Trip to Oz (1/1)

“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”“OH MY!”“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”“OH MY!”“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”“OH MY!”Chanyeol draws his face up close to Luhan’s.“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”Luhan shoves Chanyeol’s face away with his open hand.“You’re a lions, and tigers, and bears.”Totally unfazed, Chanyeol exclaims, “I’m a lion! RAWR!” and gives his bouncy curls a vigorous shake.“I’m a bear!” Baekhyun crows, flailing his arms in front of him, curling his fingers into claws. Yixing scoots away to avoid being struck by his brother’s swinging limbs.“And I’m a tiger!” Jongdae shouts, pouncing onto his Minseok hyung. who is caught unawares as he removes his backpack and tosses it on the stairs. Both boys topple to the ground. “More like a kitty,” Minseok grumbles as he sits up, pushing Jongdae off.Jongin takes off for the living room as Kyungsoo walks in through the door, clutching daddy Junmyeon’s hand. Junmyeon looks up as Amber and Hyosung skip down the stairs.“Baby Sehun’s napping,” Amber says, ruffling Chanyeol’s hair as they hop lightly off the bottom steps. The rest of the kids follow after Jongin.“Thanks,” Junmyeon smiles warmly, letting them pass through the door. He waves goodbye as they drive off in Hyosung’s car.Kyungsoo finally releases his daddy’s hand and heads for the living room as well. As soon as he passes through the entrance, Baekhyun grabs him under the arms and hoists him into the air, bouncing Kyungsoo up and down.“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”“Put me down! Put me down!” Kyungsoo flails his legs every time Baekhyun lifts him up.“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”Baekhyun projectiles his brother onto the couch. Kyungsoo expels a huff of breath as he lands on top of Jongin.“Ugh, hyungs are so annoying!” Jongin exclaims as Kyungsoo pulls himself off. “What’s wrong with you? I can’t hear Fairy Odd Parents!”“It’s Fairly,” Chanyeol corrects, brandishing a permission slip requesting to takes the kids on a field trip. “And we get to go to the zoo next week.”“I wanna go to the zoo!”  Kyungsoo immediately jumps off the couch, grabbing the piece of paper from Chanyeol hyung. Jongin shows some mild interest before turning back to the cartoon.“You can’t,” Chanyeol states matter-of-factly, snatching the paper back from Kyungsoo’s grasp. “Only second graders can go ‘cause we’re special.”“Yeah, you’re special alright,” Minseok mutters under his breath.--For the length of the entire week, Kyungsoo endures his brothers screeching and boasting about their upcoming trip.“LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS!”“Please! Just one minute of silence!” Junmyeon begs as he tries to calculate the monthly bills.“LIONS, AND TIGERS , AND BEARS!”Chanyeol, Baekhyun, and Jongdae immediately stop their jumping and run away as daddy Kris gives them the look.--“So, got it?” Kyungsoo confirms with Youngjae as they review their plan of action for how to crash the field trip.“Yeah, I got it, I got it,” Youngjae whispers back, peering around the brick wall of the school building where the second graders are waiting in line to board the bus.Miss Taeyeon and Miss Hyoyeon are busy going through their clipboards, checking and double checking to make sure that all the students are present. Youngjae waves his hand, giving Kyungsoo the signal, and they both scramble towards a thicket of bushes near the driveway. Kyungsoo reaches there first, diving behind the shrubbery as Youngjae trips over his shoelace and comes crashing to the floor. Kyungsoo, eyes wide, flaps his hands at Youngjae, mouthing ‘move, move!’Knees and palms smarting, Youngjae feels tears pricking behind his eyes, but sucks it up and rolls as fast as he can towards Kyungsoo and the bushes. Kyungsoo helps Youngjae off the ground, pulling him into a squatting position.“You okay?” Kyungsoo whispers, brushing dirt and bits of leaves off of Youngjae’s shirt. Youngjae sniffles, but nods his head. Kyungsoo frowns. “You’re not.”“No, no. I’m okay,” Youngjae reassures, taking a deep breath and dusting his hands off. “Come on, we gotta do it now.”Relenting, Kyungsoo peeks around Youngjae towards the school bus and the teachers. The bus covers the bushes they are currently hiding under, the teachers and students on the other side, which means they are hidden from view. Near the rear of the bus, Kyungsoo spots the ice coolers where the lunches are packed away.Taeyeon and Hyoyeon are now helping the children file onto the bus, one by one, which means this is their opportunity.“Now,” Kyungsoo mouths, and both boys tiptoe over to the coolers.Youngjae uses both hands to prop open one of the coolers first. Standing on tiptoe and the other foot flailing in the air, Youngjae tries to rearrange the lunch boxes to make space for himself. He then helps Kyungsoo clear some space in his own ice cooler before both boys hoist themselves into the coolers. Kyungsoo places a finger against his lips, smiling, before they close the lids.--“Okay big, strong teacher’s aide,” Hyoyeon smiles, hands on her hips. “Load the lunches into the trunk, please?” “Yeah, no,” Heechul snorts. “I don’t do heavy lifting.”The look Hyoyeon gives him can only be described as icy, at best.“No,” Heechul repeats, crossing his arms. Eyes squinted and lips pressed thin, Hyoyeon begins stalking up to Heechul, as a predator would its prey.“Come on, you help,” Seohyeon pokes Kyuhyun, trying to remedy the situation. Hyoyeon can be terrifying when rubbed the wrong way. “Go, go,” Seohyeon whispers through her teeth when Kyuhyun doesn’t make a move.“Okay, okay,” Kyuhyun finally sighs, pulling a spluttering Heechul towards the ice coolers.“On three,” Kyuhyun commands, Heechul still grumbling even as he bends over to grasp one end of the cooler. “One, two, three!”Kyuhyun huffs as Heechul curses. “What the frick are they feeding these kids?”--Kyungsoo silently cheers when he feels the thump of the cooler making contact with the bottom of the trunk.They did it!He feels the rumble of school bus as the ignition turns on and is slightly jostled against the inside of the cooler as the bus begins to move.Woo! Adventure time!Kyungsoo feels the tires bump over cracks on the asphalt when he is suddenly jolted forward as the bus comes to an abrupt halt.--“Stop, stop, stop!”Sooyoung and Tiffany come sprinting outside, waving their arms above their heads and shouting at the tops of their lungs.“Wait, wait! Don’t leave!”a/n: the concept sounded really good when it was inside my head but as soon as i started typing it................. i dont like it ㅠㅜ something about it just sounds so off but i dont know how to fix it. i apologize for mediocre writing.