A normal First-day morning, just like any other first day; Mark got up, switching his alarm clock off as he groaned, looking at the dawn-blue sky, then at the clock reading "6:30 am"
"shit!" Mark gasps, jumping up out of bed. Third day in a row that he slept through his alarm ringing. He ran over to his dresser and pulled out a random pair of jeans and a t-shirt. He made sure he grabbed the grey beanie to place over his messy blonde curls and then ran to the bathroom.
He grabbed the electric tooth brush, squeezing some toothpaste onto it, flipping it on and shoving it in his mouth as he ran back to his bedroom. He slipped on his shoes and a black Hollister hoodie, grabbing his backpack slinging it on his shoulders and ran back to the bathroom to rinse the toothpaste from his mouth before darting out towards the bus stop.
His friends stood out at the same stop, laughing as he stumbled up.
"late already?" Jisung asks, nudging his older friend. Mark rolls his eyes as he nudges Jisung back, a little rougher.
"No. I managed to sleep through my alarm again." Mark sighs in reply.
"you just fall apart without me huh?" Mark turned towards the source of the voice, to find Addie standing behind him with her arms crossed over her chest."
"Hah, well not all of us can go to Hawaii for summer vacation," Mark scoffs jokingly, nudging Addie's shoulder.
Jaemin gags loudly and steps between them, rolling his eyes. "Okay- you two have to get together soon, it's almost painful to watch! You have no idea what you two sound like." Jaemin rants
"Oh mark~! You're /SO/ funny! Hawhawhaw~ like you're so cute and I admire you but I'm not gonna tell you!" Jeno mocks, hanging all over Jaemin.
"I know and I totally don't have the pair to ask you out because I like you too.~!" Jaemin mocks back.
Addie and Mark stand there looking less than amused, their attention going to the bus that pulls up, Chenle is pressing his face against the window, and Haechan is pissing Renjun and Herin off.
"Oh I missed you losers." Jisung says as they get on the bus. Jisung takes his usual spot next to Chenle and sighs.
"Why do Mark and Addie look like they're going to freshly murder Jeno and Jaemin…?" Chenle asks, referring to the hard-yet-friendly shove Mark gave Jeno and Jaemin as they got on.
"Oh you know, just those two being TOTALLY IN LOVE But being in denial about it." Jisung says, dodging a flying orange slice from Addie.
"HAH YA MISSED." Jisung says triumphantly.
His triumph is cut short when a grape smacks him in the eye, Mark grinning evilly.
"Wow, I feel so damn attacked right now…" Jisung says in mock-hurt.
Mark shrugs before stealing a peach slice from Addie's bag of Orange and Peach slices, popping the sweet fruit into his mouth as they pull up to the next stop. Johnny and Taeyong get on the bus and Mark laughs.
"Hate to break it to you guys, but the college campus is downtown…" Mark says as Johnny smushes Mark and Addie together as he sits.
"Hey, Johnny-Boy, I have lungs that I'd like to keep in tact- but it's kinda hard when I have your Godzilla looking ass smashing my best friend flat against me like a human waffle iron." Addie says dryly, shoving back on Mark, which pushes Johnny into the aisle.
"Yeah, why are you losers here anyway?" Haechan asks sassily, causing Taeyong to glare. "Well we were going to wish you all good luck without us to save your sorry baby asses but fuck that now, I hope you get detention on the first day, Bratchan."
"Everyone is so moody today, how about we not verbally assault eachother and just enjoy the one true last bus ride with Taeyong and Johnny Hyung?" Renjun suggests.
"Johnny tried asphyxiating me with my best friend- its fucking war now." Addie says as she munches on another peach slice.
"Oh chill, you liked it, and I did no such thing."
Johnny denies, getting back up to sit with Jisung and Chenle this time.
"Cool, didn't need my lungs either. Nope. I don't breathe, I'm so not human." Chenle says as he rolls his eyes, Jeno stands up and turns to Chenle and pats his shoulder.
"Sshh, we already knew that. No newsflash here, kiddo." Jeno laughs, watching Chenle send daggers.
The bus had pulled up to James Ford Rhodes High School. Jisung laughs as he sees the other hyungs and noonas standing outside the front of the school.
They got off and hugged everyone, Doyoung smiling happily.
"I feel so weird being here without my backpack…" Doyoung trails looking at the old building.
"It felt weird being on that bus without a backpack, shit." Taeyong says with a laugh. Cheyenne rolls her eyes playfully and gives him a playful shove.
