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14DAYS BEFORE THE PARTY

"Jin! "

The three friends, surprisingly Joshua joined, threw themselves to the unsuspecting Chinese, who was busy answering his missed activities, the moment they saw him in his seat. They were happy that their friend was back.

"I'm here too you know" and Hiro. Yeah they were happy Hiro was there as well.

"oh my Jinnie where have you been!? " Chen exclaimed, pinching the Chinese'S cheeks That earned A groan from the Chinese and a glare from Hiro. "nevermind! I can finally pinch these cheeks if yours! "

"yeah and I can now punch you with my fist" their Japanese friend threatened to raise a fist wanting to scare the butterfly but only got the butterfly to show his tongue. "ass—"

"anyway... " Jehyun made sure to shut the Japanese mouth before he could curse and start another fight with his best friend, "why were the two of you out for so long anyway? "

Jin successful moved away from the butterfly before nearing Hiro who sat on top of his table, the Chinese smiling at the Japanese.

"oh my gosh" Chen gasped and covered his mouth, eyes wide as he watched the two. "don't tell me you two are—"

"not dating" Hiro interrupted blatantly. "Well not yet" this earned a punch on his arm from the flushed Chinese.

"anyway, to answer your first question I went with my cousin and the twins to a quick Maldives vacation" Jin smiled at the memory. He then watched as Chen had his mouth agape while Joshua had a triumphant grin on his face.

"pay up butterfly you lost" he accepted the envelope that Chen slammed to his awaiting hand. Opening it, he showed a satisfactory smile. "great doing business with ya. Oh wait how about our other bet, you lost butterfly "

Chen grudgingly got another envelope out of his bag. He shouldn't have done that bet with Joshua. Joshua happily got it and took the money out, happily flipping it as he counted. Jehyun, Jin and Hiro on the other hand didn't mind it since Chen and Joshua were always doing bets against each other, which Joshua mostly wins.

"what did he bet this time? " Hiro asked. He watched Joshua continued counting but answered his question. "his monthly allowance"

"well that shouldn't be much of a loss. I mean I could have bet my yearly allowance" Jin snorted, taking out his newest black card and waving it around. "I say we go to an all you can eat after school"

"yes please! " Chen stood up from his seat and begged the Chinese. "I can barely pay for dinner since I gave it to this rat "

"and there you go with the weird names again" Hiro rolled his eyes. "aren't you guys going to ask why I was gone? "

"nope" the rest of his friends deadpaned, going back to what they were doing before. Even Jin went back to his seat to answer back his papers. This made Hiro scoff in disbelief. "and here I thought you guys would be excited to know I'll star in a movie"

"you'll star in a movie? "

Everyone, and I mean everyone even their classmates, stared at the celebrity who entered. He was shock to learn that the Japanese was gone because of that. "what type? "

"action" Hiro shrugged then pointed to Jin, "he didn't want me to star in a romantic movie"

"I did not! " the Chinese harshly slammed the book he was using and glared at the Japanese. "I did not say you couldn't! In fact I said you are free to—"

"say no because you don't want me to kiss someone else" Hiro mocked, taking out his phone and playing the voice message Jin sent him. This made Jin fume, suddenly standing and stomping out of the room, not forgetting to slam the door on his way out.

Jehyun looked at Chen who shared the same expression as him, the look of disappointment. They knew Hiro was an idiot who lacked functional braincells. So it wasn't a surprised when he unintentionally ticked Jin.

Chen was first to act from the two, getting up from his seat and smacking Hiro at the back of his head. "great job you oversized lobster! No wonder he said no to you"

"alright class please look here and meet the newest addition to our class"

Everyone looked at their teacher then to the girl who stood beside him, a beautiful smile adoring her red lips.

"this is Niommi Robinson" the said girl waved at them. "and she's an actress like Seojun so I want you all to behave"

Seojun glared at the girl in front of them. He wanted to go out then and there and make a call to the company. He was irritated that she went this far to try to get his attention.

"Niommi please sit beside Jehyun. Jehyun raised your hand"

Great, more trouble. And here he thought that he could catch a break after the whole Jung hoon fiasco. Speaking of Jung hoon he wondered why the president looked so annoyed this morning. He hasn't even bugged him yet.

Seojun decided to continue his mindless thinking on another time. He had to pay attention to class, seeing that he missed a week worth of lessons.

