Jinyoung sat at one of the tables waiting for Mark, Celeste hasn’t started acting up yet so it was a good sign that he was being a good parent or the baby wasn’t working correctly. Earlier he had taken out come books on childcare so Mark and him can use them for their baby book and paper. 

He continuously looked at his watch and looked around for Mark. It shouldn’t take Mark too long to go to his locker to switch out the books he need for home and come to the library; not that he would the approximate amount of time it takes (2 minutes) to get from Mark’s locker to the school library. Jinyoung instantly started to wonder if Mark ditched him but that wouldn’t happen since they were marri- partners in project with a daugh- fake baby.

Mark sighed deeply as he entered in the library; as usual the only thoughts he could currently hear was Jinyoung’s. Although he could hear everyone else’s he turned down their volume but he just couldn’t do that for Jinyoung. Pity, it would be nice not hearing erted fantasies about yourself. Mark instantly saw how quickly Jinyoung perked up once he noticed him and it made him wonder the extent of his feelings for him. Did he truly like him or did he lust for him?

Mark pulled out one of the chairs next to Jinyoung and place a baby carrier on the table as well, “Sorry I was taking so long, I had to go to the teacher’s office to get Celeste baby carrier.”

Jinyoung smiled up at him, “It’s no problem” he said as he placed Celeste in the seat, “At least now we don’t have to carry her in our arms all the time.” Mark nodded, agreeing with him.

“Okay so first, let’s set up a schedule of who has her and figure out when we can go out” Mark began

Jinyoung grinned widely, ‘Like a date’ he thought

“No not like a date” Mark sighed and immediately regretted it. 

“Huh? What do you mean?” Jinyoung asked surprised

“You said like a date” Mark lied

Jinyoung eyes bugged out, “I said that out loud?” And Mark nodded, “Oh um I was only joking” he laughed awkwardly but even to his own ears that wasn’t convincing.

Mark only shrugged, happy that Jinyoung bought his lie while Jinyoung was having an internal crisis, ‘Holy crap, why did I keep speaking my mind?! Is it because I’m actually talking to him and not arguing? UGHHH, I need to keep it together. If I don’t I might accidentally talk about my ual fantasies about him. I rather date Kim Yugyeom then let Mark-hyung know that I want his inside me, stretching my tight inner walls.’

Mark could only sighed, was that last part really necessary? But if only he knew that he did know about his ual fantasies and how much he wanted him to him. The two continued to talk about who Celeste would stay with as well as planning on spending time together. While they were talking Mark could feel Jinyoung eyes on him.

‘You’re so beautiful, like an angel sent from heaven to bless our mortal eyes with your beauty. Or maybe even a demon sent from hell to tempt us humans to jump on our immoral desires to taste your sweet devilish lips.’ What the hell kind of poem is this? If he wanted to hear this kind of crap he would listen to BamBam and Yugyeom thoughts.

“Are you busy this weekend?” Mark sighed

Jinyoung immediately shaked his head, ‘I’m always available for you bunny’ Bunny? Why that nickname?

“Good then we can hangout and work on the project more.” Mark said and Jinyoung happily nodded, thinking of all the things they could do together, “So since you have Celeste tonight, do you want my number in case you have any questions?” Mark wondered. He had experience with babies since his older sister had two kids and babysat them a lot.

Internally, Jinyoung was jumping with joy and Mark wished he could take back his words, ‘I’M GETTING MARK TUAN PHONE NUMBER! That means we can t and Mark can send me beautiful pictures of his body and maybe even his long hard co-’

“Jinyoung are you okay?!” Mark asked concerned, although it was kinda fake since he knew the reason why Jinyoung was having a nose bleed was because of his impure thoughts about him.

Jinyoung pulled out some tissues he had in bag from earlier and stuffed his nose, “I’m fine, it happens when I get a stressed out.”

Doesn’t he mean pent up with ual energy? Oh well, at least it should keep him from thinking anymore erted thoughts for now. Jinyoung passed Mark his phone so he could placed his number and sent a message to himself so he had it as well.

