.six.

Her week filming in China passed in a flash. They'd film in the morning to the late afternoon, and then Sun and Yixing would return to their apartments at night. Sun tried to be brave, but Yixing still thought it best to check on her every so often. Both of them were relieved that there were no other incidents like the one where she hit him in the forehead with the phone that was resting on her night stand. 

Before she knew it, Thursday night, Sun and the other members of Baby Lips were on a sixteen hour flight from Seoul to Mexico City. From there, they would catch another one hour flight from Mexico City to Guadalajara. 

Due to the time differences and the time changes, they left Seoul Thursday on a ten at night flight, and arrived in Mexico just as the clock struck midnight on Friday to change planes. Sun's group mate Rin joked that they had only been on that plane for two hours, according to the clocks on their phones which updated automatically. The other girls were jetlagged and tired, and would have none of it for the time being.

As they got off the plane, and entered the terminal, Sun was met with hundreds of people already there waiting for them, even though it was only a short stop to their destination in Mexico City. Fans were waving banners and holding their cellphones up to take their picture. Other than Minnie, the other members had never been to Mexico before. They weren't invited to the big Music Bank event that had been hosted there in 2014, and it was thought that kpop wasn't very popular in the Spanish speaking country. But the odds had been proven wrong by the mob of fans that had shown up for them.

They made their way through the terminal when the screaming intensified. Sun turned to see what the new commotion was all about. That was when she saw them. Strutting down the giant space in the middle that the fans had made for them was EXO, having also gotten off the same flight as Baby Lips. It had been more than just a coincidence, but the plane was so big and full of people that the girls hadn't even noticed that they were there too.

Only Sarang appeared unsurprised as she skipped over to her boyfriend and fellow group leader and linked arms with him happily. He gave her a small peck on the cheek just as a blinding amount of camera flashes went off. 

Sun thought they would go more unnoticed at the Mexican airport. But she was wrong. Of the other EXO members--the now remaining nine members--some of them had shown up with dates. Narda had been invited, and EXO's hairstylist Yeo Nari had been invited to come along too. Sun and Sarang had been invited because they were Minnie's close friends and former group members, but Sun couldn't understand why EXO had been invited. 

No matter how hard she was trying to avoid Yixing, they just kept being pushed together.

Yixing walked over to her and grabbed a hold of her hand, to which Sun responded by trying to pull her hand back out of reflex. But Yixing only held her hand tighter like a vice. Sun chewed on her bottom lip in worry that Ernesto would see those pictures. There was nothing between her and Yixing anymore and she didn't want to hurt her new suitor's feelings. A small smile formed on her lips when she realized she was on the right track, now that she was worrying what Ernesto would think of her. Maybe she didn't have to continue waiting on Yixing, since he wanted nothing more to do with her.

They made it to another waiting room where their flight was announced within the hour and then they boarded the second airplane which would get them to Guadalajara. The two groups weren't sat next to each other for the second flight and Sun was relieved.

Minnie and her husband Isaac were there to greet them when they landed. By then it was two in the morning and the young couple had been waiting for them for hours. Minnie was dressed in a pair of jean shorts and a tank top while her husband was dressed similarly to her, as though they were walking down the beach on a warm summer day. The girls of Baby Lips and the EXO members on the other hand were just about ready to go to sleep. 

Sun hugged her former group mate and whispered into her ear. "Min unnie, I don't want to question your decisions, its your wedding after all, but why would you invite EXO?" Her voice raised an octave in panic.

As they pulled away from their embrace, Minnie replied with a shrug of her shoulders. "Sarang unnie asked if she could bring Jun oppa along. But then I thought it would suck to invite him and not the other members--you know, now that we all get along." Sun almost wanted to scoff at her friend's words. It wasn't that she hated the idea. It was just that Pledis and SM tried to play their idols off as a big happy family now, and not two equally successful groups who were always at each other's throats. 

She was resentful of the fact that those changes couldn't happen when she was hiding her relationship with Yixing from everyone. 

The Baby Lips maknae heaved a long sigh. "I suppose."

She wouldn't argue it any further. The deed was done anyway, and there was nothing she could do about it. Complaining and moping about it would just ruin the experience for everyone.

The couple led the nineteen idols--and their two guests--to a bus they had rented for the occasion--Lina would be arriving in the morning, and EXO's managers had trusted her with them. Everyone loaded their luggage into the back and piled into the vehicle. According to Minnie, the house that she lived in with Isaac had about nine bedrooms excluding the master bedroom which belonged to the married couple.

"I'll let you all decide how you want to divide up the rooms." Minnie explained on the way back to her house. 

"I think we should get five rooms, because there's more of us." Kia suggested, momentarily and accidentally forgetting about Nari and Narda. But she quickly finished with, "The boys can divide four rooms amongst themselves."

The other Baby Lips members nodded in agreement. Some of the EXO members nodded too. Out of everyone, Sarang was surprisingly the one to protest. "Actually, I was wondering if Jun and I could share a room together, if you all don't mind."

Yunseo, Baby Lips' second leader, nudged Sarang and shot her a wink. "I don't have a problem with that."

The other girls nodded in agreement to the sudden changes. 

