Niel and the Ice Cream Incident
Niel and the Ice Cream Incident
Niel likes ice cream. It was a fact that nobody could deny, in any way. It was a fact as sure as the world is round. So when he turned down ricky's bowl of vanilla ice cream, L joe decided to google the actual shape of the earth.
"Cap hyung does this look round to you?" Ljoe commented as he showed the leader his IPad screen.
"Of course it is. The earth has always been round." Cap wondered if Chunji smacked ljoe's head in his sleep again. He is pretty sure the brain damage is slowly showing.
"You sure?"
"100 percent."
"But Niel refused Ricky's ice cream." Cap suddenly turn around and grab Ljoe's IPad and started to stare at the screen. This is getting serious.
"On second thought it does kinda look triangle-ish"
It was Changjo who bravely approached Niel about an hour later. The bowl of ice cream long since made its way to his stomach and the sounds of the other idiots chattering about shapes aren't doing much to the nap he was taking. And he was getting curious anyway. Not that he minded having an extra bowl of ice cream once in a while. But this is Niel we're talking about. Refusing ice cream probably means the end of the world or something. Changjo would rather like to be prepared for something like that.
He sent a cautious poke on one bony shoulder.
"Um..... Hyung, you okay?"
Niel flipped a page of his book. "Mathemathics for grade 12" is what the cover says.
"Mhmm"
"Okay"
Well, that was a waste of my nap time were his last thoughts before drifting back into sleep.
Chunji amusedly watch the other members idiotically tries to figure out what's wrong with Niel. It's obviously such a simple matter, and yet they all manage to over look it. Chunji can't take it anymore, he has to share his thoughts on another equally intellect human being.
"Hey Ricky, how's it going." Chunji slowly approach Ricky who is still the spoon from their ice cream charade.
"Not bad hyung, what's up?" Chunji took a deep breath, ready to reveal his theories.
"Listen here, I got this theory I wanted to tell you..."
"Is this about Niel hyung?" Ricky interrupted.
"We'll umm... Yeah."
"I already figure it out hyung." Chunji did not expect that.
"Really? So what do you think is wrong with him?" Ricky took the spoon out of his mouth. He's been thinking about this one long and hard. What could possibly be wrong? So wrong that it pushes Niel off ice cream. It's weird enough for anyone to reject ice cream, but when Niel did it, something must be terribly terribly wrong. Ricky might not be a genius like Chunji hyung, but he does know when illogical stuff happens, that means it is caused by illogical circumstances. There is only one solution to Niel’s absurd behavior.
"I think he's in love."
"Pffffftt..." Chunji makes mocking noises, ridiculing his cute little dongsaeng. Seriously, Ricky acts like he knows, but this young boy have got a lot to learn. Chunji also notes that Changjo twitches in his sleep. "Oh Ricky ah, that is hilarious, but seriously you can't possibly think like that?"
"What's so funny about it?"
"Everything, oh little boy you have so much to learn, your theory cannot even match mine! On second thought I probably shouldn't explain mine to you... It will probably just complicate your simple mind." Ricky rolled his eyes.
"Oh please hyung, like you could think of something better. I bet your theory consists of Alien invasions and brainwashing or something like that." Chunji immediately freezes. Those words do take part in his well-thought theory.
On second thought his theory does not seem so smart or realistic.
On second thought Ricky is not that dumb after all.
"You know what, I guess the love theory kinda make sense, we'll just go with that!" Chunji made a mental note to take credit for this theory when they explain it to the others.
Five minutes later Teen Top, minus Niel the gossipee who can't seem to take his eyes off his book and Changjo who refused to have his nap interrupted again, is sitting in a tight circle on their livingroom with snacks scattered around ready to be eaten in the course of the very important meeting they are holding.
"So hyungs...", Ricky started before getting simultaneously shushed by the rest of the congress members.
Rolling his eyes, he tried again with a much lower volume.
"So hyungs, it looks like I figured out what happened to Niel"
Chunji coughed fervently
"You mean I did", he whispered frantically, afraid of losing the credentials he didn't own to begin with.
