seungmin and chan reached minho's door and stood there for a moment before either one of them spoke.

"you can't just leave, chan." seungmin stated bluntly.

"seungmin-"

"no, i thought about it the entire walk back... you cannot just leave. you told me you want to change, then start here. don't leave." seungmin was practically begging the boy, but he didn't care. chan needed to stay.

"but seungmin-"

"say my name again, i dare you." seungmin turned cold as he spoke, making chan go silent, "you have to stay chan. if you just run away, you'll never be forgiven. you have to at least say goodbye. stay the night like we all planned and tell everyone the news. we have two weeks left of school, just finish it out."

chan just stood there silently. he wanted to just turn his back on seungmin and leave, but he found himself frozen in place.

"let's go," seungmin finally latched onto the boys arm and dragged him inside.

chan let out a defeated sigh as he allowed for seungmin to pull him in. the two locked the door behind them and made their way back up to the guest room.

chan laid down in bed first and seungmin climbed in beside him. seungmin rolled onto his side, facing chan and staring into his chocolate brown eyes.

"please be here when i wake up in the morning." seungmin whispered as his eyes slowly began to flutter shut.

chan hesitantly raised his hand to brush his thumb against seungmin's cheek as he said, "i promise i will be."

with that, the two began to doze off and entered the realm of the sleeping.

~

the aftermath of the apology game had shown its effects with the awkwardness at night time, and now all the boys were slowly beginning to stir and wondered what would occur that morning.

seungmin was the first to fully awaken which was surprising since he was among the last to fall asleep. he looked beside him and saw chan's eyes shut with his eyebrows slightly furrowed as his bottom lip was pouting.

seungmin giggled to himself as he flicked chan's lip, causing the other boy to slowly wake up.

"did you just hit my lip?" chan asked as he rubbed his eyes.

"nope." seungmin shook his head.

"liar." chan groaned as he stretched out his arms.

"sh!" hyunjin said angrily as he pulled the blanket over his head.

"mmm hyunjin, don't be so moody." jeongin said groggily as he sat up with his eyes still shut.

"shhhhh!" hyunjin said but with a bit of a whine behind it.

"okay that's it," jeongin pushed hyunjin off of the air mattress and made him collapse onto the floor, "get up."

"you pushed me!" hyunjin shouted at the boy.

"okay, and?" jeongin responded, not in the mood for hyunjin's dramatics.

"and... and... and it hurt!" hyunjin responded with a grumpy face.

"do you want me to kiss it better?" jeongin spoke in a cute way to tease the latter.

"shut up, i know you don't mean it." hyunjin stood up and made his way towards the door, "let's go see if the others are awake."

"well his mood sure changed quickly." chan stifled a laugh.

"it always does." jeongin shook his head as he dragged himself off of the air mattress and into minho's room, chan and seungmin following behind him slowly.

"oh you guys are awake." hyunjin said shocked as he walked into the room.

"all of us except jisung." minho said as he deadpanned to stare at the boy, "get the fuck up!" he nudged him harshly.

"mmmmm!" jisung groaned in annoyance.

"get up!" minho shouted.

"let's go!" hyunjin yelled before jumping on top of the boys small body.

"yah!" jisung yelped as he felt hyunjin put all of his body weight on top of him.

"haha, doesn't feel so nice does it?" hyunjin was clearly trying to crush jisung as much as possible.

felix and changbin laughed as they watched from their little air mattress. felix was cuddled into changbin's arms and was trying his best to not look over towards the door, which he knew had a set of eyes that were locked on to him.

"ugh why won't he just leave..." felix muttered to changbin who just stroked his back in response.

"it's okay lix, i won't let him speak to you until you tell me you're okay with it." changbin pretended to give felix a kiss on the cheek so he could whisper this discretely.

"oh don't tease me, give me a real kiss." felix responsed.

"no can do, we both have morning breath." changbin shrugged.

"you just whispered with your hot breath, im sure we can survive." felix responded teasingly as jisungs death was heard in the background.

"I CANT BREATHE!" jisung shouted, but it was muffled by the pillow his face was shoved into.

"good, maybe next time you'll get up the first time i tell you to!" minho responded as he laughed at hyunjin who was continuing to suffocate jisung.

"maybe you should help him." changbin suggested to felix.

"but i wanted a kiss." felix pouted.

"if you manage to save jisung, i'll give you a kiss." changbin stated and immediately felixs rushed up and tried to pry hyunjins body off of jisung.

the entire morning was a mess, but at least chan went unnoticed to felix... or so he thought he did.

chan felt it was better to be ignored than to be blown up at, even if he deserved the yelling, the cursing, all of it. he truly did deserve the worst, but he just wasn't quite ready for that this morning.

a.n.

thank you all so much for reading this story... it just hit 100k reads today and i am so so happy🥲🥲

it really melts my heart to know you enjoy this story, thank you <3

also i keep saying it's close to the end but i'm really not sure if it is 😭😭 i feel like so many of the characters still need closure... so we shall see