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"jehyun! "

Everyone turned their attention to their shool president who burst open the cafeteria and shouted. He looked a mess, hair disheveled, blazer no where to be found, and shirt almost untucked. They watched as the senior made his way to the said junior who was busy eating mashed potatoes.

"it's horrid! " junghoon proceeded to sit down beside Jehyunn, who finally noticed his presence. He wondered why the older was acting that way.

But before that, after Junghoon confessed and was rejected the two agreed to put that past them. Seeing as how the older was being awkward around him. They both agreed to never mention about what happened that day, even going to the extent in threatening Seojun who witnessed it. So in short, they were back in being friends.

"what's wrong Hoon? " Chen asked, seeing that he was the only one who sensed the older's distress.

Junghoon slumped in his seat, "I can't take it! I can't take—"

"where's my Chihuahua?! "

Everyone turned to the person who shouted, most if them gasping in surprise as they learned who it was. It was the one and only soloist from C9 entertainment.

"that" the president got out, suddenly pulling Seojun who sat beside Jehyun to cover him from the soloist that was looking him.

"what did you do this time? " Seojun watched as his 'best friend' started looking around the cafeteria.

"I didn't do anything this time I swear! " the senior squeaked, debating whether he should dive under the table. "I swear this time Jun! "

"yeah and he's turning the whole cafeteria upside down" Seojun watched as his best friend easily flipped the cafeteria bench to look under it. He nudged the older. "should I? "

"don't even think about it! "

"there you are my chihuahua! "

Jehyun glared while he wrote 'I will not disrupt the class again' for the tenth time and he needed(as he calculated) 50 more to fill the whole paper. he didnt look up when Seojun called for him. the celebrity was with as both were sent by their cooking teacher to detention after the ruckus they caused earlier that day.

Jehyun worriedly look at the simmering pot of sauce on the stove to the person who was stiring with a happy and calm face. take a guess on who Jehyun was staring at.

it was no other than Seojun who he was sure added too much salt to the dish. fighting the urge to voice out his thoughts, he turned to Chen who stood beside him slicing a mango?

"Chen why are you slicing a mango when we're making spaghetti?"

Chen stopped slicing, slowly putting down the knife and showed a tight lipped smile. "I dont know Hyun" Before placing his hands on both sides of his head and screaming bloodly murder. "Fuck! why am I slicing a mango?!"

Jehyun wanted to remind the butterfly that they were still in class and that the teacher could hear him but Chen surprised him when the butterfly himself ran out of the classroom, pushing past their cooking teacher who shouted him to come back. it was obvious the butterfly would attend detention that Joshua would bail him out of. Perks of being friends with the headmaster's son.

seeing that Chen was not going to come back, he turn back to the simmering concoction by Seojun. his nose scrunched in disgust as he caught the smell of something burning. he then showed a baffle expression when the celebrity sprinkled more salt.

"isn't that going to be salty? " jehyun pointed at the pot.

"aren't you going to take out your muffins? " Seojun countered.

"yes—you placed too much salt on it"

"and if you wait any longer then your muffins would come out burnt and crisp"

didnt he say thay they were cooking spaghetti. then why was he baking muffins? simple, because the teacher told him so.

huffing and puffing his cheeks, he grabbed the oven mitts before harshly opening the oven and pulling out the piping hot muffin tray. he made sure no one was near when he pulled them out. stopping in front of his working space, he looked around, trying to look for the cooling rack he placed earlier. "seojun have you seen—what the fuck?! "

owning a horrified expression, Jehyun had to move the tray he was holding away from the direction of the celebrity who placed the once simmering pot on top of the cooling rack.

"what? " Seojun asked him.

"you're not supposed to put that there"

"I know and don't care" the celebrity shrugged his shoulders before picking up the salt shaker.

"more salt!? and give me back my cooling rack! "

"this is pink salt lion cub. not normal salt" the celebrity sassed before putting what Jehyun could say, a tablespoon of pink salt. "and nope. I need this to elevate my pot"

"you do realize that your pasta would taste like the sea right" giving up on trying to get his cooling rack back, Jehyun place the muffin tray on top of his workplace before taking off and throwing his oven mitts near it. he placed his hands on his hips.

