Camping Out (1/2)

‘Dinner is ready!’ Sungmin’s voice rang throughout the pension house. Hyoyeon’s team all ran outside and towards the food that the losers had cooked.

‘Ohh!!! Yummy!! Samgyupsul!’ Khun clapped his hands and reached over for a bite.

Taemin slapped his hand away from the food, ‘wait, we can’t start eating until we set the table!’

Nichkhun pouted, ‘don’t be stingy, I only wanted a little bit.’

‘Wait!’ Taemin demanded.

‘Fine!’ Nichkhun stomped away and plopped himself down on the stairs of the porch.

Taemin rolled his eyes and went to help set the table, muttering, ‘how immature,’ causing Sungmin to laugh since this was coming from Taemin, the most immature of them all.They all sat around a large round table under a beautiful Victorian gazebo. A small campfire was lit a bit away from the gazebo but was close enough to keep them warm. They all smiled contently, eating the delicious food and enjoying each other’s company out on a beautiful night. The cooking team had done an amazing job and there were many first-class dishes.

‘Neh~ We bought a massive fit-for-the-King tent didn’t we?’ Sunny slowly asked.

‘Yeah…’ Taeyeon cautiously answered, wondering what kind of idea Sunny had.

‘Well, since it’s such a nice night out, how about we camp out here in the backyard?’

‘That’s a great idea!!!’ Sungmin cheered.

‘He’s just trying to get on Sunny’s good side,’ Tiffany scoffed, a bit too loudly to Wooyoung.

‘If everyone wants to then we can,’ Onew said.

‘Yeah! Let’s do it!’ everyone cheered.

‘It’s settled then,’ Taeyeon and Sunny smiled at each other.Later that night, half of the group sat on the stairs on the porch watching the others try and put the tent together, yelling and arguing about who was right and who was wrong. However Key’s divaish voice was the loudest of them all, demanding that everyone listen to him since he was always right.

‘Hyung! Shut up! I love you and all, but just shut up!’ Minho yelled while connecting the poles.

‘Don’t tell me what to do! And I’m telling you that you’re all doing it wrong!’ Key snapped.

‘We’re doing it right, Key! Look! The instructions specifically say to connect the poles first before threading them through the cloth of the tent,’ Yuri stomped on her foot and huffed.

‘Don’t argue with me, Yuri! You’re only standing there holding the tools and the instruction sheet, not even helping!’ Key cried.

‘I am helping! I’m reading the instructions and whenever anyone needs the tools, they call me and I run to them!’ Yuri defended herself.

‘In that case, you’re reading the instructions wrong! This isn’t how we should do it!’ Key yelled.

‘Hyung! Stop yelling at Yul!’ Minho shouted, he opened his mouth to say more but was interrupted by the shikshin who had stood up from where she was sitting on the stairs.

‘Key, stop yelling at everyone, especially Yuri. Here, Yuri, pass me the instruction sheet,’ Sooyoung immediately shut Key up.

Yuri handed her the sheet and Sooyoung began reading.

‘What are you on about, Key? It says right here to do it like this,’ Sooyoung said.

‘But-.’

‘Don’t argue with me,’ Sooyoung shot him a glare, ‘it says it right here. If you’re only going to nag, you might as well sit and just watch.’

‘Yes miss…’ Key sighed and began connecting another set of poles.‘While they set up the tent, why don’t we bring mattresses onto the porch and all the other things we’ll need so that we’ll be ready to move in as soon as they’re finished,’ Hyoyeon suggested.

‘Alright, Onew, Tiffany, Wooyoung and I will get all the mattresses,’ Taeyeon volunteered.

‘Nichkhun and I will bring all the games to play,’ Yoona said.

‘Then I will go get food,’ of course, it was Sooyoung who said this.

‘I will get the necessities like candles and stuff,’ Seohyun said.

‘I will help you. With both of our brains, we won’t forget anything important,’ Kyuhyun added.

‘Alright, that leaves Sunny and I to gather blankets and pillows,’ Hyoyeon said before heading into the house, everyone following her.Later that night, they were all gathered in the tent. The mattresses were in a circle and the couples were sharing mattresses while Taemin got his own. They wrapped themselves with their blankets and sat on their mattresses, forming a circle and facing each other.

‘Hmm… so relaxing…’ Minho sighed and laid his head on Yuri’s lap.

‘And cosy…’ Sungmin added, slyly copying Minho and laying on Sunny’s lap.

Surprisingly for him, she didn’t object but instead stroked his hair gently.

‘You’re right… I wish we could stay here forever!’ Taeyeon exclaimed while plopping herself down on her pillow, Onew followed along and curled up behind her.

‘You know how we get our own bit of land before we get to reign the kingdoms the boys come from, I wouldn’t be so bad if we got land like this and our own pension house like this…’ Sica sighed.

‘Would you like a place like this? I could probably convince my parents to let us live somewhere like this before they retire. And when they do and we have to succeed them, they might like to live there, kinda like a swap,’ Jonghyun told Sica.

Sica nodded, ‘Mmm… I’d like that,’ she murmured with her eyes closed.‘We’re so relaxed but we should be playing games!’ Taemin interjected loudly.

‘He’s right! I want to play something! And Yoona and I brought so many games,’ Nichkhun pointed at the bag of things they’d left in a corner of the tent.

‘How about Truth or Dare first?’ Wooyoung suggested, ‘I don’t really feel like moving much from here. That way, I can just pick Truth and stay here hugging Tiffany.’

Everyone nodded and agreed.They spun the bottle and it landed on Onew.

‘Hyung, truth or dare?’ Taemin asked excitedly.

‘Truth… dare is just TOO scary!!’ Onew said quickly.

‘Naww… how boring… but, I’ll asked the question. I heard you had a girlfriend before Taeyeon unnie, who was it?’ Sooyoung asked slyly.

Onew gulped and looked at Taeyeon.

‘Just answer it. You told me once before, someone called Seungyeon right?’ Taeyeon told Onew innocently.

‘Seungyeon? You mean our cousin Seungyeon?’ Sunny asked wide-eyed.

Taeyeon looked at Onew with surprised eyes, ‘it was our cousin Seungyeon?’