The scene and atmosphere at the cabin was something out of a movie. 

Tweeting birds. Caramel sunlight pouring through the windows. The smell of bacon floating through the air. The yell of girls bouncing violently off the walls. 

Dahyun’s eyes snapped open when she heard curses ringing through the door of the room. 

“Am I surprised that they’re already up and wailing,” Dahyun thought to herself staring up at the ceiling. 

Chaeyoung’s voice murmured through the wall once again, “Yah! You’ve already ate half the bacon, you pig! Save the rest for us!” 

“Chaeyoung-ah, you know, I can’t hear you all the way from up here. You need to speak up.” 

“Scratch that.. am I thaaaat surprised that they’re already up and wailing,” Dahyun repeated to herself yet again. She brought her hand up to rub the sleepiness out of her eyes. 

The first thing her eyes settled upon was Sana sound asleep wrapped around her torso with blankets draped across from every angle. 

It was a known fact that Sana was clingy. The fact that she’s maintained her grip while far off asleep? No surprise. 

But still Dahyun couldn’t help but smile down at her slightly agape mouth and morning puffed cheeks. She made sure to take a mental picture of this sight. 

With a light hand she brought herself to slowly drag oodles of letters and shapes along her back allowing Dahyun to slowly cherish the moment at hand. Sana's hair was scattered across Dahyun enough for her hair's scent to encompass Dahyun's senses. She focused on her own chest that rose and fell with the sleeping girl on top.

Dahyun thought she would allow Sana the luxury to sleep alittle while longer by not pulling herself away from the girl. 

Or so she wanted. 

Her stomach on the other hand ruthlessly sounded a large growl asking for whatever was cooking in the kitchen and what was, for a fact, being fought over between Chaeyoung and Momo. 

Her eyes shot down the moment she felt a small giggle vibrate against her stomach. A cold hand then met the exposed skin of her stomach. 

“Tell Dahyun you need food? Okay I’ll make sure to pass on the message,” Sana laughed sleepily to herself. 

Dahyun began to swat Sana's hand off of her stomach, “Yah if you could've just release your deathly Sanake snake grip on me and let me get up an hour ago, maybe I would’ve ate by now.”

Sana’s laugh filled the room and shot pangs of sweet and soft feels into Dahyun’s heart as she pulled herself away from the other girl.

“You know come to think of it, maybe it’s best that you lay off the food. I had a terrible time dragging your to our room last night you know?” 

Dahyun gave a sarcastic laugh as she got up only to reach over and shove Sana back onto the mattress and then retreat to the bathroom. 

“Huh so that’s the thanks I get?” Dahyun hears as she closes the bathroom door. 

“Ah sleeping Dubu, we thought you’d never get up,” Jeongyeon said with stray pieces of rice stuck to as others fell like casualties onto her plate. 

“Ah well thanks for making sure I was awake, Jeong,” Dahyun patted her shoulder as she made her way to the island topped with half empty plates of food. 

Her stomach rumbled again as her eyes groomed over the bare plates. 

Dahyun glared at her other group members who’s faces were shoved into their own plate, “And thanks for saving me food.” 

Before her stomach could erupt into another frenzy, a single bacon strip landed on her plate to Dahyun’s surprise. 

She turned around quickly and caught sight of the gracious donor who was making her way to clean her dish. 

Mina gave her a small smile before returning to her chore. 

“So what’s the plan for today,” Jihyo asked towards the group as she got up from the table to finish.

Nayeon looked up from her plate, “The weather looks good enough for us to go swimming at the lake?” 

Tzuyu’s head slowly lifted and solemnly met her eyes. 

“I can’t swim..” Tzuyu whispered before dropping her eyes again. 

Jeongyeon chimed, “An even better reason to go swimming, we can go and teach you how. It’ll be fun.”

“What will be fun?” Sana said as she sauntered into the kitchen area to pick at the leftovers on the plates. 

“We’re gonna go to the lake and teach this one how to swim,” Chaeyoung said patting the maknae's head before being harshly swatted by the taller girl. 

“Aish!”

Dahyun’s eyes kept Sana under watch as she tended to the scraps of scrambled eggs beside her.

Sana had pulled her hair into a messy bun with straggles of hair that framed her face. The ceiling skylight above beamed a glowing ray around Sana and didn’t help the beating of Dahyun's heart as she questioned the girls natural beauty. 

She snapped out of her thoughts when Sana looked away from the eggs and met Dahyun’s eyes. Sana gave her a quick wink and offered her a piece of the remaining hash browns. 

