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5

"The movie starts at 4:00 and it's only 1:00 o'clock, what do you guys want to do?" Yeonjun said after buying tickets. Right after we arrived, Soobin hyung said he wanted to watch a movie so we bought tickets.

"ARCADE!"

"Arcade!"

Beomgyu and I immediately laughed as we made eye contact.

"Arcade it is," Yeonjun said with a chuckle.

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"Not fair! My machine is broken!" Beomgyu whined for the nth time.

Beomgyu wanted to play basketball and he challenged me to play against him.

"Beomgyu your machine's not broken, you just suck at basketball," Soobin said.

"So Taehyun? I guess you're the sporty type?" Yeonjun asked.

"Uhm kind off? I just try different sports from time to time," I said, not taking my eyes away from the ring and shooting the ball.

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"Taehyun look!" I see Kai eyeing plushies at the claw machine. I ran to him and looked closely at what he wanted to get. It was a shark plushie.

"I'm getting that," he said and started playing.

After a few attempts he finally managed to get the plushie.

"I'll go show Soobin hyung!" he said and ran off to find Soobin.

"Which one do you want?" I looked behind me to see Beomgyu near the claw machine.

"No, I don't want anything. I just watched Kai play."

He didn't answer me, instead he started playing.

He was trying to get the molang plushie but-

"NO NO NO I WAS SO CLOSE!" He put another token and tried again.

"I SWEAR I GOT IT"

"THIS MACHINE'S BROKEN!"

"IT'S ALMOST THERE WHY"

I laughed while watching him.

𝘾𝙪𝙩𝙚

"I'll go find Kai and the others," I was about to go find them when I felt a hand stop me from leaving.

"Wait, no! I'm almost there," He whined and so I stayed.

"I'm only staying for one round then I'll-"

"I FINALLY GOT IT" I was cut off when Beomgyu screamed after getting the plushie. It was a molangie plushie wearing a squirrel costume.

"Here!" he said handing me the plushed toy.

"You worked hard for this, you should keep it!" I said trying to give hin back the toy.

"Nope! It's for you. I worked so hard for it, do you not like it?" he said while giving me the puppy eyes.

"Fine, I'll keep it," I said, giving in.

"Let's go find the others now! The movie's about to start," he suddenly said and dragged me to find the others.

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The movie went... well.

Yeonjun chose a sad movie since he said choosing romance would be "insensitive" and horror movies will just give him nightmares.

The movie was going well until-

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE HAS CANCER"

"H-he will be okay r-right? He will be c-cured. He should b-be."

"NOOO WHY ARE YOU TAKING HIM? HE STILL NEEDS TO BE WITH THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE"

"T-this is so unfair, they deserve to b-be happy"

I was seated between Beomgyu and Hueningkai and they were just a mess. Beomgyu kept shouting so we were almost kicked out and Hueningkai just kept crying that I had to console him.

"Babysitting two kids in a cinema is so tiring," I said which Yeonjun hyung and Soobin hyung just laughed at.

We're already on our way home and Beomgyu and Hueningkai were sleeping. Kai was laying on my lap while Beomgyu had his head rested on my shoulder. Good thing Jaeho hyung hired another part timer so my shift is only every other day.

"Good night! Thank you for today!" I said as we arrived at my apartment.

"Bye!" the lovebirds bid goodbye and went take the others home.

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 5

"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈," 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔.

𝑯𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔. 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑱𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆.

"𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰'𝒎 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆." 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.

𝑰 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕. 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.

"𝑯𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖," 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅.

𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆.

"𝑷𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒌𝒆," 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 $3 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒔. 𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆.

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hellooo?? is anybody reading?? thoughts?? :D