"Then Sun and Yixing hyung should get a room together." Chanyeol suggested, trying to help them, but he didn't realize he was actually hurting them with his offer. "Nari and Kyungsoo soo, and me and Guti."

"Hey wait--" Baekhyun started to protest.

But Nari cut him off, settling the argument between them before it got out of hand. "I'm staying in a room with Guti. If Soo wants to stay in the same room as us, he can stay or go."

Kyungsoo kept a serious face as he replied to her, "I think I'd rather stay in the same room as my hyungs Chanyeol and Baekhyun." His words found a way to surprise everyone on the bus.

"That settles it." Rin said, trying to organize everyone. "Sarang unnie and Jun oppa together. Sun-ah and Yixing oppa together. Nari and Guti unnies together. Kyungsoo, Chanyeol, and Baekhyun oppas together. That leaves five bedrooms and twelve people."

"We'll take two bedrooms, and you girls can take the three remaining ones." Minseok suggested, his three remaining mates without a bedroom nodded in agreement. The girls agreed as well and split the three remaining bedrooms between eight people, also taking Lina into consideration. 

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When they arrived at Minnie's house, she and Isaac led them around the house like a tour group, stopping at each room. The groups chose their rooms one by one until one room remained for Sun and Yixing. Now that they were alone, and Minnie knew the truth about them, she said to her friend, "If you don't want to stay with Yixing oppa, you can stay with me and Isaac."

But Sun gave a shake of her head. More awkward than sleeping in the same room with Yixing--she thought--would be sleeping in the same room with a married couple. They had their own personal things that they probably wanted to do. Perhaps, she thought, she could have stayed with her other group mates, but it was such a big house--for just two people--and she didn't know her way around.

Sun gave a shake of her head. "I'll be fine, unnie."

The two girls hugged and she left her friend in the room with Yixing who had been quiet the entire time. He left his belongings near a wardrobe in the room and then went to sit on a couch by the window. Gesturing to the king sized bed in the room, he offered it to her. "Take the bed, if you want, and I'll sleep on this couch. Its only for the weekend anyway."

She accepted with a small nod, keeping her words and her emotions to a minimum. "Thanks, Xing."

The Baby Lips maknae opened up her suitcase, grabbed something comfortable to sleep in, and went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. When she returned, Yixing was already lying on the couch in a pair of black sweat pants. Sun tried not to look at him, almost as though he wasn't there, and got into bed. It was late and both were tired, and they fell asleep almost instantly.

When Sun woke up the next morning, it was only Friday and the wedding would take place on Saturday. The idols had a whole day to do anything they wanted. Minnie knocked on Sun's door, and since she was a light sleeper, she rose from her bed and went to open it. Her friend gave her an apologetic look as she spoke. "Sorry to wake you, Sun. But its eleven in the morning and you'll mess up your sleep schedule if you sleep any longer." Minnie said to her. Sun quickly noticed how--even after just about a month of living in Mexico--there was an undertone of a Mexican accent in her english when she talked. Sun thought it was lovely. "I made eggs, bacon, and hotcakes for breakfast. So wake Yixing oppa and come down for breakfast."

Minnie walked down the hall to the next room and Sun closed the door. She walked over to the couch where Yixing was sleeping soundly. 

She shook him gently until his eyes blinked back and opened, adjusting to the morning light. 

"Yixing," Sun whispered to him gently. "Its time to get up. Min unnie made breakfast."

He only nodded in a daze. "Okay..."

Sun went into the bathroom again and turned the water on for a quick shower. She and Yixing were ready within a half hour and went down for breakfast together. Most of the others were already there eating and were all smiles as they greeted the couple who was joining them for breakfast.

At the table, Minnie brought a forkful of pancake into her mouth before speaking. "So Isaac was telling me his team has open training this morning. When Pledis found out you guys would be in town, they contacted uncle Jorge." She said with a simple and unsurprised roll of her eyes. The owner of the popular Mexican football team where her husband played wasn't her uncle in reality. But he was a friend of her father's--and a business partner back when Minnie used to live in Mexico as a little girl. He was her godfather and like an uncle to her. "Chivas and Pledis want to film a little segment for their youtube pages. Us participating in a game of footie with the football players of his team. The EXO boys can join too if they want, I'm sure SM would like that."

Minseok and Jongin lit up at the mention of playing football, especially with professional football players. The other EXO members also thought it would be a nice opportunity. 

When they all agreed to participate--all the EXO members, and all the Baby Lips members, excluding Sarang who of the late didn't seem to have a very good physical condition--Minnie made some phone calls to arrange and confirm everything. By half past noon, she had gotten a box full of red and white striped jerseys with their names and personalized numbers on them, and they were on their way to Verde Valle for the encounter. 

Sun bit down on her lip nervously. Ernesto and Yixing would both be there. She wasn't looking forward to their upcoming meeting.

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another slightly filler chapter for this story. i know this might seem like too much filler for now, but its going to start getting way more intense. i promise. thank you all so much for reading and supporting this little story of mine, as well as many of the others in this series.

im going to try to update a bit more frequently now that the semester is about to end, and i'll have some time in between working the three jobs i intend to work on this summer.

thank you all for your patience.

have a wonderful weekend!

-clary