"that's the point liob cub. Im trying to invent a new pasta recipe, the SEA PASTA" Seojun looked crazy in jehyun's eyes. the celebrity had raised the pot for the class to see. his classmates had their heads turn to their station, some owning a confused expression. it was obvious they found it weird that a celebrity, who usually worries about his image, suddenly raise his pot of pasta sauce in the air and proclaiming it as sea pasta.

"seojun please—"

"MR KIM, MR LEE DETENTION "

"come on lion cub, I told you we could skip detention " Seojun whined, visibly bored And physically annoying Jehyun who ignored whatever he spouted the past hour. the two still had two more hours to go. "and why can't we escape? the teacher isn't here"

"he isn't here because he's trying to hunt Chen who AGAIN almost shot out archery instructor" Jehyun reminded the other. the teacher who was supposed to monitor them left the room as he realized that one of the students wasn't here, that being Chen.

Seojun who grew bored decided to move to the seat beside Jehyun and placing his chin on top of the chair backrest and showing his puppy dog eyes. he started to make cooing noises. "come on hyunie~ entertain junie~"

Jehyun would be lying if he said he didn't find the older's act of cuteness not disgusting. the older had his lips pouted which reminded him of a puffer fish. scooting himself away from the older, he fought the urge to hit the older with the paper he was writing.

Of course he wasn't all that cruel. thus the reason why he decided to ask the older. "yeah and what am I supposed to do? "

he could have swern Seojun had a lightbulb shine above him. the older tilted his chair forward which made Jehyun leaned back in return. the two were only a meter apart from kissing.

"so? " jehyun asked.

"I don't know" Seojun first shrugged before acting like he got an idea. "kiss me"

"what? " jehyun blushed a bright red as he felt his heart go doki doki. The celebrity leaned closer, eyes glistening with intent which made Jehyun move back farther.

it was just a simple kiss. they weren't going to make out so where's the harm? plus, it was obvious that's Seojun wouldn't stop pestering him later if he says no.

so Jehyun sucked up all the strength he had left and closed his eyes.

"AH! "

he expected a soft pair of lips not the feeling of hard wood. unexpectedly, he fell of his chair. resulting him to land in his back and Seojun stopping from leaning closer, the older had his lips pursed as he blinked. "lion cub? "

"here seojun" Jehyun groaned, using his arms to push him up. "a little help would be nice "

"oh right" Seojun hoisted the younger up by the waist before settling him on his seat. he then inspected him from head to toe, frowning as he saw the lion cub wince when tried to twist his back. "does it hurt? "

"what do you think? " jehyun didn't mean to be sarcastic but seeing how this was the older's fault for asking for a kiss and leaning closer.

"here let me massage you" Seojun went behind the younger and placed both of his hands on eiyher part of jehyun's shoulder before applying slight pressure and rubbing his thumbs in a circling motion.

he then moved to the back where he made sure he applied just the right pressure and rubbing motion at the back.

Jehyun on the other hand his face blazing red once again. he wasn't fond of people massaging him since he felt it weird. not only that but his heart wouldn't stop going doki doki. it made his head swirl in confusion.

the two stayed there, not knowing that their time in detention has finished an hour ago.

"oh you guys are still here" the teacher that was supposed to watch them was shock that they were still there in the detention room. usually the kids would try to escape when there's no teacher. he watched as one of them woke up. "it's six in the evening"

Jehyun woke up from his slumber and noticed the teacher and the time. crap, he lost count of time and fell asleep. Seojun must have— a loud snore coming beside him Made his snap his head and saw a sleeping celebrity who had his head thrown back and his mouth agape.

"ehem—School is about to close. please wake up your friend and leave and don't forget to lock the room when you leave. I'll be leaving first" the teacher said before reaching for his bag and leaving the two.

Jehyun yawned before slapping The celebrity on the face. it obviously worked in waking up the older as the celebrity instantly woke up while mumbling profanities. he then dropped his pen on the table into his bag before zipping it close. "come one Seojun. the school's gonna close "

The celebrity let out a deep groan before hauling himself up and picking up his bag and dragging himself to the door. he stopped when he realized that Jehyun didn't follow him. "come on lion cub"

Jehyun stood there in his place, fiddling with his fingers.

"seojun... "

"hmm"

"why do you want to kiss me? "

"because"

"because? "

"because—" was too tired to make his brain work that he decided to to walk back up to Jehyun and wrapping his arms around the younger's waist. "I like you"

"w-what? "