"Hey," They were scattered around Jaehyung's living room, Hyeokjin and Jaehyung were sitting together on the couch, while Yeongchan and Ijin were laying down on the floor, watching a video on old vines so they could educate Ijin, all while Seokju was laying down on the couch. "Let's go do this." Seokju sent the link to the group chat, and them being curious, clicked on the link so they could watch the videos themselves.
It was a video of four teenagers standing in a circle, facing each other with their mouths puffed up from the water. And for some reason, they were holding a long loaf of bread?
It was weird, but it was also funny to see them fail to look in the opposite direction of the bread loaf, only to get whacked on the head with the bread loaf. At first, he thought it was a test of their reflexes or something, but it didn't take him long to realize that the purpose of the water in their mouths was so they could restrain their laughter.
"Okay," Jaehyung said lightly, rolling onto his feet as he said over his shoulder," I got a pool noodle we can use. Meet you guys in the backyard."
Okay.
Looks like they were doing it after all.
None of them seemed particularly excited about it, instead, it was pretty calm as they all filled up their mouths with water after Jaehyung returned with the pool noodle, the same one he had taken when they tried to teach him how to swim.
But it was like the moment the pool noodle was introduced, it was like some switch had been flipped.
Hyeokjin pointed the pool noodle at Seokju, the two of them staring at each other for a few seconds, before Hyeokjin flicked the pool noodle to the right, causing Seokju to promptly turn his head to the left. With a hum, Seokju happily plucked the pool noodle from Hyeokjins hands and turned to Ijin.
Ijin could see Seokju smiling around the water in his mouth, and he narrowed his eyes at his friend.
Oh, he just knew that if he didn't get it right, Seokju was going to smack the ever-living shit out of his head.
They stared at each other, the two of them silently challenging each other as Seokju moved the pool noodle just the slightest bit to the right in a feint, a move that Ijin mirrored by twitching his head to the left. They didn't break eye contact the entire time.
Soekju flicked the pool noodle to the left, and Ijin jerked his head to the right. He smiled the best he could while Seokju groaned in annoyance. If he didn't have water in his mouth, he would have been grinning while Seokju handed over the pool noodle.
Humming 'ha-ha' at Seokju, he turned to Jaehyung, who immediately changed posture as if he was saying 'bring it on'.
Unlike Seokju, Ijin didn't try to trick Jaehyung. He jerked the pool noodle to the right, and he had to stamp down the laughter that threatened to bubble out when he saw that Jaehyung had turned to the right. He was the first one who messed up and Jaehyung groaned in frustration, before bowing his head as he prepared himself to be smacked.
Welp.
He's seen Jaehyung get an ass beating and walk away from it.
He could definitely handle getting smacked by a pool noodle.
Raising the pool noodle over his head, he brought it down onto the crown of Jaehyungs head with no mercy. The resulting smack was loud, and the noise alone was enough to make Hyeokjin and Yeongchan snort, a few drops of water escaping their lips as their hands went up to cover their mouths.
Jaehyung whined at the hit, his hands going up to hold his head as Ijin struggled to contain his laughter. No water had escaped him, but they could tell by the way Ijin looked away that he was trying his damndest to keep it together.
God, why was something so stupid so much fun?
Without looking, Ijin held out the pool noodle for Jaehyung to take, and damn near started laughing at the way the redhead snatched it out of his hands, making a 'hmph!' sound as he did so.
Just the indignant way Jaehyung took it was enough to make everyone else start laughing, all of them quickly getting their laughter under control before they lost.
Things didn't start getting difficult until it was Yeongchan's turn to have the pool noodle. Yeongchan changed it up, and instead of targeting Hyeokjin, or Jaehyung, who was right next to him, he challenged Ijin, who was standing across from him.
They stared at each other, Ijin was waiting for Yeongchan to make his move, and Yeongchan was trying to find the right moment to strike. Yeongchans hand twitched to the right, and Ijin jerked his head to the left, only to realize that Yeongchan had managed to trick him.
