CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!!!!!!!

OHHHHHH YEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

“Okay! Listen up!” Yoona shouted excitedly as she waved a piece of paper on the air.

All idols gathered around the SNSD’s visual. It was near 6 in the morning. They finished bathing. Cleaned up their tents. Ate their breakfast. And all ready to hike the mountain. Now, they were just waiting what group they would be on. Their eyes were burning with so much passion. Simply because no one in their right mind would want to piggyback someone down to that mountain.

“Arasso! It’s the same price and punishment that we talked about last night.” Junsu sighed as they all gave Heechul a wry look which the diva replied with an innocent smile. “No matter what happen. The top of the mountain is going to be our meeting place. There’s no signal in the mountain so . . .” The idols groaned loudly. This send off is gonna be a real pain in the . They all thought. “Just stick to your group. It’s only 4 hours going up the mountain if you got the map correctly-”

“And if not?” Siwon couldn’t help but ask. “I know there’s a map but still . . . What if we got lost in the woods?”

Junsu pursed his lips. “Well, just pray to the God above to lead you on the right path.”

“What?” They all gawked at him.

“Did you girls bring food? Water? Towel? Sunblock? You wouldn’t want Soo Man sanjangnim scolding you when you get back looking like roasted shrimps in summer. Much more getting sick. Bring your meds.” Yunho faced the girls.

“Deh manager Yun!” They .

“Let’s start the groupings then!” Leeteuk clapped his hand, trying to get their attention back to Yoona.

Yoona cleared as she tried to hide the grin that was creeping on her angelic face. “As what Junsu oppa told us last night, there will be two groups. Team A on my left. Team B to my right. Okay? I will tell the names of those in Team A. Obviously, those who won’t be called are already the ones in the Team B. Arasso?”

“Deh!” They said with much nervousness and excitement as well. Victory depends on the ability of your members in hiking a mountain and reading a map.

“Wait.” Yoochun raised his hand. “How did you decide on the members per group?”

“Well, I . . . uhm . . .” Yoona smiled sweetly at Yoochun. “I wrote the names on a piece of paper, Yoochun oppa and I picked the names of the Team A first and the remaining ones ended up in Team B. It’s really a . . .” She grinned at him. “Destiny.”

“Oh. Okay.” Yoochun smiled at her.

Yoona scanned their thrilled faces. “The first member in Team A . . .” She pointed at him. “Eunhyuk oppa.” The monkey clapped as he walked at Yoona’s left.

“Siwon oppa.”

The horse and the monkey made a high five to each other.

“Donghae oppa.” Yoona smiled at him as she instructed him to come near her. Siwon hugged Donghae. The fish then glanced at Dara who seemed really nervous like a freshman college student in her first day of class. Jaejoong nudged her and whispered something which Dara replied with a chuckle and a light punch on his shoulder. Donghae narrowed his eyes at Jaejoong. He’s too close to Dara. Literally and idiomatically. What’s wrong with this guy? Is there a Team C for this mosquito? The fish pursed his lips to the side.

“Heenim!”

“Why am I with these idiots?” The diva grimaced but walked to where EunSiHae was.

“Wae?” The three whined at their Diva hyung.

“Come on. Can I have other decent members than these three?” Heechul told Yoona dryly which made the three frowned at him more. The teasing stopped when Yoona announced the next member of Team A.

“Dara eonni!” She smiled at her brightly and even wiggled her hands at her direction.

Jaejoong looked at the girl beside him as she walked towards Team A. Her head bowed down and heart beating so fast when she stood in front of her team. She didn’t know if it was because of the fact that she was gonna be with them for a couple of hours or being with him after what happened last night. I should’ve agreed to Jae in going back to Seoul. Her brain told her. Dara took a glance at the fish at her back and saw him staring at her warmer than the sunrise. She whipped her head back to Yoona and exhaled sharply. Shut it, Heart! She rolled her eyes at no one.

“Leeteuk oppa.”

