strawberry sunday ❧ k.jw | ✔

five

Finally, after two more hours, many rousing car games led by the now-awake Donghyuck, and several full-car sing-alongs, you'd arrived at the coast. The vast highway gave way to meandering residential roads filled with small, colorful houses clustered together, each with a different quirky mailbox in front of it. Johnny rolled down the front windows, and you could smell the salty ocean air immediately.

A few more twisty roads later, and he slowed to a stop at the dead end of a line of houses in front of a periwinkle colored one, with a familiar small silver hatchback sedan parked out front by the mermaid-shaped mailbox.

"Huh, I thought we'd be the last ones to get here," Johnny commented, putting his car into park as all of you starting unbuckling and getting ready to get out. Taeil and Doyoung climbed out of their own car to greet you all as well. "The others left before us, and we had to pick Y/N and Donghyuck up."

There was definitely one vehicle missing, the driver of course being the one who had the key to let you into the house.

"Hey, guys!" You hopped out of the SUV, eager to be out of the cramped backseat again. Your legs weren't quite ready for your leap, though, but Doyoung thankfully caught you in a half-hug, half-save.

"Hey, Y/N, careful," he chuckled. "It's gonna be a shitty spring break if you twist your ankle on the first day."

"What, you and Taeil couldn't magic me better?" You teased, righting yourself to give the other witch a hug hello.

"Not this time," Taeil sighed, patting your back. "We're a bit tired."

"Oh? Why?" You pulled back from him to look between the two of them with concern.

"Because they made me this," Johnny suddenly appeared between Taeil and Doyoung, slinging one arm around Taeil and using the other to hold up something around his own neck. It was a single pearl hanging from a leather cord, and he tucked it back under his shirt after he was sure you got a look at it. "An anti-Yuta charm."

"Ahh, gotcha," you smiled at the three of them. "They should really hand those out at orientation at school."

Johnny let out a hearty laugh at that, giving Taeil and Doyoung each a head ruffle before heading off to see what the others were doing with the luggage in the back of his SUV.

After you were sure he was out of earshot, you turned back to the two witches, "That must be a pretty powerful charm to have made the both of you so tired."

"Well, it's a bit hard to tell a unicorn no to their face," Doyoung rolled his eyes. "Especially Taeyong, he's got those big round pouty eyes, you know? He asked us to make it for Johnny, said the guy was nervous about coming, even if he wasn't showing it."

Taeil added, "And Taeyong was right, it is your fault that even happened to Johnny. You put the hex on Yuta in the first place."

"Yeah, yeah," Doyoung waved his friend off, paused, then added, "Thank you for helping, Taeil."

"Speaking of Yuta," you said loudly, spotting a familiar vehicle in the distance, at the bottom of the hill.

The whole group burst into noisy jeers and complaints at the old blue truck as it got nearer and nearer, until Yuta had pulled all the way around and parked in the space Taeil left empty for him in the driveway. The heckles finally quieted down when the siren climbed out of his truck to glare at you all.

"Alright!" He held his hands up in a quiet-down gesture. "Sorry to keep you guys waiting. But we're here now."

"What took you guys so long?" Johnny asked, starting to help the three newcomers unload the bed of the truck.