"Calm down, everyone," Michaela's voice was apparent throughout the hideout.

"I swear, I'm going to beat that girl..." Lara murmered under her breath, then relaxing some now that she knew that they were not under attack.

"We just want everyone to get to know each other more... one at a time! Yeah!" Nick's voice then echoed throughout the hidden building. At this point, everyone was either irked, nervous, or a strange mixture of the both.


"So... you speak English...?" Lauren looked over at Eunhyuk awkwardly, wondering what they could do until Michaela and Nick unlocked the doors so they could come back together.

"Um... Yeah," Eunhyuk nodded looked down at the ground, crossing his arms shyly. He really didn't want to make a fool of himself while in front of this really pretty girl. It was one thing for Lara to think he was strange, but it was different while around this girl that he barely knew and he found to be extremely attractive.

"That's cool..." Lauren bit her lip some, not knowing what to do now. "If only I had my care bears," She stated, then widened her eyes some as she realized that she had spoken aloud, "Whoops... I didn't mean for that to come out." Chuckling nervously and smiling sheepishly, she scanned the room again in hopes of finding something to do.

"You rike care bear, too?" Eunhyuk's face lit up with interest then as he looked at Lauren.

"Yeah... I kind of have a collection at home," Lauren blushed lightly and scratched her head, turning her head to make eye contact with the Korean.

"Ah! I am, too!" Eunhyuk smiled widely, happy that at least he and Lauren had one thing in common. The butterflies he once had in his stomach were now flying to his head and shrinking his brain. Even though he wasn't that good at English, he was now speaking a bit more confidently.

"You mean you do? That's so cool! Which care bear is your favorite?" Lauren smiled and sat down on her bed, Eunhyuk following her soon after. They then started a long conversation about care bears, which then lead to talking about their daily lives. For example, Lauren talked about dancing and skating, Eunhyuk talked about dancing and rapping; Lauren talked about her abs, Eunhyuk talked about his. Even though the conversation didn't make much sense when it came to Eunhyuk's sentences, but Lauren seemed to comprehend him.


"So... you come here often?" Bernice eyed Wookie down, memorizing all of his features.

"Uh... yeah," Wookie nodded and glanced at Bernice, then noticing that she was staring at him. He averted his eyes somewhere else and blushed lightly.

Bernice then pranced over to her bed and jumped on it before leaning back. She was pratically lying down, only her elbows supported her to keep from her back hitting the soft mattress. "So, what 'chu do in rice?" Crossing her legs in attempt to look seductive, she moved her eyebrows up and down in a semi-sexy manner.

"Huh?" Wookie turned to look at Bernice. At the sight of Bernice in that position made his eyes widen. He backed up lightly and rubbed the back of his head, "Um... I... I... cook?"

"Do you like to cook things..." Bernice started her sentence and then flipped herself so she was on her stomach facing Wookie, her head relaxed on her hands, "Hot?"

"Uh... yeah," Wookie blushed some and looked down at the ground. It was obvious that he's never been in such a situation before in his life. It was kind of weird, but in a way, he was strangley enjoying having this much attention from a female.

"Come over here. I promise I won't bite," Bernice then shifted to sit up in an indian fashion, then murmered under her breath, "Yet..."

"Okay," Wookie smiled shyly and nodded before he walked over to the bed and sat himself down on the other side of the bed.

"So, Wookie! Tell me more about you," Bernice scooted herself across the top of the bed to move closer to Ryeowook. She could sense that he was sort of uncomfortable, but didn't tone down her attempts to be sexy since she really wanted him to be interested in her. Rather be known as the weird girl than not known at all, correct? Smiling sweetly, she started asking the shy boy a bunch of questions, such as: "What do you like to cook? Can you sing for me? Do you have a girlfriend? A boyfriend?"

"Um... I rike to cook a rot of things... I can sing for you, I guess. If you want," Wookie was still a bit shy around Bernice, but for some reason, her attitude made him a bit more relaxed. Since she was being so open around him, it seemed strange for him to be reserved in return. So, he answered her questions and soon enough, they started a conversation about nothing in particular. Honestly, he didn't know what was coming out of his mouth, but it made Bernice smile and laugh, so it must've been something good.


"Well, I guess we're stuck in here," Lara sighed and plopped down on her bed then looked up to see Kyuhyun on his phone. "You get reception from down here?" She questioned him, then taking out her phone to see that she didn't any bars.

"Yeah..." Kyuhyun seemed to be texting someone. Then pressing the 'send' button, he looked at Lara as he put his phone away, "What are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know... But you're probably going to either die or be really bored," Lara chuckled and motioned her head towards the door, "You left your laptop out there."

"Oh, no! My Starcraft! Nick might do something to it!" Kyuhyun's eyes widened, then ran into the door before pounding his fists against the wood, "STARCRAFT! COME BACK TO ME!"

"Kyuhyun! Keep your cool! Nick is mean, but he's not that bad!" Lara laughed some at Kyuhyun's desperate attempt to get to his laptop.

"You sure about that?" Kyuhyun stopped and looked at Lara, his expression showing that he doubted her, but he really wanted to believe that Nick wouldn't do such a terrible thing.

