small words || jeongcheol

09: i.o.u.

"Seungkwan," Jeonghan hissed, "The fuck are you doing?"

"Shh!" the chubby boy hissed, holding a finger to his lips. He was crouched beside his bed, wearing a pair of fluffy blue pyjama pants with patterns on, and a collared white pyjama shirt. His hands were deep in a red backpack, packets spilling out onto the bedroom floor.

"I'm trying to sleep," Jeonghan whispered. "You burn more calories when you sleep."

Seungkwan covered his mouth to stop himself from laughing out loud. "That doesn't work for me," he spluttered quietly. He continued to search the bag, plastic rustling within.

"What's in the bag?"

"My binge stash," Seungkwan replied guiltily.

"Seriously?" Jeonghan pushed his covers back and slid out of bed, crawling over to Seungkwan, whose bed was in the middle of the room. "Weren't you searched when you got here?"

"Yeah, Nurse Josh searched my suitcase," he hissed back.

"How did you get these in, then?" Jeonghan questioned, "They would have been confiscated for sure. I mean, they're trying to break bad habits-"

Seungkwan held up one hand, silencing him. He glanced over Junhui, who was sleeping heavily.

"They didn't search Minghao's car."

"What?"

"Nurse Minghao gave me a ride earlier today," Seungkwan explained.

"Today?" Jeonghan muttered, grabbing Seungkwan's plump wrist and squinting at his wrist-watch. It was two am. "I think you mean yesterday. It's two am! Why are you awake!?"

"Shh! You'll wake Junhui," Seungkwan said, trying to clamp a hand over his mouth, but the older boy slapped his hands away.

"That guy will sleep through anything," Jeonghan told him. "So you snuck into Minghao's car? How?"

"That dabbing loser was dumb enough to leave his keys in the hallway," Seungkwan replied with a shrug, "I stashed my bag in his glove box."

Jeonghan shook his head in awe.

"Anyway," Seungkwan whispered, "What would you like?"

"Huh?"

"From my stash," he said, "I've got galaxy, mars, milky way, squashies, starburst, skittles, smarties, snickers - you're not you when you're hungry, M&Ms, take a break have a kit-kat? What else; moams-"

"You sound like a salesman," Jeonghan scoffed, getting up and brushing off his knees. "And I'm not hungry."

"Alright," Seungkwan replied with a shrug. He tore open a pack of skittles, spilling half of them on the floor. "Ah, shit!"

"You're a walking disaster," Jeonghan hissed, shaking his head.

"Shut up!" Seungkwan whisper-shouted, scrambling to pick up the skittles.

"You're going to get toothache," he told him as he climbed back into bed.

"I always brush my teeth afterwards," Seungkwan said stoically, cramming skittles into his mouth.