Soekju made a frustrated noise as if he was mourning the fact that he wasn't able to be the first one to get a hit on Ijin. Even that was enough to make him smile again. Swallowing his amusement, Ijin bowed his head, preparing himself for the impact of the pool noodle against his head.
He should have known that Yeongchan wouldn't have done it right, or at least not in a way that was kinda common sense.
Instead of raising the pool noodle over his head to hit Ijin, Yeongchan swung the pool noodle towards him, which did two things that he obviously hadn't planned for.
One: he smacked the shit out of Hyeokjin and Seokju's faces because of the way he swung the pool noodle.
And two: he caused his own downfall.
The pool noodle hit Hyeokjins face full force, and before Seokju could step out of the way, it hit him in the face too before the arc was completed at Ijins face. But compared to the hit that Hyeokjin had gotten, Ijin had gotten a love tap on his head. As one might expect, after hitting two faces, the pool noodle had lost most of its momentum by the time it got to him.
Just like that, Yeongchan was spraying water everywhere as he started laughing," Pftt! Hahaha-I-sorry!" Yeongchan stammered out, he was leaning against his knees, water dripping out of his mouth as he kept on laughing the hardest he's had in a while.
The line between Jaehyungs hair and skin was starting to blur as he laughed silently, his hands clamped desperately over his mouth to keep the water in. the entire time, his shoulders were moving up and down silently as he laughed with everyone else. Ijin was right there with Jaehyung, laughing the exact same way as Seokju and Hyeokjin recovered from the sudden hit, their cheeks a bright red after the way the pool noodle had hit him.
The fact that Seokju and Hyeokjin had gotten hit harder than he had when he was supposed to be the only one to get hit, made it even harder to keep the water in his mouth.
Yeongchans victims made frustrated and questioning grunts, obviously annoyed at the way they had gotten the brunt of Ijins punishment. They were rubbing at their sore cheeks, and just the fact that the two of them were being babies after something so dumb, somehow made it funnier.
The teenager just kept on laughing as he held out the pool noodle to Ijin, almost dropping it from how hard he was laughing," s-sorry," Yeongchan stammered out between chuckles," I didn't think that through!"
That much was obvious.
His shoulders were still spasming as he took the pool noodle, and he had to take a few seconds to try and recompose himself. But try as he might, it wasn't enough.
The moment he locked eyes with Seokju, his cheek was a bright red, and his eyes narrowed into a glare, he just couldn't help it.
Seokju just closed his eyes and scrunched up his face in disgust as Ijin sprayed the water out of his mouth. The water went everywhere, the spray of water had completely soaked Seokjus face and shirt.
The way his friend just snatched the pool noodle out of his hand and ruthlessly smacked him with it only made him start laughing even harder
You know.
Considering that it was his first time trying a grilled cheese, he didn't know what he was expecting.
But he wasn't expecting it to be so bready. Granted, it was a sandwich, but for some reason, the only thing he could taste was bread. He couldn't taste the cheese at all, just the bread and the butter Jaehyung used to toast it.
He looked down at the sandwich and blinked in surprise when he realized that his 'grilled cheese' didn't have any cheese. It was just a toast sandwich. It wasn't even a sandwich, all it was was two pieces of toast stacked onto each other. Ijin had to resist the urge to snort.
Yeah, that sounded like something Jaehyung would do. Make him a grilled cheese and just forget the cheese entirely. He would definitely do that.
"What's wrong?" Jaehyungs voice made him look up, his friend looking into the living room from the kitchen where he was making. He must have noticed the weird look he was giving his plate because he looked curious.
His simple question had caused the others, all of whom had proper sandwiches, to look over at the two of them." Nothing, you said this was a grilled cheese right?"
He nodded his head," Yeah. You don't like it?" Well even if he didn't, Ijin wouldn't have said that he didn't like it. But the problem was that he was just eating buttered bread at the moment.
Ijin almost smiled as he opened his toast sandwich, and held it up for his friends to see," Jaehyung, there's no cheese in this." Hyeokjin snorted into his drink, splattering the red Koolaid all over his face.
