"jisung," one of the boys at the table sternly calls, the younger looks up with slightly shaken eyes as the tone catches his attention. it was only lunchtime, did he already do something wrong? chenle wasn't even with him with to mess around. he realizes it was jaemin who initiated the conversation, he's staring at jisung with a gaze that made the boy receive unsettling vibes. "-when are you doing it?" he finally finishes his sentence, relief flows throughout jisung's body as he loosens the grip on his utensil.

"wait," he thinks for a split second, the younger boy adjusts his glasses and looks around the café before leaning forward to slightly become closer jaemin. he replies, "...do what?"

jaemin lets out a loud groan, mentally facepalming as he couldn't believe what jisung just said. "you really forgot? I can't believe you." but before he can say more, a tray is placed on the table and a familiar face pulls out a chair from another table to join theirs.

"he forgot, seriously?" jeno questions, he himself even knew what the two were discussing before they could get into depth.

"no, what are you guys talking about?" jisung questions as he was genuinely confused, he tried to retrace his words believing that this action was promised a couple of days ago. but still, he had nothing pop into his head, "was there something I missed? wait, are we doing secret santa! did I forget to buy someone their gift?"

"no jisung, you promised at the beginning of the year," jisung reminds, eyes widening slightly as jeno nods his head beside him. "remember..you vowing that you'd confess to chenle before the year ended. or more of, you'd confess to him during christmas because you believe that would be the greatest gift of all time."

jisung drops the fork that was previously in his hand, lips slightly parted as his eyes wide to join the reaction that he presented to the two boys. oh gosh, how could he forget? all of his closest friends, except for chenle of course knew about his promise. he was being expected to pour his feelings out to his best friend before the year ended. how could he forget! "oh..oh god!" his hands shoot up to where they crawl into his brunette locks realizing that the year was ending way soon, meaning he had little time to plan his confession.

"you had a whole year jisung! a whole year." jaemin starts off, "but, you got nothing up your sleeve?"

"I'll sleeveless right now!" as he shows his exposed arms, "gosh, I totally forgot about that.." jisung mentally slaps himself as christmas was just around the corner, he was sitting in a café relaxing believing he had no worries. but, he was totally wrong. "I was planning on doing it, I promise! but, I'm just unsure of how I should do it..what if he hates it or thinks I'm gross.."

jaemin lifts a brow and sighs as he listens to jisung's panic, "you guys are attached to the hip, he won't hate you but I don't know if you're in denial or stupid but I'm sure chenle feels the same way. he just doesn't know how to say it."

jisung shakes his head, "chenle would never like me, I doubt it." jisung furrows his eyebrows to where they angle down, his thinking face is now in action and all he can do is zone out. "yeah, no way. it's not possible, I mean it is, but, it's not."

"jisung you have an odd way of thinking." jeno comments, taking a sip of his drink right after, "you can't assume chenle is not into you, you haven't even confessed yet. once you confess and he gives you an answer, then you can state facts."

"what if he never gives me an answer!" jisung says, worrying about all the possibilities that are listing in his head, "what if! what if he's into one of you two!"

"I doubt it." jaemin says, "it is much more believable to picture that he's in love with you. ask anyone, I'm sure they'll say yes."

"as if" the youngest of the three crosses his arms and shakes his head with much passion, he was more than positive that his assumption was incorrect. "donghyuck hyung, do you see chenle and I dating?"

the waiter who was walking back to his position suddenly stops when he caught jisung asking him a question, processing it he doesn't take more than a second to place his response on the table. "I thought you two already were?" he jokingly says, the other two older boys laugh when they hear his 'clarification'.

"you aren't helpful! I don't know what to, it's about four days until christmas hits and I am not pulling out a mistletoe out on him." he firmly states, "if it's my last resort, I maybe will."

"well, you better act quick," donghyuck's tone slightly changes, he looks over at jaemin and does a small head lift to catch his attention, "remember what I told you? about you know who.."

"something about mark?" jeno teases, donghyuck raises the empty tray in his hand as a threat.

