Quick AN: I had a whole text image thing set up (like the image) but you can't put in images on Quotev. TwT So if you're interested in reading it with the text images, it's on my Tumblr! (kimistorm.tumblr.com -> linked in the masterlist)
You ran your hands through your hair in frustration as you looked at your assignment. You had been staring at this darn problem for the past half hour, going to google and desperately searching for something that wasn't behind a paywall.
From: (y/n)
Have you figured out number 8 on the math assignment?
From: Channie
Yeah
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We still down for tonight?
From: (y/n)
Of course!
I'm really excited
From: Channie
You said your parents are asleep by 11 right?
From: (y/n)
Yoh
From: Channie
Sweet, I'll be outside your place 11:45?
From: (y/n)
O7
Can't wait to see you
*kiss emoji*
From: Channie
You saw me 4 hours ago
From: (y/n)
<3
Armed with Chan's answer and excitement for later that night, it wasn't long until you received another text from your beloved boyfriend.
(a few hours later)
From: Channie
I'm outside
From: (y/n)
I'll be right out
You quickly shut off your laptop and grabbed your house keys before heading out to the front door of your home. You silently made your way through the house, straining your eyes to see from the small amount of moonlight peeking through the windows. A hand waved around cautiously in front of you in hopes that it would keep you from smashing into a wall. Once at the door, you felt it safe enough to turn on the flashlight from your phone. Enough to see which pair of shoes was yours. You quietly slipped them on, and eased out the front door as quietly as you could, cringing when the deadbolt clicked as you unlocked and locked it behind you.
Turning around, you saw Chan's black car stopped in the street in front of your house. You quickly ran across the grass towards him, and pulled open the door to the passenger side, "fancy seeing you here." You grinned as you slid into the seat, "come here often?"
He paused to think about it, "I'd say so, I have a beautiful significant other who lives in that house."
"Aww," you cooed as the two of you gave a quick kiss, "you're too kind."
"I see no lies." He responded smoothly as he pulled on the shifter and released the hand brake to head towards your destination.
"Yeah?" he didn't see your quirked brow as you admired his profile, "well there's an even more beautiful man right next to me."
He scoffed, "no."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"Naurrrr."
"I can do this all night." You teased when you noticed the annoyance in his voice grow with each comeback.
"Please don't," he nearly sighed out, "Jisung kept on texting me awful jokes and puns."
You let out a mock offended shout, "and he didn't think to include me?"
"Consider yourself blessed." He responded as his eyes stayed on the road. While it was quiet, and there were hardly any cars about, he was taking the two of you down a winding path devoid of lights except for the ones coming from his headlights.
"Wait, but I want to hear!" you continued excitedly.
"What do you call a baby computer?"
You tilted your head to the side and thought about it, "minitor?"
"What?" the shock in his voice was clear, "what does that even mean? Like a minotaur?"
"Ah, like a mini-monitor?" you tried to defend your answer, "nevermind that. What was the answer?"
"Data." Chan deadpanned and it was your turn to be in shock and confusion.
"Data?"
"Da-ta-ta," he added in a baby voice and you nearly snorted. Mostly from the sound of Chan doing a baby voice, and not really because of the joke. "Come on, it wasn't that funny."
"That's such a Jisung thing," you smiled as you watched the scenery pass by before turning on your phone to confront said person.
From: (y/n)
Mcscuse
You're out here telling jokes to Chan without me???
From: Jeekies
Yes?
From: (y/n)
What is this betrayal I smell?
From: Jeekies
Nooooo
I'm sorryyyyyy
I got kicked from the GC
And Chan was the last person I texted
When did that happen? You quickly checked the group chat and scrolled through it a bit to see 'Seungmo removed Jeekies from the chat.' Without a second of hesitation, you quickly added Jisung back into the chat.
From: (y/n)
What do you call a baby computer?
From: Hyunjinnie
Backup!
From: Jeekies
Data!
Wait backup?
No
😂
From: Cat dad
TF?
That makes no sense
From: Lixie
Data?
huhhhhh?
From: Hyunjinnie
Yeah I don't get it either
From: O.U.T.
I thought this was important
From: (y/n)
RUDE
Voice message from Jeekies
"Is that the group chat going off?" Chan asked and you took your attention away from the chat to look up at him and the road.
"Yeah, Jisung and I are tagteamming the data joke." You replied with a smile.
Chan let out a groan, "it's not a good joke."
