"Jaemiiiiiin!!!! Ang init fo dito kaya bilisan mo pliiiissss"
Shouted Lyka by the front door as she anxiously twists her baseball cap to cover her pale face from the piercing rays of the morning sun. She threateningly presses the door bell over and over again and finally she heard quick and loud foot steps coming from the inside.
She hastily brushes her hair with her fingers, thereafter laying them straight over her front and straightened her crumpled shirt. She secretly rehearsed her widest smile to greet Jaemin and finally, when the door was crashed open, she feigns a digusted look as she realizes it was Mark who she saw before her, mischievously smirking.
She groans in frustration and whipped to the oppotiste direction to retreat as fast as she could but Mark had hauled her by her elbow, dragging her inside the house as she writhes and spins her body to free herself from Mark's tight shackle but fails to do so.
"Hoy baboy wag kang maingay! natutulog ang bunso ni Jaemin!" Mark jeered as he abruptly pulls jinri with force towards the stairs. "AYAW KO DITO DAHIL ANG PAPANGIT NIYO!"
"DI NGA LANG AKO UMANGAL NA DUMATING KA NA MAS PANGET KA PA SA AMIN!" Mark retorts, annoyance laced in the tone of his voice as his face twisted in exasperation from Lyka's extreme movements. "ANG BIGAT MO PA JUSKO. PIGROLAC BA KINAKAIN MO ARAW-ARAW?!" he shouted once more as he felt Lyka's weight after a while.
"BITAWAN MO AKO HENTAI!!!!" Lyka yammered, slapping Mark's arms with her clammy hands. "GAGA KA HINDI AKO HENTAI!"
"—Hoy kayong dalawa, pag gumising kapatid ko, kayo magbabantay!" Interjected Jaemin who suddenly appeared at the top most part of the stairs, menacingly glaring at Lyka and Mark who looked like Hyenas about to eat eachother from hunger.
Quickly, Mark and Lyka froze from where they stood and fixed themselves before taking their steps towards Jaemin's room. "Tangina ka ang baho ng ilok mo." Mark mumbles, sniffing in distaste as he lifted his hand to his snoot. "Tangina ka rin, ang dry ng balat mo parang sand paper." Lyka counters as she triumphantly grins once she reached Jaemin's spacious room.
"MGA BAKLAAAA!!!!" she widely flail her arms as she approaches Chenle, Jaemin, Jeno, Donghyuk, Jisung and Renjun who were in arrant silence playing uno solemnly.
Lyka halts the moment she realize how deeply immersed her 'idiotic' friends were on the game. They tightly clutch the game cards in their hand as their gazes were fixated on their opponents. "Oh andito na pala ang ampalaya." muttered Chenle as a childish chortle follows. "Ampalaya pala ha."
Lyka kicked Chenle's knees with her foot as he grunts in pain, causing him to drop his cards and expose his plan. "LYKAAAAAAA MAMATAY KA SANAAAAA!!!!" Scowled Chenle as he angrily ascended from where he sat, charging at Lyka who's now running for her life.
"Hoy magsitahimik kayo!"Jisung chuckled. "This is why Chenle and Lyka shouldn't have met before." Renjun added, throwing his cards in defeat.
Laterlly, after a few moments, Lyka held up her hands in mock-surrender while gasping for air and as for Chenle, he pauses as well and catches his breath. "Sorry na!" Lyka whimpered, wrinkling her forehead. "Aminin mo muna na ampalaya ka!" .
"Oo na ampalaya ako!" She snaps, rolling her eyes. "Oy ang awkward pala dito no." Jeno joked as he brushes his shoulder against Donghyuk's who has been silent the whole time. "Diba dodong?" he added, waggling his brows.
"awkwars ba kamo?" Mark objurgated as he tugged the nape of Lyka's shirt, pulling her downwards to sit beside him. "MARUNONG AKO UMUPO" she grimaced. "pero di ka marunong kung saan umupo. Baka doon ka tatabi sa ex mong taken." mark replies in a taut voice, surprising everyone in the room.
"Idol ko talaga si Mark hyung. Ang taas ng self-confidence." Jisung cheerfully patronized Mark. "Lul," Lyka curtly responded which caught Jisung's attention. "Anong lul?" Mark answers, snorting. "Mataas ba kamo yung self- confidence niya? Pero di kasing taas sa leeg naman."
Mark's eyes was overtaken in disdain and outrage when everyone else laughed at Lyka's retort. He never felt so embarrassed in his life. And he forces himself to smile as well.
Mark knew it wasn't said because Lyka hated him, it was just out of fun. He knew he shouldn't take it seriously because ever since then, it was already a norm for them to tease each other or call them names. But, it somehow felt like an attack to him.
He didn't want to show them how ashamed he was so he laughs as well, although with a mixture of dismay.
He didn't understand why he was hurt when it wasn't even that insulting. But the very reason why he was being sensitive is because it was Lyka who pointed out his insecurity.
Lyka, the girl whom he likes, made fun of him. But it was not like the first time he encountered it. They do this all the time but it was just then he realize that it actually mattered for some reason. . .
