A surprise birthday party for Jim - A Soy Luna Fanfic

Chapter 13: From rags to the red carpet

..."Yup, close your eyessss", Luna exclaimed once more.

Jim cutely held her eyes closed with her hands, which caused the party to smile.
"I'm ready!", she shouted.
Yam was purposefully waited a long time to rush behind the stage as quietly as possible, so Jim wouldn't hear her sneaking away.
There, Yam needed to search for a while, in order to find the garment bag containing Jim's surprise, which Jim unintentionally took as a sign of provoking her.

"Oh, come on Yam, you're taking forever! Hurry up!", Jim complained loudly.
"Jesus, give me a moment, Jim! I'm not that fast!", Yam yelled back, now just standing on-stage.
"She's almost back, don't worry", Pedro reassured her, knowing well that she didn't like not being able to see for a long period of time.
"If you say so", Jim whispered back quietly.
Jim was able to tell that Yam had returned, since the loud noise her footsteps had made were basically unmissable.
"Someone's finally back, what took you so long?", Ramiro asked Yam, just to annoy her.
"If you wish to know so badly, I had to search for this first, since a certain someone", she pointed straight at his chest, him looking down in order for his eyes to be able to follow her finger, "made a huge mess over there", Yam responded, grumpily.
"Ok ok fine, maybe it was me", Ramiro unwillingly agreed, making Yam feel a lot better about herself. "Guys, can you get on each other's nerves some other time?", Simón asked them strictly.
"You're right, sorry", Yam quickly said, Ramiro just nodding in agreement.
"Anyway, where were we? Oh right, this", she demonstrated the bag in her hand, forgetting that Jim wasn't able to see it yet.

"Open your eyes!", Yam said and Jim did as instructed. Instead of cheering, Jim was completely confused, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh, what the-"
"Go try it on, you'll see", Delfi said, smirking, signing for Yam to give the bag to Jim, who was, to say the very least, still very confused.
"Wait, clothing? But my outfit is already great!", she exclaimed, making Delfi force a giggle.
"Sorry, but I don't think so.", Jazmín answered like always, causing Yam to angrily glare at her. Delfi pulled her friend back and quickly jumped to her defence.
"...What Jazmín wanted to say, was that we'd love to see in it!", she faked a smile.
"Uhm, well sure!", Jim answered, not noticing the newly arisen tension between her friend and the two members of the 'fashion police'. "Sure...?", she questioned, as she took the bag off of Yam.
"I'll try it on."
"Oh thank god."
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Yam, are you ok? ...Well, see you after I'm done with this!" Jim left the room, still having a big question mark above her head.
Meanwhile, the others celebrated their success on the party having gone so well so far.

The ultimate plan to obtain a girlfriend

While Jim was struggling to change into her gorgeous gown, Nico, who had successfully been able to sneak out from the stage after their group song, was in the middle of having a mental breakdown in the locker rooms.
Even though the first part of the plan had been correctly executed, it was still far from finished.
Nico tried his best attempts at calming himself down first, which after solid 15 minutes, actually worked.

He needed to be fully concentrated for the next parts of his plans in order to not mess up everything and lose his girl forever.
Nico paid close attention to his breathing, making sure to inhale through his nose and exhale through his mouth, which worked really well after a few seconds.
After that technique had done its trick, he was finally able to prepare for his grand finale.
Of course, not being able to see Jim happy face-to-face right now really hurt him, but he figured it was for the best; and surely, Jazmín was filming every single facial expression of Jim's anyway to re-watch later on.

Trying to stay as quiet as possible, so the others wouldn't think he's an intruder or similar, Nico slowly turned the key to his locker around, in order to unlock it.
He pulled out the flowers and teddy bear and placed them on the bench next to him, one-by-one.
Personally, he thought the flowers were absolutely stunning.
And, for the first ever, he even tried to go after its meaning.
In the end, he had settled for burgundy red roses.
These were, according to google at the very least, the ultimate choice for asking somebody out.
And since he found pleasure in exceptionally spoiling his red head, he had bought two bouquets, to form one large one in the end; and a very large one at that, Nico was barely able to hold it with one hand and slowly, he got worried that his significantly smaller girl would drown in them.
Nonetheless, around the stem, the florist had tightly wrapped a white ribbon, so Nico would be able to hold the bouquet better.