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after finishing our ice cream, we headed back to where we agreed to meet with the other half of the group. it turned out they had eaten ice cream too, but at a different shop.

"what now?" jisung asked, happy after filling his stomach with ice cream.

"what do you mean, what now, it's time to shop!" dahyun exclaimed.

"goodbye wallet," felix said.

we all shopped for a good three hours, and it was soon time to return to the hotel. the hotel wasn't too far from the shopping mall, so we decided to walk there.

"did you get anything for me?" hyunjin asked on the way, grinning.

deja vu? i vaguely remembered him asking the same question after we went shopping at times square.

"haha no," i said with a straight face.

as we walked for a while, my arms started to get tired of holding shopping bags. then i saw how many bags somi, chaeyoung, and dahyun were holding and realized that i shouldn't be complaining.

"i'll carry some for you," seungmin took some of the bags in my hands, surprising me.

"ah, thank you!" i said.

why is he being so nice to me? not that i'm complaining, though.

☆☆☆

we arrived at the hotel earlier than most of the other groups. in fact, mr. yoon wasn't even here yet.

"guys, let's do a last minute photo mission," chan, who had been staring at the list for a while now, suggested.

"which one?"

"oh, this is gonna be my favorite," chan smirked. "the group ugly selfie."

(some examples vv)

(some examples vv)

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(tbh they're still cute)

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(tbh they're still cute)

we spent a while laughing at the resulting ugly selfies. by the time mr. yoon arrived, we had to ask the hotel front desk for tissues to wipe our tears away with.

once the entire tour group was gathered, we entered the hotel buffet to have dinner. i sat at a large round table with all of the teenagers.

"can you guys believe it?" dahyun said, returning to the table with a plate of food. "tomorrow is the last full day of this group tour, and then we go back home the day after."

"at least we have a whole twenty-four hours of free time," chan pointed out.

"wait, we're going back to niagara falls tomorrow, right?" chaeyoung asked.

"mhm."

"do you guys wanna meet up in the afternoon to go to clifton hill?" chaeyoung suggested.

"yeah, we can eat funnel cakes and stuff!" felix agreed, along with everyone else.

"okay, then, let's meet at the hotel lobby tomorrow at three p.m."

"sounds good!"

☆☆☆

"did everyone successfully finish the photo mission?" mr. yoon spoke into his mic.

we were gathered in a room for the photo mission announcements.

"i think we have some very creative people in here today, judging from the photo mission pictures," mr. yoon said.

we spent time going through all of the photos each group took. a few of the pictures were so well taken that i thought maybe a professional photographer was in our tour group.

some of our group's ugly selfies made everyone cry from laughing too hard. i would never have never imagined such hilarious expressions could be made by these handsome faces--what?

it wasn't part of the photo mission, but there was one picture we took at the mall with a dog we met there. it was quite funny how we were all posing with the dog except for hyunjin. he refused to because his own dog kkami would get jealous or something?

i shifted my gaze to my face, because everyone checks how they look in every group picture. i looked--

"cute," seungmin startled me by speaking suddenly.

i knew he was referring to the dog, and i felt stupid for thinking he said that to me for a split-second.

"now the winner of this photo mission is..." mr. yoon said. "mr. bang chan's team!"

"yeehaw!" felix yelled.

i wasn't expecting our group to win, but we received canadian money which i thought would be useful for tomorrow's free time.

poor somi was forced to give evelyn a few candian dollars because the little girl was sad her group didn't win.

"we will drive back to niagara falls tomorrow morning at seven a.m. then you have the whole day to yourselves," mr. yoon said. "goodnight, everyone!"

by now i was pretty much used to the  eastern standard time. i fell asleep imagining the fun i would have the next day.

tomorrow would be a very special day...

i'm so late but happy new year everyone! i thought i would finish this short story before 2019 but it doesn't work that way for the procrastination queen aka me lmaooo also tysm for 4k reads! i hope 2019 is an awesome year for you, me, stray kids, and everyone else! love yall

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