A tremendous impact hit EXO and B.A.P.'s coach as the brakes screeched madly, the sudden inertia jolting the members forwards in their seats. Sehun and Zelo actually fell off their seats, and if Kris hadn't caught them both in time, they would have probably rolled down the aisle and crashed into the end of the hallway. The conductor was nowhere in sight, and panicked yells filled the coach.

"Strap on your seatbelts!" Yongguk roared with his baritone voice, its deep tone carrying over the compartment easily as the squealing of rails did not cease. The maknaes, who were sprawled over their seats obeyed meekly, terror etched on their pale faces. Yixing looked as though he was about to throw up.

"What's going on?"

"Did we hit something?"

"Are we slowing down?"

"! My phone!" Sehun yelped as his iPhone slid out of his trembling fingers, sliding under his seat and out of sight.

"Stay put," the usually meek Junmyeon commanded him suddenly as the EXO-K maknae made an attempt to unbuckle his seatbelt.

Him Chan and Jong Up's eyes were abnormally wide as the whistle gave a deafening horn, before the screeching of wheels regulated gradually to a heavy sigh. Smoke clouded the windows outside and everyone was still. Both boys groups sat back in their seats, stunned to silence.

"What just happened?" Daehyun broke the silence. Just then, the doors wheeled open, and the engineer's voice filled the coach through the P.A. System.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, due to technical difficulties, our train has been forced to stop at our current destination, please stay calm and leave your coaches slowly and orderly now. Do not bring any luggage with you overboard, thank you."

Automatically, Kris, Junmyeon and Yongguk unstrapped their seatbelts and helped the others with theirs. The doors whistled and slid open.

One by one, the members leapt off the train and onto a single platform in the middle of a green grassland. An old signboard stuck to a rusty lamp-post stood at the side of an equally rusty bench by the side of the cement stage. They were pretty much in the middle of nowhere.

The porter reappeared and he hopped down the first door, and it was then that they realized that he was actually the conductor by his yellow vest. Soon, they were joined by an elderly couple and a foreigner.

"This doesn't look good," Kris groaned.

*

"I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. I'm sweaty, I'm tired..."

"Sehun, if you don't shut up, I'm going to shove Chanyeol's shoe into your trap," Jongdae growled.

"Shoe, heehee... Trap, heehee..."

"Why mine?" Chanyeol complained. The air was filled with the clattering of suitcases as EXO and BAP pulled their suitcases behind them moodily down the sandy lane off the rail line. Due to technical difficulties, as the engineer described, all of the passengers had been forced to leave the train with their baggages and find shelter at the nearby village until the train was fixed. As the community there was distinguishedly tiny, the engineer told them that as long as they stayed in the area, he would have no problem notifying them when the train was fixed.

"I'm going to sue the railroad company if we get sued," Minseok mumbled, sweat trailing down his collarbone, "what happens if you don't get to the photoshoot?"

"I think you ought to leave the suing to Junmyeon," Jongdae commented drily, "since he can actually afford it."

"Point taken."

"Point, heehee. Pointy point. Pointery-point-point..."

"Zelo, what are you doing?" Him Chan inquired as he heard crackling of paper behind me.

"Unbelievable," Sehun said, "even when we're in the middle of nowhere, you can find the appetite to eat." His comment was ignored by a few other members as Daehyun and Kris leapt over to Zelo and attempted to get an aggressive share from his packet of Skittles.

"Gimme some!"

"Hey, I was here first!"

"Who cares? Hey, hands off!"

"I'm hungry, get off me!"

"Mah, get your hands off my chocolates!"

"You're seventeen years old, and you called me 'mah!'?"

"He doesn't even call us hyung anymore," Him Chan rolled his eyes, watching the struggling mob of eating machines are they desperately lunged for the puny packet of Skittles.

"Y'know," Minseok suddenly mused, as though he had just remembered something, "I recall something about Skittles."

"Enlighten us," Yongguk rolled his eyes, whilst the EXO members looked curious.

"I think they crushed beetle cuccoons into the paint they used on Skittles," Minseok commented, still watching the mob, who simultaneously went deathly still, each with a significant amount of Skittles in their cheeks, "seems to give Skittles that special shine you find on some beetles' exoskeleton."

The response that followed that careless statement was a significant amount of barfing, except for Zelo, who couldn't care a flying flute what Skittle paint were made of, as long as they were scientifically edible. The other members noticed that the way Kris spat out his Skittles was quite interesting, as they shot out from between his lips like bullets and seemed to land suspiciously accurately at Chanyeol.

"Gross, duizang," Luhan frowned.

"Do you think they use the same kind of paint for M&Ms?" asked a small, forgotten voice behind him and everyone turned to see Tao munching on some of the coloured chocolate. His question was a mistake, for soon, the eating machines had forgotten the Skittles Fun Fact and lunged for the new food bearer. You'd think SM and TS Entertainment starved their idols.

Not that they didn't, scientifically.

*

Luhan

last seen today at 08:00

V've been walking for ages, Lulu. I'm sleeeppppyyyyyyy...

Sehun 08:02✓✓

Lulu, pls reply??

Sehun 08:05 ✓✓

Lulu, I can hear your lame- notification ringtones from here.

Sehun 08:06✓✓

Luhan, I can see u checkin your Whatsapp for de 8th time, replyyyyyyy..

Sehun 08:14✓✓

Luhan.

Sehun 08:20✓✓

Luhaaaaannnnnnnn....

Sehun 08:20✓✓

I wonder if ur fans know how y u r.

Sehun 08:22✓✓

I wonder if ur fans noe dat u have dis freakish tendency 2 whatsapp me when v're walking next to each other u lameass.

Luhan 08:23✓✓

Luhan my back hurts how long do u dink v hav to walk summore?