"Wait, are you deadass?" Seokju and Yeongchan started chuckling, as Jaehyung came over to check, absentmindedly throwing the dishrag at Hyeokjins face so he could clean himself off.
Ijin chuckled with the others as he opened his piece of toast to expose the lack of substance in the middle," There's no cheese in this." Hyeokjin, who was still laughing quietly, went to the kitchen to wet the dishrag.
Jaehyung slightly turned red as he looked down at the piece of toast before he quickly turned to Seokju and Yeongchan to ask," Does yours have cheese?"
Seokju snorted into his hand as he nodded his head. Yeongchan nodded his head enthusiastically in an attempt to make Jaehyung feel better" Yeah, it's really good!"
He had a grin as he said to the blushing teen, "You made me four pieces of perfectly good toast." They could hear Hyeokjin's laughter from the kitchen and his just laughing like a total idiot made it far funnier than it should have been.
Jaehyung ran his hand down his face," Oh my god." He was thoroughly embarrassed, his face turning a bright red. He had made a fuss over Ijin never trying a grilled cheese, and leave it to him to be so concentrated on making sure the bread was the perfect golden brown, he forgot the cheese entirely.
They could hear Hyeokjin dying in the kitchen as Seokju said, "At least you can make some good toast." Though his words were supposed to be comforting, the fact that they had been punctuated with a chuckle every other word did not help.
"Now I know I like toast." Ijin added on, not helping the situation at all as they laughed at Jaehyungs expense.
Jaehyung grabbed Ijins plate with a frown,"Oh be quiet, I'll make it again."
Now it was Yeongchans turn to have a teasing smile on his face, "Don't forget the cheese again."
He got a Kool-aid stained dishrag to the face.
"I won't, I won't."
MF Weasly: reel/CiVykWfjWLJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= .
MF Weasly: Or
MF Weasly: reel/CiT_1NMDQt8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆: No
Krillin But With More Hair: 👀👀
❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆: Are you trying to get us in trouble again?
*❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆 has changed ❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆 to Seokju *
MF Weasly: Lmao, they wont even know its us.
MF Weasly: Besides, we're graduating soon.
MF Weasly: I want to see how long we can do this.
MF Weasly: Lets make them remember us.
*MF Weasly has changed Seokju to ❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆*
Blond bitch: Youre just spiteful because the principal got mad at you that one time.
MF Weasly: Yeah
MF Weasly: Duh
MF Weasly: So ya or nah?
*❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆has changed ❤️🍆❤️🍌🍆 to Seokju *
*Seokju has changed MF Weasly to Asshat*
G.I Jidiot: Sure.
Seokju: Ijin?
G.I Jidiot: I like doing things out of spite
Krillin But With More Hair: Omg Ijin plz
Asshat: Which one do you want Seokju?
Asshat: Your ass hanging out or dancing like a ho?
Seokju: Why are you asking me?
* Krillin But With More Hair has changed Seokju to Frigid🍆*
MF Weasly: Because you, Ijin, and Hyeokjin are the only ones fit enough for that.
Frigid🍆: Yeah no.
Frigid 🍆: Yeona laughed so hard when she saw the last video and I don't need her finding out that it was me she was laughing at.
Frigid 🍆: STOP CHANGING MY NAME
*Frigid 🍆has changed Frigid 🍆to Seokju *
Krillin But With More Hair: Tbf, you moved your back more than your ass so lmao.
Krillin But With More Hair: But itll be funnnnnn
Asshat: I kinda wnt to see how long we can do this for too.
Asshat: And how mad we can get the principal
*Asshat has changed Seokju to Dick Muncher*
Asshat: Fuck that ho.
Asshat: LMAO
Dick Muncher: No, leave me out of this.
Dick Muncher: No way.
Dick Muncher: I'm going to fucking kill you.
*Dick Muncher has changed Dick Muncher to Don't fucking test me*
G.I Jidiot: After that last video, I think that's for the best.
Don't fucking test me: Don't even start Ijin!
G.I Jidiot: Its not my fault you don't know how to dance.
G.I Jidiot: Youd probably do a shit job at this one too.
