five days | kim seungmin

12 | peach rings

"off to toronto, everybody!"

the bus started moving with mr. yoon's excited voice.

by now i had gotten over the jet lag and wasn't tired anymore. i was sitting next to somi again, and we jammed to some lit music on the way to toronto.

we stopped at a rest area in the middle like always, and i decided to buy myself a little snack at the store. i scanned the rack displaying a variety of gummies, my favorite. after a long period of consideration, i grabbed one bag of cola gummies and another bag of peach rings. i checked my wallet to see if i had enough money to pay for both. to my disappointment, i was lacking a few cents.

maybe this was a sign for me to stop eating so much candy.

i gloomily looked at the two packs of gummies, and decided to put back the peach rings.

"why don't you get the peach rings?"

i jumped at seungmin's voice, almost dropping the bag of gummies.

"i... don't have enough money?" i gave a sheepish smile.

"i'll buy it for you..." seungmin offered.

my face lit up. "really?"

"...only if you give me one," he added, grinning.

i rolled my eyes. "fine," i handed him the peach rings, following him to the cashier.

"will that be all?" the cashier asked seungmin, taking his money.

"yes, thank you," seungmin's fluent english showed through even in his one short phrase.

i paid for the cola gummies and seungmin gave me the peach rings. "thanks," i ripped the bag open, unable to resist the temptation. i gave seungmin one to keep my promise.

we exited the snack shop and walked back to the bus, me munching on peach rings.

"ah~" seungmin said looking at me.

i stretched my arm out to give him a peach ring. but as the gummy neared his mouth, i yanked it back and popped it into my mouth.

"yah!" seungmin crossed his arms.

"you said you would pay for it if i gave you one," i teased, holding up my index finger to his face.

"ah, come on," seungmin whined. "one more. please?"

"ew, was that aegyo just now?" i pretended to cringe, when inside i was dying because he was so adorable.

"so what if it was? just give me one already, i'm hungry," seungmin opened his mouth again.

i gave in and put a peach ring in his mouth. he immediately erupted with joy, probably overreacting.

"it's so delicious!" seungmin exclaimed, scrunching his nose in the cutest way possible.

"if you like peach rings so much, you can just keep it," i said, holding out the pack of gummies.

"thanks!" hyunjin appeared out of nowhere and took the bag from my hands.

"yah!" i yelled, but he was already running towards the bus. "really, that hwang hyunjin."

"it's okay, i'll buy you another pack," seungmin started walking back to the store, but i grabbed his arm to stop him.

"it's fine, i still have cola gummies," i said.

"you sure?"

i nodded.

"yeah, maybe you should stop eating so much candy," seungmin giggled.

"yah kim seungmin!"

"i'm just kidding! just kidding, calm down!" seungmin backed away from my raised hand.

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the bus entered toronto and we got off at the toronto city hall.

"remember your groups i told you yesterday?" mr. yoon said. "please gather with your group now."

people shuffled around to stand with their groups.

"these are the lists of photos you need to take," mr. yoon handed a piece of paper to each group. "you may take videos for some of them. you basically have the whole day to complete the list. we will meet at the hotel at six pm to eat dinner. now, have fun!"

"minjoo-yah, are you going to stay with your group the whole day?" my mom asked me.

"yeah, we'll take care of lunch ourselves too," i nodded.

"okay. be safe, alright? bye!"

"bye!"

"come on minjoo unnie, let's go," somi beckoned me to follow her.

"where are we going?" i thought we should first plan out our day...

"we're gonna start our photo mission right away," somi said.

"which one?"

"the list said 'recreate an album cover,'" somi replied as we arrived in front of a big fountain.

"okay, somi suggested we recreate wanna one's 'to be one' album cover. stand in rows of two, three, and two," chan directed.

once we were in position, chan told us to tilt our head to the left like wanna one in their album cover.

"one, two, three!" chan counted.

"kimchi!" jisung shouted.

chan checked the photo he took and gave a thumbs up.

"which photo should we take next?" dahyun asked, looking at the paper mr. yoon had given us.

"ooh! fortnite dance impression!" felix pointed excitedly at one of the choices.

"yo, do it by yourself, felix," jisung said, pushing felix forward.

"alright," felix looked at chan, who was in charge of the camera. "you ready?"

chan focused his phone camera on felix and gave a small nod. all of us were waiting for felix to start dancing.

felix suddenly started the orange justice dance and i was very surprised at how passionate one could look doing the move. his legs and arms moved flapped widly as the rest of us cheered him on and chan recorded him.

"LET'S GET IT FELIX!" jisung screeched, jumping up and down.

"YEAH LEE YONGBOK!" chan yelled.

"lee yongbok? is that his korean name?" i asked in confusion.

"i think so," somi nodded, clapping at felix dancing.

soon enough, chan wasn't even taking pictures anymore and everyone was busy doing their own fortnite impressions.

it was a mess, but it was a fun start to the day.