dedicated to shininxxx

"mark?" the canadian panted and looked at taeyong, who seemed worried. "you seem tired, take a rest."

mark shook his head immediately and stood up straight. "but there's still a lot that i'm not good at, hyung. i'm alright, don't mind me." mark waved his hand and walked to the laptop to turn the song on again.

taeyong frowned and quickly walked to his side and shut it off. mark sighed and looked at taeyong with a serious face but even with that, it was clear that he was tired. "hyung, i really need to practice."

"but we won't let you." yangyang spoke on english as him, johnny, yuta and the rest of the wayv members came into the practice room. xiaojun nodded and wrapped his arms around mark from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder.

mark groaned and glanced at johnny, who shook his head. "you haven't slept for almost 5 days now mark. let's take a rest, alright? hm?"

mark unconsciously pouted and turned around to nuzzle his head into the crook of xiaojun's neck. the chinese male froze, which cause some members to chuckle. "wanna see dream.." xiaojun frowned since he was still learning korean so he didn't understand mark's mumbled words. he looked at kun and saw him.holding his phone, writing the translated version of the sentence mark said. xiaojun nodded once he understood and gently hugged mark back.

"mark?" the canadian heard donghyuck's voice and pulled away to see the rest of the members, both 127 and dream.

mark walked up to donghyuck and hugged him, resting his head on the tanned male's shoulder. donghyuck furrowed his eyebrows at the sudden skinship but hugged back. "mark, you sick or something?"

"no, he's tired." taeyong said instead which made the canadian groaned and face the leader. "no, i'm not! you guys don't understand anything. how it feels like to be in almost more than 4 groups!"

by the end of his sentence, mark had tears forming in his eyes as he sniffled. "you don't know how hard it is, do you?" before anyone could say something, mark grabbed his bag and his phone and quickly ran out of the practice room, going straight to the 127 dorms.

mark slammed the dorm door opened and ran to his room, shutting the door and crawling into his bed, whimpering.

"assholes.." he muttered in english. mark closed his eyes and tried to sleep but kept thinking about the members. he groaned and sat up. he grabbed his phone and was about to call someone when a knock came from the door.

"mark, it's hyuck." the canadian didn't know what to say and laid back down, hugging his body. "the members are really worried right now, minhyung. please."

hearing him use his korean name, mark could sense that donghyuck was damn serious now. meanwhile outside his room, donghyuck patiently waited outside. he then heard a small voice speak up. "t-the door's open.."

donghyuck softly opened the door and closed it behind him. he gently made his way to the bed and sat down next to mark, who was facing his back towards the tanned male. donghyuck frowned and held mark's hand. "mark~ mark leee~" donghyuck poked mark's cheek, earning a whine from the older and slapping his hand away before sitting up straight. "hey!"

donghyuck chuckled at his reaction but his smile quickly went away when he saw mark tearing up again. donghyuck immediately brought him into a hug which mark gladly accepted. donghyuck stroked mark's soft hair as he rubbed his back in a soothing manner. "hyung, i know it's hard being in a lot of units and i know you wanna improve yourself but you don't have too. you're already improved."

mark sniffled and pulled away to face the tanned male. "really?" donghyuck nodded and gently pecked his cheek.

"now come on, we're gonna have a movie night with everyone."