Krillin But With More Hair: Hey Ijin, think one of your army friends will agree?
G.I Jidiot: Yeah
G.I Jidiot: Theyre dorks like that
G.I Jidiot: Can we cover our faces again?
Krillin But With More Hair: Obviously.
Krillin But With More Hair: Do you want us to get something to cover your scars?
G.I Jidiot: What?
G.I Jidiot: Oh, yeah probably.
G.I Jidiot: Dayeon and grandfather would know its me if they see the video and see one of my scars.
Krillin But With More Hair: Bet bet
Krillin But With More Hair: Ill ask my mom what concealer her work uses.
Asshat: Oh yea, she works in the prop department huh?
Krillin But With More Hair: Yeah, and the make up one too.
Don't fucking test me: I cant believe you guys are really doing this.
Don't fucking test me : Blond bitch:
Don't fucking test me: Help me convince these guys to not do it.
Blond bitch: I got the shorts you guys can borrow.
Don't fucking test me: I dont know what I expected.
Asshat: Hey Seokju?
Don't fucking test me: What?
Asshat: Remember how the English teacher got the most upset about the video?
Don't fucking test me: Yeah.
Asshat: Remember how the English teacher once gave you a long ass lecture because you had to miss school for training?
Don't fucking test me: Yeah?
Asshat: Well.
Asshat: If the last video pissed her off.
Asshat: Imagine how much this one will.
Asshat: I know how much you don't like her.
Asshat: Don't you want her to lose her shit as payback?
Don't fucking test me: Is this how you convince everyone to do stupid shit with you?
Asshat: Lmao no, just for you.
Krillin But With More Hair: Soooooo?
Don't fucking test me: Fine.
Don't fucking test me: Only because I want to piss her off.
Asshat: HELL YEAH
G.I Jidiot: I cant believe that worked.
Blond bitch: Me either but shut up.
*G.I Jidiot has changed Don't fucking test me to THE Dick Muncher*
THE Dick Muncher:...
THE Dick Muncher: Fuck it, I'm going to fight you Ijin
G.I Jidiot: :)
After they had somehow managed to convince Seokju to actually do the video with them, there they were at Hyeokjin's house.
Internally questioning their life choices.
Well, Seokju was, but even that was starting to become surprisingly common whenever he did something stupid with the others. Ijin was just used to their antics and considering that he always had fun doing stupid shit with them, he had just accepted it at that point.
Like Yeongchan had suggested, they were covering up their scars. While they weren't going to be too close to the camera, both Ijin and Seokju had distinctive scars from work or past experiences that were big enough to see despite the distance. All it took was someone close to the two of them to recognize the scars and then the gig was up. Which was a problem as the only reason making the videos was fun was because no one knew it was them, so they wanted to avoid discovery at almost all costs.
Seokju had a few scars, the one on the side of his stomach and his upper thigh after Yeona and Dayeon had gotten kidnapped. His scars weren't too difficult to cover up. They were still relatively new, so some green concealer and foundation were enough to hide the light pink scars.
Now Ijin.
They knew Ijin had plenty of scars, especially with his past.
What they weren't expecting him was to have so much.
He had more than enough considering that he was the same age as them. Yeah, they knew that he was a mercenary for almost ten years, and they knew that he had gotten some more scars after returning to Korea. But that knowledge did nothing to prepare them for the magnitude of the scars.
Most of them weren't visible from 10 feet away, those were the ones that looked like scrapes or minor wounds. They were slightly off-color from his usual skin tone but were unnoticeable for the most part.
The problem was his bigger scars, the ones that looked like they had taken months to heal. And to make it worse, Yeongchan was struggling to hide them because while he was good with coverups, he didn't have enough experience under his belt to be able to do Ijin's.
For the first time, Ijin looked self-conscious about them, especially with the way Yeongchan kept on trying to cover them up and failing. Although Ijin was fine with most physical contact between them, it was obvious that his being shirtless with Yeongchan standing so close to him was making him uncomfortable.
OK, so maybe this was a bad idea after all.
Making videos was fun and all, but not at the cost of one of them being plainly and purely uncomfortable.
