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38.

"Happy birthday to you!" The other 12 boys cheered loudly as Jisoo blew out the candles on his cake.

"They grow up so fast," Jun wailed, wiping away fake tears.

Jisoo rolled his eyes and swiped a bit of icing off of the cake, moving to smear it onto Jun's cheek. Jun grinned and turned his head at the last moment. He wrapped his lips around Jisoo's finger and licked the icing off, causing the older boy to shriek loudly and pull his finger out of Jun's mouth. Jun stuck his tongue out at Jisoo.

"Serves you right." Jun smirked.

"I will throw this entire cake in your face," Jisoo threatened.

"You don't get to bully other people just because it's your birthday, Jisoo," Jeonghan said. "I don't know how people in America celebrate birthdays, but here–"

"Hey, I'm not bullying him," Jisoo protested.

"Yeah, I would throw the cake in Jun's face too, if I could," Wonwoo added.

"Here, we like to be more civilized than that," Jeonghan finished.

"You're one to talk about civilized," Seungcheol scoffed quietly. Jeonghan turned and smiled at him sweetly.

"What was that?" Jeonghan asked.

"Nothing," Seungcheol muttered. Jeonghan grinned triumphantly.

"Thought so."

"Whipped!" Seokmin coughed, and Hansol grinned and slapped him on the back. Seungcheol glared at the pair before sighing tiredly and staying silent.

"How about we get to the gift giving before a fight breaks out?" Soonyoung suggested.

"What do you mean? We haven't even cut the cake yet," Jihoon pointed out.

"Ah, right," Soonyoung realized, and Jihoon sighed.

"Then let's cut the cake already! I want to find out what Mingyu-hyung got me!" Chan said.

"You knew?!" Mingyu exclaimed.

"You're not exactly the most discrete guy out there," Chan replied. "I just didn't say anything because I didn't want you to get all sulky like you are right now."

"I'm not sulking," Mingyu grumbled as he crossed his arms and pouted.

"Are you sure? You do know what 'sulking' means, right?" Minghao responded.

"Jeonghan-hyung, they're bullying me!" Mingyu whined.

"Speaking of bullying, weren't we just talking about how Jisoo is a bully?" Jeonghan asked.

"I'm not a bully!" Jisoo defended.

"Then why were you bullying me?" Jun retorted. He turned to Jeonghan. "He threatened me, Jeonghan-hyung!

"Did not!" Jisoo argued.

"Did too!" Jun replied.

"Did not!" Jisoo repeated, and the two boys began to bicker noisily.

"I hate my friends," Jihoon muttered, covering his face with his hands.

"Love you too, Jihoon-hyung," Seungkwan said, wrapping an arm around Jihoon's shoulders and grinning in amusement at their friends.

A/N: yeah uh...so i planned to...you know...have some actual jeongcheol in this chapter and...you know...do the gift exchanges...but haha...ha...i didn't get to it...sorry guys. hope you enjoyed this regardless! linked song is "knock knock" by twice bc...wow...it's really catchy. anyways i hope that all of you have had an amazing day! please tell me what you thought of this chapter! i'll see you guys next week (hopefully on time)! as always tysm for the continuous support! y'all are awesome! ily guys! bye! ty again! <3