Chortles

Our House [One-Shot/Drabble Collection]

Chanyoung takes the stairs down in a quick manner; a gleeful smile on her face. Jungin is to arrive home in less than an hour from her volunteer job at the shelter and Chanyoung feels like bouncing off the walls.

They’ve been planning to play co-op Overcooked 2 for weeks since the launch, but with work, volunteering, and classes, they always had to cancel. Even when the both of them were off they were too exhausted to play games and would just want to pig out or nap all day.

But not today.

Chanyoung jumps the last three steps to land with almost perfect balance; she steadies herself with her arms horizontal. She counts to three then skips off to the gaming room to meet Byun Baekhee in a very weird, yoga-like position.

“Yo.” Chanyoung greets the of Baekhee who loses her balance and collapses to the floor with a ugly grunt. Chanyoung rushes over to help her up. Baekhee gladly allows Chanyoung to pull her weight up, not helping at all.

Baekhee adjusts her hot shorts from riding up as she asks, “What’s up?”

“I would ask you that, but you kinda fell.” Chanyoung shrugs with a smile that is trembling to release a snorting laugh.

“Oh har har.” Baekhee mocks playfully but straightens herself up. “Do you need the room?”

Chanyoung glances around at all the furniture pushed up against the wall and Baekhee’s rainbow colored matt placed in the center of it all. She looks back up to Baekhee and shakes her head. “Not yet. What were you doing anyways?” Chanyoung makes small talk as she goes over to the three-seater and plops down horizontally.

Baekhee sits on the floor, leg apart but facing Chanyoung to maintain eye contact. She widens the gap between her legs, relaxes her back and bends sideways to touch her toes. “Yoga.” She breathes.

Chanyoung raises her eyebrows.

“Okay, fine, YouTube Yoga.” Baekhee gradually goes back to her prior position then bends to the other side with a grin at the chuckling Chanyoung.

“Fair enough. ‘Cause I was about say that doesn’t look right from watching Junhee’s routine.”

“That’s because she mainly focuses on her .” Baekhee straightens her back, brings her hands on the ground in front of her and lifts herself up to bring her legs under. “And legs and thighs, but mostly .” She then settles on her legs.

The causal talk falls silent once Chanyoung nodded her reply. Baekhee shifts on her legs, never working well with total silence. She thinks of many topics to bring up but none ever make it to to push out.

“Well I—”

“Come here—”

Both speak at the same time as both rise to their feet. They pause, waiting for the other to speak, but when neither do they try again. The outcome is the same. Chanyoung gestures for Baekhee to speak first.

Baekhee giggles nervously. “I was just… I’ve always noticed you have, like, really long arms and legs and was wondering if you could easily reach your toes?” A completely random question that Baekhee isn’t actually proud of asking, for once. But it sparks Chanyoung to not leave and continue talking to her.

Chanyoung walks over to Baekhee. “I can try?” She questions with a funny look that gets Baekhee giggling.

Chanyoung, slowly and awkwardly, bends down with her arms dangling in front of her, aiming to reach her toes. But her finger tips never make it. They barely even make it to her knees.

“What!” Baekhee is shocked as she crouches down and glares at Chanyoung’s fingers. She looks up to the red faced Chanyoung, “You have such long arms though!”

Chanyoung struggles to smile bent over. “Invalid. My legs counter my arms.” Her voice is strained.

Baekhee chortles at Chanyoung lame joke. “You’re such a nerd, Chanyoung.”


a/n:
i've rewritten this x4;; and i'm still not completely happy with the turn out :/
i may, or may not, update on the 24th. just an fyi 

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MissMinew
#1
Chapter 32: Poor Kris, lmao. <3 I didn't think Junghae would be such a scaredy cat but it's cute. It's ok, Junghae, Lu will protect you. And sure, if Kyungri and Yixin don't up by telling scary stories on Halloween, something's wrong. <3

