Title: Merry Christmas
By: noobiekidz
Rating: PG
Pairing: JongKey
Summary: It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and I was spending it alone.
“Minho-hyung… Don’t you think we should try and cheer umma up?”
“No, I don’t think we should. He’ll just shoo us out of the room anyway.”
Annoyingly loud voices drifted from the living room as I lay curled up in the bed that jerk and I used to share. Geez, do they think I’m deaf and can’t hear what they’re talking about? I grumbled in my head.
It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and I was spending it alone. Well, not really alone because the other members were with me as well, but they were all busy doing stuff. Taemin and Minho were being annoying and all lovey-dovey, while Onew-hyung was probably out somewhere stuffing his face with chicken, pretty much leaving me all alone with no one to spend Christmas with.
I groaned into my pillow. If only I hadn’t been so stupid. If only I hadn’t yelled at that stupid dinosaur. If only…
I continued berating myself in my head, the memory of the previous night flooding my mind.
“Yah, you stupid dinosaur, why can’t you do anything right?” I asked in horror as I looked at the messy pile of wrapping paper and the weird lump of something that was meant to be Taemin’s Christmas present. “I knew I should’ve wrapped it myself!”
“It looks fine to me!” he retorted, looking at me straight in the eye with those big round eyes of his. “I only wanted to help!”
“Well, helping isn’t enough! I mean, look at this present that I wrapped for Minho! It looks way better than that!”
“Isn’t it the thought that counts?” he was frowned at this point, picking up his messily wrapped up present and turning it around in his hands.
“No, it’s not! Why don’t you get it?!” I screamed, and I could’ve sworn the whole house was shaking.
“Okay, okay, geez, you don’t have to get so worked up about a present and a bit of wrapping paper! What’s your problem?” he yelled back, obviously annoyed. A bit of me cringed when he yelled, he almost never yelled, I was the one who always did the yelling, but the majority of me just got all the more mad.
“Well, it’s not my fault I’m better than you!”
He glared at me, stunned. Then, without speaking a word, he turned around and left.
I jerked awake, rubbing my eyes, and turned in the direction of the clock. 2PM. So I had only been asleep for an hour. The house was quiet, no doubt the rest of the members had gone somewhere to get some last minute Christmas shopping done. Of course, as I stood up to go to the kitchen, I knew where that dino had gone. He had run -with his tail between his legs, I might add- to his sweet little girlfriend, Shin SeKyung. A bitter taste filled my mouth as I thought of them being together, laughing happily as they exchanged Christmas gifts.
I imagined the one he gave her to be wrapped clumsily, like how he had wrapped Taemin’s present last night. And then her’s to be wrapped neatly, just like how I would do wrap presents. I blinked. Suddenly, it wasn’t him and SeKyung exchanging gifts, it was him and me.
I felt tears prick my eyes. I wasn’t better than him… What was I thinking? We just had different ways of doing things… Hurriedly, I swallowed past the growing lump in my throat, wiping away the tears that hadn’t even had the chance to make their way down my cheeks. How could you have been so stupid? I thought angrily. Now your friendship is ruined, and you promised yourself and him that you two would be friends forever…
Just then, the doorbell rang, and I jumped slightly. Taking a deep breath to calm myself down, I headed for the door and opened it, giving a gasp of surprise as I saw the other members -excluding Jonghyun of course, to my despair- standing around a huge box and grinning at me.
“Merry Christmas, umma!” Taemin cried, running towards me and hugging me, to my amusement.
“Wow… This is huge… If I had known you were gonna give me such a huge present, I would have bought you something better than a mug,” I said, raising my eyebrows in disbelief at the huge box.
“That’s okay umma, I love the mug! It’s so cute!” Taemin said, grinning at me.
“Now hurry up and open your present!” Onew-hyung cried, pushing it towards me with Minho’s help. Wait. With Minho’s help? It must be pretty heavy for it to need two people to push it.
I stepped forward so that they didn’t have to push the box so far, then looked at it. It was just a normal box. No wrapping whatsoever.
“Okay!” Onew said happily. Well, he looks like he’s having fun…
“On the count of three!” What? What’s with the countdown?
“One… Two... Three!”
I yelped in surprise as a huge figure popped out of the box and enveloped me in a back-breaking embrace.
“J-Jjong!” I gasped in surprise. “What were you doing… In a box?”
“Being your Christmas present of course,” he said happily, pulling away from me. My heart thudded as I looked into his beautiful brown orbs.
“I’m sorry.”
“For what? For yesterday?” he asked. A moment after I nodded, he laughed, and I suddenly realized the other members had suddenly disappeared, no doubt giving us some alone time. “I wasn’t mad at you Kibum. You’re always like that anyway, but it was the perfect chance to go away so that you’ll be surprised when I pop out of the box.” He gave that famous lopsided smile once he finished his explanation.
“I see that you missed me.”
“And I see that you’ve been reading fanfics again,” I retorted, hiding my happiness from seeing him again, and hearing that he wasn’t actually mad at me. Hearing that, he just grinned and swept me into his arms, and I realized he was heading in the direction of our shared bedroom.
“Now… What were we going to do last night after we finished wrapping those presents?”
A/N:
Merry Christmas everyone! :D
What's Christmas with a little JongKey fun added in, hmm? So here's my Christmas present for all you JongKey shippers out there !~ :3
And how do you people like this? I think it seems kinda rushed OTL;;
Thanks to my umma for the prompt: It's not my fault I'm better than you! It helped me a lot keke
Thanks for reading! Comments are love! :3
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