Hell and Back (EXO x Reader)

Hanging Tension (Trials 48-49)

Word count: 1820

Chapter warnings: Mild language and dangerous actions

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"Ugh, not pleasant." Baekhyun was muttering through his cup of water as the group surrounded him, asking about his experience in the past few minutes. It was to be expected that he would be a little shaken up, but as soon as he'd come to, he'd already started making fun of the situation. It was his attitude and fleeting tendencies that had gotten him into trouble to begin with, and now he didn't even care?

"You need to be more careful, stupid," Kai knocked him on the side of the head, causing him to yelp in pain, holding a hand to his ear.

"What was that for?" He complained in a loud, whining tone.

"For being stupid." Kai reiterated. "Now let's get on with it."

"Woah, should we uh, you know," Xiumin cut in. "Give him a second?"

"No, no, I'm fine-" Baekhyun insisted.

"As if your choices have landed you anywhere good in the past day." He muttered.

"It's not like we won't have time to wait if we accept it and decide it's too hard." Chen offered.

"How do you know? We just finished two trials with time limits. He could get himself killed."

"We just won't let him do anything." Suho decided.

"Aww, that's no fair." He pouted.

"You don't get a say. Y/N?" He turned his attention away from his all-too-quickly recovering friend. "What's next?" She looked down, silently hoping for this set of trials to be complete, even though she knew they had plenty more in this section to go.

"Uh, well, I mean... do you want truth or dare?"

"Truth." Chaenyeol cut in. "All the way. We are not doing that again."

"But hypothetically," Kyungsoo countered, "If the dares are getting harder as we complete them, then the truths will start to do the same as well."

"We'll just have to take that risk, I guess." Suho shrugged. "I mean, at least the worst we have to deal with in the truth situations are each other. If we were smart, we'd just finish out like that."

"But being divided for the rest of the trials could be really, really bad." Sehun pointed out nervously, not wanting to refer to the Kai-Kris-Chen drama that hadn't gotten that far into the past yet. In fact, he was surprised that Chanyeol had spoken up and suggested truth to begin with.

"We just need to grow up. Y/N, go." He said. She clicked it, used to the constant orders at this point, reminding herself that it would be worth it in the end.

[Truth] 48: Who is the most obnoxious player in the game? You do not need to give an explanation.

"Oh, great. Now everyone's going to be mad at each other." Sehun muttered under his breath.

"What if we each just picked the person next to us, regardless of the truth? Then everything is fine." Chanyeol offered.

"The stupid little app thing hasn't had problems figuring us out before," Xiumin mentioned. "You don't think it'll see through that? Especially since you just said it."

"It's not listening-"

"Just-" Suho put a hand to his forehead in concentration. "No one give any explanation, just say someone."