Dreams of Arcadia

37

After I had dried myself off, I looked for a room where I could have some peace and quiet. Minji and Bora were no longer alone in the guest room, Seonghwa was lying across both of them, Jinyoung and Yungjae had also jealously settled down in the room, but kept a safe distance so that they wouldn't be lynched in the morning. Anyway, there wasn't enough room for me and to be honest, I was worried that Seonghwa would throw up again... or Minji and Bora. After all the excitement, I preferred to sleep alone anyway. I stole a pillow and a comforter from Jungkook's room, then found a room with only two mattresses next to each other, a floor lamp next to it, otherwise the room was empty, it was probably one of the unfinished rooms, of which there were several in Jungkook's house, I only had his own room by the dresser, The living room had had even more mattresses and a huge screen, the dining room only had a table and eight chairs around it, but instead of food, he had stacked his entire wardrobe on it, his walk-in closet was empty except for the bed linen. Unfortunately, there was no key on the door to the room where I had settled down, because otherwise I could have locked the others out and protected myself from unpleasant surprises, but I was too tired to worry about who else would want to sleep here.

I had barely closed my eyes but was still awake when there was a soft knock on the door, which then opened slowly.

"Is there any room left here?" Mingi's head appeared and I smiled at him with relief.

"Yes, of course, come in quickly before someone sees that there's still room here and decides to sleep here too..." I asked him and he obediently closed the door before lying down on the other mattress. After a while, he turned to me.

"What's wrong?" I asked him when I noticed his eyes.

"Well... you know... I'm cold, I'm freezing... I don't have a blanket..." he explained and made a pout, which looked so cute that I wanted to pinch his cheek.

"You really are a baby... " I laughed and lifted my blanket a little so that he could scoot over to me, which he did.

"Yes and you found me orphan, now you have to take care of me for all eternity, that counts almost as much as a real contract." he said with a grin and cuddled up to me. I laughed and put an arm around him.

"Don't you dare call me Eomma...then I'll instantly introduce corporal punishment for cheeky mingis." I threatened, giggling. I felt safe with him, I knew he wouldn't try anything stupid, that's how well I had gotten to know him by now. He was so cuddly, how could I not have liked him?

"Don't worry, that would be too much for me..." he was just starting to reassure me when the door opened so loudly this time that we both jumped in fright. Two wildly kissing people staggered in and my eyes widened as I realized who was about to fall on top of us because they didn't realize the place was already occupied.

"Ahem Ahem..." I drew attention to us with a fake cough.

"Y/Nie, Mingi... Are we interrupting... oh crap, hyung, I told you we should just go to Jungkook's room." Felix immediately began to apologize.

"It's fine, as long as you don't have fun on us." Mingi said dryly.

"Oh, spectators? It's not free, if you want to see something, we want to see something too." Jimin giggled, visibly amused. Mingi and I looked equally horrified at him and Felix, who was trying to pull the drunken older man out of the room.

"Come on hyung, there's no show for them or us today, you're way too out of it right now. Yah, why don't you keep your hands off yourself... I'm taking you to bed now..." Felix struggled visibly, but Jimin simply let himself fall onto the other mattress, pulled Felix with him, nuzzled his face against his neck and fell asleep snoring softly.

"Okay, good night then... Keep your hands to yourself and shut up, I'm really tired and want to go to sleep," I grumbled and lay down again, relaxed, while no one dared to contradict me. Felix seemed to want to free himself briefly, but couldn't escape Jimin's grip and so he resigned himself to his fate and eventually closed his eyes...