"oh yeah." jaemin says, he then sets his attention to jisung, "not to burst your bubble, but we heard it from a couple of other students from school before break started. supposedly huang renjun is going to confess to chenle as well over the break."

"could have just said renjun." jeno comments, but jaemin slaps the boy's shoulder, "what? it's true."

"no way.." jisung responds with his mouth even wider than before, he's looking around trying to distract himself from the overflowing amount of thoughts that were now swarming his head. he's got competition, he has competition. "renjun! oh gosh, I have to compete for chenle's love, this is not good at all!"

"I heard he was going to do it at mark's christmas party, well it's not neccesarily on christmas but it's tomorrow night-" donghyuck adds, "that might be some useful information. you have to act quick jisungie, because a lot of people have eyes on chenle." before jisung could even respond, donghyuck was called back to continue his shift instead of slacking off. jisung couldn't believe this, at all. he wondered who else had heart eyes for chenle, I mean, who doesn't?

jisung didn't realize he was in love with his best friend until the middle of his freshman year came around. but, to start from the beginning jisung were formally introduced to jaemin and jeno due to chenle, of course, donghyuck came along eventually but it has been their designated friend group ever since. to be fair, though jisung was good friends with all of them, his heart definitely held a special spot for chenle. jaemin began to notice eventually, he would hold small conversations with the other two (that being jeno and donghyuck), to where the older boy had finally grown the courage to talk about relationships with jisung. during the conversation, he learned jisung hadn't felt any attraction to anyone in a while, he believed it was odd, thinking that his heart didn't exist in his body though that obviously wasn't the case. so for jisung's own benefit, jaemin helped him solve his little 'problem'. that was the day jisung learned many things about his own self that he didn't even know. he realized that his heart yearned for chenle's love and attention but he never acknowledged it, if jaemin never had that discussion with him, he would have been hopelessly in love with his best friend and not even know it himself.

"earth to jisung.." jisung snaps back into reality after hearing the words, "what's your plan? you heard donghyuck, renjun is confessing! as harsh as it sounds, we all know you don't want renjun and chenle together."

jisung stays silent, shortly nodding his head as the words were true. he felt selfish for not wanting anyone to have happiness with chenle, maybe because he was so in love with his best friend to where seeing him with someone else would only shatter him to the very end. though he would recover, glass will always present the made cracks when placed back into its original piece. "I have something in mind, don't worry." as he tries to reassure his older friends, "I've got it under control."

jaemin and jeno don't believe his words, but they don't want to interrogate the boy no more. "alright," jeno starts off, speaking for the both of them, "wishing you happiness for both of you."

jaemin cringes from his words, but jisung lets out a small laugh. he was thankful that the two always had his back, especially in situations like these. but as their trays of ordered food slowly begin to become empty, jaemin is the first to leave to find the nearest trash can in the cafe. once he's far enough from their table, jisung gives his older friend a grin. "when are you telling jaemin hyung?"

jeno chokes on his drink, but jisung shows no reaction as jaemin is running back to their table lightly patting jeno's back. "what the heck happened! I leave for two seconds and you almost die!"

once jeno regains back to normal, he shakes his head, "nothing, just nothing."

jisung rolls his eyes, "yeah, totally nothing."

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[ TIME SKIP! ]

hours before the party, jisung is preparing himself for the special event that is about to go down. he knew that following the steps to his plan would lead him to success, well, maybe. but, he was going to proceed with his operation called, 'we chenle or chenlost', which was an awful name but suitable just for now. he was going with a comfortable outfit knowing that he'd be there for hours, or maybe until the next morning. though that wasn't his biggest concern, all he needed was to play the game safely and get chenle alone so he could initiate everything. once everything falls into place, he would shoot his shot and there were either two possible outcomes. one being, chenle rejects him and jisung's heart cracks in every way shape and form, or jisung has scored himself the boy of his dreasms.

