“Hello. This is ‘Journey’. We’re already halfway through the trip. The place we’ve come to today, as you can see.”
“It’s an amusement park!”
Hyunsu, standing in the center, proceeded with the prepared comments, but Ian cut off his words and jumped forward.
“We went over mountains and crossed water on winding roads, so I really thought we were going to Daegwallyeong Sheep Ranch.”
“Right! But they said it’s an amusement park.”
“What we’re going to do here is, do you see that thing in the back over there? A roller coaster? What was that called again?”
Until now, the members had followed the host’s words even if they were doing other things in the back or on the side, but in front of the amusement park, there was none of that. Everyone was full of thoughts of wanting to go in and play quickly with one heart and one mind.
The clear weather with a blue sky with occasional fluffy clouds, where it seemed a little hot standing under the sunlight but became immediately cool when entering the shade, was perfectly on their side.
When the PD held out seven animal headbands in front of them, each saying what they wanted to say, Hyunsu took them.
“Now, there’s no time for games or anything like that. Just take what you like. Here, Ian wears the otter. Yechan, here you go, this polar bear, it’s perfect. And Evan, since you’re officially a black panther in your fandom, whatever this is, this black one. Where’d he go again? Luca, wear this. Siwoo, you get the rabbit here.”
Hyunsu, who was roughly handing out what he was holding one by one as he saw them, looked at Siwoo when he didn’t take the rabbit headband.
He didn’t say anything, but right now Siwoo’s eyes were on the headband in his other hand.
“Siwoo, not the rabbit but this?”
When he showed what was in his other hand, Siwoo’s lips curled up slightly.
“What does it matter? Okay, then Louis wear this rabbit, what animal is this? I don’t know. Siwoo, you take this.”
The sound of Siwoo receiving the light brown headband with faint patterns and touching the soft ears on the headband while whispering softly was recorded as is through the microphone he was wearing.
Rather than a herbivore, a carnivore.
Siwoo wore the headband with a satisfied smile.
Siwoo didn’t know what he’d chosen was a cat until he saw the broadcast subtitles. Below the comment where Siwoo, who received the headband, grinned and muttered, “Rather than a herbivore, a carnivore,” a subtitle line appeared.
[Cats are also carnivores.]
“When you enter an amusement park, you basically have to wear something like this, and then you have to snack.”
Whether Hyunsu was making comments or not, Luca, wearing an elephant headband with particularly large ears fluttering in the wind, poked the side of Yechan walking next to him.
“Ah! Why!”
“Switch.”
“Hyung, switch what?”
“Humanly speaking, I don’t think elephant suits me. I’ll be the polar bear, so let’s switch.”
“Goodness. You can just wear anything.”
Siwoo passed by the two bickering over nothing and quickly went next to Hyunsu. Perhaps because he’d stayed up all night, he’d unknowingly slept soundly in the car. Everyone had eaten snacks in between, but since he’d slept well, he hadn’t eaten anything and was hungry.
“What snack should we eat? Oh! Ice cream would be delicious.”
Hot dogs, cotton candy, ice cream. Among the situation where all kinds of food were lined up, the first thing that caught his eye was ice cream.
“Siwoo wants ice cream?”
When Siwoo nodded toward Hyunsu who was speaking while opening his wallet, he turned around.
“I should eat ice cream too. Hey! What’s everyone eating?”
Hyunsu, who stopped in front of the snack booths lined up along the road, shouted loudly toward the members walking slowly, wondering what they all had so much to do.
“Wow, are you treating, hyung? Then I’ll have a hot dog, and cola too.”
“Whatever, I’ll treat. What about Ian?”
Filming at an amusement park full of people wasn’t easy. If it were Korea, they could have borrowed time after night opening ended to film, but this was a foreign country. They had to film without causing harm to them among numerous people. To minimize filming confusion as much as possible, Evan wore a mask.
Although there was a camera director, the members shared several self-cams.
“Ice cream?”
Siwoo nodded while looking up at Evan who spoke while creating a shadow above him. Since his headband was crooked, he raised his hand to straighten the headband for him.
“PD-nim. Give me money to do the shooting game.”
“Aren’t we riding the roller coaster first?”
“There’s a safari here, aren’t we going to see animals?”
Everyone holding their ordered food started saying what they wanted to do. Since the amusement park trip was suddenly decided, they couldn’t have a proper conversation with the members. Since their thoughts were different and what they wanted to do was different, everyone urged the PD.
Siwoo, who received ice cream and took a bite, looked at the hot dog in front of his eyes. A hot dog that hadn’t been bitten into even once, why? It was Evan holding cola in one hand and a hot dog in the other. At least take off your mask when eating.
“Eat the hot dog first.”
“Huh? The ice cream is delicious though?”
