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𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻（𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻）/ˈ𝗹𝗲𝗺 ə𝗻/
❝𝖺 𝗒𝖾𝗅𝗅𝗈𝗐，𝗈𝗏𝖺𝗅 𝖼𝗂𝗍𝗋𝗎𝗌 𝖿𝗋𝗎𝗂𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝗌𝗄𝗂𝗇 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖿𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗍， 𝖺𝖼𝗂𝖽𝗂𝖼 𝗃𝗎𝗂𝖼𝖾．❞

"Excuse you, you're what???" For the first time that night, you let out a sound akin to a hawk's screech, and Hyunjin winced.

"I'm coming with you. And if you don't like it, then you don't have to go," Hyunjin stood strong despite the sound you just made to deafen him.

"I can't believe you! You're like a clingy mom!" You shrieked.

"I'm not giving you another choice, Laska," Hyunjin said smoothly as he set the two clean plates back into the cabinet. "You can either agree to have me and my friends come with you, or you can stay home."

"You have no right to tell me what to do," you seethed, gritting your teeth so hard you felt the gums straining. "I'm an adult, and you're not even my parent!"

Hyunjin shrugged. "I'm still waiting for your decision."

A muffled scream escaped your mouth before you stormed to your room, yelling over your shoulder, "Mya and Riley are going to have a heart attack when they hear what a psycho you are!"

Hyunjin chuckled, which made your blood, which had been simmering (yes, this was your idea of a mere simmer) nearly explode. "You made the right decision, Laska."

You slammed the door to your room so hard you expected it to pop right off its hinges, which thankfully it didn't. You immediately created a group phone call with Mya and Riley to tell them the horrible news.

As the phone rung once, then twice, you began thinking about this situation once again. How dare your brother decide that he was just tagging along with you and your best friends on the trip of a lifetime?? If he needed a vacation so damn badly, why didn't he just go somewhere else with his friends? Besides, hadn't he just gone on a trip to Japan last month? He didn't deserve another one so soon! You hadn't traveled anywhere with just Mya and Riley for ages. And even then, you didn't get to go very far. This would have been the first time you'd get to travel somewhere further away, be an adult.

But of course, Hyunjin had to go and ruin it. He claimed to care about her, but instead he smothered her? What was up with that? She huffed out a long breath as the anger slowly leached out of her, leaving her with a feeling of resignation.

Finally, on the fourth ring, both Mya and Riley picked up almost simultaneously.

"Hii!" Mya answered cheerfully. "I was just decorating my kpop wall, but I can't find the perfect spot for Sana. What's up?"

"Is it something important?" Riley asked curiously. "Should I come over? Does this call for snacks? I'm always up for a McDonald's run."

You chuckle despite your sour mood. "No, it doesn't need McDonald's as of yet. But depending on how you two react to this, I might need a big mac."

"Ooh, serious!" Riley perked up. "I'm always up for drama. As long as it doesn't involve me."

"Me too, I wanna know!" Mya exclaimed.

"Well, I told Hyunjin about our Jeju plans," you began, and both girls took a sharp inhale of breath.

"Ooh, what did he say?" Riley quizzed.

"Your voice sounds like it was bad," Mya said nervously.

"We had a huge argument about it," you began. "But he said that we could go."

"What???" Mya gasped. "You're lying to us! Tell us you're lying! No, don't tell me!"

"Seriously?? That's amazing!! Have we, I mean you, started planning?" Riley piped in.

"Well, I was going to start planning but..." you didn't know how to continue. You didn't want to disappoint your best friends and tell them that your older brother and his lame friends were going to be tagging along like some kind of weird babysitters club.

"But what?" Riley prompted.

"Oh this is why your voice sounded so bad, huh?" Mya said concernedly.

"He said that we could only go if him and his friends came too," you mumbled so quietly you weren't sure your friends even heard.

There was silence on every end of the call. You sat there, every muscle tensed and ready for them to tell you that you had to do better, and force your brother to let you go alone. Or even worse, they'd ditch you and go by themselves if you couldn't get your clingy brother off your back just this once.

Just as you opened your mouth to tell them you'd try one more time to convince Hyunjin otherwise, Riley spoke.

"So does that mean Felix will be going?"

Her question gave you pause. You hadn't thought about Felix for quite a while. To be fair, "quite a while" in your book was a couple of months, at most. Felix used to be a constant in your mind. But it wasn't like that anymore. Of course.

"Erm, who's Felix?"

Good going Laska, like they're not going to see through that stupid fucking ploy.

"Who's Felix??" Mya broke in. "Only the guy you've been crushing on since you came out of the womb!"

"Ewe, gross!" You wrinkled your nose at the thought, though your cheeks immediately heated up. She wasn't far off from the truth.

"You've been pining after that man since you could speak," Riley agreed. "Don't tell me you didn't think about this when Hyunjin told you they were coming!"

Truthfully, you hadn't. You'd been so furious at your brother for forcing himself and his friends on your celebratory vacation, you hadn't even put two and two together. Two and two being that the one and only Lee Felix was your brother's longest friend.

And your longest and only crush. Ever since a seven year-old Hyunjin had brought Felix, who he'd met at the swimming pool that day home for a playdate, and Felix had offered you half of his sandwich that he'd made, your five year-old self had fallen in love, and had stayed that way all the way through middle school when your family had moved an hour away from Felix's, and you barely got to see him. The few times he did come over to visit Hyunjin, you'd hidden yourself away upstairs so he couldn't see you, because you tended to get flustered and awkward when he got physically too close to you. So you hadn't even properly seen Felix for about eight years.

Of course you were over him. It was just a stupid childhood crush. Yes, Felix was nice to you when everyone else wasn't. But it had always been in the gentle, slightly condescending 'you're-my-best-friend's-little-sister' kind of way. Not the 'you're-cute-and-I-want-to-impress-you' way. You'd given up on your pining a long time ago.

"I've given up on that a long time ago, guys," you scoffed. "I'm not stupid."

"Whatever you say," Mya said, but you could tell she didn't believe you.

"Suree..." Riley agreed, and you knew she didn't either.

But you let it go.

The rest of the call, you all spent planning the rest of the trip in-depth, as if Hyunjin and his friends weren't even going to be there. You and Mya even convinced Riley to pitch in and plan, by bribing her with a big mac and Coke before the flight. Everything seemed to go smoothly, easy even. Your friends were so accepting of your brother and company tagging along, they didn't even bring them up anymore.

But your mind couldn't stop wandering back to a certain bleach-blonde boy. The boy who had made you soup when you were too sick to go to school. The boy who had surprised you with a homemade cake for your birthday, paired with a scrapbook to put all of your house designs in, which was still sitting on your shelf to this day. The boy who had always made you feel wanted and special.

But that was the past. He probably didn't even remember you.

And you were okay with that. Right?

laska's note —
you know i can't help but make a fic with just a lil bit of angst mixed in there! in two chapters, our boys are finally going to be introduced! just a warning, the next chapter is a bit of a filler as alaska makes her way through the airport, but then the excitement is going to start because they're gonna be heading to jeju! just a heads up, the relationship will be a bit of a slow burn, so buckle the fuck up everyone! i'm already to soft for alaska and felix it's kind of a problem. leave your thoughts and predictions in the comments!

question of the week —
fave random skz moment (from interviews, variety shows, etc.) and why!

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