the 8 of them agreed on an arcade that also had laser tag. they all stepped out of jaemins car after being piled in together, yangyang and sungchan holding hands and skipping in like little kids.

isla turned around to make sure everyone was there and noticed haechans arm hung securely over renjuns shoulder, causing her to happily grin. she jogged over to jaemin and walked by his side. they walked inside and bright colors filled their sight, along with music.

"alright, lets play a few arcade games first and then laser tag, and if we feel like it, more arcade games." jaemin announced as they walked up to buy their arcade game coins. everyone agreed that that was going to be the plan for the night.

they all walked around and began choosing their games, one by one splitting up.

"wanna play basketball?" sungchan asked isla as he nudged her shoulder.

the girl looked up at him with a smirk, "i'm bouta destroy you."

the taller boy laughed at the menacing attitude. "yeah right, tiny." the two of them walked up to the small basketball arcade game, putting in their coins and getting ready to start.

they picked up their basketballs, isla pushing the hair out of her face, and sungchan holding his tongue at the corner of his mouth out of a habit when he's really focused. the game counted down from five and once it hit one, the two were going at it.

"this ain't fair, you're like 8 feet tall!" isla shouted over the music when she saw she was losing by just a few points, sungchan letting out an evil laugh at her reaction. when the game was over it was 30 to 24, isla glaring at sungchan as she took out the tickets that the game gave her.

"sorry? what was that you were saying about how you're gonna destroy me?" sungchan teased, leaning down to her so he was at her height.

"i'll get elijah to beat you up, don't play with me." she warned jokingly, pointing her finger at him.

yangyang came up to the two with his arms crossed and an annoyed look on his face.

"aw, whats wrong little boy? did you lose your mommy?" isla asked with a sarcastic pout.

"i'm annoyed because i want to play games with renjun but haechan is dragging him everywhere." he sighed.

the two of them looked at yangyang in slight confusion at his genuine sadness. "...are you okay?"

yangyang dropped his arms to his side and ran his hand through his hair, his face displaying an expression that looked like he'd just came into a realization with something. "i think i have feelings for renjun."

"what?!" isla shouted, immediately covering her mouth, surprising herself at how loud she just was.

sungchans eyes went wide as he further covered her mouth with his own hand and looked at yangyang. "wait seriously? are you sure?"

"i don't know... for a while i just find myself thinking about him a lot and i lowkey get jealous when people are flirty with him. isla, do you feel that way with sunwoo?"

isla moved the hands from her mouth and smiled sadly. she knew something he didn't and that made this situation 10 times worse. "i do."

"what the fuck do i do?"

"confess to him!" sungchan beamed.

"what? no! um, lets just forget about it tonight. you seem a little stressed over it and we want to have a good time. lets worry about it later, yeah?" isla reassured. the blonde nodded.

isla felt a little guilty about the secret that she knew but she couldn't tell him, or anyone, because she promised haechan she wouldn't. she knew if yangyang really did have feelings for renjun then it was gonna end in him being heartbroken, and she wanted to crumble at even just the thought of that.

the three of them ran into mark and jeno, who were playing air hockey. they watched as jeno was completely obliterating mark in the game.

"you suck spiderman." isla joked, leaning her hands against the table.

mark whined and bounced up and down, getting slightly frustrated at not winning the game against jeno. "man, why you so good at this?"

jeno laughed at the boy who dropped the puck onto the air hockey table before moving away from it.

"yang, lets play!' sungchan urged, tugging on yangyangs arm before walked to the other side. the older boy didn't protest and got on the opposite side to start, mark watching intently.

"islaaaa, lets go find a game together," jeno said as he took her wrist and dragged her to some random shooting game he wanted to play.

as isla got her coins ready, she noticed shotaro standing with a group of unfamiliar guys just feet away. "hey, who is taro with over there?"

jeno looked at her, confused, but then followed where her eyes were. "no idea, but is it just me or does he look really uncomfortable?"

isla squinted her eyes to better tell what is body language was, but it was hard. she just decided to go over herself and find out who those guys are. she set her coins down and walked over, jeno following behind.

"hi taro!" she exclaimed. shotaro looked at her with sudden eyes. "who's your friends?"

one of the three strangers had looked isla up and down, "shit, is this your girlfriend? she calls you taro? how cute!" while the other two laughed at the boy.

isla's smile dropped as she acknowledged the passive aggressive tone. she looked at shotaro, who was keeping his eyes glued to the ground.

"she's not my girlfriend," he muttered.

"great! i'm sejun, nice to meet you. you're really hot. wanna go out sometime?" the man asked her, licking his lips hungrily which made isla want to throw up.

"she has a boyfriend. who are you and why are you speaking to our friend?" jeno joined in.

from afar, jaemin noticed the angry looks on his friends' faces, and he knew something was up so he didn't hesitate making his way over there.

"we good over here?" he asked.

"wow. shotaros got all his little body guards over here, huh? the three of you can just walk away. none of this concerns you."

it finally clicked in islas head, these must have been the guys that were previously bullying shotaro when he was still in the company.

"he's our friend. why don't you guys just go fuck off?" she scoffed.

the guys jaw clenched angrily, "whos bitch are you? get the fuck out of my face." and before she knew it, he'd shoved her onto the ground with all of his might. he was obviously bigger and stronger than her, so she fell straight onto her bottom.

without even thinking, jaemin sent his fist flying at the nose of the guy who pushed her. there was no time for him to process what he had just done when the guy started swinging back at jaemin. it only took one look at jeno for him also to go at it with one of the other guys.

"aw fuck." isla cursed at the sight of her two guy friends as shotaro ran to her side to help her up.

"are you okay? i'm so sorry, i didn't know they'd be here." he said.

"i'm fine, don't worry. its them we need to worry about." isla said, pulling her and shotaro away from the fight so they wouldn't get hurt themselves. "should we go get the others?"

"hey!" a voice shouted from the side, and there came haechan running for dear life and instantly jumping into the fight.

"yeah! get them!" isla cheered as she watched three of her boys whoop the asses of the guys who'd been bullying their friend.

"um, someone call the cops! theres a fight!" an employee had yelled as he approached the scene, while little kids were running the opposite way crying for their parents.

"are you fucking kidding? the cops?! we're screwed."