"WOW"

That was the only word we could utter as we entered the venue for Jihyun's birthday.

There was a chandelier bringing dim light all over the room. The venue was the restaurant where Taemin, pervy, and I had lunch after Taemin almost drowned. The walls with flowing water are now covered with a white cloth while a blue material is placed above it.. which reminds me of a curtain found in castles.

A huge round table was also covered with blue and white cloth. Both are my favorite colors.

And in the middle was a long buffet table. The room looks like a castle, except for the modern karaoke atmosphere on the corner. There was a 32-inch flat-screen TV, a table in front with a mic, and a couch where the songbook was resting.

"Hurry and change!" Pervy ordered.

The sight doesn't surprise him as much as it did to us. He started picking clothes hungered on the side I hadn't noticed earlier. Woah. The clothes were all royal-like, but they had a modern feel. There were 6 sets of clothes. 4 were that of a prince, and the 2 were princess outfits. The others followed pervy and took their chosen costumes. The ones that remained were the 2 princess costumes. A white and a blue.

What should I wear?

Answering my question, someone picked up the blue one and shoved it to me.

"Hurry. They'll arrive soon." Pervy ordered as I received the blue gown he chose.

I watched myself in the mirror as I finished changing. My bare shoulders were so exposed coz it was a tube gown. I felt uncomfortable, so I let my hair fall down freely.

When I went out, they were already set. They were talking when pervy saw me. That's when annoyance filled his face. He left the group and walked towards me.

"Ya! What do you think you're doing?! You don't have make-up on?! And did you even comb that hair?! You're ruining the beauty and elegance of the gown!!" he eyed me angrily.

Aish! His overreacting! I tried searching for flaws in him but sadly found none. His hair was adequately styled. And he had a light make-up on. My search for flaws was cut off when he suddenly dragged me.

"I'll just fix this ugly duckling here. We'll be back." he told the rest and dragged me again to the changing room. This may be where the employees of this restaurant change.

He made me stay still in front of the mirror, took a chair, made me sit there, and started searching for something in the drawer.

"Found it. ^_^ " he was now holding a black box. He placed it in front of me and pressed something in the middle. As soon as I heard the 'click' sound, it opened. It was a complete set of make-up, hairpins, and everything.

Wow. So gay. Does he use this thing? =_=

I want to ask him again if he's gay like before. That made him mad and do perverted things to me, so I decided not to in the end. I shook my head to erase the horrifying thought.

"Is that yours?" I asked instead.

He nodded proudly.

He really has this gay side to him. =_=

He positioned himself at my back and started doing my hair. He was about to raise my hair, but I stopped him. We argued for a while about whether my hair should be laid down, but he won in the end, so my hair was up.

There was nothing to do except observe him do my hair. He looks serious and seems to be enjoying what he's doing. Somehow, I want to distract him.

"Pervy!" he was so taken aback that he stopped what he was doing.

"What did you call me?" he furrowed.

"Pervy." I grinned. "AW!!"

Aish! He pulled some strands of my hair. That hurts!

"Stop calling me that." he threatened.

"PEEEERVVYY~" I mouthed.

Again, he pulled a strand.

"YA!" I yelled.

He laughed lightly. Somehow, my anger subsided, but...

"Ugly." =_='

"I'm not ugly!" I defended myself this time. All the anger coming back.

"Ugly."

"Pervy."

"Ugly."

"PERVY! Ouch!! Yaaaaa!!" All my hair will be pulled out if he don't stop pulling it off, so I decided to not call him pervy anymore for my hair's sake.

There was silence again. The silence brings awkwardness to me.

"Ya." I called.

He's not paying any attention to me.

"YA!!" I yelled this time.

No response. But still, I have to ask this question that's been bothering me.

"Why aren't you talking to me?" I asked.

He looked at me with confused eyes.

"Because I'm doing your hair?" he answered as if it was the most apparent thing on Earth.

"No. Not now. I mean...before. Why weren't you talking to me before?"

At first, his face was blank, but it looked like realization finally hit him. His face suddenly turned arrogant. I guess he purposely does that to hide whatever he's really thinking.

"Hey. You still haven't answered my question." I tried opening up the topic again.

He stared briefly into my eyes, then looked away.

"Because I'm not in the mood to talk to you." he answered flatly.

"Why?"

"Why? Do I need to talk to you every second of the day?!"

Somehow, that shut me up. We remained silent for the rest of the make-up session. My hair was already done, and he was doing the finishing touches on my face.

"Ahhhhhh," he ordered me to open my mouth for the lipstick.

I followed him and partly opened my mouth. He was leaning closer to put the lipstick on. He touched my chin as the lipstick on his right hand approached my lips. His eyes were fixed on my lips. Without realizing it, I gulped.

He was just leaning so close to me. The lipstick on his hand still not touching my lips. Somehow, I noticed him gulp too.

"Do it yourself! What's the use of your hands!" he stood upright, threw the lipstick on me, and turned away.

I released the breath I didn't know I was holding back until now. I took the lipstick and started

applying it to my lips.