"Okay but when did you ever bring your backpack to school?" She asks, raising an eyebrow. Taeyong places his hand over his chest in mock offense, gasping fakley.
"I brought my backpack...not everyda-…"
Haechan cuts him off with a snort, not even looking up from his phone.
"You'd bring it the first month of school, then it would disappear for god knows how long, re-appear for a week and then go missing yet again until the end of the year."
Taeyong clenches his teeth in a false smile, speaking through his clenched teeth.
"I'm gonna suffocate him."
Cheyenne pats his shoulder and diverts him from going at Haechan, "no, you're not." She says sternly.
Haechan laughs and crosses his arms;
"Yeah Taeyong- listen to your girlfriend."
Cheyenne's glare snaps over to Haechan and she removes her arm from across Taeyong's chest.
"Knock him out, Tae." She says crossing her arms.
Now, had Mr,Buchanan not have walked by- Haechan would be Deadchan. But he was thanking god for the literature teacher's presence.
"Mr. Lee, now correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe you and this lot here graduated last year…" Mr. Buchanan says with false thought.
Jenna stepped up from behind Johnny and gave that oh-so-charming, signature Jenna Benson, Get-Out-of-Jail-Free smile.
"Well Mr Buchanan! My favorite Lit teacher, have I ever told you that-.."
"If you make a "my literature class is Lit" pun, I will file a restraining order on you…" Mr Buchanan challenges sipping his coffee.
"Well someone needs some fiber in their diet." She huffs, leaning against Johnny. "I'll have you know, I have plenty of fiber in my diet! I have never been so offended in the entirety of my life!" The teacher says straightening his tie.
"Really, because I'm surprised the insults about those weird-ass ties haven't done the deed yet…" Yuta says under his breath.
"Can we stop giving Mr. Buchanan permission and reasons to make our lives hell? You forget that some of us have him this year!" Jeno says with exasperation.
"Too late, laddie. You're mine this year. Welcome to my nightmare." Mr. Buchanan says.
He walks off and Jeno whirls around and glares at Yuta, Jenna, Taeyong and Johnny.
"The amount of hate I feel for you four is unreal, I could kill you, bury you in Lake Erie, scuba dive for your remains, dig you up, and kill you again."
Jeno rambles.
"Dude that seems like a tedious amount of steps, just keep them in a cage and poke-torture them and dangle a steak in front of their faces." Renjun shrugs.
Jenna's mouth hangs open and Johnny backs away from Renjun.
"I see someone has been researching torture methods this summer, and to be blunt; I'm frightened." Taeyong trails.
"That's right; be scared, we aren't the little cupcakes anymore." Herin says with a wicked grin.
"On that note, I think we should head back to campus since classes start soon- well at least mine do." Taeyong says.
They hug eachother and split ways, both groups ready for their first days.
CSU Campus
Taeyong and Cheyenne had started walking to their art class, both of them curious to how this would go down, but Taeyong has something else on his mind and he stopped mid step, causing Cheyenne to stop also.
"Oh come on, you little frady cat, I'm sure its not that bad…" Cheyenne says, grabbing his wrist as she tries to pull him along.
"Um, it's not the first-day-nerves getting to me, actually. I actually want to, um…ask you something…ask you out I mean….i dunno if I'm being super creepy please te-.."
Cheyenne clamps a hand over Taeyong's mouth and looks him dead in the eyes. "Are you going to let me answer or nah?"
"Gho phor wit." Taeyong says, the words "go for it" muffled by Cheyenne's hand.
"Yes, I'd love to go out on a date with you, Tae. When and where?"
she uncovers his mouth and he smiles, "House Of Blues? Annddd maybe a bowl of noodles at NoodleCat and then I dunno, anything really.." he trails. "As of when…this Friday? I think theres a poets show going on at HOB, so we can go see that if you'd like?"
Cheyenne smiles and ruffles Taeyong's fluffy dark hair, "sounds like a plan."
They walk into their class, sit down and pay attention to their first lesson their first day was already off to a great start.
Back at the High School, Mark and Addie sat in their second period- which had to be math of all things. To be bluntly honest: Mark and Addie weren't even paying attention to the already sprung-on lesson. They were just passing notes, plotting on a perfect time to leave that hell-house classroom.
"I say when she turns around to write more notes, we just silently sneak out the back classroom door, it's literally four feet away from us." Mark whispers.
