Deer Luhan, With Love

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Chapter 56 – In Which Tao Finds a Spicy Concoction in the Fridge

Deer Luhan,

There are some games you just shouldn’t play when you’re pretending to be somebody else.  But I still feel proud I got the manager to drink almost all the remaining juice.  (Also, I knew much more about all of you than most of you thought.  Eat Drink that!)

Leigh

Suho, Sehun and I mentioned nothing to the K boys about the little mishap with the mafia, and the K boys in turn didn’t breathe a word about our escapade to the Great Wall when the others returned, on the basis that “EXO-M have been stealing you from us, Leigh, and we want you back.”  Apparently, holding my secrets hostage was one way of doing this.

“Somebody want to play something?” Kris asked, wandering out of the kitchen with cold pizza as the other M members hungrily raided the fridge.

Baekhyun nearly pounced on him.  “Call of Duty!”

“Vetoed,” Suho spoke up from the sofa, “unless you’re going to play with a gag.”

“But—”

“Seconded,” put in D.O. mercilessly.

Baekhyun pouted.

“We don’t need sound effects for World War Three,” Kris agreed around his mouthful of pizza.  Baekhyun huffed.

“Counter-strike?” he suggested.

“No.”

“Can you even play that with thirteen people?” I asked.  “In fact, are there any multiplayer games that cater to thirteen people?”

“We could do a football league,” Luhan proposed from the kitchen doorway as he licked some kind of sauce off his thumb.

“Please no,” groaned Xiumin, squeezing past him.  Lay followed, pausing briefly to wipe melted chocolate on Luhan’s cheek.  “Does it have to be a video game?”

“Lay!” Luhan protested before his tongue appeared to lick the chocolate up.  He trailed Lay to the sofa.  “Ugh.  Divine.  Is this the Belgian stuff D.O. got at the airport?”

D.O. looked up from the floor, where he’d been sitting watching a film on his iPad.  “Are you eating my chocolate?”

He looked highly unamused.  Luhan hastily pointed to Lay.

“It was him!”

D.O. narrowed his eyes at Lay instead.

“Tao put it in the microwave,” Lay said with a shrug.  “It kind of exploded everywhere.  Anybody for chocolate microwave fondue?”

All D.O. did was sigh.  “Tao, you idiot.”

“Melted chocolate is liquid goodness!” Tao yelled back from the kitchen.  “Whose is the juice?”

I stiffened with sudden alarm.  The juice wasn’t for Tao.  I was about to tell him so when Chen’s voice piped up with “there’s juice?”

I cringed, but managed to force myself not to hide my face in my hands.  Victim number one, if I wasn’t mistaken, and I was prepared to throw Tao under the bus if it meant I was able to get Chen.

I’m really sorry, Tao.  But you did walk in on me in the shower….  Even my attempts at justifying it to myself were ridiculously weak.  Besides, the shower incident was ages ago now, and the time for revenge was long gone.