“Oh!” The Suju leader walked towards the Team A, his brows furrowed for a bit. “5 Suju members in a group?”

Yoona just smiled at him and continued. “Ryeowook oppa.”

“Kangin oppa.”

The intense anticipation in the air was replaced with puzzlement written on everyone’s faces.

“Yesung oppa.”

“Shindong oppa.”

The ones called just moved on their team hesitatingly, still looking at Yoona. Is she reading the correct paper or what? They all thought.

“Sungmin oppa and lastly . . .”

No hell way. All Team A members were already gaping at the SM’s goddess.

“Kyuhyun oppa!”

The only sound heard on the background was Yoona’s clapping enthusiastically.

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“Okay. Where’s the punchline?” Heechul was the first one to recover.

“Hm?” Yoona smiled at him. “None.” And smiled even more. “That’s final.”

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“Sincha?!” The SNSD girls and DBSK boys looked at her in disbelief while Dara and the Suju boys at her back just stared at her, jaws dropped, as if three more heads sprung out of Yoona’s head. How on Earth did that happen?

“I thought you picked the members randomly,” asked Taeyeon.

“Deh. I did.”

“And all Super Junior members in one group is random?” Hyoyeon couldn’t help but ask.

“Deh.”

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Yoona let out a short hearty laugh. “I told you so.” She glanced at the YG’s goddess on her left and then to Donghae. “It’s destiny.” And smiled sweetly. Donghae creased his brows at her, feeling so confused. “Arasso! Since Yunho oppa’s and Yoochun oppa’s girlfriends wouldn’t be able to join because of sudden commitments this morning and Yoochun oppa has to take them back to Seoul . . . and there’s Sunny and Changmin oppa’s girlfriend health conditions . . . that left us 24 participants. Twelve members in one group, arachi?” She waved the paper at them, waiting for some reactions.

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“Okay then!” She smiled widely. “Pack everything that you’ll be needing! The hiking starts at exactly 6:00 A.M. And it’s already 5:52! Ppali! You guys wouldn’t want to lose! Ppali!” Yoona shooed the Team B and ordered the girls to not bring any gadgets anymore. Jaejoong stared at Yoona as the goddess smiled at him. “Jaejoong oppa! Ppali!” The vampire smiled back and turned to around to s. Random, eh? He took a glance at the Team A, still glued to their ground and not even talking to each other.

It was already 5:55. Dara glanced at the guys at her back, looking like wanting to say something. She saw Leeteuk opened his mouth and she walked away towards her tent to get her stuff. The leader nodded at s awkwardly as they sighed loudly at each other.

“Sup?”

They all turned around to see Yoona smiling meaningfully at them.

“Yoona.” Leeteuk began. “What exactly is goi-”

“I don’t believe in destiny.”

Silence.

“Why wait for it when we can do something now, right?” She smiled at their ever confused faces. “You guys are like my real older brothers and it really ticks me off to see you squirming on your seats and sweating in cold buckets like kids who were about to get punished.” She sighed and shook her head at them. “I don’t know what happened but . . . win her back, arasso?”

The boys couldn’t say a thing and just stared at her quietly.

“I really want Dara eonni to be my sister so . . . Donghae oppa.” Yoona called his name strictly as she faced him. Donghae was taken aback with the way she was squinting her eyes at him. “I did not jump from the Daragon ship just to drown on your sinking ship, arasso? You know I’m a person who never tolerates lying to people but I did, all because of you guys. I’m giving you all the time to be with her alone.” Yoona scolded and encouraged him at the same time but being the dense fish he was. All the info was still processing in his fish head. “You’re the captain of our ship. Fix it!”

“So, you mean?” Eunhyuk furrowed his brows as he pointed a finger at her.

“Tch.” Yoona clicked her tongue in annoyance. Are they this slow?

“Yoona! Let’s go! It’s already 6! We can’t lose! I don’t want to carry Shindong!” Yunho shouted at her. Team B was already walking to their route with Jaejoong holding their map and as the leader of their group.