Addie nods and they silently grab their belongings, when their teacher's back is turned, they sneak out the back classroom door. They power walk down the hallway until they reach a door. They open it and get out, propping the door open with a pen before going down Biddulph Road to "Biddulph Beverage Store". They share headphones as they walk, playing whatever music pops up in Mark's shuffle on his phone. Right about now, Mark had been wishing he chose shorts instead of jeans.
"Why the fuck does it have to be 85?! Can't it be like…fall yet?" Mark whines, tugging on his shirt to fan himself. Addie snorts looking him up and down;
"And your dumbass wore jeans!" She laughs. Mark stares blankly at her before making a sarcastic face.
"Yeah, rub it in while I sweat to death." He huffs. They reach the beverage store and go in, mark sighs in relief when the cool air hits his skin. They grab their usual, some Rebull and a bag of whatever snack they choose that day- today it was Doritos.
"Okay, so…are we skipping the whole day or up until second period ends?" Addie asks, as they pay.
"Just second period for today- hey do you work tonight?" Mark asks as they head back.
"Yeah, 5:00-close, you?" She asks.
Mark laughs looking up the schedule on his phone.
"I think Sharon likes pairing us together."
Mark says.
"Well we actually get shit cleaned up when we work till close." Addie laughs
They continue walking and get back to the school, someone had taken the pen, and they were screwed, until Haechan walked past.
Mark kicks the door and motions for Haechan to let him in, but Haechan wouldn't be Haechan of he didn't make his best friend's life miserable sometimes. Haechan holds up the bathroom pass, and then points to the direction of the classroom, waving. Haechan stops and pulls out the pen Mark used to prop the door and mouths "thanks for the pen, pal!"
Mark growls and kicks the door again, shouting so Haechan can hear him through the glass.
"I swear to god Hae, if you don't open this door I will shred you in P.E!" Mark shouts.
Haechan laughs and takes out his phone texting Mark:
[Haechan]
"promises, promises. Bye!😅 "
Haechan walks away and Mark growls, texting Jeno in hopes that Jeno isn't feeling bitchy too.
[Mork~]
"Jeno, is your second period class in the back of the building by any chance? Bratchan stole the pen we used to prop the door."
[Jenope]
"Hmmm I have physics back here, and I do have to pee…but…I could just use the bathroom right across from Mr. Lewton's room…or I could use the one by the back door…hmmm."
[Mork]
"you can walk to work then "
[Jenope]
"Wow no need to be a dick about it sheesh, I'm coming I'm coming…"
Jeno successfully gets the bathroom pass and jogs down to the back door, opening it for Mark and Addie.
"Oh sweet, sweet air conditioning!" Mark whispers. Jeno rolls his eyes and shakes his head as he heads to the bathroom. "You two are gonna get busted one day, and I'm gonna laugh."
Mark and Addie shake their heads and Walk to the direction of their next class, soon finishing up their day and heading to work.
Jaehyun, Jenna, Johnny are also working that night and Cheyenne and Taeyong decide to pop in and surprise their miserable, hungry friends.
They walk into Best Buy and Find Mark, Addie and Jaehyun talking, working the registers. Jaehyun notices them and holds up the scanner.
"You two lovieduddles better buy something." Jaehyun says.
Taeyong blinks, picking up a piece of gum and places it to Jaehyuns scanner and hands him the $1.25.
Mark's jaw drops and he comes over to Jaehyun and stares at Cheyenne and Taeyong. "Did you seriously just come into Best Buy to buy a pack of fuckin bubblegum?! NO go buy a Tv and then come back!"
"We're not buying a TV, Mark." Cheyenne says crossing her arms.
"The fuck you're not! We have a nice selection, I'm sure you'll find something!" Jaehyun says. Johnny comes up to the front; pushing Jenna in a shopping cart and Addie face palms.
"What the hell are you two doing?" She asks.
"Making work fun, why is Jae yelling at Mom and Dad?" Johnny asks, making the two blush.
"Mr and Mrs Smith here, bought a pack of fuckin bubble gum at Best buy! BEST BUY, who buys gum at BEST BUY?! What do we look like Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory? Go but a TV! Nothing under $2,000!" Jaehyun rants.
"well, we were here to see if you guys wanted food during your break, but since we have to buy a TV I guess you can starve." Cheyenne tests, cocking an eyebrow challengingly.
"Jae, if you ruin free food for me I might be forced to ruin your pretty face." Jenna warns.
"Agreed." Johnny pipes in.
Taeyong and Cheyenne look at Mark and Addie who stand there staring with that signature "forgive-me-I'm-fuckin-adorable" face.
