ORPHANS: NCT DREAM

24 | tasty food

AERI

the room lead into a small hallway, and only got two doors which led to a room. we all walked slowly behind mark, but chenle being excited skipped his way to a room. he opened it, not thinking that what if someone might be there.

his jaw dropped, and his eyes looked like it sparkled as if he saw a unicorn, with amazing rainbow wings.

we all stopped walking.

"w-what is it?" jisung stuttered. chenle didn't answered, and automatically walked in without saying anything to us. it was like he got controlled, or dragged in by someone.

mark got worried, and a shaped pearl of sweat rolled down his forehead. he quickly ran towards the door, so did i.

we sighed in relief. nothing bad happened to him, but what we were seeing now was a good thing.

we saw chenle tip-toeing so he could reach biscuits from a cabinet.

without even noticing, the others boys were behind us too. "is this the food room, that the orphanage never fed us with?" jaemin asked.

"i believe so." mark said, stepping in and joining chenle.

we copied mark, and started to actually..... eat proper food. not food that would make you puke, food that will make you want more.

everyone went their own way, as i walked toward the white fridge. i opened it and the cold breeze shot me, it was relaxing and refreshing.

i opened my eyes, and saw bunch of foods stuffed in. the first thing i saw was a box, the word "donuts" were written on it.

"dunkin donuts?" i whispered to myself.

i grabbed it, and slowly opened it. there were baked dough, formed into a circle with different icing and sprinkles. my mouth started to get watery.

hyuck walked towards me, asking me what it was like a little child. "well, technically they are called donuts." i answered.

we both grabbed some, i took one with chocolate icing and rainbow sprinkles. we looked at each other, then took a bite and enjoyed the taste of it, touched our tongue and it was unique and different.

i loved it!
i loved it!

we chewed happily, chuckling at each other. "this looks really familiar." i said, studying the food and tilting my head.

hyuck's eyes looked into mine. "i remember, it's where you had a wound and we went to sister lina's office to get help."

he paused, smiling. "there we saw her sitting, eating this, which are called....." he looked down the box. "donuts."

i smiled, he was showing those moments back then in my mind. i can't help but smile, i can't help but feel happiness inside me. i wanna hug him, and thank him for being here for me, even if he was off for some few days.

"i promise to be like a brother to you. always." his 6 year old voice suddenly spoke inside my mind, making me smile more wider, but also felt a bit pain.

sorry i can't promise to be a sister to you, because of this STUPID feelings. i wished i never had them, like you never had them.

i sighed, smiling as we both walked around to watch what the others are eating, still i had the box of donuts on my hands.

we walked over to chenle, who was stuffing his mouth with sour candies. his saliva is almost dripping down, it was disgusting but yet looked cute since he never tasted candy. he looked so happy.

jisung sat beside him, and tried out what he was eating.

"eww." hyuck whispered, scrunching his nose and walked away, grabbing my wrist.

near chenle was, jaemin and jeno. they were eating a worm candy, biting the ends of it as they continued to, the more the candy was eaten the more their lips gets closer.

i rolled my eyes, smiling at what they were doing.

hyuck who was again disgusted, grabbed my arm and pulled me to mark and renjun. they were both eating a lot, but more neat and slower.

"what're you eating?" donghyuck asked the both them. they glanced up, munching food with chopsticks on their hand. "this is probably what you call proper meal, it's their leftovers. sushi." mark simply answered.

he grabbed another sushi with his chopsticks, and lifted it up for me to fit in inside my mouth. i leaned down, bit it and chewed on it's different flavour. it was really hard to explain how it tasted, but it tasted good.

"can i try?" donghyuck asked, mark nodded his head, opening the fridge and handing him a box of it. "sushi." hyuck read.

me and donghyuck both sat down the floor, and dig in, eating all the sushis.

technically, for almost an hour all we did was.

nom. nom. nom. chew. chew. chew. munch. munch. munch.

...

"urgh, im full~" chenle whined, who was clinging into jisung, who rubbed his stomach.

we all groaned, felt like we were a 100 times fatter than before. jeno and jaemin was on top of each other, groaning and complaining about their stomach aching.

renjun and mark, who was laying back with eyes closed, hugging their own stomach. they are probably asleep.

"ow~" i sighed, looking down at my stomach and felt like not moving a movement, because it hurts so bad.

i laid my head on donghyuck's shoulder, and slowly closed my eyes, still hugging my stomach.

damn you my feelings for hyuck.

i sighed, slowly felt like i was falling into a deep and long sleep.

which i actually am about to.

note: guys, i have parents meeting school tmrw and idk if my mother is actually coning :)