eventually, they finally finished grilling all of the foods and were just preparing all of the utensils and other drinks for the members. it's getting nighttime now anyway, so they're sure that the guys are about to get off the pool anytime soon.

however, a figure that came walking towards the tent caught their attention.

with heavy stomps, donghyuck made his way on the tents beside the beach and sat near a vacant chair—which is beside jaehyun—and squeezed himself beside the older as he crossed his arms on his chest before letting out a heavy sigh.

"what's wrong with him." doyoung asked mark, sneakily eyeing haechan who has an expressionless face on display.

mark looked back at what the older was looking and there he saw donghyuck sitting beside jaehyun looking grumpy as hell. he shook his head and chuckled at how cute the younger looks right now but eventually got back to what he's doing.

"you're not going to answer?" doyoung asked the younger in front of him since he knows mark is only with the younger earlier yet he only gained a shrug from the other.

but if you look closely, a smirk started slowly appearing on mark's lips... just need to hide away so they won't question it.

sooner, the sky got a little darker and the sun is finally setting, the lights around the place also started lighting up. the members decided to finally get off the pool and approach the tent that's not too far away from the beach and there they saw foods placed on a table, waiting for them.

"let's eat?" doyoung offered, and the other members agreed. although, some of the members decided to wash up first before eating their dinner—mostly the hyungs.

"thanks hyung!" jisung said as he knows doyoung was the one who mainly prepared the food while he get himself a piece of meat. the other dreamies started saying their thank yous as well and doyoung can just about to explode with cuteness here and there.

they all took their seats at the table to enjoy the rest of their meal. while the other members were busying eating their food, jaemin noticed someone sitting on the other side of the table with an expressionless face on, "what happened to you?" jaemin approached taking a seat next to donghyuck, yet the other didn't bother to say anything.

soon then, jeno also approached the two with renjun following behind him.

"what's up." jeno said, taking another seat and by now, the three are circling the tanned male.

"who are we fighting?" renjun teased before taking a bite of his food. he too also noticed donghyuck's grumpy-looking face, it's almost like he's ready to fight someone.

yet they didn't receive any reply from the tanned male as he only continued to glare at a specific figure across the room. the number of curses he's throwing at him in his head right now. how dare he do that.

the three noticed the younger's stare was on someone else's, so following where the younger's eyes are at, the three finally realized what's going on.

"oh.." was the only thing that jeno said, he looked back at donghyuck. "about mark hyung, of course." he chuckled and went back to eating his food.

"as expected." renjun plainly said after and got back to eating his food too.

meanwhile, jaemin got more curious, "is he not giving you affection again?" he questioned and tried to get the older's attention away from mark.

"is that even a question?" renjun replied to jaemin. he may not know what's going on between the two, but he's sure it's just around that same reason.

donghyuck lets out a long heavy sigh, and crossed his arms on his chest, "yeah, he's not giving me any affection and i'm so pissed." donghyuck said slowly while sending death stares at mark still in the distance.

this caused the three to shook their head in disbelief. what more can they do to help the poor male.

"hey donghyuck," taeil says, and finally caught the younger's attention, "are you not eating anything?" he asked when he doesn't see any plate in front of him or foods at all.

he finally realized that he's the only one who's still not eating, maybe because he was too busy giving someone knives for stares. he stood up and went to get the plates for himself, "e-eating now!" he replied, completely walking past mark.

leaving the three, renjun, jeno, and jaemin observing him and can't help but to laugh at him.

soon then, they heard a cheer coming in their tent catching their attention. they saw johnny walking towards them with the other hyungs following him, carrying cases of beer in his hands, "shots everyone!" he said, and raised the beers more.

"where did you get that?!" doyoung questions, looking at the number of bottles that the taller settled on top of the table.

"by one and only mrs. zhong." he proudly said.

"that's from my mom?" chenle asked, surprised, and he received a nod from the taller, "woah!" he cheered and went closer at the beers, intending to get one bottle.

"hey! hey!" doyoung protests, stopping chenle from getting a bottle, "are you even allowed to drink yet?" be questions.

"of course, he is!" jaehyun replied for chenle and walked closer beside the younger to link his arms around chenle's neck, "he's an adult now, right chenle?" and the older got a nod from chenle. he looked behind the smaller and saw the dreamies looking at the bottles too, "no one's a minor here, right?" he asked them and they all nodded.

"now that, that's settled... let's party!" johnny shouted once again, hyping everyone up.

he opened the cases and gave each and everyone a bottle of beer while jungwoo in the back, got a speaker, and decided to play some music.

on the other hand, donghyuck decided to get one for himself too, i mean, they're here to have fun with no one stopping them, so what's wrong with drunking himself out with tons of beers.

just when he's about to get off his chair, a hand stopped him. looking up his eyes with mark, "you're drinking?" mark asked, not that he's stopping the younger, he was just... curious.

"yeah." the younger simply replied, not even bothering to make their eye contact any longer, and walked closer to his hyungs and the dreamies.

what's with the attitude? mark thought to himself and looked at the younger curiously. brushing the thought off, he too decided to get a bottle for himself, but have no plans on drunking himself out, he has a baby to take care—i mean, he has to take care of donghyuck tonight.

