Mark is currently on his way to his best friends' house. He walks to the bus stop with his head low, it being full with thoughts. His mind went over and over today's events especially of when he met Yugyeom and BamBam. He still couldn't believe that he met the pair.

He felt bad for treating them the way he did. They had probably noticed something was wrong with him now.

Mark scoffed at the thought, kicking a tiny stone off the pavement as he continued walking.

How stupid was he? To think hiding in his office and leaving them alone was a good idea?

The couple had probably told Jackson how weird he was acting and what a strange guy he was.

The sad thing being, Mark felt like he didn't have any control over the situation, which he hated.

He wanted to say sorry to Jackson for making such a bad impression, he wanted to plead to Jackson to give the older another chance.

Mark sighs, tilting his head up to watch the sun set as he approaches the bus stop. The sky is purple, with some orange and yellow appearing here and there. It looks beautiful, but he can't seem to distract himself by looking at it.

While waiting for the bus to arrive, Mark's mind was clouded again with thoughts about Jackson. If there was only a way for him to ask Jackson to give him another chance.

Mark knew he couldn't just go and message the other, in his opinion that'd be awkward and not appropriate at all.

The brown haired boy wanted to tell him in person. Though he thought of doing so made him nervous as hell, he knew it was the only proper way to do it.

After a 25 minute bus ride which consisted of making a plan in his head for him and Jackson to meet up, Mark arrives at Jaebum's and Youngjae's house.

He rings the door bell and Youngjae opens the door after a few seconds.

"Hyung! I saw you coming through the kitchen window, come on in."

Mark smiles and walks in. "How have you been Youngjae?" he asks while throwing his shoes off and putting them in the corner of the hallway.

"I've been good, what about you?"

"I've been okay, I guess." Mark answers as he takes his jacket off and puts it away.

"What do you mean okay?" Youngjae asks, worry lacing his voice.

"I'll tell you guys later." Mark simply answers, not wanting to talk about it now.

They walk into the living room and they are greeted with Jaebum putting all the dishes he had made on the table, indicating they can eat soon.

"Hey Mark. Are you hungry?"

"I am, what have you made?"

"All sorts of things. Have a look and sit down, I only have one thing left to put on the table." Jaebum responds and walks in to the kitchen again.

Jaebum takes his apron off and carries the dish over to the table, carefully putting it down as he sits besides Youngjae, Mark facing him.

They eat together and have fun, laughing at some silly jokes and exchanging stories.

"It's good to see you laugh Mark hyung, you seemed to be pretty down when you just arrived here." Youngjae mentioned.

Mark's facial expression changes from a laugh to a somewhat sad expression. "What is wrong hyung, you know you can tell us right?" Jaebum says.

"I know," he is silent for a moment looking down on to his lap, "I just don't know how to explain this."

"Then try, we're all ears." Youngjae says, flashing him a smile and grabbing Mark's hand softly squeezing it.

Jaebum glared at the action, but Youngjae nudges him with his elbow and Jaebum adverts his gaze to Mark.

Mark sighs and looks up to the couple, tears welling up in his eyes.

"I just-" he starts.

"Basically, I have been thinking about Jackson a lot for the past few weeks. After I left the meeting I feel like I made a bad impression by not talking much and being introverted all the time. I don't know why but it just feels that way. Just now when I was on my way to you guys I started to think how to contact him. To say sorry, to give me another chance, I really liked talking to him. But you know, as he hasn't contacted me either and as I feel like I just did wrong I feel like I should apologize. On top of that his friends BamBam and Yugyeom came in to the store earlier and I was so stupid to act weird towards them, leaving them in the store so I could collect myself in my office. I'm worried that they have told Jackson already and I won't have a chance to even get everything right."

Mark lowers his head and starts to snivel. The others walk up to him and hold him in a tight hug. They knew Mark was insecure about making new friends, also a part of the reason why he didn't have many. He always felt like he did something wrong when he tried making new friends.

"I just don't know what to do." Mark trails of as he wipes his tears with his sleeves.

"Have you messaged him yet?" Jaebum questions.

"No, I don't even know if it's a good idea to contact him."

"It is, just try it. See how he reacts and just ask to meet up again." The black haired boy advises.

"I know, but it just doesn't feel simple to do so."

"I understand, but please try it. We don't like seeing you like this hyung." Jaebum says and Youngjae nods in agreement.

"I'm sorry that you have to see me like this." Mark apologizes, feeling bad for showing them this side of him.

Though they have seen it before it's not easy for him to show this side.

"No, don't apologize it's okay. But give it a shot, before we do it for you." Youngjae teases, trying to light up the mood. He hates seeing Mark like this.

"You guys wouldn't dare to."

"Oh, watch us hyung, we will." Jaebum joins the teasing.

Mark chuckles and looks up to the other two, a smile lingering his face.

"Thank you guys, I love you."

"We love you too!" Youngjae exclaims and pulls the boys into a tight hug.

"Youngjae, I'd like to live for another while. I don't want my cause of death to be a hug." Jaebum says.

Youngjae releases them from his tight grip, "Even if it's from me?" he asks offended, his lips forming a pout and staring at Jaebum.

"Yes, because that means I can't live with you any longer and we still have to marry." Jaebum says as a smirk plasters his face but also trying to control himself and not kiss the pout away.

"Hyung! Don't say that in front of Mark hyung!" Youngjae screams flustered.

"Too late for that now."