Also, you should just take however long it takes you and if that's forever, that's also ok. I love you for writing this far and there's no reason to feel guilty. Motivation comes and goes and nothing wrong with that. <3
ChiaToma
#2
Chapter 32: Aww i know that feeling and sometimes its best to leave it well enough alone until you get your motivation back
Though this one was great and seriously these girls are idiots
I hope Kris really gives them a hard time for hitting her with her own bat
I know i would
ChiaToma
#3
Chapter 31: Eww just what the hell
That's horrific indeed and just even more eww
Jeeze
Seyung your would be mine if you did that to me
So so gross
But funny
Looking forward to more
MissMinew
#4
Chapter 31: the ending of seyun’s period drama! and oh my god is it childish as hell lmao
seriously though, that is beyond childish and i wish i could see the fun in pranks but i generally cant (im just a party pooper like that in general tho so it’s nothing on you) uwu
i honestly feel like misook is me, so relatable. her squabble with kris is beyond understandable lol. jungin is ridiculously sweet to film all this. junghae’s reaction surprises me a little uwu idk, i just thought she would’ve thrown it back at seyun like “disgusting” *sticking her nose in the air like she isn’t affected* and then she’d take a loooooooooong shower afterwards.

by god do i understand chanyoung’s reaction tho, fish sauce and vomit? yikes ;;

(is fish sauce yellow?? i always assumed it was a light brown >.< otherwise the origin of the lemonade is beyond questionable uwu)

love you! you’re the best <3
MissMinew
#5
*regarding your authors thoughts*
post them as new uwu or at least make it clear that the old chapter has been updated uwu i want to be able to read the new chapters ~
ChiaToma
#6
Chapter 30: Oh Kris
So whipped.
Squeee
My ship sails
If they would just stop being idiots and get together
Though what creative project where Minxing up to? It sounds fun
Looking forward to next Monday...even though it'll be a few days after for me actually reading
MissMinew
#7
Chapter 30: i honestly never ever thought id say this but wow junhee, that was a big jerk move and kris deserved better. i know i dislike kris and all and kris can be a jerk but this?? this is so not ok. this is so so so important to kris, a meeting that could determine her ing career in sports and junhee finds herself worth more???? no.

this is so manipulative and wrong. i do not condone. shame on yixin for being in on this. as if junhee’s blind dates were more important? she could’ve brought any of the girls along but knows she can manipulate kris because kris likes her. that is just so awful. not a good friendship move at all. i feel like scolding her so bad. and yixin too.

they should be grown-ups. this is ... disgusting. misook at least were on kris’ side, thinking it wouldn’t work but she should’ve stopped them before it got out of control like this. ugh.

love the chapter as always. love you as always. just - you told me to be honest and their actions in this chapter is just not ok ;; sorry girls, they’re not.

(also, you really need to tell us more about misook and her art because you hint at it so often and it’s making me ridiculously curious. how talented is she? do the others know? is it something she hides from her or something she displays? curious curious ~ <3 )
ChiaToma
#8
Chapter 29: Aww so cute A chapter
Oh so Kris saw something personal about Min without permission
Interesting and that explains a lot
Why do I think that these girls at the park would just be madness mixed with cuteness and lots of ice cream even though they're supposed to be getting fit lol
MissMinew
#9
Chapter 29: im not saying im in love with your misook but im in love with your misook. uwu she’s so sweet! innocent and cute, kind and intelligent, looking for knowledge and still vulnerable and learning. she never wants her way in a bad way (cough like a certain someone it isn’t only misook who has beef with). and she’s insecure. it’s so adorable. i wonder what she won? ;;
anyway, i love her, hello, thank you for listening to my ted talk about why misook is perfect.

also i know lu agrees so high five lu! besides i really like this chapter from lu’s POV. it makes her soft. i know she says that about misook but honestly, she’s a bit ashamed of her thoughts, she’s shy around misook and she just ... feels so much.

this is an amazing chapter! genuinely uwu (and it’s not just because im xiumin-biased in all forms)
MissMinew
#10
Chapter 28: i kinda laugh-cried when they talking about Kyungri because i can just imagine the window was open because she snuck out and now that kris has closed it, she’s gonna be standing in the cold winter morning when she comes back and she’ll be like “im going to kill whoever snuck into my room my god”. it’s a good vision uwu

also, don’t change the name of junhee’s bunny. there’s a story behind it so it should stay. and don’t feel bad about it! <3

kris and junhee always seems like ... idk, it’s cute when you write it but uwu <3 thank you. sorry this comment TvT