Seabound-SKZ

Chapter Thirty-One

Felix couldn't believe what had just happened, his friends were together? they hadn't even told him, which hurt a lot more than anything else, had they just not trusted him? he hummed softly, moving around to get comfortable while he thought, Seungmin's eyes widening at the movement, "Lixie? are you awake?" he asked, Felix froze in the spot, Hyunjin sighed "We both know you are, Lix. just say you are," Felix rolled over to face them, frowning at both boys while he did. 

They looked at each other for a moment, "So...how long have you been awake for?" Seungmin cursed himself for sounding guilty, Felix shook his head and faked a sleepy voice, "I just woke back up, why?" he reached up to rub at his eyes, Hyunjin catching his hands quickly to stop him "Don't, you'll make your eyes irritated," He smiled at the younger, Felix ducking his head slightly to avoid eye contact, Seungmin yawned, "We should probably go to sleep now, we want to go see Chan soon right?" He asked, the other two agreeing quickly, wanting to avoid the awkward conversation. 

Felix slumped back into the pile of his friends, reaching out absentmindedly to cuddle with the two of them, Seungmin giggling softly and pulling Hyunjin in to snuggle with the freckled Mer, Hyunjin pressing his face into Seungmin's neck gently to sleep, the three of them falling asleep in the tangled mess of limbs. 

Jeongin was the first to wake up, groaning as he tried to push up out of the arms of...everyone? he was somehow lodged between the arms of each of his friends, especially Minho and Changbin who had him pinned between them, Hyunjin, Felix, and Seungmin flopped overtop of him and Jisung was laying under him, breathing peacefully in his sleep while he held the youngest. 

He gave up eventually, slumping back into the mess of arms, by now Felix was beginning to stir awake, smiling sleepily at the younger "Hey, Innie," His voice was raspy with sleep, Jeongin returning the smile "Hi Lixie!" the older flinched at how chirpy his voice was, making Jeongin giggle softly "Sorry Hyung," he reached to pat Felix's head, the older groaning and shoving his hand away in mock annoyance, finally their 'quiet' tussling woke another boy up, Changbin watching them sleepily, catching Hyunjin quickly when he was almost thrown from the pile, the laughter quickly waking up the rest of them. 

The three youngest decided to go for a swim after they ate, playing tag while they swam through the city, Seungmin losing consistently when Jeongin flashed his puppy eyes, or when Felix brawled straight into him and sent them both spinning, Jeongin chasing after them to stop them from hitting something.  

Jeongin pushed Felix into Seungmin in his escape, the older yelping and pulling him back to try to throw him towards the last boy, who grinned widely when he tagged Felix and cheered for his victory, though it was short-lived when Lix tagged him straight back, laughing at the shocked expression on his face. 

They gave up on the game after Seungmin kept complaining about the unfairness, opting to just swim and talk with Felix holding both of their hands while swinging them around, very unsafe but they were having fun so who would tell them not to? "So," Jeongin said when he finally freed himself from the spinning tornado that was his friends, "How come you and Hyunjin were gone last night?" Seungmins eyes widened, Felix stopped swimming, "I was wondering that too," He frowned at the younger, "We just went for a swim, no big deal..." he tried to shrug it off, Jeongin squinting suspiciously at him, "Okay..." he didn't press further, not wanting to upset Seungmin. 

Jeongin suggested they headed home soon after that, the swimming in awkward silence too much for him to deal with at that moment, especially if he was right with his suspicion about where Seungmin and Hyunjin were last night.