Request by: maybe_a_bit_mad

I think i changed this a little bit but i hope you still like it!

POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING: Yelling, Scolding, Name-Calling

The dreamies had been extremely busy all week, nonstop scheduling, filming, all the stuff that stresses them out.

They finally had a few days off and the dreamies were relaxing in the living room happy to finally not have work.

Jisung and haechan were playing a video game on the tv while Renjun read a book and nomin sat cuddled up in the recliner watching jeno's phone as he scrolled through tiktok.

Mark was sitting on the couch resting his eyes as he listened to the sounds of the video game.

Chenle suddenly came into the living room and sat next to mark on the couch.

"morning hyung." He smiled.

"morning chenle, you sleep well?" mark asked.

"yeah, pretty well, how about you?" chenle asked softly.

"eh, alright I guess, I was finishing some work up last night, so I didn't get a lot of sleep."

Chenle smiled softly and snuggled up to mark laying his head on mark's shoulder.

"you work so hard hyung, you're supposed to be on a break."

Mark giggled slightly at chenle.

"alright, alright, that's enough chenle." He said as he pushed chenle off of him.

Chenle whined immediately going back to mark's arm.

Mark shrugged him off again feeling a little annoyed.

"come on chenle, quit touching me." mark said a little more serious than before.

Chenle scooted away feeling a little hurt. he looked down with his hands folded in his lap.

"s.. sorry hyung." He said before he got off the couch and left the living room.

"mark, don't you think you were a little harsh?" haechan asked from the floor.

"yeah, hyung he seems upset now." Jaemin chimed in.

"he's fine, he's being childish on purpose." Mark said crossing his arms over his chest and closing his eyes.

Jisung looked at Renjun and Renjun nodded indicating he agreed with the others.

It had been a few hours and the dreamies decided they wanted to go out to eat. Chenle hadn't returned to the living room so haechan went to his room to get him.

"chenle, we wanna go get something to eat do you wanna come?" haechan called through the door.

"no, I'm okay hyung thanks..."

Haechan raised his brow at chenle's tone.

"hey le? Can I come in?"

"sure."

Haechan opened the door and saw chenle laying on his bed on his stomach scrolling through Instagram with a sad expression on his face.

"hey, what's going on, why don't you wanna go?"

Chenle sighed continuing to scroll through Instagram.

"I'm just, I'm not in the mood to go out today."

"is something wrong lele? You know you can talk to me." haechan said softly.

"I'm fine hyung."

He was very clearly lying and haechan instantly thought back to incident that occurred with mark earlier.

"okay lele, we'll bring you back some food okay?"

"mmhhm, thanks hyung."

Haechan sighed before leaving chenle's room.

"is he coming?" Renjun asked as he buttoned up his coat.

"no, he says he doesn't wanna go out."

Mark scoffed.

"of course he doesn't."

"what's that supposed to mean?" haechan asked the oldest.

"he's just being a brat today, acting like a child."

"hyung, maybe lele just wants to stay home, there's no need to call him names." Jeno said.

"no, he's doing this on purpose. I'm gonna talk to him." mark said before he left down the hall.

He opened chenle's door and looked angry.

"oh! H.. hyung?"

"what's your deal today huh? Why are you acting like a spoiled brat? I understand you're tired but acting like a child isn't making anyone feel bad for you."

Chenle was in shock. Why was mark so mad at him? why was he talking to him like this?

"hyung I didn't-

"don't give me your excuses chenle. We wanted to do something nice by going out after a busy week and your too selfish to come...just do whatever you want chenle, we're leaving."

With that, mark stormed out of chenle's room slamming the door.

Chenle was absolutely gob smacked hearing the venomous words from his leader.

He didn't mean to come off as bratty, he just really wanted some affection from the oldest, usually a simple hug or cuddle wouldn't upset mark so much, but he seemed very irritable today.

Chenle couldn't help but feel hurt, feeling like a child who just got scolded, he didn't think he did anything to earn such an angry reaction and such hurtful words from the oldest.

He curled up on his bed feeling a lump form in his throat.