“Deh!” She waved at them and then faced the Suju boys again. Yoona extended her right hand to them. “I believe in you, Donghae oppa. I know this ship ain’t just about delusions.” She grinned at them knowingly. “Royals fighting?”

Silence enveloped the guys.

Heechul smirked at her and put his right hand on top of hers.

It was still cold in the early morning but there they were, burning with so much determination. Suddenly, each member followed Heechul. Donghae blinked his eyes at them but then chuckled childishly.

“It’s now or never,” said the smiling Siwon.

“No holding back?” Kyuhyun smirked.

“No.” Yesung and Kangin replied.

“No more dilly-dallies,” said Sungmin.

“No more.” Shindong and Leeteuk agreed.

“We’ll take the rabbit back.” Eunhyuk smirked and told them in point of fact.

They all looked at Donghae. Waiting. The fish’s right hand on top of them all. He replied them with an enlivened nod because all his emotions were about to burst out. “Royals fighting?” Yoona repeated again with a louder voice.

And they threw their hands up to the rising sun.

“FIGHTIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!”

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An hour and a half passed and Team A was still wandering the unknown forest. Leeteuk and Kangin were on front, holding the map and guiding everybody to their destination. Ryeowook and Yesung were at their back while Dara followed the four. Where did that ‘Royals Fighting’ go? The Suju boys didn’t know either. The moment Dara walked near them, an automatic silence ensued. No one dared to go on Dara’s side as they kept their suffocating silence and just kept on walking and walking and still, walking.

Eunhyuk was following Dara from the back; Donghae came behind then Siwon and Heechul. Shindong and Sungmin were sharing the chips as they ate cautiously, not wanting to create any noise. The last one on the row was the evil maknae, staring at Dara who was four persons away and . . . thinking of something.

Kyuhyun narrowed his eyes for a bit at her and then to the two eating on his front. Without any indication, Kyuhyun pushed Shindong and Sungmin with such force. The two bumped at Heechul and Siwon harshly and they pushed Donghae in front only to hit Eunhyuk who at the moment bent down to pick the chocolate bar that fell from his pocket.

The monkey was surprised when someone from the back bumped into him so he raised his head to stand up.

Too late though.

His face already slammed to Dara’s small .

Dara yelped and looked back to find Lee Hyukjae on his knees, looking shocked as well. All her blood rushing to her face. Did his face just? To my ? Embarrassment eating her up, she glared at the guys behind Eunhyuk. Donghae and the gang who were completely frozen and mouth hanging down. She wanted to punch them one by one. Dara turned her back on them, looking so enraged as she passed by Ryeowook, Yesung, Kangin and Leeteuk who instantly gave way like peasants giving way to the queen. The two elders followed her immediately while YeWook went to the boys to know what on Earth what happened. Donghae remained glued on his spot, his head bowed down.

“What the hell!” Heechul hissed at the back, eyes asking for the culprit.

Shindong and Sungmin moved to the side, revealing the evil maknae who raised his hand while smiling awkwardly. Eunhyuk strode towards him and scolded Kyu. “Yah! You’re not helping, evil maknae! Look! Dara ssi got even more mad at us!” He clicked his tongue while the others nodded at him in complete agreement.

“Mianhe.” Kyu scratched the back of his head and bowed at them.

Eunhyuk rubbed his face in agitation but then paused. His right hand touched his face again and looked up. “I always knew it based on her interviews but . . . Dara ssi is really that flat on her behind?”

s jaw dropped. Their eyes were looking at something behind Eunhyuk. “Wae?” The monkey asked innocently but all of them, even Heechul, covered their eyes with their hands.

Eunhyuk felt a demonic aura creeping at his back. Slowly, he looked where it was coming from and his heart fell on the ground with the way his bestfriend looked like some evil spirit that could beat all the demons in the history of horror movies possessed him.

“Did you just slam your face to her ?” Eunhyuk swore he could see a dark shadow coming out from Donghae’s mouth.

