Deer Luhan, With Love

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Chapter 39 – In Which I Like Big Butts And I Cannot Lie

Deer Luhan,

From the way everybody’s been reacting to the news that I’m a girl, I’ve come to the conclusion that EXO-K stands for EXO-Kids and EXO-M stands for EXO-Mature.  Even though “mature” in this case is strictly relative.

Leigh

There was a long hesitation when Kris suggested getting Luhan.  I shivered.  The cold was really getting to the parts of me that weren’t covered by the towel now, and I could tell Xiumin could hear my teeth rattling in my head because he twitched like he wanted to turn around.

Kris looked expectantly between the four members he could see.  “Somebody wanna give Luhan a shout?  I’m dead certain he didn’t go out again.”

Lay, Xiumin and Chen just stood there.

“LuLu-ge!” Tao bellowed at the top of his lungs.  Nobody moved.  Lay and Chen looked helpless.  They clearly had no idea how to get out of what was beginning to feel bizarrely like a Mexican standoff.

Licking cereal crumbs off his fingers, Kris reached for his phone and dialled in a number.  Only moments later, Luhan’s phone went off on the living room table, where I’d left it when I got back in.

“Well, he’s in,” said Kris, looking around at us all.  “He never goes out without his phone.”

Sadly, the three who knew I was a girl could only agree to that: I’d never been without Luhan’s phone in the first place, but after the incident with the mafia, there wasn’t a chance I was going to leave the building without it.

Seeing that nobody was making a move to do anything, Kris heaved himself up off the sofa with a sigh and came over to me and Xiumin.  Xiumin folded his arms as he approached.  Kris halted in front of him when Xiumin didn’t step aside.

“Xiu, budge over, would you?” Kris requested.  “I need to get into the bathroom to check, since nobody else will.”

Xiumin backed up a couple of steps, forcing me against the bathroom door.

“I can’t let you,” he said.

Kris raised an eyebrow.  “What are you hiding?”

“It’s unfair on a girl to barge in on her while she’s showering,” Xiumin said stoically.  “Not to mention that the door was locked when Tao went in there, so this whole situation shouldn’t have happened in the first place.”

Kris cocked an eyebrow, trying to peer around him even though the door was closed.  “What, is Junghee visiting?  You should have told us.”

Xiumin didn’t reply to that.  It was too much of a hole to dig, and he’d already dug himself pretty deep.

At that moment, a violent shiver wracked my body and I nearly bit through my tongue in my effort to keep my teeth still.  Kris clearly caught sight of the spasm, because he pushed Xiumin aside before Xiumin could respond, and I found myself staring up into a pair of warm brown eyes.  Which I’d already looked into plenty of times before, just never in a situation quite as tense as this.

“Oh, it was you, LuLu,” Kris said, smiling as his eyes roamed my face.  Then they dropped further down.

His eyes bugged for a second.  I didn’t wear my chest compressor in the shower.

Then he burst out laughing.

“Oh my God,” he spluttered out between chuckles, leaning limply against the wall.  “Lay, are you absolutely sure you’ve seen Luhan sleep naked, you lucky b*gg*r?”