Mark re-entered the doorway and pulled on his shoes.

"why the hell did you yell at him hyung?" haechan asked genuinely in shock.

"if he wants to act like a child, I'll treat him like one. Come on, let's go."

The dreamies were a little irritated with the way mark was handling this. Chenle didn't deserve to be yelled at like that and they had no idea why mark was in such a bad mood.

On the ride to the restaurant haechan was still very annoyed at the leader.

"did you seriously have to scold him like that? He didn't even do anything."

The energy in the car was now very negative and none of the members really wanted to go out anymore.

"I'm sorry that you disagree with my leader strategies hyuck but I'm not gonna let you guys act like entitled brats."

Haechan was furious and now Renjun even stepped in.

"hyung you are overreacting. We know you're stressed but you can't treat chenle like that over a hug!"

Jisung was uncomfortable as they raised their voices at each other, jeno held his hand and softly reassured him everything was okay while jaemin chimed in.

"hey, all three of you need to chill the fuck out. You're upsetting sungie and frankly ruining everyone's moods."

They all got quiet for a second, mark's hands tight around the steering wheel.

"let's just get takeout and go home." Renjun said as he scoffed sitting back in his seat.

"fine." Mark said before he turned out of the parking lot and drove through the drive through.

They were silent on the car ride home and the walk up to the dorms.

Once they entered the dorms, haechan was the first to hear the noise coming from chenle's room.

"I swear to god mark, if you made chenle cry i'm gonna beat your ass." Haechan said sourly as he quickly kicked off his shoes and rushed down the hall to chenle's room.

He knocked softly; his ear pressed to the door hearing the unmistakable sound of chenle crying.

"lele? Buddy it's haechan, can I please come in?"

It took a few seconds, but the door opened revealing a teary eyes chenle.

Haechan rushed in and shut the door before sitting down with chenle on his bed.

"lele, talk to me honey." Haechan said softly as he rubbed chenle's thigh.

Chenle bit his lip fighting more tears.

"i...I just...I don't want mark-hyung to be m...mad at me..." he whimpered.

Haechan wanted to punch mark.

"sweetheart mark isn't mad at you." haechan reassured.

"but...but he yelled at me hyung, he called me a brat...he said I was being...selfish..."

"aish I'm gonna kill him." haechan mumbled under his breath before turning back to chenle.

"lele, I'm sorry mark treated you that way, I think he's dealing with some stress and it's causing him to be moody...still, that doesn't make it okay for him to talk to you like that."

"i.. i just wanted to hug him hyung...I didn't mean to upset him."

"oh lele, I'm sorry, I'm gonna tell mark to come talk to you okay? He needs to apologize for being such an asshole to you."

Chenle just slowly nodded trying to wipe his cheeks.

"aish, come here lele." Haechan whispered taking the younger into his arms and rubbing his back softly. He could physically feel chenle's desperation for affection as he wrapped him up. the poor boy was so touch starved and all he wanted was some cuddles from his hyung.

They broke apart and haechan stormed out of chenle's room and up to mark.

"fix this. Fix this right now or so help me mark lee."

"what?" mark said in shock at hyuck's tone.

"you were completely out of line today talking to chenle like that and you made him cry."

Mark's eyes went wide.

"he...he was crying?" his anger immediately disappeared.

"still is. You know what the most fucked up part is? He's not just crying cuz you screamed at him, he said he felt bad for upsetting you. he doesn't want you to be mad at him."

Mark felt like he'd been kicked in the stomach. A sudden wave of realization washing over him as he thought over his actions.

"oh my god, I was such a dick."

"yeah, yeah you were. Now go fix it."

Mark nodded and rushed off to chenle's room hoping to god he had stopped crying so he wouldn't have to see all the damage he caused.

When he walked in he startled the Chinese boy. He wiped his cheeks quickly and stood up as if a drill sergeant had walked in. he stood in front of mark and forced his tears away afraid mark would yell at him again.

Mark's heart absolutely broke and he felt like the worst person ever.

"lele sit down please." Mark's voice was soft and gentle.

