where: xingyu's house @enhaloes
when: july 11th, 8:19am
in his earlier years, kaden had resigned to the fact that he might not ever have a best friend, so easily repelling through friendship groups with no true attachment. he had never imagined a lifetime when he would be so attached, so interlinked with another person that he would have felt that there wasn't enough in the world that he could do with them. there were times when he wondered how over the past six years, he had been given the first true luck of his life when it came to being given the gift of being close to someone like xingyu. the worst day of his life had led to one of his strongest bonds; it was crazy how life worked.
standing on the doorstep, the cake tin balanced in his hand, the rapping on the door not unfamiliar from him even at this hour, especially on this day. the years had fallen away, barriers that had existed no longer existed and kaden was sure that on this day... just for one more... he wanted to be human. to live in a world where the only thing on his mind was the person that he loved the most and seeing a smile on his face, seeing him understand how important he was. he couldn't believe there had been a time when this was just any other day...
when the door opens, free hand moves to adjust the lid, revealing beneath a strawberry cheesecake (or what may be considered as one), whipped cream hiding the sins of bad craftmanship. pink sticky note taken from his nieces stash and the final version of many crumbled trash can versions reading a simply happy birthday. "i know i'm early, but i couldn't wait for you to get here," he jokes, the grin on his face spreading when he announces, "happy birthday, xingyu."
as if he couldn't stand the seriousness, eye contact broken momentarily, "well, in one minute and 39 seconds…"