"Nooonnaaa~ you and Taeyongie Hyung look sooooo prettyy todayyy~~" Mark sings batting his eyelashes.
"Ah ha ha, I see what you're doing and it's not working!" Taeyong lies.
"It's working." Cheyenne says, exposing Taeyong's weakness.
"Yep. It's working." Taeyong confirms, scratching the back of his neck. They look at Johnny who's also trying to sucker them in with cuteness, Taeyong groans and turns to Cheyenne. "Please, please push me in front of the next 51 that passes this place!?"
"Listen here, if i have to suffer, you suffer with me." Cheyenne says making Taeyong groan. "But….but…."
"Yes Tae, we know you have a thing for her ass, wanna put it on a billboard too? Mark says. Taeyong sticks his tongue in his cheek nodding.
"Yup, get your own food." Taeyong says turning around to walk out. Jaehyun jumps over the counter and blocks Taeyong.
"GO BUY THE TV!" Jaehyun shouts. Taeyong places his hands on Jaehyun's shoulders and moves Jaehyun off to the side.
"Fuck your TV's I'm going to HHGregg." Taeyong says. He starts walking until Mark runs up trips him slightly.
"You are really pressing my patience." Mark huffs.
"Jesus if we buy a pair of headphones will you shut your asses up?" Cheyenne asks.
Johnny cuts Mark and Jaehyun off before they can even speak: "yes, and to make sure, I'll check you two out."
Mark shakes his head in mock betrayal, pointing to Johnny, "you are a part of the rebel alliance and a traitor, take him away!" Mark says. Addie comes up and grabs his ear, avoiding any of the piercings. "Come on Darth Dork, we have to go take over Johnny and Jenna's job since they took ours. Yay. Stocking."
"Have fuuunn!" Jenna says with a smug smile.
Mark and Addie ignore Jenna and walk off to finish the work, Johnny was ringing Taeyong and Cheyenne out.
"Sorry we made you a traitor." Cheyenne says. Johnny shrugs and takes the money Taeyong handed him, putting it in the register. "Eh, whats the worst those two can do? Im not scared of Jaehyun, and Jenna is on my side so- the worst thing that would happen is I get paint balloons on my way home." Johnny explains.
"Ooh, thanks for the idea, Johnny-boy!" Jaehyun says as he shuts his register down.
"Unfortunately, I have to ask you two to scidaddle- it's time to start closing everything down." Johnny days apologetically.
"You Jenna and the storm troopers come meet us at Common Grounds, we'll bring pizza." Cheyenne says as they begin walking out of the store.
"Will do, mom. See you two soon!" Johnny says. Jenna hooks her arms around Johnny's waist and leans her head against his back.
"How much do you wanna bet they'll be dating by halloween?"
"Not my paycheck because I'm not losing that." Johnny says, bringing Jenna around to kiss her forehead.
"Eew get a room or a dungeon or something." Mark says bringing some empty carts up. Johnny flips him off and laughs.
"I could say so many things right now, but you're pissy enough today." Johnny says. Mark glares and steps up to his older friend.
"What were you gonna imply? Hmm?" Mark asks. Jaehyun laughs loudly, causing Addie to glare when she comes up from the front.
"He's implying that you two kinda have a thing for eachother, and it's painfully obvious…so you two get a room."
"We have one; its called hell, it's where we were spawned." Addie says.
"Yeah, no fucking shit." Jaehyun laughs, avoiding a death-glare from Mark. Jenna sighs as she sits on the counter in johnny's lane.
"Can we hurry it up? I want coffee." Jenna whines, swaying her feet. Johnny shuts down his register and sighs. "Now we just have to wait for exactly 9:30 to hit." Jaehyun says looking at his phone.
"What time is it now…?" Jenna asks
"9:40" jaehyun replies plainly.
Jenna groans and leans back against Johnny, who had gotten up behind her at some point. "Baby, shoot me…I wanna get out of here." She says.
"Shoot you, I wont, kiss you- I shall." Johnny says pecking her lips real quick. "You know, there's a hotel downtown- you two can GET A FUCKING ROOM and make your babies there." Jaehyun says smirking when Jenna flushes pink.
Mark sighs and looks at his phone. "Can't you go any faster?"
"Don't worry, only ten minutes left." Addie says patting Mark's back.
Those ten minutes pass in a painfully slow drag, but soon enough 10:00 hits and they can actually clock out. Jaehyun sighs digging his keys out of his backpack as they exit the back of the store.
"I suppose you all need a ride?" Jaehyun asks.
