Chapter 18 - Tao

Fragile Eternity

   "Lara, I'm so scared...." said Tao who rested his head on Lara’s shoulders, hugging her from behind and move forward following her movement.

   "It’s okay. Calm down. Close your eyes, I will try my best to complete the mission and get out of here." said Lara.

   Lara and Tao were in the forest at that moment. At the Field Trip event from school, they traveled to an outdoor areas to go camping. Lara and Tao were following a night activities called ‘night investigation’.

   The event was devoted to hone the courage of the students and how they’d survive in the night atmosphere while completing a mission.

   The mission was searching down through a forest area that had been prepared by the committee, completing the task given and found a way out before specified time ran out.

   Tao, became one of the boys who often being bullied by his EXO brothers had grown into a timid guy. Although at other times, he fought better than anyone using his awosome moves and his wushu sticks.

   But when it came to ghosts and other scary things, Tao became a crybaby. Fortunately, Lara wasn’t someone who easily got scared.

   In that occasion, all the students in the school participated and also combined in a single group. In order to strengthen the relationship between Junior and Senior, the teachers and principals decided to combine the three grade levels and formed a new group that contains a combination of three grades. That was why Tao ended up grouping with Lara. It was also Tao’s chance to bond his relationship with Lara.

   So far, Tao had been giving Lara a lot of help in putting up the tents, preparing firewood and gathering food.

   It would only required one activities to be completed, that was the ‘night investigation’.

   The task was to search for a baseball-sized rock wrapped in a white cloth while browsing through the forest. It wasn’t that easy because the forest were divided into parts and in every part of the forest were full of fake ghosts and scary things prepared by the committe.

   Decided not to act rashly again, Luhan didn’t want to try to prohibit Lara not to attend the camping event. He decided to watch over Lara quietly along the activities. Including when Tao and Lara were doing the ‘night investigation.’ While Sehun, Kai, DO, Chanyeol, Chen, Baekhyun, Lay, Suho, Kris, and Xiumin also watched from their post along with each path in the forest. Luhan on the other hand, following Lara and Tao’s every movement.         

   Lara and Tao were already on their 4th area at that moment when there was a large figure shrouded in white cloth suddenly came out from the bush and surprised her.

   "Huwa .. Aaaah!" Tao was screaming, scared.

   Lara felt a little surprised but she didn’t scream. Then she decided to look on the pile of leaves, searching for the baseball-sized rock wrapped in a white cloth to finish the mission.

   She finally be able to find the rock in the 7th area. The ball was in the tree branch which unfortunately was high enough to be reached by Lara. She also tried to reach for it but could not reach it. Plus with Tao who had been hugging her behind her back, it made her more difficult to reach the ball.

   For a moment, Lara thought to ask Tao for a help, but she thought it was impossible because Tao was trembling and he must have been scared to death.

   Luhan at that moment, saw Lara who was in trouble then decided to help Lara took the ball with his Telekinesis power.

   Lara tried to reach out again, right when the ball suddenly moved slightly and fell into Lara’s hands.

   ‘Ah, thank god!’ said Lara, catching the ball.

   Lara and Tao finally succeded in completing the ‘night investigation’ activities before the specified time ran out.

   Once out of the forest, she saw Tao’s face then wiped out tears from his face, patted his back and hugged him.

   “There, there...It’s over Tao, don’t cry.” said Lara. She felt sorry to Tao who was still shaking.

   The next activity was to have dinner. She then took the food for herself and Tao. Tao who was still frightened, just sat down and lowered his head.

Lara decided to feed him because Tao’s hands were still shaking.

   "Open your mouth..." exclaimed Lara spooning warm soup to Tao’s mouth after blowing the hot soup.

               Tao then opened his mouth, "Thank you" he said.

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Charlotte0619 #1
Chapter 7: I love this story already x
Yuki-Nyx #2
Chapter 48: I really love this story :)
Can’t wait for the next chapter!
Thanks!
Fighting!!!!!!
Lolypop123 #3
Chapter 48: Can't wait for more
DementorBehindYou #4
Thanks for translating! It's always sad to miss out on stories simply because of a language barrier, so you have my eternal gratefulness!
Minyun25
#5
Chapter 3: What's up with the short chapters?
gracelynjtc
#6
Chapter 46: AHAHAHHAA THOMAS BRODIE SANGSTER OAIHSFOHOSDH YESSSSSS
gracelynjtc
#7
okay bingeread lemme grab my hot chocolate
vitaminzxx
#8
I read the description and I'm already so interested in it! Thanks for translating. Hwaiting!
Panda_coco
#9
Chapter 11: When Lara was blowing his neck, I remembered Defcon and Coni in Weekly Idol when they are doing the same thing to Lay (Exo Episode )