sky lights | jakehoon

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a week has passed, tomorrow would be the first day of eggies' camping trip to who knows where, and i'm hanging out with jay and that one jerk park sunghoon whom we started a relationship of "hate at first sight". nothing is better than a good convenience store because we starve for toe- tofu.

"i'm almost there..." i groan. the popcorn container just had to be at the top of the shelf.

"do you need help, jake?" jay asks.

"i'm fine!" i wave my hand, indicating for him to go away as i continue to struggle alone.

suddenly, a wave of warmth comes from behind. "you could've stood on the bottom shelves, you know." a familiar husky voice comes from behind, and a slender hand grabs the barrel off the shelf for me. i flinch. a breath of warm wind hits the side of my neck for a momentary minute.

i want kneecaps.

i turn around, facing the taller. "you didn't need to get it for me." i've ignored him, and he had been ignoring me, and now he's helping me like nothing happened? i sigh.

"you were clearly having trouble, short people problems." seeing him observing the plastic jar with a grin made me sad. "why are you pouting? you were flustered a minute ago, now you're sad?"

"flustered? pfft, i'm just annoyed, rude sleeping dude." he raises an eyebrow. i kick his shin hard.

he curses under his breath. "bro, why'd you kick me? also, i'm park sunghoon, not rude sleeping dude!" he crouches to massage his foreleg while i take the popcorn out of his hands.

"i know your name, but i don't think you deserve it." from there, i went to jay to pay for the food.

"is sunghoon done?" jay glances over my shoulder. "dude, why are you limping?"

"i stubbed my toe."

"sunghoon being a clumsy person? i'm surprised."

"shut up, jake."

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the next day.

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"taki?"

"i'm here!"

"yoonwon?"

"here."

"youngbin?"

"here."

"alright then, your duffle bags and suitcases are in the trunk, please hold onto your bags, boys. we are prepared to go on the road trip! hop inside the bus, my eggies." mr. bang beams at us and the class literally naruto runs inside to discover the wonders of the bus.

yes, it wasn't just any normal yellow twinkie school bus, we had first class tour buses with fluffy seats, a small bathroom in the back, and... food...

ah, food, the core of living, my soulmate, and significant other. oh, how food and i go so well together, we will never leave each other shall death never part us.

"jay, are you sitting next to anyone?" i ask the boy who was already sitting on a chair next to the window. he nods his head and apologizes with disappointment. he was sitting with heeseung.

"jake!" omg, senpai noticed me. what was i thinking? i don't have a senpai. it's just park sunghoon waving at me to get my butt over to his area.

"i'm kinda lonely, you should join me."

"then you can stay lonely." just as i was about to walk away, sunghoon grabs my arm and pulls me down next to the window, preventing me from escaping as there were only two seats per each row. he stretches his long legs over the headboard of the chair making it impossible for me to try to leave. i sigh, park sunghoon and his unknown thoughts that i want to know so desperately.

why am i even desperate? i barely even know the guy!

the bus was already on its way to the campsite and the rest of the eggies were hogging all the food. "you look lonelier than i do." he says to me.

loneliness. definition: sadness because one has no friends or company. some synonyms are isolation, abandonment, and rejection. courtesy of searching on google because i'm trying to ignore sunghoon and his attempts at trying to start a meaningful conversation on chickens.

by the time we arrived at the campsite, the sun was already setting and the other virtue class students were coming out of their respective buses. we were in the middle of nowhere.

did i saw nowhere? correct me, sorry, trees and trees and more trees and mountains and poor connection despite the free wifi that was oddly named "when i wake up in my room".

i bet this is the place where i die.

"eggies, we have arrived." mr. bang announces. "welcome to i-land."

mr. jiguem buteo joins us. "i am mr. min namkoong, jiguem buteo, go to your assigned cabins and drop your belongings near your beds. the night is getting a little cold so i suggest you all change into warm clothes. we will be having dinner in 20 minutes." mr. min instructs.

"mr. jiguem buteo? where are the cabins?"

he glances at jay with annoyance. not annoyance, poor man, he just looks tired. "walk the line." from there, he starts walking up the small dirt trail by himself and us following behind him like a mother goose and her ducklings.

the cabin had 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, each bedroom with three beds, and each bathroom with five sinks, shower stalls, and house toilets. we already looted the cabin, i think. there was an extra room left, i figured i could sleep alone, but sunghoon ends up in the same room as i am because he felt lonely, apparently. i sigh. mans been at haneul high longer than me and says he's lonely? what kind of cow manure is that? i kinda wanna whack him with a fluffing pillow.

dinner kinda sucked. i'm not used to having tacos and tomato-sauce-dipped pasta. the only decent thing that i could tolerate were the brownies that one of the counselors made. hmm, mr. bang is a dad, i'm guessing he baked the brownies.

"virtue classes, jiguem buteo, the leaders of each cabin should have received the schedule for the weekend, please review them over your two hour break and we will go on a special night hike to discover some meanings of happiness, teamwork, reliability, and friendship."

"a night hike?"

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A/N: aug 21, 2020: i didn't watch i-land ep 8 yet y'all gave me spoilers SMH

edit, may 9, 2021: LMAO I REALLY DID SULK OVER SPOILERS HSHSHS