there was a lot of pressure on yoonbin’s shoulders, but it was pressure that he himself had placed there the second he agreed to go on the trip. it was hard for him to say no to mai to begin with, but the idea of showing everyone the new and improved him was appealing enough to him in that moment. as it got closer, however, the more he started to regret it, fearing what everyone else would think of who he had become. there was a entirely different air around him; confidence and a break out of his shell that had been holding him back for the entirety of his school life. mai’s house was a familiar place for him, but even then he tripped on one of the steps as if he had never been there in his life, and then proceeded to fall in the most dramatic way imaginable. by the end of it he was laying on his back in the grass, staring up at the sky as he prayed no one had witnessed it. of course he hadn’t been so luckily, hearing footsteps and reluctantly lifting his head to see who it was. “hey,” he stated casually, “the grass is actually pretty comfortable, and i’m pretty sure the cloud up there right now is managing to look like all three chipmunks. alvin, theodore, and... the other one,” he finished with a wave of his hand, “if you wanna join me.”