[Neo Zone] Population: 23 Kids

Toasted Marshmallows

It was Kun's craving for chocolate and graham crackers that brought them to the grandparent's farm. And the desire to spend time in the fresh air under the stars.

He was just going to slap some Nutella on a graham cracker and hope that satisfied him, but just as he was about to, Jaemin had a better idea. Actually making s'mores and toasting marshmallows. The only place to properly do that without having the fire department called on them was the countryside, so naturally they gathered everyone in two cars (very illegally, of course), and drove to the grandparents.

So now they were all in lawn chairs they had packed and borrowed, some of them having to share because there still wasn't enough. Grandma had of course given them an assortment of snacks and drinks that she found around the house, but the two elderly family members were turned in for the night.

"Who wants blankets?" Taeyong asked, a heap of them in his arms and a few more in the back of the van.

A couple hands in sweater paws went up, Taeyong chucking the blankets out. Taeil got up to help, grabbing more from the van and passing them out. It was a good thing some of the kids were on top of each other, because otherwise they wouldn't have had enough blankets.

"What in the world are you guys doing?" Lucas asked the 00 line, giving his blanket to Jungwoo because he wasn't cold yet. Now Jungwoo had three blankets.

"Keeping warm. What else would we be doing?" Haechan retorted, struggling to sit on Shotaro's lap. Who was sitting on Jaemin's lap. Who was on YangYang's lap. Who was on Jeno's lap. Who was on Renjun's lap.

The only reason the 00 line pile started was because Renjun refused to share a seat with Jaemin, so they all figured this could be one of those things they all do together because they're a package deal. Renjun was really regretting this.

"I can't feel my anything." Renjun muttered.

"We're not even that heavy. It's fine." Jeno fired back, even though he was eye-smiling through the pain.

"Kiddos, we have enough chairs. There's no need to squish each other." Jaehyun butted in, followed by Johnny.

"Yeah, we can't have you breaking it."

"Oh so it's not okay to break the chair but it's okay to break me?" Renjun quipped. Johnny and Jaehyun turned to each other, shrugged, and then nodded.

"There's a spot over here for you, Haechan." Chenle offered.

"Nooooo. There's no space." Sungchan was shaking his head frantically, almost going deaf from Chenle's evil laughter.

The two of them were already squished next to each other in a lawn chair rather than sitting on each other, and Haechan just would have made it extremely uncomfortable.

Luckily Haechan ended up sharing with Taeil just because, and the rest of the 00 line reluctantly split up and got off Renjun. It was a good idea in theory. Too bad it just didn't work out in practice.

"Alright, who's having a s'more?" Kun asked, unable to refrain any longer now that the fire was consistent enough to toast them.

More sweater paws went up in the air, no one wanting to get up now that they were warm and comfortable under their blankets.

"I'm not making all of these for you guys, you know that, right?"

The kids grumbled. Now extremely reluctant to get up from their comfort and warmth, grab a skewer from Kun, and toast their marshmallows. They were a lot less grumpy when they started messing around and almost stabbing each other with the skewers.