NO FUN .. nct（✓）

✰. thirty-five

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halloween. a night aejung hadn't expected to arrive so soon.

they hadn't planned on having a party or doing anything big, but minju's fathers insisted. they trusted their daughter enough to be mature and keep things under control.

they didn't trust a notorious party boy by the name of lee haechan.

aejung and minju were rushing around the marble island in the younger's kitchen, their heels clinking against the tile floors as they struggled to arrange the snacks in a visually appealing way.

"no, we can't put the pretzel bowl next to the dip! and the sodas... let's just put the drinks somewhere else."

raking her hands through her messy blonde hair, aejung released a tired sigh and did as told. her knee ached from bumping it into the side of the counter a few moments before, and guests were supposed to be arriving in ten minutes. well, guests excluding sungchan, jisung, and shotaro, who arrived early to trick-or-treat for big candy bars.

glancing up from the array of snacks, the senior caught sight of minju twisted at an awkward angle as she tried to get a good look at herself without a mirror. the younger huffed a frustrated sigh before pulling at the spandex costume bunched around her waist and rear.

"does this look dumb?" she questioned after feeling aejung's eyes on her. the older shook her head genuinely, balancing her elbows on the center island as she leaned over it. "i think you look fine. that color suits you well."

minju laughed, finally meeting the other's eyes. "no way did you say this hideous bubblegum pink actually looks good." aejung shrugged, quickly followed by a teasing wink. "only on you, bae."

the younger rolled her eyes, fighting the urge to ugly laugh at the comment. "whatever. come on, help me set the music up."

as the two searched for a worthy playlist, the front door was thrown open, instantly grabbing their attention as the three boys from earlier hurried inside. "dude, look what we got!"

"why is it so cold? my balls went into fucking hibernation." sungchan's comment caused the blonde to shiver, pushing it from her thoughts and turning towards jisung's excited figure. "what did you get?"

the younger boy began showing off his candy haul, shotaro joining him as sungchan took it upon himself to help minju with the music.

"a lot of people liked our costumes," jisung started with a giant smile, one aejung hadn't ever seen on him before. "we should all go out together! they'll love the complete team!"

the blonde chuckled softly at his enthusiasm before looking down at her own yellow outfit, the costume growing on her. "sounds good, ji."

by the time the two boys had finished separating and trading their candy, the rest of the group had arrived.

"woah! you guys look great!" yangyang, dressed as a cat, screeched upon arrival as he caught sight of the quintet. giggling at the child-like gleam in his eyes, the five decided to do their rehearsed greeting.

i'll save you the disturbing detail, but they were the power rangers.

the rest of the group was festively dressed as well; some even coupling up. renjun wanted to do something with aejung, so he agreed to be the green ranger and complete the strange group of six.

jaemin and kobi dressed, flawlessly, as percy and annabeth from the beloved book series, chenle and daehyun were hiro and baymax, and haechan was a rather lame vampire.

fitting music flooded the room as the group played games, yangyang even convincing some of his college friends to bring them beer. the blonde stayed away from alcohol for personal reasons, while chenle and kobi convinced jisung to try some of their drinks.

judging by the look of pure disgust on his face, he wasn't a fan.

aejung watched as minju suddenly struggled to her feet, the girl's cheeks almost as pink as her costume. following her to the door, both girls froze in their places when they saw who they were greeting.

junhee, dalmi, safiya... and jeno.

"what are you doing here?" the brunette's voice broke the blonde from her state of shock, discretely wrapping her arm around aejung.

junhee placed a hand over her chest, her smile sickly sweet, "don't be silly! we've come to all your parties since 9th grade." she pouted, "we were rather heartbroken not to receive an invite."

dalmi had her arms crossed over her chest as if she'd already marked the party with an f in her head, and safiya stood back with her head facing her feet. the three were dressed as the adult power puff girls, junhee in front wearing a skimpy baby blue dress.

the presence of another grabbed aejung's attention, and she glanced back to see jisung trying to peek around them with eyes squinted in excitement. "is the pizza here? i can help carry it!"

"is that jisung?" the girl in blue gasped, failing to stifle her laugh. "oh my god, i knew you were a child, but now dressing like one? you look ridiculous!"

aejung watched as the boy behind her instantly reddened, his bangs falling over his eyes as his smile dropped. it hurt to see him like that, to see people talk to him like that.

biting her inner cheek, the female whipped back towards junhee, eyes narrowed in rage. "who do you think you are? insulting my friend when you're dressed like that? you're his senior, you should be taking care of him." she scoffed, "talk about childish."

when aejung looked back to see if jisung was okay, he was gone. shoulder's slumping, the blonde moved her head back towards the group just for her gaze to meet that of the boy she'd tried so hard to avoid.

"just..." sighing, aejung pulled herself from minju's grasp, averting herself from jeno's eyes, and made her way back into the kitchen to search for jisung without another word.

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i'm slowly gonna work my way through the school year timeline so i apologize if we have christmas and new years in summer.