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"Are you kidding me, Riki Sushi? It's so obvious!", Sooah yelled, holding her arms in the most absurd position.

She looked like she was trying to be an angry tree as she tried to get Ni-ki to guess whatever the hell her word was in the games of charades.

Ni-ki continued shouting random names while Sooah didn't move for once, looking so done. For being so outgoing and fun, she really sucked at this game.

"A fucking tree frog? Are you impersonating Groot? I don't know, move or something.. How was I supposed to guess when you look constipated like that?", Ni-ki yelled back.

Sunoo and Sunhee were on the lead, with Jake and Ming Xiao in close second. Jay wanted to be a referee, something that's reasonable when he's the only one single and Heeseung is currently outside, sneaking peeks of the girl he was targeting now to annoy.

"How the hell do you not know -"

"Sooah, just move. I clearly have no idea what that is"

"Time's up!", Jay's phone timer went off and the two of them let out an exasperated sigh.

"It was Spiderman", Sooah told Ni-ki.

"How the fuck did you not crawl instead of standing like you're Groot-"

"Hey, hey, calm down. You've lost fair and square", Jay said in his professional voice.

"Sooah, how did you think Ni-ki will guess that?", Y/N said in between laughs. The younger girl looked up at her.

"Really, Y/N? I thought you were different. I thought you'll protect me from this abomination I called my Prince", Sooah said, pushing Ni-ki away from her.

Everything she says sounds like a joke, so Y/N never knows when she's being serious or not.

"Alright, let's do this", Sunghoon said and tried to push her out of the couch.

"Uh, I've acted like every one. It's your turn to act it out", she told him, sinking into her comfortable position in the couch.

He could not have look less thrilled, but nonetheless got up. Jay gave Y/N a mischievous look as he handed Sunghoon a card.

When his eyes flickered over the card, he immediately snapped his attention back to Jay.

"Do you think this is funny?", he asked, dead serious.

"A little", Jay held in a laugh and he rolled his eyes. This'll be good.

Sunghoon put his arm up in a circle above his head and began twirling. Y/N immediately knew that Jay gave him a ballerina, but she wasn't going to put him out of his misery just yet.

"You must know it", he said after one spin, looking like he wanted to die.

Everyone in the room was laughing their asses off as they should. It was taking everything in her and Y/N mean everything in her power not to copy them herself.

"Oh I do", she grinned at him, and he glared back at her. She finally broke and started laughing.

"You better say it", he continued to do little tiny dance moves like awkward little plie squats.

"Okay fine.. Ballerina", she gave in a little bit.

She wanted to keep going but she also didn't want to accidentally run out of time. Charades is a serious game.

Wanting some form of revenge, Sunghoon walked over and cupped her cheeks, squeezing the life out of her. She tried to push him off to no avail.

"This is why...", she wheezed out. He didn't budge.

Once Sunoo and Sunhee went again and claimed victory, they decided to play a different game. Sunghoon finally removes his hand from Y/N's cheeks and rub on it a bit, as if to soothe it.

It took everything in her not to pounce on him and try to attack.

"Let's play Never have I ever!", Jake suggested.

"I'm down", Ming Xiao, grabbing a drink from the fridge and offering some to everyone.

Something in Y/N's gut was telling her this was a really bad idea.

After the others move in to a circle in the carpeted floor, they all put ten fingers up. She couldn't help but feel her heartbeat pick up. It would be fine, she's sure of it.

"Okay, okay, I'll start", Jay volunteered excitedly. "Never have I ever kiss any girl in the history of my life"

About all of them put their fingers down except for Heeseung, which didn't surprise them. But when Sunghoon push his finger down, Y/N's attention snapped over to him as she furrowed her brows in confusion as he smiled at her.

In that moment, it struck her that she had never asked him about their relationship.

"So the two of you already kissed for how many times?", Jay asked lightheartedly to Sunghoon, who shrugged it off.

Y/N looked aroumd the other boys who didn't say anything either except that Ni-ki held a knowing look that he shared with Jake, which told her that they definitely know something, and the girls just looked at her teasingly.

"Alright, I'll go", she chimed in, hating the awkward silence, "Never have I ever, um, had a happy birthday"

All of them put their fingers down, as well as Sunghoon and they were suddenly looking at each other, not knowing what to say.

"How do you even spent it with your family? What does it feel like?", Y/N chuckled in order to lighten the mood.

"Oh, that gives me idea for what we should do for you before this trip ends", Sunoo chimed in.

"But how did you spent most of your life celebrating it?", Ni-ki suddenly asked carelessly to Y/N before Sooah smacked him with the pillow in her lap.

But she still answered, "Most of the time, I spent it alone or tried to act it's not even my birthday at all"

This wasn't how everybody was supposed to find out. She felt as if she was sinking down the ground and the walls were collapsing around her.

But isn't it fine to be honest for once? She never even knew birthdays were supposed to be celebrated until she was in school back then and saw one parents held her classmate's birthday in their classroom.

And when she asked about it to her Aunt, what she said is heartbreaking, that only the special ones celebrated it, but she isn't one of them.

The first time she celebrated it was with Minji, and she cried because even with her, she felt alone. She also didn't attend her friend's birthday since the first time, she became jealous of seeing Minji's family singing her songs as she blew the cake.

And she always wished to have those, but how? She never had a family to call hers.

"Y-Y/N, are you okay?", Sunhee started, but she kept her head low to the floor.

Just then Y/N felt the tears building in her eyes as Sunghoon sat there helpless, watching her as she stood up and walk out of the door.