I'm Not Cold; Just Scared

(*^3^)/~☆ Chapter 45 [FINAL] (*^3^)/~☆

"Heh, don't worry, I don't want my baby to be murdered by a bunch of grumpy old men either" Jinyoung whispered back, playing with Daehwi's uniform tie.

"Don't call me baby" Daehwi muttered, going red.

"Okay, princess"

"Hyung, I will not hesitate to kick you out of this car" 

"Right. Sorry." Jinyoung apologized. 

Meanwhile, squashed next to them, Seonho and Samuel rolled their eyes, watching them. "Lovebirds" Samuel grumbled.

Seonho looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Yah, you're not even single you have a girlfriend. What about me, I'm the only single one here! Aish I wish Minhyun hyung was single"

"Bro who do you still have a thing for- you know what never mind" Samuel decided to give up. Seonho would probably be whipped for Hwang Minhyun forever. It was none of his business anyways, he had Somi to think about.

After a few minutes, they pulled up at Daehwi's house. Everyone got out, with such expressions that it was pretty obvious to tell that something had been planned. Even if Daehwi hadn't told him earlier, he would've guessed it by now. 

The moment Woojin opened the door, Jinyoung could barely register someone popping party poppers and shoving a cake right under his face. The guys were all clustered around the tiny door, singing congratulations as loud as they could, obviously, with Jaehwan being the loudest.

It didn't matter whether Daehwi had told him about the surprise anyways, he was already surprised thanks to their loudness. "Um...thanks guys?" He mumbled, scratching his neck awkwardly. 

"Blow the candle, dumbass" Hyungseob hissed.

"Ah what? Oh um...yeah" he stuttered before blowing out the candle. Let's just say...parties aren't his thing. At all. But still he had to appreciate their effort. As he walked into the house, he could see the balloons hanging down from the ceiling, the strings of lights that decorated the walls. It all looked so beautiful, he felt so touched. Was it worth it? Doing all that for him?

"Jinyoung ah" It was Jisung. Jinyoung looked at him, questioningly.

"Look. This party thing was just a way to tell you that we're all so, so sorry for the way we treated you, okay? We shouldn't have made assumptions about what had happened and we shouldn't have bad mouthed you when we hadn't known what had gone wrong. Especially, me. I did wrong and I just ask for forgiveness" Jisung explained, looking more nervous that Jinyoung had ever seen him.

Jinyoung smiled. "Hyung. It's okay, you don't need to apologize. I was never mad at you for any of it in the first place. If I was in your position I would've thought the same, so please don't feel guilty." he replied.

"Damn! He's such a nice guy! Ong hyung, you should be taking notes from him" Daniel spoke up. Ong flashed him a look. "Bitch please, you're acting as if you didn't know what you were getting into when you followed me around for a month trying to ask me out" he snapped.

"Jeez! Don't expose me like that" 

The two went on squabbling, ignored by everyone else. "ANYWAYS" Minhyun said, cutting over them. "Let's get this party started, aye?"

"Please never say that again" Samuel muttered, gagging.

"LET'S PARTAYYYYYYYYYYYY" Jaehwan sang, pushing a button on the speaker which started blasting out party music. 

"I'll go keep this in the kitchen" Jisung said, moving away with the cake.

 "Yah! Took you guys long enough to arrive" Somi sighed, slapping Samuel's arm. "We were waiting for you guys since half an hour ago"