Dark Good Looks // Hongjoong

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Hera's pov

It's been almost a week since the incident at the beach and Hongjoong was right about laying low, he hasn't made any appearances whatsoever. However, just like he asked, I haven't tried to look for him since I know he's probably close by anyway. I do occasionally feel like someone is staring or looking at me, so I assume it's either him or one of the other Ateez members

Today, Felix had taken us to a restaurant located in a mall for breakfast and wanted to go explore the different shops for the day. Some of us wanted new clothing, so we all figured it would be fun. I stayed with Jeongin and Hoseok most of the time as we were in charge of giving our opinions on the clothing choices of the ones that wanted clothes, I even tried a few on myself and we began treating it as a catwalk contest

We decided on a crazy theme and the outfits got more funny and extravagant the more competitive we got. Bang Chan somehow found a poofy, feathery scarf and paired it with converse and a fuzzy kangaroo onesy, making him the victor of the 'fasion show'. A clerk came around at the sound of the noise and gave us a stare, but didn't say anything. We returned everything to where we found it and kept the pieces we wanted to take home

"Why did you get so much?" Changbin asked

"Why not?" Jimin answered,"it's not like we're only going to wear it once, we'll keep them for a while" Changbin shrugged and draped and arm around my shoulders comfortably, Namjoon suggested we drop the bags off in the cars before trying to go elsewhere. We decided to split up, half went to the cars and the rest of us said we'd wait for them at the sweet shop. The group didn't take long to find us and before we knew it, we had spent more money than intended on sweets

The morning rolled by fast, but that was probably because we had woken up late, this place was exciting and there was so much to do that we'd be to tired to get up anywhere before ten the next morning. As of now, we strolled slowly back to the cars with bags of sweets in our hands and feeling satisfied with our day so far

"What now?" Yoongi asked with a yawn

"You're tired already?" Jin asked in disbelief,"it's only five in the afternoon"

"Exactly, I should have taken my nap an hour ago" he pointed out and popped a gummy bear in his mouth

"Five in the afternoon?" I turned to Jin,"really?" He nodded

"We had breakfast from half past ten to half past twelve, then we were jumping around different clothes store for about three hours and lastly, we were in the candy store for nearly two hours" he explained

"Time's flying" I sighed,"I can't believe it's already been a week"

"Me neither" Seungmin pouted,"I don't want to go back to school yet"

"Don't worry about that" I told him,"when we go back home, we still have another two weeks before school starts"

"That's fine then" he slurped a jelly worm and chewed it happily

The drive to the hotel was short as the mall wasn't far from there. The gates opened once Jimin showed the scanner our entry passes and parked in the designated spot for our floor, the building blocked out the afternoon sun, making the parking feel cold. I quickly grabbed my bag of sweets and walked into the warm hotel where the receptionist greeted me. The others followed and we left each other to go to our seperate rooms for the time being

"I'm going to take a shower" Jimin stated and wiped a tired hand over his face. Jungkook went to his room a few minutes later to lie down and nap while Han also left me to go and sleep. I took a breath and found a set of chairs on the balcony, I propped my feet up on one chair and relaxed in the other