"Yangie," Jeno calls out for his friend, standing in front of him while trying to get his attention.

Yangyang blinks, snapping his head up to eye the raven haired boy before taking out his earphones, pausing the music blasting through his ears.

"Yeah? Do you need anything?" Lifting his leg up on the bench he was sitting on.

Jeno takes a deep breath before he mumbles, "can you bring me to Jaemin?" Grip tightening on his backpack strap as he said that.

As he expected, Yangyang almost instantly grins at him. Eyes twinkling before he lets a chuckle tumble out of his mouth, "again? What's the reason now?"

There's an obvious teasing tone in his voice that doesn't fail to embarrass Jeno, but the latter attempts to brush it off even for a quick second.

"Just... I want to apologize." He shyly mumbles.

"Why? What did you do?" He expected Yangyang to get mad at him, because he's the one at fault this time. But instead, his friend seems to be more amused than anything.

Looking away, Jeno sets his eyes on the semi crowded football field just below them from the open rooftop of the main school building.

He purses his lips and sheepishly replies, "I kicked him on the..." Hesitant to continue, Yangyang raising a brow at him pushes him to say it.

"I kicked him on the crotch."

The next second, Yangyang bursts into laughter, head thrown back while he tries to steady himself on the old bench.

Jeno's whole face flush; from his ears, to his cheeks and then down to his neck. Pursing his lips tightly as he muffles out a whine.

Hearing the raven haired boy sulking, Yangyang calms down but couldn't help a small snort escape, "sorry, but that's hilarious!" He cackles.

Immediately, Jeno kicks one of the legs of the old bench, resulting it to creak as Yangyang holds onto the armrest in shock.

"Jen! This bitch is fucking old, don't do that or I'm getting another detention slip." He whines, nervously checking if the old bench is still okay.

Quick fun fact of the old bench, this is has been vandalized multiple times by Jeno's three friends.

Since they go here a lot, it's no surprise they already caused trouble; except for the one and only Lee Jeno of course.

Donghyuck has kicked and pushed it onto the ground when he's really angry at something or someone.

Yangyang has drew some doodles on it with a dark permanent marker.

While Mark has also carved parts of the wood out whenever he's bored, most likely listening to topics he isn't fond of.

And all of their doings has been covered up by none other than Jeno, the raven haired boy made excuses after excuses to defend his friends.

What's new? The old bench isn't the only thing they've destroyed anyway.

But they all know at some point, Jeno can't defend them.

In this situation, it's Donghyuck's fault for his last temper tantrum, getting one of the bench's legs go loose; which means they have to pay for the consequences.

Sighing, Jeno fumbles with his fingers as Yangyang exhales in relief when he finishes checking up on the old bench.

"I'll take you to him," Yangyang says as he stands up, slinging his backpack strap on his shoulder. "But you do know you can go there all by yourself, right?" Poking Jeno with a logical statement.

Yangyang chuckles when Jeno decides to reply to him, even though it wasn't really a question. "I'm not risking it." The raven haired boy huffs.

Raising a brow, Yangyang jokes, "what? It's not like he's going to kill you or something." But when Jeno blushes again, he gasps. "Holy shit, you–"

"Shut up and just take me to him so I can get this over with." Jeno cuts him off with a squeak before turning around to leave the rooftop first.

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"Yangyang and... Oh, pretty boy," Jaemin's face immediately lights up, tone full of amusement when he notices who Yangyang was with.

"What brings you guys here?" Eyeing Yangyang first, he clicks his tongue. "Don't tell me you're getting another one," no bite to his words, it makes Yangyang laugh in a second.

"Man, I wish."

Then he turns to Jeno, staring at him for a hot minute before he exaggerates a gasp. "Oh shit, are you getting one?"

Jeno looks scandalized just by hearing Jaemin thinking he was getting a tattoo.

Heck, the thought of him getting one sends shivers up his spine.

"As if!" He shrieks, eyes blown wide that gets a chuckle from Jaemin.

Yangyang pats him on the back, "relax, you don't actually have to anyways." He giggles at his friend's naiveness.

"Now go tell Jaemin what you came here for." Gesturing a free hand towards the tattoo artist while glancing a their surroundings.

Luckily it wasn't busy today, just two customers getting their tattoos done whilst the three of them were somewhere near the back.

Meaning Jeno might have a bigger boost of him able to yell at Jaemin, if he wanted to.

Perking up, Jaemin's eyes twinkle when he says, "a kiss or a date? Because I'll take both." Flashing a flirty wink at Jeno.

The raven haired boy is mortified for a split second before he snaps, "you moron, I came here to apologize to you for kicking you on the nuts!"

"What's with that by the way?" Yangyang interjects in curiosity as Jeno glares at him.

"He tried to kiss me!"

"You're not wrong but then again, that wasn't my actual intentions." Jaemin shrugs his shoulders with his hands in his pockets, "I was trying to talk to you before you storm off."

Pausing to grin at Jeno, he snickers. "Bottom line is, I was kidding around, pretty boy."

"Bottom line is you practically harassed me!" Jeno hisses back, mindlessly stepping closer.

Glancing down to Jeno's shoes, Jaemin grins wider at the distance between them. "Bottom line is I like you, pretty boy."

Looking up to meet Jeno's wide eyes, the raven haired boy froze with his mouth agape; in obvious shock from his words.

"And it seems to me you probably like me too," he teases as Yangyang behind Jeno was laughing at them.

"You're scaring the poor boy, man."

"Want a kiss?" Jaemin tilts his head to the side, licking his dry lips to moist them a bit, hand slowly reaching out to just touch Jeno's waist.

Jeno slowly blinks and before he could think properly, he did something that made Jaemin groan once again like last time whilst Yangyang cackles.

"You bastard!" He stares at the pink haired boy bent over, hands covering his crotch as he bites his tongue. "For once I feel sorry for you but then I come here just to get humiliated!"

"Calm down, Jen. Let's help Jaemin first and then you can yell at him." Yangyang nonchalantly states, patting Jeno's lower back as he gestures to Jaemin who's currently in pain.

As if he was taken over by something in him, Jeno gets a guilty feeling rush in his body before rushing over to assist Jaemin.

Unbeknownst to him, both Yangyang and Jaemin were biting back a mischievous grin.

"Such a naive pretty boy. Cute."