Sorry for not updating this book as much, sometimes it's bad timing of my schedule and what I'm feeling; sick, headache, power went out and etc.

And sometimes I don't really have an idea of what comes next to be honest, like I hesitate and stuff.

A little bit stuck ig.

My apologies.

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"What do you want to eat?" Jeno perks up at the mention of that, raising a brow at the elder boy who's looking at him intently, almost impatiently waiting for his response.

"Whatever is available at the cafeteria today," he replies in nonchalance after a few seconds.

Jaemin hums and says, "I'll pay for it then, tell me what you're buying." Having Jeno blinking at him in shock, eyes a bit wide as he almost stumbles on his way.

Stopping on his tracks, Jaemin turns to face a flustered Jeno, "what?" He asks with a brow raised, pretending to seem oblivious.

"Y-you're paying?" Jeno parrots what Jaemin had just said a second ago, stammering as he does so.

Nodding off, Jaemin is still looking at him weirdly while he glances around the hallway. "Yeah, I'll be paying."

"For my food?" Jeno asks again, to confirm if he had misunderstood Jaemin's intentions or not.

"Yep, why?"

"What do you mean "why"?" Jeno almost shrieks as he runs up to him, getting closer since he was a little bit left behind due to his flustered and puzzled state.

"Hyung, don't pay... I can pay for my own food, I have some pocket money with me." He pleads, not really liking the idea of Jaemin using his own money to pay Jeno's lunch.

The raven haired boy scoffs, "you don't want me to pay for your lunch?"

"My dad gave me some pocket money for a reason," Jeno crosses his arms, slowly starting to get sassier this time. "So yes, I don't want you to use your money for my lunch." He emphasizes.

Jaemin blinks for a moment before stepping closer to Jeno's bubble. "Then can I at least use it for our next date?"

With that, Jeno chokes on his own spit, literally. Coughing lightly that has Jaemin snorting quietly at him but still tries to help the younger boy with his situation.

After calming down from his coughing fit, the blond haired boy gasps and stares at him in wonder. "Y-you want a second d-date?" He stutters once again.

"Yeah, why not?" Jaemin shrugs his shoulders in nonchalance, hands in his pockets.

His response has Jeno whining in instinct, reaching out to smack his shoulder weakly. "Stop asking "why", Jaemin hyung."

"Why? Are you getting nervous?" Jaemin's lips stretches itself into a cheeky grin once Jeno's face starts to turn red.

Huffing through his nose, Jeno shuffles on the spot and looks away. "I'm hungry, can we just go to the cafeteria now before all the food are gone?" He mumbles a little too fast.

But luckily for him, he doesn't have to repeat himself as he gets a chuckle from the raven haired boy.

Squeaking when he was suddenly pulled by his hand with Jaemin leading them to the said cafeteria.

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"Surprisingly, this cupcake is good." Jeno comments as he takes another bite of the delicious sweet in his hold.

"The baking club made it," Jaemin remarks with a tone, making sure Jeno knows what he meant by the obvious.

The younger boy did in fact get it and scoffs in return, "just didn't expect them to make it well, last week they made brownies and it turned out b–"

He abruptly pauses on his sentence and looks around, seeing some members of the baking club sitting on a nearby table enjoying their time.

"You know what I mean." He continues in a whisper and sheepishly smiles at the raven haired boy.

Jaemin raises a brow in amusement, the corner of his lips curling up as a chuckle escapes his mouth. "You know you can comment aloud, it's fine."

"It's mean though," Jeno pouts at his words. "Kun hyung, over there," discreetly gesturing towards the said senior with his eyes. "Has been very nice to me, I feel like I'm backstabbing him and his team."

"It's criticism, I'm sure he'd take it well and won't be mad if he heard you, just tell him straightforwardly is what's best." Jaemin says while finishing his can of energy drink.

"Still..."

"It isn't his fault either, the ones who made the brownies were the other members, he wasn't present at that time." Jaemin continues to reassure Jeno even in the slightest bit.

Pondering in thought, the blond haired boy soon nods along at his words, acknowledging his opinion. "Yeah... I guess you're right." He smiles with his lips pursed together.

Jaemin cringes at the weird feeling he suddenly got creeping around his gut at the sight of Jeno smiling like that, shrugging his shoulders to brush off his worries and continues to finish his dessert.

It didn't help with the vanilla frosting sticking on the tip of his nose either, the blond haired boy not noticing it and how he looks right now.

Jaemin's fingers twitch on its own, looking around the table for a particular thing before he does something that he might regret.

Spotting an unused tissue to his left, he reaches to grab it and inches it towards a busy Jeno. The latter looks up in wonder when he suddenly hears Jaemin clearing his throat very forcefully.

"Clean up."

"Huh?"

"Your nose, you have frosting on you." Jaemin gestures with his hand twitching that gained Jeno's attention towards it.

Blinking, he crosses his eyes when he tries to look at his nose, giggling at himself for no reason before taking the tissue that was handed to him.

Wiping himself clean, he checks around his shirt before smiling up at Jaemin again. "Thank you, hyung, that would've been embarrassing." He comments with a chuckle afterwards.

The raven haired boy curtly nods and was quiet for a brief moment, clearing his throat one more time and speaks up. "You should eat slowly, and try checking yourself every once in a while."

Nodding happily, Jeno crumples the now used tissue and quickly drinks his water while Jaemin waits for him to finish so he can walk him to his classroom.