6 `Ohana Means Family`

As we entered the gymnasium, we were met by such a mess. It was really all messed up. It didn't look like this when I was here a while ago. Oh well, this is destiny.

'Oh, they're here.' Kris thought.

The varsity players were sitting in a corner, glancing at us while they fixed their things. I was looking back at them, finding the good-looking Mr. Oh number 12. When I finally saw him, I immediately ran across the gymnasium where Yeonra unnie was.

I poked her, being mischievous all of a sudden. "Unnie! Unnie!"

"Whyyy~~"

"Yah, Yeonra unnie!" I continued poking her.

"What? What is it?! Can't you see I'm in a hurry. We—"

"I saw a handsome guy over there." I interrupted her.

"Omo! Where?! Where?!" She reacted immediately upon hearing the word 'handsome' and turned to see where I was pointing.

"Promise me. He's mine." I joked.

"Aigoo~ Let me see him first." She said.

"There! Mr. Oh number 12. Can you see him?" I pointed him without stretching out my arms, avoiding to be caught.

"Heol~ Oh Sehun?"

"Oh, you know him?" I asked and she nodded.

Luhan caught us in act of fangirling and so he went in between and suddenly whispered, "I thought you were in a hurry yet you're still standing there, fantasizing over those men."

It made us to jolt in shock.

"Oh, you surprised us! Yah!" And because of that, Luhan received a slap on both of his arms.

He cringed and said, "Don't you think you're too obvious fangirling over them?"

"Are we?" He hummed and crossed his arms. We blinked our eyes several times.

"They're handsome, though. But I'm still hotter and MANLIER than them." He emphasized the word and felt so proud to himself.

We only shook our heads and went back to our work. As I went across the gymnasium, Yeonra suddenly shouted, "Sehun-ah! Seohyun has a crush on you."

Then everyone goes, "Oohh~" some whistled and they teased Sehun. Their coach was getting along with the flow.

"Unnieeee!!" I yelled back at her. Yeonra can't stop laughing, seeing my cute reaction, looking back and forth.

"Ah! I'm sorry. It's not true. We'll go back cleaning now. I'm sorry." I waved my hands in front. I'm in denial state. I bowed.

"So, you find our Sehunnie ugly?" One player shouted.

"Oh, no~ He's handsome." I smiled awkwardly and bowed. Then I received the same expression of them a while ago.

"Don't worry, Seohyun-ah. Sehunnie will stay a little bit longer. We'll wait for you to finish everything." Another player shouted. I covered my face as I felt it's burning red and went to the other side of the gymnasium. I can still hear Yeonra Unnie's laugh and the boys still murmuring with each other about it.

'Ha! Just wait until we get home. It's my turn to tease you with Seojoon oppa!' I thought while laughing evilly in my mind.

I just shrugged it off and hurried up cleaning the whole gymnasium. This was totally tiring plus Yeonra unnie got me into this situation. Ugh. Look. They can't get over with it.

One hour later, we were almost finish cleaning up. The boys started to pack up and rounded the whole gymnasium for a checkup. So I guess Mr. Shim informed them about us. Oh, what a shame.

"Yaaaaaah!" Yeonra screamed that echoed across the closed space. Everyone turned their heads and saw that the already full trash can was bumped by Kris and it was scattered again on the floor.

"Oh, I'm sorry. My bad." He smirked. Yeonra curled her hands into a fist, feeling so much irritation, and she glared at her.

"Yah. Don't you dare mess up with me. Just so you know, I beat up men too." She warned him.

'Be thankful; I am not in the mood for having a fight with you. Be thankful that Seojoon oppa is more important than you. Jerk!' Yeonra thought. She exhaled heavily and just picked up the pieces of trash from the floor as she still can't get her glaring eyes from him.

Kris just walked away and called the others.

'Kris Wu, number 00. You're the second person on my death note. First is Jung Krystal and now you. Noted!' Yeonra thought.

I was at the main door of the gymnasium and they were heading out. This day is full of embarrassments. Everyone gave me a teasing look as they glanced at Sehun. My head was just lowered down, avoiding them while picking up the pieces of trash. Then, Sehun went near me. I looked up and was flabbergasted. He is really handsome up-close.

"Thank you for telling me, I'm handsome. These boys are really jealous of me now." He thanked me and pinched my left cheek. I literally turned red with that. I just bowed and they left.

We headed out the gymnasium as soon as we settled everything. We like to take a walk this day though we're actually in hurry. Seojoon oppa can wait. We dropped by the nearest bakeshop to buy Seojoon Oppa's birthday cake and his fifty-second candle, I mean, twenty-fifth. We were halfway to our house when I remembered I forgot to pick up the flowers posted on my locker.

