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❛ so, mr. mark lee, what's
the plan for you? ❜

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"hey y'all," mark said, sliding into the diner booth where his friends were all seated.

"mark! you finally made it," jeno said shaking his head, "took you long enough," he teased, making space for mark beside him.

the guys had decided to all hangout at a local diner, as it was beautiful sunday afternoon. they were in desperate need of some so-called "bro time" — as chenle had called it.

"you should definitely ask her to go with you, jaem," jisung smiled with a twinkle in his eye, "we all know how much you like her."

jaemin's face turned a light shade of pink, as he tried to casually run his hand through his hair, ignoring what jisung had just said.

"what are you guys talking about?" mark asked curiously, as he had joined them mid-conversation.

"just prom and stuff," renjun replied, just as the food they had ordered beforehand arrived.

"i can't believe all of you are graduating this year," jisung said with a frown on his face, "next year the only one i'll be stuck with is this idiot right here," he said sticking out his tongue, and pointing at chenle, who also stuck out his tongue back in return.

grabbing a fry from the tray, chenle then smiled before directing his attention towards mark.

"so loverboy, how'd it go with trying to make up with miyong?"

a loud gasp could be heard from haechan's side of the table, "wait you guys fought?!" he covered his mouth in shock, "guys... we just lived through mom and dad's first fight in years."

earning himself a punch in the chest from mark, haechan quickly pouted, complaining under his breath that it wasn't fair for mark to use his absurd strength against him.

"well... we made up pretty quickly." mark said smiling slightly, "sometimes i think that my mimi is too nice for her own good."

"how exactly did you do it?" jeno asked, genuinely curious of how mark had pulled it off once again — like he did with everything.

explaining what had happened in the two days prior, mark shook his head, laughing in disbelief of how it had all gone down.

"...and so she fell asleep on my shoulder again,
for the second night in a row."

"interesting..." chenle observed whispering under his breath but loud enough for those around him to hear, "my spidey senses are tingling."

"what?"

"oh. nothing." chenle said shrugging it off nonchalantly, reaching over to grab another fry.

with a though suddenly popping into his mind, mark turned towards renjun. "wait... renjun," mark began, "since we're on the topic of prom, why don't you ask a girl to prom with you? remember that chaemin girl you were talking about a while ago?"

"oh... i don't know mark... i— uhm— i don't think she'll like me," renjun laughed nervously, "maybe i'm like not her type or something."

mark nodded slowly, confused as to why renjun had reacted so awkwardly like that.

taking the chance to break the sudden awkward tension, jisung turned back to jaemin, desperately loving the feeling of teasing his hyung, who so commonly babied him. "okay jaemin, don't lie now — you know how badly you want to ask seyeon to prom."

jaemin's ears became visibly redder, as he sent a glare over to the youngest. "stop it, jisung..."

"oh come on, jaem." jeno pleaded, "we know you've been thinking about it, so just tell us already!"

sighing and shaking his head in disbelief, jaemin scratched his head before telling the group his plan.

"so, i've been thinking for a while... and this is the first thing that came to mind even though it's kind of cheesy," he said slowly, "since we all know seyeon loves taking photos, and that i'm a photographer, i decided that i'm going to invite her on a photoshoot."

"then?" chenle said impatiently, eyes wide with curiosity.

"of course we're going to do the photo shoot... but instead with a polaroid camera, because she likes that vintage style." jaemin's face was in flames at this point, at the thought of the cheesy plan he had, "at the end of the photoshoot, i'll ask her to take one last photo, but when she comes to check on the photograph after i take it, i'll give her a blank polaroid instead — and on it will be a written message."

"what message?!" haechan was on his feet at this point, in excitement. the rest of the boys had to quiet him down, in fears that they would get kicked out of the diner for disrupting other customers.

"it's too embarrassing to say." jaemin said cheekily, happy that he could tease haechan, who had crossed his arms pretending to be mad at jaemin at this point.

"dang jaem, way to leave us on a cliffhanger..." renjun scoffed, also disappointed in not hearing the end of the plan.

"anyways... enough about me." jaemin smiled, "so, mr. mark lee, what's the plan for you?" jaemin asked quickly, trying to direct the conversation of prom away from himself.

"huh?"

"yeah mark," chenle smiled cheekily, "what are you gonna do to ask your dear mimi to prom?" he said, making a kissy face towards mark when saying her name.

a chorus of 'ooooo's' could be heard across the table, as multiple snickers scattered about at the words 'dear mimi'.

"...shut up! i do not sounds like that!" mark immediately rebutdtaled after being teased, "you guys have the humor of a bunch of ten year olds, geez."

"yeah, says the one who calls her 'my mimi' — you know lying isn't very nice mark." haechan said smirking at mark as pay back for the punch he had received earlier.

such immature kids, mark thought, rolling his eyes.

mark sighed before trying to calm the rowdy group down. "well i did think about it... but i don't know if she'll like the idea i have very much."

jisung shook his head rapidly, "hyung — she's miyong. she'll love anything you do for her. you're her best friend after all."

mark gave jisung a crooked smile, and nodded. he knew that if his plan was successful, it would turn out to be the best prom-posal anyone had ever seen.

"so... what exactly is your plan?" jeno asked.

mark clapped his hands together, in excitement. "well first of all, i think that i'm going to..."

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a/n !

what? what is this i see? a ybwm update? i'm alive? i'm writing? i'm the most inconsistent author in the world? cancel grace 2022? you guys might just want to reread the entire book because it's been so long i'm sure you've forgotten what's happened ☹️ literally even i forgot what happened in the past 22 chapters LOL