1.
while coming out from the bedroom to see what everyone was talking about, dayoung carefully used the wooden ear cleaner in her hand. she made it to the living room and spotted the other dream members playing around.
"what are you guys doing?" she asked, quieting their conversation down.
they watched as she scraped the inside of her right ear and mark shrugged.
"nothing," he answered.
"what are you doing?" chenle asked, unfamiliar with what she was using the wooden stick for.
"..cleaning my ear?" dayoung chuckled and wiped the contents on a tissue.
jisung cutely tilted his head at her, "noona, can you clean my ear too?"
"yeah, he needs it. he's going deaf," renjun joked, making everyone laugh.
"sure," dayoung nodded at the maknae. "scoot over."
haechan, who was sitting on the sofa, was pushed off by jisung so he could make room for dayoung.
"y-yah! what the heck?!"
"you're not crying, are you? you're fine," jeno laughed.
"i am on the inside."
dayoung ignored the dumb boys and sat on the couch, crossing her legs and putting a pillow on top. she patted it, gesturing jisung to put his head on her lap, to which he gladly obeyed. after cleaning one of his ears, she gently blew air into it to get rid of the finer pieces and jisung scrunched his nose at the feeling.
"that tickled."
"sorry, sungie."
2.
"how the hell..?" dayoung mumbled to herself, tapping the eraser of her mechanical pencil on the desk.
in 127's dorm, she sat in the dining room with various homework pages spread out in front of her. a math worksheet was currently being worked on, but she couldn't understand the process.
too immersed in the difficult problem, dayoung didn't hear the loud noises being made from the second floor. as she was figuring out the equation, she felt a pair of arms drape around her neck and a cheek press against her own.
"hi, noona~!" jisung sang before he frowned when he got no response. "noona?"
he watched as she neatly wrote down numbers and math signs on a separate piece of paper from the actual homework sheet.
"dayoung noona~?" jisung tried again.
dayoung was focused on the math and jisung got upset. he pulled back, thinking about things he could do to get her to notice him. when he thought of something, he mischievously grinned to himself.
"and that equals.. seven— hey!"
the worksheet had been snatched away while she was writing, causing a big pencil mark to appear on it. looking up from the table, she saw jisung standing there with her homework in his hand.
"jisung, give that back. i need to finish it by monday," she said. "don't you have homework too?"
"i'm studying you," jisung replied, holding the paper above his head as she tried to reach it.
with a huff, dayoung rolled her eyes, "sung, i'm serious."
"i am too! why is your homework getting more attention than me?"
"if you want attention so badly, go ask chenle," the older girl sighed.
"but i want your attention!" jisung pouted. "i'll give it back to you after you play a video game with me."
desperate to get her homework back, dayoung let her hands fall to her sides.
"you sound like donghyuck," she mumbled. "one game and that's it."
of course, that didn't happen. the two played video games for hours, and dayoung's homework had been forgotten.
3.
nct dream stood in a studio, filming an interview. dayoung was between jeno and chenle. jisung, who was at the other end from her, had previously whined about wanting to stand next to her, and the other boys teased him about it.
"jisung," the host began. "you're the youngest, right? and that means you're still in school?"
said boy hummed in confirmation.
"ahh, so is there anyone you like?" he asked.
blushing, jisung shook his head and leaned over to look at dayoung.
"i only have eyes for noona!" the youngest said, rushing over to give the girl a hug.
"he's not lying," mark added. "whenever she leaves without him, he gets upset."
"no i don't—"
"yes you do, don't deny it."
"i only get sad because i'm worried something will happen to her," jisung defended himself.
"now he's lying," haechan laughed.
4.
"should we go see what yingyue's doing?" chenle asked the fans, holding the camera close to his face.
"they all said yes, let's gooo!" jisung answered quickly, pulling chenle with him.
the two rushed to dayoung and jisung's shared bedroom. there, they found the older girl sitting at her electric piano, putting random chords in an attempt to make a new melody.
"noona, we're here!" chenle sang, sitting beside dayoung while jisung sat on the other side of her.
he got all three of them in the frame and the fans watched at jisung clung on to dayoung.
"hi!" she waved at the camera, bare-faced. "it's a free day so i didn't put any makeup on."
"it's okay," said jisung. "you still look pretty."
the boys stayed with dayoung for a while and they eventually moved to the floor where there was more space. despite talking for a long time, jisung wouldn't let go of dayoung, always having an arm around her, his head on her shoulder, or holding her hand.
➥ 終。
➥ the requests i have in my list are so cute i love them
also this is the fortieth part!! wowie