"Ah, here it is," he said, squinting at the agenda written for today whilst smirking slightly which led to you feeling suspicious, "do you have it?" he asked Jonghyun who stood beside him, his eyebrows raised in realisation and then he  drew out his hand from behind his back, in which he pulled out a box of chocolate covered pretzel sticks. 

Your eyes immediately grew wide since you knew from that moment what the consequences were. Unknowingly, you blushed hardcore. The boys threw a wild 'Ooooh'. 

Jonghyun then handed it over to your dad, "Oh, my favourite snack," he gleamed "anyway, you might be familiar with this game, right? The peppero game, or pocky game, if you're japanese. Basically, you both have to lie down symmetrical to each other, there will be a plate of this pocky next to you, MiNa, and an empty plate next to you, Baekhyun. MiNa will have to transfer the pocky sticks to Baekhyun by sitting up and , and Baekhyun will have to put the pocky sticks down on to his empty plate. Understand?" 

"What?" you yelled "Really, dad?" 

"It's the consequence" he said, grinning slightly and folding up the piece of paper. One of the servants got a hold of two plates and filled one of them with the pocky sticks to leave the other one empty. 

You looked at the boys, who were all smiling like s between them, Chanyeol had the most deceiving smile, though, and you couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking. 

"May I suggest something, sir?" he spoke. Oh, great. 

"Yes, Chanyeol-ssi?"

"I was figuring, since it's a game, why not try and make it harder for them by...it don't know, let's say...making the pocky sticks shorter?" He shrugged his shoulders.

I'm going to put an end to you, Park Chanyeol. 

You spoke. "Dad, please don't liste-"

"Perfect!" he clasped his hands together in praise "that's a good idea,".All of a sudden a burst of laughter came from the boys and some even high fived Chanyeol for the idea. "Okay, MiNa, on your back now, were wasting time"

You rolled your eyes and got down on to the soft green grass to lie down on, you felt utterly embarrassed at this point. Turning your head, the plate of pocky was an inch away from your face. Some of them ended up being utterly short pieces. "Yah!" you shot up from the ground "Who made them so short?" you pointed at the plate. 

Chanyeol sniggered, and made it obvious at who it was. You glared at him. "Now, now, stop complaining MiNa. All right, your goal is to transfer as much pocky pieces as you can from one to the other in 45 seconds."

You both nodded our head in response before your eyes darted to Baekhyun for a brief moment, he didn't seem worried at all, just relax, which is a good reaction, you guessed.

"Start!" 

Your head turned and your mouth grabbed the first pocky piece it could reach, which was probably about 2 inches long. You sat up, and Baekhyun met your eyes. For some strange reason, your heart began to beat fast, but you just assumed it was due to nervousness. It's fine, you assured yourself, just get over and done with it. 

It's fine, Mina. Just a stupid game.

Baekhyun came so close to your face that it if that piece of pocky probably wasn't there, you two would have been lip locking right now. The boys were cheering, but you ignored them. He laid back down and put it on his plate to fill it up. And it carried on that way for the rest of whatever time it is you had left. 

"Times up!" 

Both of you stood up from the ground and brushed away at your clothes whilst your dad tried counting how many pocky sticks were transfered. "11!" he revealed "not bad, but there was a lot of hesitation between you two."

"Of course there was, they obviously like each other." One of them said, which made you furrow your eyebrows and blush at the same time.

~~~

"I would have pushed Baekhyun in to you whilst you were in the middle of almost kissing, that way, you would have actually kissed!" Chanyeol chuckled

"You're meaan," you pouted "anyway, I'm glad that was over. I don't know what my dad was thinking,trying to make us do some sort of activity like that."

"Oh, leave him, he's just trying to get us to get aquiantanced with each other." Suho said.

"Do you think Baekhyun liked it?" asked Tao

"Actually, a more important question would be, did the princess like it?" said Chanyeol "and did you, princess?" he nudged your shoulder whilst raising his eyebrow.

"Hated it" you said

"Well, look who's being mean now" Chanyeol intrigued

"What? No I'm not"

"Sure, sure" Chanyeol waved his hand at you sarcastically and you felt like slapping him with your own.

It was late in the evening and you couldn't help but feel more embarrassed than ever after that event. It was rather short, actually, like, one activity event that lasted probably less than an hour. Was this your dad's idea of embarrassing you, or was he actually trying to get you closer to the boys? Either way, you're glad that it was over. 

"Yours and Baekhyun's face were like this far apart" Suho made a measurement with his thumb and index finger

"If it wasn't for that little piece of pocky stick between you two, my OTP would pretty much have been real" admitted Chanyeol, who acted as if what he said was natural

You raised your eyebrow at him "What the heck, Chanyeol? You're so-agh!" you stood up from the sofa and began making your way up your room since you felt like you've had enough chat with them for today "Weirdos" you mumbled before closing the door

"What's an OTP?" Lay asked, the members rolled their eyes at him

"You're so lost sometimes, Yixing" 

"What? I'm serious" 

You made your way up the stairs before bumping in to your dad on the way. "Ah, MiNa," he said in surprise "guess that didn't really work now, did it?" he gave a half hearted smile

"What didn't work, dad?" 

He sighed. "Never mind, MiNa. It's fine. I just wanted to do something out of the ordinary today, that's all" he said, making his way past you.

You carried on making your way to your bedroom, but as soon as you reached the top of the stairs, your face had yet again almost made contact with Baekhyun's who seemed to be going down the stairs. "Sorry" you mumbled, trying to go out of his way

"It's okay," he assured "guess that was a bit awkward, huh?" he said, trying to make a conversation

"H-huh?" you muttered before realizing what he was talking about "Oh, um, yeah, aha" 

Baekhyun shyly looked down at his feet "Your dad seems make an effort in to trying to make us closer" 

"Yeah, he sure does" you reply, unsure of what to say

There was a bit of awkward silence between you two for what seemed to last for more than a moment, Baekhyun seemed to have something on his mind that he really wanted to say but was too shy, and you were left literally speechless at the situation. "Well, I guess I should-" 

"Princess," Baekhyun cut you off. There it is; here's what Baekhyun had to say. "It's been a bit awkward between you and ever since, you know, 'that' day. And...well, I'm sorry about what happened, you know? I guess I was being selfish"

You sighed quietly. So this is what he's been wanting to get off his chest lately? "Baekhyun, don't worry about i-"

"That's not- that's not what I'm trying to say, though," he began to scratch the back of his neck nervously

"Oh, then, what is it?"

He gulped nervously at what he was about to say next, "P-Princess, if you don't mind, w-will you...will you go on a date with me?"