"C'mon Jeno!"

Mark tugged Jeno's wirst while Jeno stubbornly stood unmoving on the sidewalk. While the two boys stood arguing people passed them and gave them weird looks. Surprisingly, Jeno didn't seem to care.

"No Mark! What if they laugh at me? What if they call me stupid and harass me!" Jeno started to feel his eyes water with tears he had been holding back. Mark sighed and stepped up to face Jeno.

"Listen, don't you want to feel confident like me, and Hyuck, and the others?"

Jeno nodded.

"Did you not say you were willing to try whatever I planned for you?"

Jeno nodded again.

"Just give it a try. If you hate it then quit. If you have a bad experience then I'll cook my famous Kimchi and we'll all eat it together."

That made Jeno smile. He would moon his ex if it meant some of Mark's kimchi.

Jeno walked around Mark and up to the movie theater. The same one Mark and Donghyuck had gone to on their date just a few days ago.

Jeno walked up to the man behind the concession stand. Mark had to admit he was impressed with the confident walk Jeno could put on.

"Hello, I'm here to apply for the open position for the job." Jeno said.

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Hyuck jumped off the T practically before it even stopped moving, dragging a very stressed Jaemin behind him. He and Hyuck had barely been together for an hour and Jaemin had already spent nearly 40$, as in 40 dollars of money. Which happened to be a thing Jaemin didn't really have. But he still didn't want to admit that to Hyuck so here he was blowing more money then he could because Hyuck had stupidly forgot to bring his money and Jaemin stupidly said he would cover Hyuck for the day.

"Jaemin!" Haechan turned around with a bright smile on his face, "Can we buy ice cream? You don't mind covering for me right?"

Jaemin nervously smiled at Haechan before pulling out his wallet. He was down to his last 5.50$. Enough to cover a small ice cream. Jaemin now had 2.27$ left over. He just had to hope that Haechan wouldn't want anything else.

"Oooo look at that!" Haechan squealed, making Jaemin's insides feel numb, "I can dip my ice cream in gold?" A/n: has anyone else seen this? it's like some star wars shit idk man

The woman behind the counter smiled at Jaemin. "Yes, for an extra 3$ you can eat your ice cream covered in a thin layer of gold. Would you like to try?"

Haechan turned and smiled at Jaemin, obviously waiting for 3$ that he wouldn't get.

The woman behind the counter stood patiently waiting for the money with Haechan's small cup of moose tracks sitting in her hands while Haechan just kept smiling at Jaemin expectantly. Jaemin gave him a stressed smile, luckily he got the message.

"On second thought I'll just have that plain." The woman nodded and went to get Haechan his spoon for him. Once he had his food he grabbed Jaemin's hand and dragged the poor male out of the store and out to the park.

"Jaemin, what was that all about?" Donghyuck asked with genuine concern while his food just sat in his hands untouched. Jaemin was in the middle of an internal debate on if he should run away, pass out, or vomit. Right now he was favoring fainting.

But what he really did was something that surprised him. He told the truth.

"Duckie," Jaemin looked into Haechan's expectant eyes, "I'm poor."

When Haechan didn't react Jaemin just kept talking.

"Well my mom makes a pretty average pay, but it's just well..... The divorce wasn't cheap and we also moved so I'm a little strapped for cash at the moment. I was just too embarrassed to admit this to you earli-"

"Jaemin, you idiot! You should always feel comfortable being open with me, I'm your friend! If you had said something earlier then I wouldn't have made you spend all that money!"

Jaemin blushed and looked at the ground. "What should I do Hyuck?"

"Hmm." Hyuck pretended to think about it when he actually wasn't. "Oh, I know!"

Before Jamein had time to ask what Hyuck was on about he reached out and grabbed Jaemin's hands for what felt like the thirtythousandeth time that day and dragged him to something on the other end of the park.

Once they got to the other side of the park Haechan let go of Jaemin's wrists who gasped and rubbed them.

"Geezus Hyuck you're cutting off my circulation over here!"

Jaemin looked up to see what Heachan was looking at.

"I saw this while I was with Mark hyung." Haechan said.

Jaemin stepped around Hyuck to see what was so special about some random movie theater. Then he saw what it was and a big smile spread across his face.

He turned around and gave Haechan a hug. "Thanks buddy, I promise I won't try to hide stuff from you in the future."

"Go get'em tiger." Was all Haechan said before Jaemin went inside the very same theater Jeno had entered just a few hours ago and went to apply for the second vacant space they had.

Haechan pulled out his spoon and took a big scoop of his ice cream; biting into the creamy treat triumphantly.

A/n: So my school shut down for a week cuz the city has coronavirus outbreaks. Stay healthy my dudes! Hand sanitizer, soap, and common sense. Anyways keep safe out there, I'll talk soon, byeeeeeee!