"hold on," johnny—the life of the party—said, causing everyone to halt on their seats, "this is boring, how about we play a game?" he suggested, although everyone doesn't know what the taller is up to, they immediately agreed at the idea.

he grabbed the cups that's in one of the boxes that they bought here, lined them all one by one at each end of the table, and poured the beers in each of the cups. now that the bottles are empty, he set them down back on their cases.

while everyone just sits, and observes what johnny is doing.

now the real fun begins. "let's group ourselves into two!" he told them, and they did. all of them decided to just go against the dreamies and the hyungs, to be more fun. you know, like the kids and the adults—except there are no kids here actually.

haechan decided to go on the dreamies team to balance out the number of the members in each team.

mark was about to follow donghyuck but someone called out his name, "hey mark!" he heard yuta's voice and averts his attention towards the older, "you're too old for that team, you belong here." yuta joked and pointed beside for mark to go.

"w-well the numbers going not to be the same." he managed to reason out after quickly counting the members in each team.

"yeah i agree," taeyong butts in, "let's be fair here, yuta." he said in between his chuckles, teasing the other.

mark released a small sigh, thanks to the help of taeyong he can be closer to donghyuck tonight. 

"let's start?" johnny asked and all of them cheered, he showed them the cup of the bottle and started instructing how the game works. he showed them a ping-pong ball and just in simpler words, they have to bounce or throw the ball into the cups, the hyungs cups are on the dreamies side while the dreamies' cups are on the opposite side, and which cup the ball lands in, then they have to drink the beer inside the cup.

which sounds easier said than done, but johnny knows that at the end of this game, they're going to be all this tipsy before they can even shoot the ball in the cups.

the members started shouting 'that's so easy' which made the taller laugh. "well which should go first?" johnny asked.

"since we're being generous, the dreamies will go first." said taeil, and earned 'ooohs' from the dreamies. 

johnny gave them the ping-pong ball, and let them decide who will go first. "jisung, let's go!"  all of the dreamies cheered the younger's name and gave the younger the ball, the hyungs let out teasing noises for the younger before he stepped in.

"alright, alright." finally stepping in, he took the ball and closed his right eye to catch a right focus. and just like that, drips of the beers flowed down the cup as the ball landed perfectly in the cup.

loud cheers from his hyungs and the dreamies were now heard.

"woah jisung!" johnny said in shock. taking the cup from the other side and bringing it towards the younger. "that's one to zero." the taller announced.

"he's not a baby anymore." taeyong faked a cry, wiping his invisible tears, that made the members laugh.

the younger took the cup and downed the cup in one go.

it's now the hyungs turn and they decided to just play rock, paper, scissors and wait until someone losses.

and that someone happens to be, doyoung. loud cheers and teasing noises were now heard, as they pulled doyoung to the front. johnny now gave him a new pingpong ball for him to shoot his shot and just then, and gave him the time to aim for a better angle.

doyoung lets out a defeated scream, and held a fist in front of his mouth. the pingpong completely bounced off the cup and landed down on the ground, earning a whine from the other members, "how can you miss the ball, doyoung-ah!" johnny teased.

and then the game went on. filling the night with their loud screams also shouting 'shots!' every time someone threw a ball in the cups, which is mainly from the dreamies that actually surprised the hyungs, because the more beer they drink the moredrunk they can get.

but as of now no one's hitting from the beer yet.

they continued until they get wasted and emptied the bottles until its last drop, they proceeded in doing this until late in the night, no one noticed but it was now midnight and it was fun for them to say the least, very relaxing for them too after their comebacks.

all of them are now gathered, sitting around the long table, wasted. some of the members decided to get inside the beach house, leaving only doyoung, johnny, taeyong, and jaehyun with the rest of the dreamies.

jisung and chenle on the other side though, had their heads burried in their arms right on the table, sleepiness got over them before they can even go inside the beach house.

meanwhile donghyuck on the other hand, is still not done drinking his beer. he managed to find a full bottle of beer still untcohed, so he secretly took this and now drinking almost everything inside by himself—well maybe, not so secret anymore, as he was now sitting in front of his drunk members with mark beside him.

"hyuck, that's enough." taeyong scolds and was about to take the bottle away from the younger but the other was faster than taeyong's reflexes and manages to dodge the older's hands away.

mark who is beside him tries to do the same yet donghyuck only whined loudly. "donghyuck, enough now."

"i-i promise, this... i-is the l-last one!" he protest, and took another sip before his members can take a hold of his bottle. the glass bottle made a loud bang when the tanned male placed it back down on the table a little too harsh, "guys!" he took all of their attention, and all of their heads went towards the younger. some looked at him with worry with how drunk he looks right now, some just wanted to see what he's up to, "do you guys want to know a secret?"

the other remained silent, not that invested with what donghyuck is saying, probably because some of them are not in their straight minds right now as it was mixed with the alcohol they drank.

but mark beside donghyuck was sweating and his heart beat is beating twice as fast. he's nervous. he knows donghyuck is the type of person to spat out everything he wants to say when he's drunk.

"it's my d-deepest darkest s-secret..." he said it too dramatically, and giggled.

before he can even say anything, jaemin spoke, "mark hyung, how about take him inside now?" he suggests, and also looked nervous.

jeno beside him looked at jaemin and also nodded his head, "i agree!" he said, almost too loudly, "he might get another sip of that beer, you know?"  renjun finished jeno's sentence. it's like they're trying to cover up something.

but the younger spoke again, "as i w-was s-saying..." he said in between his chuckles, "...me and mark hyung, are fu—"

"fighting!" mark cuts the younger off, finally standing up from his seat and taking donghyuck's arms and sling it on his neck, he lifted the younger's body up and started leading him towards the house, "yeah, me and haechan had a little fight, i'm going to take him inside now—"

"wait, do you wanna switch roomates?" taeyong asked, as he chased the two.

"no need to, hyung!" mark nervously chuckled, "ii'll say sorry to him because this was my fault after all..."

meanwhile, the three renjun, jaemin and jeno, are fighting themselves to hold their laughs as they eyes the two male