ok so thank you, jamesynn for reviewing and telling me you liked a chapter and also telling me you hoped that i would update more often. soz man, I've been busy with school and exams are coming up, so ill try but don't expect like weekly updates because I also have other fanfics to write on top of school work and revision.

"School?" Chan gaped at Woojin and Minho, both of whom beamed at their surprise.

"Jeongin's choice!" Woojin said happily. "Right, Jeonginnie? You wanted us to come with you to school."

Jeongin blushed, his face a mixture of pure delight and embarrassment. "Well, I mean- I thought it would be cool-"

"Show off to all the other kids, eh?" Minho grinned as Jeongin blushed even more furiously.

"I just need to collect my homework and check with my teacher how far behind I am in class." Jeongin said quickly. "But I need my uniform-"

"Here you are," Woojin dug into Jeongin's bag and took out his school uniform.

"Wow, you guys are really well-prepared." Changbin marvelled as Jeongin took it.

"All right, which is your class, Jeonginnie?" Hyunjin asked as a female student passing them started and dropped her books.

Seungmin went to help her pick them up. "There you go," he said kindly, putting them back into her arms.

"Thank you." she blushed, and nearly dropped them again. "H-hi, Jeongin."

Jeongin, now in his school uniform, smiled nervously. "Hi, Jiwoo."

She nodded again and went on her way.

"Do you know her well, Jeongin?" Chan assumed she was a friend.

"No, I've never spoken to her before." Jeongin pointed at the door opposite. "That's my class. We can wait until break and then go in to talk to my teacher. Break starts in-" he checked his watch, "-5 minutes."

While they were waiting, a group of female students passed them, carrying their books. They all started and pointed at them, whispering and giggling together.

"This is weird." Felix muttered as one girl detached herself from the group and walked confidently towards them.

"Hi, Jeongin." she said boldly, "Great to see you in school again."

Jeongin looked down, muttering, "Youngmi."

"So… are your handsome friends joining us for school?" she asked, coyly tucking a lock of hair behind her ear.

"No." Jeongin said shortly, and Chan looked at him in surprise. Jeongin usually wasn't so hostile.

"Aww, shame. But you're going to debut, aren't you?"

"Yes." Jeongin replied.

"Well then, I hope you'll still come to school often, Jeongin, we miss you so much." she smiled and flipping her hair over her shoulder, she left.

Jeongin watched her go with a scowl on his face. "She's such a gold digger."

"Don't worry about that now," Chan said soothingly. "Look, it's your break now, isn't it? Let's go and see your teacher."

Jeongin led the way into his classroom, past the horde of students filing out that occasionally gaped at the members. A teacher with light brown hair and a friendly face sat at the front of the room grading papers.

"Ms Park." Jeongin bowed as he went up to her.

"Jeongin!" she looked up and a pleasant smile spread across her face. "How lovely to see you! How are you?"

"Very well, thank you, Ms Park."

"Will you be joining us today?"

"Ah, no. I'm just here to see how far behind I am in my classes and to collect my homework."

"Mhm. Come here…" she talked quietly to Jeongin and showed him several pages in a few books while the rest of the members tried to get a hint out of Woojin and Minho where they were going next.

"Just a little one?" Changbin begged.

"No." Woojin refused, smiling.

"An itty-bitty, tiny one?" Jisung pleaded.

"Nope. And stop asking, squirrel." Minho ruffled Jisung's hair.

"Guys." Jeongin called them and they went back over to him. He toted a heavy stack of paper as Ms Park looked at them with keen interest.

"So you're debuting soon, hmm?" Ms Park smiled wryly at their surprise. "The whole school was abuzz with it this morning. Congratulations."

"Thank you, miss." Chan said graciously. "We won't disturb you any further; we only came in for Jeongin to check if he's keeping up with his work." He motioned for them to leave.

"Good-bye, boys! Make sure you keep up with your schoolwork, Jeongin, even if you are going to be an idol. And pop in whenever you can!" she called after them.

"Are you guys hungry?" Woojin asked as they left the school.

"A little." Seungmin rubbed his stomach, "The mention of breaktime piqued my hunger."

"Well, we're taking you to somewhere to eat, like a mid-morning snack place." Minho smiled. "My favourite place." he added fondly.

Chan wrinkled his nose at the rundown shop. It looked worn and in need of repair. "Uh, Minho, you sure this place hasn't closed down or anything?"

