Chapter 9

I'll Have The Last Laugh

I'm not too happy with how my writing came out for this one, but this story has gone for too long without an update >.<


 

For the first time in ever, Sehun sat up in bed the moment he woke up. He looked over at Baekhyun's bed and the victorious smile on his lips dropped immediately.

Oh sh-.

 

THE PREVIOUS DAY.

 

Stupid Sehun, Baekhyun kicked a small pebble out of his way and walked back to the meeting point with his teammate. While not often admitting it out loud, Baekhyun wasn't fond of losing. Then again, he supposed that not many people were.

The camp leader was in the middle of listing the teams that had managed to collect all of the items when the woman he had been paired with suddenly remembered the shape of her earrings.

A small smile curved up Baekhyun's lips and he found himself unconsciously glancing at Sehun to see his reaction.

Sehun was looking away from him, his fist clenched.

Is he that annoyed that he lost? Baekhyun wondered, an eyebrow raised. Sehun's friend, Jongin caught him looking and he abruptly looked away.

Later that day, when everyone migrated to the food court, Baekhyun couldn't help but notice Sehun's absence. Where is he? Concern welled up in him, but he passed it off as suspicion rather than actual concern for his wellbeing. He must be up to something, Baekhyun thought.

Sehun's absence was beneficial in one way though; it gave him the opportunity to get to know the intriguing Camp Leader a little more. Baekhyun was grateful to have found a friend.

"So what's the deal with you and that other guy?", Chanyeol leant in close to Baekhyun and grinned, as though they were discussing some secret.

He has a nice smile, Baekhyun absentmindedly thought."Other guy?".

Chanyeol nodded and jerked his head in the direction of Kyungsoo and Jongin, "He hangs around with them".

"Oh", Baekhyun glanced in their direction and returned to his food, "It's a long story".

Not one to be deterred, Chanyeol made a motion of getting comfortable and propped his hand up on his hands, "I like long stories".

Baekhyun eyed him with curiosity then shrugged, "You asked for it".

 

Once Baekhyun had finished relaying the details of his and Sehun's relationship, Chanyeol's grin grew wider.

"So you're having a prank war?".

"You could say that", Baekhyun cracked a smile.

"Who's turn is it now?".

Baekhyun laughed and shook his head, "We're not exactly taking turns. But I think we can agree that he's winning".

Taking a sip of his once-forgotten drink, Chanyeol slyly smirked, "Want to turn things in your favour?".

Nonchalantly shrugging, Baekhyun grinned, "I wouldn't say no to a little help".

"Fantastic", Chanyeol stood up and Baekhyun followed suit.

"I suppose", Chanyeol began, "That the reason I saw that guy, Sehun, take a bucket back with him to the cabins is something to do with a prank?".

Baekhyun's lips twitched, threatening to smile. So I was right, he was absent because he's up to something.

"More than likely".

"Interesting...", Chanyeol drifted off, lost in thought.

 

* * *

 

When Baekhyun returned to the cabin, he tentatively pushed the door open. One use for the bucket could involve it being placed above the door, a prank waiting to happen. But the bucket was nowhere to be seen.

Baekhyun was sure to be slow with everything he did, suspicious of everything in the cabin. There are a few more possibilities. But I have a feeling he's going to...

Sehun turned in his bed restlessly and Baekhyun hid a smile. Don't go into acting, Oh Sehun.

Climbing in his bed after a long day wasn't what Baekhyun thought it would be. His heart raced with all the energy of a morning and even if he wanted to sleep, he couldn't.

Let's see if my acting skills are better than yours.

Baekhyun had to give Sehun credit, he made minimal noise when he crept out of bed. The feeling of being watched crawled over Baekhyun and he forced himself to remain still. He felt, rather than saw, Sehun's long fingers wrap around his wrist in an attempt to pull his hand away. The shock of the action, and of the temperature of Sehun's hands, made Baekhyun jerk his hand back in shock. To his mild surprise, Baekhyun somehow managed to keep his eyes closed. He could feel Sehun's hot breath on his face and had to restrain himself from smiling when he heard the breathing hitch. If I opened my eyes now...