"Done." I said the moment I finished putting on the lipstick.

He turned, and then he was just staring at me. Then he whispered something inaudible.

"You saying something?"

"Nothing. Let's go. They'll be here any minute." he snapped and dragged me by the elbow outside.

(KEY'S POV)

"Done." I turned around and was caught off-guard by the appearance of the girl before me. I was doing her make-up and all, but I have just seen my work's outcome.

"Yeppeo(pretty).." the words came out without my permission.

"You saying something?"

Whooh! Luckily, she hadn't heard it! Yuck! Why have I said those words, and why did I even think of that? That ugly creature becomes pretty? Nah-uh. That will never happen.

"Nothing. Let's go. They'll be here any minute." I dragged her out of the room.

The boys seemed to be arguing as we came, but they turned around as they heard our footsteps. All mouths were wide open as they stared at the creature beside me. Jonghyun looks like he was enchanted. Minho was just staring, but there was obviously admiration in his eyes. Hmph! And onew... Onew looks at Jewel weirdly, like he wants to eat her?

(JEWEL'S POV)

"Waaaaaaah!! Is that you???" Jonghyun stared at me disbelievingly.

Minho was just staring at me. I smiled uneasily. And onew...he's creeping the hell out of me. He looks at me like...like...he wants to eat me? Seriously! He was looking at me with a watery mouth.

Right there and then, he suddenly plunged towards me like a predator about to attack its prey. I was frozen in my position. All I could do was close my eyes and raise my arms as a shield against him, waiting to be thrown onto the ground and eaten by a human predator.

But I felt none. I slowly tried to open my eyes and saw someone's back in front of me.

I let out a big sigh.

"You okay?" the owner of the 'back' turned at me.

I raised my head and found out it was pervy's. He was trying so hard to prevent Onew from totally getting to me.

"Y-yeah. I'm fine." was all I could say.

I was shocked for Onew, who suddenly transformed into a human predator and pervy shielding me against Onew. I tiptoed and saw Minho and Jonghyun holding Onew's arms.

"Ya! What's wrong with you, hyung?" Pervy yelled.

"Chicken..." Onew said absentmindedly.

"Chicken?" Jonghyun asked this time.

"Big, yummy chicken."

Wait. Was Onew referring to me?

"Fine! You can eat chicken. There are a lot of chicken there." Pervy pointed out the buffet table.

Onew then stared at pervy. "What about the big yummy chicken?"

"The chicken there is tastier and more delicious."

Onew stared at me for a brief second and nodded.

"A lot of yummy chicken?" Onew asked as pervy, and Jonghyun kept nodding while they dragged him to the buffet table.

"That was close." Minho rolled his eyes.

I nodded. I still can't get over what happened. It would have been a disaster.

"It was our fault. We really should have let him eat chicken a while ago."

"Eh?"

"He was already acting strange because he wanted to eat chicken, but we didn't allow him. He just can't live without eating the chicken his eyes can see. Then you came along. Maybe he thought you were a human-sized chicken." he chuckled.

"Ya! That's not funny.." I snapped.

He was now laughing at me. He raised his arm to mess up my hair but stopped mid-air and shook his head. Instead, he just pinched my nose.

"Ya!" I touched my abused nose. He was laughing so hard that he was already touching his

stomach. He let out a big breath.

Weird kid! Laughing when it's not even funny. =_=

"That aside. You're gorgeous tonight." he said sincerely.

"Just tonight?" I pouted.

A perfect "o" was traced on his lips. He then, again, pinched my already abused nose.

"YA!" I cried out helplessly.

*BabyNegae banhae beorin naegae wae iraeDureopdago mulleoseoji malgoGeunyang naegae matgyeobwala eoddaeMy lady*

"Yobeoseyo(Hello)?" Minho answered his phone.

"Hyung! Pikachu's thunderbolt attack is coming your way." I heard the other line said.

Minho nodded and ended the call.

"They're on their way." he made his voice loud enough for everybody to hear.

(TAEMIN'S POV)

"Taemin, where are we going?" I swear she asked for the hundredth time already. And I've been telling her we're gonna celebrate her birthday. She won't believe it anyway.

Instead of answering her question, I took my phone and dialed Minho hyung's number. Hyung picked up after 3 rings. I can't boldly say, 'Me and Jihyun are on the way to the restaurant, so get ready' while Jihyun's beside me. We didn't want to spoil the surprise, so we planned a magic word.

"Hyung, Pikachu's thunderbolt attack is coming your way!" I told the other line to inform him we were on our way. That was my idea, by the way. Aren't I a genius? ^_^

"Taemin! You're being random! I'm asking you a lot of times where we're going, but you're not answering me." She asked after the call ended. That's the 101st time.

(JIHYUN'S POV)

"Taemin! You're being random! I'm asking you a lot of times where we're going, but you're not answering me." I tried pulling my hand from his hold.

"And I've been telling you many times that we're going to celebrate your birthday."

Geez! No matter how often you say that, I won't believe you.

