Tell Me I'm Alive

Cat Nap

During my nap, I don't have any dreams as usual, or at least, I don't remember them. My eyes stay closed as my consciousness returns to me. There's a quiet buzz of conversation happening in the room, but as I wake more and more, I can't understand any of it. They must be speaking in Korean. I'm no longer upright, leaning on Jeongin, instead, I'm laying across the couch with my head on someone's lap. A hand is making its way through my hair and I sigh contentedly. This causes the person to pause in their movements.

I pry my eyes open and look up to see Minho. I kind of figured they had switched out because the thighs under my head were too thick to be Jeongin's. "Good morning, Nana." He murmurs quietly.

I grumble, unhappy to be awake. "S'not morning." I throw an arm over my eyes and try to coax my body awake slowly. Minho moves his fingers through my hair again, carefully detangling them when he gets to a knot. "Mm, are there lots of knots?"

"Yeah, no worry, I fix."

"Thanks Minnie..." His smooth caresses almost put me to sleep again and I decide to sit up before I do. I rub my eyes and stretch my upper body lazily.

"Wakey wakey, sleepy head!" The sunshine himself enters the room and I glare at his chipper demeanor.

"Felix, my dear, don't mess with me right now, unless you want to go on stage with a limp." I glower, desperately trying to gather my bearings. My purse is still sitting on the floor where I left it and I pull it into my lap.

"Jeez, you're worse to wake up than Channie-hyung. At least he doesn't threaten me." He pouts and sits on my other side now that my legs aren't taking up the space.

I pull my ADHD medication bottle out and ask, "Is there a water bottle I can have so I can take this?" Minho reaches for the table beside him and hands me a half-drunk one. "Um, who's is this?"

"Lino-hyung's," Felix supplies.

"There's no way I'm drinking from your bottle, Minho." I blush while thinking of school girl thoughts of indirect kisses. He just shrugs and gets up to grab one from the refrigerator in the corner of the room. "If there's some right there, why even offer your own?"

Minho just smirks and hands me the bottle after taking the cap off. "I tried," is all he has to say on the matter and I elect to ignore the implications of his words. I pop the pill into my mouth and wash it down with a swig of water. After a moment, I take another sip to rehydrate myself.

"You snore, you know." Comes from the doorway where Seungmin now stands with my original pillow, Jeongin.

"Yeah, I always have. I wasn't too loud, was I?"

"The loudest." "Of course not, Noona." Seungmin and Felix's replies contradict each others' and I glare playfully at Seungmin.

"I'm glad you left then, since I was too loud for you." He just smirks and takes a seat on the floor.

The guys slowly trickle back into the room and I look at the time on my watch. I must have slept for two hours, since it was currently four o'clock. I mutter, "I can't believe I slept that long."

"What was that, Lana?" Chan looks over at me quizzically.

"I was just thinking that I slept for a lot longer than I thought I would. I usually can't sleep well unless I'm in my own bed."

"Noona, you slept like a log! Innie had trouble moving you before Lino-hyung offered to help and you clung to him like a koala!" Felix so helpfully recreates the scene by clinging to my side and I notice my two pillow stand-ins blushing to their ears. I feel heat creep onto my own cheeks as well and cover my face with my hands.