Chapter 50

"I want ice cream!" Taehyung exclaimed loudly, making various people in the restaurant turn and glare at him.

"Shh!" Minseok shushed and reached behind Minki to grab Taehyung's shoulder. Taehyung looked at his uncle with big eyes. "Taehyung, you are not allowed to yell in a restaurant like that!" Minseok said reprimanding. "If you need to say something, you say it in a tone that can only be heard by the people around the table. Not the entire restaurant! You understand?" Minseok's gaze was firm when he looked at the five-year-old.

"Sorry, uncle Minseok..." Taehyung said, and earned himself a small approving smile from Minseok. Minseok leaned away from the boy again. They had finished eating their dinner and their plates and utensils had been taking by the waiters. The children had gotten slightly restless, while the adults and older children continued talking.

Taehyung sat quietly on his seat for a little while, until he couldn't take it anymore and had to leave his seat.

"Eomma," Taehyung whined and stretched out his arms as he stood by Baekhyun's seat. Baekhyun turned halfway in the chair and put the kid on his lap, before continuing his talk with Jongin. But it didn't take long before he had to turn his full attention to the whining kid who kept pulling at his shirt, calling him "eomma."

"What is it, Taehyung?" Baekhyun asked with a patient smile on his face.

"I want ice cream," Taehyung said. "You promised me I could get ice cream!"

Baekhyun sighed inwardly. "I know, sweetie, but can you wait just a bit? I'm in a conversation with uncle Jongin right now. Can't you speak with Namjoo and Minki and Junhong for a while?" Jongin smiled at Taehyung from across the table when Taehyung looked up at him, but the kid looked back at his eomma right away and shook his head. Baekhyun suppressed a sigh once again.

"Okay, fine, Taehyung, you can sit here, but I'm going to talk to uncle Jongin, okay?" he said, and Taehyung nodded but with a small pout.

"But ice cream..?" he mumbled.

"And then afterwards I will order you ice cream." Taehyung looked at his eomma with a big smile and Baekhyun turned back to Jongin.

Meanwhile Jonghyun was in the middle of a mumbling monologue of what to eat for desert.

"Maybe I should take the pie... or maybe ice cream..." he mumbled, as he looked in a dessert menu card that he had asked Aron to grab for him when he had gone to the restroom. He couldn't read yet, so he just looked at the few pictures that were shown in the card. "Or maybe I want cake."

"I want waffles," Changjo said. He sat in front of Jonghyun and next to Hayoung. "Are there waffles?" He tried glancing over the menu which he saw from the opposite side.

"Uhm," Jonghyun said as he ran his finger through the various dishes, pretending he knew what it said. It ended on a random word. "Yes, they have waffles." He looked at Changjo and Changjo smiled. Then he looked at Hayoung. "And what do you want, Hayoung?"

"I want ice cream!" she stated happily and watched the menu excited, as Jonghyun's finger started running down it again.

"They have that too!" Jonghyun decided and smiled brightly.

"Do you even know how to read yet, Jonghyun?" Aron asked. He, Amber and Sohee had gotten distracted by the three happy kids as they had started smiling uncontrollably.

"Of course, I do! I'm six!" Jonghyun exclaimed offended and put his hands on his sides.

"Then what does this word say?" Amber asked and pointed at a word on the menu, clearly stating 'almond pie', intentionally choosing a difficult word.

Jonghyun stared at it for a while, before stating with a smile, "pancakes!"

Amber, Sohee and Aron began laughing.

"What about this word, Jonghyun?" Amber pointed at a new word, spelling out 'apple pie'.

Jonghyun concentrated on the new word for some seconds, before looking back up at his older cousins with an even brighter smile than before. "Pancakes!" He couldn't help but make his older cousins laugh out loudly and Jonghyun grinned at Changjo and Hayoung who also started laughing slightly.

"What's going on over there?" Chanyeol asked with a confused yet happy expression, as he looked down the table at where the kids were sitting and laughing full-heartedly. He got no response though, as Aron, who was sitting next to him, started drying away tears from his eyes and seemed like he couldn't catch his breath, since he was laughing so much.

