Chan stretched out luxuriously. He felt more well-rested and refreshed than he had in months. Granted, he only got a few more hours of sleep, but he felt so much better.
He went to check on Jisung. Changbin was crashed out on the other bed, still fast asleep. Jeongin's bed was neatly made and there was no sign of the maknae.
Feeling Jisung's forehead, Chan sighed with relief. He was considerably cooler than yesterday.
Jisung muttered incoherently all of a sudden, startling Chan and causing him to back into Changbin's bed. Changbin's snores were interrupted by a series of splutters, grunts and finally, an indignant voice, "Can't a guy get a few hours sleep in peace?"
"Shh." Chan whispered urgently.
"How's Jisung?" Changbin rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"Better, the fever dropped."
"Great." Changbin grimaced, "Ugh, my mum'll hound me for this. Were you sleeping out on the streets again? It wouldn't even surprise me if you did!"
Chan looked at him with a mixture of pity and disbelief. "Your mum doesn't say all that to you, does she?"
Changbin shrugged and swung his legs out of bed. "Doesn't matter. I'm not home much, anyway."
Chan shook his head and went out to check on Felix. Felix was fast asleep in bed, a pile of korean books piled up on his bedside table. When Chan stood over him, he muttered and flung out an arm, rolling over onto his front.
After a few moments, he opened one eye a slit.
"Morning, Felix."
"Hyung." Felix's voice sounded, if possible, even deeper and huskier because of his grogginess. "How's Jisung?"
"Better. His fever's gone."
Felix rubbed his eyes sleepily, "Great."
Chan smiled secretly to himself, or so he thought.
Felix reddened, "I mean, that's good for the team. We can't have anyone getting sick. Don't look at me like that!"
"I'm not!" Chan hastily rearranged his face. "Do you know where Jeongin is?"
"Uh, I heard the door open and close, but I was still kinda asleep."
Chan slapped his forehead with his hand. "He went out?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Hey, Woojin, is Jeongin there?" Chan bit his lip as he spoke into the phone, "Oh, he is? Oh, thank goodness! What- a note? For who-? Oh…" his eyes flitted towards Felix, who had been eating at the table, but now looked up at Chan.
Chan coughed feebly and looked away, but he could feel Felix staring at him. "Yeah, if you could send him up, that'll be great."
"What note?" Felix asked as he ended the call.
"Oh, nothing, just ah- never mind."
As soon as Jeongin came in, Chan snatched the note out of his hands and read it. As his eyes traveled down the page, he started seething with anger. He met eyes with Jeongin.
"I know. I wouldn't have brought it, but they forced me to. They insisted I had to deliver it to Jisung and Felix."
"Deliver what?" Felix leaned over Chan's shoulder and caught a glimpse of the letter before Chan crumpled it up.
"Nothing." Chan forced a smile, "You and Jisung don't have to worry about anything." The instant the words were out of his mouth he shut his eyes tight and swore silently.
"That's for Jisung and me?" Felix's eyes narrowed. "It's my letter, isn't it? Let me see that."
Chan shoved it at Jeongin. "No, no, no, it's not." he could tell he wasn't convincing Felix. "We still have around three hours before we meet. You can go back to sleep if you want."
"Who's letter is that and who sent it? Just tell me and I won't dance you about it anymore. I mean, bug, I won't bug you about it anymore." his dark eyes burned at Jeongin as he spoke.
"Yours. Jisung's too. Dongji-" Jeongin blurted out before Chan clapped his hand over Jeongin's mouth.
With that, Felix turned on his heel and went into Jisung and Jeongin's room.
Changbin rubbed his eyes and went over to Jisung to check that his fever really had dropped. Yes, it definitely had; his forehead was much cooler.
Jisung shifted, one eye opening a slit to stare at Changbin. "Playing nurse, Binnie?"
Changbin grunted and removed his hand. "Hey, it didn't take a miracle to wake you up today!"
"I feel loads better. Very well-rested," Jisung yawned and then jumped when Felix came in, slamming the door behind him.
"How are you feeling?" he asked shortly.
"Fine." Jisung snapped back.
Changbin noted that Felix's eyes were even smokier than usual, as if he were thinking about something else. His suspicion was proved correct when Felix said distractedly, "Great, that's great."
His reply was so unusual it even caught Jisung off guard.
"Is it time to go yet?" Changbin asked, just to break the silence.
"No… Jeongin brought in a letter this morning for you and me, Jisung, but Chan-hyung wouldn't let us see it."