"Omo! I forgot my flowers. We shall go back to school." I panicked.

"Yah~~ I don't want to go back. We're halfway there already! I'll just go ahead. You can go back alone if you want."

I clicked my tongue, "Okayyy~."

"Hey, I'm coming with you. We'll take the bus." I hummed. Yeonra went ahead.

As we went back to school and entered the hallway where my locker is, Luhan saw someone posting new flowers again. He tried to stop him but he ran already. Seeing the familiar figure, it's Sehun.

"I didn't get to see his face. We lost him." Luhan said.

"It's Sehun." I said and untaped the flowers from my locker and got the sticky notes.

'I'm hoping to meet you soon but not for now.' written on a sticky note along with the pink camellia flowers.

'I'm more handsome than Sehun. We'll meet someday.' It says on the new sticky note with yellow carnation flowers.

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As we got off the bus back to our way home, I saw Yeonra inside the nearby convenience store, drinking a smoothie.

"I guess, she's waiting for us." I said to Luhan and fished out my phone and called her.

"Unnie, come on out. We're outside."

Then we made a bet—first come, first serve, and we run our way home leaving Luhan behind. He's very dumbfounded what's gotten into us and we just started running. Because he doesn't know where I live, he also ran to catch up but of course, with care because he's carrying Seojoon oppa's cake and my flowers.

"Yaaahh!! I stepped in first!" Yeonra protested but I only went straight to the kitchen where I saw Seojoon oppa.

"I said, first to come see Seojoon oppa will have the cake!" Then I laughed, still catching my breath.

Luhan followed us to the kitchen and placed the cake and the flowers on the table. We are sorry Luhan for making you our personal assistant today.

"You're so unfair!" Yeonra stated as she sat on the mini bar and rested her chin on her palms. Luhan sat beside Yeonra.

"Happy Birthday, oppa. Saranghae." I whispered to Seojoon's ear and gave him a back hug.

'Cute.' Luhan thought and smiled to himself.

He smiled, "What took you so long, hm?" He asked while transferring the food on the bowl.

"Yeonra Unnie." I said cutely while I pointed to Yeonra. Her eyes enlarged.

"Yeonra?"

"Yes?" Yeonra blinked several time with a cute expression.

"What did you---" When he turned to face her, he saw Luhan and refrained himself from saying something.

Luhan stood up quick and greeted him. "Hello, I'm Luhan. It's nice to meet you."

Seojoon nodded and averted his gaze to Yeonra. They're probably talking with their eyes though. Yeonra gave him her oh-so-innocent smile and Seojoon raised an eyebrow.

Luhan seems uncomfortable so I gave him thumbs up telling him just to calm down and act normally.

"Ah, oppa! He's Luhan, our newly recruit friend. Don't worry about him. He surely passed your standards." Yeonra said as she patted Luhan's left shoulder. Luhan smiled awkwardly.

Since I was standing behind Seojoon, I gave Luhan a sweet smile for assurance that everything is going fine.

Seojoon gave Yeonra a sly smirk and then he smiled bringing the tension out of the place. He walked closer to the mini bar and gave Luhan a shoulder bump.

"Welcome to the family, Lu." Luhan bowed, pleased.

I went to join them, sitting right next to Luhan. He gestured me that he's been nervous as he patted his chest. I chuckled at his reaction and noticed he's been wiping the sweat from the sides of his face.

"Oppa, you make Luhan feel nervous. Look at him. He's sweating." Yeonra and I laughed at him.

"Really?" And he laughed also. Luhan felt so shy so he lowered his head. I reached for the box of tissue and gave him some.

"Omo! Is that for me?" He asked seeing the cake and the flowers but he's referring to the flowers.

"You don't have to buy---" he said as he sniffed it.

"Aniyo, oppa. It's mine." I interrupted him and a trace of disappointment was written all over his face.

He clicked his tongue and just said, "So, I guess the cake is mine since I'm the birthday celebrant." We all laughed and nodded.

"Yes!" He exclaimed, making a funny pose. It made us to laugh even harder.

Luhan got the cake out of its box and I placed the numbered candles, showing number 52. He didn't notice it all because Yeonra put on a party hat on him. I started to sing him a 'happy birthday' and the two joined me.

As I told him to make a wish before blowing the candles, he finally noticed the number. "Yah! Why is the candle number fifty-two? Who placed it like this, huh?" Seojoon asked and kept a straight face.

"Yeonra Unnie!" I answered immediately, wriggling my brows to her.