“You didn’t eat anything earlier because you were sleeping.”
“Then give me what’s left after you eat.”
Siwoo took a bite of ice cream. Since he asked for what was left after eating first, he looked at Evan who was still holding the hot dog in front of him and shook his head.
“Okay. I’m eating it, eating.”
Eventually Siwoo bit into the hot dog in front of him. And raised his hand to express that it was delicious.
When he was almost done eating the hot dog in his mouth, Evan held out the cola, which he also ate without refusing. Originally, even if you had no thoughts of food, once you started eating, it was human nature to want to keep eating. Somehow, Siwoo ended up eating almost all of not only the ice cream but also Evan’s hot dog.
Even while doing so, he didn’t stop following the members going ahead.
“PD-nim. The roller coaster.”
“Uh. We have to go over there now to get to the shooting game place.”
“The safari is on the right.”
“Everyone gather.”
When everyone blurted out what they wanted one by one, eventually the PD stopped walking and gathered everyone.
“I’ll give you free time after we complete the official schedule, so number 1 roller coaster, number 2 safari, those two are reserved so let’s start with those first.”
Only after confirming free time did everyone sincerely respond to the filming. They had to stand in line with other people.
Ian made a playful smile, then pulled Yechan and Luca to stand in front and create shade. Since everyone was wearing animal headbands and couldn’t wear hats, it was to block the sunlight. And he pulled Siwoo, who was taking out his phone to photograph the scenery, to stand in front of Yechan.
“Really Evan hyung. Are you really his fan?”
It seemed like he pulled him in to ask this. Siwoo glanced at Evan who was talking with Hyunsu on one side and shrugged his shoulders. Based on yesterday’s live and the conversations with him, he really seemed to be a fan, but it didn’t seem like something he should say anything about.
Besides, honestly, it was also a part he himself couldn’t believe. Evan was his fan? If he hadn’t openly talked about being a Coco-mom and mentioned the mole behind his waist that was captured in the fancam, it would have been a story he wouldn’t have believed at all.
Since he’d heard all those stories directly from Evan’s mouth, he was at least somewhat aware of it. But he didn’t want to bring up talk about that person in a place where the person in question wasn’t present.
“He’s a fan. How else can you understand doing this crazy thing if he’s not a fan? Honestly, even if he says he’s a fan, I can’t understand it.”
Luca clicked his tongue and said a word. Even if you know, you close your eyes and pretend not to know, but it’s not like he’s marking territory. Now the same pheromones could be felt from both of them to the point where you couldn’t tell if Siwoo was Evan or Evan was Siwoo.
“Why?”
At the incomprehensible words, Siwoo glanced toward Evan and made eye contact with him. Since they were both wearing dark sunglasses, it was difficult to express that they made exact eye contact, but it felt that way. Evan smiled gently. Suddenly his whole body became itchy. More than anything, his left chest area was itchy.
Following arrhythmia, was it a skin disease? When traveling abroad, it was entirely possible to have dry skin or such troubles due to poor water quality or environmental factors.
“Pheromones.”
While Siwoo was lost in thought about Evan, Yechan summarized the situation with just one word. But Siwoo, whose mind was distracted elsewhere, didn’t understand those words exactly. And Yechan, who said pheromones, had his lips curling up stealthily. And he turned his head this way and that to first check where Evan was. Then he placed his hand on the shoulder of Siwoo, who was still standing unable to follow their conversation.
“Are you crazy?”
Ian, who was next to him, suddenly said a word, but Siwoo didn’t notice at all what was happening to him.
“Why?”
Siwoo, whose eyes were just wide open, recalled the word pheromones and brought his face to his forearm. He wanted to sniff exaggeratedly and find if there was something else, but as expected, all he could feel was the smell of fabric softener and the perfume he’d sprayed in the morning.
“You’re really dead to Evan hyung.”
Ian, who had been next to Siwoo until just now, stepped back a little and shook his head.
“In the alpha, omega world that I don’t know, are pheromones that important?”
You’d know if there were alphas and omegas around you. Seeing that Ian was already standing far away, it seemed like Yechan’s pheromones were coming out strongly.
“It does put people in an awkward situation. Even if I die, at least I can see how Evan hyung comes out.”
When the guy who had only been holding his shoulder spread both arms and pulled him in tightly, Siwoo unknowingly gasped. It seemed like he’d hit a solid wall, as if he hadn’t exercised just for show. Since he was also tall, his face naturally buried in his shoulder.
“I don’t know. If you want to live, make sure to stand in front of the camera. Surely he wouldn’t kill you in front of the camera.”
Ian, who had been far away, eventually went somewhere else, and Luca, who had watched everything, looked at Evan who was still unaware of this situation and still in conversation with Hyunsu.
