"I swear I'm going out to find them tomorrow if they aren't back by then." Aju nice said quite aggressively while pacing in front of the door. Her chin length hair was a tangled mess, and dark bags had formed under her eyes due to lack of sleep for the past two days. Not that she normally slept much anyways.
"Aju, just sit down. You're making everyone so much more stressed by pacing." Mansae pointed out and Aju nice plopped down next to her on the couch while letting out a mangled sigh.
"Should I make lunch or something?" Yeopoda asked once she walked into the living room, but her siblings just waved her off.
"There's no use. It's not like we're going to eat anyways." Ulgo muttered, and everyone agreed with him. Yeopoda sighed and took Home from Akkinda who was struggling to keep her eyes open.
"Well, I'm not going to starve him. Come on, Oh my and Komapda. I don't care if you don't want to eat." The two got up off of the floor where they were just playing around with a few toys and followed their older sister into the kitchen. They sat down at the kitchen table and Yeopoda handed Home to Komapda so she could fully function with both hands.
"Do you care what I make?" They shook their heads lazily and stared out of the window and into the backyard garden. Most of the food they ate came seemingly from nowhere, but they still grew some of their own food in case one day that mysterious food supply suddenly disappeared.
The house had been very quiet and expectant the past two days. Everyone only felt like sitting in the living room and waiting for the front door to open. The oldest siblings had to force themselves off of the couch to make sure their youngest siblings were still getting cared for. Which was a difficult thing to do when they were struggling to take care of themselves.
"Here, eat." Yeopoda slid two sandwiches in front of her siblings and took Home so she could feed him some applesauce that she had found in the fridge. Oh my instantly dug into her lunch since it was the first thing she had ate all day, but Komapda stared blankly at Yeopoda.
"I want you to eat too." The fourteen year old looked up from feeding her youngest sibling, and stared at the six year old blankly. She knew she didn't feel hungry, but she also couldn't remember the last time she had ate something.
"I'm fine, Komapda. Just eat your lunch." She was about to turn back to Home, but in her peripheral vision, she could see he wasn't going to budge.
"I won't eat until you eat." Yeopoda sighed at his stubbornness, but reluctantly got up from her chair with Home in her arms and made her own sandwich. She sat back down and took a bite from her own lunch before going back to feeding her brother.
The action seemed to satisfy Komapda, and he readily devoured his lunch. As soon as the six year old was finished, he put his plate in the sink and opened the fridge. Oh my seemed to realize what he was doing, and she readily jumped up to help him bring out an assortment of things. The four year old dragged them each over a chair so they could more easily reach the counter, and they silently started making a sandwich for everyone who hadn't ate.
Once they were finished, they instantly passed them out to each of their siblings and made sure that they ate the whole thing. No one was starving on their watch.
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"Okay, leaving the train tracks was a really bad idea." Baksu pointed out as they tiredly trudged through a field.
"We had to find food and water. Which we did." Boom Boom tried to keep looking around for anything that was remotely familiar since his brother had his head down, but it wasn't helping.
"Yeah, but now we can't find the train tracks and we're even more lost than we were. I just want to go home." The younger held back tears that were threatening to fall due to tiredness, and his older brother wrapped his arm around his shoulders.
"I know, Baksu. I want to go home too. And speaking of home, I want to see our little brother. We'll get there soon." Baksu sighed and stumbled a bit on a rock.
"But we can only make it home if we find the train tracks. And even then we have to know what direction to go. I'm sick and tired of walking and waiting." He groaned and angrily kicked a loose stone. Boom Boom stopped his younger brother and made him look in his eyes.
"We will find our way home. But for now, we have to walk and we have to wait." Baksu calmed himself down and nodded. The two walked side by side with Boom Boom's arm still around Baksu's shoulder.
"Could we at least stop soon, though. I don't think I can feel my feet." The older laughed and brought him over so he could lean his back against a tree and rest. Boom Boom looked up to see how high the tree went and how difficult it would be to climb it, before deciding to do so.
"I'll check if I can see anything from up there." Baksu nodded and watched his brother carefully scale the tree. The black haired male jumped down a few minutes later with a smile on his face.
"I have good news and bad news. Good news is I can see the playground. Bad news is we are on the other side of the cliff and have to find out way across or around." Baksu just groaned and pulled his older brother to the ground next to him.
"Let's deal with that in a few minutes. I want to rest." Boom Boom chuckled and the younger rested his head on his shoulder before closing his eyes. The twelve year old rested his own head against the rough bark and decided to take a nap too.
"Just a few minutes. That's it." He muttered groggily, but his brother was already fast asleep.