quite simple, but quite harmful. either way, jisung would have to accept chenle's reaction even if it was something he didn't want to hear. before trailing off to mark's house, he was going to gift chenle with a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates. simple, but he knew the older boy would appreciate the gift. "jisung!" a boy calls from the outside of his room, he knew the voice and all he could do was whip his head towards the door before they entered.

as the door opened, it was jaemin who was out of breath (which obviously was due to him running up the stairs), but his hand was placed on the door as he tried to maintain his balance. "how long are you going to take! you're so slow, you know the bouquet shop closes early today, gosh keep up with their schedule!"

jisung furrows his brows head now whipping to the other direction as he checks his alarm clock that sits on his nightstand. realizing the clock has now hit four thirty-five, jisung grabs his sweater that lays peacefully on his chair and grabs his backpack that is sitting on the floor. he zooms past jaemin and runs down the stairs. "gosh jaemin, why didn't you call me! you already know how I am!"

"well, I thought you'd be better prepared since this is revolving around chenle!" jaemin shortly follows him down the stairs and watches him slip on his shoes. he opens the front door, yelling out to his parents that he was now leaving.

as jisung is running towards the flower shop, not listening to jaemin's words as his legs carry him throughout the small neighborhood to make it to the shop in time. "I was prepared! but I lost track of time okay!"

jaemin can only roll his eyes, he's out of breath and this was definitely worse than running up the stairs. he didn't believe he'd receive this amount of exercise today, but he guessed it would be a good wake up call before the party started. though he wasn't exactly enjoying the situation he was in right now, he would definitely admit that he was excited to witness the confession jisung was going to present to chenle. jaemin being the sly boy he was, he already knew what the answer would be.

as jisung swerves to turn a corner, the shop is about to close in twenty five minutes so he prayed that there were still a good selection of flowers left. plus, they also sold chocolates meaning he'd be able to kill two birds with one stone. eyes capturing the sign that states, 'open' on the door, jisung doesn't hesitate to enter and leaves jaemin to catch up with him. stumbling inside, the cashier gives him an odd look as they make eye contact. "jisung?" he questions, tilting his head as he's confused to why the younger boy was in a huge rush, "what event did you forget today?"

"not event—" he huffs out, "well..not necessarily but I'm planning on confessing to chenle today..I need flowers and box of chocolates before jaemin and I head out to mark's christmas party..." jisung explains, standing up straight before heading towards doyoung.

the older boy gives him a pleased look, "finally, after all the times you've came to complain—" doyoung walks around the counter and starts to search through the different arrangement of bouquets, "you decided to do it, I'm glad."

jisung brings himself towards doyoung, standing behind him watching the boy collect his thoughts to conclude which bouquet jisung should buy. "yeah, I'm hoping it goes well. but, don't you think any bouquet would make chenle happy?"

doyoung shrugs, "if that's what you believe, pick one yourself."

before jisung could respond, jaemin stumbles into the shop as well. gasping for air as he grabs onto the closest thing his arm could reach for himself to rest on. he then points at jisung, "I c—can't believe you made me run!"

"I never said you had to." he shortly fires back, jaemin can only groan. "want to help me pick out flowers for chenle?"

"you already know chenle appreciates anything from you, you can give him a rock and he'll make a display for it." jaemin explains, running his fingers through his hair as small strands begin to stick to his slightly damp forehead. "just go with your gut, the fact that you've went through the process of buying flowers for him would mean a lot."

"he also loves chocolate." jisung adds in.

"oh yes we're aware."

"so jisung.." doyoung then grabs one of their special made bouquets and hands it to jisung, the boy gently takes the item, "seems like you're in a hurry, I'll give you the chocolates and flowers as a gift for being good friends with my brother."

jisung smiles, noding his head, "oh wow..thank you! and well of course anytime!"

jaemin is relieved to how quick the process went, doyoung and jisung then exchange their goodbyes. soon the two boys begin to head off to mark lee's party. jisung didn't really know what to expect except for the fact that there was going to be a fair amount of people there. other than that, he still was repeating his plan in his mind to ensure he'd go through with it.

once they arrive at the party, jaemin is the first to walk towards mark's door. the younger boy slowly trails behind him as he realizes that he was going to confess soon to chenle, meaning that he had to get his act straight and build the confidence that he was dripping of before! well...sort off.. "you ready?" jaemin teases, as they wait for someone to open the door for them, "you got this, don't let renjun get in your way."

renjun. jisung totally forgot about renjun until jaemin reminded him. "gosh darn it it jaemin..now I'm worrying because I totally forgot about him..."

