my little dirt ball. | hueningkai

11.13am

Instead of going to Yeonjun's huge house, you were now seated across an anxious, fidgeting Kai, in Magic Island, a homely cafe that the both of you would go every halloween for their special rainbow halloween-themed cupcakes. Kai had requested the both of you to meet at this cafe instead of Yeonjun's house for who knows what, but surprisingly, you didn't question his rushed and breathless statement when he called you as you were walking out. In the call, he anxiously explained that he would explain in the cafe, and begged you to not go to Yeonjun's house. Even though this statement only made you more curious as to what they could and were doing there, you reluctantly obliged and began walking in the opposite direction to Magic Island.

And right now, you were seated on a very comfortable sofa with a witch cushion behind you and a pumpkin-themed cover draped over your seat. Around you, there were assorted forms of Halloween decorations ranging from black and orange themed hanging tinsels to the cafe's signature baby witch statue that took its place at the shop's entrance.

There was an awkward silence beginning to form between the both of you, so after glancing at everything else but Kai, you finally tried staring him down as sternly as you could, trying to show that you wanted an explanation.

"Kai, why would Yeonjun lie to me about such a trivial matter? What are you guys hiding from me?"

"No, you don't understa-"

"I thought friends were supposed to be truthful to each other. Am I not trustworthy? I don't remember doing anything that broke your trust." It was getting harder and harder to control the words spouting out of your mouth at this point. You were curious and disappointed, and he had been acting shady recently. Kai has never left you alone so randomly, and to your knowledge, none of your other close friends have ever lied to you about his whereabouts.

"Look, wait! Don't interrupt me! I can see your eyes getting unnaturally huge, and you only do that when you're about to interrupt someone. Here, let me cut to the chase, I, uh, we, Beomgyu and I, we were at Yeonjun's house to help him prepare for the party."

He is a horrible liar, you thought to yourself. Nevertheless, you let him continue to see what else he could spur up.

"We uh, we went to, his house because he needed help preparing, and you know, Yeonjun's house is huge, so like, obviously, one person couldn't just decorate the place himself, plus, we're helping him for the haunted house too, so uh, we-"

"Kai, you're still not answering my question. If it was nothing, why did Yeonjun lie to me about your whereabouts?" You rebutted, impatient and wanting the answer to your question quickly.

"Fine, fine. I'll tell you. I really can't keep it anymore. Y/N, the reason why I've been acting so shady, was because I was planning a-"

"SURPRISE!" A loud chorused shout echoed from the entrance of the cafe. As you turned back, you saw Yeonjun, Beomgyu, and Taehyun strutting in. Yeonjun was holding a few helium balloons with the words "Happy Birthday" and "Merry Christmas" printed on them in jazzy handwriting, and Taehyun was beside him lighting up candles on a cheap walmart chocolate cake that probably tasted like garbage. Beomgyu was trailing behind the two boys with a cheesy smile and jazz hands. Turning back, you glanced at a bemused and shocked Kai, who, seeing that you were staring at him suspiciously, covered his previous expression with a shy giggle and a smile equally as fake as Beomgyu's.

Taehyun put down the lit up cake on the candy corn colored table and Yeonjun handed you the Target-bought balloons.

"Yeonjun lied about where Kai and I were because he didn't want to spoil this surprise, right, Yeonjun?" Beomgyu said while maintaining his ear-to-ear smile.

Yeonjun glanced back at Beomgyu, who was still smiling but now with his eyes wide open and blinking rapidly as if he was trying to send morse code. Yeonjun responded with a small smirk and looked back at you. "Yes, we spent the morning at my house buying these things and preparing it for you. It was Kai's idea, wasn't it?" Yeonjun winked at Kai and finger gunned him. Wow, Jun, way to be cringey, you thought to yourself.

If this "surprise" were for any other sane person, they would've obviously realized that it was some last-minute pull together and would immediately called them out on it. But you, being head-over heels for Kai, felt touched that he had planned a surprise for you (and only you) and completely ignored all the screaming signs that it wasn't an actual surprise, and then it wasn't just a surprise for you, but for him too. Nonetheless, Taehyun's idea of this cover-up was working perfectly and had completely erased all your previous suspicions of what Kai had been doing before.

However, your oblivious self was curious about only one thing. "Hmm, I have to ask about something."

The four boys started breaking out in cold sweat, but Taehyun kept his cool, and managed to ignore the panic boiling inside. He calmly asked, "What are you curious about?"

"I would like to know why the balloons Yeonjun gave me say 'Happy Birthday' and 'Merry Christmas' on them, it is certainly not my birthday today and Christmas is in two months."

In order to break the awkward tension rising up in the room, Beomgyu finally spoke up. "Oh, uh, a-about t-that-"

"It doesn't matter!" Kai clapped his hands loudly and stood up, "this surprise was made for you to be happy anyway! Do whatever you want with it!" After boldly exclaiming this statement, he turned around and mouthed a word of thanks at his three friends, before turning back to you. You were busy sucking helium from the balloons and did not see the interaction that just went down.

"Kai, can you hear it? I sound like a chipmunk!" You innocently smiled at him and sucked even more air out from the deflating "Merry Christmas" balloon.

Kai felt his heart start beating just a little faster, and he laughed quietly, before walking over to join you in your little helium endeavor.

The three boys saw this as an opportunity to step out, and waved goodbye to a giggling Kai and his future girlfriend. After leaving the cafe, they burst into a fit of laughs and fake gags.

"Nice idea Taehyun, they're a cute bunch, aren't they?" Yeonjun giggled as he fist-bumped a Taehyun who was fake gagging.

"Wait till Y/N sees what we have planned for her later, then maybe she won't act so 'cute' anymore." Taehyun said, laughing as he stared once more through the window of Magic Island at Kai (attempting to) impersonate a gorilla and you in a heap of laughter.

'Race you to the house! Losers!" Beomgyu teased as the three of them started sprinting back to Yeonjun's house, where the real party would begin.