“Okay before we go we should work on Celeste birth certificate” Jinyoung suggested and Mark nodded.

Mark took opened his notebook and started writing, “Okay first name, Celeste Park-Tuan, mother is- do you want to be the mother or father?” He asked

“I can be the mother” Jinyoung smiled, ‘After all you’re total daddy material.’ 

This guy just can’t be stopped. “Okay Mother is Park Jin-”

“I think you mean, Park-Tuan Jinyoung since we are married” Jinyoung said shyly. ‘And you’re my handsome bunny hubby’

It took Mark so much strength not to roll his eyes, “Okay Park-Tuan Jinyoung and father is Mark Park-Tuan. Born on March 7th at 3:00-”

“No it was 3:07” Jinyoung argued

“Are you sure?” Mark questioned. Jinyoung nodded, ‘After all, it the happiest moment of our life when we were blessed with a child and became husband and wife.’ Jinyoung thought. Wait isn’t it husband and husband since they’re both guys? Wait why is he continuing with this delusional? They’re fake parents with a fake baby. “Okay and I think that’s it. So for our individual paper I think we should keep a journal so we can keep track of our experiences with Celeste. That way we can fill the two page requirement.”

Jinyoung smiled dreamily at Mark, ‘Mark-hyung you’re so smart’

“It’s just a common idea, Jinyoung” Mark huffed

Jinyoung gasped, “Oh crap did I say that out loud too?” Oh , Mark did it again but to keep up that lie he nodded. ‘OMG what’s wrong with me? Why do I keep speaking my mind?! I gotta leave before I spill my feelings out to him’ “Um Mark-hyung I have to go, can we meet tomorrow after school?” Jinyoung asked as he placed his books back in his bag

Mark nodded, “Sure”

Jinyoung smiled and took Celeste still in her carrier and baby bag, “Cool, see you tomorrow” he said before leaving the library.

Mark took a deep breath before picking up his book and bags and walked out the library. He was a only a few meters out the school door before he walked into someone, “Oof- Jackson what are you still doing here?” 

“Namjoon and I just finished talking” Jackson explained, Anyways where’s your daughter?”

“Oh Jinyoung has her tonight; Namjoon let you have Lucas?” Mark questioned seeing the baby carrier in his arms

“Yah I don’t like the way that sounded. Are you trying to say I’m a bad mother?” Jackson huffed while pouting at Mark.

“I’m only saying that I can’t help but feel concerned for my godson” Mark smirked

“Shut the up.” Jackson frowned and Mark laughed at that, “Anyways, how was your first talk with Jinyoung.” Mark groaned, “That bad?”

“The talk was fine but his mind was elsewhere if you know what I mean” Mark sighed

“Seriously? Even while you two were talking he was thinking dirty stuff about you?” Jackson gasped

“Yeah and worse I accidentally forgot about my ability and answered his thoughts” Mark said shaking his head

“No way?! What did you do?” Jackson wondered

“Lied and made him think that he said it out loud. He left because he was worried I might figure out his feelings for me.” Mark scoffed

“But you know Jinyoung true feelings about you.” Jackson frowned

Mark laughed, “That was the funny part”

Jackson looked at him, “Don’t you think you should respond to them?”

“ no Jackson. You know how badly he treated me, why the f would I forgive him and respond to his feelings?” Mark scoffed

“He made a mistake Markie and obviously by apologizing he’s trying to fix it.” Jackson argued

“He only apologized because we’re working together for this project. He didn’t mean it” Mark fired back

“Oh come one Mark, you can read his mind. You should know if he’s lying or not”

“It doesn’t matter Jackson. I said it once and I will say it twice, I will never forgive or like Park Jinyoung.” Mark said as a finally statement and walked away. Jackson could only sighed as he followed after Mark.