Hyeokjin came up, "Alright," not only were they taking too long to get ready, but Ijin was also starting to get plain uncomfortable with the way they were trying to cover up his scars to no avail. He went over to his backpack, and grabbed the few things he brought just in case," Here I got just the thing." Opening up the pack, he pulled them out for Ijin to see.
His eyebrows rose in surprise as he read the title," Temporary tattoos?" the others grinned as they realized what Hyeokjin was planning to do. Without a word, Seokju went off to the kitchen, returning with a warm, but damp dishrag.
"Yeah, "Hyeokjin said as he looked through the pack, eyeing Ijin and the scar on his shoulder as he tried to pick the right one," they wear off after a few days. But in the meantime-ah." Hyeokjin pulled out one that was the perfect size for both the front and back of his shoulder," You can use these to figure out if you want to cover up some of those scars with tattoos."
Ijin watched curiously as Hyeokjin positioned the temporary tattoo over the scars, "I can do that?" He shivered when the warm dishrag was laid over the temporary tattoo, but stayed still as Jaehyung and Yeongchan put on another temporary tattoo over an old burn scar on his chest.
"Yeah," Seokju said lightly, peeling up the rag just enough to see if it was done before he put it back down," They're called cover-up tattoos. People get them all the time." Hm…
He didn't mind the thought of covering up his scars. Granted, he didn't mind most of them as they were either from accidents or little slip-ups during a fight. But there were a few of them that he would love to be able to hide. The few scars that were a result of major fucks up, he would probably like to hide those.
"See!" Jaehyung had a bright grin as he pulled away the paper. Ijin blinked in surprise," You can barely see them now. Imagine how it'll look like when you get a tattoo actually meant to cover them up." He had to remind himself to close his mouth so it wouldn't be hanging open. It was like his scar had disappeared under the black and red graphic. The art clung to his skin as if it was a real tattoo and if he didn't know better, he would have thought it was permanent.
He had seen tattoos before, he used to have his rank tattooed on his chest until he burned it off after defection. All of the numbered had gotten their ranks tattooed onto their chests both as a brand, and so they could be identified if they died. Not to mention, 004 also had tribal tattoos, so he wasn't new to the idea. But it wasn't until they told him about cover-up tattoos when it clicked that he could get a tattoo for himself, that he could get something that he actually wanted.
He smiled, "I see…thanks guys. Really." He wasn't sure if he really would get a tattoo to cover up some of his scars, but he was definitely going to start toying with the idea.
They smiled back, happy to see that they were able to help Ijin get over that sudden insecurity," Don't mention it. " Jaehyung said lightly before a mischievous grin appeared on his face," Besides. They definitely won't know it's us. Since they're gonna be looking for students with tattoos." Ijin snorted. Considering that he was right, he was going to be grateful either way.
Seokju rose his eyebrow, "Won't that make them even madder?" because as far as he knew, tattoos were still greatly looked upon by the older generation (A.E, all if not most of the current adults). Considering the fact that they were planning to have their school blazers hanging in the background, as a subtle fuck you to the admins (or the English teacher in Seokju's case), he knew for a fact that the tattoos were going to greatly piss off the staff.
"Yeah." Hyeokjin said that in a tone as if it should have been blaringly obvious.
"And?" Jaehyung added on in an uncaring tone as if it wasn't an important point.
Seokju, Ijin, and Yeongchan exchanged looks before shrugging their shoulders dismissively.
It's not like they were going to know who they were, since they were going to be wearing masks and the tattoos would both hide any noticeable scars and change the demographic of students the admins would be looking for.
After they sorted everything out with the whole covering up any identifying marks, they recorded the video and checked it multiple times to make sure that there was nothing that could give them away, before posting it onto Yeongchan's account again.
And that was how social media was banned from school.
As it turned out, male students with (temporary) tattoos dancing a suggestive dance online was more than enough reason to ban the use of social media from school. Especially since it went viral and there were all types of comments being left on the video.
Right.
Duly noted.
"So…another video next Tuesday?"
"Obviously."
