❛ ᵀʰᵃᵗ'ˢ ᵉⁿᵒᵘᵍʰ. ᵂᵃⁱᵗ⁻ ᵃᶜᵗᵘᵃˡˡʸ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵍⁱᵛᵉ ᵐᵉ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢᶜᵒᵒᵖ ❜

August 30th 2019

Choa woke up to an aching headache and the loud pounding on the front door.

She groaned, pushing herself up from the, now messy, couch. Trailing to the door, opening it to see a sickenly bright smile.

"Wow did you die?" Kim quirked his eyebrow at her, chuckling at Choa's current state.

Choa rolled her eyes at him before focusing on Hangyu instead, flashing a tired smile "What brings you here this bright Saturday?"

"To hangout!" Hangyu cheered, "You said you wanted to"

"I mean, I did.." Choa sighed, upset that she still wouldn't be getting any alone time with him. But she didn't show this, well at least not enough for Hangyu to notice, instead she stepped out of the way to let them in.

"Let's go get ice cream or something after I change." Choa suggested, already heading towards her room.

"Yay!" Hangyu cheered, seemingly jumping and shifting between his feet in excitement.

"Okay Goldie, sit down." Kim pushed him towards the couch slightly. Hangyu complied after throwing a glare at Kim from the nickname. "Good boy"

Within 20 minutes, Choa was rushing them though the door to leave.

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"Hey!" Yoonha suddenly exclaimed, causing Jihoon to jump slightly, glancing up at her from his ice cream.

"Do you think we'll see Sam and Haejung?" She asked, speaking quietly now.

Jihoon shrugged, "Possibly, but it's likely they aren't going to this shop."

Yoonha nodded back, "I guess." She preceded to observe the people walking past the shop, stopping as her eyes stumbled across one particular person.

"Cat boy-" Yoonha's eyes widened at the familiar boy, tapping Jihoon on the shoulder for him to look.

Jihoon's eyes followed her gesture, seeing the boy walking three dogs. "Wait cat boy? But he's walking dogs..?"

"He looks like a cat." Yoonha explained quickly before heading over to the boy. "Changmin" She started softly, stopping him in his tracks.

Changmin almost jumped out of skin, his eyes only easing once he saw who was talking to him.

Yoonha smiled, kneeling down to pet his dogs. She cooed at them as she did so, throwing the mention of her own dog when she got to his samoyed, "He/she is a samoyed. I also have a Samoyed, her name is Cheonsa."

Changmin nodded, now at the same level as she was, petting Kyu. "His name is Boo, he's a samoyed as you said, and this is Kyu, an Australian Shepard. And lastly this is Mimho, he's a pomsky."

"They're all soo cute and fluffy." Yoonha cooed once more, "But I really should get back to my cousin before he becomes a turtle."

And yes, Jihoon was over there slowly sliding down in his chair as he continued eating.

"Ah okay" Changmin stood back up along with Yoonha, "Then I guess I'll get going."

Changmin said it slightly unsurely, to which Yoonha preceded to invite him to hang with them. "Hey, do you want to come sit with us? You can give me tips on taking care of dogs." She suggested.

Changmin hesitated, despite liking the idea, but in the end he responded with, "Um sure"

Yoonha brightly smiled, bringing him to their table.

Unlike Changmin's current comfortableness with Yoonha, he felt nervous due to Jihoon, someone he only talked to during the hat competition. While Jihoon was just glad Yoonha was back and didn't particularly make moves to talk to Changmin.

"Okay tips" Yoonha eagerly started a conversation with Changmin.

Not wanting to interrupt and not being able to contribute to the conversation, Jihoon started zoning out. Well, until someone collapsed onto his shoulders.

"Hoony~" Yiren rolled off his shoulders, laughing, "You're also getting ice cream. Guess it's good I decided to actually leave my house, hm?"

Jihoon rolled his eyes, "Sure." He replied, amused for the first time that day.

"Dressing fancy today huh?" Yiren's eyes traveled down his outfit, "But you look good, so I'm not complaining."

"I had a shoot today." Jihoon explained, his face returning to its normal serious look.

"Ooo Mr. Model had a shoot, fun" Yiren blink brightly, "You do know though, that you aren't in it right now and can actually smile right?"

"Nothing is fun enough to smile at"

Yiren gasped, leaning back, "I'm offended, but..." She leaned back into his face, using her fingers to force a smile out of him.

After she let go, his mouth returned to its previous state.

Yiren sighed, "You clearly need to go have some fun." She continued to pull him up from his seat and started pulling him away from the table after telling Yoonha that she'll bring him back.

"Well then-" Yoonha laughed as she watched the two go, turning back to Changmin, "Looks like I'll be here awhile."

Meanwhile, Junjie was a block away from the shop, heading towards it with his friend Chunhwa.

"You're going to pass out from heat stroke in that leather jacket." Chunhwa commented.

