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For another two hours, Taehyung managed to fall asleep.

Meanwhile Jeongguk stared out the window looking at the view as he was finally able to listen to his music.

The view was as beautiful as the director set it out to be, with the light blue sky, and the vibrant green grassy meadows that had several kinds of flowers littered on the ground. Summer was getting to its peak, with every thing in natures path already bloomed. Healthy trees spread across the bounty of uninhabited space, standing tall with outstretched branches that hung unique leaf shapes on each different tree.

Jeongguk looked at Taehyung, ashamed that people like him who fell asleep missed out on the reason for their detour.

He watched how Taehyung was struggling to keep his head in one place. From having his head facing straight forward, his head would slip down to his neck, or would create a semi circle to get his head back to neutral position.

A soft compressed laugh refused to escape from his mouth because he chewed on the bottom of his pink lips.

There came a point where Taehyung's body could no longer support his head. So it crashed to the closest thing near it. Which happened to be Jeongguk's shoulder.

"Oh?" Jeongguk muttered and not even gently, shoved Taehyung's head off of him causing the older to fall off his seat.

Taehyung woke up abruptly as his limbs flew every which way. His bottom crash landing on the bus floor with arms sprawled on the seats around him. When Taehyung realizes his state, he looked over at Jeongguk.

"Oops." The male shrugged his shoulders before turning his head back at the window.

Taehyung was being stared down by everyone who was still awake, which unfortunately was most. The director even asked if he was okay and Taehyung just nodded his head.

Taehyung sat himself back in seat just like normal and pretended as if nothing had happened. His face was completely flushed from embarrassment and held his hands onto his cheeks that were slightly colder, cooling off his face.

Of course none of this would of happened if (obviously) Jeongguk didn't push him.

What's with Jeongguk with literally pushing and shoving.

Not questioning him on it, he already guessed Jeongguk would only give him some lame excuse as to why he did it. So saving himself the trouble, decided to be salty the rest of the ride to the retreat.

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After being humiliated on the bus, it felt like longer than it was supposed to be, before reaching their location. He couldn't fall asleep again because he was scared of it happening all over again.

If Taehyung were to sleep again, he was going to wait till Jeongguk fell asleep but the male didn't sleep once the entire ride.

So when the bus came to a halt, Taehyung sighed in relief and was the first one to stand up ready to leave the vehicle. But of course since they were at the back, they would have to wait again till everyone in front of them left.

He tapped his foot on the ground and felt how a body behind his shadowed over him. Taehyung glances back quickly seeing Jeongguk shoving his belongings in the back pockets of his light blue ripped jean shorts. He doesn't spare another second when the line starts moving forward and Taehyung could finally line up.

Shimmying there way out, Taehyung finally got to take the final steps off the bus and onto the concrete ground. A man was unloading the luggage's and people started taking their carryons to the big building that was behind them.

The exterior gave the building a more cottage vibe, with the wood placement and black cherry oak porch.

Taehyung took his things and walked to the building alone. The revolving doors opened, and just like he expected the interior had the same vibe as the outside, with nature themed furniture and even a head of a bear hanging on the wall. Turning beside him he saw a fish built in an easel and button below it and curiously, he pressed the button. The fishes head moved outward as it started singing a song.

Taehyung was shocked and took a anxious step backwards, not expecting the fish to sing.  The fish's voice echoed in the room and  Taehyung turned around seeing how people made sudden glances at him.

So he decided to walk away from the thing, and go towards the group of people that was clumped in the middle of the lobby. With his luggage trialing behind him he stops to tippy toe and look past the heads since he could inaudibly hear his boss's voice giving instructions.

Everyone started clapping and Taehyung didn't know why but decided to just clap with everyone else. Taking two steps back, people from the inner circle moved past Taehyung and off with a green card in their hand.

He sees how everyone was virtually getting the same colour card as they dispersed from the circle and then saw Jeongguk leaving from the circle.

Jeongguk made contact with Taehyung and started walking towards him with his black carryon in his hand. "I see you were busy will billy the bass." Taehyung rolled his eyes and brought his gaze to Jeongguk's hand that had two green cards.

"While you were busy with the fish, boss explained we all have our own rooms on the same floor. Also we have access to the gym, pool, and spa that's on the fifth floor. Continental breakfast is served at 7-10, and that room is just around the corner." He pointed down a long hallway.

"We have a buddy system. You give an extra room key to someone in case of emergencies. Here is my extra key, and you can get yours from him. He wants us to meet back here in the lobby with our swimwear in thirty minutes. Then he said have fun and everyone went crazy. I'm sure you heard that part." Jeongguk held out one of the cards to Taehyung.

Taking it and examining it, a question perked inside of him, "How do I know which door this opens?"

Jeongguk laughed as if it was the dumbest question he could of asked, "look at the back of the card, there's a number. Just make sure you don't mix up my room for yours." Jeongguk said walking off to the elevator. He watched as the doors opened and Jeongguk walked in giving a peace out sign behind him.

Taehyung went over to the director who was holding only two more keys left. "Last man left, but I can't say you got stuck with the best room. See you in thirty." The man walked off, and Taehyung noted to give Jeongguk the other key when they meet up again.

