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the team had been planning for siyang's birthday for two weeks after his boyfriend, zhuo zhi, had mentioned it. they wanted it to be special and memorable for siyang and so they thought of the best thing they could think and that was celebrating with entire team.
and when the day finally came, everyone had decided to say happy birthday as normal and for the actual celebration to be in afternoon after their practice.
siyang had woken up and had a normal morning, exept the fact that he had a call, courtesy of zhou zhi, with a cheerful "happy birthday siyang!" and siyang replying back with a hearty laugh and a "thank you zhou zhi"
"do you wanna walk to school together?"
"sure, i'll be out in a second" then following the end call beep, siayng immediately, got out of his dorm with his with his bag, and started walking towards the traffic lights where his dorm and zhou zhi's place was, and right then he could see said person running straight towards him, with open arms for a hug. siyang immediately caught him returning the hug, and quickly placing a kiss on his forehead, and crossing the traffic lights, while zhou zhi was still processing, what siyang had done just now.
usually zhuo zhi is first to initiate touch, kiss or hug but now that siyang suddenly done it back he is more flustered than ever. "love you zhou zhi" siyang quickly wispered loud enough to hear.
time passed by faster than zhou zhi imagined and they were already at school and the. they had to seperate ways as they dont have the same classes except a few.
then it was time for after school tennis, which everythung went as normal but something seemed odd to siyang, he was finishing on the court when everyone went in side already; maybe it was yan's juice and there was some alteration or forgot to add something, but everyone seemed to have distanced themselves from siyang, i mean he knew it was about his birthday but nothing seemed to add up since this morning zhou zhi told him happy birthday, but either way he quickly finished and went to the office to have the end talk so everyone can go home.
but no one was there, the lights were turned off and the curtains were closed, so he decided to turn the lights on "why is it so dark- ugh", siyang said as he bumped into something or rather someone the warmth of the second body was familiar and so was the build, shorter but the perfect height for siyang to hug.
"zhou zhi?" he said and quickly the movement of the same body was trying to get away so he doesn't see him before the surprise and some how he got away and siyang just turns the lights on to see who it was as his hand had been on the switch the entire time, and within milliseconds the sound of pops and blasts could be heard from every direction and siyang froze seeing blue glitter fluttering all over the place and then followed by the tennis team singing happy birthday to him, adressing him by their designated nicknames for him.
he smiled thanking everyone then zhou zhi came up to him and questioned siyang "do you think were done here?" "uhh yeah i guess so" "well were not, come on lets get changed into those spare change closed i asked to bring" and then they all started their walk towards a familiar restaurant, well xinglong's father retaurant specifically and he could see through the glass walls that there were lots of food made and waiting to be devoured, then he saw xinglong coming to the door with a crown and cape, the door opens and the held objects are put on him next thing he knows is that he seated at the mentioned table and everyone is getting their gifts for him and he finds abit unfamiliarlity in it when everyone gets back with gifts to the table with a small pounding happening in his head but he brushes it off and starts opening the gifts that everyone is giving to him and by the time it gets to picture taking until he gets another pounding in his head and then he suddenly gets teary everything is going quickly and he starts crying.
everyone questions why asking left and right he cant answer right now but he smiles sometime after saying its okay and he'll explain.
when he was at the ripe age of 15, his parents were abusive they always used just vervally abuse him until he turned 15 that's when they used actual objects with belts and sticks to 'discipline' him but he has never done nothing either way they kept going on until after his high school, he moved out with enough money but first stayed in his dorms, the. he bought his own house.
but the main reason he was crying was because when he was younger he never felt what his parents could have given him but instead they gave him nothing and it was his friends first that gave him his first ever gifts and happiness.
everyone had started sympathising espeacially zhou zhi and jiale hugging the captain and then the rest of the team, followed by screams of pain of people stepping on eachothers feet.
"why didnt u tell me, huh?" sobs from zhou zhi could be heard and red eyes looking back at siyang. "i was scared.. that you wouldnt want me because of my horrific past"
"no, there is no way that i would never stop loving you because of a reason like that, do you realize how much it took me to start giving you hints that i liked you.., so much- hic- so fucking much.."
"im sorry zhou zhi, i do know u love me and how much we should trust we should each other"
after many tears and tissues later everyone had started having the food that was made before it got cold.
everyone was smiling and had shared many laughs but strangely a certain person was on a mission.
siyang noticed this and questioned zhiming immediately, "zhiming what are you doing?"
"noting zhou zhi because currently, i've got nothing on him"
"ZHIMING NO, DO NOT, WHAT HAVE YOU WRITTEN FROM THIS ALL HE HAS DONE IS STUCK WITH SIYANG"
"jfc, he wrote 'weakness: siyang' eww" baiyang exclaims.