Some minutes later the three tables had all gotten some dessert cards and they were all looking through the suggestions of sweet and sour things. Taehyung was still sitting on Baekhyun's lap, refusing to go back to his own seat, and he was leaning his head against Baekhyun's chest. Taehyung was tired but even though his eyelids were heavy and they kept going down, he refused to let them shut and kept forcing his eyes to stay open, as he was afraid to miss the long awaited dessert.

"Hey, why are we eating dessert here?" Kyungsoo suddenly asked and turned his gaze away from the menu card. "I was thinking we could just pay for dinner and then walk down the street? I'm sure we can find something cheaper and still delicious sweets somewhere. We can eat it on the way towards the cars." He looked around at the adults for a reaction.

"I wouldn't mind getting some fresh air," Jongdae said with a smile and nodded at his husband's suggestion.

"It's not because of the money, right?" Baekhyun asked Kyungsoo. Kyungsoo shot him a glare.

"No," he said. "I just wouldn't mind stretching my legs and if we can get something that is almost equally delicious for less than half the prize, I wouldn't mind." Baekhyun sent a smirk Kyungsoo's direction with a teasing glint in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. Kyungsoo just rolled his eyes and ignored him.

"Well, I wouldn't mind either," Lu Han said.

"But what about my ice cream?" Taehyung was suddenly fully awake again.

"We'll find you ice cream on the way," Baekhyun replied. "It will be equally as good - if not better."

Taehyung hesitated with a small pout, but Baekhyun kissed his forehead and pulled him closer to his chest again. Taehyung didn't complain.

"So, is that what we're going to do?" Jongin asked and looked at his hyungs.

"If you don't have a problem with it?" Taeyeon asked.

"No, not at all! I would like some fresh air too, and I'm sure Taemin and probably some of the others would too," he said with a smile.

Then that was decided, and they called the waiters over so they could pay for all the food. After that, they went out of the restaurant and started wandering down the street.

"But what about dessert?" Minki asked Taeyeon as he pulled on her shirt. She looked down at him.

"We'll walk past a lot of stores so there's plenty of opportunities to buy you some dessert," she answered. He thought for a minute while they walked, and then walked behind to walk with Jonghyun.

"Hey, Jongie," he said and placed his arm around Jonghyun's, so they walked arm in arm. Jonghyun smiled at him, and so did Lu Han, Taemin and Baekhyun who walked behind them.

"Oh, stop," Kyungsoo said when he reached them with Jongin. He had noticed the way they looked at the two young kids, and the looks they gave each other, and he knew exactly what they were thinking. Lu Han looked at him confused. "Don't bet on the kids like that." Lu Han just rolled his eyes, but even Kyungsoo couldn't help but smile as he saw little Minki give a hug to Jonghyun as they kept walking arm in arm.

"See! You can't help but smile yourself!" Taemin exclaimed by the look on Kyungsoo's face.

"That has nothing to do with the thing you're thinking of!" Kyungsoo claimed and Jongin grinned at him.

Suddenly Luna came running towards them with Chanyeol pulled behind her. They stopped in front of Baekhyun and both looked like excited small kids. Baekhyun looked anticipating at them, waiting for one of them to speak.

"Aunt Baekhyun, we want ice cream!" Luna finally exclaimed. She pointed at an ice cream store a little further down the street. Baekhyun raised his eyebrow and looked from Luna to Chanyeol and back again.

"Then why don't you buy some?" he said, making Luna and Chanyeol look happily at each other before running back to the store. Baekhyun shook his head at them.

"Jeez, he's a grown man..." he mumbled and Taemin and Lu Han laughed. But Luna's outburst of ice cream had seemed to wake up a sleeping boy who was carried by Minseok some meters ahead. He demanded to be put down on the street and immediately ran back to his eomma.

"I want ice cream too!" Taehyung said with a pout and glaring eyes.

"Then go run to appa, he's in the store right now with Luna," Baekhyun said with an inwardly sigh. Taehyung hurried down the street and Baekhyun wasn't worried of letting his little child run ahead, since his whole family was walking in front.