You let out a giggle, "I'll tell that to Jisung."
"Believe me, he knows."
From: Hyunjinnie
Pfft
From: O.U.T.
But why
From: cat dad
...
Lol
From: Binnie
Why have you cursed my phone like this?
From: Lixie
^^
From: Jeekies
It's funny!
You guys just have a bad sense of humor
From: (y/n)
Chan thinks it's a bad joke too
From: Jeekies
But he's not here to say it!
So it doesn't count!
From: Lixie
Where is he anyways?
And how do you know he thinks it's a bad joke?
From: (y/n)
He's driving
From: O.U.T.
Right now?
From: Hyunjinnie
Driving?
From: Cat dad
Like a car?
From: (y/n)
Omg have you guys never been on a road before?
No Minho, a golf cart
From: Lixie
That'd be pretty cool ngl
From: O.U.T.
You'd crash it
From: Lixie
Rude
From: Hyunjinnie
Oops
From: Seungmo
What is happening?
You guys it's midnight
From: (y/n)
YOOOOUUUU
From: Lixie
Wuh oh
From: Binnie
I think you better run
From: (y/n)
Why'd you kick Jisung? 🥺
From: Seungmo
Did you not see the previous conversation???
From: (y/n)
Lol no
From: O.U.T.
He kept on spamming pictures of octopuses
Octopusses?
octopusesei?
Octopi?
From: Jeekies
I see nothing wrong with that
From: Cat Dad
WHILE ASKING ME TO MARRY YOU
WHO USES A FREAKING OCTOPUS AS AN ENGAGEMENT RING?
From: O.U.T.
THERE WERE DEAD OCTOPUSEISI PICTURES TOO
From: Seungmo
It's octopuses
From: Jeekies
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Marry me!
From: Lixie
Ew
From: Seungmo
Why did you start this again?
From: Cat Dad
Lol looks like you
From: Binnie
Tasty
From: (y/n)
UM
From: Lixie
I
From: Jeekies
J
From: Hyunjinnie
K
From: O.U.T.
L
From: Seungmo
You're not funny
From: (y/n)
Yes we are
From: Binnie
Go to bed
"Do you know why Jisung was proposing to Minho with a squid?" you turned off your phone to refocus on what was happening around you. The area had darkened quite a bit, and by this point you had no idea where you were. You were impressed that Chan seemed to know where he was going, considering how he didn't even have any navigation system up.
The man in question nearly choked, "proposing with a squid?" he asked incredulously and even glanced towards you in confusion, not that he could make out anything from the darkness.
"Well, an octopus." You admitted, recognizing the difference between the two.
His laugh blended into his next words, "no. About time though."
You laughed along with him, "I don't think Minho liked it that much. Or Seungmin."
Chan already had a hunch as to what happened and clicked his tongue almost disapprovingly, "did he remove Sungie from the chat?"
"Yuup."
Chan let out a sigh, "of course he did."
You laughed at his resignation, "anyways, where we going?"
"You just thought to ask now?" he couldn't help but laugh at the sudden question, considering how the past few minutes were quiet except for the typing from you and the background music from his spotify playlist.
"I mean, I trust you, so I'm not too concerned." You hummed and gazed out to the dark expanse surrounding you, "I'd say Area 51 but we're nowhere close to that."
"This will be better than aliens," Chan confirmed with a nod.
You glanced at your phone that lit up again with a picture of an actual squid, Jisung must've been running out of octopus pictures, "I think Jisung's got the alien part covered."
"Anyways, here we are." Chan slowed down the car and the dirt crunched beneath the tires as he pulled off to a small clearing by the side of the road. It looked remarkably the same as what the rest of the drive looked like. Dark and empty.
You gave him a confused look that he probably couldn't see well as he turned off the car, "the middle of nowhere?"
"Exactly." He told you with a touch of giddy excitement in his voice, "come on!" he nearly jumped out of the car and to the trunk, where he pulled out a blanket and a bag.
You were a bit more skeptical as you slowly got out of the car, "Channie? What are we doing?"
"You said you trusted me?" there was a pout in his voice as he stopped fiddling with trying to lay out the blanket on the hood of his voice.
"Of course I do," you told him and quickly gave him a hug. You could tell he wasn't that upset though, judging by the way his voice jumped a couple octaves.