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After Jinyoung left Mark, he didn’t completely leave, he wandered around in another part of the library getting a few more books for the baby project. When he finally left the school, he saw Mark and Jackson talking, he hid himself behind a tree as he tried to strain his ears to listen; he knows it’s rude but he couldn’t help but want to listen in to their conversation. 

He didn’t hear much since he was far way but the part he did hear had his mind going blank, “It doesn’t matter Jackson. I said it once and I will say it twice, I will never forgive or like Park Jinyoung” 

Jinyoung hit his head on tree; of course he knew this when Youngjae told him that earlier but to hear himself made Jinyoung wonder if he could ever make the older understand his actions.

God, why didn’t he listen to Jaebum and Youngjae. Why didn’t he just man up and confess to Mark? Maybe if he went in another direction they wouldn’t been like this. 

Jinyoung took in a deep breath; he can’t go back in time so the only thing he can do is make it up to Mark and make him see that he truly is sorry. Jinyoung picked up Celeste from the floor and immediately started making mental plans as to how to win Mark’s heart.

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Mark entered his first class seeing Jackson with his head down; he walked over and tapped the man shoulder startling him, “Dude are you alright?” Mark snorted

“ no man, Lucas kept me up all night crying. I don’t know what was wrong; I feed him, burped him, changed his diaper yet nothing changed. He wouldn’t stop crying” Jackson groaned

Mark noticed for the first time that the baby wasn’t him, “Dude, don’t tell me you left him home?”

Jackson glared at Mark, “Of course not, what kind of mother do you think I am?” he scoffed, “I gave him to Namjoon this morning. Lucas is his problem till tomorrow.”

“When the hell did you give Lucas away?” Mark wondered, “Isn’t Namjoon locker on the other side of the school?”

“I gave up on Lucas around 4am so I ran to his house and gave him his child. I think I may have pissed off his parents but my beauty sleep is very important.” Jackson shrugged 

Mark chuckled, “More important than your grade?”

“At 4am Mark I was ready to give away my kidney for some sleep, so yeah.” Jackson said seriously before he dropped his head back on the desk.

Mark smiled before sitting at his seat in front of him; as he took his stuff out, Jinyoung walked in the room with Celeste looking half dead. He flopped down on his seat and sighed as he put Celeste on the floor between him and Mark.

“Let me guess; no sleep?” Mark assumed

Jinyoung nodded his head, “I did everything I could think of yet nothing would make her stop, my mom had to step in and it turns out she just need to be held a certain way in order for her to stop. Like who designed these babies?” He groaned as laid his head on his desk.

As much as Mark wanted to laugh at Jinyoung he couldn’t help but feel back for the guy, “Why didn’t you call me?” Mark wondered, he was surprised that he didn’t call in order to bother him.

Jinyoung turned his head and stared at Mark with a vulnerable look, “I didn’t want to bother you, I assumed you had a lot of homework to make up from missing school so I thought I could spare you from Celeste crying.” He revealed. ‘You don’t know how badly I wanted to call you baby, our daughter was crying for you and I saw so desperate but I knew I couldn’t call you because I don’t want you think I can’t handle it.’

Mark felt his heart flutter, even if that statement was kinda strange since they don’t have an actual daughter and he isn’t his baby. It made Mark see that Jinyoung had his sweet moments, “Wow Jinyoung that really nice of you but I actually wasn’t all that busy last night. Besides even if I was I would happily put that aside to help you.” 

Jinyoung slowly lifted his head, “Really?”

“Yeah, we’re partners and this project is worth a lot so we can’t screw it up” Mark said awkwardly. “Next time just call me so we can do this right”

At that moment Jackson kicked his chair, ‘Dude seriously, the guy sacrificed sleep because he was worried about bothering you and you dare to friend-zone him?! When will you see that he's trying to gain your heart and your forgiveness.’

Mark turned his head to give Jackson a side-glare but he couldn’t help but wonder if he actually hurt the guy, ‘AHHH, Mark-hyung said we’re partners and he wants me to call him every night. Does that means he thinks of us as a couple?’

Mark hung his head, how delusional was this guy?