Ricky rolled his eyes again.
"Yeah, of course", he whispered sarcastically, but Chunji seems statisfied.
"Okay so what is it?" Ljoe asked impatiently snapping Ricky from his annoyed state.
"Well, judging from his weird, illogical, impossible, horrific, inhuman behavior..."
"Get on with it!" Ljoe nagged.
"I personally observed that..."
"You mean I personally observed that..." Chunji interrupted.
"Does that matter?!! Just get on with it!!!" The impatient Ljoe rages on.
"Excuse me?! I am simply just correcting an important fact! You have no right to be overly emotional!"
"Guys stop interrupting me!" Ricky shouted exasperatedly.
"Who's being overly emotional?! You're just being an annoying brat acting all smart when we all know it was Ricky's idea!" Ljoe shouted over Ricky's ignored plea.
"Excuse me???!!! I am not acting smart! And for your information you were not there during our discussion! Therefore you have no rights to accuse who the theory belongs to!!"
"Oh please!! We all know that if it was your idea it will be about something ridiculous such as alien invasion or brainwashing or something like that."
"Guys..."
"It's not ridiculous okay!! At the time it seems like a good idea!!! And who cares anyway atleast I'm not the one who stupidly questions the shape of the earth!!"
"That was for the sake of the metaphor!!! And it's not like you would know the shape of the earth anyway!"
"Oh excuse me I do actually!! It's..."
"GUYS CAN YOU PLEASE JUST LISTEN TO ME!"
BANG
A loud noise erupted as Ricky's speech got interrupted once more by a book hitting the side of his head. Everybody freezes before slowly Ricky passed out on the floor. That's when everyone noticed the very much awake Changjo holding the book.
"Too loud." He grumpily mumbled. Once again the room is filled with silence. And that's when Cap give a slow clap.
Soon every eyes are on him. Ljoe gives Cap a weird face, questioning his unexpected behavior. He just shrugs.
Changjo sigh as he throw the book on the floor and sat down next to the unmoving body of Ricky. "So since I'm already awake anyway I might as well join in the gossiping. So what are we talking about again?"
Cap steal a glance at the dead body. "Well we were talking about Ricky's theory, but then you kinda killed him."
"Oops sorry about that." Changjo said sheepishly.
"It's alright, it's not your fault," sigh Ljoe. "If only someone just didn't decide to interrupt Ricky, he would have told us his theory by now." Giving Chunji the most deadliest look.
"Oh excuse me! You're the one who.."
"Oh you're excused alright!"
Cap sigh as the two continues their ferocious battle."You know maknae, you can use your book again."
"Oh can I?"
"Yep, be my guest."
And that's how once again Changjo grab his book. He then proceed to hit Ljoe's face. A loud wail erupted from Ljoe as his nose come in contact with the book. Fortunately Ljoe's head is already immune to sudden intense pressure (as Chunji regularly hit his head when he is sleeping) so he did not pass out like Ricky. He is however, very very angry.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" He is so angry now that he decided to talk in caps.
"Cap hyung told me to."
"WELL WHY DON’T YOU HIT CHUNJI!"
"I can't he's too pretty."
"Aww thanks Changjo.."
"BUT I'M THE VISUAL GODDAMMIT!!"
"Stop talking in caps Ljoe I feel somehow insulted." Mumbled Cap.
"Lol I get it." Giggled Chunji " Caps cap."
"Huh what?" Changjo asks confused. "I don't get it."
"SHUM I THINK MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!"
"His name is Cap and Ljoe is talking in caps so..." Chunji tries to explain.
"I THINK IT'S BROKEN!" Ljoe started panicking, running over to the bathroom.
"Oh now I get it." Changjo frowns. "That's kinda lame though."
"MY FACE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME EVER AGAIN!" The wail can be heard all the way from the bathroom.
"Hey guys what did I miss?" Ask a groggy Ricky slowly waking up from the dead.
"Cap hyung just told a really lame joke." Inform Changjo.
"Well what else is new."
"THE BLOOD WON'T STOP DAMMIT SOMEBODY CALL THE AMBULANCE!"
