The Best Gift
Title: The Best Gift
Genre: friendship, fluff, crack
Pairing: OnKey, JongKey (the Kim Brothers), JongHo
Length: One-shot (but the characters were the same with I’m a Big Boy)
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I owned nothing and English is my second language. Unbeta... cause I am bored in the middle of this oh so serious accounting seminar… T____T
Summany: Kibum had a plan for Jinki’s birthday. It’s a good plan but let’s see if it’s fail free or not.
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December 9th
“Kibummmiiiiieeeee…” that silly big mega watt smile again. Kibum could guess correctly what that silly boy would say next.
“… next week is my birthday.”
“So???”
“Kibummmmmiiiieeeee…. What will you give to me? Tell me! Tell me!” Jinki, the almost 14 years old boy who eternally trapped in 5 years old boy mind, bounced up and down while held Kibum’s arm tightly.
“Nothing,” Kibum tried his best to conceal his smile and thought, ‘Gee Hyung, you’re so adorable. I want to pinch your chubby cheek right now, while seeing you’re pouting like this. But if I do it, all my plans will be ruined.’
“KIBUM! You’re so cruel,” Jinki blinked his tears away. Since the first time he baby sat Kibum, he decided he liked Kibum so much and wanted to be his best friend. He even spent all his monthly allowance to buy Kibum a pair of black with pink stripes roller blades for his birthday last September. Not he expected Kibum to buy something expensive for him, but honestly, he hoped Kibum would prepare something for him.
“I have to go now,” Jinki suddenly took off without waiting for Kibum’s replay. His heart broke into pieces when saw Kibum’s lack of reaction.
“HYUNG!” Kibum was starlet with Jinki’ sudden leaved. ‘Gosh, now he’s angry with me. But I know he will always forgive me when he knows what my plan is,’ a confident smile spread on his face.
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A month before
“Kibum, do you know what you will give to Jinki Hyung on his birthday?” Jonghyun, Kibum’s older cousin asked him.
“I don’t know. Since that silly boy gave me those expensive roller blades, now I am confused what I shall give him,” Kibum looked puzzled. “What will you give to Minho then?” Kibum knew his cousin had a madly crushed to his tall classmate.
Jonghyun blushed when Kibum gave him a knowing looked. “hmmmm… actually I have a plan and I need your help.” Jonghyun smiled eagerly now.
“What is your plan,” Kibum gave him a suspicious looked. Jonghyun’s plan could be guaranteed to be crowned as the weirdest plan in the world.
“This is a good plan,” Jonghyun defended his plan. “Yes I know, my plan for you birthday was not the best one.”
“Not the best one?” Kibum screamed his frustration while remembered what has happen on his birthday.” You made me faced the headmaster by putting HER purse on MY bag. Then you stupidly showed up in HER office in the middle of HER famous lecture and yell “SURPRISE”! That you called not the best one? It’s THE WORST BIRTHDAY EVER!!! If my auntie didn’t give birth of you, I surely killed you right at that time, in the middle of headmaster’s office.”
“Waiiiitttt… but …but… you’re saved then,” Jonghyun blinked his eyes purposely, tried to win his cousin’s sympathy.
“Thanks to Jinki Hyung. If he didn’t show up and explain that it’s all your silly fail bad prank on my birthday to Mrs. Park, I think I still on detention right now. And where were you at that time? Cowardly run for your live after yelled “SURPRISE” and Mrs. Park screamed her lung out.” Kibum pouted.
“Still a wonder how Jinki Hyung could do it.” Jonghyun puzzled.
“It’s easy to understand. He’s second best student in this school. And Mrs. Park always has a soft spot for his silly big grin.” And Kibum silently added, ‘…and I am too not immune to that mega bright smile.’
“But this time my plan will be 100% save-proof and fail-free.” Jonghyun made his point.
“And what is your plan Mr. Kim?”
“This is it…” Jonghyun told his plan.
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Back to December 9th
So here he was. Standing behind the kitchen counter, used a cute pink apron, concentration spread all over his face while facing a cake before him; beside him was standing his hyperactive cousin, with tongue stuck out from his mouth, and decorated a cake.
For a month they have joined home economic after school activity (ASA). That’s Jonghyun’s big plan. Last month, their school introduced a program called “Dare to Try”. They are asked to change ASA and tried something outside their comfort zone. Ever silly Jonghyun, he asked Kibum to join home economic, hopefully they would learn how to make a cake and then they would present the beautiful cakes to Minho and Jinki. The plan was sounded save and Kibum was appealed, until the first class came. They were the only two guys in that class which full with girls who were giggling wildly seeing two hottest dancers on their school looked stupidly cute on their frilly aprons. That the nth time in his live, Kibum murdered Jonghyun in his mind. The dino boy forgot to mention that “Dare to Try” program was not mandatory; therefore no single sane students wanted to participate. Yeah… only 2 insane ones who were trapped now in the school’s kitchen. To make it worse, Mrs. Park didn’t let them go back to their dancing ASA before Christmas’ break. So Kibum stuck on this ASA.
