Hey guyssss!!! So sorry for the long period of no updates.... Writer's block is terrible. Will be updating once more about the party, don't worry, I'm not so mean as to leave you guys hanging for too long!! I'll begin writing it as soon as I come back from class!! My thanks to the people who still continued subscribing even though I was so terrible at updating on time <3333

(P.S. The random Yadong at the start because some of you said there wasn't enough of the couple in this story...I whole-heartedly agree guysss ><... Mianhe, I shan't neglect writing about them anymore xD)

"I...can't...reach..." Hoya eked out as he stood on tiptoe to stick the blue balloon in his hand high up on the wall, beside the huge sign that shouted 'Happy Birthday Sungyeol' (Myungsoo had added about ten exclaimation marks behind the message).

"Mmm?" Dongwoo looked up.

"Here," Hoya held the balloon out at him, "Help me."

Dongwoo smiled, ignored the balloon and stepped right up close to Hoya, making the boy gulp and teeter away. Circling his arms around Hoya's waist, Dongwoo lifted him up so he was now able to stick the balloon down with ease.

"Thank you." Hoya looked unconventionally flustered, "You can put me down now..."

They sprang apart at the sight of three spectators behind them.

"Yadong..." Woohyun muttered under his breath. Hoya coloured even more.

"We weren't that indecent!" He protested, waving his hands in the air.

"Guys! Stop mucking about!" Myungsoo looked up from inflating balloons, face a little flushed from all the blowing he'd done (he was on the seventy-third balloon now). Myungsoo glanced at the Yadong couple pointedly.

"There's a stool next to you, silly."

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In the end, Myungsoo hadn't been able to take it anymore--his stomach was all fizzy with excitement at the thought of throwing the party and having fun with Sungyeol there, that he'd not been able to keep away, as had been the original plan. Myungsoo decided to meet up with Sungyeol a little earlier than the rest, and then they'd all bring Sungyeol over to Woohyun's house to celebrate.

Myungsoo ran from the station to Sungyeol's house. He arrived there in about five minutes flat (it was about a fifteen minute walk there), and stopped short, remembering the earrings in his jacket pocket (not the one the kitten had pooped in). Myungsoo didn't know much about earrings--he'd never pierced his ears. Worried that they were so delicate that they'd snap after the jiggling from his run, Myungsoo opened the velvet bow to peer at its precious contents carefuly.

They winked back at him, as perfect as they'd been in the shop. Myungsoo gave a sigh of relief, but his eyebrows drew together once more. What if Sungyeol didn't like them? Myungsoo bit his lip nervously and rolled it between his front teeth. It was too late to get him another present. He'd just have to man up and gather the courage to hand it to Sungyeol later. Just thinking about it made Myungsoo feel like quaking in his newly polished shoes.

Myungsoo took a deep breath and rang the doorbell.

"Yo!" Sungyeol's brother waved his hand cheerfully at him. He looked over his shoulder. "HYUNG!! YOUR BOYFRIEND'S HERE TO SEE YOUUUU!!"

Myungsoo started, and rushed to cover the boy's mouth before he could scream anything else to the world.

"Shh!" Myungsoo made a desperate zipping action across his lips, "Don't announce things like that!" His hand flapped frantically in the air, motioning to all the other houses nearby to emphasise his point. Sungyeol's brother just smiled sweetly at him, and let Myungsoo in.

He looked around for Sungyeol, but the boy was nowhere to be seen. Anxiety rose up in Myungsoo's throat. What if Sungyeol had something on?! Myungsoo hadn't thought of that possibility.

"Uhh?" Myungsoo turned to Sungyeol's little brother. "Where's--"

"Hyung's in his room upstairs!" The boy chirped, and motioned for Myungsoo to follow him up.

"Ahh."

Sungyeol's little brother paused outside his hyung's room, then burst in suddenly, startling Myungsoo. Watching the kid take another deep breath, Myungsoo's stomach clenched with forebode.

"HYUNG!! THE GUY WITH NICE LEGS IS HERE!!!!" Sungyeol's brother boomed before Myungsoo could clap a hand to his mouth, and ran away snickering, closing the door behind him.

"Nnn..."

Sungyeol started awake, raised his head slowly off his arms, and muttered something unintelligible, along the lines of get out of my room before I kill you. He blinked once, twice (just to make sure it wasn't an apparation of his imagination), then jolted upright.

"Myungsoo?!" Sungyeol clapped a hand to his face. He'd been sleeping with his face smushed against his arm on the table. Were there marks on his face? Sungyeol rubbed it desperately. Of all people, why did Myungsoo have to see him like this?!

"I'm sorry..." Myungsoo rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Were you sleeping? Did I disturb you?"

Sungyeol brushed himself down. He tried to think of an excuse.

"I was just..." Sungyeol's eyes flickered down to his arm. "I was just... Sniffing my sleeve." He ended lamely, glancing at Myungsoo.

"Mmmm." Myungsoo raised an eyebrow, smiling at Sungyeol. It'd only been one day, but Myungsoo had missed talking to the boy, and being with him, even more so than when they'd been only friends.

"Sungyeol..." Myungsoo moved closer, so that their noses nearly bumped. Sungyeol froze, and all he could see was Myungsoo's eyes framed by his beautiful lashes, boring into his own.

Myungsoo lifted a finger to touch Sungyeol's face, tracing down his smooth cheek, relishing in the contact.

"Eyelash." Myungsoo muttered an excuse, not backing away.

"Mmm." Sungyeol raised an eyebrow, smiling at Myungsoo.

There was a knock at the door.

"HYUNG!! THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE TO SEE YOU!"

Both boys sprang apart. Myungsoo was grateful Sungyeol's brother had the decency to knock. He wondered how soundproof Sungyeol's bedroom door was.

Myungsoo let his hand slide down his face, trying to rub away the anguished frown that'd taken over his features (why did they have to be interrupted?!), and rushed to let his friends in.

Their friends looked from him to Sungyeol, standing some distance behind, face still flushed, but with a huge smile plastered over his face.

"What were you guys doing?" Sunggyu asked suspiciously, taking in the unusually cheerful Sungyeol and thunderous Myungsoo.

Both boys looked at each other, and saw how red and out of breath they looked. Both tried to think of feasible excuses.

"Nothing!!--"

"Running about!!--"

Sungyeol and Myungsoo paused, looked at each other, and tried to come up with other excuses.

"Sitting around!!--"

"Jumping up and down!!--"

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