Title: Swim Trucks
Pairing: NONE brofic
Rating: G
Summary: SHINee on a boat. Being bros. And cool. Yeah.
A/N: gkyute: I'M A BOAT WITH MY SWIM TRUCKS AND MY FLIPPY FLOPPIES
jjenie: SWIM TRUCKS
"Hyung, look!"
Kibum stops nagging Jonghyun and looks away from the burgers on the grill to see Taemin sitting at the edge of the deck, bony arms gripping the railing as he wiggles his toes over the ocean. The smile on the magnae's face reaches his eyes as his hair whips around his face, his loose vest billowing in the salty breeze, and he points toward a point far off in the distance. "I can see dolphins over there!" He shouts, ecstatic.
"Oh," Kibum says breathlessly, thrusting his spatula at an unsuspecting Jonghyun, "my precious baby." He pads across the deck, his flip flops slapping against the wood as he races over to embrace Taemin.
"Some luck, huh," Minho smirks around the straw in his mouth, slurping loudly at his pineapple juice.
"Shut up," Jonghyun growls and flips his blonde hair out of his eyes, "why doesn't he pick on you?"
"Because I'm quiet and I listen."
The second oldest glares and waves the spatula in Minho's face, "Well, maybe if you'd help sometimes--"
"The burgers are burning."
Jonghyun yelps and goes to flip them while Minho laughs, ruffles the boy's windswept hair and offers him some juice.
Jinki, on the other hand, is sleeping on one of the lounge chairs, snoring lightly with an open book splayed over his lap. He'd spent all his energy running about with Taemin, from one side of the boat to the other, spotting fish and playing tag and acting like the lead roles from Titanic. Eventually, when they were playing hide and seek, Jinki just stopped searching for him. When Kibum asked where Taemin had gone, he had shrugged and said, "this book is quite good."
Jinki wakes up when a bucket of water is dumped over his head, and he jumps and flails and falls off the chair. When he looks up to see his assaultants, Jonghyun and Minho are there, sniggering and exchanging high fives.
"We got you, hyung!"
"Come on, lunch is ready!"
"Dongsaengs," he mutters, shakily getting up and managing to slip in the puddle at his feet, causing the pair to double over from laughter once more. Behind them Jinki can see Taemin running around (still?) and tugging along a red kite that's soaring above them, contrasted by the bright blue of the sky. Kibum's back at the grill, a plate of burgers piled high beside him.
"So Taemin," Kibum says as they gather at the table. He makes a look of distaste at Jonghyun's sandwich, which is twice the size of his mouth and is spewing excess lettuce and ketchup and pickles onto his plate, before continuing, "You know why we came out here today, right?"
Taemin looks clueless, puckers his lips and tilts his head in question, "No, I can't think of anything, why?"
Everyone at the table melts, and even Minho mumbles a, "God, you're so adorable."
Jonghyun gets up and pads around the table, puts his hands over Taemin's eyes and mouths something to Jinki.
"Are you ready, Taemin?" Jonghyun coos as the other members shuffle about, and the magnae smiles, nods eagerly.
The hands are removed and suddenly, there is a cake standing before Taemin that sits like a skyscraper on the table in front of him, tall and magestic, but obviously homemade and unprofessional. There are candles coming out of odd ends, and then behind it the members are standing in a line and singing in their voices, their real untrained voices happy birthday to you!
Before they can even finish, Taemin pushes his chair back and leaps up, wraps his arms around the members in a huge bear hug. Jonghyun grabs a fistful of cake and smashes it in his face, and then it's a food fight, laughing and throwing and Kibum visciously defending the bottom layer of cake so that they'll have something to eat later.
The day ends with the exhausted laughter that sounds more like oxygen deprivation, from running around and ruining Kibum's hair and helping Jinki get back at Jonghyun and Minho for all their pranks. They lie on an enormous bed together, limbs tangled in the white sheets, the sea air coming through a crack in the window and breezing over their red cheeks, chests rising and falling as their breath starts to regulate.
Before the members fall asleep, they swear they hear a quiet, "let's do this every year," from Taemin.