"Splash!"
lee! Felix
ler! Chan
warnings: public tickling, Felix is sort of unable to move, feet tickles, embarrassment
author's note: hie hie guys !! this is my first fic so im sort of nervous to post it haha. a big thank you to @itzsana-kiddingmenow who encouraged me to post it!! love youuu 🫰🏻 I hope you enjoy this and any sort of feedback is appreciated ^_^
this is a tickle fic!! feel free to keep scrolling if it's not your thing!!
Felix is pretty sure this very needed vacation actually healed a part of him.
Technically, it wasn't a vacation. For the past couple of months, Stray Kids were working non-stop. It was a comeback season, which meant they got little to no breaks before and after the release of their albums. It is all just one big roller coaster, really. During the preparations for the new releases, Felix feels like that is the hardest part of the comeback season. Practicing, working to be better, recording, trying to be as perfect as possible – which meant they spent more than half of their day stuck in their company, practice rooms and recording booths. But then after the release of the album, all cameras were brightly flashing into their faces; performances, interviews, fan meetings, fan calls, and, oh God, the award shows made them sit on the edge of their chairs, waiting to see if their name would get called.
So, during the comeback season, they were on edge for almost the entire time
They released their newest production almost a month ago, and their schedules have been filled to the brim. Not to mention their side quests like promotions and modeling shoots. But, their work paid off, and while this trip to Australia still required work (a couple of interviews and filming for their YouTube content), it almost felt as if they were doing nothing at all.
Felix actually thinks it might be because Australia is his home, and visiting it after so much time of being restricted to it, it feels even sweeter when he does get back. The Kids were staying here for two weeks, and over the weekend, they were allowed to have a day off and enjoy their time there. And they got the best of it.
This Sunday, the kids were spending the entire day at the beach, along with Felix’s sisters, and Chan’s siblings. They got to the beach early, found a spot near the beach bar by the water and Felix is sure this was the best day in the last four months. During comeback seasons, the members actually don’t have a lot of time to hang out, due to all the work. And when they did hang out, they mostly did when filming because all of them took their little breaks as resting opportunities. So, yes, today was pretty special to Felix.
As said before, they got to the beach pretty early, and since then they have not rested once, and it was an utter mess (in a… pleasant way). They were in water for actually a really long time, with Hyunjin having a blast following them around and drowning them (until they all ganged up on him and suddenly it’s ‘bullying’), until Minho, who was on the beach with Seungmin and Olivia playing cards, called them to get out of the water and rest a little. They played footvolley, too, until Seungmin accidentally sent the soft, inflatable beach ball flying to Changbin’s face, which resulted into a long, exhausting, chase around the beach before he eventually got tackled into the hot sand and tickled. Seungmin was a little pouty out of the embarrassment of getting wrecked when there are a few other families on the beach, but the pout quickly got forced away when he received the ice cream from his hyung.
After a few rounds of cards, that Felix obviously won (totally not because of his cheating tactics…), Felix was back in the water, now resting and sunbathing on his ginormous duck floaty that they bought earlier that day. The others stayed back at the beach, while Minho and Hyunjin went to get more cases of beer.
He’s not completely sure how much time he spent in water, but as long as the water didn’t push him too far away from the beach, he was okay resting there, sunglasses protecting his eyes from the sun that was burning his freckled body. Every so often he would stretch further across the floaty so his hands and feet would dip into the water. Surprisingly, the position, with his torso and bottom falling through the hole of the floaty, actually felt pleasing for his usually aching back.
Oh, yeah, he definitely needed this break.
But, Felix’s peace didn’t last long. He isn’t sure what made his muscles spasm more – a sudden ticklish feeling going through his foot, or the fear when he suddenly felt something sliding down his foot. He’s pretty sure that even Minho and Hyunjin, who went to the store, could hear how loud his scream was. His foot kicked up in the air as he jumped at the sudden touch, and his heart felt like it would jump out of his chest.
It made him feel safer the moment those squeaky and recognizable giggles filled the air, but regardless of that, Felix’s body stayed stiff. “Hyung!” Felix scolded, a whine almost breaking out.
Chan – that sneaky wolf – finally appeared from behind the floaty, barely able to keep his head above the water as he laughed at Felix's reaction. “It's not funny,” Felix whined as he hid his red face behind his hands.
“I'm shahorry!” He giggled, one hand on the duck floatie as he held himself up, and the other reaching over to pry the younger hands away from his face. “You just looked too peaceful. I couldn't help myself.”
“You're so annoying.” Now, he's not sure what in his right mind made him splash Chan while he was already in such a vulnerable position, but he did. While Chan wasn't expecting it, Felix's hand dove under the water and dove right back out, sending a bunch of water splashing on Chan's face.