"No, no, it's here." Minho pushed open the door and they were hit with incredibly tantalising smells that wafted past their noses.

"Okay, I'm in." Hyunjin pushed at Minho to enter the shop.

Minho laughed and went in.

As Chan entered after him, he was at first blinded. The inside of the shop was brighter than outside, due to the many candles and the bright lights on the ceiling. Many people sat at tables and the delicious aroma hit him even harder.

Minho greeted the man at the counter with a wave and he started so that he nearly dropped a plate of cakes. He recovered quickly and waved back furiously, motioning to someone with his other hand. A waiter walked up to them, beaming. "Mr Minho, it's so good to see you back again! Would you like a back room?"

"Yes, please, Mr Woo, it's good to see you again too." The waiter led them to the back of the shop and into a private room.

"Please make yourselves comfortable. I will be back with menus-"

"No thank you, Mr Woo. We'll have items 36, 64, 65, 98, 103, 104, please. And a round of whizz, thanks."

"Yes, sir."

Minho winked at the bemused members. "Trust me, guys, you'll love it."

"Here are your whizzes, sir." The waiter put a glass of clear, fizzy liquid in front of each place.

"Drink up, guys." Minho put his glass to his lips and downed it in one go.

Slightly more apprehensive, the other members drank more slowly. Chan took a sip. It tasted fantastic; like vanilla ice-cream and whipped cream, with just a faint hint of strawberry along the edge. The bubbles added the extra fizziness to the drink and it was unlike anything Chan had ever tasted.

It was gone way too fast. He tilted his head back as far as it would go and tried to lick the glass.

Minho laughed as Chan, grinning apologetically, set the glass down. "Told you it was good."

Chan wiped the froth from his lips. With the sun beating down mercilessly on him outside, the drink was extremely refreshing and cooling, just what he needed.

"It doesn't taste like a typical Korean drink." he tried to tell Minho, "It's more of a westernish sort of drink. You know, like a new fangled liquid."

"Yes, it does." Minho grinned impishly, "But wait till you try the rest of the food!"

"That was so amazing!" Hyunjin sighed contentedly as the waiter left with a tall stack of empty dishes.

"Mhm!" Chan agreed. Every dish had been so light, some sweet, some savoury, some spicy. All of them were typical Korean dishes, but with an extra twist of uniqueness, an extraordinary flavour that melted on the tongue, leaving one begging for more.

Just at that moment, the man from the counter came in. He had big smiling eyes and an even larger grin across his face as he dusted his white hands on his apron.

"Minho!" He pranced around the table and hugged Minho, causing a white cloud of flour to explode from his apron. "Oh dear, I'm sorry about that." he flapped his hands at the air.

"How have you been, Minho? You never come in anymore." He pursed his lips in mock disapproval. "Can't spare time for your poor old uncle?"

"Uncle?" Chan wasn't sure if he'd heard correctly.

"Yes, Minho's my nephew." Minho's uncle patted his nephew on the shoulder, beaming.

"Sorry I don't come in anymore, Uncle Ho." Minho said with an apologetic grin, "I'm busy training."

"Oh, I know, boy. Your mother told me all about it. Going to debut, eh?"

"Yup. These are my members."

"Hi, I'm Chan," Chan shook his hand.

"He's our leader. That's Woojin-hyung; he's our oldest, Felix from Australia, Changbin; our dark guy, Seungmin; our sunshine, Jeongin the maknae, Hyunjin our visual and Jisung, the squirrel." They all smiled and nodded when Minho introduced them.

"Wonderful to meet you all!" Minho's uncle boomed. "How did you find the food?"

"Best I've ever eaten!" Hyunjin declared.

"It was delicious." Woojin answered more stately.

Minho's uncle looked very pleased. "Well, it's been lovely chatting with you boys. I have to go and see to the customers."

"We should be going too. We have lots of other things to do." Woojin motioned to the members, who started to get up.

"Where are we going next, hyung?" Jeongin asked.

"Well, we'll give a little hint. It's my place." Woojin said.

"It's Jisung's place." Minho said at the same time.

They grinned, leaving the confused members whispering together, trying to figure out where they were going.

"We're here." Woojin said a little while later.

Clouds had moved across the sun now and it was delightfully cooling. The crisp air felt extremely refreshing and there was a light breeze as they stared at the place in front of them.

"Woojin-hyung, Jisung, you wanted to go to a park?"

