Kibum is awakened on September 23rd by a kiss to his shoulder. He snuggles closer into his blankets and up against Jinki’s chest. Jinki chuckles a little behind him and presses another kiss to his shoulder and Kibum tries to shrug him off. He just wants to sleep.

“Happy birthday,” Jinki whispers before he presses one last kiss to Kibum’s shoulder and gets up from the bed. Kibum shivers involuntarily at the cold that suddenly hits his back and he drags Jinki’s blanket around him as well. As Jinki starts waking up the boys, the apartment starts to get noisy and the half-slumber that Kibum had drifted into is gone. He can hear them talk in front of the door but he stays in his position.

They start singing before they even enter the bedroom, Jonghyun singing louder than the rest of his family combined. Kibum fakes a yawn and turns around in bed as he pretends to be waken up by his sons, even though both he and Jinki know he has been awake for longer. Jonghyun and Minho crawl onto the bed next to him and places the presents they’re carrying in his lap. Taemin starts fussing a few minutes later and Jinki goes to calm him down.

Jonghyun looks excited while Kibum opens his present, only to find an animal in clay. Kibum isn’t entirely sure what animal it’s supposed to be but he smiles warm and wide and Jonghyun is pleased with his expression. Minho climbs into his lap, pushing the presents onto the bed and clings to his father and Kibum laughs a little.

“Hey,” he says and nuzzles Minho’s hair. Minho just stays in his lap while Kibum continues with his presents. He gets a cutting board from Minho that the boy has made himself in school, a perfume from his parents and a small card from Jinki that tells him that he’s invited on a date. Kibum smiles and presses a kiss to Minho’s temple before he asks the boys to hurry into the kitchen so they can eat breakfast before school. When Kibum climbs out of bed, he takes Taemin from Jinki before he too goes to the kitchen.


“Give it to me!” Minho screams and charges towards Jonghyun who laughs and runs away in full speed, holding Minho’s favourite spoon in his hand. Jinki grabs Jonghyun’s upper arm and stops him from running into the living room and Minho easily catches up to his brother and tries to wrestle the spoon from him.
 

Jonghyun holds on tight, however and tries to get it out of Minho’s reach despite Minho being the same height as Jonghyun. In the end Minho resorts to punching Jonghyun on the shoulder and before Kibum can even step in, Jinki grabs Minho as well.

“We don’t punch each other,” he says in a stern voice and Kibum raises an eyebrow and turns around so he can put the orange juice on the table. Taemin says ‘no’ out loud and Kibum has to hold in a chuckle. Jinki turns to Jonghyun afterwards and sends him another stern glance. “And we don’t steal from each others.”

Jonghyun lowers his head and hands the spoon over to Minho. Minho just stomps back into the kitchen and starts pouring cereal into a bowl. Jinki stops Jonghyun fr