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soobin wasn’t athletic. everyone knew that. sure he could dance, and he wa good at it, but everything else? absolutely not. sports of any kind? no0pe. stamina? lower than beomgyu’s iq. yet the youngest members of tomorrow x together thought it would be fun to go and play laser tag. key word tag. which means running. athleticism. stamina. both of which soobin had neither.
so.
this was going to be fun.
it was heuning kai and beomgyu’s idea, and yeonjun and taehyun had quickly agreed to it, so soobin didn’t really have much choice.
but he would get to hang out with the beautiful and eccentric choi yeonjun, so he wasn’t about to complain.
soobin was sitting in the drivers seat whilst taehyun sat right next to him, reading the directions to the laser tag place off of his phone. (no soobin wasn’t wishing it were yeonjun sitting next to why on earth would you think that) the other three were jamming out to music in the backseat and screaming.
soobin could most definitely think. absolutely.
“okay so turn left here… wait soOBIN THATS NOT LEFT.”
“THAT IS LEFT KANG TAEHYUN-“
“OKAY WELL SHIT I MEANT RIGHT”
“if y’all keep taking wrong turns then we’re gonna be late for our reservation, y’knwow,” beomgyu so helpfully informed soobin.
“THAT WAS SO HELPFUL, THANKS BeOmgyU”
“your welcome!!!” the latter relied grinning.
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after many wrong turns, the group finally made it to the laser tag center in one piece, friendship temporarily maintained.
there were about ten other people it seemed, a family and a group of teenage girls.
they were each given a chest harness with a little light up diamond in the middle of the bodice, the they were each given a gun and gun holder , which was attached to their hip.
after the rules were explained to everyone and questions were asked, the teams were revealed. this was a three way laser tag, so everyone would be placed randomly in groups of five and start at five different points. it was a simple game with simple rules–whichever team survived longest won.
taehyun, beomgyu and heuning kai hit the blue team, yeonjun got the red team, and soobin was on the yellow team. we was a bit disappointed to not be on a tam with yeonjun, but he quickly hit over it after seeing how pumped up his hyung was for the game.
“oh i am so crushing you all,” he said, cracking his knuckles before everyone went their separate ways.
“you wish,” beomgyu’s sneered back. kai stook his tounge out at yeonjun, and soobin and taehyun just laughed.
the laser tag workers began to guide each team to their assigned starting sections, and yeonjun tapped soobin shoulder before they were separated. he smiled at him, the winked. “see you on the battlefield, darling,”he grinned mischievously.
soobin smirked. “back atcha, baby”
soobin had ten majority of the teenagers on his team, he realized. they’re ere quite annoying, talking and giggling, and they kept on looking and pointing at soobin. quite impolite.
three
two
one
begin!!!
the girls started shuffling away, trying (and failing) to be quiet, but their giggles seemed to echo in the silent chamber. soobin had a feeling they would lose, compared with their noise and his unathleticism.
he started silently jogging in the opposite direction of the girls, seeing if he could find anyone. he had a feeling of he fouls any of his friends, they would show him no mercy. he silently prayed that he wouldn’t run into beomgyu.
he decided on just staying still for an amount of time — maybe he could ambush someone.
so he waited.
and waited.
“yo, soobin-ah.”
he jumped, head jerking up to see wii hi i was speaking. he smiled as he saw a familer fox-shaped face hovering above him.
“yeonjun-hyung,” he responded standing up. he eyes yeonjuns hand on his laser gun.
“i sure hope you take your hand off that gun,” he remarked, raising an eyebrow .
yeonjun giggles and complied. “this place is really big yknow,” he said. “i was expecting it to be smaller, but it’s really like a maze in here.”
“really? i havent explored at all,” he laughed sheepishly.
“lemme guess, you didn’t wanna run?”
“bingo,” soobin responded, making finger guns.
yeonjun laughed. soobin noticed he was getting slowly closer to the taller. he didn’t say anything.
he sighed. “it kinda sucks that we’re on opposite teams, doesn’t it?” the older asked.
“definitely,” soobin agreed, nodding.
“buuuuut,” yeonjun added, smirking, “because we’re on different teams, that means i get to do this~”
“huh-“
soobin was cut off by a pair of soft lips on his own. his eyes widened. there was a firm hand around the taller's neck, pulling his face down so yeonjun could kiss him properly. first soobin was shocked, then confused, and then decided to just roll with it. he closed his eyes and returned the kiss to yeonjun, hands moving towards the latter’s head.
well. he certainly wasn’t expecting this-
beep
his eyes opened to see yeonjun smirking. soobin looked down at his chest, and sure enough, the light-up diamond in his chest was now red. yeonjun was holding the laser gun.
he was out.
team orange has been eliminated, the speakers announced.
yeonjun pecked the bewildered soobin’s slightly parted lips.
“told you i’d crush you.” the older stepped back, waving at soobin. he blew a kiss as he turned the corner, leaving a stunned soobin staring at the place where to boy he loved had just been standing.
he touched his lips.
“nice,” he said.