𝒅𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔

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"so," seonghwa says, taking a step closer to the red hair boy. "who are you?" hongjoong chuckles and looks at the other three. "why should we tell you?" "because this is our turf, and we don't take newbies very kindly, if you ask me." seonghwa lightly pushes hongjoong's chest. "and besides, you're not from like, the other dimension. so, just tell me who are you and where you're from." hongjoong laughs, looking seonghwa directly in his eyes. "actually, mister bad guy," hongjoong starts, getting closer to seonghwa, "me and my friends are indeed from the other dimension." seonghwa and the others looked at him like he was crazy. this was going to need a lot of explaining to make sense.

"so wait," mingi says, looking at the four foreigners with curious eyes, "you're telling me that you four, and you're all high school students, somehow found how to create the portal between our universe, the dark universe, and the good universe, your universe? and that's how you ended up here?" the four "foreigners" nod. "woah. that's pretty cool, not gonna lie," yeosang sighs, smiling casually at them. "so, why did you come here," seonghwa asks, looking at the four of them with curious yet dominating eyes. "to be honest, we were bored," wooyoung speaks up, looking at all of them, especially the one with the braid. 'come to think of it', wooyoung thought, 'we haven't properly introduced each other.' "but let's get to know one another. we aren't leaving anytime soon, since we want to explore. plus, you guys seem fun." everyone looked at one another and shrugged. "i'll start. my name is jung wooyoung. i'm sixteen, a junior in high school, and i'm from the good universe." hongjoong looked at wooyoung, who was smiling at him, before sighing. "my name's kim hongjoong, seventeen, a senior in high school, and i'm obviously from the good universe." the boy in the purple braid smirked before talking. "i'm choi san, sixteen, a junior in high school, evil universe." san looked at mingi before raising his eyebrows. mingi elbowed him before speaking up. "my name is song mingi. i'm sixteen, a junior in high school, and i'm from the mystical and spooky evil universe," he said, making his voice deep towards the end. yunho rolled his eyes. "jeong yunho. sixteen, junior, good universe." the boy with cat like features looked around. "i'm kang yeosang. i'm also sixteen and a junior, like majority of you are, and i'm from the evil universe." "oh, i'm choi jongho. i'm fifteen, a sophomore in high school, and i'm from the good universe." "oh my god you're the baby of this group," mingi announces, who's smiling at jongho happily while everyone else stares at him. jongho smiles and shrugs shyly. "i guess." everyone turns toward the last person. he looks at all of them before groaning. "my name is park seonghwa. i'll be eighteen in a couple months, and i'm from the evil universe." "what grade are you in," wooyoung asked, curious. "i dropped out my sophomore year."

silence.

"my god, i'm not stupid. shit happened, ok? it's a long story." everyone seems to understand, switching subjects quickly.

oddly enough, the eight boys befriended each other and became closer. hongjoong and seonghwa gravitated towards to each other naturally, since both were the 'leaders' of their friend group, so they happened to share some things in common, like age.

mingi and jongho also naturally gravitate towards each other. both are the youngest of their group, and also share some struggles about being the youngest in common with one another. plus, mingi's happy that someone is calling him hyung for once instead of it being the other way around.

oddly, yeosang and yunho become closer to each other as well. yunho was more playful and bright, and not saying that yeosang isn't, but yeosang is much more introverted than yunho and his extroverted personality. but, somehow, they fit each other perfectly, like two pieces in a puzzle.

and this leaves san and wooyoung. san is much more extroverted than wooyoung, but wooyoung doesn't seem to mind. yunho is his best friend, after all.

"hi," san says looking at wooyoung with bright eyes. wooyoung turns to san and blinks. "oh, hey. san, right?" san smiles and nods, and weirdly, wooyoung feel his heart flutter. "and you're wooyoung. i remember that!" 'god this boy's cute,' wooyoung thought to himself, smiling at san. "we should be best friends, ok? that would be so cool. plus, you seem pretty interesting and chill. i think seonghwa hyung would approve of you being a new addition to my best friend list," san says, rambling. wooyoung chuckles. "you know, you're pretty bright for someone who lives in the evil universe." san smiles at that. "nah, i can be pretty nasty, i just choose not to. only to the people who deserve it." wooyoung nods. "and, you know, you seem pretty, i don't know, a bit of a bummer for being in the good universe." wooyoung laughs. "touché. i just feel a bit off about this place, no offense, it's just so different from home." san nods, looking at where is staring at. "well, i could give you a tour. later tonight, just the two of us. that'd be fun! plus, we could get to know each other a bit better, right?" that doesn't sound too bad. "sure," wooyoung agrees, "but when?" "i'm sure that seonghwa hyung isn't gonna let you guys sleep nowhere, so you'll just stay with us. we i'll lightly knock three times on your door and whisper mint to let you know it's me, ok?" wooyoung nods. to be honest, he didn't think he would be staying long, but this place seems nice, and the people seem nice, too. plus, san seems like a pretty cool person. "or, you're staying the night, right?" wooyoung averts his attention back to san, who's looking at him with puppy eyes. "yea. honestly, i don't think any of us want to leave." jongho was resting his head in mingi's lap as the two rambled on about something, yunho and yeosang were blushing and talking (wooyoung made a mental note to tease yunho later), and it was obvious that hongjoong and seonghwa had eyes for each. seonghwa's arm was secured around hongjoong's waist, hongjoong leaning on seonghwa's bicep. wooyoung smiled.

maybe it wasn't so bad after all. especially with this san kid.