Just The Two Of Us | minsung

22: the best husband in the world

"Where the fuck are you guys? I thought you said you were here already"

"We are, just open the door dumbass" Changbin argues back over the phone. "Wait, did you say fifth floor or fourth floor earlier"

"Fourth"

"Oh... give us a few minutes then, Felix made a mistake" and in the background, you can here a "stop putting all the blame on me, it was your idea!"

"Well hurry up, it's almost Chan's bedtime"

And seungmin hung up.

It was a few minutes past three, well, they were supposed to be here hours ago for lunch, but I guess not everyone is ways on time. Hyunjin was watching some kdrama on his laptop, Seungmin was probably on tiktok or something, and Minho and Jeongin were watching anine, so the waiting process wasn't too bad.

Finally, at around 3:30pm, the doorbell rung. Seungmin went to get it, and Seungmin smiled at the four who stood on the other side of the door, "Come in" he let everyone inside and then closed the door behind them. "So if that's Felix", he turned to the blonde holding a container full of brownies, "then that's the short one, changbin"

"New friend or not I will hit you, seungmin"

He just laughed "and that's the old one, so that's Jisung... Hi Jisung" seungmin reached out for a very experimental hug, but luckiky for him the hug was accepted.

Jeongin sighed, "I need a drink"

"You better not take anything alcoholic, you toddler" hyunjin followed jeongin into the kitchen, just to make sure.

"I was talking about water, idiot! Water is a drink too, you know"

Minho sighed several times, and seungmin was disappointed at how he was such a terrible host to their guests. After very short period of awkward yet comfortable silence, seungmin decided to take up the role of host. "Come sit. That's what chairs are for, by the way, you look like you don't know that"

He was definitely not afraid of breaking the ice for everyone.

Minho was still silently processing everything, and then he remembered something very important.

"Your song is coming out today, 6pm, correct?"

"Yes, oh my- it's so good! I only heard, like, two seconds of it but I know that song will break records already. I am so excited, I could cry" Felix answered on behalf of Changbin, who just sat there in silence and blushed until the topic was closed.

"Oh, then that means that-" Minho very dramatically gasped, it was totally out of character, "that means that it was your birthday yesterday! Happy late birthday, chan"

Small things like this really matter for some people, then, because Chan smiled a smile that could make the entire world stop, just to look at him - and then he got up and hugged Minho, which was nice. It was a warm hug, full of love, full of friendship... making jisung, on the couch and all alone, become full of jealousy.

"Thank you for even remembering my birthday" his smile quickly turned bitter.

"I'm having pre-release anxiety, leave me alone, christopher"

"Hey! I made you a cake, you tree"

"And I... just forgot"

Minho started laughing, and just in that moment, Jeongin came running to them, half a glass of water in hand and a Hwang Hyunjin following him. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAN, IT WAS YESTERDAY BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY" he half-yelled.

This made Chan smile again and he hugged Jeongin too, which made him freeze on the spot, his glass of water having a high risk of becoming a mess on the floor that needs to be cleaned up.