Ling's POV

At around noon, Borin came to the dorm with Namsoon to bring the members to our next schedule. As usual, the members faces darkened when they saw her bounce into the room with her blonde hair and leather jacket, but I chose to ignore it for the sake of a good show.

"Ling!" She bellowed at me and rushed to loop her arms into mine. "We're going to the countryside today."

My eyes widened and as did all the members. "What?"

She sniffed proudly and pulled me towards the door.

"Our set today will be in the countryside." She leaned her cheeks towards mine and brought out her hand to motion in the air. "We'll spend three days and two nights in absolute wilderness. No electricity, no intern-"

"NO!" Chanyeol exclaimed and pushed his way to the front. "No internet?"

The member's moods seem to lighten slightly at Chanyeol's worried tone. After a brief discussion about who should be in which van, we filed into the two black cars and headed towards our next destination.

For some reason, I replaced Luhan's seat and was put between Kris and Suho in the back seat of the first van. I could feel the tension between them as we sat in silence behind the noisy bunch in the front. My earbuds were in my bag, and if I could just get to them, them maybe this trip wouldn't be so-

"Are you trying to get something?" Suho asked quietly with his smooth, calm voice.

I beamed back at him. "Yes I-"

"See this is the problem with you Suho," Kris's deep voice rumbled on the other side of me. "Why do you always care about what other people are up to?"

I blinked and glanced back at Suho. His eyes glinted for a brief moment and he straightened up to meet Kris at eye level. Well, he tried.

"I'm sorry, I am the leader of EXO, I have responsibilities as the leader." He paused then added a clear declaration of war. "Unlike someone, I have to stay behind the members with my all."

Again, there was a silence that was somehow louder than the shrieking of Chanyeol, Baekhyun and Kai in the front seat.

Kris cleared his throat, his voice suddenly taking a serious tone. "Please, when did you treat the Chinese members as members?"

My eyes slid up to look at Kris curiously. What did he mean by that? Was EXO m treated unfairly?

Suho stayed silent with nothing to say back that would help the situation. It was one of those things that would be solved by silence, but it was also one of those things where silence would mean the truth.

Without moving my head, I glanced uncertainly over at Suho to see that he was looking out the window with sad eyes. I had never seen him with such a face which makes me wonder just what it was he was hiding from Kris. Without thinking, I placed my hand on his arm, eyes back on my knees, too embarrassed to look him in the eyes.

I feel his breathing next to me as if it were my own and within seconds, our breathing matched each other's. On the other side of me, I could've sworn I heard Kris scoff a little but didn't bother to look over at him.

I'm not sure when I ended up falling asleep during our long ride to our destination. I woke up to a particularly big bump on the road to Kris's hand on my forehead as my head bounced on his shoulder. I almost yelped in surprise as I realised how close his face was to mine when my eyes flew open on impact. For the briefest of moments, I could make out the delicate creases under his eyes from a lack of sleep and the most minuscule of smiles that played on his lips. His brown eyes widened as he realised I was awake and instantly let go of my head.

"You fell asleep on my shoulder," He mumbled into his hand as he propped himself up against the car door again. "It was troublesome."

I stifled a small giggle. "Sorry."

The van halted to a stop in front of what looked like a street light and waited for the light to turn green. I yawned and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as the quiet snores of the members echoed through the van. The pitter patter of sound against the roof of the car also signified rain, lots of it.

"D-did you sleep well?" Kris's voice broke the silence and I turned to him with a nod in response.

"Your shoulder was very comfortable," I smiled.

"Of course," His voice found it's confidence. "My shoulder isn't just for-"

Kris couldn't finish what he was going to say as the car suddenly jerked sideways without warning. I barely had enough time to yell before my head was smashed against the front seat and my seat belt choked me at the neck. The dim light in the car flickered dangerously as I felt my body spinning out of control, along with a stab of pain in my head.

I screamed, or at least I think I did, I couldn't hear anything.

The flickering of a light.

A confined space.

There were lights in the aisle and it lit a path forward. But everything was shaking.

I wasn't in my seat for some reason, but everyone else was.

The emergency equipment drops from the ceiling and everyone is in panic.

I lose balance.

My head bashes against the side of a seat.

I blinked out of my trance in a frenzy of sweat. I could hear distant shouting, see the fear in Suho and Kris's eyes. I could hear the tires skidding on the road, loud and high pitched it pierced through my mind adding on to my already painful head.

Everything was a blur and then, a bright flash of white light followed by a loud honking of an industrial truck-

Everything went dark.

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself to be across the room from Mr. Zhang who had my resume in hand and a familiar looking coffee mug by his side.

The room smelled rich of coffee, and right by my side was the familiar looking hat that I've seen on Luhan.

Was I, applying for a job?

Notes

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Smells of coffee? Mr. Zhang? Luhan's Hat?

do u know WHAT THIS MEANS?

lol enjoy~~