"Hop on," his voice returned to its normal level as he patted the soft fabric that was laid out on the largest flat surface of his car, "it's thick enough that the heat from the engine won't burn." He added after a moment of hesitation from you. You felt bad for your hesitation and tried to scootch yourself up the hood, "like lay back." He added as he laid down next to you. You followed his words and what greeted you was a dark sky littered with tiny pinpricks of light.
You felt your jaw drop in awe as you saw an entire collection of stars that you had never seen before. "Oh wow." You gasped as you tried to soak in the view. It was almost humbling. Each of those tiny pinpricks of white were huge balls of gas light years away. The light that you were currently had traveled the distance of several light years and for several years, now to be witnessed by you and your boyfriend. A warm hand came down to clasp around yours and you eagerly squeezed back.
"It's my favorite place to stargaze." He told you softly as you continued to gape up at the sky.
You used your free hand to point at the streak of stars in the sky, the area outside of the streak looking surprisingly empty, "that's the Milky Way?"
"Yup," he continued in the same soft tone, enjoying the night atmosphere and you at his side, "that's literally our galaxy."
"Looks smaller than I expected," you laughed and Chan giggled along with you.
"It's about 50,000 light years across," he added and gave you a light elbow, "not exactly small."
"Okay smarty-pants," you laughed and gave him a slight shove in return. He let out a sound of protest, but let you have the last laugh. You sighed and looked up to the sky again, "do you feel small?"
"From this small glimpse of how vast our universe is?" Chan asked without any hesitation.
You couldn't help but tear your gaze away from the sky to deadpan at him, "when you put it that way that just makes it seem so much more intimidating."
He shot you a dimpled smile that you were able to make out as your eyes adjusted, "no." He scootched over to press himself against your side, "I feel impressed. So many things had to go right. Gravity is the perfect amount that it allows expansion of the Universe, but also brings things close enough together to form atoms. Our planet is the perfect distance away so we're not scorched or frozen to death. Life evolved from tiny organisms that lived in the ocean to living, bipedal, thinking humans. I exist today. You exist today. And we met, and here we are, gazing at the universe around us. So no, I don't feel small." At some point during his ramblings Chan turned his eyes from the twinkling stars shining above to fix you with an adoring look, so it was to your great surprise when you turned and found a pair of eyes looking fondly at you.
"Wait that scares me even more." You put a hand up to your mouth in slight fear and also to hide the grin as Chan let out an exasperated sound and rolled over so he was on his back again.
"That was insightful!"
"Too deep!" you protested, "it's midnight, my head's empty. No thoughts."
A hand found its way to your head and ruffled at your hair, "lame." You feebly cried out and tried to fight off his hand but ended up giving up and dealing with it, knowing that nobody was going to see your tousled hair. The hand found itself on the other side of you (effectively bringing the two of you even closer together) and pointed out the brightest star in the sky. "That's Sirius. Well, technically Sirius A and B since it's a binary system," he rambled under his breath, not that you really had any clue what he was talking about, "but we just see it as one point of light."
"I think you're brighter than Sirius," you couldn't help the cheesy comment as you planted a quick kiss on his cheek.
You could almost see his ears redden and the embarrassed and slightly shocked smile grow on his face as you watched his reaction, "that's a good one."
You let out a happy hum and rested your head against his shoulder again, "anything more I should know about Sirius?"
There was a moment of silence before his hand rose back to point at the sky, "it's part of the Canis Major," he continued and tried to draw out the shape of the dog with his finger. "Though, not as major as my love for you." He let out an awkward laugh mixed with a screech and pulled his hand away to cover his face with embarrassment.
"Was that you trying to one up me?" you questioned with a light grin on your face as you propped your head up on a hand as he peered at you past his fingers.
"Maybe?"
You laughed and pressed a kiss to his hands, "nice." You laid yourself back onto the hood of the car and snuggled up next to him as he continued to point out stars and constellations in the sky while simultaneously giving you more astronomy knowledge than you knew what to do with. It was enjoyable and peaceful as the two of you left your buzzing phones inside the car and there wasn't a car that passed on the road behind you. The cool night paired with the chirping of insects, Chan's warm body heat, and the two of you just cuddling up under the stars was your the perfect way to end the week.
"That was a shooting star!" Chan screamed as he pointed up to the sky, you eagerly nodded as you saw the tiny streak of light, "make a wish!" you hummed in agreeance and closed your eyes as you thought about it, but finding it hard as everything you wanted was already right here. "I love you." He added softly, planting a kiss onto your head.
"Love you too."