Johnny dangles his keys and presses the unlock button. His dad's truck flashing the headlights. "Mom gave me the beast, she got a new beast. So this is now my beast. Its my child, I named him Johnny the second."
Mark blinks in disbelief, exchanging glances with Addie. "Maybe we should take the bus…" he trails. Jaehyun playfully smacks mark on the back of the head, "what, do you not trust my driving?" Jaehyun asks crossing his arms.
"I just don't trust that you won't dump us off a bridge…so…there's that, and there we go-…"
Mark's sentence is cut off by Jaehyun pushing him into his jeep, he looks at Addie, matching up her bitchface. "Sweetheart, if you think I wont pick your salty ass up and put you in this car too, you have a whole nother thing coming." Jaehyun warns.
"You're lucky I have a friendship agreement with mark, rule 4-if one of us gets snatched by you guys, the other follows sacrificially." Addie says.
"Okay Miss Cynical, get in the jeep." Jaehyun sighs, rubbing his temples, he pauses and then looks at Johnny. "Hold the freakin phone- why can't you take Mr&Mrs Sarcasm?" He asks
"Because no one gets in my beast except for me." Johnny says, with an "innocent" smile.
"Then why is Jenna getting to ride in your beast?" Jaehyun asks, leaning against his own vehicle.
"Hah, because she's my girlfriend, she can ride in my beast anytime." Johnny says, laughing. Jaehyun shakes his head, his face cringed in disgust.
"I really could have gone the rest of my life without hearing that." Jaehyun groans getting in.
"You're wellcommee!" Johnny sings closing his door.
Johnny, Jenna, Jaehyun, Mark and Addie walk in through the back of Common grounds, seating themselves at the booth on the right wall by the window. Cheyenne and Taeyong already sitting at the bar-height table, Taeyong casually spinning side to side on the bar-stool.
"Took you guys long enough." Ten says from his spot on the booth. Jaehyun laughs, pointing to Mark and Addie,
"Yeah only because these two gave us grief." Jaehyun says, earning a sigh from Mark.
"We did not give you grief you guys were just being weird and we wanted to walk." Mark says shrugging.
"I hope you have money to buy your own coffee because fuck you I ain't buying your salty ass shit now." Jaehyun says.
"Hmm in case you forgot- Best Buy pays us too." Addie says waving the $20 in Jaehyun's face.
"Still angsty teens today?" Cheyenne asks, sipping her coffee.
"Noona, i think they're just tired." Renjun says from his spot next to Herin.
Cheyenne nods and she and Taeyong watch them buy their coffee, before they come and sit down.
"So did everyone have a good first day?" Johnny asks.
Haechan smirks, looking over at Mark and Addie who glare at him, then he looks to Taeyong and Cheyenne, who's curiosity has been peaked.
"Whats the smirk for, Hae? Do you know something we don't?" Cheyenne asks crossing her arms as she stares Mark dead in the eyes.
"Cheyenne he's gonna feed you a big fork full of bullshit-…" haechan cuts mark off by shoving a whole muffin half in his mouth.
"The badasses over here skipped math, I took their pen and locked them out." Haechan says, his tone carrying a vast amount of pride, his smile was smug. Meanwhile Mark looked like he was gonna kill Haechan after he was done begging Taeyong to spare his life.
"I thought uh, we were um- y'know- done skipping classes?" Taeyong asks.
"In our defense we got our work done…" Addie pipes in, earning a glare from Cheyenne.
"still- you almost got held back last year for skipping so much…" she starts, her tone firm.
"Again, in our defense we aren't gonna skip that much this year- we promise." Mark says.
Taeyong and Cheyenne narrow their eyes at the two High school seniors who shrink in their gaze.
"Okay okay- I think they get the message, lets lay off tonight?" Johnny says trying to change the subject. Jenna rests her head on his shoulder and he gives a soft smile.
"I say we get some food because Im starving. I think my stomach is eating itself." Jenna says with a slight yawn.
Cheyenne laughs lightly, then looks over to Herin noticing she's a little quieter than normal, "Herin, you alright?" She asks gently.
It takes a few minutes but she finally answers with a nod.
"Yeah, the school just decided to switch two of my classes to honor classes today and it's kind of weird." Herin replies still seeming a little out of it.
"Thats why they pulled you out of Trig? To put you in honors Trig? I was excited to finally have a math class with you!" Renjun says with a small pout
"yup I got is a spawn of the devil himself. I have three pages of math I need to get done tonight." Herin says giving a slight frown.