Meanwhile...

"Hehe. Let's mess with Kyuhyun," Nick chuckled and walked over to the silver laptop that Kyuhyun was always on. Michaela was close behind him, telling him how he should just forget about how Kyuhyun called him an idiout. However, the southerner was not going to forgive yet. He turned on the laptop and soon realized that he would have to type a password to get onto Kyuhyun's account. Nick pouted, then typed in 'Starcraftrules' and got into his account. "Yes," Nick grinned in victory, then did as much damage to his Starcraft files or anything related to the game.

"Yeah, I'm sure. I mean, he has Michaela to keep him occupied. Why would he need to mess with you?" Lara shrugged and grinned, "Stop worrying." She watched the Korean then as he sighed and paced back and forth. Chuckling lightly, she stated, "No offence, but that's kind of pathetic."

Kyuhyun then looked at her with a mean look, showing that he was both unamused by her actions and angry that she would call him 'pathetic.' "Oh, and rike you're not?" He raised his eyebrow some, then sat next to her.

"I am, but at least I don't stress about a game," Lara smirked some and braced herself for a heated debate. Normally, during a webchat, if a dicussion about Kyuhyun's obsessive need to play Starcraft was brought up, he would walk away, but now there was no way of him walking away from talking about his problem.

"Hey! It's an amazing game!" Kyuhyun exclaimed and became extremely defensive, "You have to be interrigent to pray! Gamepray is criticarr!" He then kept on rambling on how Starcraft stimulates the brain, his accent becoming very apparent when the 'l' sound came up in a word. Once it seemed he had finished, which took about fifteen minutes, Lara responded half-heartedly:

"It's still only a game."

"Haven't you been ristening to me?" Kyuhyun groaned at Lara's ignorance.

"No, please repeat," Lara sarcastically replied and shifted herself so she was resting her head on her left hand as Kyuhyun restated everything... again. Even when Kyuhyun finished repeating the many reasons that Starcraft was amazing, Lara still refuted and caused a fight between the two.


"Aren't you so happy that the American government didn't shut down? I mean, that would be terrible!" Richard looked over at Domenica, who was standing in front of the far wall, her hands in her pockets. Lucky for him, he had talked to Domenica many times before and he knew what she would be interested in.

"Oh, definately! Not saying there would be anarchy or anything, but it would suck for the people visiting national parks," Domenica smiled and nodded, "Also, did you hear of any more interesting court cases about abortion? The cases you told me before were so crazy!" She walked to move closer to Richard in interest. To be honest, she was glad that she was locked with someone like Richard: someone who could bring out her comfortably serious self and won't judge her for seeming somewhat 'bland' in comparison to the rest of the girls. No, she was not boring in the least bit when around people like Michaela, but she enjoyed being mature and talking about more adult topics.

"Oh, yes, I do," Richard smiled and nodded. The two of them moved to the bed to sit and talk about court cases. They were definately the diplomats and lawyers of the group, actually finding interest in the controversy of politics and the judiciary branch. For hours, the two of them could talk about their strong Catholic beliefs and apply them to real life. Both of them could talk a lot, which made conversing very easy for the both of them.


"Are you sure that locking everyone in rooms is a great idea?" Michaela asked Nick as he finished messing with Kyuhyun's laptop.

Closing the laptop and grinning widely, Nick exclaimed, "Oh, I'm sure it is an AMAZING idea!" He then walked closer to Michaela with his normal goofy smile on his face, "I'm trying to push them to get together. I'm kind of a match maker."

"Are you sure that's a good id-wait. Why am I asking these questions? LOVE IS IN THE AIR!" Michaela smiled widely and sighed happily, then quickly embraced Nick in a tight hug, "Just wait! We're all going to get married! And it's going to be an amazing wedding! And we're all going to be happy! YEA!"

"Just what I was thinking! Kind of!" Nick hugged her back. Honestly, he wasn't thinking about marriage just yet, since he barely knew any of the girls. Well, he knew Lara the best, but he felt more of a connection with the poofy-haired girlie. She seemed to appreciate his southern background much more positively than the others. Either way, he was trying to match make couples, but he had no clue what would happen exactly. All he planned on was keeping all of them divided for about an hour before he unlocked the doors so they could all get something to eat or do something along those lines.

"What should we do now, though?" Michaela asked, not planning on pulling away from the hug any moment soon.

"Let's play make the mole!" Nick smiled and skipped off with Michaela to get pens and paper. Both of them were familiar with the low-budget game, where one of them draws a man and the other has two minutes to make as many moles/dots all over the man's body. It was a very strange, but it kept them busy and entertained while everyone talked and had some fun, even though all of them were out of their comfort zone and talking to people they barely knew.


Disclaimer: I don't own Eunhyuk, Ryeowook and Kyuhyun. SM does. XD Apparently, I don't own Bernice, Lauren, Michaela and Domenica, either... But in my mind, I do. :)

A/N: This is a bad chapter... but I did it to fill up some time, get the couples a kick-start, and to entertain me. XP Sorry, dudes. I promise the chapters to come are going to be SOO much better.