"chanyeol. you're an idiot." jaebeom insults as they pull over at a rest area and park the van. they're so close to their destination but now they have this special passenger and it changes things.
"they live on the same floor as me!! yerim saw me leaving and she stopped me and begged to come with and i couldn't resist the puppy dog eyes."
"this is basically kidnapping. you're a kidnapper. you could go to jail." brian reprimands.
"but i know the kid...?"
"that doesn't make it less of a crime!"
"i'm calling irene." wendy announces and all the guys pale.
"wait, can't you call seulgi first?" jaebeom suggests, "you know... someone who won't murder us first and ask questions later?"
"us? don't you mean, chanyeol? i didn't smuggle yerim here." mark complains, brian agreeing.
"you know if one of us goes down, we all go down. that's how irene sees it anyway."
"that's unfair! i'm not the culprit!"
"oh come on! we can't have our first major gig without our official and major groupie." chanyeol argues his defense, earning a bunch of protests.
"she's six... six."
"i'm hungry!" yerim announces.
"we're going to take her to get some snacks, you all figure out where we go from here." sooyoung suggests, taking yerim by the hand and escorting her to the rest stop with wendy. jaebeom watches the girls leave as he thinks over what to do.
taking yerim back home is the logical thing to do... but that's two hours away, and then they'd still have to travel four hours back, which totally wastes the gas they're trying to save anyway. plus, with the noises chanyeol's van makes, he'd have some major anxiety trying to push his luck and have it run for that long continuously. he pulls out his phone, staring down at seulgi's contact information and wondering how he'll word this. hey, so... chanyeol snuggled your little sister into his van and brought her to this festival... how was school by the way? yeah... that doesn't seem like it will go well.
he presses call, and waits for her to pickup, pacing the parking lot, because you know.. oxygen to the brain helps you think or whatever. "hi jaebeom!" seulgi greets him cheerily, and he groans internally. of course she'd be cute and happy... she doesn't know her sister is missing yet.
"hey, seulgi. are you busy right now?"
"nope! i'm actually on break, what's up? did you guys make it to that burning village or whatever?"
"that's what i called you about... we're like halfway there... and we discovered... something."
"like what?"
"your baby sister..."
"yerim?" seulgi pauses, "wait... yerim is with you??"
"yeah, before you get upset, it's all chanyeol's fault! we'd love to bring her back, but we took his crappy van, and i'm worried about driving it around more than 4 hours in one day."
"irene is going to wring all of our necks."
"i know...."
"i'll come get her."
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crash & burn
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