Amor de mi Alma || 2Jae

Chapter 15

The loud sound of music blaring through the hotel room wakes Youngjae up and he groans, pushing his face deeper into his pillow.

"Wake up!" A body heavily lands on him and shakes his shoulders and Youngjae pushes Jinyoung off.

"Fuck off to hell."

"That's not exactly nice to say," Jinyoung says, as Youngjae sits up and runs a hand through his messy hair, eyes still sleepy. "But get up, breakfast is in thirty minutes and after that, we're going to the beach. Jaebum should be done showering in a few minutes so get the fuck up or I'll make you get up."

"Fine," Youngjae grumbles, reaching to his nightstand to take his phone from his charger, seeing that Jaehoon finally responded to his string of curses with a simple middle-finger emoji.

When Jaebum is done showering, Youngjae takes his swimming trunks from his suitcase, along with a shirt, and disappears into the bathroom, and half an hour later they're downstairs, eating waffles and sausages and listening to Yugyeom and Kunpimook talk about how they were up all night watching vines on the internet.

At nine, they meet by the bus again, backpacks packed, and they filter inside the bus and take their seats, this time Youngjae sits with Ariana Sharpe rather than with Jaebum, who was pulled to the seat beside Jinyoung.

"The beach should be fun," says Jinyoung, as they filter out the bus and begin to walk through the green grass and many trees to reach the sea. "I wonder if there'll be ice cream trucks,"

"Probably, I mean, we brought our own money to buy lunch so there better be some kind of food truck," says Youngjae. A line of bushes separates the sand from the grass and Youngjae immediately takes off his flip-flops, sighing in relief when he walks into the hot sand. Most of the girls are already setting up their towels on the sand and backpacks and putting on sunscreen, but it seems that Jinyoung has different plans as once Youngjae and he have their shirts off, he pulls Youngjae to the sea and tosses him into the water.

"Not fair!" Youngjae splutters, once he surfaces above the water again. 

"Yes, it is - Jaebum, c'mon!" 

After a bit of hesitating, Jaebum takes his shirt off too and walks to the water, standing in the undeep end, and once Youngjae can reach far enough he pulls Jaebum completely into the water.

Some of the boys had brought water-guns so on a secluded part of the beach, most of the younger kids have a water-gun fight, while older students are either swimming, relaxing in the sun, or playing a variety of sports and games.

Youngjae joins a beach-volleyball game, having been on the volleyball team at the beginning of the year, and they play against the chaperones and win, too, and from the distance, he hears Jaebum and Jinyoung cheering them on as they go against a group of girls.

"Good job," says Jinyoung, when the volleyball net gets used by a group of young adults who want to play volleyball, too. Youngjae grins at him and then they go to their towels, where Yugyeom and Kunpimook are playing a game of cards. 

"Here," Yugyeom looks up and tosses them a bottle of spray-on sunscreen. "Put this on, don't burn."

"Yes, mom."

"Shut up, I'm the youngest here."

Youngjae laughs and once they are covered in sunscreen, he and Jaebum walk to a chain of food trucks to buy everyone a plethora of food, ranging from two large bags of fries - one for Youngjae, one for Kunpimook - to a hotdog for Jinyoung and two hamburgers, one for Yugyeom and one for Jaebum. Along with that, they buy five bottles of pop from the vending-machine truck and two bags of gummy-cady.

"Jesus," Jinyoung says when Youngjae and Jaebum return with the food. "Gone all out, did you?"

"Shush, eat." Youngjae grins and hands everyone their food before they dump the candy and the drinks on Yugyeom's towel. 

While eating, Yugyeom turns on music and they all laugh as they begin to joke around, and then betrayal happens when Jinyoung pulls out Uno cards, to which they all begin to betray each other even when in teams, and in the end Jaebum wins with the most wins, Youngjae running last with only one win ("I hate this game").

Yugyeom's mom buys them ice-cream around one as a treat, and after that Youngjae is pulled to a water gun fight by Yugyeom and Kunpimook, and Ariana Sharpe hands them handfuls of water balloons.

An hour later, they are called together again by Mr. Divins, who begins to speak about their afternoon.

"Youcan either stay at the hotel or go to the shopping centre," he says. "But don't worry if you want to stay at the hotel, we'll be going shopping on Thursday, and when you have free-roam you can have a chance to enter the shopping centre too. For now, pack up your bags and meet us by the bus at two-thirty, you can decide what to do while we're driving back to the hotel."

Everyone disperses again and Youngjae puts away his stuff in his backpack and pulls his shirt over his head, hair still dripping from the water gun fight. On the bus, he sits beside Jaebum, and they decide on going to the shopping centre with just the two of them, leaving Jinyoung to go with Yugyeom and Kunpimook. 

Their time at the shopping mall feels like it flies by quick, and Youngjae pulls Jaebum to many stores - Hot Topic, H&M, Blue Navy, and even more - and each time they leave with at least one of them carrying another bag, and Youngjae even goes to Ardenes to buy Jaehee two surprise bags, ignoring the strange looks he gets from the cashier.

They meet with Jinyoung, Yugyeom, and Kunpimook at the entrance to the shopping mall and then they head back to the hotel, dropping their bags off at their hotel room before making their way down to the food-room of the hotel, where they are serving tacos, as that is what most people chose at the survey a few weeks ago.

In the evening they go to the swimming pool of the hotel and at nine they return to their room, where they each take turns to wash the chlorine of the pool off before diving into Jaebum and Jinyoung's bed to watch movies on the television, eventually falling asleep in a pile of limbs.

Wow. One month of not uploading and so much has happened. I dated someone for 5 days, broke up again after some issues, reconnected with friends and made new ones, had numerous panic attacks after getting attacked by someone, and feeling just completely left out. But I'm back. 

Let's hope that the rest of 2019 will turn out better than what the start of it was.