"oh..oops."

once the door opens, jaemin and jisung are welcomed with the face of mark lee. the host of the christmas party this year, last year it was donghyuck and all he could recall was that it was wild. "come on in, you're right on time." he allows them into his home, removing their shoes before entering the main area. there were a reasonable amount of people within the moment, but jisung knew soon it would flood with more individuals as time passes by. as jaemin walks away from jisung to find jeno and donghyuck, the younger is left alone to do his own thing, he wasn't much of a party person, he didn't really enjoy the underage drinking and loud people but he wouldn't complain about every little annoyance he had. but, he placed the gift down on the kitchen counter and brushes away the small fluffs that have stuck to his clothing. "jisung!" a voice calls, he lifts up his head and there his eyes capture the face of chenle right in front of him, "took you long enough, I've been waiting for you!"

jisung can't help but smile as he hears his words, "really? I'm sorry for taking so long, I thought I was on time."

chenle shrugs his shoulders, opening his arms as he hugs jisung unexpectedly. but the younger boy doesn't complain, his hugs always felt nice, so he wraps his arms around chenle, letting his head relax as he found comfort in his embrace. "you're warm chenle." he comments, but the older doesn't say much and hugs jisung tighter, mumbling a small, 'you are too..'

jisung slowly moves one hand to chenle's head, patting it, "happy holidays,' he says with a bright smile, "are you ready for the new year coming up? I'm kind of excited."

chenle removes himself from jisung, tilting his head as he thinks. "I guess, I'm just happy that I get to spend the holidays with you." his words make jisung's heart flutter, the boy didn't even know what his presence did to the taller, but surely he would know by tonight. "I really am." jisung knew what he wanted to say to him right after, but chenle took a hold of his wrist, "come on, go sit I'll get us food." he offers kindly, jisung doesn't question his suggestion and listens to him.

as he walks over to the couch, chenle walks in the opposite direction to go into the kitchen. eyes spotting jisung's gift, he raises a brow, chenle then also spots jeno who's in the area. walking over to him, he gently tugs on his shirt due to him not wanting to interrupt the conversation he was having with jaemin. once jeno sets his attention on the boy, chenle points at the gift, "who brought chocolate and flowers?" he questions, jeno doesn't answer but does glance at jaemin who knew.

"they're for someone." jaemin answers, gripping the red solo cup in his hand a bit tighter, not wanting to spill the surprise. "you'll see who it's for later."

"but that's not fair, why do you get to know!" chenle whines, hating to wait for the time to come.

jeno nods, "yeah why can't I know jaemin?"

"shut up." jaemin shakes his head, pushing jeno away from him. "stop being a baby and deal with it."

chenle walks away from the scene as the two begin to bicker, but he knew their words weren't serious as they insulted each other. chenle knew that there was more to the story when it came to their relationship, it was obvious that jeno had a crush on jaemin ever since chenle became friends with them. there was no heterosexual explanation for the two. but, he wondered about jeno's plans and if he was going to confess to jaemin anytime soon. mostly because jaemin was wonderful inside and out, he was able to present marvel to anyone who entered his life. he was always so careful, patient and dripped of kindness. with that being said, it was hard to not fall in love with na jaemin, jeno had a lot to say as he was one of his victims.

but, chenle could say he had the trouble of his own as well. stuck with the trouble of being in love with his own best friend. it has been years but he has yet to say nothing. he didn't know what was holding him back, there really was nothing but the thought of their friendship taking a toll was terrifying. he didn't want to ruin their bond, yet his heart strings were pulling at jisung and jisung only. if he were to receive any gift in the world, all he wanted was jisung to return feelings for him. that's all he would ever ask for.

as he throws his feelings aside for a hot second, he wants to focus on the time he is spending with jisung. he didn't want his best friend to worry about anything during this special event, he hated making jisung worry because he knew how the boy was. grabbing a plate and placing a couple treats that himself and jisung would enjoy, he walks on over to the younger who's sitting on the couch with donghyuck. "hey chenle!" the ravenette greets energetically, "I didn't see you come in?"