Baekhyun was so tempted to catch Sehun in the act, but for the sake of his own prank he remained still and allowed Sehun to move his arm.

As soon as Baekhyun's hand dipped in the water he knew that his earlier suspicions had been right. He's trying to get me to wet the bed? How childish.

 

* * *

 

THE NEXT DAY (CURRENT DAY)

 

'Oh sh-' was Sehun's first thought when he looked over at Baekhyun. Everything hit him at once; the absence of the bucket next to Baekhyun's bed, the water dripping from his own hand, the wet patch in his own bed.

Sehun's thoughts cannot be written down for fear of younger readers. But Baekhyun's thoughts were filled with warm clouds and dreamland.

 

* * *

 

"Sehun? Where are you going-", Luhan furrowed his brows as he watched Sehun carry what looked like folded sheets to the laundry room.

"Nowhere. Go away", Sehun ignored him and tried to keep a discontent pout from his lips.

Luhan just stared after him in confusion.

 

* * *

 

"So how'd it go?", was the first thing Chanyeol greeted Baekhyun with that day.

Baekhyun just grinned and Chanyeol made a noise of approval.

"Ha! I knew it!", Chanyeol slapped him on the back and continued to beam.

He's stronger than he looks. Baekhyun inwardly winced but continued on with the conversation.

"So what's next?", Chanyeol was like a big kid. Hyperactive and excitable. On second thought, Baekhyun decided he was more like a puppy. Kids grew tired and bored but Chanyeol seemed more alert than ever.

Whilst Baekhyun was wondering whether involving Chanyeol was the right idea, Sehun was already plotting his own revenge.

 

* * *

 

 

Sehun, Jongin and Kyungsoo were all in the food court eating breakfast, when Sehun burst out with, "Hey, Kyungsoo do you have any eyeliner?".

Both the suddenness and the nature of the question surprised the other two and Kyungsoo found himself pausing.

 Jongin raised an eyebrow and looked at his boyfriend. Kyungsoo immediately shook his head, "No, I don't".

"Oh. Jongin?".

Jongin shook his head, "Sorry".

Sehun put his head in his hands and sighed, "I'm running out of ideas".

"You know", Kyungsoo toyed his lip, "You don't have to go big. You can do lots of little things. That gets pretty annoying".

"Little things?"

"Yeah, like... turning his clothes inside out, and putting pinecones in his shoes and-"

"Pinecones in his shoes?", Sehun looked concerned.

"It's an example", Kyungsoo shrugged.

I suppose he's right. I can do lots of little things while I'm thinking up something big.

 

* * *

 

The activities that day included bird watching - not something Sehun particularly wanted to do, but apparently their location had a rare species of bird, or something like that. They had to trek through the woods to reach this patch of land up fortunately the walk wasn't long.

Chanyeol, the camp leader, split them into threes. Unfortunately for them, Sehun and Baekhyun only had two members in their group. Sehun didn't catch Chanyeol's smile to Baekhyun.

"Now, you'll have one pair of binoculars per group so please share them equally", Chanyeol instructed as he handed out binoculars to each group. Baekhyun was careful when he accepted his.

"You want to look first?", Baekhyun held out the binoculars to Sehun, but Sehun only shrugged.

"You can look first. I'm observing for now", Sehun glanced around the sky and tried to spot anything out of the ordinary.

It's fine Baekhyun, you prepared for this.

Carefully, Baekhyun raised the binoculars to his face and squinted. Until now he hadn't realised how difficult it was to use them without them touching his face.

They remained like that for a few minutes, one of the few silent groups. Every now and then Baekhyun would glance over at Sehun and wonder what was going on in that head of his.