"Hey what teacher do you have? If I had him I could give you some tips for the class." Taeyong offers.
"Mr.Edmonds ." Herin huffs as she crosses her arms.
"He had him." Cheyenne says taking a sip of her coffee.
"Any advice?" Herin asks with a glint of hope in her eyes.
Taeyong inhales deeply, looking at Herin with a dead honest stare.
"Well, I mean- you just do the work, and ignore his dickbag words. The best way to get on his good side is to just participate alot, and ask for the next days homework in advance so you atleast get a break- or just drop his trig class second semester like i did." He explains honestly.
"I mean i had ti pick a different math, but it was sooooo much easier than dealing with satan." He laughs.
"Seems like we both have sucky math teachers this year ahah, and you still have one more year to go." Addie says, picking at her finger nails.
She lays down stomach down across Mark's lap, resting her head on his thigh like a pillow.
"Today was a long day, but i agree with Jenn, i'm hungry."
"I just ordered the pizzas so not much longer." Cheyenne says, putting her phone down on the table.
"So, i noticed you and Taeyong have been uh, awfully clingy today? And very skinshippy." Johnny says with a smirk.
"Almost like you uh- asked her out or something..." he finishes slyly.
"Um what the hell kind if drugs are you on, hippy boy?" Taeyong asks in denial. Johnny belts out a loud "HAH" and looks at Ten, then at Cheyenne and Taeyong.
"What- I don't like the way you two exchanged glances." Taeyong says warily. Ten smirks, shaking his partly empty cup before bursting out in laughter.
"We just…we just think it's funny that's all." Ten says, smirking at everyone's confused stare.
"Hyung, are you like- high or something." Chenle asks, looking up from his notebook. Ten glares, shutting Chenle up in an instant, before he looks back at Cheyenne and Taeyong.
"Say- do any of you know what little event happened today?" Ten asks, his evil grin and stare was locked on Taeyong, who was starting to get what was about to happen.
"Ten, i swear on every inch of my being if you-…"
"Taeyong asked mom on a date. How do I know? Because I know all, just like I know Renjun is gonna ask Herin to homecoming."
Renjun freezes, his pencil dropping from his hand. "Um, what the fuck did you just say?" Renjun says quickly and nervously.
By now Ten is laughing hysterically, Renjun and Taeyong however, were plotting Ten's demise. "Oh you heard me, don't think Haechan didn't rat you out." Ten trails.
"You actually just sold me on the black market like that? Um? Bitch next time you need a favor go to someone else." Haechan huffs. Renjun smiles, gritting his teeth as he tightly grabs Haechan's shoulder. "I am going to kill you." Renjun starts, his hands move to the front of Haechan's chest where he grips his shirt tightly. "And I have the blackbelt to do it too- bitch." He finishes. Haechan laughs loudly and rolls his eyes. "Riight, you keep telling yourself that." Haechan says smugly.
Taeyong groans and rubs his temples. "What a day- maybe I should have made this a college only meet and went to Character's and had a round- that sounds nice."
"We can go grab a drink together when the kids go home, all of the kids." Cheyenne says, rubbing Taeyong's shoulder lightly. He had taken off his scrub top, leaving him in the grey wife-beater he wore under it. Taeyong lets his eyes flutter shut, enjoying the light sensation.
"Careful, don't put the big baby to sleep, chey." Yuta laughs. Cheyenne glares and flips Yuta off as she continues the gentle gesture on Taeyong's arm.
The delivery boy came in with the pizza through the front door, Cheyenne gets up and pays for the pizza; causing Taeyong to whine. "Come on you sleepy puppy, time to eat." Cheyenne says, tapping his shoulder. "But that felt so nice..." Taeyong whines."it'll probably feel nicer when your stomach is full and your even sleepier." She bargains. Taeyong sighs and sits up, grabbing a slice.
Everyone eats, chatting and laughing about their first day of the school year. Not long after the pizza had been nearly destroyed by the large group of friends, everyone splits off, Taeyong and Cheyenne decide that a round could probably wait until Saturday, heading back to their apartment.
Mark and Addie had been driven back by Cheyenne and Taeyong. Cheyenne pulled into Mark's driveway, Taeyong inhaling deeply. "Is dad home?" Taeyong asks, seeing that his mother's car still wasn't there. "I don't know, it looks like the living room lights aren't on, I can't tell with the stupid curtains." Mark says as he and Addie get out of Cheyenne's car. "Just don't sneak off anywhere, okay guys?" Taeyong pleads. Mark jots a thumbs up to his brother and watches them pull out of the driveway. Mark looks up at the clear sky, then down the street toward's Addie's house. "Guess we should get you home, huh?" Mark sighs. They head down the street and Mark stops at the sound of a male voice yelling, the next yell was from her mother. "Whats-his-name is over?" Mark asks.
