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16.pacing

Jaemin watched in the practice room mirror as jeno jogged out of the room the second Ten, the trainee teaching them had dismissed them.

Jaemins face turned into a confused one upon seeing this but shrugged absentmindedly, making his way towards his bag and slinging it over his shoulder.

Subconsciously he began walking back to his dorm, following the direction in which jeno went, seemingly forgetting about his planned lunch with mark.

Upon reaching the room, jaemin was quick to enter the already unlocked room. Jaemin didn't even get the chance to look to the direction of where jeno normally sat because said boy could be seen quite obviously pacing back and forth the small room.

Both hands tugged slightly on his chocolate, brown hair as he looked up at the ceiling not stopping his pacing from one wall to the other. He hadn't even seemed to notice the smaller boy enter the room as he mouthed words incoherently in deep thought.

Jaemins left eyebrow raised in confusion at the scene before him. He was quick to make his way over to the other boy, stopping in front of him to stop the boy's endless pacing.

Upon finally realising something had made him come to a halt, Jeno looked down, meeting eyes with his favourite pink haired boy.

"What's wrong?" Jaemin said looking up at the latter, his lips turning into a pout.

"I just can't stop thinking about what happened in the practice room" jeno huffed out clearly frustrated, his fingers pulling harder on his hair "I should've said more to that no life of a trainee. I cant believe I let him talk to you lik-"

Jenos rant was cut off quickly by jaemin letting out a small sigh "hey, you shouldn't feel like this is your fault" the boy said sympathetically, reaching up to jeno's hair and softly grabbing his hands to stop him from hurting himself further.
"I should have followed the steps correctly, you shouldn't have had to stick up for me at all."

At this point jeno's hands had completely let go of his hair, via the help of jaemin, and were safely in the grasps of the pink haired boy. Jaemin subconsciously swung their arms slowly in an effort to calm jeno down.

"Even though you made a mistake he shouldn't have talked down to you like that" jeno spoke again, still clearly annoyed "I should've helped you more, I should've been there for you more jaemin."

Jaemin let out a short giggle as jeno whined the last part of his sentence, gripping onto the now  pouty boy's hands a little tighter "you were there for me you potato, I'm grateful for how you spoke up when you saw I was getting uncomfortable."

Jeno let out a soft grunt, his once raging eyes, softening as he saw the smile of the smaller boy.

"And I'm proud of you for not lashing out on that guy" jaemin, now looking down at their connected, swinging hands, looked up to continue "no matter how much that doof deserved it."

Jeno let out a small smile at this, swinging their connected hands slightly higher than the soft pattern they were previously doing to make the latter giggle once more.

After all, jaemin's giggle was his favourite noise.