Changes of the Heart (FanFic)

Chapter 16

CHAPTER 16

    

The next day was Valentine’s Day. I’d been planning for it for a week. I wanted to make it special for the guys, since they’d been so nice to me ever since I’d moved in with them. They’d done a great job of making me feel at home. While they were out at a special concert, I stayed home. They’d offered to bring me along, but I told them I had to too much homework to do. It was surprisingly hard to lie to them. While I had the house to myself, I cooked the whole time. I made five batches of special chocolate. Orange-flavored chocolate for Junsu, strawberry-flavored chocolate for Changmin, raspberry-flavored chocolate for Jaejoong, apricot-flavored chocolate for Yoochun, and cherry-flavored chocolate for Yunho.

I put each back in origami paper buckets I’d made out of scrap paper. When the five of them came home, sweaty and tired, the chocolate was waiting for them on the dining room table. I peeked around the corner and as they found each paper bucket with their name on it.

“Oh, wow, chocolate!” Changmin exclaimed. “I wonder which one is mine…?”

“This must be from Sun-hi! I bet you she made it herself.” Jaejoong guessed. “Unless, of course, someone snuck into our apartment…”

They all looked around and I ducked behind the wall.

“And look! She made these cute little baskets and decorated them and everything!” Junsu picked up his paper bucket of chocolate and turned it this way and that to examine the swirls I’d drawn with blue and purple markers. “Isn’t it nice?”

“Ya.” Yunho agreed. “I feel so special now. Wasn’t it a great idea to hire her? I was totally my idea.”

“It was not!” Jaejoong argued.

“Yah! Stop bragging.” Junsu scolded.

They both whacked Yunho at the same time.

“Aish. Ok, ok, ok, it was our idea. But it was still a brilliant one.”

I giggled, then covered my mouth. I’d been spotted!

“Sun-hi!” They shouted in unison, delighted to see me.

I slowly stepped out from my hiding spot, suddenly feeling like a stalker spying on them like that.

“Did you make this for us?” Asked Yoochun.

Changmin nudged him with his elbow. “Of course she did.”

I nodded and they all bowed to me. “Thank you very much!”

“You’re welcome. I’m glad to have made you smile, even when you’re so tired.”

Yoochun took out a piece of his apricot-flavored chocolate and popped it in his mouth.

“Mm, wow, Sun-hi, this chocolate is really good! It tastes like a chocolate-covered fruit!”

I nodded. “Mhmm. I flavored them. Yours is apricot. I picked cherry for Yunho, raspberry for Jaejoong, strawberry for Changmin, and orange for Junsu.” I told them, but they were already tasting the candy for themselves. I shooed them out of the dining room. “You go and wash up. Take some showers, you’ve got time before dinner’s done. And don’t ruin your appetite with so much chocolate!”

They obediently made their way down the hall and I heard Yoochun say, “Changmin doesn’t have to worry about that—he always has an appetite. The boy’s stomach is a bottomless pit!”

I chuckled and shook my head. What’s it like living with five guys? Never boring.

    

“It doesn’t take me 15 minutes to get to class.” I said to Ji-hyun.