"Stoopp!" Youngjae whines and slaps Jaebum's arm playfully.

Mark laughs as he watches the two.

"I'm just going to wash up really quickly." Mark says and he stands up to proceed to the bathroom.

Mark leaves and Jaebum notices Mark's phone laying on the dinner table.

"Should we text Jackson?" He inquires, looking at Youngjae.

"Oh yes, if we don't do it for him he might not do it for another 6 weeks. We can't let that happen."

Jaebum grabs the phone from the table and unlocks it. He quickly opens the message app and scrolls through Mark's contacts.

He notices Jackson's contact and clicks on it, smirking. "Got him."

"Okay now what do we say?" Youngjae says, his head on the other's shoulder looking at the phone.

"Just something simple. How about this?" Jaebum types away and Youngjae stares at the screen attentively.

"Perfect. Not too much, just a simple message."

'Hey.' It reads on the screen.

"Okay, now quickly put it away again before Mark comes back."

They put the phone on the table again. They pretend like nothing happened as they do the dishes. Not much later Mark comes back into the living room.

"Are you okay now Mark hyung?" Youngjae asks while putting away a cup in the kitchen cupboard.

"Yeah, I am. Thank you guys once again, you are amazing." He says as he both pulls them in for a short hug.

Mark's phone beeps indicating he has a message. He walks over to his phone on the table and he picks it up, unlocking it, seeing a new message from Jackson.

"Guys.." Mark says in disbelieve.

"Yes?" Youngjae innocently asks.

"Jackson just messaged me."

Before Youngjae can answer, Mark unlocks his phone seeing he had send a message first.

"Yah! What did you guys do? Did you actually send him a message?" Mark says a bit angry.

"Uhm.. Well.. We can explain."

"You better explain it now, why did you do it?" He questions bitterly.

Jaebum sighs, walking over to the two others. "Listen hyung, if we didn't do it you would've waited another 6 weeks. We didn't want that so we messaged him for you." Jaebum responded dryly.

Mark becomes quiet as he stares at the message app on the phone he is holding in is hands.

Mark sighs as he looks up to the pair again.

"I understand, actually I feel a little relieved. But what do I do now?"

"Let's go sit down on the couch and think of a reply." Jaebum mentions to the two and they sit down.

"Okay first of all, what did he say?"

"He said 'Hey!! :D'." Mark shows them the message on his phone.

"Okay, well he seems enthusiastic about the fact that you messaged him." Jaebum analysis.

"How about you just start small talk first?" Youngjae suggests and the two others nod. Soon he recieves another message.

'How are you doing?' 

"Wow, that guy is fast he must have been excited indeed." Youngjae chuckles as he sees how fast the boy replies.

'I'm doing well, what about you?'

'I have been good, my days have been exhausting though as I have been training hard for my upcoming fencing competition.'

'Oh really? When is it?'

'In a few weeks.'

'Cool! I'm sure you'll do well.'

'Thank you, I really hope so. It's been my dream forever to get number one in a competition like this.'

The small talk continues for a while. Advice being giving to Mark every so often on how to respond to the messages. Then he gets a message he didn't expect to get.

'How about we meet up soon?'

Mark flushes red in embarrassment.

"Hyung are you okay?" Youngjae asks, patting his back.

"Yeah.. I am, I just- Didn't expect this."

"Well, it had to happen anyway, didn't it?" Jaebum says.

"It did, but how do I respond now?"

"Just something simple like: 'yeah sure', 'of course I'd love to' or 'yes, it's been a while'." Jaebum advises. Youngjae nods, "The last one sounds good to me."

"Okay then I'll do that."

'Yes, it's been a while.'

'Great! When are you available?'

"Jaebum, could you cover my shift again tomorrow. Just for a little while?"

"Of course hyung, I'm free tomorrow anyway."

"Thank you Jaebum. I'll just ask Jackson if he's available tomorrow."

'I'm available tomorrow?'

'Hmm.. I could squeeze in some time after my practice. Shall we meet up then? If you want to we can meet up at my fencing school around 3pm. You can see me practice and then we can go to my house afterwards?'

'Sounds good!'

'Amazing! I'll text you the address. I have to go now. See you tomorrow Mark hyung :)'

'See you tomorrow Jackson :)'

"Okay, so it's set. I'll see him tomorrow." Mark says and lets out a shaky breath.

Youngjae and Jaebum pat his shoulders. "You did really well hyung."

"I just hope I'm doing the right thing."

"I'm sure you are. He seems excited to see you. Just try it and see how it goes and you can always call us to come and get you."

"Yeah I know, thank you guys."

The boys watched a movie and after that Mark went home.

On his way home he felt a bit better than when we was on his way to the couple's house earlier that day. He feels somewhat relieved but he also feels like there's a lot pressure on him. He wants to do it right tomorrow, make a good impression on the other male.

He can't fuck it up again. Especially after Jackson had seem so excited when he messaged the younger.

Mark lets out a sigh as he leans his head against the bus window. His thoughts of how tomorrow will go keep going in his mind. But he can't distract his mind as hard as he tries to do so.

When he comes home he lays on his bed, worn out. Today has been a busy day, especially for his mind. He even has a bit of a headache because of it now.

Mark changes his clothes and takes some aspirins to calm his headache and decides to go to sleep. He knows tomorrow will be a heavy day aswell and he could really use his rest.

Mark closes his eyes and slowly his mind shuts off as he falls asleep.

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