desire

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the king for team utopia was jongho and the queen in team treasure was of course the only girl there. she herself didn't know why out of all of them they chose the girl who can't run for shit.

"hide in the slide here," hongjoong directed, "just climb up and rest by the entrance of the slide, we'll try our best to get them away from your name tag. if it gets uncomfortable or someone's up here, slide down and call us if there's someone at the bottom of the slide too."

ellie nodded obediently, managing to get her short body into the slide and doing as she was told to.

mingi finally announced the games beginning.

the girl rested, seeing nothing but the huge obstacle by the slide and the slide itself.

~ meanwhile with the others, they were hiding in a corner and discussing through.

"was it really a good idea not to let anyone guard her?" yunho asked, slightly concerned while looking at the place where she rested.

"it would make it obvious that she's the queen. but now that i do think of it, what if they find her and get to her first before we can even catch up?" yeosang looked at them dead in the eye.

"i'll go and check every now and then, but for now let's-" yunho got cut off when wooyoungs shouting could be heard.

"KING OR QUEEN DOESNT MATTER WHERE ARE YOU~" he taunted, "COME ON~"

"bullshit," yunho ran off and went over to the slides.

"motherfucker!" yeosang whisper-shouted. "i'm gonna try and get jonghos tag. it's better to get him eliminated first,"

"that boy has the grip force of 89.6kg and can manhandle you! what the fuck are you thinking? i think they chose him as the king too, since it's obvious he'll throw us off before we even get to his name tag!" hongjoong complained.

"you'll never know unless you try."

"whatever, just don't attack jongho. let's split up and find seonghwa, he might be the weakest enemy. whatever you do, don't. approach. jongho." hongjoong strictly instructed and ran off.

"HONGJOONG~" wooyoung called, "WHERE ARE YOU OUR SHORT CAPTAIN~"

"i'm not short, fuck you." hongjoong said from behind him, being quick to rip his name tag off, which then led to some wrestling but then they separated.

"JUNG WOOYOUNG, OUT!" mingi shouted through some megaphone he found.

~ ellie found her breathing becoming slightly ragged. she quickly went into the lobby thingy of the slide and sat there, trying to calm her breathing.

the girl could feel herself shaking, holding a shivering hand to her chest as she panicked. her heart was beating faster than normal, she heard footsteps and was about to go to the slide but her weak body couldn't drag her there.

when she saw a taller figure, her eyesight became blurry. the taller immediately bent down. yunho.

"hey, hey," he called, quickly grabbing a hand of hers and feeling her tremble, he knew what was happening.

yunho pulled her into his embrace without a second thought and rubbed her back, still holding her hand. when he pulled away, he wiped her tears with his thumb. "slowly, breathe with me."

he took his time and took deep breaths with the girl. "tiny," then, he pulled her back into a hug, "you're okay, you're safe."

"i'm sorry," ellie sighed, "i just don't know.. what-"

"don't apologize," he pulled away again and held her shoulders, "it's normal. you're okay, you were left alone and that overwhelmed you. i knew it was a good idea to let someone guard you."

"i'm okay, i can defend myself if i have to," she sat up and looked at the slide beside her, "not if it's jongho though, he'll drag me along like a sack of potatoes."

he laughed at her remark and looked in between the bars of the slides high ground. "san and yeosang are doing god knows what... well wrestling."

"god, what if i get myself in that situation?"

"we won't pin you to the floor and strangle you. we still have some dignity when it comes to women." yunho looked back at the girl, "unless you seem to be into that."

"what?! no!" she denied, harshly.

"i'm kidding, tiny," he laughed, "jongho is coming this way, aaaand he saw me, shit."

"i think he's the king," she breathed, "so get him, wooyoung's already experienced a penalty, no?"

"he's running around in acupuncture slippers," yunho laughed, "poor guy, must hurt. those shits are painful to walk in."

"i know," she approved, "i'm gonna hide in the slide again, try to get jongho away from me."

"are you sure?"

"if you're here, i'll be fine." she smiled and crawled to the slide, hiding in the entrance.

jongho came in, already starting fight yunho for the name tag until yunhos long ass arms reached for his back and ripped it off first.

"game over?" ellie asked from the slide as she watched them. "you're the king, aren't you?"

jongho fixed his messy hair and nodded. "i am,"

ellie went over to jongho and reached a hand up, fixing jonghos hair. "there you go, so we won?"

"yep." was all jongho said.

"yay!"

"let's get back to the others," yunho nodded his head to the lobby direction and looked at the both.

"look," yeosang chuckled and showed seonghwas name tag as well as sans. "caught both."

"cool! i was stuck hiding." ellie frowned.

san took out something from some room, "we can do this for the team penalty." he showed one of those paqui one chip challenge packets.

seonghwa hesitated, but decided to go first for the sake of being the eldest out of all of them.

his lips started swelling, his ears turned red and he started tearing up.

"nawe," ellie frowned, walking up to the elder and giving him a plastic bottle of milk, "poor hwa. it's okay! you did well." she enlightened and pat his head as he sat.

wooyoung scooched over to yunho, "get her before seonghwa does," he whispered. he was so close to snapping his neck.

ellie took the packet and shoved it to grace, "want one?"

"sure," and so she did, "it's not like i'll die."

"but you saw seonghwa, poor guy teared up and look at his swollen lips," she cooed, "he's not dead yet."

"maybe he just doesn't handle spicy shit well." grace shrugged and ate it without a second thought