"I swear if you aren't over here in ten minutes -"

"I don't think that's a reasonable time frame!"

"You're across the house YangYang, just get over here!" Kun shouted, clearly exasperated, and YangYang groaned, grabbing the rest of the Christmas decorations and dragging them back to where his boyfriend was.

"Kun, I really don't think we need a seven foot tall inflatable Santa for our Christmas party." YangYang sighed, seeing his boyfriend try and inflate the poor Santa.

"But that's where you're wrong," Kun replied cheekily, smiling at YangYang. "We do need it."

"Babe, we do not."

"We do!"

"No we don't -"

"And that's the doorbell!" Kun said, and YangYang gave him a look as the doorbell rang.

"I hate that you have that vibration on your phone memorised."

"Why? Because I win like that? Now don't let them wait!"

"If I leave you alone you're just going to inflate Santa!"

"It's cold out! Don't make - I don't know who they are, but tell Chenle if it's him he can suffer because he said he loves Doyoung more than me."

YangYang went to the door, sighing when he opened it to see Dejun and Kunhang. "Oh thank god it's you, please tell Kun not to inflate his Santa."

"Is that new slang for penis?" Kunhang asked, and Dejun choked, looking at YangYang with wide eyes.

"No, I mean literally. He's inflating a giant Santa in our guest bedroom and won't stop."

"Oh. That's definitely a you problem though." Dejun chimed, and YangYang gave him a look.

"Our house has been decorated since mid-September." YangYang muttered. "And while I love Christmas, I cannot stand this."

"Hey 笨蛋." A voice shouted, and they heard someone else speak immediately after.

"Chenle, language."

"Mandarin." Chenle responded without missing a beat, and his boyfriend let out a noise that was on par with a dying walrus. "You asked Ji!"

"I know what you said in Mandarin!" Jisung retorted, and Chenle shrugged before stepping into the house.

"I just said stupids."

"It's Christmas though, don't call them stupid."

"Fine. Hello my lovely brothers, I have so much happiness being here -"

"Go back," Dejun said, deadpan, and Chenle burst into laughter. "What, you're scary when you're nice."

"I'm telling you I am not dressing up in that sweater!" A new voice said, and Renjun appeared with his phone at his ear and his present under his arm. "I'm not willingly wearing something that says get lit and has a singing light up Christmas tree on it!"

They could hear Jaemin's whining on the other end, but Renjun just rolled his eyes at his boyfriend's antics and hung up. "Hey."

"Jaemin's gonna be pouty when he gets here." Kunhang remarked, and Renjun waved his hand dismissively.

"He'll get over it. It's Christmas."

Next was Sicheng and Yuta, with Yuta barrelling through the house to find "his lovely Markuri" - who wasn't even there yet, but no one was going to tell him that.

Next was Mark and Jeno, who were talking in English as they got out of the car and seemed to be bickering about something irrelevant - it really was irrelevant, but the twins would bicker all the time about everything and nothing.

"Where's Nana?" Renjun asked, and Jeno broke away from Mark and his argument over whether hot chocolate or eggnog was better and told him he'd be coming with Hyuck.

Everyone else arrived at about the same time, making the house thrown into absolute chaos as people tried to cook, clean, shout, and catch up together.

Renjun somehow did end up with the ugly Christmas sweater on and definitely wasn't happy about it, and Mark just laughed at him before going to find Hyuck.

He ducked around Johnny and Ten practically shoving their tongues down each other's throats at a mistletoe point, Sungchan screaming at something with Shotaro filming up until Doyoung smacked him across the head as Taeil cheered for the group playing mario kart.

When he found Hyuck, Hyuck had a plate of gingerbread cookies in one hand and was trying to karate kick YangYang into oblivion as Taeyong freaked out and tried to save the cookies. Mark just giggled and wrapped his arms around Donghyuck's waist, making the shorter boy laugh at the slightly ticklish feeling. "Hi Markie!" Donghyuck chirped, turning to Mark and smiling as he handed him the gingerbread cookies. "Taste one?"

"Of course," Mark chuckled, taking the offered cookie and savouring the taste. "It's amazing baby."

"Of course it is - oh shit!" Donghyuck grabbed Mark and dragged him into the kitchen, where there was smoke alarms going off and black smoke billowing out of the oven.

"The ham was already cooked! What the hell?" Kun shrieked, pulling out a shriveled excuse of ham.

"Guess we have to order pizza again," Jaehyun said dryly, already pulling out his phone to order food.

"This is the third year in a row we have to order out," Jungwoo laughed. "Kunnie, you have wrinkles forming."

"Of course I do, I have to take care of twenty two gremlins."

"We aren't that bad!"

"Pizza will be here sooner rather than later, should we do white elephant now?" Jaehyun asked, and Kun, looking stressed, nodded gratefully.

YangYang appeared a few seconds later, claiming his Kunnie senses were tingling and quickly pressed a kiss to Kun's nose to help his boyfriend not be as stressed.

Of course, Kun was stressed immediately when he saw all twenty three boys crowded together in his living room with some small bickering, somehow they all fit and Kun pulled out a randomiser, plugging in the names and taking the list.

"Okay, everyone -" Kun's voice didn't carry over the noise, and YangYang looked at him.

"I can get them quiet."

"No, I know exactly how to get them quiet." Kun said, and YangYang looked at his boyfriend curiously as Kun cleared his throat and glared pointedly at Renjun, who noticed in seconds and went quiet, tugging Jaemin and Jeno's sleeves to shut them up too.

Then he gave a look at Lucas, who immediately wilted and went silent.

He continued to look at each of his friends until the entire room was silent, and while YangYang was sure it wasn't meant to be hot, but if Kun had looked at him like that, YangYang would be on all fours in no time.