I can't see any birds, Sehun thought. That cloud looks like a bird. Do birds like clouds? If a bird flies through a cloud, will it get wet?

Baekhyun frowned at the mysterious man and continued pretending to look for something.

"Do you want the binoculars now?", Baekhyun all but pressed them into Sehun's hands.

"Sure".

Sehun raised the binoculars to his eyes and the moment the eye pieces made contact with his skin, Baekhyun grinned.

"I can't see anything", Sehun murmured.

Baekhyun looked up in the sky and noticed something small flying above the tree tops. "There!", Baekhyun pointed, not taking his eyes off of the bird.

Realising that Sehun couldn't see where he was pointing, he looped his arm around him and turned him to face the direction of the bird.

"Oh, I see it now", Sehun swallowed, "Thanks".

Neither of them had mentioned the bed-wetting incident since it happened, and there seemed to be a silent agreement between them that it would remain un-mentioned.

Still, Sehun couldn't help but feel impressed towards Baekhyun. He'd managed to turn his own prank upon himself. Was he not asleep when I did it? Sehun frowned.

As he realised something, Sehun slowly lowered the binoculars. If he was awake, he pulled he towards him... on purpose? Baekhyun was too busy looking at the faint bird in the distance to notice the way Sehun looked at him.

Realising he still had his arm around Sehun, Baekhyun quickly dropped it as if it had been scorched, and looked away.

"Here", Sehun picked up Baekhyun's dropped arm and placed the binoculars in his hand. "You seem more interested in the birds than me".

As Baekhyun turned to look at Sehun in amusement, he noticed that something was very wrong. Sehun was staring down at him, his face as pure as ever.

Uncomfortably clearing his throat, Sehun looked away. Why is he looking at me like that?

Rather than him looking directly into Sehun's eyes, as Sehun had thought, Baekhyun was searching around his eyes. Why didn't the charcoal rub off?

He stared at the binoculars in confusion and rubbed his thumb around the rubber seal of the eye piece. Nothing. That's not possible... unless.

Chanyeol, as kind as he may be, was a little... clumsy. He must have given someone else the-

Baekhyun frantically searched the other group's faces, searching for a sign when, "Oh fu-".

As hard as he had been trying to ignore Baekhyun, Sehun couldn't ignore the horror in his voice and immediately turned to face him. "What's wro-", slowly, Sehun turned to face what Baekhyun was looking at. Or rather, who Baekhyun was looking at.

 

Jongin's group consisted of Kyungsoo, himself and a particularly pleasant man called Henry. Eager to see the bird, Kyungsoo all but leaped at the opportunity to use the binoculars first and so Henry and Jongin spoke amongst one another whilst Kyungsoo looked around. After seeing, and secretly naming the bird - JJ - Kyungsoo reluctantly removed the binoculars and handed offered them to Jongin and Henry. Their conversation ended abruptly.

"Oh no", Sehun whispered.

Absentmindedly he tried to hide Baekhyun from Kyungsoo by blocking him from his line of sight.

Almost simultaneously, Baekhyun unconsciously grabbed the back of Sehun's shirt and peeked round at Kyungsoo in anticipation. Even if Sehun hid him, nobody was safe from Kyungsoo's wrath. Nobody.

There was a moment of silence in both groups and thankfully nobody else had noticed the incident. Jongin took the binoculars from Kyungsoo's hands, pressed them into Henry's and took Kyungsoo's now-empty hand in his own.

Kyungsoo looked down at their interlocked fingers and laughed, "What are you doing?".

"Come with me", Jongin didn't wait for an answer and pulled Kyungsoo along with him, through the trees and out of sight.

"Are- are we safe?", Baekhyun whispered, once they were gone.

Sehun stared at the forest after them dramatically, "I don't know. Our fate lies in Jongin's hands now".

They both looked over at Henry, who stood there staring at the binoculars in confusion.

"Uh", Baekhyun began.