Chenle did avoiding mark's eyes as he joined him on the bed.

"hyung...hyung I'm sorry for upsetting you earlier I just-

"chenle stop."

He quickly shut his mouth and looked down at his hands

"god, chenle I am so sorry for treating you like that...i...I was a terrible hyung and I should have never spoken to you like that."

Chenle was surprised to hear the apology from the oldest. He looked up still a little hesitant but saw regret in mark's eyes.

"it...it's okay...it was my fault."

"no chenle, you didn't do anything wrong, and hyung feels absolutely terrible for acting like that. I'm sorry for pushing you away this morning and I'm sorry for screaming at you and acting like such a jerk, I've been stressed out and I took it out on you and that's not okay. I'm sorry chenle."

Chenle sniffled looking shyly up at mark.

"that's okay hyung, i...I understand."

"I promise to never treat you like that ever again, I'll do better and be a better hyung."

Chenle nodded softly.

Mark sighed his chest aching as he yearned to grab chenle and hug him tightly.

"lele?"

"hm?"

"can I hug you?"

Chenle looked up at mark and nodded as the one thing he wanted was finally happening.

Mark quickly lunged forward and took chenle in his arms, one hand on his back, the other laced through chenle's hair.

Chenle snuggled into mark's chest and began to softly cry feeling an overwhelming rush of emotions and relief.

Mark felt awful and he felt his shirt become damp with the younger's tears.

"shhhh, shhhh, lele don't cry...god hyung is so sorry for hurting you." mark softly rocked chenle in his arms.

"I'm sorry hyung...I just...all I've wanted all day was a hug...and i...I'm happy you aren't mad at me anymore."

Mark cursed at himself in his head and squeezed chenle tighter.

"I promise you lele, whenever you want a hug you can come to me, I'll never push you away again."

"thank you hyung..."

"aish chenle don't thank me, Hyung's been so awful to you."

"you were stressed, I understand hyung."

"I love you chenle, and I'll never scream at you ever again."

"I love you too hyung." Chenle snuggled further into mark as he physically relaxed in his hold.

"do you wanna come eat lele?" mark asked after a while.

Chenle nodded wiping his eyes.

"come on, you can pick the movie okay?"

Chenle smiled softly and let mark lead him out to the living room where everyone was waiting.

They ate together happily and watched one of chenle's favorite movies.

When everyone went to bed mark was cleaning up in the kitchen.

Suddenly, he felt arms around his waist. He looked over to see haechan which surprised him since he thought the younger wanted to kill him.

"hyuck? i...I thought you were mad at me?"

Haechan turned mark around to face him.

"I was, I was really mad at you, but I know you didn't mean it hyung. I know how busy you've been, I know how much work you've had to do lately, and I know that sometimes its too much. I just want you to talk about it next time okay? Cuz when it builds up, stuff like this happens."

Mark nodded softly looking down at the tiled floor beneath them.

"hey, it's okay now yeah? Don't be upset let's just, hit the reset button okay? Chenle's forgiven you, we can start fresh tomorrow yeah?" haechan brushed a piece of mark's hair out of his face.

Mark nodded softly.

"I'm sorry hyuck, thank you for keeping me in line and scolding me earlier...sometimes I think maybe you should be the leader..."

"yah, mark I would be a terrible leader. And just because you made a mistake today doesn't make you a bad leader or a bad hyung okay? We all make mistakes, we all do things we regret, and we all get past them."

"thanks hyuck."

Haechan ruffled mark's hair and smiled bringing him into another hug rubbing his back softly.

"everything's alright now. Let's go to bed and start new tomorrow okay?"

Mark nodded hugging haechan back.

They broke apart and mark felt a little better.

"go to sleep, no late-night projects okay?"

"okay hyuck."

"I mean it mark lee." Haechan pointed up him with a serious expression.

"I promise hyuck, I'll go straight to sleep."

"good. Sweet dreams mark, I'll see you in the morning okay?"

"okay, goodnight hyuckie."

"love you dork." Haechan teased.

"love you too."

With that, they separated going to their own rooms and going to sleep.