"maybe because you were hiding in mark's room." chenle states, giving the plate to jisung watching his eyes light up. "what were you and jisung talking about?"

"nothing," jisung quickly answers before donghyuck can, "he just came over since I was sitting alone."

"I see. but, did you guys see the flowers on the table? I wonder who they're for." chenle looks over to the bouquet once again, jisung swears he almosts chokes on his cookie giving his best friend a small smile before finishing the treat in his mouth, 'who knows..' is all he says, but chenle was still curious. "I bet they're from jaemin to jeno, he was the only person who seemed to know. unless you guys know?" as he tries to interrogate them, but jisung and donghyuck act as if they were clueless, "guess not."

"it's okay, we'll see later. maybe jaemin is confessing." jisung tries to play the ball out of his court and chenle seemed to believe his inference, "we both know how they are, jeno is way too obvious but jaemin acts as if he doesn't exists sometimes."

"that's true, I hope it all goes well then."

dongghyuck nods and stands up from his seat, "okay! I'm going to find mark and the others, bye guys!" the two can't respond to his sudden leave because he was gone within a flash, leaving them alone.

chenle sighs, "it's funny to see all our friends fall in love with each other, don't you think?"

"yeah, especially when they freak over little things." jisung adds, "but, I guess it's fun seeing how their friendship grows into a romantic relationship. being apart of that is kinda, heartwarming?" he didn't know how to explain his words well, but chenle knew exactly what he was saying.

"yeah.." he agrees with shortly, "well..do you have anyone you like jisung?"

jisung's eyes widen, he couldn't really answer that and he was reminded that nothing was going according to plan. well, that seemed about right, he couldn't even follow his own school schedule. "I-I..yeah.."

"really!" as chenle was surprised by his response, "want to tell me who?" he tried to hold back his excitement, but he didn't want to get his hopes up knowing that there was a huge chance that it wasn't him.

"I can't..." jisung quietly says, playing with the flimsy paper plate. "I can... later" as he then reassures, giving his best friend a smile. "I promise." the then holds out his pinky finger, putting it in front of chenle. he gives him a certain look, a look that screamed, 'aren't you going to wrap your pinky around mine?' and of course chenle couldn't pass up on this opportunity, so he does go through with jisung's pinky promise, knowing that the boy wouldn't break it.

"alright..well, I'm going to go to the restroom. so, I'll be back.." chenle says, small pinky slipping away from jisung's as he excuses himself. jisung nods his head, watching as he leaves. once he's out of his sight, jisung quickly puts down the plate of treats on the table in front of him and grips onto his hair. he hoped that chenle didn't get the wrong message, he wanted to tell him, he did. but it wasn't the right moment, it just wasn't. he stands from his seat and walks over to jeno and jaemin, "I have to do it soon, chenle knows I'm into someone and I don't want this weighing on him during the party."

"didn't you have a plan jisung, isn't it too-"

"forget the stupid plan! where's renjun? isn't he confessing as well shouldn't I beat him to it?"

"I saw him going down the hall, heard he was going to use the restroom." jeno answers.

"WHAT!" jisung screams, "you're joking right? jeno tell me you're joking!" but the older answers with a small head shake, meaning that he was being serious. jisung doesn't waste any second to grab the flowers on the table, he could give the chocolates later if things went well. if not, that would be his comfort food for the night. "chenle!" jisung shouts, a good amount of heads turn his way as they realize what was going down. donghyuck even has his phone ready as he was waiting for this moment ever since he's met the two.

chenle doesn't understand what's going on, but renjun requests to talk to him after he uses the bathroom. which of course he complied with, that's when he heard jisung calling his name when he was doing his business, that's when things get even weirder. what did he need? couldn't he wait after his tinkle.