"I think she said his name was Nathan or something. I don't pay attention to names anymore." Addie says looking downn at the concrete sidewalk.
"Maybe if you weren't such a fucking user people wouldn't fucking blow you off, Kristin!"
"I'm the user!? This coming from a fucking liar!"
Mark pinched the hood of Addie's hoodie and pulled her back lightly. "Maybe you should crash with me tonight, I don't trust the vibes I'm getting if I were to let you go into that house." Mark says. Addie nods and the two spin slowly on their heel and walk back down to Mark's house. Mark tries the front door; it's still locked, which means his Dad had come home. He goes around to the back door and opens it, "I washed your clothes you keep here, let's get out of these stupid work clothes and go on the porch roof." Mark says as they walk upstairs.
Mark places the pile of clothing on his bed, Addie shuffles over and looks through them. "So this is where my fuzzy jammie pants went." She laughs, picking those and the Chevelle T-shirt from the concert she, Mark, Jeno and Haechan attended at the beginning of the summer. Mark froze in thought, looking into the bathroom and then off to the side in thought, "should we do one of our tub-soaks before? Might make everything more relaxing." Mark suggests, already walking towards the bathroom. It was a big jet-tub, almost like a hot tub built into the bathroom. They separated to change into their usual "soak-wear", which consisted of basketball shorts and a black t-shirt, usually one of Mark's which were a little big on Addie. These soaks were a special thing between them, it started when they were getting ready to give Mark's do Benny a bath, instead they ended up in the bubble-filled tub; laughing, splashing, saturating the bathroom floor...
Addie knocks on the bathroom door to see if Mark is finished changing, to her surprise, the door flings open and she's greeted with a hand full of bubbles to the face, gently of course.
"Listen, you fuckin bubble monster-" Addie starts, lifting a finger to point. Her sentence is cut off when Mark flicks the water from his wet hand into her face, "whoops did I happen to splash your face?" Mark asks in feigned-innocense.
"Get in the tub, you curly haired lamb." She says pushing him towards the highly-filled tub. They usually took the water as hot as they could stand it.
"Ow, okay hot." Addie hisses as they sit down. Mark cringes and makes some strange, strained squealing sound. "Why do we like to boil ourselvs like lobsters...?" Mark asks generally. "Because it boils the stupidty of the day away. Gotta sanitize somehow." Addie snorts. "Yeah, people suck." Mark sighs resting his arms atop his knees. "So...Cheyenne and your brother are gonna be going on a date..." Addie trails playing with the bubbles. "About fuckin time, I also knew that Ren was gonna ask Herin to homecoming, it was obvious." He says before submerges under the water to wet his hair. It's silent for a solid ten minutes after, but they don't mind. They're enjoying each other's company, relaxing and forgetting any stress they may have felt that day. After that ten-minute-silent-spell, Mark speaks. "What are we going to do..." Mark starts, staring off into space.
Addie furrows her eyebrows, pulling herself to sit up on the ledge of the large tub. "What do you mean...?" She asks, wringing out the hem of the t-shirt.
"This is our last year in High School..." He finishes. Addie gets back in, shuffling next to him. "Is this a bad thing?" She asks. "No, it's- well...it's kinda depressing, but oh so relieving..." Mark chuckles. Addie knows him better, he's lowkey lying, somethings on his mind and she knows exactly what.
"you're afraid of leaving Hae and the others behind, aren't you?" She asks. Mark playfully narrows his eyes at her and growls as they get up to get out. "Okay Miss-Psychic, yes... especially Jisung, Ningning, Lami and Chenle..they have so much longer to endure, whats gonna happen when Haechan, Jeno, Jaemin and Renjun graduate? When Herin and Hina graduate? It's just gonna be them four, alone in that hell-hole of a school." Mark explains. Addie gives him a secure, warm hug, he hugs back before they realize they're still in the sopping wet clothing. "ah, let's split and change. I feel like a wet horse." Mark laughs.
