paring: jiwoo x fem!reader (i wrote this with fem reader in mind but I think it's lowkey gender neutral)
genre: humor, platonic friendship, prankster duo
warnings: very light swearing, creepy doll description?
wc / cc : 1.9k / 10.9k
nmx summer masterlist
a/n: it doesn't really connect much but it's same timeline as Firefly Feelings. that's what i had in mind when writing both of them but i didn't connect it well lol we <3 camp gamjachum !!
synopsis —---
you weren't excited for camp at all, your parents were forcing you to go. well now you secretly thank them because of kim jiwoo who made your experience more exciting
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You sit with your arms crossed while you were in the back seat. Being 15 years old and still being forced to go to summer camp was embarrassing. To make matters worse, none of your friends would be there cause they told their parents they didn't want to go. Why couldn't your parents do the same?
The long hour drive to the camp was even worse. You begged your parents not to send you to camp but they wouldn't have it. They said "it would be a good experience". How many "good experiences" did you need? You've been going to camp since you were nine. What was annoying you more was that they were sending you to a whole new camp just for highschoolers. It was closer to home than your old camp but it would have been better to be in the familiar.
Your dad pulls into the parking lot for the camp. Camp Gamjachum. That name itself is embarrassing, but you think you reached your parents limit of tolerating your complaints so you kept quiet. You put your earbuds to the max and began to get your stuff, might as well use your phone as much as you can before it gets taken away.
“Have fun, Sweetie!” Your mom says before giving you a kiss on the forehead.
“And stay safe.” Your dad adds.
“Yeah yeah, whatever.” You have to keep yourself from rolling your eyes as you try to move away from your mother's grasp. Your parents choose to ignore your additude and give you a hug instead besides your protests.
“We love you! See you in four weeks!”
They sound kinda happy to get rid of you for a whole month... You watch as they get into the car and drive off. You sigh and carry your luggage to the entrance of the camp grounds. There were teenagers everywhere you look, and it seemed everyone had their person. Everyone except you. Shit. The sound of a shrill whistle hit your ears with a slight sting at it's highness.
“Okay, okay. Gather around everyone!” The camp director yells for everyone to hear. Everyone gathers around, making a wide half circle around the woman on the porch of the main building, the cafeteria facility. “Welcome to Camp Gamjachum! I'm camp director, Yima We have many activities planned for you all, so we hope everyone here knows how to have fun! Now let us get onto the rules...”
Yima goes on to tell the rules and the consequences for breaking those said rule, then she goes on and on telling us about the camp's history and how to have camp spirit. It felt like it would never end She spent almost twenty minutes yapping about stuff that no one really cared about. Finally she sent everyone to the counselors to find out which cabin you'll be staying. You end up in a cabin with five other girls.
Jiwoo, Jinsol, Kyujin, Wonhee and Eunchae.
It was absolute chaos when you finally enter your cabin. the other girls had claimed their bunks already since they got there before you did. There were hundreds of keychains on Wonhee's bed that she was putting together as she and Kyujin sang rather loudly to Girls' Generation's Gee. Jinsol and Eunchae are playing catch with the camp mascot plushie. Poor Gamja... And Jiwoo, she was doing something on her bed... You weren't to sure what cause her bunk was the furthest.
The other girls did not cease their activities upon your arrival, Kyujin and Wonhee only sang louder.
“Hey Y/N, catch!” Jinsol suddenly throws the plushie at you, it barely missed your face as your reflexes catch the stuffy. “Oh, you have really good reflexes.”
“Um thanks?” You throw back Gamja to her. These girls were something else...
You walk to the only other empty bunk which was under Jiwoo's. You place your duffle bag onto the mattress and sit by it. This was gonna be a long 4 weeks...
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Later that night, everyone had fallen asleep after a full first day of activities. You couldn't lie, some of them were really fun.
You weren't really sure what time it was when you awaken. You lie in your bunk for a little, confused why you had suddenly woken up. Then you heard shuffling on one side of the room. You sit up, eyes adjusting to the darkness since the only little light came through the window blinds' gaps.
“What are you doing?” You whisper at Jiwoo who is hunched over Jinsol's bunk, you couldn't really make out what she was doing due to just waking up.
Jiwoo freezes for a moment, eyes snapping up at your voice. She was caught right in whatever act she was doing.
“Uh...”
You swing your legs over your bed, your feet land on your sandals. You look closer and see a marker in her hand.
“Are you drawing on Jinsol's face?” You whisper shout.
“Guilty.” She shrugs as she whispers back. Then she promptly goes back to drawing a mustache under Jinsol's nose. You watch her quietly as she makes the swirls, giving Sol a french look. “There.”
She smiles proudly at her work, taking a step back. She caps the marker before walking back to your shared bunk.
“You're not gonna snitch, are you?”
“No.”
“Good.” Jiwoo gives you a wicked smile.
Jiwoo goes to her bag and rummages in it quietly for a moment before pulling out a small backpack. She slings it over her shoulder and heads to the cabin door, you quickly shove your feet into your sandals and stand.
