𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍

4

  yeosang didn't trust that ship as soon as he saw it. when the ship came to a complete stop, that was when he started running. he didn't check behind him to see if anyone else had started running as well. he was only worried about himself right now. just a few seconds after he started running, he heard someone on the ship yell something, followed by rapid gunshots. the gunshots were loud and there were many of them all at once, but he could still hear hongjoong screaming "SCATTER!" over all the noise.
  even though he ran pretty fast, he felt like someone was following him. when he turned around to check, nobody was there, so he turned back around and ran even faster. about 1 or 2 minutes later of running, he had made it to the other side of the island. he walked past the only apple tree on the whole island. he then jumped into a nearby bush and decided that this would be his hiding spot for now.

  he thought he was alone, until he felt tapping on his shoulder. he tensed up a bit, hoping that he wasn't about to die, but he was relieved and irritated upon seeing who was behind him.
  it was yunho and jongho.
  "hello!" yunho said to him.
  "hi, yeosangie!" jongho said, waving at yeosang.
  "i was here first. get out." yeosang said with clenched teeth, narrowing his eyes at them like a hissing cat with unsheathed claws, ready to attack at any moment.
  "also, don't call me that again. that name is not cute, it's cringy." yeosang told jongho, pointing a finger at him.

  "actually, you didn't get here first. we all got here at the same time." jongho said, correcting yeosang and seeming completely unbothered by how yeosang was treating them.
  "plus, i'll call you that name as much as i want to, simply because i do think that it's cute and because i like doing things to irritate you on purpose because your reaction is funny." jongho quickly explained before smiling innocently at the blonde.
  yeosang sighed. "whatever. i'll just go somewhere else." he got out of the bush and walked away, but yunho and jongho got out of the bush too, and they followed him.

  yeosang kept walking and he ignored them. when they walked past the apple tree, jongho said, "yeosang! can we get apples? please?"
  "i want apples too!" yunho said out of nowhere.
  "copycat! you only said that because i said that!" jongho said to yunho with a slight pout on his face.
  yeosang turned back around to look at them both. "both of you are copycats! you won't stop following me!" he briefly turned back around and speed walked away, but stopped before he was completely out of sight, because he knew yunho and jongho were still following him even though his back was turned.

  "please leave me alone. i don't want to be bothered." he added, tightening both of his hands into fists. his nails were digging into his palms and they were going to leave marks. it took basically everything in him to not lash out at them and accidentally hurt one of them.
  jongho and yunho still kept following him anyway, causing him to turn around once more. "what do you two even want from me? why are you still following me even after i gave you so many warnings?" his cheeks and his ears had turned a bit pink from how angry he was, and yunho and jongho didn't take him seriously because of it.

  "you look cute when you're mad, yeo. you should be mad more often." yunho casually said.
  "WHY CAN'T YOU TWO IDIOTS TAKE ME SERIOUSLY FOR ONCE?!"
  "can we get apples?" jongho asked  again.
  yeosang was about to say something, but he quickly shut his mouth again. instead, he inhaled and exhaled loudly out of his nose and took a moment to calm down. he lost all of the patience he had, and decided to just deal with them. "..fine. let's go get you two some apples."
  he walked back to the apple tree, and yunho and jongho followed him.

  jongho pointed at one of the apples. "get it." he said to yeosang.
  "i'm too short to reach that. tell yunho to get it for you, he's tall enough."
  "i don't have to do anything either of you tell me to do. i'm older than both of you."
  "THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD IS LITERALLY RIGHT NEXT TO IT, DUMBASS."
  "oh, how convenient!" yunho grabbed the apple and bit into it.
  "THAT WAS MY APPLE, YOU BURNT HOT POCKET." jongho yelled.
  "I BIT IT, SO IT'S MINE." yunho shouted back at jongho while taking another bite of it right in his face.
  "I SAW IT FIRST, IT'S MINE." jongho tried to slap yunho, but he missed.
  "IT'S STILL MINE." he yelled before running away.
  "GET BACK HERE." jongho ran after him, trying his best to keep up.