Broken

68

"You alright there, love?"

"Much better than I thought I would be, thanks Chris."

"It's nothing, Hyo, let's just get Hyun and get some cuddles on."

"I like the sound of that, how about some naps as well?"

"We can work on that."

They laugh, Nayeon and Momo have been observing ever since they went to get Jihyo, and, honestly, they are surprised at how well she is looking after meeting her fated ones and spending an entire afternoon with them. Maybe Chris and Dahyun did know things they didn't, and the Jihyo they know is this one in front of them, obviously disturbed by the encounter, but not at all shaken.

"Ji!" Was the only warning she got once she was through the door of the Sons' house.

"Chae, let me take my shoes off, at least." The trapped girl begged with some difficulty.

"No can do." The smaller girl answers and tightens her hold, making it clear she doesn't intend on letting go.

"I'll help you out, hun." Chris laughs and helps his girlfriend to remove her shoes, before being dragged into the house.

"Oh, she got you already." Tzuyu comments when she sees her girlfriend and the unsuspecting prey come into the living room.

"Chaengie has been going on and on about needing to hug you today." Mina explains, as she comes from the kitchen. "Just accept it, you know she gets clingyer the more you try to escape her."

"I know, but I really want to pee. Can you let me go for that, Youngie?" Jihyo tries.

"We can go together, come on." And she drags the pleading girl away.

The group just laughs, Dahyun had a glimpse of clingy Chaeyoung when she had last visited, but nothing close to this, but Chris would have never imagined the troublemaker, wildcard Son Chaeyoung could get like this. It was incredibly entertaining, and if Jihyo needed to be sacrificed, so be it, they were willing to throw her to the beast for their amusement. That, and Chaeyoung was a toothless tiger with her loved ones, looks dangerous but can't hurt any of them.

"Aren't you two going to move to try and save your girl?" Mina decides to ask.

"Nah, we're willing to throw her to the beast if it's fun enough." Dahyun shrugs and cuddles onto Chris, who was sitting on the couch.

"Oh, so you two are like that, huh?" Nayeon fakes offense.

"Like you wouldn't put her up as an offering in a heartbeat if we weren't here." Chris teases, and all of them burst out laughing.

It takes a few minutes, but Jihyo comes back, mumbling what sounds suspiciously like curses in japanese (Mina and Momo understand perfectly, but choose to not bring it up), looking disheveled and very much tired of the small baby beast already. She plops herself down on the floor, the carpet on the Sons' house had always been suspiciously comfortable, and she will forever pretend she never heard Mr Son commenting his kids were made on a previous version of said carpet that one time she made the mistake to pay attention to what the adults were talking about.

"So." Jihyo sighs. "What are we doing? On that note, I'm hungry."

"We were thinking some nice pasta, some salad and a little ice cream for dessert." Mina explains.

"That sounds very nice indeed." Chris agrees, trying to get Dahyun to stop clinging so tightly.

"Glad you liked the idea, because none of us really know how to make it properly and were waiting for you two to arrive." Chaeyoung perks up.

"Hold up, yall were willing to keep waiting until we showed up to eat?" Jihyo looks baffled. "What if we had just called Hyun and had her meet us anywhere else?"

"In that case, we would have to think of something else, but let's not talk about what didn't happen and just be grateful you three are here." The smallest one says before cuddling back into Jihyo.

"Okay, Channie, Hyun, we are out of here!" The girl makes to get up, but Chaeyoung is making it a great challenge for her.

"Calm down, babe. The kids are just hungry, how about we whip something up for everybody and you can tell us how your day went?!" Dahyun diffuses the situation easily, and drags her girl to the kitchen, with a laughing Chris behind them.

They end up making dinner for everyone, Mr Son was personally offended by how good it was, saying his pride as a pasta maker was wounded, Mrs Son just told her husband to be quiet and enjoy the food, they would talk later. At the end of the day, they were well fed and spent a nice evening talking in the living room with one of Nayeon's bad dramas playing in the background.