Sehun 08:24✓✓

nother 5 mins, duizang told us dat v're gonna hitch a couple of nights at de white building.

Luhan 08:25✓✓

u type slow. Btw, wat building?

Sehun 08:25✓✓

i dun c a white building.

Sehun 08:25✓✓

...

Luhan 08:26✓✓

uh hello?

Sehun 08:26✓✓

Hyung.

Sehun 08:26✓✓

Hyung.

Sehun 08:27✓✓

Hyung.

Sehun 08:27✓✓

Hyung.

Sehun 08:28✓✓

Hyung.

Sehun 08:29✓✓

Sehun, keep your eyes on de road. Its de only building in dis freakin countryside.

Luhan 08:34✓✓

I can c de road juz fine

Sehun 08:34✓✓

RAISE. YOUR. FREAKING. EYES.

Luhan 08:35✓✓

YOU

Luhan 08:35✓✓

QUIT TEXTIN ME

Luhan 08:36✓✓

I raised em juz now, all i saw was a white building.

Sehun 08:37✓✓

ohmaigawd

Luhan 08:38✓✓

What wer v talkin about anyway?

Sehun 08:40✓✓

*

The pastures surrounding the whitewashed structure were overgrown and a faded dirty yellow, adding to the effect of the heat wave that enveloped the desolate countryside. It was more like a forgotten town, with old houses and dead shrubs. The air was filled with white particles of dust and the cloudless skies allowed the sunbeam to glare directly down on exposed flesh. There seemed to be some kind of fenced-up lawn next to the building, where there were a few sandboxes and an empty playground. The chains of the swings were rusted and the slide had a life-sized hole in it.

"Wow, wonder what kid did that?" Jongin murmured as Kris went up to the porch and rapped uncertainly with a brass knocker hanging on the oak door.

"He needs to lay off the McDonalds', that's for sure," Zelo shook his head.

"Heeheehee, McDonalds..."

"Yixing, if you don't stop giggling like an idiot, I'm gonna kick you to the middle of next week."

"Don't hurt him," Tao warned Chen, "he doesn't know what he's saying."

"Neither do I, but that's the point."

"Heeheee, pointy-point..."

They all lasped into silence as there came a scruffling of footsteps and a creak followed by a clack. Yongguk and Kris exchanged glances as the commotion went on and the door was finally pulled open very slightly by an unseen force.

The EXO and BAP members stared at the tiny gap in confusion, partially waiting for the person or persons to poke their head out at them.

Nothing.

Chanyeol reached forwards, grabbed the knob and gave it a slight push. To their horror, his force was a little too heavy and the door swung backwards, resulting in a bang of wood against flesh and a high-pitched squeal of pain. The door swung to the side and they stared in stunned silence at the figure about three-feet-tall and lying on the floor clutching his nose.

"," Chanyeol squeaked as Daehyun rushed forwards.

"Is he all right?" Junmyeon inquired, pushing past Luhan and Sehun in Daehyun's wake.

"The door practically slammed him right in the face, Junmyeon."

"Is he bleeding?"

"Oh, crap, kid," Chanyeol shook the dazed kid by the shoulders a little too hysterically, "I'm so sorreeeee...."

Just then, a nun appeared in the hall, her lips set apart to reveal a perfect 'O' as she stared at the crowd. There were about six children behind her, peeking at the guys with curiosity etched on their thin faces. The staring match went on for a couple of minutes before...

"Heeheehee...little childrennnn..."

The screams that rang through the convent after that less than convenient comment was horrendous and the children scarpered up the stairs. Unfortunately, Yixing was drunken enough to run after them and even the nun started to scream with terror.

"Yixing, get back here!" Tao yelled, exasperated whilst Jong Up and Jongdae sprinted after him up the stairs. The child in Chanyeol's arms also started to wail and kicked him straight in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

"Owwwwwwwww!"

"Oh my gawd, oh my gawd," Luhan gasped, and he joined the pursuit of the drunkard, "he looks like a e gone wild."

"EXO and BAP... GET HIM!" Yongguk's voice suddenly boomed through the air and both boy groups jolted out of their trance. Yixing was giggling and running around like a maniac, but he didn't seem to be chasing anyone; all he did was run after the children one at a time and when the kid met a dead end, he took a dramatic turn and chased another one. One or two of the children were running for the door.

"Hey, hey!" Sehun called grabbing one by the arm, "get back in here, it's all rig...Oof!" His head felt as though it would explode from the pain that had erupted from his nether regions as the child squirmed and kicked him straight in the s. He sank to the floor, groaning.

"Kids may not hit harder," Kris sighed, patting him on the back, whilst holding the screaming kid like a sack with his hand, "but they hit lower."

Sehun groaned in reply.

I'm clean out of humour. Sobs*

Sorry about the ridiculously long hiatus, I'm actually having exams every other month. (Science student. Ironic.)

So, uh, yeah, I'm sure of there are actually any convents in South Korea with nuns operating them in deserted countrysides, since I'm pretty sure that they would be protected if there are. I just whipped them out of nowhere, and no. Yixing is not a e here, he's just dead drunk.

I'm pretty much a fan of Android systems, so I guess most of the members (except for Youngjae and Sehun, I think.) are going to go with Samsung smartphones. LOL. (Okay that's random. Coughs*) And I intended to add in more Baekyeol, but I only came up with beauts after finishing the chapter, and I found that they couldn't fit in ANYWHERE. So, I guess I'll inject them into the next chapter.

Thanks you for support and threats. And the subbies, wow! I didn't expect this many since I had little faith in this fic as I couldn't find any good tips on EXO's personality. (Happy Camp changed lives.)

You guys make writing rewarding, thank you so much! :)

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