Now it was Felix’s turn to laugh. Felix giggled as Chan blinked away the water as he spat out the water that entered his mouth. Felix's laughter died down as Chan just stared at him blankly, before a very scary smirk appeared on his face.
“Oh, no.” Was all Felix muttered before Chan pulled the goggles back over his eyes and dove back into the water. “C-Chan? Wait, wait, wait! Chan?!” Okay, now, he was panicking.
Chan was always so caring and careful with all of his members, especially Felix – but when provoked? He was one scary ler. Even the thought made Felix's stomach do flips.
A few seconds passed before he felt ticklish shocks shoot through his ribs and to the rest of his body. Felix couldn't hold back the deep giggles caused by Chan's rough fingers digging between his ribs. The blond couldn't do much – he squirmed, kicked his legs out, tried to push the floatie through the water (which also didn't work because Chan's fingers between his ribs kept him in place), wriggled from side to side, but his position, being on a floatie in the middle of the ocean, made him almost completely immobile.
And that made it all much more flustering.
Even though it lasted about half a minute, Chan managed to squeeze the younger's ribs, squeeze them, knuckle in between the bones, and scratch at the spot where his ribs end and sides start. “CHAHAHN! CHAHN!” Felix laughed and called out helplessly. The tickling was just too much, and being so exposed made it much worse.
He was lucky Chan could stay under water for only so long, because eventually the tickling stopped, and Chan dove out. The leader dove back out, and as he was catching his breath, Felix (still giggling) tried to push himself and the floatie away, but he barely moved at all, considering tickling knocked his strength out.
Chan just laughed at the pathetic attempt. “Oh no you won't.” He pulled screaming Felix back, before reaching his hand over and digging his fingers into soft, freckled abs. Felix squealed once more, and his weak attempts of pushing and hitting failed again. Chan just laughed along because somehow, only one hand turned Felix into a squealing, laughing mess.
“Really, Lix? Just a couple of fingers is all it takes to make you lose it?” Chan cooed, pinching and prodding the soft skin.
“SHUHUT HAHUHUP!” Felix's laughter turned squeaky. He barely knew what to do with himself.
“If you weren't so cute, this would be pretty embarrassing considering others at the beach are seeing you get wrecked.” Oh, that just made it so much worse. For a moment, Felix finally remembered his place: in the ocean, by the beach where his sisters and members are, AND where many other families were as well. Though, Chan didn't allow him to focus on that as much because he sneaked his second hand under the water, and started scratching at his lower back, whilst his other hand started circling the blond’s belly button, and occasionally dipping his finger in as well.
Felix was losing it. “PLEHEHEASE! I HAHA CHAHAN'T THAHAKE IT!” Every time he would arch his back, he lean more into the hand on his stomach; and when he did the opposite, he'd lean into the hand on his back. None of his attempts to move away worked, he only looked like a fish on the shore, so eventually his body went limp. He laid there and just took it.
“Aigoo, my baby,” Chan cooed in mock sympathy. “Is this too much for you, Lix?” Felix nodded, holding onto Chan's bicep, but he stopped fighting him off. Chan cooed once again (making it so much worse for his Aussie twin) before finally slowing down and taking one of Felix's hands and softly kissing him.
However, just when Felix thought Chan was done, the older swam behind Felix, and slowly skittered his fingers all over Felix’s neck and jawline. “Chahannhihie!” Felix scrunched up, his giggles going high pitch.
“Aww, sunshine, I missed you giggles so much.” The fondness in Chan's chest grew, I mean, how could it not when Felix was laying here in front of him, reduced to a giggly mess. “We've been so busy lately, we didn't have the time to hang out. You missed this, too, hm?”
Felix couldn't help but nod. Yes, this was extremely embarrassing. Yes, the tickles were almost unbearable. Yes, the rest of the members and his sisters will NEVER let him hear the end of this, and are probably filming. But the group was so busy for such a long time now that he missed being able to just mess around with them.
Chan couldn't help but giggle at his band mate's cute reaction, and slowed down. He leaned on the floatie and brushed his fingers through Felix's wet hair, as the younger calmed down, letting out the extra giggles. “Are you okay? Did I go overboard?”
“Noho… it was kinda nihihce.” He shyly admitted. Chan couldn't help but awe loudly, leaning over and placing a big kiss to the younger's cheek. “Sthohop it, Channie.”
They stayed in silence for a few moments before Chan reached over and tweaked his side, earning a squeal. “We better get back.”
Felix saw the shit eating grin on Chan's face and just groaned, hiding his face once more. The others are gonna tease him so bad.
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