Well, she was sitting beside Seojoon. Seojoon suddenly looked at her with a crease on his forehead and oh, guess what, there face was inches away. I like how Yeonra unnie reacted to it. She blinked a few times and gulped hard. She was totally surprised by it and her face really turned red.

'Omo! He's really handsome up to this close. I feel like I am filming a sweet scene on a korean drama.' Yeonra thought.

Seojoon oppa suddenly smiled and patted her head. "Gwiyeopda." and that's the time she came back from her senses. She sent me a death glare and gave me an abrupt slap on my arm.

Again, we laughed at her and she acted really cute than ever. Just on time that we were about to eat, Mom arrived with chocolate bouquet on her hand.

I ran towards her and greeted her with a kiss in her cheek and got the chocolate bouquet from her grip.

"Eomma, thank you for this." Then I flashed her a lovable smile.

"Aigoo~ it's not for you, baby. It's for our Seojoonie." She chuckled and hugged me.

"Mwo?" I pouted as I went beside Seojoon oppa and just extended out my arms, giving it to him. I was looking away, rolling my eyes in disappointment. Everyone laughed at me. Yeonra stuck out her tongue with a teasing look.

"Eyy, don't worry. I'll give you one but just one." Then he pulled me and kissed my head and let me sat beside him. He still patted my head and smiled at me because i'm being too cute.

'Aigoo~ Why is she being so cute? I like their sibling relationship. It's really strong. I envy them. I'm the only one in my family.' Luhan thought.

"Oh?" Mom reacted, looking at Luhan in surprise. Luhan greeted her and flashed a smile. Mom did the same.

"Auntie, he's newly recruit." Yeonra said.

Mom nodded and said, "Well, I'm grateful that you gained another friend. It's good now that I have two boys and two girls in my family. Hope you'll like our company... what's your name again, pretty boy?"

"Pretty boy!!!" We, Yeonra and I, said in unison as we looked at each other before laughing out loud. Seojoon chuckled.

"I'm Lu Han, auntie." Luhan replied shyly.

"Oh, Lu Han. Uhm, hope you'll like our company. Welcome to the family." Mom said and put her arm around Luhan's shoulder.

"Always feel at home." Yeonra intervened.

"Yah! Thick-skinned." I said. Mom just shook her head at our craziness.

"Oh, did you hear that? Always feel at home, arasseo?" Mom said and Luhan just smiled and nodded in response. She sat beside him and suddenly threw a question.

"Yeong-ah, is he your boyfriend?" This was the most embarrassing question for Yeonra. She choked on her drink.

I burst out in laughter hearing those from Mom. Yeonra unnie responded immediately.

"I was just kidding. Got you there, Yeong-ah." Mom laughed. She's also like me. Like what everyone says: like mother, like daughter.

Then, we started eating our dinner. We talked about a lot of random things. It started with Luhan in which Mom and Seojoon got a little surprise, knowing that Luhan is Chinese. Then, it went to chocolates then to the flowers on the table then to my admirers that made me feel so much embarrassments until I slipped in the topic about what happened earlier.

"Oppa, don't you want to know the reason why we come home late?" I said and looked at Yeonra with a teasing look.

"Oh, about that. What did you took so long?" I took another glance to Yeonra.

"Yah, keep your mouth shut!" She glared at me.

I only ignored her and started telling the story. I told everyone the she made a fight with Krystal. She grabbed Krystal's hair. Then we got caught on the act by our school principal, Mr. Shim Changmin. So, we got into detention — cleaning the whole gymnasium.

"You shouldn't have done that." Seojoon said as he grabbed a spoonful of rice with beef on it.

"But I was just---" and she got interrupted when Seojoon spoon fed her.

"Just eat and make yourself full, arasseo? Don't do that again or else I'll be the one to do it to you." Seojoon scolded her.

"It's okay if it is you," she nearly whispered as she smiled to herself and went back eating.

"Yah, I heard that!" I yelled and Seojoon shut me up, spoonfeeding me.

"I tried to stop her but she's really an Amazon." Luhan said.

Seojoon nodded, "I know right. Since childhood, she's already like that."

"Luhan-ah, promise me to keep an eye on these two. They're like strolling babies whenever they're out." Mom said.

Luhan chuckled, "I will, auntie."

Also, I didn't forget to mention about what happened in the gymnasium about Sehun. I was expecting that Seojoon will scold Yeonra again but ended up teasing me until I almost cried. They become one against me. They're being unfair.

Seojoon's birthday celebration is always memorable. It made our night very light and full of laughter.

Then, Luhan and Yeonra went home after spending a few hours with us. Yeonra still didn't want to go because of the cake so Seojoon let her have a quarter of it. They were just a few blocks away from home so they informed me that they got home already.

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To be continued

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