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On a Friday night, the boys gather in the living room for a group meeting.
"Hyung, what's going on?" Juyeon asks.
"I called all of you here to tell you that I am leaving next week."
"What?!" Jaehyun responds.
"No!" Eric whines.
"Hyung, how could you leave us? Who is going to clean my room for me now?" Sunwoo questions.
Sangyeon shushes the panic and tells them to calm down.
"I am just leaving for the weekend, I have to go record a show about being a leader. You guys can manage two days without me, it's not like I'm going for a week or anything. I am leaving Jacob in charge while I am gone."
Sangyeon looks to Jacob and puts his hand on his shoulder.
"I know you can do this, Jacob,"
Jacob is shocked by Sangyeon's decision, but just decides to smile at his leader without resistance.
{Next week, it is time for Sangyeon to go}
"Okay everyone, give me a hug before I go."
They all hug their leader and he tells them to be good before he leaves the dorm.
Day one is normal. The boys play games, watch television, and eat together like they always do. Day two, however, is completely different.
The day begins with a typical breakfast. Afterwards, Changmin goes to the living room then turns the television on to watch some Spongebob. The only problem with that is, he ends up watching it for five hours straight.
"Okay, Changmin, time to put something else on." Jacob says.
"No! I want to watch Spongebob!"
"We don't all want to watch Spongebob 24 hours a day." Jaehyun argues from the other side of the couch.
"Try to change the channel, I dare you." Changmin replies, waving the remote in the air.
Jaehyun begins to chase Changmin around the living room in order to get that remote.
Jacob hears Younghoon and Juyeon fighting over a mirror in the distance, but decides to dismiss that because he hears screaming and yelling coming from the kitchen. Jacob walks to the kitchen and sees Sunwoo and Eric chasing each other with condiment bottles as Haknyeon watches from the kitchen table, eating ice cream from the carton with a big spoon.
"Ahhh!" Eric screams, as Sunwoo hits him with a large squirt of ketchup.
Eric tries to get Sunwoo back, but Sunwoo squirts him again.
"How can you keep getting me?"
"Because you suck at this game." Sunwoo pauses.
Eric takes this chance to squirt Sunwoo with his bottle of mustard.
"Boys, how about we put those bottles back in the fridge. Haknyeon, you know that you need to eat ice cream from a bowl and not from the container."
The three of them whine and tell Jacob to stop being so bossy, before going back to what they were doing and ignoring Jacob completely. Sunwoo runs after Eric and misses his shot, which lands in the tub of strawberry ice cream.
"Hey! You got ketchup in my ice cream!" Haknyeon yells.
Eric puts his bottle over Haknyeon's head and squeezes it.
"And now you have mustard in your hair." Eric says, quickly running away afterwards.
Haknyeon ignores them and goes back to eating his ice cream, even though it tastes like ketchup now.
"Maknaes, I mean it. Stop this behavior right now." Jacob says.
He tries his best to look threatening, but it does not work on them at all. Sunwoo and Eric continue their sauce fight and even take their mess throughout the house, leaving a trail of ketchup and mustard behind.
"Give me the teddy bear!" Kevin yells.
"No! I need it to nap!" Chanhee responds.
"No, I need it!"
The teddy bear they are referring to is a brown bear with a blue bow around its neck. Technically, it doesn't really belong to anyone. It's just a bear that Sangyeon bought for the members and told them that if they ever have nightmares, this bear would protect them. He got it after Eric kept having frequent nightmares, and since Eric's nightmares stopped after using the bear, the members believe that the bear actually does have powers to shield them from nightmares.
"You don't need the bear, you have ten stuffed animals on your bed already!" Kevin snaps.
"Oh, what now." Jacob groans, as he goes to see what Kevin and Chanhee are arguing about.
"But I nap with this one on Sundays."
"Guys, stop it. It is just a toy." Jacob cuts in.
"It is more than just a toy. It fights bad dreams so that they don't reach you."
The two of them tug at the bear until it rips in half.
Kevin snatches the other half of the bear and runs away with it, leaving a trail of stuffing.
"Hey! Come back here!" Chanhee exclaims, running after Kevin.
Jacob sighs and rubs his temples as he walks out of the room.
"How does hyung deal with all of them?" He thinks.
Then Jacob remembers, "Sangyeon put me in charge and this is what I let happen. He is going to be so disappointed in me."
Guilt washes over Jacob and he begins to cry in the corner. Sangyeon believed in him, but Jacob let him down. He asked Jacob to watch them for one weekend and he has managed to let all of this chaos unfold. This is a big deal to Jacob, he has a lot of respect and admiration for Sangyeon. Sangyeon always helps Jacob when he needs it, he should have been able to do the same.
"I let my hyung down." Jacob thinks.
A few minutes later, Sangyeon enters the dorm to discover the disaster. The maknaes, and a large portion of the floor are covered in sauces. Haknyeon is eating ice cream out of the container. Kevin and Chanhee are chasing each other and leaving stuffing on the floor. Changmin and Jaehyun are fighting over the remote while Younghoon and Juyeon are fighting over a mirror, and Jacob is crying in the corner.
"What is going on in here?!" Sangyeon yells.
His loud and stern voice causes everyone to freeze. He only uses that tone when he is really upset with them.
"Look at this mess! What happened in here?! All of you go to your rooms now. Except for you, Jacob."
The rest of them immediately run to their rooms.
As Sangyeon approaches Jacob, he feels nervous.
"I'm sorry, hyung. I know I let you down."
What Sangyeon does next surprises Jacob.
"It's alright, Jacob. Calm down." Sangyeon says, giving him a hug.
Jacob pulls away slightly to look at Sangyeon.
"You mean it?"
Sangyeon nods.
"But you put me in charge and this is what happened." Jacob responds, gesturing to the mess.
"It's not your fault. The boys can get a little rowdy sometimes. I'm glad that it is only a mess this time, at least the house isn't on fire and nobody got hurt. That's all that matters, so I'd say you did a pretty good job."
Jacob doesn't beat himself up as much anymore, since he now has Sangyeon's reassurance.
"I'm so glad that you're home now."
"Believe it or not, so am I." Sangyeon smiles.
Sangyeon calls all the others out and makes them apologize before cleaning up the mess they made.
Jacob hopes that Sangyeon never leaves him in charge for that long again. Jacob now has a greater appreciation for Sangyeon as their leader.