home, jaemin

chapter thirty-five

he unpaused the movie and sat down the controller, "just the air councilmen. i guess she came over for some dinner, as well."

she nodded, once again making herself comfortable between the two.

perhaps too comfortable. by the end of the movie, everyone had finished their food and were tired out, falling asleep against each other.

mark and renjun both managed to fall asleep with mark facing the ground on his stomach while renjun laid his head on mark's lower back.

chenle slid off the couch to find more comfort, his hands sprawled out in different directions with his legs also doing so. jisung used the extra couch space to flatten out his body, laying on his stomach as well.

on the large couch, donghyuck leaned against the armrest of the couch, jiyoung leaning against his chest with baby hairs covering her face. jaemin was also leaning against her chest, his feet swaddled up at the end. donghyuck had his left arm draped over both of them, his right one having fallen to his side off of the couch.

jiyoung had always been a rather light sleeper while the other eight were heavy ones. this gave her both advantages and disadvantages. a disadvantage, when she could hear a timer or alarm going off that would make her wake up.

just like now.

the sound of violence erupted in her ears as renjun's iphone alarm began blaring from across the room while it charged.

finding too much comfort in her position, she opted for the next best thing she could do. and that was? smacking mark's face in an attempt to wake him long enough to tell renjun to turn off his alarm.

this plan did not succeed, mark only slapping her hand away as he went back to sleep.

this meant she had to get up. it took a minute for her to finally bring herself to it, finding it too hard to actually get out of donghyuck grasp without waking both him and jaemin.

getting close enough to the phone, she read the alarm. check up on jaemin.

why does renjun have an alarm set at eight-thirty to check on jaemin?

not finding it in herself to actually worry or ponder too much, she stood back up and began walking back over to the couch. her ears picked up the sounds of laughter coming from the adults in the dining room. probably play board games together from what she could tell.

while walking back to the couch, she felt her eyes begin to burn. she looked around the room, finally remembering where the bathroom was- next to the front door.

walking inside she mentally complained to herself. she had once again forgotten she had contacts in and continued to fall asleep anyway. the burning sensation caused her eyes to slightly water.

in a rush, she forgot to close the door, only thinking about removing her contacts.

"why do i do this to myself?" jiyoung sighed.

her fingers moved slowly, her mind focusing in on just removing the contacts in the least shaking way. her arms guided upwards slowly, her fingertips pulling at the skin under her eyes delicately until they came in contact with the silicone hydrogel to pull them out.

the small piece came out of her right eye easily, a gush of cold air making contact with her bare eye and causing it to water a bit.

after a second of letting her right eye vision adjust, she continued on with the left eye, moving just as carefully as she had with the right.

"i'll see you all later," jinae bowed to her older friends, her tone soft and well-spoken with point.

the other adults waved goodbye, saying they would talk to her later or that they'd see her the following day.

her footsteps were just as soft as her own voice, their sound becoming as silent as the night's wind as she walked across the carpet to reach the doorway.

when seeing the bathroom door open with the light peaking through, she stepped forward to close it. only, instead, she was met with the sight of jiyoung having just taken her contacts out.

and now, her original black eyes shined through.