"Is there anything else I need to know?" Ricky glance questioningly at the bathroom
"Not really, no." Says the responsible leader.
"Actually I feel like I'm forgetting something..." Changjo suddenly ponders. He feels like there is something he needed to do.
"OHMIGOSH I'M DYING I'M DYING!" Ricky slowly wondered if Ljoe got his first (man)period or something.
Suddenly Chunji noticed the book that Changjo had used. The book look familiar. Slowly he flipped to the cover and there is the huge title: "Mathematics for grade 12"
"Hey isn't this the book Niel was reading?" The alarmed Chunji asks.
"Oh yeah! That's what I forgot!" Exclaim Changjo. "I took the book from..." Changjo suddenly turn his head towards his right. Everyone else follow his gaze. And they all come face to face with...
Niel.
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"I'm allergic to vanilla."
Silence.
"That's why I refused the ice cream idiots."
Silence.
Slowly Ricky recovers from the horrible shock. "Wait so you heard us?"
"Nah, I just used my special mind reading ability."
"Oh that make sense."
"I was being sarcastic, stupid."
"That was pretty stupid of you Ricky ah." Changjo nodded his head in agreement.
"I know right, everybody knows only Cap hyung can read minds." Chunji added, glad that there is another evidence he can use to make sure the previous idea was his, and not Ricky's, and yes, it still matters to him.
"Wait what? Cap hyung can read minds???" Ricky ask disbelievingly. Everyone else rolled their eyes.
"Duh, you never noticed? And people thought I'm the dumb one." Chunji happily added.
"But...but..."
"Hyung what's with the math book?" Changjo interrupted the stammering Ricky.
"Dunno, I just feel like today is a math day, you know what I mean?" Niel grab the forgotten math book and started to flip the pages.
"Ew hyung no I don't." Changjo scrunch his face in disgust.
"But Cap hyung, you can read minds?" Ricky still hasn't gotten over the shock.
"That's what he said..." Cap shrugs it off.
"Looks like he's also deaf, no wonder he's slow." Again Chunji gloat over Ricky's misery.
"Shut up hyung we still think it was Ricky's idea, and you're still the dumb one." Defended Changjo. He believes 95 liners should stick with each other.
"Excuse me, you weren't even awake. You have no rights to judge who made the idea."
"But it's general knowledge."
"Hey guys I just realize something..." Ricky is still shocked, but that doesn't stop his brain from spinning. And for once nobody interrupted him. "If Cap hyung can read mind, he knows what's going on with Niel this whole time!"
All eyes were on Cap, even Niel's. Cap just did what he normally does. He shrugs.
"I guess if you put it that way..." He said lazily.
"What! Then why didn't you tell us earlier!!" Ricky exclaim frustratedly.
"Nobody asked." Cap shrugs again.
"Well nobody knows!" Ricky doesn't even care if he doesn't make any sense anymore. "And stop shrugging you'll dislocate your shoulders!"
"Chill Ricky is not a big deal." Niel said over his book. "No need to take it out on his shoulders." Very manly and y shoulders if Niel thought so himself.
"It is a big deal! I almost made a fool out of myself with the stupid theory. Maybe Chunji hyung was right. I am more stupid than he is."
"Yayyyyy." Chunji puts his hand up and cheer.
"Relax Ricky ah, think of it this way, I haven't actually heard the theory. We haven't got around to actually discussing it". Cap sooths the traumatized Ricky.
Suddenly the bathroom doors swung open.
"THATS RIGHT, SOMEONE DECIDED SELFISHLY INTERRUPT THE DISCUSSION." The bloody L.joe jumped out of the bathroom once he remembered his unfinished arguments with Chunji.
"Excuse me? If I remember correctly you were part of the interruption too! And stop talking in caps already!"
"I'm still offended." Cap murmured.
"That joke is still lame." Changjo added.
"And Cap hyung is still a meanie for making me look stupid." Ricky pouted.
"What joke?" Niel wants to join the fun now that his nose is no longer in the math book. "And eww L.joe hyung your blood is dripping on me."