"I haven't yet, so I think it's fine." Junjie shrugged, despite being quite hot already he wasn't willing to take of the jacket. To one, ruin his barrier and two, show the bruises that currently adorned his arms.

Chunhwa rolled he eyes, "Drink some water." She shoved the bottle at his chest.

"T h a n k s" Junjie drew out, taking a drink from the bottle.

They continued walking until the ship came into sight.

At this point, Yoonha had spotted the pair, "Hey Changmin, it's Junjie and another one of his friends."

"You sure it's a friend?" Changmin question, watching the two walk close knitted.

Yoonha blinked at him, "I got it wrong last time, I'm not about to do that again."

"They're sharing a water bottle." A female voice cut in in a moderately mocking and moderately joking tone, "Indirect kiss."

The other two peered over their shoulders to meet the owner of the voice, Soonyi.

"Oh hi" Yoonha greeted, smiling sweetly. Changmin also gave Soonyi a single "hello"

"Anyway, they should start carrying white chocolate." Soonyi commented, flinging herself down in a chair.

"Ew" Changmin's face scrunched up.

Changmin and Soonyi went into a small debate over white chocolate while Junjie and Chunhwa finally made it over.

"Junjie, you are also getting ice cream?" Yoonha asked, as the two came closer to their table, making Junjie notice the group's existence. Actually, more just Yoonha's existence.

Junjie nodded at her, the shock and interest he felt not coming to his face, leaving it quite blank, "Yeah, I'm disappointed I didn't get it for free but.." He answered, comfortably, stopping completely at the table.

"I don't think you should of expected to win, you're hat wasn't that good." Yoonha commented without realizing the rudeness in her words. She did realize soon after though and quickly back tracked. "But- I mean... at least you looked good with the bucket hat on."

Junjie was close to smiling at the compliment, but instead one of the corners of his mouth simply twitched while the other went up, smirking, "You know what else looks good on me-"

To prevent him from making any inappropriate comments, Chunhwa ignored his almost smile and hit his shoulder to tell him off. "Stop that"

Junjie sent her a quick glare, before looking back to Yoonha to see if he was still able to make her flustered without finishing. However, he was only met with Yoonha now trying to stop Soonyi from hitting Changmin.

His heart, or his lips took a small dip, causing a slight frown settle on his lips.

"Oh?" Chunhwa raised her eyebrow at him, interested by the reaction shown, or the fact that he even showed some kind of care.

"Shut up." Junjie commanded, returning his face to normal as he began heading inside, "Let's get ice cream."

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"I should've believed you when you said they were demon spawns." Haejung slouched over as she walked with Jinwoo.

"Why would I lie?" Jinwoo shrugged.

"I guess." Haejung glanced at him from her position and at the sight of his perfect posture, she pushed herself right up. "Why don't you get a babysitter all the time or something? Hell, why do your parents always have you watch them?"

"I don't know, they just expect it from me, like it's an automatic role I have to take." Jinwoo didn't want to release to much of his feelings, feeling it wasn't right to fling his rants onto Haejung after knowing her for only 3 days. "I also don't really trust babysitters completely, especially when I can simply do it."

Haejung was calmly listening to him until she knew he was completely done. Which was when he glanced at her, "Ah, that sounds tough. I don't think your parents should just expect that, it doesn't seem to fair to you."

"Yeah," Jinwoo agreed.

The continued walking in comfortable silence until Haejung realized something, "Jinwoo?"

"Hm?" Jinwoo responded, meeting her eye as he did so.

"If you don't like babysitters, then why did we just drop them off at one?"

"People need breaks"

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Queuing back to the ice cream shop, the group had now acclaimed more people, seeing as Kim, Choa, and Hangyu joined.

Thirty minutes prior, the loud group had arrived, drawing all the other's attention.

Hangyu had bounced over happy to see the group, forcefully jumping onto Junjie's shoulders.

While he was then pushed off by Junjie himself, he was then crowded by Changmin's dogs.

Being caught off guard, he fell and the dogs jumped on him, licking his face all over.

"Ew! Get these disgusting dogs off me!" He shouted, outwardly showing his disgust, despite liking the love he was given by them. His slight fear was pushed forward in his head more.

"Disgusting?" Changmin scoffed, already over near the scene, "My dogs aren't disgusting."

"Oh no it's the white chocolate thing all over again." Yoonha muttered to herself at the scene.

"No I think this is worse." Soonyi commented, "He looks angrier."

"Yes they are" Hangyu said back in an angry child tone, the dogs now off his face.

"What? And your cats are much better?" Changmin couldn't believe this guy.

"My cats clean themselves, your dogs were probably just playing in mud!" Hangyu argued.

"At least my dogs don't walk on counters getting their pee and poop everywhere!" Changmin yelled, surprising everyone by his loudness.

Now off the ground, Hangyu pouted as he advanced towards Changmin.

One step. Two step. Three step.

