"Gwaencha Tao-yah?" Xiumin suddenly noticed the maknae's depression. All five pairs of eyes were now on him. Tao shook his head, while it was still between his knees and mumbled something.
"What did he say?" Asked Chen, turning his head upwards at Xiumin who shrugged and turned back to the maknae.
"Kill me," said Kris and four heads turned to him with a very confused look, but he wasn't paying them any attention. "Tao?" He called but received no response from Tao, though Xiumin noted that the maknae had visibly stiffened. "Tao?" Still no response. By now every other member was watching very carefully."Zhitao? Huang Zhitao!" Tao turned slowly to face the leader, with a disgruntled, petulant look. Luhan covered his smile with a cough, Lay put his attention back to the television, tough the corners of his mouth were tugging upwards, Xiumin and Chen looked at each other desperately trying not to break into laughter at Tao's childishness. Kris was unaware of everything but the panda. "Why do you want us to kill you?" Tao narrowed his eyes at Kris and pouted.
This was too much for Chen who broke out in giggles, while Xiumin slapped his hands on to the younger mouth with lightning fast reflexes, which caused Chen to feel like he was being suffocated, so he thrashed his arms and legs like a fish out of water, while still in resting on his hyung, which in turn caused Xiumin to yelp in pain, which caused Lay, who had zoned-out, to jump in his seat, which in turn, caused Luhan to burst out laughing, which caused Kris and Tao to finally register the world around them.
Lay shook his head and asked, ''If we're going to kill you, we need a reason, or we're going to jail."
"If we listen to the panda and kill him, we'll be in jail anyway," sighed Luhan. Kris sighed and looked back at the maknae.
"Myballroomissobad...." mumbled Tao, while the others looked at him with raised eyebrows, except Kris, who said,
"My ballroom is so bad...? Tao why the hell do you think your ballroom is bad-"
"More importantly, why the hell do you care- oww!! Hyung!!" Chen was smacked on the side of the head by Xiumin.
"Ilooklikeanidiot....." mumbled Tao once more and all eyes went on Kris.
"No, Tao, you do not look like an idiot." Said Kris, exasperated.
"And besides," began Chen once more, still resting on Xiumin's crossed legs, "I was dancing with you-owww!!! Hyung that freaking hurts!!" He yelled to Xiumin, who had smacked him on the side of the head again.
"Then stop talking!" Hissed Xiumin, undertone, which shut Chen, who did not want to face an angry Baozi.
"Ignore him Tao, you and the duijjang looked really cool dancing," said Luhan kindly. There was a sharp intake of breath on his left. Tao on the other hand, snorted, and said,
"Cool? A bunch of monkeys could have looked cooler ballroom dancing and a bunch of martial artists trying to kill each other could have looked more romantic..."
Luhan could almost feel an aura of negativity radiating from his left and Lay hastily added," Not at all, very very cool. Didn't you hear the screams?"
"But that's because they like...." began Chen, and then stopped taking a peak above at Xiumin's face, with a half-afraid look. Xiumin on the other hand, looked genuinely interested in what his dongsaeng had to say. "Aren't you going to whack my head?" Asked Chen incredulously.
"Do you want to be hit?" Asked Xiumin, cocking his head to one side. For a moment, Chen wanted to reach up and pinch his hyung's cheeks. But he just turned to face Tao and said, all the while his eyes darting between his Hyung and the maknae,
"I meant, they like the two of them together..... are you sure you won't just ninja attack me?" He demanded from Xiumin who laughed and pushed him gently to a sitting position.
"Luhan, Lay, you guys, look at the time!" He said sharply. "You guys promised to help clean the rooms. I'm not doing it alone again." Luhan and Lay rose after a customary bit of grumbling. Chen, however, stayed sitting as Xiumin had left him, with a strange lost look on his face.
"Jongdae-ah," called Xiumin and Chen snapped out of his daydream, like he'd been hit again.
"Why are you calling me?!" He demanded incredulously, "I don't even live with you people."
"You owe me," said Xiumin.
"Owe you? What? When? Why? How? Where?" Demanded Chen, still refusing to move.
"Come and I'll tell you," hissed Xiumin, once again and Chen rose, half grudgingly and half willingly.
This left the leader and maknae in an awkward silence from the previous conversation. Finally Kris cleared his throat.
"Sorry, if I made you look like an idiot..." he said. Tao looked at him and shook his head.
"Forget it, I looked like an idiot without your help.... I couldn't waltz to save my life." Tao sighed.
"No you would use Wushu, only an actual idiot would use waltz.... why does it matter to you, anyway?" Kris joined Tao on the floor, seating himself next to the maknae.
"How do I call myself a "romantic" panda when I can't even freaking waltz!!"
"If it makes you feel any better, I can't either," offered Kris. Tao looked at him in disbelief.
"Are you kidding me?! How does it matter if you can, or can't?!" Kris was a little taken aback. "You're THE DUIZHANG!!! You show up singing and knowing nothing but ABCD, and they'll worship you for it!" Kris laughed and Tao looked a little insulted.
"Huang Zhitao, as your duijjang, don't underestimate yourself, if you do nothing but show up, that itself will cause people to worship you, got me?" Tao looked a little flattered at the words.
"You think so...?" Asked Tao, nervously. Kris rose and laughed.
"Now you're talking like an actual idiot." He pulled Tao to his feet and smirked at his dongsaeng. "And as for your original problem. Well just have to get better at waltz then, dui bu dui?"
For the first time in the evening, Tao laughed. "Dui, dui."
Outside the door, Luhan turned to Xiumin and said, " you are a genius!! Letting The Chen loose at the correct moment! And smooth move pulling him out." Xiumin grinned and replied,
"You weren't too bad yourself, bringing it up at the perfect opportunity."
"We make a great team," said Xiumin, as they exchanged a soft high-five. There was a small cough behind them. Chen stood with his arms crossed across his chest. Luhan raised an eyebrow for a second before declaring, "I am expecting a call..." to no one in particular and slipping out. Which caused Xiumin to roll his eyes, obviously having caught onto Luhan's drift.
Once he was out of earshot, Chen turned to Xiumin.
"You weren't too bad yourself," he mimicked, with appropriate faces, and then snorted."Be careful hyung, or you'll have an angry Korean maknae trampling you underfoot for fraternising with his deer, all puns intended." Xiumin laughed and Chen's eyes narrowed at him.
"The angry maknae is not the one I see doing the trampling, at this moment." He's said, paused for a while as heard the music in the living room and then turned toward his room, and spoke once more, "come on."
"I am not cleaning your room and I owe you absolutely NO favours." Excalimed Chen. Xiumin shook his head and replied,
"No, I owe you, come on, I'll get you bubble tea." Chen snorted and called out to the receeding back of his hyung,
"You can't buy me with that. I'm not Sehun! And I'm NOT moving until you tell me what's going on and why the devil do you owe me , now?!" But he followed the older male out of the house, this time, entirely willing.
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Hi guys, sorry if this is OOC, I just had to, I love them so much now :D
Xie xie for reading!
ElfinJoy
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