If you haven't noticed yet, yes, this story has Slow-burn :)

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"I heard you're going to a party," Yangyang comments once they've finished hanging out at the rooftop, halting Jaemin on taking his leave.

"That I am, Jeno–"

"Jeno convinced you," Yangyang cuts him off with a flat look and rolls his eyes, sighing along. "Jaemin, why can't you just see it? Admit it for the love of Dracula."

"Admit what? There's nothing to admit ab–" Jaemin was about to say but got interrupted once again by his friend.

"That you two are soulmates." Yangyang said and crossed his arms, "you might say or would like to think otherwise, but the way you've been behaving towards, or more like about Jeno shows a lot."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Jaemin hisses as he glances at Hendery who was surprisingly behaved, probably got scolded by Yangyang earlier or something.

Sighing, Yangyang slowly drags his tongue on his fangs to lick them, "whatever, you'll see soon enough, Jaem. Have fun at the party." He dismisses, getting kinda tired of his friend right now.

Hendery then took that at his cue to speak up, "can I go too?" He turns to Yangyang who gave him a stern look in return. "Nevermind." He ends up frowning to himself.

Rolling his eyes, Jaemin quietly leaves his friends and goes back down to Jeno's apartment, well atleast he thought he would.

"Jeno, open the door." He calls for the younger boy, waiting outside the door and also for Jeno's permission.

"Hold on, I'm almost done, hyung!" Jeno said as Jaemin heard Bongsik meowing afterwards.

Is Jeno really going to have Jaemin wait outside their apartment for his permission?

Before Jaemin could say something about it, Bongsik meows loudly. "Come in, Jeno's in his room finishing up for the party." She said.

The vampire boy thought it wouldn't work since this was Jeno's apartment, but he was slightly confused when he opened the door and was able to step in the said apartment easily.

Noticing his confusion, Bongsik rolled her eyes, "this is my place too." Turning around to head towards the couch and make herself comfortable there.

After a few minutes, Jeno's bedroom door opens and in comes said boy who was grinning from ear to ear.

"I'm done! How do I look, hyung?" He asks and does a little twirl for Jaemin to scan his outfit.

It wasn't much, just a simple red and black themed outfit.

But dang did Jeno make the simple outfit look good.

Jaemin didn't say that– pfft.

Anyways, besides Jeno's outfit, the boy managed to put on some small glitter things on his face, red painting on his chin to make it look like he had just drank blood and– is that–

"Are you wearing lip gloss?" Was Jaemin's first question that came to his mind and raised a brow.

"Yeah!" The younger boy nods and tilting his head, "why? Do you not like it? I can wipe–" Jeno was about to say before he was halted by a hand around his wrist, the grip giving a small squeeze.

He turns to look at Jaemin who gave him a stern look, "no. Don't." The elder boy muttered out like he was trying to make it sound like a soft whisper instead.

Before Jeno could ask as to why Jaemin didn't want him to wipe the lip gloss off of his lips, the vampire boy spoke up again. "We'll be late anyways."

And that's when Jeno checked the time, they're three minutes late and he's sure Haechan is going to call him soon enough if he doesn't arrive there for the next four minutes counting.

So shrugging to himself, he waves at Bongsik who was sleeping on the couch and quickly leans down to give her a kiss on the head. "We'll be back, sweetie. Ten hyung is going to check up on you soon, okay?"

He only earned a soft meow from the feline. Smiling to himself, he turns to hold Jaemin's hand and leads them out with a skip on his steps.

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"I still can't believe you managed to bring Jaemin here with you," Haechan– who was dressed as a pirate, comments beside his best friend.

Jeno chuckles, "you've already said that when you answered the door for us since Johnny was off somewhere with the basketball team." He states.

"Well yeah, because who the fuck leaves their own party– you know what, he's probably drunk by now." Haechan dismisses the thought of Mark's teammate– who's the owner of said party.

"But I'm just saying, it's weird how he just– accepted it, I guess? What did you do? How did you just bring him here?" He began to interrogate.

Jeno blinks and stops refilling his empty cup, for some reason this scenario is sort of familiar for him.

He places his cup down and shrugs, "I don't know. I just said if he doesn't come along, then I'll just go alone." Replying to Haechan's questions.

The tanned male raised a brow, "sounds like he likes you enough to be protective." He comments, resulting Jeno to blush shyly.

"yeah, you can't relate to that, babe." Mark chimes as he walks up to them, dressed up as a cowboy. "Nice costume, Jen." He smiles while ignoring his boyfriend's angry huff.

"Thanks, hyung! I'm matching with Jaeminnie hyung tonight," Jeno beams at them as he turns to the vampire boy leaning against the other counter nearby, looking around in boredom.

Haechan knits his eyebrows and couldn't help but say, "uh, Jaemin's not dressed up as a vampire... In fact, he's jus wearing his usual dark outfit."

He earns a nudge from Mark, making him groan and send a glare towards his boyfriend who only rolled his eyes at him.

Jeno all but giggles at his comment, "Jaemin hyung said he wanted to not dress up as anything since he already looks like one." He covers up for the said older boy.

"And is literally one." He thought to himself.

"How boring," Haechan mumbles when he recovers from Mark's previous harsh nudge on his stomach.

"Hey, don't be mean to him, Haechannie." Jeno pouts before grabbing his cup again, "excuse me for a moment, I just have to give this to Jaemin hyung, he's probably thirsty right now."

Haechan shrugs before getting pulled away by Lucas, who had also took Mark with them, to head towards a game or something they've came up again.

As Jeno walks towards the vampire boy, he trips and spills the drink he was holding, also expecting to painfully meet the ground.

However, he instead felt a familiar pair of arms around his waist, a broad chest just against his cheek while he was being stopped to meet said ground.

He looks up and blushes in red, meeting Jaemin's eyes while the older boy was slightly soaked by the drink Jeno was about to give him. To drink on, not to get spilled on.

Jeno expects the older boy to scold him with his usual cold tone, harsh eyes glaring at him and then push him away to stand up by himself.

But he didn't expect Jaemin to tighten his hold around him and carefully bring him back up to his feet, eyes scanning his figure as if he had just got injured or something.

And he definitely didn't expect the vampire boy to knit his eyebrows together and say, "be careful, pup."

"My dear soulmate, WHOT–"

"Pup, are you hurt?"