Dahyun lowly replied back, “No thank you, I’m watching what I eat unnie.” She patted her stomach despite completely knowing that she would’ve totally wrecked the waffles, had she been there an hour ago. 

Sana scoffed and gave a quick laugh at their past joke. 

The girls began to excuse themselves from the table one by one, in order to dress into their swim suits and grab other essentials. 

Before Dahyun could get the chance to leave and join the other girls to get ready however, Sana grabbed her arm and pulled her in close. 

“I was just joking Dahyun,” she whispered close to the shell of Dahyun’s ear, “You always look good to me.” 

The japanese quickly pulled away smiling to begin helping Mina with the rest of the dishes. 

In a fraction of a second, the younger girl attempted to grab the shredded remains of her composure and walk away towards the direction of their room as confidently as possible.

She played it off pretty well on her part. 

Well, up until the point where Sana had managed to catch Dahyun do a little stumble in the hallway and heard a low audible Jeongyeon scoff and call out, “Hah, loser.”

“ASMR has nothing on this,” Dahyun smiled to herself with her back scrawled out, warmed up against the wooden deck. Her legs dangled off into the water as her body slowly rocked in every direction as the water shifted underneath the dock. She smirked at the memory of her laying down in her pitch dark room after one long day of practicing, listening to a 10 hour long ASMR ocean getaway album trying to muster the effects of being away on vacation. At the time she was nothing but desperate to have a day to herself doing both nothing and everything. 

Now laid out in the sun she felt her heart swell as she took in the atmosphere at hand currently.

At a turn of a second underneath her eyelids however, she felt that a shadow had presented itself and loomed over her, blocking sunlight from above.

Dahyun slowly opened her eyes to find Tzuyu towering over her with a green floaty tube wrapped around her mid section, two yellow arm floats and tight goggles over her eyes that peered down at Dahyun.

“I’m ready.” 

Jihyo and the rest of the girls erupted into laughter as they turned themselves in their inflatable tubes to look at Tzuyu who stood on the dock overly prepared. 

*Snap* 

All eyes shot towards Momo as she coyly smiled and laughed while innocently lowering her hand holding a water-proof camera. 

Dahyun began to get herself up and look over Tzuyu in full. 

“Tzuyu-ah you’ll be fine you don’t need all this,” she told the taller girl motioning towards her getup before beginning to remove the excess amount of floaties adorning her body.

The maknae looked back at her in a deathly serious tone, “Unnie, if I drown I hope this rests on your conscience forever.” Tzuyu turned towards the water hesistantly. 

“I’ll let it rot my soul, I promise.”

Dahyun then squatted over the edge of the deck and slowly lowered her legs into the water, finally submerging herself seconds later. 

Tzuyu sat down timidly at the edge of the floating dock mustering up her courage. 

While Tzuyu usually had an unreadable expression to others, the girls noticed the slight offset of her demeanour and quickly swam closer to encourage her. 

“Let’s do this Tzu,” Nayeon offered her a heartening smile and her hand. 

The maknae placed her hand in the eldest and used her other hand to steadily lower herself off the wood. 

Meanwhile, Dahyun grabbed onto a close, neglected inflatable tube to settle herself into.

As she backed away from the commotion she couldn’t help but take in the entire scene in front of her.

For the past week, she and the rest of her girls had been so focused on plowing through their schedule and presenting their best self to the world. It had been so easy to forget that moments like these existed. Moments that were meant to be slow and held onto. 

At that particular moment, the sun was still out and gleaming onto the large body of water, warming everything in its proximity. The air was filled with the sounds of shallow waves brushing up against the dock and congenial laughter from the girls. 

Mina had Chaeyoung up on her shoulders who both were careless of how funny the duo looked. Jihyo lounging on an inner tube occasionally peaked out from under her shades to keep a better eye on her girls. Nayeon and Jeongyeon were preoccupied with Tzuyu while Momo was continuing to capture her members through snap shot moments with her camera. Finally there was Sana who was grinning ear to ear whilst she treaded water in one place watching Twice's swimming lesson undergo.

Sana then found Dahyun's eyes and started to paddle towards her until she met her inflatable tube and took hold. 

The two didn't find the need to say anything in the moment. Seconds and then minutes slipped by as the two clung to the inner tube, heads resting against eachother.

Dahyun sighed happily and let her limbs dangle loosely in the water as she gazed at her group members effort to help the maknae swim. 

“You got it! See it wasn’t that hard!” Nayeon yelled in triumph

Jeongyeon scoffed, “Pabo. Tzuyu isn’t swimming, she’s so tall that she’s still able to stand in the water.” 

“Ah! Tzuyu-ah!”

"I still can't swim."