“Where are you going at this time?” You ask her cautiously. Your tone was mindful of the other four that were sleeping. Jiwoo opens the door.
“I gotta keep my reputation as the best camp prankster. So if you're not gonna help, I suggest you don't follow me.” She walks out. You hesitate for a couple seconds before muttering "fuck it" under your breath.
You sneak out into the cool night air. You spot Jiwoo who was already near the bathhouse, you sprint to catch up.
“Ah so you decided. Gonna be my assistant?” She smirks.
“I wouldn't have been able to go back to sleep so I thought I might as well join you.”
She pulls open the door to the girls' bathhouse and you both enter. You watch as she puts down the backpack that was slung over her shoulder. She takes out two bags of... Goldfish?
“Help me put some of these in the toilets, then we'll go over and do the same to the boys' room.” She instructs and hands you a bag of goldfish.
You open one of the stalls and begin your work, putting half a handful of goldfish into the bowl. Soon there were swimming crackers in each bowl. You two move over to the boys' bathhouse and do the same.
You start to see the sun in the horizon, it was nearing dawn but Jiwoo wasn't finished. You follow her as she heads to the camp director's cabin.
“Last prank for the day.” She tells you. Jiwoo pulls out a creepy doll head from the backpack and waves it in front of your face. You take a step back.
“Where did you even get that thing?” You ask her, nose scrunched up. That thing is horrifying. The doll's head was bigger than your hand with black stringy hair that was chopped unevenly stuck up in some places. It's face was chipped in some spots and there was blackened ashy spots on it's pale skin, it's eyes were also black and wide as it stared at you like it knew something you didn't. And the red lip smile on its face made you want to run away.
“Found it at a garage sale when I was walking home from school. I gave it a little bit of a makeover and an amputation.” She says like it was nothing. Then she points up to a hook on the cabin porch roof. “See that? That's where I'm gonna hang it.”
You tilt your head at her, then with a serious face you tease her, “You can't even reach half the height of the hook, Jiwoo.”
She crosses her arms and roll her eyes, you let a satisfied smile play on your lips.
“Whatever, Y/N. I'm sure we could find a step stool around here somewhere.”
Spoiler alert, you guys didn't. You tried to go into the cafeteria facility but it was locked for the night. So that's how you end up with Jiwoo on your shoulders as she tied the knot of the cord to the hook.
“How much longer are you gonna be? You're not that light if you didn't know.” You struggle to keep balance.
“I'm almost done.” There was an additude heard in the younger's voice. You chuckle quietly. “You can't rush pranks or else they'll fail. Some prankster you are... And I finished.”
You squat down so Jiwoo could get down. The prank set up was perfect. The doll's head handed in front of the door on eye level to the director. The sun had finally made the sky turn a lighter blue shade then before. You both hear a faint sound of movement inside the cabin. You two didn't have to say anything before grabbing your stuff and bolting back to your cabin.
You and Jiwoo stood inside leaning against the cabin door, catching your breath. The adrenaline pumps through your veins, cheeky smiles play on your lips.
“We make a pretty good team.” Jiwoo says. She holds her fist out.
“Yeah definitely.” You fist bump her.
A loud shriek causes you both to flinch hard and causes Wonhee, Jinsol, Kyujin and Eunchae to wake with a start. Jinsol even fell out of bed. She rubs her side from the impact, groaning.
“What the heck was that?” Eunchae asks, she rubs her eyes disoriented from sleep.
You and Jiwoo only smile.
Jinsol gets up from the floor, “Was that the director?”
The three other girls burst out laughing with surprise. You and Jiwoo smirk slightly.
“What? Is there something on my face?” They only laugh harder. “There's something on my face...”
She goes in front of the full length mirror in the corner of the room and she puts her hands on her cheeks. She turns back to them in amusement.
“Okay, who did this?” She chuckles, she didn't seem mad but rather indifferent by it. “I'd totally rock a mustache like this.”
And she posed like she was on a cover for vogue. Only Jinsol would be like this after getting her face covered in marker.
“Not going to reveal yourself?” Jinsol ask when no one answers her. “It has to be one of you two.”
She points to you and Jiwoo.
“Us? Why us?”
“Well for one you two seemed like you expected this.” She points to her drawn mustache. “And two, you both are standing suspiciously in front of the door like you've been awake for a while now.”
“Good eyes.” Jiwoo says. “Yeah, it was me.”
“I knew it! You just have the vibe of a mischievous little prankster, Ji.”
“Do you two know why the director screamed?” Wonhee raises an eyebrow, now suspicious of you.
“Can you girls keep a secret?” They all nod. “We may or may not have put a creepy doll head to hang in front of her cabin door.”
Kyujin gasps, “No?”
“Yep.” You and Jiwoo start to laugh.
“You two are menaces.” Eunchae shakes her head with an amused smile on her lips.
“Not menaces, just two pranksters.” Jiwoo gives you a high-five. “And this is only day one!”
“Does that mean the rest of us are not safe ” Wonhee asks.
You and Jiwoo don't answer her instead you both give her mischievous smiles.