"Right, now first up is Xiaojun. Remember, trades are limited to twice per item and you can't take them back." Kun said, sinking next to YangYang, who pressed another kiss to his forehead.

Xiaojun chose his item quickly, and opened it to reveal a pretty set of stationary and nice pens. "Ooh, he had good sense." Hendery chirped.

"Not when choosing you -" Chenle said before Jisung clapped a hand over his mouth.

"I swear, I'm just your personal censoring system." Jisung groaned, then yelped when Chenle licked his hand but didn't move his hand. "Your tongue's been in my mouth, it doesn't matter on my hand."

"On that note, next is Yuta!" YangYang managed, trying not to laugh at the appalled look on Kun's face.

Yuta got up and went over, grabbing a bag and opened it to reveal an exorbitant amount of apples with one bite taken out of them and a ten dollar gas station gift card. "Wow. Thanks." Yuta muttered, making everyone laugh.

"There's only sixty nine cents on that gift card by the way," Donghyuck said, and Yuta rolled his eyes.

"Of course it's you who decided on this one."

"What? Gotta add some spice."

"Now it's Johnny." Johnny chose a smaller box and shook it, immediately letting out a laugh before tearing open the paper to reveal extra small condoms.

"Oh those won't fit you Johnny -" Ten began and yelped when Sicheng smacked him. "Ow! They won't!"

"I want you to touch that little dangly-"

"Jaemin s-t-o-p quoting WAP." Renjun groaned, burying his head in his hands despite the fact he was straddling both of his boyfriend's laps.

"That's a wet ass pussy," Shotaro said so seriously they didn't even know if it came from him.

"Taro!" Yuta scolded, eating one of the apples he was given despite it having been bitten by Hyuck.

"Jungwoo, your turn." Jungwoo stole Dejun's stationary kit, so Dejun grabbed another present and got a set of fuzzy socks with a twenty dollar café gift card in them.

Shotaro got a bag of candy, Doyoung got an EXO album that, when he found out was from Jeno, said if anyone tried to steal it he would rip out their heart and feed it to a horse, and Kunhang got a ziploc bag of dirt.

Ten took the stationary set for the last time, so Jungwoo chose another present and sighed when he opened it to reveal an avacado. "What the heck." Jungwoo deadpanned, and heard Renjun snicker. "Why."

"It's an avacado!" Mark said enthusiastically, and everyone else who knew the vine drew out a small "thanks."

Renjun had to untangle himself from both of his boyfriends in order to grab his gift, which turned out to be a planting set of flowers.

Immediately his eyes lit up, and Jaemin and Jeno swore that he wasn't going to lose it - so when they had their turns, they traded it between the two of them, Jeno stealing it and making Renjun grab a bowling ball, then Jaemin stole it since he was next, and made Jeno grab a recipe book.

Then the three peacefully traded among themselves, Renjun giggling happily when he got the plant set back and Jeno wheezing when he was given the bowling ball.

Jisung grabbed a present that turned out to be an IKEA chair that was disassembled, and Chenle immediately laughed at him.

That was, until Chenle was next and just got a pineapple.

Then Jisung was laughing at him, clapping his hands as Chenle glared at him.

Sicheng grabbed a cute bag, and smiled when inside was a ton of cute plushies and pens and notebooks.

Jaehyun got rocks and milk, Taeil got a ton of fairy books that he immediately loved and made Doyoung smile at him because of it, Lucas got a single packet of ketchup, Sungchan got soggy bread, and Mark got a Justin Bieber CD.

Taeyong got a giant stuffed animal that Haechan stole, and YangYang got a jack in the box.

That left Kun, with a very simple looking present. When he grabbed it, everyone went silent as he opened it, and waited with baited breath.

"A card. Great." Kun scoffed, opening it and fully expecting something to pop out or squirt on him. But instead, it just said "look."

Kun's brows furrowed and he looked up to see YangYang standing in the middle of the wrapping paper sheepishly, his cheeks bright red.

"Hey Kun." He began awkwardly, and Kun frowned.

"Hey."

"So, I love you. A lot. And I think you know that, but I don't think you know how much I want to protect you - I want everyone who's said anything to make you frown go away, and anyone who hurts you to leave you life - but that would mean I would have to at some points too. Because part of love is hurt, and I know I've hurt you."

"You're rambling," Kun laughed, and YangYang smiled.

"I promise there's a point. Even if we do fight and sometimes get hurt, we also still love each other. There's nothing more to it, I love you for who you are and who I've discovered you to be. Even if you put milk first, or one time pulled a dove out of my underwear, I still love you. And that's why I'm asking -" YangYang got down on a knee, pulling out a black velvet ring box with a sparkling ring and Kun's mouth dropped. "Will you marry me?"

Just as Kun was about to answer, the doorbell rang.

"Oh fuck the pizza man!" YangYang groaned.

"If he's hot enough anything's game-"

"Jaemin no." Jeno scolded as Jaehyun went and got the pizza, coming back in a few minutes.

"Sorry about that."

"Anyways, will you marry me?" YangYang asked, still in the same position with the ring on full display. Kun pretended to think, and YangYang grumbled a little. "You had time to think with the pizza."

"It's a yes," Kun laughed, and all their friends let out various noises as YangYang stood up and pulled him into a kiss, slipping the ring onto his finger.

"I love you." Kun said when YangYang pulled away.

"I love you too."

"Can we eat pizza now?" Chenle asked, and everyone looked at him. "What? Ji is hungry."

"Oh don't pin this on me!"

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I know this is late, but Happy Holidays! And this is set in the future - plus, thank you for 40k on this???? I don't know why people read this because it's crack outta my ass, but thank you a billion times over.

Edit: I messed up earlier, if you read the beginning before no you didn't ❤️