it wasn't until the sound of something hitting the ground was heard that caused the two boys on the ground to avert their eyes from each other and look towards the direction that the sound came from. there, they saw jeno, fully dressed and ready to go, with his hands in a position as if he were holding his phone. except, the small mobile device was nowhere to be seen in his hands. following an invisible line from the male's hands to the floor, both jaemin and renjun saw the brown haired male's phone laying face down on the floor, most likely cracked, broken, or both.
"what the..." was all that came out of jeno's mouth from the disbelief from what he had just seen. renjun looked away from the standing male only to remember exactly what position he and jaemin were in. the chinese male quickly pushed the brown haired boy on top of him, telling jaemin to remove himself so that he could stand back up, and both boys frantically stood up, straightened out their clothes, and dusted it as if they were wiping off the settling dust.
jeno remained in the same position, looking back and forth between his two roommates before shaking his head and trying to get the mental image of what just occurred out of his mind. he didn't need to think about that, nor did he want to, but the image wouldn't go away.
shaking his head, the brown haired male snapped out of his trance and picked up his mobile device that he accidentally dropped upon seeing the two of them in a suggestive position on the ground, silent cursing at his cracked screen, but nevertheless, pocketed the device and cleared his throat.
"a-are we going to go now?" jeno mentally hit himself for stuttering, but it just came out. the korean male doesn't remember the last time he stuttered, maybe because he never actually had? but the situation he had just witnessed was too much for him to deal with in a day. not to mention that it was still early in the morning and the brown haired boy was still half asleep.
the other two silently nodded their heads, agreeing with the brown haired male's statement before the three of them took their leave, making their way to their chinese friend's dorm room to meet him there.
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"have a safe flight, chenle," the group of twenty boys greeted the chinese male as he was about to enter into the security entrance, where no one else was allowed to go any further without a ticket. the boyfriend of the chinese male was still clinging onto him, refusing to let go and send him away for the summer. jeno and lucas were trying to detach him from the light brown haired male, and succeeded after much difficulty.
"noooo! i won't let you go!" jisung yelled as lucas and jeno dragged the large baby to the rest of the twenty high school students, who were waving to chenle before he passed through the security point. the chinese male gave one last kiss on the forehead of his boyfriend before waving to the other boys and making his way further into the airport.
with that, the remaining boys left the airport, dragging a whiny jisung behind them, as they made their way back to the five cars that they took to get there.
originally, renjun had been in the same car with kun, dejun, and yangyang, but since guanheng asked if they could switch so he could be with his best friends, the red haired male agreed.
however, the chinese male did not know that guanheng had taken the same car as his two roommates on the ride to the airport, so guess where renjun was stuck for the hour trip back to the dorm rooms.
yes, he was stuck between his two best friends for the entire return trip. he didn't know how it ended up this way, nor was he necessarily complaining. but out of nineteen other people, he had to be stuck between the two brown haired boys, one of which he had shared some kind of moment with in the morning, and one who had caught the moment that the other two were in.
having yuta as the driver and sicheng in the passenger seat didn't help much, either. throughout the entire ride, the three boys in the backseat were dead silent, avoiding each other's eyes and staring out the window. the red haired male didn't know when silence was a thing between the three of them, and the two other males in the front seemed to think the same.
"why are you guys so quiet?" sicheng asked, turning around in his seat while renjun caught the quick glance of yuta's eyes through the front mirror before the japanese male focused them back on the road.
the three high school students in the back seat turned their attention away from the windows and to the chinese male in the front seat, before looking to the side and seeing each other. they then turned back toward sicheng.
"tired," the three of them said in unison, causing a series of glares to be sent to each other, cursing through their eyes for saying the same thing at the same time.
sicheng just chuckled and shook his head. "alright, then. if that's what you say." he turned back around in his seat to face the road, and renjun saw the hand of the japanese male latch onto that of the male in the passenger seat, intertwining their fingers. it made the red haired male smile slightly, seeing how far their relationship had come since a year ago.
thinking about it now, today was one of those rare days where all twenty one of the boys were together. sure, they've been together a lot throughout the past year, starting from the reunion where taeyong was first introduced, dejun's first birthday party, the new years celebration with the ones who didn't leave for vacation, the end of the year school festival, and several days throughout the summer as well. it felt nice to the chinese male to have the friend group be whole once again, and the two people who were involved with the splitting of the group were now closer than ever, putting a smile to the chinese male's face.
a heavy weight was felt on the red haired boy's shoulder, snapping (snapping) renjun out of his thoughts. he turned towards his left to see jaemin's head leaning on his shoulder, his closed eyes and steady rise and fall of his chest indicating that he was asleep. the chinese male's face turned a bright shade of pink, realizing that his crush had fallen asleep on his shoulder, before feeling another weight on his other shoulder.
turning over to look at his right, renjun saw the face of jeno, his head leaning on his shoulder similarly to jaemin. the brown haired male's eyes were also closed, and the rhythmic pattern of his chest also brought the chinese male to the conclusion that he was also asleep.
there was nothing renjun could do. he was stuck in between his best friends, both of them sleeping on each of his shoulders, with jeno wrapping his arms around the chinese boy's waist and jaemin clinging onto the same male's arm. the restricted movement caused by the two brown haired boys caused renjun to silently sigh before leaning back into the car seat and relaxing his body.
soon enough, the red haired boy felt his eyelids feeing heavier and heavier, eventually drifting off into dream world and instinctively dropping his head towards the side, landing on the head of one of his roommates.
