Jeno sighed contentedly and continued to calmly scribble down his english notes. The sun streamed through the window beside him making his mechanical pencil glitter like a gem.

The sound of shuffling made Jeno look up only to smile widely when he saw his 'boyfriend' making his way down the aisle to join Jeno.

Jaemin threw his stuff down and gave Jeno a light peck on the forehead before sitting down.

"Hey cutie."

Jeno blushed at the nickname, "Cutie?"

"Yeah, many boyfriends have a pet name for their significant other." Jaemin stayed in character.

Jeno blushed again, "Alright....then hey Jaem."

Jaemin found that amusing, "Everyone calls me that Jeno." He chuckled, "But don't worry, about it. I'm looking after you so don't worry about having to find a name for me."

Jeno smiled and nodded enthusiastically, "Alright."

The two boys continued their work, only stopping when Chenle dropped in on them.

"Guys!" Chenle seemed pretty unfazed by the fact that he was becoming the third wheel. "Wanna go to the mall after school today?"

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"So why exactly did you feel the need to bring us with you Chenle?"

"I need you guyzez opinions on what I'm going to buy my cousin when he visits." Chenle said.

"But Jeno's already given you like four different recommendations and you rejected all of them. Just be honest Chenle, you're gonna ignore everything we say and pick something out yourself."

"Mhm." Chenle said, clearly not listening. Jaemin sighed exasperatedly and turned to look at Jeno who looked back with round-curious puppy eyes.

"Let's just go look at that candle store you wanted to see Jeno. Chenle will probably call us when he's ready."

Jeno nodded and smiled. He reached out to link arms with his boyfriend before walking off together towards the candle store.

"Ooo!" Jeno squealed after sniffing his 20th candle. "I think this one's the winner!" He flipped the jar over to see the label. "Irish Buttercream, oh shit but it's way above what I can afford!"

Jaemin came over to look at the jar. He smirked as an idea came to him.

"Jeno if you can figure out my favorite scent and my least favorite scent I'll buy this jar for you." He said. Jeno looked at him confused.

"To see how well you know your boyfriend." Jaemin added.

Jeno smiled back at his goofy boyfriend. "Challenge accepted."

Jeno walked up to the first shelf. He knew Jaemin had a soft spot for nature scents so the nature themed shelf was a good bet for him.

He scanned the shelves and sniffed a few before coming to his conclusion.

"Sandalwood." He turned to Jaemin and waited for an answer. Jaemin only smiled back and shook his head at Jeno.

"I'm not telling you until you guess my least favorite." He said.

Jeno frowned at him, "No fair!" He said, but went to keep searching anyway.

Jeno thought back to when they first walked into the store. He remembered Jamein wrinkling his nose at the food scents.

He made his way over to the shelf with all the food candles. Jaemin had to hide his shock at Jeno's accuracy.

Jeno started the process over. Scanning the shelves and taking some interesting candles out to sniff. It was when he sniffed one and immediately cringed at the scent that he knew he had his answer.

"Bacon." He said and turned to Jaemin waiting for his answer. Jaemin said nothing at first then he slowly pulled his wallet out and started to take money out. He walked over to the cashier to get in line and reached out to grab the Irish Buttercream candle for Jeno. Jeno internally squealed in happiness because he knew he had guessed correctly.

Jeno stood and impatiently waited for Jaemin to pay for his candle. He eventually noticed a closet off to the side that was filled with candles that the store didn't have. Maybe they just hadn't taken them out yet? Anyway some of the scents looked interesting to Jeno so he decided to walk over to check them out.

Jaemin finished buying Jeno's candle for him and he turned around hoping to see Jeno jump up and down and run over to him but he was disappointed when he turned around and saw that no one was standing where he left Jeno. He looked to his right just in time to see the tip of Jeno's baby blue hoodie disappear into the closet. He quickly stuffed the candle into his male cargo pants with pockets unfairly large compared to girls pants and followed Jeno in.

