"Someone call the doctor, hold me
down and tell me love's a sickness,
an addiction, an overdose. It's harder
to control as time goes by. I'm falling
deeper into you. Oh too much, it's
you, your love, this is an overdose."
♠♥♣♦
I feel tired. Yet the thought of irritating Chanyeol is making me feel giddy.
We arrived in Japan after a short flight. Jungkook kept playing that game during the entire flight, taking advantage of the sleeping Yixing. To be honest that game looked interesting but I didn't dare to admit it out loud otherwise he would have made me play it and I would end up getting punished along with him if Yixing finds out.
I made Yixing give me a piggy back ride upto the cab. Him and Seulgi were all energetic due to their nap. Jungkook was struggling with mine and his luggage. Seulgi was easily carrying her luggage as well as of Yixing.
We got into a cab and I gave the driver the location where we were headed. It was easy for me to communicate as I knew the language, thanks to father and YongGuk.
"I never thought that you being multilingual would help us someday." Seulgi casually shrugged.
Why can't they simply accept me and my abilities instead of doubting me? Well, we all including me kind of have a habit of judging and doubting each other so I should probably stay quiet.
The cab stopped in front of a beautiful wooden house just like that Japanese restaurant. It was just one story tall but was spread over a very large area. Cherry blossom trees were growing in the courtyard. A light breeze was blowing cooling down the environment. The evening sky was painted in a shade of pink and fading blue with small white clouds floating around. The similar calm aroma of tea and incense sticks was in the atmosphere. It was located in an area away from the city near the calm mountains.
I again climbed on Yixing's back and he didn't complaint as usual. A female in light green kimono asked us to follow her. People dressed in pyjamas and other comfortable clothes were busy chatting with each other. The fact that they were conversing in Japanese didn't make me feel uncomfortable at all. I felt like I was at home, with father, YounGuk oppa, eomma, Kai, LE, Yoongi and Baekhyun. When we used to spend our Sundays at home, eating delicious Japanese food and singing songs.
Some were drinking tea. And some were sitting peacefully below the trees and were probably either writing, composing poems or were painting, trying to catch the beautiful environment in the form of art and literature.
I smiled at the thought. How much I would love to just sit like that somewhere in the evening breeze, calmly enveloping the beauty of nature through the windows of my eyes.
My trance was broken when the hot steam rising from the hot springs touched my face. My body relaxed at the sensation as I felt limp. "I know that you are tired but don't sleep yet." Yixing chuckled.
We reached a door by the pond. The women in kimono slowly slid open the door, signalling us to enter in.
I was too absorbed in the moment to open my eyes. I stayed on Yixing's back, ignoring the greetings. Then suddenly my eyes shot open at the voice.
"Riri!!"
I saw Baekhyun running towards us and this time he didn't think twice about tackling us. Me and Yixing groaned as Baekhyun kept snuggling onto us, holding us tight as if we would dissappear. "Now I finally feel like I'm at Home!" Baekhyun mumbled.
Seulgi and Jungkook were starting at us with confusion. Now I realised that everyone was gathered up in that room to welcome us. I didn't expect that Hwasa would come but I guess I was wrong. I some how shimmied out of Baekhyun's grip. He protested at the lack of attention while Yixing looked at me with hopeful eyes for help. I sighed and spoke up, "You need to learn how to properly hug someone without breaking their bones." I extended my arms towards Baekhyun and he hugged me tightly in a flash. Yixing was finally free and breathing but now I was stuck.
Surprisingly I saw Baekhyun's friends from school there too. I was able to mumble out a little help towards them. But Kyungsoo just shrugged. Chen was busy videotaping it and Sehun wasn't even looking at me. He found an empty vase more interesting then helping me out.
Finally someone then decided to help. He kept a hand on Baekhyun's shoulder to signal him to stop. Baekhyun groaned and loosened up a bit but didn't let go of my hand. I turned around to thank the person but stopped when I saw Chanyeol. I just smirked and linked arms with Baekhyun.
Chanyeol's smile fell as he narrowed his eyes at me.
"Wohoo! We all are finally here, now let's eat something." Jinyoung spoke up.
"You seriously brought him too." I looked at Jinyoung who was standing beside Yunho and Samuel. RM rubbed his neck with a painful expression in his face. "Well, it's not like we had a choice."