"My unnie's going to kill me if I don't go home now." Really! I'm sure she'd be mad if she knew I was celebrating my birthday with a friend and not with her.

"You're not even talking to each other. How can she kill you?"

I stopped walking.

Taemin stopped, too, and stared at me. My head was down. Yeah. It has been two weeks since we last talked, and it wasn't such a pleasant memory to recall. After we fought, she never spoke to me anymore.

I sighed.

Then I felt someone squeeze my hand.

"Ya..I promise you'll enjoy this night. Just trust me on this." Taemin reassured me with the most sincere face I have ever seen from him.

"But Taemin, unnie will get mad again-"

"I'll be the one to explain it to her then." he cut me off.

I laughed lightly. How could you? You're even the reason why we fought. I bet she's mad at you too.

"Please..." Taemin was acting all cutely now. He was wiggling like a child, and so I have made a decision.

Just for this night.

Just for this night, I want to act by my free will. And we're not even talking. She would be in her room again if I went home now, and my birthday would be a history.

"FINE!" I surrendered.

"Yey!" Taemin clapped. He started walking again while dragging me.

Taemin stopped in front of a restaurant. It was covered by a glass that had flowing water in it. The restaurant's inside can't be seen due to the flowing water. But one thing is for sure...

"It's closed," I muttered.

Taemin's shoulder dropped. And his head was down. His hair covered his face, so I don't know if he was crying.

"Taemin, it's okay. It's the thought that counts. I'm already happy that you wanted to celebrate my birthday. Thank you. Really." I tried comforting Taemin.

He stubbornly shook his head. "No. You were supposed to have a wonderful birthday, but it's all ruined."

I was really touched by his words. So this is how it felt to have a friend.

"Ah! Right!" It's like his energy was back in just a split second. He was looking for something in his bag. We went straight here after classes ended. Well, not really. He brought me to the park, and then we ate ice cream. Honestly, it seemed like we were just killing time back there. After a while, we went here only to see it was closed. If we had arrived earlier, Taemin's plan wouldn't be ruined.

"Tada!" Taemin smiled brightly. His right hand was raised in the air, holding a picklock.

I looked at him questioningly.

He answered me by walking towards the door. He inserted it into the lock. With a click, the door unlocked.

Taemin smiled at me. It was the most evil smile I've ever seen him do.

"Follow me." he went in, leaving me alone outside.

Oh no, no! no! I am not following you! They might think we're thieves! The restaurant might have a CCTV camera, and we'll both be imprisoned for breaking in. But... I can't just leave Taemin behind and save myself.

"Aish! Taemin! Wait for me!" I whispered.

I got into the restaurant and saw nothing. It's too dark! Pretty dark! It felt like I was blinded by the darkness.

"Taemin!" I whispered louder this time.

Dang it!! Where is he?

I tried grabbing a hold of something, but the only thing my hand could capture was thin air.

What if Taemin was already outside?? I'll just go check if he's outside. If he's not, I'll just call him.

But..but..where's the way out? Huhuhhu. T-T

I was carelessly trying to walk back to the door when a bright light made me freeze in my position.

Oh no! A lot of thoughts came rushing into my mind. The owner might have been back! What should I do? What should I say? I am caught in the act! Will I just run? He hasn't seen my face yet, so I still have a chance of escaping!

"What are you doing?" a familiar voice stopped me from escaping.

Taemin? Did Taemin open the light? Aish! Why did he?

"Taemin! Why did you-" I was talking while turning to look at him but was automatically stopped when I saw the sight before me.

"Saengil Chukka Hamnida! Saengil chukka hamnida! Saranghaneun Jihyunnie! Saengil chukka

hamnida!" all of them sang in chorus.

I was left starstruck.

Taemin was smiling at me brightly. Minho was beside Taemin. Another guy was holding a chicken. And the one with the unique hairstyle that unnie bumped and almost kissed if only I hadn't butted in was here too. And his companion, when unnie bumped him, was beside him. And...and...standing in the middle is....unnie.

"Happy birthday, my Jihyunnie." Hearing those words, my tears automatically rolled down my cheeks. "Me and your friends-OUCH!" my sentimental moment was cut off coz I was already laughing my heart out.

Because of what unnie said, they all hit unnie in different places except for Minho and the guy with the unique hairstyle.

Minho just glared at unnie, and she winced like a puppy.

"Tss!" I heard the guy with the unique hairstyle say.

"Ya!" Unnie whispered and glared at him. he glared back. It was like they were talking through their eyes. I giggled.

The guy holding a chicken cleared his throat.

"Ahh, yeah. As I said, our friends and I decided to throw a party for you. Ahm..I'm sorry I wasn't talking to you these past few days. It was all part of the surprise."

Did I hear everything right, including the 'our friends'? I thought she was still mad at me the whole time. I ran towards unnie and hugged her like there was no tomorrow. Geez! How much I miss her!

"Unnie, saranghae(I love you)." I said while inhaling air in my clogged nose. Unnie chuckled.

"Ne. Neomu saranghae(I love you so much)." unnie whispered.

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