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"This one!" Chenle triumphantly held up a gold chain that would suit his cousins tanned skin nicely.

"Lucas hyung will love this!" Chenle went and bought the chain before turning around and noticing his friend's absence.

"Guys?" Chenle wandered around the mall's hallways looking for his friends. He spotted a candle store just across from where he was shopping and vaguely remembered his friends mentioning they were going to go to a candle store. He walked in and noticed one of the closet doors in the place was left wide open. Chenle decided to be helpful and go shut it for the staff. He shrugged and quickly went off to keep looking for his friends.

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"Jeno!"

Jeno turned around with a Creamy Pasta scented candle in his hands. "What is it Jaemin?"

"What are you doing in here? This is staff only!"

"Whatever they're not gonna care. Look Jaemin I thought you might like this scent, How does Creamy Pasta sound to you?"

Jeamin quickly forgot about whatever he was so pissed about before and went over to Jeno. Jaemin praised himself in being smart but he also low key had the attention span of a goldfish.

He lightly picked up the jar from Jeno's small pale hands and sniffed. He cringed at the spiciness of the scent and sneezed which made Jeno laugh.

"You're going to regret that." Jaemin's voice had a playful edge. He tackled Jeno into a hug on the ground and began to mercilessly tickle him. Jaemin knew Jeno was sensitive and couldn't hold back his laugh when he was tickled.

"Y-you j-jerk!" Jeno sputtered out as he desperately tried and failed to hold back his laughter. "L-let me g-go!"

"No! You've been captured by the tickle monster!" Jeamin laughed as he continued to tickle Jeno who thrashed on the ground trying to get away from Jaemin and also trying to stifle his laughter. The boys only stopped once the door to the closet was shut; plunging them into darkness.

"What just happened?" Jaemin got up and went to try the door. It was locked.

"I think they accidentally locked us in here." Jeamin turned around to see Jeno now sitting up. A candle rolled out to touch Jeno's hand making him squeak and scurry away, right into Jaemin's arms.

"Jeno, what's wrong?"

"I'm got scared by the candle."

"Is it possible that you're also maybe a little scared of being locked in a dark closet, stranded right now?"

"It's possible." Jeno snuggled into Jaemin's chest. Jaemin smiled pitifully and tightened his grip on Jeno.

To be honest Jaemin was scared too. His phone battery was at 12% and Jeno didn't bring his phone. There was no telling when someone would find them.

But he couldn't get scared now because Jeno was scared and Jeno needed comforting.

Jaemin shifted his position so he could be comfortable while also cuddling Jeno. Jeno had stopped shivering and was just engulfing himself in Jaemin's scent.

He felt safe when he was with Jaemin.

He felt comforted.

Was this what it was supposed to be like in a relationship? This relationship with Jaemin was supposed to be fake.

But it felt so real.

Just when Jeno was about to ask Jaemin a question the door flung open to reveal a frightened looking candle store cashier and a bored looking mall cop. The second he saw Jaemin and Jeno though his eyes widened in recognition.

"Hey I know you little shits! You're the ones whose friends threw all those cupcakes at me earlier!" He yelled.

Before the cop could do anything Jaemin jumped up and ran out of the store, dragging Jeno with him. They could hear his screams in the background but they didn't stop running. Luckily they ran into Chenle along the way. When Chenle turned and saw the mall cop running after them he screamed 'Pass me a cupcake' to Jeno who only shook his head and dragged Chenle the rest of the way out.

Once they were back to safety Chenle turned to look at Jeno.

"Jeno, I mean I know you're out of shape but your face shouldn't be that red from just a little running."

Jaemin turned back to glance at Jeno quickly before looking ahead again. Little did Chenle know that Jeno was actually a blushing mess from the closet incident.

A/n: I think I might b an uwu addict lamo send help

Also side note Ya'll my story got #1 for TopJaemin and I can't thank you enough. Srsly I had no idea getting a ranking like that would feel this good. Thanks for supporting my story u guzez comments are one of the reasons I've kept writing.