While lugging his things behind him, Taehyung made his way up the elevator to the third floor. While exiting out, the elevator rumbled as the door opened. He saw how everyone on his team started walking into their assigned bedrooms and Taehyung was only making his way, so he could do the same.

When passing each door he watched how the numbers progressively increased. He was looking for room 257.

249...251...253...255...257

He finally found his room and tapped the key on the lock pad. The light turned green and so Taehyung presses down on the handle and walked into his new room.

It wasn't bad at all, right from the entrance there was a bathroom to the right. Taking off his shoes, he takes a couple most steps in letting the door close behind him. There was a bed with white sheets, a mini fridge by the wall, and a dresser with a tv on top in front of the bed.

Taehyung placed his bag on top of the bed and started to unzip it. Clothes started exploding out of his carryon, so he started to fold them again and put them in his temporary dresser.

He got distracted when he hear birds chirping, oddly Taehyung walked over to the glass door and slid it to the side, noticing it was already partially open. He walked on the balcony and saw a mass of grass and trees for miles, and what appeared to be a lake off in the distance.

Taking in the breeze that came from the trees cooled his skin with a mix of humidity while under the shade of the roof over his head, the weather was relatively nice outside. Taking the breath of fresh air, he walked back into the room closing the door properly.

Taehyung was basically finish unpacking and had changed into some blue Hawaiian flower printed swim trunks, and tossed on a plain black t-shirt while sliding on his slippers.

He didn't know how much time had left but he figured he go and wait on the lobby already, grabbing both the of his room keys and his phone, as he walks out of his doable room.

His flip flops clamped against the sole of his feet while stepping on the carpet on his way to the lobby. The muffled claps of his shoes, grew louder once they walked on the dark polished floors. There were several people already waiting and he noticed that one of them was Sohyun.

He walked up to her with a smile on his face, as she stood with a small group of people in her magenta bandeau dress. "Hey Taehyung! How'd you find the ride?"

"It was alright, I didn't really get to sleep..." Taehyung left it at that not wanting to explaining any further.

"Ah... I slept through the whole ride... Once I sleep, I'm out like a light." She confessed having her hands held together behind her back as she swayed her dress side to side.

"I wish I could say the same... I'm a bit of a light sleeper." Taehyung told her casually.

Before they knew it, everyone finally was in the lobby, even their boss. The big man with only his own voice he shouted out loud to everyone, "Our first official activity is the sauna. As a team we'll rejuvenate in the hot airs,  and de mask ourselves in vulnerability-" the director continued on, but at some point Taehyung zoned out some time after he said "sauna".

He absentmindedly follows the crowd and the men and woman split off to the lockers rooms to put anything extra they had on them away.

Taehyung went to a random locker, checked what number it was and tossed his shirt, phone, and room keys in it. Within the locker room had multiple doors that led to sauna rooms.

Taehyung assumes the girls had the same layout. He walked into a random sauna room out of the few and took a spot in the corner with his back up against the hot wall.

Other men apart of the crew started walking into his sauna and sat down on respective spots. Since there was more than one attached to the boys locker room, the men equally distributed themselves between each room.

But in a one in three chance, Jeongguk sat in the same sauna room on the other side, opposite to Taehyung. But to top it all off their boss was in that room too.

The musky air thickened as time went by as the hot rocks crinkled from the water that was poured on. Everyone sat in silence, as some even closed their eyes but Taehyung was a still as a tree. His body started to glisten with sweat, the little beads forming at his temples trickling down his neck. It was hot. But bearable.

For majority of the time just sitting in the humid room, Jeongguk sat calmly with his hands on his lap with his eyes closed.

Taehyung's excuse for looking over at the younger was because what else was he supposed to look at? When Jeongguk eventually opened his eyes he turned his head over to Taehyung.

Taehyung's eyes looked into the piercing chocolate orbs of Jeongguk's, as his state was as heated as Taehyung's was. His sweat slipping into the creases of his exposed muscle.

They had a staring contest, keeping theirs eyes focused on one another. Taehyung's feline like eyes never faltered and even with the distance could see the shimmer that sparked in Jeongguk's eyes but he didn't know what it mean't.

He was getting a bit nervous with the prolonged stare. It was longer than what they ever had before and just like last time his heart sped, but his head was woozy.

Taehyung saw the director walk out of he room so he assumed the activity was over and immediately swung the door open and left to go in a stall.

Locking himself in one. He placed the palms of his hands on the stall door as he panted with his head facing down to the ground. "God, I need water."  He didn't know how long he was in the sauna, but he figured all these reactions was from staying in there too long.

When he caught his breath, he turned on the tap of the sink and cupped his hands to drink the cold liquid. Taking sips, it chilled his throat and quenched his thirst for now.

He walked back into the locker room like normal and went to the cabinet that had all his things. While having a towel conveniently around his neck that he had grabbed from his room before leaving, he wiped all dripping sweat from his body before putting on his black shirt again.

Just as he closed the locker with his phone and keys in hand, he saw how Jeongguk walked past him through the corner of his eye.

"Hold on Jeongguk!" Taehyung yelled but voice cracked slightly. The younger turned around and just stood there.

Taehyung walked up to him and placed his own green key card in his hand. "Here's my card...But don't be going in my room now." He weakly laughed before walking out of the locker room.

Like the director said, it was only for  emergencies.