"jisung what are you doing?" renjun questions, eyes glancing over to the flowers in his hands. but, that was a stupid question to ask, the boy was able to comprehend exactly what he was doing after looking at the bouquet. "oh, you're going to-?"

"shh!" jisung waves one hand in the air dramatically as he tries to keep his confession a surprise, "I'm sorry, I really am but I need to talk to chenle." he gently says, but the boy doesn't throw a fit.

"no worries," renjun answers, "I had a feeling chenle had eyes for someone else, guess it had to be you." he awkwardly walks away from the door chenle was behind to find some other friends, but chenle pops out from the restroom with a flushed face, yelling at renjun in chinese.

after that situation occurred, chenle wanted to hide in the bathroom for eternity. re-entering the bathroom, he slowly closes the door but jisung is sure to stop him, "chenle please, can we talk. well.. not here in the restroom but outside..."

chenle peeks out, staring into jisung's eyes that are screaming of plead. he can't say no, especially since he knew everyone was watching. he exits the restroom slowly, jisung puts out his hand and chenle grabs it out of instinct. as they walk into the main area, jisung brings him outside into mark's backyard where there was light still shining, the sun was going down soon so he wanted to make things quick. "chenle.." he called out his name to grab his attention, "these are for you.." he finally admits.

"really.." as he takes them once jisung hands them to him, "you said you didn't know who they were for...liar..." but he takes a whiff of the bouquet, not able to stay mad at jisung from the kind action.

"I know.. but I promised to tell you who I'm interested in.."

chenle's eyes widen, the thoughts inside his head began to scream as he came to the conclusion that the someone jisung liked, could definitely be him. "o-okay..go on."

jisung look towards the inside of the house, everyone giving him a thumbs up before he continued his little speech. "okay..well the guy I like has been my best friend since..forever..he's always there for me, supporting me and making the best memories with me. I..well you can say I love him a lot..but.. I had this all written down and I forgot it so fuck it! zhong chenle, gosh darn it I've been in love with you since who knows when! but, I can't handle the thought of someone else being with you or holding in my feelings and having regrets. but if you don't accept this silly confession, totally fine! really..it's fine.."

"jisung.." he softly says.

"it's okay if you don't return feelings, really it's okay! I heard renjun was actually going to confess to you too, he's a really nice guy and great choice and I bet he can definitely make you happy... but I..I..can do that as well..so haha..."

"jisung!" he shouts, which ends the boy's blabbering. he smiles, shaking his head as his eyes begin to tear up. "really? you really do..?"

"well..yeah.." jisung answers, not able to look at chenle, knowing he'd start crying as well. "I really like you chenle, I want to be with you.. if that isn't too much..."

chenle sets down the flowers aside, not warning jisung he tackles him with a bear hug, whispering, "it's not...I like you as well.." once his words are said, jisung looks up to the sky to stop the tears from rolling down. laughing, he wraps his arms around chenle, though they've hugged many times, he can say this one hit differently.

"so..jichen is official?" jisung questions, chenle playfully hits his chest and nods,

"it's official, but it's chenji sungie."

"well whatever name it is, out of the three point seven billion boys on earth, I'm glad I was able to end up with you."

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THE END

finished: december 26, 2019

SO, I AM TWO DAYS LATE
I APOLOGIZE !! I have been busy and also
really tired cause I'm guilty of not taking well care of myself..oops. but I really hope you all enjoyed this one-shot I spent a lot of time working on it and I hope it isn't bad or yeah...I feel like it was somewhat rushed but I know what I can definitely improve on in the future. also, while writing this I got heavily distracted as a nomin story popped into my mind
halfway through and I was like

:0

'must write!!'

so yeah! but anyways, happy late holidays/
merry christmas. love you all and I can't wait for the new year as well!!!