The whole group, with the exception of Choa and Kim, thought Hangyu was going to hit him.

But they were simply left confused when Hangyu bent over, setting his face on Changmin's sweater covered shoulder and shaking his head like a dog, trying to remove the slobber.

Hangyu backed off after a few seconds, sighting Changmin's confused look as Hangyu puffed out his cheeks.

Once what happened completely set in, the rest of the group bursted out laughing. While Changmin blushed as his anger settled down and he noticed the eyes of all the others.

Embarrassed, Changmin took his dogs and stepped away, taking his previous seat.

The new group of three grabbed their own ice cream and seats, falling into random conversation with the rest of the group.

And for the rest of the hangout, Hangyu and Changmin flashed each other glares whenever they made eye contact. A few times, Hangyu looked at him when the other wasn't, calling the other boy cute due to his reactions in conversation.

At 2:00, almost exactly, Jinwoo and Haejung joined, make a smooth yet loud entry into the group.

A few more minutes passed when Samyeong showed, walking with Eunbi, who he met up with at the park down the street.

"Haejung!" Samyeong yelled into her ear, causing her to jump, "Ice cream, come on!"

Haejung jumped up, "Yes Yes!" Right before going she asked Jinwoo, "Want something?"

Jinwoo quirked his eyebrow, surprised because he somehow expected her to remember, "Lactose intolerant, remember?"

"I do." Haejung cracked a smile, "I just wanted to make sure you still wanted to miss the deliciousness."

"I'm good. Now go." Jinwoo told her, pushing her off.

Haejung rushed off with the other two and in a matter of time, they came out, ice cream in hand.

Junjie shook his head at Samyeong's two cones, but while looking, he finally noticed Eunbi, "Wait, why is Eunbi here?"

"Eunbi?"

Eyes flew to Eunbi, causing her to look down in fear.

Samyeong took into account Eunbi's actions as he flew his arm around he shoulders in a somewhat comforting way. "To hangout"

A number of okays came from the group and letting go of her shoulder, Samyeong sat down.

Eunbi hesitated shortly before taking a seat next to Samyeong.

The table preceded to dive right back into conversation.

Yet the conversations were once again halted by the return of Yiren and Jihoon.

"What did you guys go do?" Yoonha asked, everyone else also listening to find out.

"Ooo, we went and danced in some cafes and then Hoony took some pictures at the park." Yiren excitedly gushed about their activities.

"Yeah I got some really nice pictures." Jihoon said, less excitedly, while smiling at his camera.

"Well, Hoony, you're welcome!"

Jihoon looked up at her, the smile on his face until it moved into seriousness, "The dancing wasn't fun though."

Yiren frowned, "Okay, but say thank you still."

"Thank you"

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The time came, around 4 to be precise, where the group finally dispersed.

Haejung and Jinwoo having left first with this conversation.

"Hey, shouldn't we go get the kids?" Haejung asked.

Jinwoo glanced at his phone, calmly standing up at the sight, "Yeah."

"How did you guys already become a married couple with kids? Like how?" Junjie questioned.

The two made eye contact with each other before shrugging at basically the same time.

"Idk, but I'm tired, so we'll see you." Jinwoo answered, turning to leave.

"Bye!" Haejung called as she went to catch up with Jinwoo.

Next went Changmin, who needed to get his dogs home, sharing one last glare with Hangyu before leaving.

"Okay, now that he's gone," Hangyu started, smiling brightly, "He's cute."

The others looked at him like he was an alien, like he hadn't been glaring at him all night, and he just blinked at them, clueless.

"That's gay." Soonyi's tone came out layered with disgust and jealousy.

Which landed her with a look from Choa that made her beat herself up in her mind at her own gay thoughts.

"Yoonha, let's go." Jihoon whispered to Yoonha, his eyes slowly starting to droop.

"Okay." Yoonha whispered back, standing up afterwards, "We're going to get going."

Yiren jumped up at that, "Yeah me too, got to binge watch a show." She explained, before trailing behind the others.

"Hey! We should go get beef!" Hangyu exclaimed, bouncing in his seat.

An "I agree" came from Samyeong.

Eunbi agreed due to Samyeong's persuasion, Junjie agreed due to not wanting to go home, and Soonyi chose to leave since she had plans to eat with her mother already.

Therefore the group -Samyeong, Hangyu, Junjie, Eunbi, Choa, and Kim- went out to get beef.

Ending the night later with full, scarified stomachs.

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NEXT CHAPTER'S
SNEAK PEAK SENTENCE

"Hello mom."

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A/N

Okay, I'm posting this later than I was originally planning to, but technically it's still Sunday so... (it's 10:05 currently).

Also this is actually shorter than I wanted it. Yet by the end I didn't feel like adding more.

The activity check shall be posted in the next hour or so too.

Anyway, have a nice day/night!

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QOTC

What's your favorite ice cream flavor?

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