"Ohmigod is that period blood?" Ricky asks curiously. L.joe glared furiously. He is seriously hating the world right now. Or perhaps it’s just Teen Top members he hates.
"Ricky ah the blood is on his nose." Changjo rolls his eyes. "I don't think that's how period works."
"Well how should I know!" Ricky is now defensive. He doesn't want to look stupid again. "I never had my period!"
"Maybe you're pregnant." Chunji suggested.
"What the..."
"OH DON'T MIND HIM RICKY, CHUNJI IS JUST BEING STUPID AS USUAL." L.joe just has to add. This time he tries to keep his blood to himself.
"Just shut up and die already!" Chunji lose his sophisticated speech ability. He's just too pissed off with the bloody L.joe. "Haven't you lost enough blood already."
"WELL WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP AND DIE ALREADY. HAVEN'T YOU LOST ENOUGH BRAIN CELLS ALREADY??"
"OH EXCUSE ME.." And Chunji's sophisticated speech is back, now upgraded with caps lock. "...FOR YOUR INFORMATION MY BRAIN CELLS ARE QUITE SUPERIOR AND YOU ARE JUST TOO JEALOUS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM."
"OH PLEASE, ALL YOUR BIG WORDS JUST MAKE YOU SOUND EVEN STUPIDER."
"STUPIDER IS NOT A WORD."
"CAN YOU PLEASE STOP FIGHTING AND TALKING IN CAPS!" Changjo yelled. He is just sick of all the stupid drama that's been going on. "CAP HYUNG IS STILL OFFENDED!" Cap nodded in the background.
"YOU'RE TALKING IN CAPS!" Ricky got caught up in the moment and instinctly joins in the screaming.
"WELL YOU'RE NOT HELPING EITHER." L.joe is glad he can get back at Ricky after the embarrassing period talk.
"GUYS..." Niel decided to step in.
"L.JOE STARTED EVERYTHING WE CAN ALL BE MAD AT HIM NOW." Chunji decided direct the angry mob towards his enemy.
"SHUT UP HYUNG, IT'S YOUR FAULT AS WELL!" Exclaim the angry maknae.
"WHO DO THINK YOU ARE BOSSING US AROUND HUH MAKNAE." Screamed Ricky.
"WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT ME NOW WHAT DID I DO!"
"OH I DONT KNOW... ITS NOT LIKE YOU KILLED ME AND INJURED L.JOE."
"SPEAKING OF L.JOE CAN WE GO BACK TO HATING HIM NOW?"
"NO."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH"
Suddenly Niel screamed on top of his lungs. All those years of endless vocal practice, it has now come down to this. This moment where Niel let out his most powerful voice. Much more powerful than any of his on stage singing notes combined. At this moment we can witness the absolute maximum quality, of Niel's voice.
And everyone else fall in silence. Marveling at the beautiful slightly girlish voice that can capture the hearts of millions of fans. Cap wipes the single tear from his eye.
"Okay now that I have your attention. Who wants ice cream. I'm paying."
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"Wow Hyung you are a genius." Compliments Ricky, as both he and Niel are retrieving their jackets in the living room. The rest of the members are outside ready to go to the ice cream parlor down the street.
"I know." Niel smirked. "What would you guys do without me and my voice." Ricky just smiled. At the moment Niel deserve his arrogant attitude. Ricky is just glad that all the drama and the screaming and L.joe's blood has stopped.
"I'm just glad it's all over. I don't even remember what exactly happened."
"Me neither. But you know what, for someone who was pretty much involved in the fight that happened a moment ago, you seem to be in a pleasant mood Ricky ah." Niel observed. Sure maybe it's because Ricky is glad it's all over and the kid just really like ice cream. But does his feelings change that rapidly? No sore feelings? Ricky acts like nothing happened at all.
Ricky just smiled knowingly. "That's because I realize I didn't make a fool out of myself as I originally thought."
"Really?"
"Yup, my theory wasn't completely wrong after all." Ricky stopped walking as he face Niel knowingly. "Hyung, you are in love." Niel giggled.
"And you are one smart dongsaeng."
THE END
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