stray letters | nct jaemin.

six | insomnia.

"I can't sleep~" Jaemin sings, making it out to be a joke when really, he does have trouble sleeping, ever since he came back home.

The other dreamies go to bed at 10 pm, whilst he goes to bed much earlier but isn't able to rest his chaotic mind until many hours later.

He turns to Angie, who wears an expression of confusion, not knowing whether he was joking or not.

"No, really, I can't sleep," he slowly makes his way towards Angie, their faces only inches apart, "can you help me?"

And her face flushes red for the second time today.

"W-what do you want me to do?" She keeps her eyes fixated on her feet, as if she suddenly grew a sixth toe.

"Read me a story."

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"Jaemin, you don't have any books to read??"

"No? Just make one up on the spot." He suggested, shrugging while he jumps on to the bed carelessly, forgetting about his back and letting out a piercing screech as soon as he makes contact with the bed.

Angie runs over to him, helping him into the bed before clicking her tongue, "weren't you supposed to stay in bed?? God, Taeyong's gonna kill me!"

"I needed to eat Donghyuck's heavenly food??"

"I could've just fed you in bed," she rolls her eyes, tucking him in.

"Good idea, do that next time."

"Whatever, stupid head."

"Stupid head? What a lame insult, you should've just used 'Dumb dumb zombie-lookin' ass skinny pig head' instead!" Donghyuck butts in, making both of their heads sharply turn towards the door way to see both him and Renjun just standing there.

Well, Renjun actually has him in a headlock.

"O-okay, I'll get going now!" Donghyuck says in between chokes, nevertheless Renjun just tightens his grip around Donghyuck's neck and pulls him out of the room.

"I'm guessing that's normal..?" Angie turns to Jaemin, who looks to be comfortably settled for bed.

"Yeahh," he drags out the word exhaustedly before pulling Angie towards him, signalling for her to sit on the bed.

A storm of deep thought swirls around her mind, quickly creating a story suitable enough to impress Jaemin and put him to sleep.

"Alright, I got one."

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Angela's POV

"Wow, I'm proud of myself!" I whisper. Not only did the story completely knock Jaemin out, but it sounded so amazing, I can't believe I made it up on the spot.

I should become an author! I chuckle to myself and quietly exit the room, only to see Jeno and Mark playing Go Fish in the middle of the living room floor.

"Shouldn't you guys be sleeping?? It's 10:01 pm," I knowingly smirk at them, only to earn the rolling of eyes and and disappointed shaking of heads.

"Don't tell our manager!" Mark whispers and puts a finger up to his lips.

I tiredly smile and walk out of the dorm, proud of my accomplishments today. Hopefully Taeyong doesn't know that I let Jaemin out of bed, though.

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Renjun and Jeno walk into the room, chatting heartily without acknowledging the fact that Jaemin is sleeping soundly on his bed, his body in the weirdest position a human body is capable of being in.

"Aish, no wonder he keeps hurting his back. Look at him!" Renjun gestures towards the mess- the beautiful mess- scattered across the bed.

His right arm was up in the air, lazily resting on the top of the headboard whilst the other arm was under is left leg, and his right leg was not on the bed altogether.

The author is currently imagining the scene and is laughing her ass off.

Not to mention, he has an eyemask on- one covered with rainbows and cherries and his Thor blanket only covers two of his left toes.

A mess indeed.

Jeno and Renjun sigh before exchanging glances, wondering if they should fix his position or just leave him like that.

"Nahhh." "Come on Injunnie let's help-"

They both exert different reactions to the situation and frown in conflict as they cannot choose whether to step forward or just stay glued to the ground.

"Hey Jen here's your water bott- what the fuck's wrong with this guy?" Donghyuck barges in and quickly runs to Jaemin to make him less of a mess than he already is.

Within seconds, Jaemin is neatly tucked in just like he was around an hour ago and is quietly snoring contently, whilst Donghyuck struts out with a smirk on his face.

The two boys eventually drop down onto their beds like tired hurricanes and soon enough they may end up as much of a mess as Jaemin was, but who cares? As long as they get sleep, right?

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"HOW THE HELL DID HE END UP IN THE EXACT SAME POSITION AS LAST NIGHT?!"