"Hey, I want dessert too," Minki said as he heard the others had run to the ice cream store. He looked behind himself to check if one of his parents was there and then, after realizing none of them walked behind him, he turned his attention to the front and ran to his eomma, pulling Jonghyun with him.

The parents agreed to split up, because half of the kids wanted ice cream and the other half wanted something different. Some went inside the ice cream store where Chanyeol, Luna and Taehyung came out of, each with an ice cream, and the rest went a little further down the road where they found a candy store and a pastry shop.

"But I want waffles," Changjo pouted as he stood inside the pastry shop with Jongin and Sohee. The three looked at the glass case where various cakes were shown, but no waffles.

"But there are no waffles, Changjo. Is there anything else you'd want?" Jongin asked him. Sohee looked through the glass, giving Changjo and Jongin some space to discuss.

Changjo shook his head and kept pouting with crossed arms.

"Are you sure?" he asked. "There's plenty of other delicious stuff in here. Look, there's a chocolate muffin right there. Wouldn't you like that?"

Changjo just shook his head. Jongin sighed.

"Are you sure?" He knelt to look Changjo in the eye. Changjo nodded. "Then you don't want anything?" Changjo shook his head. "And you're not going to regret it in a minute when you see everyone else eating candy and ice cream and whatnot?" The kid hesitated for moment, but then shook his head at his appa's question. "Okay then." Jongin stood back up.

"Sohee, did you choose?" he asked his niece and she smiled with a nod as she pointed at some macarons. He nodded and turned to the clerk. "Could we get three macarons, a chocolate muffin and a blueberry muffin, please?" The clerk nodded and put the cakes in a bag. "Thank you," Jongin said as he paid and the three went out the store; Changjo still had his arms crossed, contrary to when he went inside the store holding Jongin's hand excitedly.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Taemin asked him, when he and the others who had bought ice cream waited outside the store. Changjo just kept his arms crossed and shook his head, not wanting to talk to him either. Taemin looked questioningly at Jongin who sighed, after handing Sohee her cakes.

"There were no waffles inside the store," he explained. Then he looked at Taemin's hand that was holding an ice cream. "Hey, why did you buy that?" he asked.

Taemin shrugged. "I wanted ice cream," he said.

Jongin pouted. "But I bought you this." He took out the blueberry muffin from the paper bag to show to Taemin. Taemin smiled warmly at him.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were planning to buy something for me, so I bought an ice cream, because I craved ice cream too," he said, referring to the kids who were on their ice creams while waiting for the rest of the group.

Jongin looked at the muffin in his hand and didn't know what to do with himself. Taemin smiled and leaned in to kiss him on the cheek.

"Thank you, babe."

Some minutes later they were all gathered outside the pastry shop. They were supposed to continue to walk down the street, but they all seemed to be immersed in the sweets and conversations to remember anything else. Changjo was still kind of upset but gave in after seeing all his cousins and some of his uncles and aunts eating delicious sweets, and because his appa kept teasing him by tasting the chocolate muffin in front of his face, exclaiming loudly how good it was. Changjo ended up taking the muffin from Jongin's hand and Jongin looked at him, kind of proud of himself, as Changjo had taken the bait.

"Hey, where did you get that?" Taemin asked Byunghun, as he and Chanhee walked past them with a bubble tea in Byunghun's hand and an ice cream in Chanhee's.

Byunghun shrugged. "Uncle Lu Han and uncle Sehun wanted bubble tea and me and Sandara noona went with them down the street until we found a store that sold it."

Taemin furrowed his eyebrows, as he hadn't given him permission to walk down the street. But luckily nothing had happened and of course he had trust in Lu Han and Sehun to take care of his son.

Some minutes went by, but finally Minseok and Kyungsoo broke the trance and started walking, slowly getting the rest of the company with them.

"When are you getting your revenge? Seriously, we all know it's going to happen," Aron asked the girls, and Luna, Amber and Sohee just laughed secretly together.

"We're not going to tell you. We know the suspense is killing you. Why would we ruin the fun?" Luna replied.

