“Mark, what’s wrong? You look exhausted,” Jaebum asked Mark the following week. Mark smiled slightly and shook his head.

“It’s nothing, don’t worry. I’m probably tired because of all the assignments I’ve been having lately,” he replied softly, grabbing the apple inside the fridge. Jaebum sighed and walked over to the redhead, who looked at him with a questioning look in his eyes.

“You want something?” Mark asked and took a step back so that Jaebum could stand in front of the fridge.

“No, it’s not that.” Jaebum shut the fridge and patted Mark’s shoulder.

“Jaebum, you’re being weird right now.”

“Aren’t I always?” Jaebum gave him a silly smile, wrapping one arm around the other male’s shoulder. “Anyway, I want you to accompany me to the mall. I need to buy a new pair of jeans. That’s an order, not a request, so let’s go.”

Jaebum tried to drag Mark along with him, but the other stood frozen as though his feet were glued to the floor. “Why don’t you ask Youngjae or Jackson instead? I’m pretty sure they’d love to go,” Mark suggested.

“The problem here is that the others aren’t home.”

Mark rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. “You have a phone for a reason.”

“Can’t you just accompany me?” Jaebum groaned out in frustration.

Mark bit his bottom lip, holding in his laughter. “Fine, I’ll accompany you.”

“Mark, open up this door you little piece of !”

“Coward, open up this door before I slam it open!”

I felt a tightness in my chest and glared at the door that was across from where I was sitting at.

Constant nausea. Constant fear.

“Leave me alone!” I screamed out of desperation.

My life flashed before my eyes. My sight darkened.

“Mark!”

“Mark?”

“Mark? Mark, wake up, we’ve reached the mall.”

Jaebum frowned when the other didn’t respond to him. He shook the other’s shoulders, trying to get the male to wake from his slumber. Mark flinched and seemingly shrunk away from Jaebum’s touch.

‘This is weird. Is he having a bad dream right now?’ Jaebum thought as he observed Mark’s s