"You make it sound as if I am a burden." Jinyoung spoke up, pointing his lollipop at RM.
"That you are." Chanyeol spoke up while rolling his eyes.
......
It was 8 o'clock in the evening. Luckily everyone mixed up with each other quite well. We were fourteen people currently staying at one fourth of this large house.
Everyone decided to head to the hot springs before dinner. I was walking along with Chen towards the entrance from where the path for hot springs for male and female divided. Unlike in Korea, here hot springs were out in the open. There surely were open hot springs in Korea but here in Japan they were quite famous.
"I bet I can stay in the hot springs longer then you." Chen spoke up.
"Oh! Are you sure?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Wanna see?" Chen spoke up.
"Okay, then let's make a bet. We will ask one of the others to keep an eye on us and see if we cheated. The one who looses will drink a whole bottle of soju." I spoke up feeling proud at my bet.
"Okay, but to make it interesting, if we both come out at the same time we will need to finish one bottle of soju each." Chen smirked.
"Bet" I fist pumped Chen as we went our separate ways to the hot springs.
I went in and saw Seulgi and Hwasa already relaxing. I quickly sat beside them in the water and asked Hwasa for her help in keeping an eye on me. But I knew I won't cheat.
I received a text from Baekhyun wishing me good luck. This meant that Chen chose him to check on him.
....
It almost had been half an hour of me sitting inside this hot spring. Seulgi already left. Hwasa was staying behind for the sake of just watching over me but then she said that she felt suffocated and left a minute ago.
Baekhyun texted me that all of them were going to head back. He also gave up on watching over Jongdae(Chen) and went to the restaurant with the others to eat dinner.
I received a call from an unknown number but picked it up anyways.
"Huuuhh..So it's just both of us then." I could hear Chen's voice. It sounded like he was struggling a bit. I was also feeling a bit uneasy. My body was burning and I felt a bit pain but I wasn't going to back off.
"Yep." I managed to speak out.
We kept talking to each other trying to distract eachother from the pain. After almost twenty minutes I gave up and got out of the hot spring. My body turned red from all the heat. I quickly gathered my clothes and wore a robe and started to head out. Just as I stepped near the exit I saw Chen coming up too.
He looked up towards me and stepped towards the exit. Judging from the way he looked, his red body indicated that he was as stubborn as me and took the whole bet seriously.
We stared at each other for a while. Suddenly we erupted into loud laughter. "Looks like we both lost." Chen managed to speak between his laugh. The laughter was very painful, as every part of our skin was burning. We somehow managed to drag each other towards where we were staying. We asked the housekeeper to bring two bottles of soju.
No one was backing out of the bet. We took the bottles and opened it. We were still sitting in the main hall with our bathing robes on.
"To our stupidity." I painfully hissed as I raised my bottle.
"And our stubbornness." Chen painfully raised his bottle of soju.
We began drinking the alcohol slowly at first but we had to make it a competition too. So now we were chugging the bottle of soju, trying to finish it off before the other does. I felt a bit dizziness spread to my body as I finished my bottle. Chen also finished at the same time and it was clear that we were drunk by now. I don't know how but this soju seemed to be much more stronger then the one we had in Korea. I saw the label and it read that it wasn't a traditional soju and also contained a mix of other heavy alcohol.
"We're doomed." I spoke up to Chen.
"If they find us in this state they will probably kick us out." Chen slurred out while he stood up hissing in pain.
Not knowing where we were headed to we entered a room and thought that it would be best for us to just change and sit in front of a window to probably cool down our body and reduce the redness.
That room had only one bag of clothes. We were too drunk to now head towards any other room to search for our bags so we resorted on wearing the clothes that were in that bag. Chen took out a pair of shorts and button up shirts. I took the shirt declining the shorts. Who knew if that person was hygienic or not? Chen quickly wore the clothes leaving the buttons of the shirt opened and sat in front of a table fan he found. "Wahhh!!" He slurred as the cool wind from the old table fan soothed his skin.
I quickly changed into that shirt and somehow managed to close a few buttons before opening a door which lead to a balcony. It showed a view of the mountains. It looked even more beautiful at night as the mountains appeard blue in colour.
