6:00 in the morning and taeyong was awoken by an alarm screaming in his ear once again. frustrated, he reluctantly got out of his bed to turn it off and go back to sleep, before realizing that guanheng was on the side of his bed, holding the alarm right next to his left ear.

"damn it, guanheng! it's six in the morning! it's too fucking early for this!" taeyong yelled at his chinese roommate as he attempted to grab the black haired boy, but the younger student was able to slip away before becoming trapped in taeyong's grasp.

holding the alarm that's still ringing in his hand, he swiftly made his way out of reach to taeyong, forcing the older to get out of bed to chase him. to guanheng's disappointment, the korean boy didn't even get out of his bed, but instead remained put under the covers on his bed, hand hanging off the edge from when he attempted to grab his roommate.

the chinese boy slowly walked back to the edge of taeyong's bed and prepared the alarm to ring once again, but before he could make the alarm go off, taeyong's hand reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"do you want me to put frogs in your bed before you sleep tonight?" the red haired boy threatened, knowing that guanheng's biggest fear is frogs. the chinese boy immediately backed off from taeyong's bed after hearing 'frogs' and 'bed' in the same sentence, which clearly do not belong together.

"anyway... you're awake now..." guanheng said, bumping the tips of his index fingers together while carefully speaking. taeyong pulled the covers off of his face before turning to his roommate with a death glare.

"i swear, guanheng. if you're gonna make me wake up at some unholy hour of the day one more time..." taeyong dragged on the silence following the last word of the sentence to show that he was being serious.

"just for today, please? can you come with me to limitless?" guanheng asked his hyung.

limitless is the name of a dance studio that jisung's dad owns. he invested in it when jisung went into middle school, and there are two floors, the main level and the lower level, which was reserved for jisung and his friends since his dad allowed him to take control of it. since then, jisung and his friends have visited limitless often, and it has become the keeper of their memories.

"why the fuck would you want to go to limitless so early in the morning? plus, it's also saturday. you've gotten up extremely early every single saturday for the past month to go to limitless, and you always stay there until late as well," taeyong stated. "can't you go yourself like you always do?"

"no! i need you to come this time!" guanheng jumped up and down, pouting and whining, hopefully convincing his roommate to go with him to limitless. the red haired boy rolled his eyes and annoyance but agreed to follow the chinese to limitless.

"well, that's four hours of sleep i'm never getting back," taeyong muttered to himself as he was choosing out what to wear for the day. he complained to himself that it was still too early to be choosing out clothes to wear, but changed regardless and went to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth.

6:15 and both boys were leaving their dorm room. taeyong had begged guanheng to let him go to boom cafe before going to limitless, but the chinese refused to let him, so the red haired boy went on an empty stomach.

as the two reached closer to limitless, they met chenle and jisung on the way. that's when taeyong found out that everyone is going to limitless today, really early in the morning, and not just guanheng alone, as usual.

letting out a yawn, taeyong told the younger three boys to keep moving or else they may never get there. thus, chenle and jisung ended up joining taeyong and guanheng on their trek to the dance studio, all four of them deep in conversation as they walked to the location.

upon arrival, the four boys walked inside limitless and they were met with everyone else, spread out along the edge of the building. most of them looked like they just woke up, and many of them are falling asleep. needless to say, the red haired boy was one of the people about to fall asleep. that was... until the one who dragged him here clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.

"okay! listen up everyone! today is dejun's birthday, and i've spent the last month preparing for it. i got all the ideas to make his first birthday party a great one! i need everyone's help on this " guanheng's voice echoed throughout the mainly empty building. everyone became awake after hearing what the chinese boy had said, and taeyong suddenly went through an epiphany: of course! it was dejun's birthday! how could taeyong forget?

well, the red headed boy is a new student this year, after all. though he does know dejun, the two aren't really close because they hang out with different people in their friend group. taeyong does remember, however, about guanheng telling the korean about everyone's birthday. the red haired boy completely forgot that today was november 5th, dejun's birthday!

after going through that quick epiphany, taeyong realized that dejun and his roommate, taeil, weren't present inside limitless. he knew why dejun wouldn't be present, but not so much for taeil.

guanheng took out a piece of paper from his pocket. the chinese boy had made a list of things to do for his best friend's first birthday party, and read the words on the paper out loud.

"okay. like i said, i have an entire plan written out and visualized in my head. first, i will split us off into teams so that we can get everything we need faster. there will be three teams: decoration team, present team, and cake team.

"yuta hyung, jungwoo, sicheng, chenle, yangyang, renjun, and donghyuck, you guys will help me with decorations. we're going to go buy decorations and decorate limitless so it looks perfect.

"taeyong hyung, jaehyun hyung, johnny hyung, ten hyung, doyoung hyung, xuxi and jaemin, you guys are in charge of presents. have everyone text one person what they want to give to dejun and give you guys some money to go out and pay for it. and make sure to buy your own gifts, too.

"kun hyung, mark, jisung, and jeno, you guys are responsible for the food and cake. go out and buy some party food and snacks, and i'll send you a text of what i want the cake to say. you don't need to leave yet, so maybe while waiting, you can help clean limitless and decorate it.

"since taeil hyung is dejun's roommate, he will help me distract dejun all day while we get ready. at exactly 6:30, everything has to be perfect, because taeil hyung has a plan set up on how to distract dejun, and it lasts until 6:30. he will text me ten minutes before they arrive, to which i will text all of you guys in the group chat to let you guys know how long we have. every two hour interval, i will send a text of how many hours are left before they arrive, so make sure to check your phones."

all 18 boys, who just finished listening to guanheng's plan, nodded their head with determination in their eyes. it was currently 7:00 and they had under twelve hours to get everything as guanheng wanted, so everyone dispersed.

the cake team immediately began sweeping and mopping the floors. the decor team got a list of decorations from guanheng that they needed to buy. taeyong from the presents team went around to ask everyone what they wanted to give to dejun, and collected approximately fifteen to twenty dollars from everyone. afterwards, the presents team took off to the store to buy all the presents and get them gift wrapped before time comes.