february 14th, valentine's day. the day where donghyuck's finally going to meet his valentine's date, so here he is walking towards the bus stop.

it's valentine's day, right? of course, donghyuck would go all out with his outfit, he's not trying to go overdressed since he doesn't want to catch other people's attention, but maybe that's exactly what he's going for.

the bus finally arrived, and donghyuck happily hopped inside. he sat not too far from the door bus as he pulled out his phone.

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000-127-199

hi!
so um it's valentine's day

we're finally going
to see each other today right?

yes of course
let's meet beside the building
three

got it!

oh btw
are u heading to school
now?

yes i am
see you there!

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putting his phone back in his pocket, the bus suddenly made a big turn, making the younger on the sit bump his head on the glass window. "does this driver know how to drive?" he mumbled, hissing in pain.

he didn't even realize that the bus finally stopped in front of his school. quickly grabbing his bag, he slung it on his shoulder, not forgetting to pay the bus as he gets out of the vehicle.

he looked at his school with a smile—probably his first looking at his school with a smile, but that's because he's meeting his date—he walked inside the gate and towards the said place.

he's surely making the most of his day today.

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walking inside his school, mark is immediately met with yet a crowd of girls in front of him, asking all sorts of questions.

he managed to ignore all of them as he entered the building. the younger is immediately met by a tall guy and three more people tailing behind him.

"happy valentine's day, mark—woah, nice outfit you got there." johnny greeted and he didn't fail to notice the small crowd behind mark, "cmon before the crowd gets bigger." the taller instantly pulled the smaller beside him.

the more they continue their track the bigger the crowd gets, and not that mark is the only one getting frustrated, his friends are too.

but how can he control this? he asked himself. is he supposed to say sorry because he has that pretty face—

"it's 7 in the morning," yangyang said, still eyeing the crowd that is walking behind them, "they need to chill." it's not actually that early in the morning, he's just exaggerating.

"you should probably tell them you already had a date." ten suggests, patting the younger's shoulder as all of them nodded.

"speaking of date," jaehyun spoke, walking up beside mark, "aren't you going to meet your valentine's date today?"

"yeah, we're meeting each other beside building three." he replied, receiving a small nod from the older.

"oh?" yangyang said, "there's xiaojun, i should head first! bye-bye." yangyang gave mark a pat on the shoulder and walked up to xiaojun—his date this valentine.

jaehyung squints his eyes as he saw a familiar figure standing just at the end of the whole way, "taeyong!" he yelled, catching the said male's attention, "i should get going, goodbye!"

he waved to both johnny and ten as he gave mark finger hearts.

"mark, we'll leave you here now," johnny said, and the younger looked back, seeing johnny and ten's hands clasped together, he assumed that they're now going with their day, "enjoy your day with your valentine today! and use protection if you're goin—"

"shh! no i'm not!" mark quickly shushed him as johnny and ten chuckled, slowly walking away. "so i'm all alone now. great."

just then, his phone popped a notification.

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000-055-606

i'm here beside the building
i'm waiting for you

-

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the first thing that donghyuck saw is the booths standing just outside the school's building. "woah." is the only thing that donghyuck managed to say as he continues observing the place.

there are literally paper hearts everywhere and couples already standing outside the booths.

as he continues to observe the place, he failed to notice that's he's already standing in front of their said building, "oh here's the building." said donghyuck, fishing out his phone.

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000-127-199

i'm here beside the building
i'm waiting for you

on it!

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he eyes the area once again, and it still amazes him. the booths also include a lot of small games and some of them include food.

what caught donghyuck's eyes this one booth called "match-maker booth" the name already speaks for itself, if you badly want someone to date this valentine but you don't have a date, then you should probably go there.

donghyuck would definitely walk to that if he didn't take this website thingy.

later on, he heard footsteps walking behind him.

walking up towards the building, mark looked at his phone and back to the figure that is standing far away from him.

"is that him?" he asked himself and walked closer.

"uh excuse me?" mark called out, lightly tapping the male's shoulder, "are you—" the figure then finally turned around and mark's eyes opened wide.

"you're my valentine?!" both of them said in unison, more like yelling at each other.

"no wait," said the older, pinching the bridge of his nose, "are you the 000-055-606?"

"my name's donghyuck, but yea—"

"that's not the point," the older cut him off, "are you the one that i have been talking to this past few week?"

the younger in front of him hesitantly nods, not sure if he's actually that person, "yeah? w-well are you the 000-127-199?"

that's the only thing that made mark confirm all of his answers. so this whole time, they've been interacting with each other not knowing that they got paired with each other by that stupid website.

"but i don't want you."

donghyuck looked up from his shoes to mark, with sad-surprised eyes. he surely did gave the older the worst first interaction, but he wasn't expecting this rejection—not on valentine's day at least.

mark released, a heavy sigh. "let's just get this over with, yeah?" he grabbed donghyuck's hands, as they made their way towards one of the booths.

but he felt a heavy weight on his arm, pulling mark back, "do you not want this?" the older looked back only to see donghyuck frozen on his spot.

mark's statement made donghyuck smile, eyes filling with happiness. he quickly nodded and catch up beside the older.

if mark doesn't want him to be his date this valentine, then let him enjoy this at least, i mean he's holding the hand of the famous mark lee here, isn't that already a good thing?