Seaside ✅

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We found ourselves on the beach later on. Changmin and I opted for sitting under the umbrella along with Sangyeon and Hyunjoon. "They're pretty energetic huh." Sangyeon nodded in agreement then placed a card down. "Did you really have to change the color?" "Hey, I play to win." We continued playing until Changmin had let out a scream. "What's wrong!?" I looked over him, but he didn't seem to be hurt anywhere. "It was just a bug crawling on my arm." We all sighed then continued to play Uno.

I noticed Hyunjoon would often look out at the others by the water. "If you want to go, go." "It's okay." He played his card and was the first person out. "You always win." "And you always lose." I huffed then threw down a draw 4. "I can't believe you've done this." I looked and remembered that Changmin was after me. "Shit." As you could guess, the rest of the rounds didn't go smoothly for me.

We heard another scream and looked towards the others. Jaehyun was sitting down while the others had crowded around him. "Let's go look." Changmin and Sangyeon followed and I was genuinely appalled by the sight. "That's a nasty cut..." Younghoon and Juyeon carried him away and back into the house to treat his wound. "We should all go back inside. I don't want anyone else getting hurt." I pretended to follow then went back to see what had cut him. I spotted a large quantity of glass shards in the sand and some with what I assumed was blood on them.

"Well, doesn't look like you'll be able to do much moving around for a bit, Jaehyun." "Let's start up another game." Everyone had ignored Changmin's idea and headed back to their rooms. "Everyone seems so tense and I've been trying hard to get them to let loose..." "Well, a fellow friend was just injured, but that's no excuse to be rude. What did you have in mind?" "Truth or Dare. Or Never Have I Ever." "Do you want to start fights?" I felt bad as Changmin's face fell, but I had to tell him. There's no guarantee that anyone would tell the truth either.

"Let's just call it a day. Are we going to cook or order out?" "You're offering to help cook?" "It's a good bonding experience for friends and couples." He nodded in agreement then led me to the kitchen. "So, I decided to make these to suit everyone's tastes." "You planned to do it all alone?" "Y-Yeah...I figured no one else would want to help out of kindness..." I flicked his forehead then sighed. He's too nice and I felt lots of people were going to take advantage of him because of it. "You need to be mean sometimes you know." "I do know, but what would I achieve from that?" I didn't respond as I didn't really know myself.

We cooked mostly in silence unless we needed something from the other. "Thanks for helping. Things were finished twice as fast." I looked at the time and noticed the rest of the afternoon had gone by. "Should I call for them?" "If you don't mind." I headed to the rooms on this floor and knocked loudly. "Dinner's ready. Go to the dining room." I made my way upstairs and heard doors opening from both floors. "Any louder and you'll wake up the dead." I rolled my eyes then remembered Jaehyun's condition. I headed downstairs and saw him limping towards the dining room. "I guess the wounds weren't that bad." I headed to the dining room with Sangyeon and Hwall and saw that Changmin had laid everything out.

"Help yourselves. We made sure there was enough for everyone." Everyone was quiet as they ate. There wasn't anything strange about it as it was actually pretty normal. Someone had broken the silence with a yelp. "Now what?" "Static..." We sighed as Haknyeon had made us worry over nothing.

I didn't know what had awaited us tomorrow morning.