After paying for his items, Jeno was reluctantly following the tattoo artist outside who's holding his grocery bag. "I can carry it myself." He spoke up, clearing his throat beforehand.

The elder boy stops on his tracks as he fully turns around, a brow raised up. "I already insisted." Was his reply.

Jeno bites his inner cheek as he fights back the urge to roll his eyes, "I didn't need nor asked you to. I'm not a slacker." He grumbles.

The tattoo artist chuckles a little in amusement, "I didn't say you were." He said, pausing for a moment to look at Jeno up and down.

Noticing the eyes raking up on his body, Jeno's ears start to feel warm as he tries his best to maintain his eye contact, now glaring – weakly – at the elder boy.

"Pervert, stop looking at me like that!" He scolds, the warmth on his ears slowly spreading throughout his soft cheeks.

At first, he expected the tattoo artist to listen and leave him alone. But then again, he shouldn't have gotten his hopes up after he already met the guy a few months ago.

The said boy was amused, only increasing when he saw the younger boy's blushing state.

"My bad," he snickers as he held his hands up in the air in a surrending gesture. "You're too pretty, my eyes couldn't help it." Sending a short wink at him.

Appalled, Jeno scowls and clenches his hands into fists. "Fricking bastard!" He snaps, fuming by now.

He stomps over to Jaemin who looked unbothered and didn't even flinch at his frustration nor when Jeno snatched his grocery bag away from his grip.

"I'll take this, and I'll be leaving now. Don't follow me, weirdo!" Was the last thing Jeno said to him before storming off to the nearest bus stop.

Jaemin could only stand there holding his bag of chips while he watches the younger boy's back getting as he was getting far away.

Blinking, he snorts and shakes his head in silly before he starts jogging off to the same direction.

Once he gets to the nearest bus stop, he spots Jeno going through his phone for a quick moment – presumably messaging someone – as he waits for the bus.

Grinning, the tattoo artist walks over to the younger boy until the latter finally notices him when he was briefly looking around.

The dark pink haired boy almost started laughing when he saw Jeno's face immediately going glum. "I told you to not follow me. How hard can it be to understand?"

Snorting, the elder boy sighs and drapes an arm around Jeno's shoulders for no complete reason – well, maybe there is but it's just to see how the younger boy will react.

"Calm down pretty boy, I'm taking the bus too." He replies, very nonchalant despite the behavior Jeno has towards him right now.

However, Jeno couldn't help but get riled up with Jaemin's – somehow – irritating demeanor, especially with what he called him.

The elder boy is so nonchalant and carefree, yet it's not the way Jeno's fond of.

There's something in him that slightly bothers Jeno in a way, although he can't really describe it, it's what annoys him even more.

Sure, his friends are literally the same. They're so carefree and nonchalant, to the point they can be reckless teenagers.

But this tattoo artist, he makes Jeno feel like he's mingling with someone from school trying to befriend him just to make him do their homework.

Well, it's not really far from that anyway. And his friends sometimes joke around with that fact.

Oh, and he's such a flirt. That's probably what ticks Jeno off the most of Jaemin's character.

They've only met twice, and yet the elder boy is acting like they've known each other for so long that he can say and do whatever he wants with Jeno.

To the point where he's not even a little bit hesitant or nervous of Jeno's reactions towards him.

It's as if like, any of Jeno's emotions are amusing to him. That he wants to keep going just to get another one followed.

No matter what Jeno does, or what consequences he'll go through, he just wants Jeno to react to him and it's good to go.

Back to their situation; Jeno briefly glances at Jaemin's hand hanging on his shoulder before glaring at it as if it did something wrong to him.

Actually, it kinda did. It's the tattoo artist's hand.

In a blink of an eye, he smacks the hand off his shoulder and turns to the elder boy who only grins at him.

"My gosh, so fricking annoying!" He thinks to himself as he looks at the elder boy's face.

"Can you leave me alone? We don't even know each other." He sassed, moving the grocery bag to his other hand.

The dark pink haired boy breathlessly giggles, "sure we do. We met at the tattoo parlor with your friend a few months back, remember?"

Jeno's sure he's going to receive a headache from this later on, "of course I do. But that's invalid."

"How is that invalid? We're familiar with each other, aren't we?" The elder boy tilts his head to the side as if he's teasing Jeno even more.

"Besides, I can't really forget your cute face, pretty boy."

"Oh my gosh! Stop calling me that!" Jeno groans in annoyance, although his flushed face says otherwise.

"Why? I'm just being completely honest here." The elder boy snickers, cooing at the raven haired boy's state.

He then stretches out his hand, presumably a hand shake as Jeno stares at it weirdly. "I'm Na Jaemin by the way if Yangyang hasn't told you properly." He introduces himself.

"You're ridiculous." Jeno abruptly comments.

"I'm sorry?" A chuckle escapes Jaemin's lips as he doesn't retract his hand away.

"After harassing me so much, you're introducing yourself politely now?" Jeno said in utter disbelief. "What a bastard you really are."

Laughing, Jaemin shrugs his shoulders and then retracts his hand away – assuming Jeno will never shake it back at the moment – and inserts it in his pocket.

"Sorry, babe, didn't know you were in a mood today." He remarks and tries to contain his laughter when Jeno stares at him mortified.

As the raven haired boy was about to reply in anger, the bus finally arrives which got not only their attention, but everyone else's.

Jaemin couldn't help but smirk as he quickly follows Jeno entering the bus and takes a seat beside him once he got in.

"What the heck?!" Jeno huffs loudly and decides to ignore Jaemin from now on through the whole ride as they were now surrounded by others.

It'll be too embarrassing to snap at him in a cramped bus as there weren't too many people around them earlier.