a little bit of kindness

🎂|| Birthday Special! ||🥳

"Come on, hurry up guys!" Y/n ushered the rest of BC Sol to finish getting ready for her friend's surprise party. "He'll be up any minute now!" Honey exclaimed, as she and Honcho were hanging up a banner. "Valt! Do you have the beybread?" Kris asked, looking over to the blunette. "Right here, Kris!" He grinned, holding up the basket. "Kuza! Be careful with the cake!" Shasa scolded, glaring at the boy while she set up the table.

"I'm not going to drop 'Haitham's cake, don't be such a worry wart!" He laughed, setting it down. "She's serious, you idiot. Today's important for all of us, cause we get to celebrate Al Haitham's birthday with him!" Silas said, getting down from the ladder Rickson stabled for him. "'Haitham's a good friend to all of us. He deserves to have fun and relax today." Free yawned, helping Ange take out some food from the kitchen. "He's part of BC Sol, and he should enjoy today." The owner of the club smiled, fixing a bouquet of flowers. "Kit, please go get our birthday boy. I believe he's in his room."

"By the way Free, can you help him? I don't think he's tall enough to tie the blindfold and guide him here, considering the fact that Al Haitham's 5'9." Ange requested, glancing at Free. "Sure. Come on, Kit." He yawned, walking out with the ginger behind him. "He better like this, we put way too much work into this for him not to!" Honcho grunted, as Y/n nodded. "There's no way he won't, we've taken pretty much everything he likes into account." She mumbled. "Alright now everyone, in your places." Kris turned off the lights once everyone was hidden. "Free, Kit, what's going on?" Al Haitham, the birthday celebrant asked.

"You'll see, take the blindfold off now!" Kit exclaimed excitedly. Once he did, we all got out of hiding, majority yelling out "Surprise!" Alhaitham looked around, confusion crystal clear on his face. "May I ask what all this is for?" He questioned. "Today's your birthday, ya big dummy!" Honcho grinned, walking up to him and ruffling his ash colored hair. "Oh, is it? I must have lost count of the days." His eyes widened slightly once he realized.

"Bro forgot his damn birthday." Y/n wheezed, as everyone else laughed. "I guess I did forget my birthday. I am grateful that you all took the time to do all this for me, even if it was not necessary." He smiled, expressing his gratitude. "It was totally necessary! This is your first birthday spent with us, 'Haitham!" Kuza grinned.

"Yeah, it is!" Valt added, also grinning from ear to ear. "Al Haitham, we wanted to say thank you for sticking with BC Sol in all of it's ups and downs, this is our way of expressing how grateful we are to have you in this club, so all in all, happy birthday!"

Kris walked up to him and pat his shoulder. "I'm surprised you could actually put up with all of them, as someone as sophisticated as you." Raul laughed, as Al Haitham chuckled. "I just have experience." He shook his head. "Oh, by the way, I invited some of your friends from your home country, Sumeru. They've just arrived." Kris informed. "Friends from home? Who-" He was cut off by someone tackling his side.

"Us!"

Kaveh burst into the room, attempting to tackle his old roommate down but failing. "Hello, Al Haitham." A male with fennec fox ears walked inside with a shorter boy with red eyes, and two females, one with coral colored hair and a pale complexion and the other with green hair and magenta eyes.

"Tighnari, Cyno, Kaveh, Collei, Nilou. What brings you here?" He pat Kaveh's head, in which he pouted. "To celebrate your birthday with you, of course!" Collei ran up to him and gave him a hug. "As I told them, it really wasn't necessary." The silver haired male shook his head, smiling just a little. "It was totally necessary, 'Haitham! You're our buddy, and going to be acting grand sage- Oop, I shouldn't have said that." Kaveh whimpered a little bit covering his mouth.

"Me? Acting Grand Sage? I'm 25 for the Archon's sake, how am I supposed to deal with both BC Sol and being Acting Grand Sage?" The tall ash haired male questioned, raising a brow. "You won't, you're going to have to leave BC Sol." Tighnari chimed in, crossing his arms and his gaze set on a corner of the room. "Leave BC Sol? No way! 'Haitham wouldn't do that to us! Right 'Haitham?" Cuza snapped his neck to the pale male's face, who looked down.

"I may not have a choice, Cuza. Sumeru is my home, and the country without a Grand Sage is going to lead to doom, but I wish not to leave you all. Just like my friends from home, you all have become a family to me. Either way, enough politics, let's enjoy the rest of the day together, shall we?"

He attempted to brighten the mood, but Cyno did it for him! "I don't understand those people who throws needles into the ocean." He questioned. "Cyno, please-" Tighnari was cut off by the white haired male, who spoke again. "I just don't sea the point." The Sumerian friend group all Gorouaned, knowing there was going to be a long explanation while the rest of BC Sol laughed.

"You sea, the joke is that needles have a point and when they are thrown into ocean you can't see them anymore. But that's not all - what elevates it to a clever pun is the fact that oceans are not seas, so in purposefully making this mistake we add a layer of ironic idiocy, which uplifts this joke at least up a level. You get it? Like a sea level?"

Cyno questioned, making sure everyone understood his joke. Valt nodded excitedly, jumping up and down. "Cyno right? Tell us another one!" Tighnari gave the smol bean a death glare, bit of course, he didn't notice it. "Alright, let me think... Ah! What do you call a deer with no eyes?" He asked the bluenette. "I don't know, dead?" Silas mumbled. "I got this one! No idea!" Kaveh exclaimed.

"Noideer. You'd have to use a certain accent to make the joke a bit authentic, but the goal of the joke is to get the person to say no idea, then correct them and say 'no, it's noideer', or you could just wait for a perplexed look on the targets reaction then simply say the punch line. Although, this joke has been quite unpopular, it still manages to break the silence. Unfortunately though, Tighnari and Al Haitham don't seem to appreciate this as much. It's their loss."

He explained yet again. The rest of Al Haitham's birthday was spent having fun together, listening to Cyno's terrible jokes and listening to him explain them, having a food fight which surprisingly Nilou started, Kaveh on the verge of being punched in the face by the birthday boy, and Collei almost being killed by Silas. And yes, you all have permission to kill Silas. That was a bit before Cyno spoke to Tighnari again.

"What does the general of Watatsumi Island do when he's annoyed?"

"He Goroans."

AGGRESSIVE CHOKING SOUNDS

THE END

(CYNO'S NOT DEAD DON'T WORRY Y'ALL)

...Hopefully

Happy Birthday to Al Haitham! We love our darling boy, so let's show him some support. I'll just say it now, aside from Childe, Zhongli, and Kazuha, he is my favorite Genshin character. Can you blame me tho? He's hot. Admit it.