days of our lives
ot5
numberwan
2020.08.09Views 1867
"okidokey."
wendy went to work, chopping the green onions that will go into their dinner as carefully and consistently as she could. she squinted at the stalks laid out on her chopping board.
0.5cm...chop! 0.5cm...chop!
and got distracted by the buzzing of her phone in vibrate mode. she glanced at the screen-- Park Jjwoy.
putting down her knife, she quickly wiped her hand on her apron and answered the call.
"sooyoung ah?"
"unnie." that familiar voice rang out, carrying a hint of urgency. "you have to come home. immediately."
wendy laughed and shook her head.
"yah, i'm preparing dinner right now. i'll put you on speaker, ok?"
she tapped her screen and set the phone down on the table.
"just a warning though, my mom will hear everything you say."
"hi mrs. shon!" joy shouted from the phone, before bringing her voice down to continue her conversation.
"wendy-unnie." joy urged. "i need you to come back to the dorm. i'm in your room right now."
wendy grinned, picked up her knife, and went back to work.
0.5cm...chop! 0.5cm...chop! 0.5cm...chop!
"are you listening to me?" joy pressed.
"yes, yes~ what is it now, sooyoung-ah?" wendy shoved the chopped parts to a corner of the chopping board. "just know that 'yeri grew another head' or 'seulgi-unnie ate my cookie.' will not fly in any court of law."
0.5cm...chop!
"by the way, what are you doing in my room?"
"i'm hiding."
"from whom? yeri?"
"NO! from this big, humongous, FAT--"
a shriek, thud, footsteps coming closer...a door being yanked open with a force.
"COCKROACH!!!!"
yeri ran inside wendy's room and slammed the door behind her, leaning against it to try and catch her breath.
"is that yeri?"
"yep. there is a cockroach here, unnie. and now both yeri and i are in your room while this...creature...is roaming around our halls wreaking havoc."
wendy laughed boisterously, amused at the younger member's dramatics.
"where are seulgi and joohyun-unnie?"
"they have schedules. irene-unnie has that movie she's filming."
joy glanced around the room, eyes catching on wendy's wall clock.
"come to think of it, seulgi-unnie should be back any moment now..."
yeri finally calmed down, crawling quickly to where joy huddled with her phone, beneath wendy's bunk bed.
[[[a/n: sorry for the insert. i imagine wendy's bunk bed has the bed up top and an open space for a study table/bookshelf at the bottom. not 2 beds on the top and bottom.]]]
"is that wendy-unnie?" yeri asked.
"yes." joy brought the phone back just a bit to answer.
thinking better of it, she put her phone on speaker mode as well, and went right back into her negotiation attempt.
"unnie. now, yeri and i are both stuck in your room. please come back. can you just stay still while your beloved little sisters are here, scared, "
Yeri's stomach grumbled.
" and starving? are you not even a little bit worried?!?"
"are you hungry? there's a blue box right beside my closet that i store snacks in. help yourself."
yeri's eyes lit up at the mention of food. she went over to the box and came back with a bag of potato chips, already ripping at the corner.
"Thanks, Wendy-unnie!"
"ugh! that is beside the point!" joy glared frustratedly at her phone, stopping herself from hurling it across the room.
at the other end of the conversation, wendy tried her best to hold back another laugh-- she was pretty sure that would cause joy to explode. it was so much fun teasing her members. and from the sound of it, joy seems to be at her wit's end.
"hahaha sorry, sorry~" wendy placated. "why are you-- the both of you-- in my room now? you could have just run back to your rooms. now you're stuck there together until who knows when."
joy paused, making eye contact with yeri who was munching her way through her bag of potato chips.
yeri shrugged. "a habit?"
joy nodded. "it just felt... natural?"
she leaned back against the wall and allowed her eyes to roam around the nooks and crannies of wendy's room.
"i feel safe. here." joy smiled softly. "unnie has always been the bravest. you always protected us..
her voice trailed off. "i miss you."
wendy bit her lip. "i miss you guys, too..."
then she laughed. "sooyoung-ah, we're staying in the same apartment complex, just different buildings. you know where i live. just drop by anytime, you weirdo."
"unnie, i--"
joy's heart-to-heart talk was promptly interrupted by the jingling of a door knob. the jingling became even more urgent, followed by a loud banging.
