「 」|| doil

「 c h a p t e r t w e l v e 」

But a voice in his head said 'But rulers are bendable righ- '

"Argh!" he shouted in frustration.

"You okay there?" a deep voice asked, echoing inside the bathroom they are.

"Yeah" taeil squeeked in a little voice, embarassed.

He then heard the shower turning off and footsteps nearing the door. Finally, he thought.

He dried himself with a towel and wore clothes before stepping out of the bathroom. Seeing the wall clock's time and doyoung standing not far away from him, waiting, he fetched his bag and made his way to the door.

They both walked quietly through the hallways to both meet their friends.

They decided to just use two vehicles and they are now on their way to the nearest mall. Chenle is sitting on the shotgun to navigate kun to the mall while doyoung's car follows them.

They arrived safe and sound and they can't help but attract the nearby people when they all stepped out from the vehicles.

"Mall, here i comeee !" haechan run to the entrance only to be stopped midway by the guard.

"Uh, from which school are you? We haven't receive a notice that a fieldtrip will take place here..." the guard said unsurely, looking at the hoard of people walking together.

Hearing that, the said group bursts into laughter.

Jaehyun patted the guard's shoulder and said "we're already free from the hellish place called college"

The guard took his time to scan the 21 of them before letting them in.

Only a few stay true to the word 'grocery' and here they are, with one cart each.

After a good one hour of grabbing whatever food they see, they lined up at the counter. Imagine, the seven of them will full carts line up in a single counter.

"Hey, how about the bill?" taeil asked, worried about how much he'll give to contribute.

"Relax, we just have to put the zhong chenle on speaker." sicheng said, confidently fishing out his phone and dialed the said boy's no.

"yo, hyung" it was jisung's voice who answered

"give the call to chenle"

the maknae obliged and they can hear him calling out chenle who was busy staring at the plushies

"ah yes hyung, you called me?"

they can hear sicheng say something to the younger (in a language they can't speak) then their conversation became long causing the lady on the cashier tap her fingers with a smug look.

Renjun nudged at sicheng and looked at the cashier, pertaining to the lady.

"oh sorry. you see, we talked ab-"

"yeah, i know. im chinese too remember?"

sicheng gave the phone to the cashier lady and her eyes widened knowing who it is. She returned the phone to sicheng and immediately swiped the things they have bought.

Someone helped them to carry the groceries in doyoung's car because they were too many.

They all agreed that someone should go back and leave the groceries to the house. They looked at the numerous bags sprawled out  at doyoung's backseat.

"Give me the car keys" jaehyun said and doyoung throwed them to him. Good thing he catched it.

"is it okay for you to be alone?"

"yeah no prob-"

"i'll come with you!" taeyong shouted, making them jolt up in suprise. The older who was cursing at himself for sounding so eager, was shocked to see jaehyun smiling at him, his hand wrapped on his own.

"let's go?"

The ones who were left behind by the car started to go back to the mall.

doyoung saw taeil who was too far ahead so he jogged to meet the older's pace. he smiled at the older who has an annoyed look plastered on his face.

"so... where are we going?"

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me while writing that last sentence: dora is that you? (lol )