"I didn't." Jisung looked confused. "I wanted to bring you guys to see my family."

"Jisungie," Woojin smiled at him, patting his shoulder. "I'm sorry, but you never gave us your home address! We kept asking you, but you never gave it!"

Jisung slapped his forehead. "What!? Why didn't I do that!? Aggggghhhhhh!"

"It's okay, sungie, we can always go visit them another time," Minho comforted him. "Anyway, we found a way for you to show us your family- in a different way."

Jisung frowned, looking bewildered.

"You'll see what we mean in a bit!" Woojin said happily, pulling them into the park. "I wanted to go for a walk with you guys and talk. I know, old-fashioned, but I really love doing that. We just came to this place so we can see Jisung's family. It's not a park by the way."

Jisung was looking more confused by the second. "My family-?"

Minho grinned and led them along a twisting path surrounded by wildlife.

Chan whispered into Woojin's ear. "Did you ask his mom to meet us here or something?"

"Well, I didn't ask, but I bet she will." Woojin answered, eyes twinkling.

Before Chan could ask again, Jeongin's voice piped up. "Ooh, look there!" he pointed.

Far ahead of them was a sign that said, 'Squirrel park'. Under it in smaller letters were the words 'Visitors can interact with the squirrels. Feeding time is at 11 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock.'

Chan wondered how Jeongin had seen the sign at all. You had to strain your eyes to make it out at all and he would never have seen it if Jeongin hadn't pointed it out.

"Good eyes, Jeongin." Woojin ruffled his hair. "Yes, we're going to see the squirrels," as he said this, he bit his cheek to stop laughing, winking at Jisung.

Jeongin clapped his hand to his mouth just as Seungmin gasped and Changbin burst out laughing. He thumped Woojin on the back. "You guys are amazing, seriously! I don't even know how you thought of that!"

"Thought of what?" Chan demanded. Jisung and Hyunjin looked confused as well, but Felix looked like he was debating whether to smile or frown.

"You'll see what we mean soon-" Woojin started but Jeongin blurted, "It's you, Jisun-"

Minho clapped a hand over his mouth. "Shhh, let's not ruin the surprise."

Suddenly it hit Chan. His eyebrows shot up and he covered his mouth to stop from spilling the secret. "Oh my, you guys-" he laughed. "Geez, that's fantastic!"

Thankfully, Jisung was pretty slow; he just frowned and said, "I don't get it."

Hyunjin looked like he was slowly figuring it out though. When Minho took Jisung's hand to pull him along, Chan winked at Hyunjin and made his hands into fists curled up beneath his cheeks. He puffed out his cheeks and tilted his head down in a trademark squirrel pose.

He watched as Hyunjin's eyes lit up and he stuffed his fist into his mouth to keep from laughing.

Jisung was still oblivious, his brow wrinkling as Minho dragged him into the squirrel park.

"Daramjwi!" Jeongin squealed loudly to try and draw Jisung's attention to them as they saw several uniformed people holding on to squirrels and letting people pet and feed them. "Daramjwi, Jisung!"

"Cute!" Jisung beamed.

"Oh wow, that one looks like you." Chan joked, trying to give him a hint.

"Yeah, you look so similar!" Seungmin laughed.

"It's so adorable!" Jisung practically ignored them and ran over to a park volunteer holding a baby squirrel. He stroked it gently with one edge of his fingertip and it shivered all over with delight.

"I'm a squirrel too." Jisung whispered to it, smoothing its velvety ears. "Can I hold him?" he asked, to which the park volunteer showed him how to cup his hands and he settled the squirrel there.

"Oh, he's unbelievably cute!" Jisung cooed, stroking it with his thumbs as it arched its back in pleasure. "Go and find your own, guys, don't hustle him." he told the rest who were all gathering around.

"Aww, you treat him as if he were your family." Changbin said, which seemed like a pretty heavy hint to Chan.

"Well, of course he is!" Jisung finally seemed to realise what he'd just said. "Wait-"

"Surprise!" Because he was holding the squirrel and they didn't want to alarm it, they didn't scream it or jump on him.

"Oh my-" Jisung seemed unable to speak. "This is just-" he beamed his Jisung smile at Woojin and Minho. "Gee, guys, this is really- thanks so much. I can't even-"

"Don't choke on yourself trying to get the words out." Woojin ruffled his hair. "Go and be with your family."

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