𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 | nct dream

2.3

"you guys seriously have to check out the hydroshower, it's so cool!" chenle chirps, leaving the bathroom with his mint hair dry as if he wasn't there for a wash. "rather than the usual skit, the water instead goes upwards into some sort of a.. ventilator? and there's this air pressure tube stuff that keeps us from getting too wet! the shower sort of just, does its thing? so all that we have to do is just stand there effortlessly as it cleans us on its own!" he bends down, pointing at his hair. "look, squeaky clean~"

"yah, calm your horses, mint choco, use your trousers on then we'll talk." donghyuck avoids the latter from getting closer to him. "they provided us some clothes for us to wear. jisung came a while ago to grab his. you should get dressed too, i don't want to see a 29th century cheapskates running around butt-naked."

"clothes?" chenle raises his eyebrow. "are they my size?"

"apparently it's an all-size. it changes structure according to who's using it." jeno coolly replies as he puts his hand on jaemin's shoulder who seems to be awfully quiet.

"me and jisung? the same size? that's impossible!" chenle scoffs. "we're so much unalike in terms of size."

"great, you just admitted yourself that you're the size of a pea. now go before i step on your towel... with pure intentions."

"this feels quite comfortable," jisung comes out of the corner, showing off his new look. "jaemin-hyung was right about the clothes being all-sized, i can tell it fits perfectly on me. how do i look?" the giant youngest shocks his elders with the somehow mind-goggling appearance. the sky blue color igniting his strange looking blouse and shorts sets a camouflage for him and the identical wallpaper color. jaemin tries his best to hide his grin. chenle doesn't even try to bulge, he flings his head up for a good laugh. "what?"

donghyuck shakes his head. "you now do look like your age in that set of clothing."

"what, seventeen?"

"no, seven." he stares down the latter's shorts barely even covering his thighs. "you call that a perfect fit?"

"i'm pretty sure it's the design!"

"my cousin likes to use that fit too, and he's a toddler." jaemin squirms. "don't fret, you do look cute in it, jisung-ah. like a cute, baby giraffe."

"baby giraffe, i — hyung!" jisung turns to jeno for his last testament. "does it really look that bad?"

"bad? no," jeno fixes the sides of the younger one's collar. "in fact, in makes me want to baby you even more!"

"stop it, you guys! chenle-yah!" jisung manages to get away from the grip of his outrageous hyungs. chenle has now changed into his fit, and though he did not receive the same kind of subjugation jisung experienced, the lack of subdued mockery didn't make his appearance in the horrendous blue fit any lot better. the two misfits got together again after a proper shower as they explore the many rooms of the dream house they are currently staying in.

"hey, look!" chenle opens one of the odd looking doors, revealing a somewhat misplaced playground filled with miniature slides and most importantly, a playbox filled with tiny, colored balls. "they got us a chill suite! sweet!"

"first one who gets into the playbox wins!" jisung exclaims, and the pair immediately runs to bury themselves into the sea of colorful circular shapes.

donghyuck sighs. "they refuse to be called toddlers yet here they are, acting like the most toddler thing to ever do." he turns around, facing jeno and jaemin who didn't look like they were leaving the bed any sooner. "where's renjun and mark-hyung."

"still in the hydroshower." jeno says as he reaches a towel for himself. "we should go and rinse up too, we wouldn't want crusty mac and cheese coming here seeing us still the same as he left us."