"guys, are you in here? open up!" seulgi yelled desperately from the other side of the door.
joy glanced at yeri. "yah, did you lock it?"
yeri's eyebrows shot up in realization. "ohhh, oops!" she wiped her fingers on the hem of her shirt and got up to open the door.
seulgi staggered in, eyes wide with fright. "DID YOU SEE THAT--"
"cockroach?" joy and yeri chimed in.
"why do you think we're holed up in here, together?"
"surely not for some random sisterly bonding."
seulgi approached and collapsed on the floor in front of the maknaes.
"i mean it's not just a cockroach...it's a COCKROACH. i could, like, feel the murderous intent from the time i entered the dorm up until i saw... IT."
"where was it?"
"it was..on The Wall."
joy and yeri gasped loudly, simultaneously putting their palms over their hearts.
wendy's guffaws rang loudly from joy's phone. seulgi glanced at it, noticing.
"is that you, seungwan-ah?"
"hey seul!" wendy's tinny voice answered. "guys, you know you can't stay there forever right?"
"..."
"..."
"...watch us."
"kim yerim, that is NOT a challenge."
wendy sighed. chop chop chop scrape. chop chop chop scrape.
seulgi's phone bleeped. she tapped at it and groaned.
"that's joohyun-unnie. she's back and she's standing on a chair in the dining room, asking us to get her."
she glanced around with pleading eyes.
joy gave her a thumbs up. "you got this."
yeri did the same, echoing joy.
seulgi pushed herself up, placed her hand on the doorknob, and flashed one last pleading look back at the room's other occupants.
"keep safe out there."
seulgi sighed and opened the door a crack.
"UNNIE! I'M COMING TO GET YOU." she shouted through the opening.
"OKAY!" was irene's answer from somewhere in their dorm.
seulgi took a deep breath, opened the door, and RAN.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!" she shouted wildy as she ran to fetch irene.
"ahhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" another voice was added to the ruckus, and two sets of footsteps thudded back.
seulgi and irene simultaneously squeezed themselves into the room and slammed the door behind them, trying to catch their breath. irene felt around wall, hands hitting the light switch, and flicked it.
"Hey!" (place.)
"why'd you turn the lights off?" (joy.)
"so it wouldn't be able to find us." irene hissed.
she and seulgi stumbled towards the direction of what was now the only light source in the room, joy's phone's screen.
"um, wouldn't you and seulgi-unnie shouting all over the place kind of sort of lead the thing back to us?"
"shhhh. keep your voice down!" (seulgi.)
"what? cockroaches don't have ears."
"well, if you're so sure, then why are you whispering?!"
"just in case!" joy whispered.
"do we have a plan for this?" irene asked.
"are you ALL there? in MY room?" wendy's voice echoed.
"slow-ah?"
"joohyun-unnie? you've finished filming?"
"yes..."
"is manager-nim with you?"
"he was parking the car. i went up ahead of him."
"hmm, okay."
the phone call ended.
"wha- unnie? hey!" joy dropped her phone on her lap and sighed. "i can't believe wendy-unnie abandoned us in our time of need."
irene, seulgi, joy, and yeri sat in the dark in contemplative silence. breathing.
a few minutes later, joy's phone buzzed, a message from wendy. the other members huddled around joy to see the screen.
"it's fine. i called manager-nim and he should be getting rid of it right about...now. we're going to eat dinner in a bit~ have a good night. miss youuu love youuu 💚💜💗💛💙"
yeri hummed. "well...that was..."
"... sadly anti-climactic." seulgi finished.
they sighed collectively.
"have you guys eaten?"
irene stood up, groped around, and managed to turn the lights back on. the other members blinked from the room's sudden brightness.
irene's eyes flicked to the opened bag of potato chips on the floor. yeri picked the (empty) bag up and tossed it into the nearby trash can.
"not enough to fill this emptiness inside." yeri replied. seulgi and joy snickered.
"i brought food." irene commented, opening the door. "go, wash up, and let's have dinner together. we haven't eaten together in quite a while." she went out.
"yes, unnie." the younger members chimed, filing slowly out of wendy's room.
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the end.
a/n. this was...so long? hahaha. i thought i was going to be writing some drabble based on this plot, but i had to get all 5 members into the story and it somehow... evolved. and i haven't hit any character limit on here. hmm. but yeah, dont expect much long stories here. i also got too lazy to reread the fic for spelling/grammar errors. if something is blatantly wrong please drop by with a comment for me to fix it. thanks!