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Small rays of sunlight filter through the slender gaps in your blinds. As you wake, you open your eyes, only to shut them immediately at the light blinding you. Groaning and rubbing your eyes, you roll over to look at the time - 8:43 am. It's a Saturday and your stomach growls to let you know it's breakfast time. After visiting the bathroom, you walk into the small kitchen of your small apartment. For breakfast, you settle for a bowl of cereal, it being the only food - other than some apples and leftover take-out from the night before - and curl up on the couch in the living room to watch tv and eat.

A few hours later, around lunch, you decide to go out to shop so you can eat out. After spending about an hour to complete your shopping trip, that felt like it took forever, you place everything in the boot of your car. The only thing you haven't bought yet was your lunch and the icecream you were planning to buy just before you leave, so it doesn't melt. Walking around and waiting in the super market's food court, you decide on some good ol' McDonalds... why not, right? You enjoy your deliciously fattening meal and decide to sit for a while... all that shopping was tiring!

After a few minutes, you begin to feel like you're being watched. Quickly, and as sneakily as you can, you glance around looking for any clues. Nothing. But the feeling won't leave. You look around again, this time making sure that you slowly scour every inch of the food court. Your eyes are drawn to a loud table of rowdy boys. There's seven of them and they're all quite attractive, each in their own way. You notice that their loudness has ceased, and start to realise that you've been creepily staring at a table of random strangers for longer than you had first thought. You quickly blink, your eyes dry from staring, and turn your head away. Embarrassed, your face is starting to heat up, and you no-doubt have a light blush creeping onto your cheeks. You sneak a peek back at the table and the boys are no longer there.

Wow, they were so quiet I didn't notice them leave.
As you think this, you turn around fully and your eyes shoot open as wide as possible at the surprising sight before you... all seven of the boys are sitting or standing around you smiling, staring right at you.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realise you were right there. Sorry for staring earlier... I-uh..." you struggle to think of something, "I was just looking around when I-I-um... zoned out for a little. Yeah! I didn't realise I was looking at you until I blinked."

The boys seemed amused at your obvious lie, but also seem to have bought it... maybe?
"Oh that's alright, we were staring back at you so I guess we're even." A charming, tall boy with light brown hair and an adorable rectangular grin pipes up.
"You... were staring at me? All of you?" That's a little weird...
"Oh shut up Tae, you're making us sound like creeps!" The boy sitting directly beside you says, "I'm sorry if that sounded weird, we were just curious why you were looking at us for so long." The boy runs his large hand through his dark brown locks nervously, showing off a pearly-white smile surrounded by a set of plump, pink lips. You also take the time to notice his extremely broad shoulders.

"We were also wondering why the girl staring at us was so cute." A tall, slender man with purple hair had leant onto the counter to lean in, showing off his cutesy dimples as he smiled.
"C-cute?" You stutter, your brain not fully working because you're in awe of the attractiveness of this singular group. How can a group of men be THIS attractive?
"Oh, I'm sorry. I came off too strong, didn't I? I'm not any good at flirting..." as he shakes his head lightly, somewhat disappointed in himself, he stands back up and leans on a nearby chair. The chair breaks. One of the rear legs have snapped and the noise startled you a little bit, but not as much as the words you hear next.
"Oh no, not again!"
'Not again'? It almost sounds as if he often breaks chairs.
You must've accidentally said it out loud, because he looks up at you and chuckles, "Uh yeah, I almost always end up breaking something."

Okayyyyyy. This is getting a little awkward now. No names, no introductions, and now all of the boys are staring at you, making no noise.
"Are you guys alright? You just went quiet all of a sudden." They all shake their heads a little and blink, similar to what you did only a few minutes ago. As if snapping themselves out of a trance.
"You smell... good." Another boy that was sitting on the other side of you, with slender limbs and bright blonde hair says as he leans in, sniffing you. You lean back, startled and freaked out by his weird behaviour. The others, in unison, agree.
"Yeah, you smell amazing." They've closed the gap between you and them, so that they're mere centimetres away from you and are all smelling you.

You shoot up abruptly, "I have to go, I have shopping in the car!" You hastily make your way towards the exit and your car, once in the car park, you bolt to your car and speed away to your apartment. Whilst lugging the shopping inside, you can't help but reflect on the events that occurred about 20 minutes ago. A whole table of seven, brilliantly hot men all walked over to you and sniffed you...
Uhhhhh, what?

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