"I heard you went to the party," Renjun brings up as he dips his french fry onto the ketchup. "How did that one go?"

"Pretty good, to be honest with you." He chokes on his second bite of his food once he hears Jaemin's response.

Haechan, who was to no surprise beside him, pats his back as he quickly hands him a bottle of water- dropping his hamburger back on its plate in the process.

Gulping the water down, Renjun exhales in relief and wipes his mouth with a tissue. He then snaps his head towards Haechan and glares.

"What the hell did you do?" He immediately questions, tone stern and intimidating.

The tanned male held his hands up in surrender as he slightly leans back. "I didn't do anything- I was barely there later on." Renjun's glare hardens at his answer.

Jaemin chuckles and shakes his head at them, "relax, Haechan didn't do anything this time. He was off busy on the dance floor and all," he reassures.

"Then what the fuck happened? You seem so-" Renjun tries to find the correct word to describe Jaemin's currently state before ending up with his hands all over the place.

"Oh my goodness, what happened?" He glances at Haechan who was chewing on his hamburger, "why did you leave him?!" He suddenly accuses again.

"Bitch, Jaemin seemed fine without me annoying his boring ass." The tanned male defends himself, spitting particles at Renjun's face while at it.

"I had fun," Jaemin adds, pointing a spoon at him.

Renjun grimaces, face scrunched in disgust as he grabs a tissue nearby. While wiping his face, he mutters, "what did you idiots even do-"

"Hey," they all paused on what they were doing, Haechan about to take another bite of his hamburger but instead froze with his mouth wide open.

They all turn to the newcomer who approached their table, Jaemin's lips slowly turn into a smile. "Hey, Alissa, right?"

"Yeah, and you're Jaemin, if I'm not mistaken?" The girl lets out a small laugh.

"Yeah," Jaemin laughs with her, nodding his head. "Anyways, anything you need?" He asks, eyebrows lifted up on his forehead.

Alissa hums, "just wanted to ask how you're doing." She places a hand on their table, slightly leaning forward near Jaemin's figure.

The blond haired boy blinks, "I'm doing alright, you?" Reaching for his can of Pepsi as he takes a long gulp of it.

"Likewise," was Alissa's response. Jaemin smiles at her, ignoring Renjun's curious eyes on them, last few french fries long forgotten on his plate.

"I was also wondering if I can perhaps join you tomorrow for lunch?" Alissa then follows up, eyes scanning Jaemin up and down for a second before meeting his gaze again.

"Just him or join us on our table?" Haechan butts in, swallowing his food and winces when he earns a pinch on his thigh.

He glares at the eldest boy amongst them who looked calm as if nothing happened, "don't mind him."

Chuckling, Alissa gave them a small smile, "no it's okay. I meant you guys too." She waves them off with a lazy hand.

Jaemin then replies. "Sure, you can join us." He smiles widely at her.

She looked really ecstatic about his answer, clasping her hands together as she beams. "That's great!"

She then turns her head over her shoulder when someone calls her name, she nodded at the person and looks back at the three boys.

"I guess I'll see you around," giggling as she turns on her heel and walks off.

Once she was far away from their table- seemingly talking to her group of friends- Haechan blinks and looks at Jaemin.

"Dude, did you and Alissa hit it off last night?" He nonchalantly asks.

"Wait, huh?" Renjun's eyes grow wide open with his mouth slightly agape.

The blond haired boy rolls his eyes and shakes his head, "we just hung out the whole night. Nothing too much."

"Yeah right, next thing we know, you two are fucking." Haechan quips.

"Haechan!"

"Dude."

"Ow!" He yelps, almost throwing his nearly finished hamburger away when Renjun smacks him behind his head.

"I'm just saying!" He said and reaches a hand to rub the painful spot, "besides, seems like Jaemin really likes her." He slowly grins.

The said blond haired boy rolls his eyes at him, "we just met." He states, finding Haechan's words ridiculous.

"You two act like you've known each other long enough- and we were only at the party for two hours and a half before you drag my half-ass drunk state home." Haechan said, not letting the topic go.

"I don't know what the hell happened or what is happening right now, but all I can say is, I'm with Haechan on this one." Renjun butts in later on.

"That's the spirit, Injun!" The tanned male cheers as he drapes a heavy arm over Renjun's shoulders, purposely weighing on him.

"Fuck off, I have PE next and I don't want to do twenty push-ups again because of you." The older boy grumbles, jabbing his side with his elbow.

Jaemin was finishing his can of Pepsi before saying, "look, I just find her very sweet and all-"

"Sweet and flirty. Mhmm."

"Shut up," he glares at Haechan. "But I'm just saying, she seems nice."

"She's a part of those cliché cliques." Renjun points out, suddenly getting defensive and territorial.

Can you blame him? They've been the three musketeers since they've first met, and they haven't really grown to add someone in their small circle because-

If Renjun's being brutally honest, he'd say; "everyone in this school besides my idiotic friends are completely shitty people."

The blond haired boy turns to him and scoffs, "maybe," he mumbles. "But can we just let her join us for tomorrow lunch? What if she's not actually that bad?"

Haechan nods, bottom lip jutted out as he turns to Renjun as well. "Maybe he's right, what if Alissa isn't that bad... Might be tolerable than Lee Jeno." He whispers at the end.

Renjun rolls his eyes and pushes his face away from his ear, clearing his throat as he feels a little hot all of a sudden.

"You do you," he gives in anyway, not having the strength to protest at Jaemin's ridiculous ideas and Haechan encouraging him on them.

"Complete idiots." He thinks to himself.

The tanned male cheers again and continues to annoy him whilst Jaemin laughs before his eyes landed on a specific table and then on a specific brunet boy.

Said brunet boy was watching them, immensely, seemingly spacing off. One of his friends was talking about something, but he obviously wasn't paying attention.

His eyes then meets Jaemin's and as if he was caught red handed- he casually winks before turning back to his friends.