Addie shakes her head as she heads into Mark's bedroom to change into the clothing she had picked out when they arrived. Once she's dressed she waits on Mark's bed. He comes in sighing in content. "Much better." He says, toweling his hair dry of excess water. They quietly head downstairs and open the front door. Mark helps addie climb the column by the steps, getting her onto the roof first, before he hands her the blankets he climb up shortly after, Addie carefully helps him up and then they gently set up the blankets and lay down.
"it's so clear tonight." Addie muses, staring up. "It'd be better if there wasn't so much light pollution, but hey, at least we can still see them." Mark says quietly.
Addie scoots closer to Mark, laying her head on his shoulder. "When I get my license I'm gonna drive us out to the observatory; nice and quiet, away from everybody." Mark trails. "The drive there should be pretty chill too." Addie agrees. Mark clasps Addie's smaller hand in his, "I'd say let's go catch a night bus down town and stargaze at Edgewater, but one- I'm too lazy, and two; my brother probably has Ten watching us like hawks." Mark says, glancing across the street. "didn't Ten move into Angelique's apartment on campus?" Addie asks, sitting up on her elbows as she too glances over at Ten's house.
"I think that's an upcoming event." Mark comfirms.
They lay back down and look back up at the faint stars. That comfortable silence comes back, and it stays that way until the two fall asleep.
Ten looks out the his window, shaking his head with a smile. "They're on the porch roof again." He says as Angelique comes out of the bathroom, dressed in one of Ten's t shirts. "They're gonna fall off one day..." She laughs, setting her glasses down on his nightstand. "Better text Taeyong that they're still in the neighborhood." Ten says, sitting on his bed.
Taeyong sighs as he and Cheyenne enter their apartment. "So, Mark and Addie skipped already." Cheyenne starts. Taeyong sits on the couch, rubbing his temples. "I know.." He sighs sadly. He was worried; yeah he knew he did the same exact things in high school, and he felt almost like a hypocrite for being angry at Mark and Addie for the same thing. He knew it was partially- if not wholly because of their parents. Their mother works to avoid them, and their dad drinks to avoid them. Taeyong had practically raised Mark on his own since their old babysitter was fired when their mom felt like Taeyong was old enough to care for , Taeyong was listed as Mark's guardian on the Emergency contact list.
"I think we should sit both of them down on Saturday and talk to them." Cheyenne says, sitting next to Taeyong. He nods, running his hand through his hair. He was hoping that they could maybe get through to them. He didn't want to see them permanently fuck up their future, but he didn't want to sound like a hypocrite either.
"I have to figure out the best way to go about this, I did the same things as them, Chey." Taeyong mumbles. "But you got your shit together in senior year, they already skipped; it's the first day, Tae. First day; and they already skipped class." She explains, a hand resting gently on his shoulder. Taeyong could feel his heart sink, everything was sinking in, he knew Cheyenne was right; they're already off to a not so good start.
"I think we do really need to talk to them, lets definatley do this Saturday- this Saturday, the sooner the better." Taeyong says as he gets up.
He smiles down at Cheyenne, "As for tonight, get your laptop out; I'm gonna make some popcorn and we're gonna binge playthroughs."
Cheyenne laughs, getting up to venture into her bedroom and retrieved the laptop. Taeyong's phone buzzes; it's a message from Ten;
[Ten]
Hey, just thought I'd let you know that the troublesome twosome is still in the neighborhood, they're on the porch roof again~
[Taeyong]
thanks, let's hope they stay there."
[Ten} I'll have my ears open, don't worry. XD but, Angelique is tired so we're gonna hit the hay, night.
[Taeyong] kk, night~
"Welp, they didn't sneak away somewhere, Ten just sent me a text; they're stargazing again." Taeyong says, pressing start on the microwave. Cheyenne smiles happily and flails her hands slightly. "Aww they're so pure sometimes." She cooes.
"Yeah sometimes." Taeyong laughs. He removes the popcorn from the microwave when it's done, emptying it into a bowl. He walks into the living-room and sits beside Cheyenne, placing the bowl between them as she presses play.
Taeyong scoots closer and nuzzles against Cheyenne. Cheyenne felt her cheeks tint pink at the close contact. Even though she and Taeyong had known each other for quite some time now, it gave Cheyenne butterflies whenever Taeyong would get affectionate like this.
"You're blushing, pretty girl." Taeyong smirks, not even looking away from the screen. "Well excuse you ok, yu're being all puppy like and it's catching me off guard." Cheyenne fires back. "Oh hush, you love it."
Cheyenne sinks into the couch, focusing on the video game playthrough and Tse smiles smugly. Though some parts of their day were a little stressful, he was happy that he at least achieved his goal of asking her out.