maybe somewhere else?"

Jaemin examines his face as he sweats before humming, "alright," the younger sighs in relief, "just tell me where and when, I'll just go to my friend's house for the meantime tomorrow then," he shrugs.

Jeno nodded before he spots Renjun's back and waves at Jaemin, "I'll go now," he said before running towards his friend, Jaemin nodded and watched him leave as he goes back to his car.