The Stars (GTOP)

Chapter Fourteen: Pool Party

Will I ever stop apologizing? I doubt it. I am, as usual, incredibly sorry. These updates will be better because I'm writing everything ahead of time now. I won't leave this story hanging again. I am determined to finish it. (Hopefully in a timely manner, but we'll see haha)

Seunghyun walked to the door, smiling as he heard Jiyong to continue fussing in the kitchen. He opened the door to find Chris and Charlotte there with their three children as well as a few other neighbors behind them.

"Hi." He stepped aside, holding the door open wide. "Please come in."

They all smiled and thanked him as they walked into the house. Seunghyun looked up the street to see another small group walking towards the house. The man smiled and waved as they turned up the walkway.

"Hey there neighbor." He held his hand out, giving the rapper a strong handshake. "I'm Ryan and this is my wife Mellie, and our daughters Chloe and Jen."

Seunghyun smiled. "I'm Seunghyun, it's nice to meet you." Not seeing anyone else for the moment the small family followed him into the house, to the kitchen where everyone else was talking.

"Ji Ji."

Jiyong's head fell back as he sighed overdramatically. "Yes?" He looked at Seunghyun. "Oh, hello!"

Ryan and his family smiled at Jiyong and greeted him together. Chris smiled. "Ryan and I work at the county garage fixing up school buses, police cars, and stuff like that. Our Josh is in the same grade as Chloe."

Jiyong smiled. "This really does feel like a nice, close community."

Mellie smiled at him. "It is, and it's a relief to see a nice group living here. The tenants that have lived here over the last few years have either been sketchy, or grumps that didn't want to talk to anyone. It's a breath of fresh air to see such polite young people here."

Seungri looked out the window and began to laugh. Everyone else's eyes followed and they all saw Gaho had jumped into the pool to swim with Charlotte and Chris's kids, who were shrieking with laughter.

A woman with red hair, named Lacey, laughed. "Your dog seems energetic."

Bae smiled. "All three of them are pretty hyper. Where are the other two at though?"

He turned to look at the tattooed rapper, who shrugged after he took a photo of Gaho. "Are they still in the house?"

He set his phone on the island counter and walked into the hallway. "Jolie! Homie!"

The two dogs came bounding towards him from the living room, panting and wagging their tails happily.

Jiyong jogged outside, the dogs following excitedly. Seunghyun followed his lover, with the other guests accompanying him. Jiyong was standing at the edge of the pool trying to get the other two dogs to jump in, to no avail. Seunghyun walked up behind him and pushed him into the water, causing everyone to break out in laughter. Jolie and Homie jumped in after Jiyong, who had just resurfaced and was pushing his hair out of his face.

"Well then!" He was smiling. All three dogs were swimming around him, making sure that he was all right. The kids swam over, smiles on their faces.

A little red haired boy, Billy, swam close to Gaho, petting his head. "Your dogs are silly!"

Jiyong chuckled. "Yeah, they are pretty silly, huh?"

"What are their names?" A girl named Gemma asked.

Ji pulled Gaho closer to him. "This one is Gaho. The other one," he pointed to Jolie who was swimming after Homie. "Her name is Jolie. Her collar is purple, Gaho's is this dark blue green color. Homie has the black collar."