What the ! But it wasn’t my fault! But he knew better not to reason anymore because the fish is on his Jaws/mad Poseidon mode on.“D-Donghae ah. C-calm down fi-fishy. I-it’s me. Y-your Eunhyukkie. Y-your b-bestfri-”

“DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

“OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!”

Leeteuk Kangin

Ryeowook Yesung

Dara

Donghae

Eunhyuk

Kyuhyun

Shindong Sungmin

Heechul Siwon

(A/N: KangTeuk on front. Just imagine that this is how they are positioned. Too lazy to elaborate more. Keke)

The members behind Eunhyuk were holding their laughter as the anchovy kept on rubbing the top of his head. He swore he could feel a huge lump with the way his supposed bestfriend of all time smacked him on the head. Eunhyuk whipped his head back and glared at the evil maknae which the latter smiled innocently. “ you,” mouthed Hyukjae.

“Wait a second.” They all stopped and looked at Ryeowook.

“Wae Wookie?” Shindong asked him. Even Dara was waiting why they were pausing. Is he tired already? Maybe we could rest. She glanced at her watch. It was already 8:07 A.M.

“What’s wrong?” Siwon asked as he emptied his bottled water.

Ryeowook was studying his two hyungs on front of them. The two were clinging to each other and were busy pointing at something on the map. “Leeteuk hyung?”

“Hm?” Leeteuk hummed but not looking at them.

“Kangin hyung?”

“Yeah?” His face buried on the map.

The others just looked at Ryeowook. “Where are we?” Their heads turned to the two in front, waiting for their response.

It took a moment before Leeteuk and Kangin turned to look at them, only to find their childish and guilty grin. “We don’t know.”

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“Huh?” Their mouths dropped.

Leeteuk smiled more and showed the map to them. “W-we thought that these lines here are arrow pointing to the right direction but-”

“T-they’re not.” Kangin smiled too.

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“What are they?” Sungmin asked.

“Grass.” And the two chuckled awkwardly. “Drawing of green grass.”

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“HAAAAAA?!?!” They all shouted at the two which they bowed frantically.

“Mianhe! Mianhe! Mianhe! Mianhe!” Leeteuk and Kangin kept on chanting.

“Aish! We wasted two hours!” Heechul roared which made the two froze. Though, Leeteuk is the leader . . . Mad Heenim is mad.

“We’re lost?” Eunhyuk gawked at them.

“Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” Donghae asked the two in disbelief.

“We only noticed now. Ehehehehehe.” The Suju members wanted to smack their supposed to be reliable hyungs. Dara drank her water to calm her down.

“Let me see the map.” Siwon took the map from Kangin’s hands. It took a couple of seconds before he announced. “Ah!” He nodded at the map then looked at them coolly. “We’re not completely lost. Actually, we can use this way. We were supposed to take the Northwest part but since we used this path . . . we’ll take the East. Along the way, we’ll find a river and we just have to cross that. There’s a way leading to the mountain and a signboard is gonna be our clue there.”

They all sighed thankfully at the chaebol. “Good thing Siwonnie knows how to read a map!” Kyuhyun hugged him from the back.

“Well done Siwon!” Heechul gave him a thumbs up.

“Mansae!” Donghae, Eunhyuk and Yesung waved their hands on the sky. Siwon glanced at Dara and the girl smiled at him shortly and then looked away. The Suju boys saw that and grinned at each other. Asa! Dara smiled at one of our members!

Ryeowook cleared his throat, feeling satisfied that Dara gave them a small smile. Let’s show Dara noona how capable Super Junior is! “So, where do we go now? Where’s the East way?” He threw his arms around the horse.

Siwon blinked at Ryeowook. “I don’t know.”

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“You don’t know?!” The Suju boys shouted at him which Dara could only close her eyes in disbelief too.

“Wae?” Siwon whined. “You know this too well. I can’t understand a freaking compass. I maybe can understand a map but not those eastwest directions.” He shrugged. “I can help you with the map reading but do something about the East thing. I’m sure somebody here knows how and can lead us there.”

Silence.

