Jeno had his favorite music playing, and had just eaten some of his favorite foods (a quarter of a pink frosted donut, a half a hershey's cookies and cream chocolate bar, and one pink lady apple) for a snack. He had some of his favorite people in the whole world in his bedroom with him (Jisung, Chenle, and Renjun) helping him get ready for his job.

These were all the things Buzzfeed told him were the best confidence boosters right before the first day of work. He wasn't sure where Mark, Haechan, and Jaemin were since they didn't answer any of his texts but he just figured they were busy.

"Jeno!" Renjun stuck his head in Jeno's bathroom. Jeno turned around to look at Renjun. Jeno had just finished changing into his uniform for the movie theater which was a simple pinstripe shirt of cream and navy blue, blue jeans, and black shoes. "Get your ass out here! Chenle almost broke your NCT lightstick while singing Me Gustas Tu and we have to leave in 5 minutes or you'll be late anyway!" Renjun ran back out probably to stop Chensung from ruining anything else in Jeno's room. Jeno giggled at his crackhead friends. He checked his appearance one more time in the mirror before going outside to join his friends who were now heading out the door.

While the boys were exiting the house to get to the car Jeno saw his dad rolling his eyes at his 'revealing' clothes. Jeno's parents were never that supportive of him. That was part of the reason he moved in with Jackson so quickly and was also some of the reason that Jeno struggled with his confidence. But today Jeno couldn't care less about his dad's attitude. Today he was going to his first day at his first job. It was new and scary, but it was also different and exciting.

Jeno walked out of his house with a smile and a confident sashay that would make his 'boyfriend' proud to see.

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Jaemin checked his phone one last time but there was no new messages. He frowned. It's not that he was upset that his friends hadn't texted him for nearly four hours. They probably just got busy. It's just that this was the first time his friends took longer than an hour to get back to him.

He shrugged and slipped his phone and wallet into his pocket. He waved goodbye to his mom and ran out the door to catch the next bus to his job.

Jaemin walked through the open doors to the crowded theater. At first glance it seemed like your typical family-owned place, not too corporate or flashy. It had low ceilings and only had ten theaters to boast. Jaemin was already charmed by the place.

He walked around the counter of the concession stand to the back room where the office was. His new boss who went by the name Kim Doyoung was sitting at his desk filling out some papers.

At the sound of someone coming through the door the man put the papers down and looked up.

"Ah you must be Jaemin." Jaemin nodded.

"That makes you the second new employee today. It just so happens that I just finished explaining how to run the concession stand to the other new kid. He can train you on it. Once your shifts are over you can come back in here so I can get you two registered in our system for payments and stuff." Mr. Kim turned back to his work and Jaemin went out to go see who the other employee was.

When he walked back out to see who it was he was so shocked he yelled his name louder then he meant to.

"Jeno!" Jeno was working on the popcorn machine the whole time and didn't know Jaemin was there. He flinched at the unexpected noise and dropped the butter cup he was holding into the giant pile of popcorn at the bottom of the machine. He reached down to grab it but accidentally touched the hot bowl of kernels baking at the top. He yelped and jumped back, almost falling off the counter. Luckily Jaemin caught him in his arms.

"T-thanks." Jeno still wasn't aware of who it was. He just thought he was saved by a stranger.

"Anything for my boyfriend." Jeno's eyes widened and he quickly got his feet back on the ground so he could turn around. Jamein's smiling face appeared right over his head. Although Jeno was standing on his own now, Jaemin hadn't let go of his arms and he was pulled up so their chests were practically touching.

Jaemin slowly leaned down to kiss Jeno lightly on the lips then he slowly reached over Jeno's head to grab the dropped cup of butter and set it properly on the counter. What Jeno couldn't see was Jaemin's amused, triumphant face from over his head, what Jaemin couldn't see was Jeno's wide shocked puppy face nuzzled into his chest.

Once the popcorn machine was back in order Jaemin turned back to properly say hi to Jeno.

"Hey cutie."

"Hi."

"So you also applied for this job?"

"Yeah I figured I could use the experience, you?"

"I could just use the money."

Jeno nodded. "Well, now we can be 'boyfriends' even more, right?

Jaemin smiled and ruffled Jeno's hair, "I'd love that cutie."

Jeno smiled and Jaemin looked over his head to see none other than Mark, Haechan, Jisung, Renjun, and Chenle all taking pictures of the two. Once they saw Jaemin glaring at them, they all quickly put their phones away.

"Can we actually help you?" Jaemin asked with a slightly annoyed voice. Jeno turned around and saw all his friends standing there, luckily he didn't see them taking pictures of him and Jaemin.

"Oh hey guys! What a weird coincidence that you both work here!" Haechan said over dramatically.

"Wow and what a weird coincidence that we all happened to show up to watch a movie together too!" Renjun piped in from beside Haechan.

"Oh really?" Jaemin said, "What movie do you all happen to be here to see?"

"Uh," Chenle paused to read all the options from over the concession stand, "Twelve Years a Slave?"

Jaemin kept shooting the boys weird looks. He obviously wasn't buying it. Jeno was oblivious to the whole thing.

"I'll get you all your tickets over here!" Jeno ushered his friends over to where he could sell them their tickets.

"Enjoy the movie!" They all waved Jaemin and Jeno goodbye and headed off to see the movie. Conveniently located closest to the concession stand where they could continue to spy on Nomin.

The rest of the night went pretty smoothly. Jeno taught Jaemin how to run the stand and the two boys operated well as a team. There was one moment when Twelve Years a Slave was half over. They had run out of butter and Jeno couldn't reach the bucket of it from the top shelf. Instead of simply grabbing it for Jeno, Jaemin instead grabbed Jeno's small waist and lifted him up off the ground so he could grab the butter off the shelf. Of course their usual group of friends didn't miss the opportunity to take pictures of the whole thing. Once Jeno set the butter down he looked up and saw what they were doing. He whined in disapproval and hid behind Jaemin's shoulder. Jaemin laughed and waved his friends off.

Their shift ended two hours later. Doyoung decided to give them each 20$ for a day's hard work (He also was a little whipped for Jeno now). Their real checks, he assured, would come within a few weeks. Jaemin and Jeno busted out the closed doors to the theater giggling while Jaemin had his arm around Jeno's shoulder. They agreed to go out for frozen yogurt to celebrate their first day.

The two boys were so caught up in talking with each other neither one of them noticed that a certain boy was glaring at them from a bench as they passed by him.

"I'll show you not to mess with my next Lambs, Jeno" Jackson growled.