Jeno quickly rushed through the cafeteria and didn't even dare to look up from the floor until he was safely sitting down with his group of friends. Jeno felt unsafe being just about anywhere, except when he was with friends.

"Hey hyung."

Jeno looked up and was met with the cute face of his favorite dongsaeng, Jisung Park.

"Hey Jisung."

Jeno tensed when he felt an arm wrap around his shoulder but he quickly relaxed when he looked to his left and saw his second favorite dongsaeng, Zhong Chenle.

"How are your classes hyung?"

"They're okay I guess." Jeno replied, "How about you Chenle?"

"Mine are all great! Omg except for my math class, GAH I just hate math. So there's this guy I sit next to who's constantly distracting everyone. The teachers already had to make him leave the room three times and schools barely been in session for a month! So today...."

Jeno leaned into Chenle's arms, which were still wrapped around him. He started to feel all the stress of his own day get released as he watched Chenle rant about his classmate. Chenle always knew how to make Jeno feel better, everyone in his group did. 

"Chenle I don't think Jeno really appreciates spending his lunch break being your therapist." Mark interjects Chenle's ranting with a teasing smile.

"No, I don't really mind hyung." Jeno immediately responds smiling at him.

"Of course hyung, I'm would never intentionally annoy my smol sunbaenim!" Chenle squealed as he tightened his protective grip on Jeno.

"He's not that much smaller than you Chenle." Jisung interjected as he sipped his apple juice sassily.

"He's like easily the smallest person in our group by like ten pounds." Donghyuck sassed from the corner of the table. It was true that Jeno was the smallest of the group. Standing barely at 5'6 and weighing in at 115 pounds on a good day (I know Jeno is actually pretty big but I changed it up in this story to make more sense) he was the midget standing next to his friends.

"Hey guys, I was thinking of checking out the new Moonmin store that opened up in the mall today. Anyone want to come with?" Renjun asked.

"Of course!" They all responded. 

"Because we are all losers who have nothing better to do with our lives anyways!"

"Yeah!" 

The group continued to chat happily amongst themselves and Jeno was starting to get in a good mood, that is until he saw him.

He and his group of friends walked past Jeno's table. He noticed Jeno looking at him. He immediately whispered something to his friends who all laughed and looked in the direction of Jeno before walking out of the cafeteria. The only other person who noticed this was Mark.

Once lunch was over Mark quickly made his way over to Jeno who was on his way to his next class. Mark grabbed Jeno's shoulders which made Jeno flinch, as he usually did when he was unexpectedly touched. Mark quickly turned Jeno around to face him, then he pulled him over to a wall where they could talk in private. He put his hands on Jeno's shoulders to ground the boy and waited for him to look up at Mark before he spoke.

"Are you alright?"

Jeno nodded.

"I saw your ex walking by. I'm sorry Jeno. I'm sorry that guy was such a jerk to you, but I'm glad you're out of that relationship now. I know you don't believe this but you deserve so much and I know you're going to find that one day."

All Jeno could do was nod. Mark wasn't serious like this often but when he was, he was really serious.

"I'll see you after school hyung."

"See you Jeno."

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"Wow look at this!"

Renjun squealed in excitement as he ran around the store admiring the stuff. While the others followed him only mildly interested. They stayed however because this was the happiest they'd seen him in weeks and they weren't about to ruin the mood.

"And  a Moomin phone case?! Guys this place is so cool I'm definitely coming back here! Here hold this Jeno." 

Without much warning Renjun slammed all the Moomin items he'd collected so far into Jeno's chest while he looked for a cart to hold it. Jeno had not expected to have this many things stuffed into his hands so suddenly. He immediately started to struggle with them. That is until a pair of sturdy hands reached out to steady Jeno and the items.

"There you go buddy."

"Gee thanks."

Jeno looked up at the person who had helped him and was instantly freaking out over his visuals. I mean the boy was hot. Jeno didn't really know what to do, so he just stood there staring at the boys pretty face who still had his arms on Jeno's shoulders. Before Jeno could say something embarrassing though, the boy looked over his shoulder. His eyes widened at something from behind Jeno.

"Jaemin!?"

"Mark Hyung?!"

"It's so great to see you!" The two boys squealed like school girls as they instantly began chatting away. Jeno couldn't ignore the sinking feeling he got in his heart when he saw the boy interact so intimately with Mark.

"Oh, of course I should introduce you to my friends. This is Chenle, Jisung, Renjun, Haechan, and Jeno."

Jaemin looked at Jeno who immediately blushed and looked down before muttering a quiet, "Nice to meet you."

Jaemin found this incredibly cute and resisted the urge to ruffle the shorter's hair. 

"So Jaemin what brings you to Seoul?"

"Without going into too much specifics I'm moving back in with my mom." Jaemin said. "I'm transferring to your school though."

"Really! That's great! Then we can get to know each other better!" Chenle squealed as he slung an arm around Jaemin. Jaemin cooed at the cute younger and ruffled his hair. Jeno always admired Chenle for how easily he could get someone to relax around him, but when he saw Chenle touch Jaemin, and Jaemin ruffle Chenle's hair, he suddenly felt that sinking feeling again.

What was that feeling?

"Great well we'll see you tomorrow Jaemin. Feel free to look for us in the cafeteria." Mark said as Renjun was just finishing buying his things.

"See you tomorrow hyung."

The boys said their goodbyes and walked out of the store. It was now raining so the six of them had to crowd under Mark's umbrella. Jeno looked back inside the store to see the handsome boy now looking at moonim keychains. 

He really hoped the boy would sit with them at lunch tomorrow. 

A/n heyy so whatd u think of my first chapter? ofcourse feel free to lemme know if u caught any grammar errors, plot holes, or innacuracies this is my first bottom Jeno fic and I'm so excited bc I'm in love with the concept so I hope it goes well.

Anyway, it's almost eight so I should probably go and do actually productive things thx for reading c u in next chapter!