What Jonghyun didn’t know was, beside Kibum constant grumbles, Kibum enjoyed the home economic ASA. He liked the smell of fresh baked cake or the cute decoration they put above the cakes. Let Jonghyun felt guilty a bit more.
“It’s done!” To Kibum’s surprise, the dino boy yelled. He looked skeptical on the cake which was held proudly by his cousin. Kibum eyes grew bigger and his hand smacked the silly boy.
“YAH!!! How come you decorated it with dinosaurs? He is 12 not 2, you stupid dino.” Kibum couldn’t believe his eyes. The cake was surely looked good and yummy and super duper cute with dinosaurs theme screaming on it. It was good but on toddler’s good not teenager’s good. Where could you find any teenager who asked for dinosaur birthday cake?
“But…it’s cute. Look, this one has a face just looked like me and this one is so tall, just like Minho.” Jonghyun was defending his cake.
“But who gave a dinosaur cake to 12 years old, HYUNG???” Kibum rarely called Jonghyun with Hyung, because he always thought his cousin childishness could only compete with kindergarten kids. Oh scratched that, he could compete head to head with Jinki. But since Jinki was older, Jinki should be the winner.
“But I don’t have time to make another one,” Jonghyun whined as today was Minho’s birthday and home economic would be ended in the minutes.
Kibum sighed, looked at his perfect chocolate cake decorated with flowers and hearts, and said, “You want to give mine to Minho?”Jonghyun sad face suddenly lit brightly and hugged Kibum on the tightest embrace the shorter boy could give.
“Thank you oh my pretty cousin,” Jonghyun kissed Kibum’s cheek
“YAH! Stop calling me pretty. AM A BOY! And don’t you ever kiss me again. AM NOT GAY!!” Kibum struggled to lose the hug. ‘Am not gay but I like a certain boy; just that boy. So you can’t call me a gay just because of one man, can you?’ Kibum asked himself.
“But my dear cousin, you like Jinki Hyung, who I am surely sure is A BOY. So you, my pretty witty cousin, are a gay; as gay as I am.” Jonghyun smirked.
“But I am just 12 years old boy. I am just a confused teenager who is not sure what his sexual orientation will be,” Kibum answered back.
“Every teenager, who claimed that he faced a confusing sexual orientation stage, is a gay. Why did he need to ask that question at the first place, if he didn’t want to deny his oh so true and honest sexual orientation?” Gee, for the first time, the dino boy sound so clever and true. Kibum smiled bitterly. It’s hard to keep his image up if his friends knew his sexual orientation. But a memory of Jinki’s sweet mega bright smile swept all the confusion or regret if there was any, from his mind.
“Fine! Just give this cake to your boyfriend and stop harassing me.” Kibum shoved the cake to Jonghyun’s hands who eagerly accepted it.
“Let’s trade, you could take my cake then,” Jonghyun put his generous face on. Yeah, HE IS THE ONE who being GENEROUS here, not this silly raptor.
“Good luck Hyung!” Kibum teased the older boy that earned him another hug and… another peck.
Kibum left the school’s kitchen, felt so happy with his success with his chocolate cake. If he could make it today, there will be no reason he could not repeat it next week by himself.
“Kibum!” Kibum turned around when he heard someone called his name.
“Jinki Hyung? What are you doing here?” Kibum confusedly looked at him.
“Waiting for you.” Jinki smiled sweetly. If smile could make a tooth became rotten, Kibum was toothless.
“Why?”
“I want to apologize.” Jinki looked nervous now.
“Apologize?”
“Yes! Because I left you this morning.” SEE… this boy could not angry too long to him. Kibum felt so confident.
“It’s ok Hyung,” now this Kibum’s turn to blind Jinki with his sweet smile.
“What is that Kibummie?” Jinki pointed the cake box on Kibum’s right hand.
“Oh this… this is Jonghyun’s cake. That silly dino made a cute dinosaur birthday cake for Minho. When I told him, no 12 years old boy will be appreciated to receive a dinosaur cake, we trade cakes.” Calmly Kibum explained.
“And what was your cake?”
“Just a normal chocolate cake with little decoration here and there.” Kibum said and silently added, ‘your favorite cake decorated with perfection.’
“My favorite.” Jinki exclaimed. BINGO!
“Hmmm Kibum… why did you join home economic?” Jinki asked.
“We just want to try something different.” Kibum answered.
“And there’s no other intention.” Jinki stole a look at Kibum.
“Nope!” Kibum laughed inside while his face show poker face.
