Jisung dreamed of Jaemin's soft face and hands and envisioned him doing a 10-step treatment regimen.. After eating his five course meal from England or someplace he probably engaged in evening activities like spending time with an exotic pet and chatting with his family on the backyard veranda. He wondered what kind of home he returned to every day. How large it was and how perfect his parents must have looked.

Then, he woke up to a slap on his head. He grew angry after seeing it was Chenle and began cursing obscenities at him.

"Yeah yeah, what are you doing still sleeping! I called like twenty times." He was now pulling Jisung's curtains back unasked. Jisung used one of his pillows to cover his ears from the dolphin like yelling but Chenle flew back to his bed and hit him with it.

"It's the halloween carnival today. Did you forget?"

"I don't want to go." Jisung grunted.

"Too bad. I'll be downstairs, don't take forever." he slammed the door behind him.

Jisung regretted agreeing to help Chenle and his volunteer group set up for the school carnival. Although he wanted the extra credit, he couldn't predict how he would feel the day of. He still hadn't healed from his cold last week. "I don't even like halloween," he grunted into his pillow.

Then he remembered the dream he was ripped from a moment ago. He felt a little guilty for his subconscious thoughts...He was certainly being idiotic about the way he saw his crush. Even his best friend who had two well known dentists as parents didn't even engage in activities like that. He was just stereotyping wealthy people again. He could understand why Chenle believed he hated the rich.

Finally, he rolled himself off the bed and headed to the bathroom to perform the slowest movements possible. He knew it would annoy Chenle and behold, the banshee returned to his room to yell some more. Jisung was now brushing his teeth.

"Dude! Twenty minutes passed and this is how far you've gotten?" He rested his arm on the bathroom door and glared at Jisung through the mirror. "It's 11:30. We have to be there soon."

Jisung rolled his eyes. "If you were so late, you could have just headed over."

"Yeah so that you could go back to bed and turn off your phone? Do you think I'm stupid Park Jisung?"

Jisung laughed and his toothpaste foam flew into the air. His best friend knew him too well. 

***

They arrived at the school courtyard around noon and met with Haechan and his little sister. Jisung always wondered what it was like to have a younger sibling to dote on. Even chenle had older sisters. Maybe this is why they're so good at understanding women, he realized.

Hae's little sister adored them. She even had nicknames for the two. Chenle was 'smiley' and Jisung was "stone face." Jisung whined once why he was given a bad name and she said because he never smiled and Chenle almost always smiled.

When she saw Chenle she gave him a big hug and instead of the same she ran up to pinch Jisung. "ouch!" he shrieked. He was just a punching bag today huh. Haechan affirmed that was her way of affection so Jisung repeated the same pinch on his arm and Haechan ate his words. He leaned down to his sister's level to coax her. "no pinching stone face please..."

"Sorry cheesung-oppa!" She finally gave him the hug he was waiting for and he finally cheered up. The boys teased him for acting like a baby.