"Yeah, don't expect us to reveal what we're going to do or when we’re going to do it," Amber said. Aron glared at her and she glared back at him. Then he rolled his eyes: he should've known he wasn't going to get an answer from them.

"Hey, I was thinking," Chanhee suddenly said and they all looked at him. "How about we prank some of the others? That could be fun."

"Like Ji Yong hyung and Sandara noona?" Byunghun asked.

"No, are you crazy? Ji Yong oppa would kill us! I swear, he would seriously murder us in our sleep," Luna exclaimed and they laughed at the truth.

"I don't know about Sandara noona though," Sohee said thoughtfully. "I'm not sure how she would react, but something tells me we shouldn't prank her either." They nodded in agreement.

"I wasn't even talking about them," Chanhee said. "I meant prank the uncles. Don't you want to see uncle Chanyeol's face when his clothes are spread all over the house? Or uncle Jongin's when the chicken is spicier than he'd expected?"

"Or uncle Minseok when he thinks he's adding sugar to his coffee, but it's really salt?" Aron said with a laugh.

"Or uncle Taemin when he 'loses' his phone and keys 'for real'?" Amber said in between laughs and the other laughed with her.

"Or or," Chanhee exclaimed excitedly and walked a little faster so he could see all of them walking on a line. "Uncle Sehun when...!" Chanhee stumbled over something - probably his own feet - but managed to gain back his balance before falling on the hard, stone ground. His ice cream on the other hand wasn't as lucky, as it, in Chanhee's surprise-stumble, had fallen out of his grip and had landed on the ground. Chanhee stared at it laying on the ground, dripping from the ice cream cone on the filthy street. Chanhee first felt like pouting, then he wanted to cry or whine at the frustration of dropping such a delicious ice cream. But when he became aware of his cousins all standing beside him, laughing, he got angry. He looked up, shooting a glance at the one who seemed to laugh the loudest, and hit the ice cream out of Aron's hand. Aron's mouth flew open as he stared at the now empty hand and down at the ground where it lay next to Chanhee's. Chanhee couldn't hide a smile as Aron looked at him angrily and the others just laughed even harder at the comic scene.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Aron yelled at him. His appa came up to his side and some of the other adults also stopped to check what was happening.

"Hey hey, young man! Language," Yi Fan said and Aron looked up at him.

"He threw my ice cream on the ground!" Aron exclaimed while he pointed at Chanhee who stopped grinning. Like any other time when Aron was upset and didn’t have time to think, he switched to talking in Chinese. Naturally, Chanhee followed suit.

"He laughed when I dropped mine!" Chanhee argued back and pointed at Aron, while looking at Lu Han who was also standing by them. Jongin, Changjo and Minki had also stopped. Lu Han's eyes searched for an explanation or perhaps evidence, when they stopped at the two ice cream cones on the ground.

"We all laughed! It wasn't just me!" Aron yelled. The other kids - Amber, Sohee, Luna and Byunghun - had all stopped laughing and were now staring at their two yelling cousins with apprehensive expressions.

"Hey!" Yi Fan said and gained Aron's attention by grabbing his shoulder tightly. "This is a public place. I'm warning you, Aron, do not yell," he said with authority and warning in his voice, which were enough to make Aron quiet as he looked down with a scowl.

"Chanhee, did you make Aron's ice cream fall to the ground?" Lu Han asked his son with a softer voice than Yi Fan, but still a voice indicating not to be messed with. Chanhee hesitated and gritted his teeth, before slowly nodding at his baba's question.

"Say that you're sorry," Lu Han demanded. Chanhee hesitated at first, but because he could feel his baba's burning gaze on his head, he mumbled a "sorry" to Aron, while avoiding looking at Lu Han. Lu Han nodded approvingly, and Yi Fan also decided to accept the apology.

"Now, move on," Yi Fan said and pushed Aron slightly forward before they all began walking again. Aron and Chanhee walked the furthest away from each other as they could, walking side by side with their cousins, and nobody talked, they just kept walking in the thick awkward silence.

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter!

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