I sat beside Chen in front of the table fan. It was so relieving. The shirt I wore reached upto my thighs. The shoulders of that shirt were to wide so it kept slipping off my shoulder.
Chen opened his mouth towards the fan, loving the cool air. "Aaaaaa......"
His stupid child like behaviour made me laugh. The red burns were still there and were going to stay there for hours. Even if we slightly touched our body, it hurt like hell. The alcohol as usual worked it's magic on us and we were barely able to keep our eyes open. We were almost about to doze off but a sudden loud chatter and laughter coming from outside made us alert. (As alert as two heavily drunks could get. Now you know how much alert.)
But then we decided to ignore it and enjoy our little table fan. Our minds were now completely unable to process.
We herd someone open the door of the room where we were. We ignored the angry person who was now scolding us, as I quietly laid down and Chen kept making weird faces at the table fan.
............
"What is happening?" Everyone rushed towards the room and saw an angry Chanyeol and Hyerin along with Chen completely drunk sitting in front of a fan with red skin and minimal amount clothes, which now turns out were of Chanyeol.
Chanyeol was angry but he couldn't take his anger out on them. At least not at the girl who was laying on the floor in his shirt. That sight kind of pleased him. He didn't even realised that he had stopped his shouting and was staring at her with dumbfounded expression. He shook his head trying to get all sorts of thoughts out of his head as his face started turning red but not with anger.
"Baekhyun, mind if you take your friend with you?" Chanyeol spoke up. Half of them already left to sleep, laughing to themselves about the situation. Baekhyun murmured some curse words as he lifted the drunk and asleep Chen out of the room, with the help of Sehun, of course.
Chanyeol sighed and rolled out the sleeping mattress in his room.
He went near the now sleeping girl and picked her up and laid her onto that mattress.
The burns on her skin were very bad so he took upon him self to tend to them. He brought some towels and a bowl filled with cold water. He sat beside her and began laying cold towels on her. Yixing was smiling to himself and carefully watching Chanyeol.
He suddenly clapped his hands which startled Chanyeol. Yixing came in with a bag in his hands. "So, I have finally decided that you are fine for her." Yixing spoke up to Chanyeol while keeping the bag beside Chanyeol's.
"From now on she is your girlfriend and you need to take care of her." Yixing announced. Chanyeol looked at him with wide eyes and started rambling , "What are you saying? Isn't that her decision to make. Heck.. I didn't even propose her yet. Wait... Not that I was going to. Oh! Who am I kidding I was absolutely going to do that but I am scared that she will reject me. No! I'm Park Chanyeol and I'm not scared of anyone and now one would dare to reject me. Right! Right? " He ended his rambling with an unsure voice and a puppy face, looking at Lay with expectations.
Yixing just wanted to squeeze his cheeks. He chuckled and motioned towards the bag, "That's her bag. She will be staying with you for the rest of the trip, if you don't mind.."
"Nope. I don't mind it at all. I never would. Never in a million years." Chanyeol started rambling again, cutting off Yixing between his sentence.
"Yah.. Hold your horses." Yixing shook Chanyeol. "Now where was I, right. So, now that it is clear that you will keep her with you, I hope you take care of her. Even in Korea. There are some people after her and I hope you can protect her."
Chanyeol violently nodded his head. To Yixing he looked like a 10 year old child, trying to convince his parents to give him a particular toy and promising not to break it. Chanyeol raised his hand and spoke up,"I swear on the boy scouts honour code."
Yixing laughed and went out of Chanyeol's room.
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A/n:
Yohoo. Did you like this chapter? If yes then wait till you see the next one. I have somethings planned out in my mind.
As you might have noticed in the whole story till now there were no smut scenes as I can not write them. So I will probably need some help in this department.
Don't worry I will ask someone to write it for me. And if not then I might end up writing some real cringe worthy or awkward stuff or a totally non-existant scene. But don't worry it will be there.😸
But if you don't want any such kind of scenes, feel free to tell me.
B A E K Hyunnnnnn!!!
(hehe sorry I just saw Baekhyun's video of the AR shirts for Super M. Huuuu...I really want his, Kai's and Lucas' version of those shirts.) 🙀
Anyway, happy reading.
Annie💕