"Can you keep this whole thing a secret?", Sehun finished, "Kyungsoo will kill us if he finds out".

Henry looked up from the binoculars and nodded, still confused.

Baekhyun, releasing Sehun's shirt with a flush of embarrassment, stepped around from him and traded binoculars with Henry. "This never happened".

"Got it. Okay man", Henry's confusion faded and was replaced with a smile.

Phew. Now it's up to Jongin to fix the rest of this mess.

 

* * *

 

Jongin lead the way, through the forest and back along the path they originally followed. When they were out of sight Jongin stopped walking and looked around. Nobody's here.

"Jongin? What are you-", Kyungsoo began.

Jongin leant down and silenced Kyungsoo with a kiss. Kyungsoo jerked back in surprise.

"I've wanted to do that since we got there", Jongin smiled.

"You lead me into the woods to kiss me?", Kyungsoo raised an eyebrow, but couldn't help the blush that crept up his cheeks.

"Mmhm", Jongin reached a hand up and cupped Kyungsoo's face, his thumb Kyungsoo's cheek.

For a moment, Kyungsoo closed his eyes and relaxed into Jongin's hand. "We should head back".

Jongin's eyes widened. They couldn't head back now!

"Just... stay with me for a while longer", Jongin placed his other hand on the other side of Kyungsoo's face and pressed another kiss to his lips. This time Kyungsoo didn't pull away.

Whilst they were kissing, Jongin gently rubbed the black circles from around Kyungsoo's eyes away. Kyungsoo didn't notice a thing.

When they pulled away, breathless, Jongin grinned. "That was better than the bird watching".

"For you maybe", Kyungsoo shrugged nonchalantly and looked off into the forest.

Jongin's eyebrows rose, "Oh?".

Looking back at Jongin, Kyungsoo grinned, "That bird was pretty special".

Slowly taking Kyungsoo's hand in his once more, Jongin began to lead them back to the activity, "I guess I'll just have to prove you wrong later".

Kyungsoo was thankful that the heavy tree cover shielded his blush.

 

* * *

 

Jongin and Kyungsoo returned 15 minutes later. The black circles around Kyungsoo's eyes were nowhere to be seen. 

 

 


Surprise guesting by Henry (I'm not sure why Henry, he just seemed to fit the role)

Thank you to those who have continued to read this story despite my crappy update schedule >.< <3

 

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Aha, chapter posted! The next chapter will be The Date and then only 2 more chapters before the very end! Ahh, can you believe it? It's almost over. Wow.

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Lulyhan #1
Chapter 26: Thank you again for ending your story <3, it was lovely to read it again
OdetteSwan
935 streak #2
Chapter 26: I read everything until 1:30am. I just couldn't stop till the end.
Baekhyun really brought theur prank war to a new level when he went to the camp.
But, even when they were boyfriends, they continued the prank war. I live the de-flouring scene!
Thank you so much for sharing. B
SEHUN494
#3
Chapter 25: Wait don't tell me you stopped updating author no no nooooooo not at this point when everything is going this good
SEHUN494
#4
Chapter 14: Oh god I love this this is super funny and cute and omggggggg author nim thank you so much for the lovely story it's amazinggggggggggg
Lulyhan #5
Chapter 25: Wait, I was reading it again and forgot it wasn’t over yet, hate myself now xD
ExoLscanloveBTS #6
Chapter 25: The way you described sehun's feelings and affections towards baek was so cute OMFG♡♤ >~<
-lubehan #7
Chapter 25: SO CUTE I'M WHEEZING AAAHHHHHHH
playfull_prinxe #8
Chapter 25: yeah... he sure hate u baek ;) also, baekie so damn cute as always!!
playfull_prinxe #9
Chapter 24: yass bbh!! u go boii!!
Byun_Rara
#10
Chapter 25: Cute cute cuteeeeeeeeee. I cant wait to know what will happen next. Thanks for the update ♡♡♡