Changbin frowned. "That's not right. I can go and ask Chan about it."
"Oh no, don't. Jeongin has the letter so it'll be simpler if Jisung and I talk to him about it while you keep Chan distracted. If Jeongin's alone with both of us, after a while, he'll cough up."
"Leave that poor kid alone with the wolves?" Changbin stepped backwards as Jisung aimed a punch at his arm. "That doesn't sound simpler, Felix. Why all this- planning and distracting? Why can't I just ask-" his eyes widened. "You guys have girlfriends!"
"What?!" Felix was completely flustered. "No!"
"You must have! Chan wouldn't have hid your letter otherwi- oh! I get it, you're both seeing the same girl and she sent a letter to both of you- whoops, shouldn't have said that out loud- oh! Is that why you both don't get along?! Oh okay then, we'll get your letter- I'll send Jeongin in and distract Chan; just promise to let me read after you finish- this will be great!" he hurried out the door, leaving two very confused and dazed teenagers in his wake.
After Changbin left, they realised that they were left alone. Felix took a step back and Jisung hurriedly got out bed.
"So." Jisung cleared his throat awkwardly, "Who's it from?"
Felix scuffed the floor with his toes and only dared to look at Jisung once. "I think it's from Dongjin."
Before Jisung could say anything, the door swung open and Jeongin came in. He seemed very surprised to see both of them and it was with a nervous smile that he went to his bunk.
"So, Jeongin," Jisung said in a would-be casual voice. "You know that trust is very important, right? Especially in this team."
"Um, yes?" Jeongin looked confused.
"Right, we all have to trust each other. And we have to respect each other and each other's privacy." Felix continued.
Jeongin straightened up with a frightened, almost apprehensive look on his face, a pair of socks in one hand.
"Yes, respect is very important. So if we trust each other right, we won't hide anything from each other."
"Yeah, that. And also, if we respect each other, we won't, say, read someone else's letter without their permission, or keep it from them." Felix put heavy emphasis on his words, staring Jeongin straight in the eye.
"Ahhh…" Jeongin's brow cleared, but then almost immediately it wrinkled again.
"So basically, what we're saying is; give us the bloody letter." Jisung said, smiling.
"I-I can't." Jeongin looked frightened, glancing from one face to the other, holding his socks up like a shield. "Chan-hyung said no…"
"Why? It's our letter. You shouldn't have read it at all. It's not up to Chan to decide whether or not we can read something that someone meant us to read."
"He's our leader-"
"He still shouldn't have read it. It's private. Only we should read it."
Jeongin looked helpless. Jisung put his hand on his shoulder. "Don't get upset, Jeongin." he said kindly. "You won't be a good dongsaeng only if you don't give us what's ours."
Jeongin bit his lip, looking from one face to another. Then quickly, he produced a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and shoved it at Jisung without looking at him.
Jisung and Felix pounced on it with glee just as the door opened and Chan came tumbling in, Changbin right behind him.
"I'm sorry, I tried to delay him as long as possible-" Changbin rattled off.
"What the- Jisung! Felix!" his eyes fell on the paper Jisung was holding in his hand. "Jeongin!"
"I'm sorry, hyung!" Jeongin wailed. "They kept-"
Jisung and Felix's eyes were flying down the page but at a certain part, they both stopped and stared, open-mouthed, too shocked to stop Chan ripping the page from Jisung's hand.
"Quit or we'll make you quit?" Jisung quoted. "You won't want to mess with us; we can make your lives a misery? Do you care about your teammates? We can hurt them, you know. Do you remember what happened to Changbin? That was just a taster."
"I didn't want you guys to read that." Chan crumpled up the letter and threw it in the bin.
Changbin looked very confused. "Wait, you mean that was from Dongjin?"
"Who else?" Chan pressed the heels of his palms into his eyes as Changbin fished the letter out of the bin to read.
Jisung slumped on his bed and Felix leaned against the door. Jeongin stood frightened, still clutching his socks as Changbin read.
As Changbin's eyes ran down the page, his expression got darker and darker until he was positively steaming. He suddenly ripped the letter in two, startling everyone out of silence.
"!& I##&$) ! **# !" Changbin swore loudly as he ripped the letter again.
"Changbin!" Chan scolded, "Don't let the kids hear you! You need to be a good role model for them!"
"Come on, hyung, do you really think he is anyway?"
"True."
sorry this chapter was really short. ill have the next one up soon! pls review!
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