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Chapter 31 : Very mindful, very demure

Poor Chan didn't even get a second to rest after reaching home, as if the trauma he'd faced at his return wasn't enough. The kids forced him to start unpacking his luggage eager to get their presents from Australia.

Currently, the kids were sitting on Chan's bed as Chan unpacked his large suitcase. At first, he pulled out all the snacks and chocolates distributing them between the kids equally. (Changbin was getting a bit greedy trying to snatch and steal the others' snacks but one smack on the head from Chan was enough to knock some senses into him)

"Minnie, this is for you," Chan said as he handed Seungmin a brand new laptop.

"BUBBLE WRAP!" Changbin suddenly shouted seeing the bubble wrap on the laptop's box quickly snatching the bubble wrap from Seungmin. Haein, also having a fascination with bubble wraps, joined in. The two of them began popping bubbles one by one giggling among themselves.

Chan, despite being slightly surprised, continued taking out the others' presents - a branded bag for Hyunjin, branded shoes for Felix, a tablet for Jeongin. Haein however, suddenly noticed a pretty, fluffy pink skirt in the bag.

"Is that for me?" She asked with a hint of a smile, her curiosity piqued.

"NO! THAT'S MINE," Changbin instantly grasped the skirt pulling it to his chest before Haein could even touch it.

"Yeah, Inah. I got that for Bin," Chan further confirmed.

"Oh..." Haein tried to hide the slight disappointment building inside her. She then noticed another box inside Chan's suitcase which seemed to be some dress's box. She picked it up hoping that would be for her. "Oh, what's this?"

As soon as Chan noticed the box in Haein's hand, he rushed to take it away from her. "No! That's not meant for you," he quickly snatched it from her hands. But unfortunately the box slipped from his hands, dropping open on the bed leaving everyone speechless from the contents of the box.

"Lingerie and toys?!" Haein was the first one to scream. A pair of magenta lingerie along with a few sex toys layed infront of them all. Chan's face flushed red like a tomato. But he wasn't the only one embarrassed, a certain couple in the room also felt the same.

"Uh... that's mine, I suppose," Jisung quickly gathered the "things" putting them back in the box.

Chan looked at Minsung thinking to himself, "Why did I even agree to this?"

"Why doesn't the universe want to spare us some dignity?" Minho sighed as he whispered to Jisung. Since at this point everybody was used to being traumatized, they were back to normal a few seconds later.

However, Haein still felt a bit disappointed. She wanted to hold onto that bit of hope inside her. Chan had gotten everyone gifts. He possibly couldn't have forgotten about getting her anything, right?

Seeing him still not pulling anything out for her, she couldn't help but ask, "Chris, haven't you brought anything for me?" She tried to seem as polite as she could be.

"For you?" A look of oblivion flashed across his face. "I'm sorry, Inah, but I didn't get anything for you..."

"You didn't?" Haein could almost hear her heart break in her chest.

"Yeah. Everytime I asked you about what I should bring for you, you said that you wanted nothing. So I got you nothing," Chan answered normally as if it wasn't a big deal.

Haein let out a little scoff, her tone slightly rising, "So just because I told you not to get me anything, you ACTUALLY proceeded to not get me anything?"

"Yeah, what else was I supposed to do? You clearly said you didn't want anything. "

"Chris, I was just being humble! And I expected you to be humble back! I said I don't want anything because I wanted you to want to get me something nice that I'd want!" Haein stood up from the bed enraged.