02 | minecraft

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"I love how you all bullied me for playing Minecraft - not that I do - and yet here we are."

Jaemin listened to Donghyuck's voice over his headset and rolled his eyes. The four of them were mindlessly playing Minecraft the night before they set off for the Hike Challenge, and Donghyuck had already spent the last fifteen minutes complaining about everything under the sun.

"Bet you're still playing with your brother though," Jeno's voice cut in with a snicker.

"Jisung?" Renjun's voice called teasingly.

"Shut up, he's not here," Donghyuck snorted.

"Jeno, what are you building?" Jaemin frowned at the screen, watching Jeno's character put up a set of tall grey walls.

"It's my castle, you can't come in," said Jeno stubbornly.

"What the fuck are you building a castle for?" Donghyuck scoffed.

"He's building something inside the castle," Renjun explained like he could read Jeno's mind, though he still sounded irritated. "Jeno, seriously-"

"Shh! i'm concentrating!" Jeno insisted.

"Fat nerd," Donghyuck's voice droned.

"Jaemin's the nerd," said Renjun.

"Hey, stop attacking me already," Jaemin objected. He continued to watch in fascination as Jeno built something within the castle walls.

"Better you than me," Donghyuck's voice sniggered at him.

"Jaemin, honey, have you got everything ready for tomorrow? Because you shouldn't be playing games unless you're done."

Jaemin slipped off the headset and craned his neck to look back at his mom who was making his peanut butter sandwiches for the following day. "Yeah, mom!" he replied, "I'm already packed, and I'm talking to the others, so..."

"Okay, well ask the other boys if they've got their bags packed, or if they need anything," his mom told him. "Jaehyun can bring it in the car in the morning."

"Okay!" Jaemin called back, and stuffed the gaming headset over his ears again. "Um, guys, my mom wants to know if we've got everything."

"Tell her Donghyuck didn't bring any condoms," said Jeno.

"Tell her we forgot Jeno," Donghyuck snapped back, "on purpose."

"Oh, seriously though, do you have a spare portable charger, Jaemin?" Renjun asked.

"My brother probably has one you can borrow, yeah," Jaemin answered, nodding his head. "Uh... Jeno... what are you doing?"

Jeno was now destroying the grey castle walls he'd built to reveal what he'd been building. "And... here it is!" he announced.

There was a stunned silence as they all stared at Jeno's creation on their screens.

"Uh, not to ruin the mood, but what the fuck is that?" Donghyuck said.

"It's a rainbow chicken!" said Jeno, sounding awfully proud of himself.

"Yeah... I can see that, but... why?" Renjun asked.

"It's to honour all the gays," said Jeno matter-of-factly.

"Is that supposed to be offensive or...?" Renjun asked curiously.

"LGBT is important, guys," said Jeno, only half joking about the seriousness of the rainbow chicken.

"We get it, Jeno, you're gay," Donghyuck drawled.

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