"No! No way!"

Jeno shakes his head and looks down at the table. His friends are looking at him with teasing smiles on their faces. It's lunchtime and the group has just spent the past ten minutes trying to convince Jeno (aka torturing him) to ask Jaemin to do something.

"Come on Jeno! It's been nearly three weeks since the guy transferred here. You guys are getting along so well but you haven't asked him to hang out after school once!" Jisung started to yell, making Chenle shush him.

"I do hang out with him though."

"Yeah with us. Not the same dummy." Jeno reached across the table and lightly slapped Chenle for calling him a dummy. Chenle just let out a little laugh and playfully pushed his hand away.

"Jeno come on! What's the harm of just asking him? What's the worst he could do?" Mark asked.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt just to ask." Jeno reluctantly admitted.

"Yes!" The rest of his crazy friends shouted in victory. Now it was Jeno's turn to try to shush them down.

"Speak of the devil," Donghyuck cocked his head at the door, "Here comes Romeo now."

The group all turned to look as Jaemin came through the doors to the cafeteria. As he made his way over to them he smiled and waved but all he could think of was the conversation he had just had with him. Jaemin glanced at Jeno who gave a little wave of his hand before he blushed and looked away. 

How could someone who acted so recklessly pretend to be so innocent?

Jaemin was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't notice when his group of friends had pushed Jeno off his chair and herded him to stand right in front of Jaemin.

"Um....h-hi." Jeno's voice snapped Jaemin out of his thoughts.

"Sup." Jaemin greeted.

"So I was thinking," Jeno looked at the floor and started shuffling his feet around, "Since you said you failed that Mesopotamia unit in History, and Mesopotamia was my best unit, then maybe I could tutor you? If you're free after school then I know I nice café nearby." 

Jeno looked up from his shoes hopefully which disgusted Jaemin. Stuff like this used to lift all the darkness from his heart. But now all he could think of was Jeno partying his heart away, infecting people left and right, not even stopping to think of the damage he was causing. 

Jaemin knew this whole shy boy image was just a ploy that he wanted no part of.

"Actually Jeno, I really appreciate the offer but I'm quite busy with my other schoolwork. I really don't have the time to do extra tutoring." Jaemin deadpanned.

"Oh." Jeno looked down, clearly disappointed. Jaemin actually felt kind of sorry for him.

"But hey, that's okay I'll see you around?" Jeno asked, trying to sound upbeat.

"Yeah I'll se-"

"Yo Jaemin!"

Jaemin turned around. Jeno looked to where Jaemin was looking and immediately froze on the spot. His mouth gaped open and his face started to pale. Mark clenched his fists around his water bottle at the sight of Jeno's ex approaching. Jeno's friends had been spying on them the whole time from their table.

"Yes Jackson?"

"My friends and I were thinking of sneaking out to Lee's if you wanted to come."

"Um, ok sure."

"Nice."

Jeno's heart sank to the bottom of his stomach like a bowling ball when he watched his ex smile at Jaemin and even put an arm on his back gently, herding him away from Jeno. Chenle, Donghyuck, Renjun, and Jisung all stared at the scene with their jaws dropped practically to the table while Mark was just fuming. 

All Jeno could do was stand there, completely alone in the middle of the cafeteria. Before Jaemin and Jackson had even left though, Jackson looked back at Jeno and shot him the most taunting smile there ever was.

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"I'll have the number seven please with a cherry milkshake."

Jaemin scanned the menu, trying to pick what he wanted. Luckily he was the last of the group to order so he had the most time to decide.

"Do I want the quarter-pounder, or the sixty eight?" Jaemin muttered out loud.

"Having trouble deciding?" Jackson appeared beside Jaemin.

"I've just never been here before, it all looks so good." Jaemin said.

"Well my personal go-to is always the sixty-nine, especially on a Friday night." Jackson said.

"Hmm, okay I'll try that." Jackson was mildly annoyed at Jaemin for not picking up on his subtle flirting but he brushed it off and went to place his order.

"And what would you like s-s-sir?" The man behind the counter paled at the sight of Jaemin.

Jaemin himself froze and gaped at the man. There was several moments of silence before Jackson decided to jump in.

"Umm, he will have the sixty-nine with a side of cheezie fries...on me." He threw the last part in last second.

He paid for Jaemin's food while Jaemin turned and darted to their friends table while the cashier looked down in embarrassment. Jackson went to join everyone else at the table.

"Hey are you okay? Who was that?" Jackson asked now interested.

Jackson's friends didn't bother the two and just talked amongst themselves. They all knew Jaemin was the next deer getting hunted by Jackson-the-Cougar and once he was banged he would he hanged as Jackson liked to say. 

"That was my dad." Jaemin said.

"Really? Then why didn't he say hello?" 

"He's not supposed to be here.....we moved." Was all Jaemin said.

Jackson waited for a better explanation but Jaemin wouldn't even meet his eyes. He looked at the table and played with his shirt sleeves.

"Hey it's okay, don't worry about it. Let's just enjoy our lunch, okay?" Jackson said reaching across the table and giving Jaemin's hands a squeeze. 

Jaemin looked at Jackson and smiled a little. "Okay." He said.

And they did enjoy their lunch. The food was great and Jaemin got along great with Jackson's friends, almost to the point that he gave up his mission to bang him and just add him to the crew instead. But Jaemin was too juicy a slice of meat for Jackson to give up quite so fast.

A pretty boy with a traumatic backstory. Jackson thought to himself while he watched Jaemin laughing and telling all his friends a funny story. Perfect.

a/n: ahhh dont kill me! I'm sorry I did jackson this way I rlly luv him im so sryyyyyy! he was perfect for the role had to do it, no regrets

anyway once uve forgiven me for what ive done then wish me gl on the college season! man this shits a nightmare...... :'(

anyway hope u enjoyed c u in the next chapter byeeeeee!