Siwon widened his eyes and shouted. “No one?!” They all looked at each other. Yoona. We could’ve fought for our ship better if you did not put all the idiots together in one camping group. They all thought as they glanced at Dara who looked like murdering them in her head.

“Let’s not panic.” The Suju leader went to the center and looked at them seriously. “Let’s analyze it, arasso?”

“Deh. We can figure it out if we’re all gonna use our brains.” Yesung encouraged them. Even Dara nodded in agreement.

“Okay.” Leeteuk began. “What do you recall in your Geography class?”

There was a moment of silence. Eunhyuk raised his right hand. “Deh Hyuk?” Leeteuk nodded at him.

“There are four directions in a compass: East, West, North and South. Based on the original plan, we had to take the West but under inaccurate assumptions . . . Right now, we need to find the east to win this game.” Eunhyuk smiled at them confidently.

“Other than those things you said which we already know.” Heechul squinted his eyes. “What else do you remember from your Geography class?”

“Huh?” Eunhyuk raised his brows. “But I don’t remember having Geography class.”

All of them looked at him wryly.

Suddenly, Donghae raised his hand seriously.

“Yes?” Leeteuk turned to the fish.

“Water dominates the Earth, right? Like 3-quarters of it is being covered by the ocean.”

Leeteuk nodded confusingly. “Deh. I think so.”

“Uhm. Yeah, geography.” Kyuhyun raised a brow at the fish. “So, what about a learning in Geography that is somehow in connection with our main problem which is determining where the East is?”

Donghae looked up the sky. “Well . . .”

“Hmm?” Kyuhyun and Leeteuk nodded thoughtfully.

“None.”

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gawked at him while Dara sighed, trying to keep all the patience they could.

“I always skipped classes back then.” Kangin admitted.

“Deh.” Sungmin agreed. “Me too.”

“Recess is still the best.” Shindong told as he munched his Lays.

“Well, artists do that. We’re not really into the academics. That makes us even more . . . unique and brilliant.” Heechul commented which they all nodded in satisfaction.

Dara rolled her tongue inside her cheeks. Yoona. Mianhaeyo. But I’m really hating you right now. She cleared loudly which the others looked at her in surprise. She looked at them dryly. “Isn’t it that the sun rises on the east and it sets on the west?”

Silence.

“Woah!” All of them exclaimed and eyes shined so bright.

“Right!” Yesung clapped his hands.

“The sun is our clue!” Sungmin told them happily.

And they all looked up in the sky.

“This way!” Suju members pointed to the left like kids arriving in a Toy Land. Dara just shook her head and started walking ahead of them, leaving the others.

The Suju boys formed a circle, arms around each other and bent forward as if they were basketball players in a Do or Die game. “Dara ssi is a genius, isn’t she?” Leeteuk said to them unbelievingly.

“Deh!” They nodded strongly.

“Do you know her IQ level?” Shindong asked as they all looked at Hae who shook his head while thinking so hard.

“With her, we can win this game!” Kangin proudly announced.

“Deh!”

“Dara, The Explorer.” Eunhyuk suddenly blurted out which they all gaped at his award-winning idea.

“Dara, The Explorer?” They all asked back and grinned.

“Chitchiritchichi Dara.” Kyuhyun laughed childishly as he sang the intro of Dora’s famous for kids but annoying for adults song.

“Chitchiritchichi Dara.” Yesung and Ryeowook repeated and grinned.

They all stood up and waved their hands up on the air as they sang loudly, butts wiggling here and there. “Chitchiritchichi Dara. Chitchiritchichi Dara. Dara! Dara! Dara! The Explorer!” They were all laughing maniacally when Donghae froze on the center and eyes almost budged out.

“S-s-stop.” He began pulling Eunhyuk and Sungmin’s shirts but they continued singing.

“Chitchiritchichi Dara. Chitchiritchichi Dara. Dara! Dara! Dara! The Explorer!”

If Donghae could throw s in a pit of lava, he would do so because standing in front of them was Dara who looked like