“Oh ok…,” Jinki just looked down, defeated. When Kibum saw Jinki’s sad face, he almost blurted his plan, but tried harder to restrain.
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December 14th
Today was the big day. Kibum sprinted home, left behind Jonghyun who strolled lazily with his … cough…boyfriend…cough …. Oh by the way, don’t tell Minho that Jonghyun had decided that the tall boy was his boyfriend. Simply because Minho ate the whole birthday cake which Jonghyun presented as his gift. Yes, it's Kibum’s cake. But since Minho didn’t know that technically it’s Kibum’s cake that he ate, Jonghyun thought that since Minho liked him, the tall boy ate the whole cake. Ok, I am confused here. Too much cake, too much Minho, too much ate. GAH… you know what I mean, right? So let me continue then.
Kibum was panting heavily at his door step when his phone rang.
“He…hello…” Tried hard to catch his breath, Kibum answered the phone.
“Kibum? Where are you? I wait you at the school's gate.” Jinki’s voice heard from the phone.
“Oh Hyung… I am sorry… I have something. Please go home without me.” Kibum answered politely.
“Oh… ok…” Jinki snapped his phone closed. He felt so sad. Kibum hasn’t said anything to him today. Did Kibum forget that today was Jinki birthday? How could he do that? Jinki has reminded the younger boy since weeks before.
Meanwhile, Kibum hurriedly went to his mom kitchen and started the preparation. He would start his big plan. It’s called “Jinki’s Big Party for Two”; prepared and made by the one and only Kim Kibum.
The plan was to prepare chicken cordon bleu and chocolate cake. The two things that guarantee would make Jinki ecstatic. Kibum had bought the entire ingredients last week end. All started so smooth until… blast…. OH NO… the power was GONE! There wasn’t electricity on his house. Panic slowly was creping his mind. But Kibum tried hard to stay calm. He remembered his mom has old manual oven, so he still could make the cake.
It took a lot of time to beat the eggs for cakes manually without mixer. But Kibum still satisfied with the result and put the cake inside the oven and lit the stove. Then he prepared the chicken cordon bleu. Then… the disaster to Kibum’s horror started to take over….
His chicken cordon bleu refused to turn into a brown rounded appealing figure. At first everything was okay then the cheesy feeling inside the roll started to leak and broke the skin. Kibum was panic and tried to keep the skin together. His effort just made everything worse; the skin broke badly and turned the food into a burned black figure. Suddenly he noticed another burning smell came from the oven. He put the fire too big on the stove so his cake started to burn. With tears swam on his eyes, Kibum immediately took the cake, forgot to cover his hands. With a yelled, he threw the cake. To his surprise, the cake was burned into a complete black but still uncooked inside. Kibum could not hold his tears anymore. Hugging his legs together, he buried his face in between them and cried his frustration.
“Kibum… what’s wrong.” Suddenly Kibum felt someone brushed his hair and an arm circled his shoulder.
“Hyung… I am sorry. I ruined you birthday gifts.” With hiccups Kibum said.
“So you prepare something for me.” Jinki smiled happily.
“I wanted to make chicken cordon bleu and chocolate cake for you. Then the electricity was gone. Then the chicken cordon bleu blasted and burned. Then the chocolate cake was burned outside but uncooked inside. Then my hands are burnt too. Then I have nothing for you.” Kibum hugged Jinki tightly while cried harder.
Jinki took the younger boy's hands and blew them while a smile formed in his face. “It’s okay Kibum. I am happy because you planned all this for my birthday.”
“But I ruined everything and I have no birthday gifts.” Kibum looked at Jinki with his teary eyes.
Jinki brushed the tears away and peck Kibum’s cheek. “You are my gift. Your friendship is the most beautiful gift I ever have.”
“Hyung… happy birthday…” Kibum tighten his hug.
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Present time
Kibum’s eyes are dancing around the kitchen. Two sets of plates with chicken cordon bleu lie appealing on them. A chocolate cake decorated with sugary flowers and hearts presents in the center of the table along with candles and fresh rose. The light is dim to create intimacy. Everything was clean. Perfect… all are perfect.
The one that missing from the room is him, his Jinki, the birthday man.
“I am home…” Kibum feels arms circling his waist.
“Welcome home,” Kibum turns around and hugs Jinki back, “and happy birthday, baby.”
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AN:
Hoahhh at the end I wrote this first. To be honest this isn’t my first plan. I wrote another OnKey story yesterday, but after some thinking, I decided to post it next week.
This story was written on my boredom of attending this serious accounting seminar… hahaha… am so fail.
I spared places for comments. But as usual you're free to use it or not (but I am sad if you don't use it T____T). And as always I love to spare spaces for you, just ask me.... XDDD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JINKI!!!!!
