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   Quietness settled in early morning, it was Hyunjin's favourite part of the day. Everything was quiet and it just felt nice.

  "Hi, welcome to Jang's art store, please let me know if you need any help,"

     Hyunjin gave a small nodded and wandered towards the back of the store. Canvases and paints lined the area. He collected an assortment of blues, grays, greens and a white. He bit his lip as he looked at the canvases.

   Hyunjin, of course, had painted many things on many different canvases, but right now he was blanking.

   "Do you need help?"

  The brunet looked over, the woman from the front was standing there.

   "I, uh, don't really know which canvas to choose," Hyunjin said.

  "Well, what is your time frame for completing this. If you have one?" She asked.

  Hyunjin grimaced even thinking of it, he wanted way too long to start this, "About two days,"

   The brunette's eyes widened.

   "Ah, well, uhm, I would go with this one since it is such a small time frame, however if you are really ambitious you could go this a bigger size," She said.

  Was Hyunjin ambitious? Some would say yes, others would say he has an ego the size of texas. Right now, though, some would say Hyunjin is stupid.

  "I think I will go with this one," Hyunjin said grabbing the third largest canvas there.

   Wonyoung nodded.

    ~

     "Happy birthday, darlings," Ms. Lucy said hugging Chaewon and Felix from behind.

     The two laughed softly, "Thank you," Chaewon said.

   "Thank you, Ms. Lucy," Felix said.

    "Don't forget we have plans later today," The woman said.

     Felix and Chaewon nodded.

   "It is nothing big right?" Felix asked.

   Ms. Lucy shook her head, "Just dinner,"

  Felix nodded, "I am going to go shower, before we head out," he said.

  Ms. Lucy nodded and took Felix's spot next to Chaewon.

  As Felix went upstairs he could hear a door close, which one he was unsure. Yeji, Yunjin, and Hyunjin were all sleeping as far as Felix knew.

   Shrugging it off, he went to his room.

 Once, twice, three times, he blinked seeing a large rectangular something on his bed. Walking over he lifted it up.

  No label, no card, no nothing.

     He tilted it to the side and heard something sliding on the inside. Was the card inside? Who puts the card inside?

   Carefully, Felix opened it and pulled out the card.

       Happy Birthday. I didn't exactly know what to get you.
     ~Hyunjin

  Felix's brows drew together and he set the card down. Lifting it, he unwrapped the rest of it. His eyes widened seeing the painting. It was of the clearing in the forest during winter, the lake frozen over and everything covered in snow.

  "This had to have taken him forever," Felix muttered.

   Every detail was perfect. Felix could only assume it took some weeks or a month, but then Hyunjin only found out about his birthday two weeks ago.

   How long did this take him?

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