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Anyway, here's chapter two so have fun!

I hope it brings smile to you :3

Chapter 2

The World is Small and Kai Hates Pink

Tala hugged Rei like he was some rare stuffed animal. Hilary, Max and Tyson had their jaws on the floor and their eyeballs out of their sockets. Rei was just completely frozen.

"I'm so happy to finally meet you!" Tala giggled. Bryan heard his giggling and was curious so he went to the front door to see the commotion.

"Tala?" he called.

It was then that Tala finally released Rei from his hug. He turned around and dragged Rei inside and presented him to Bryan.

Bryan looked down at Rei whilst Rei blinked up at him. After three seconds of just staring at each other, Bryan finally cocked an eyebrow.

"Who's this?" he asked and moved his attention to Tala.

"Rei Kon" Tala replied joyfully.

"And?"

"I ordered the cakes from him."

"O-kay, but why are you introducing him to me?"

"Take a good look at him."

Bryan then stared at Rei again and eyed him from head to toe. Then his face lit up as if a bright idea just came to him. He smirked and looked back at Tala.

"For Kai?"

"Mhmm" Tala nodded cheerfully.

"U-Uhm…" Rei finally found his voice. Tala and Bryan looked at him.

"I really don't get what's happening but I'm just here to deliver the cakes" Rei smiled.

"Oh right, the cakes. Where are they?"

"Umm, right here" Hilary finally spoke and smiled giving a small wave at Tala.

"Our other guests will also be arriving soon. Why don't you guys join us?"

"Join you?"

"That's right. We're having a Christmas party tonight. It's my gift to a special friend of mine. Oh and before I forget, I'd like you, Mr. Kon, to give the strawberry cake to that special friend of mine personally" Tala winked.

"E-Eh? What?" Rei stuttered in complete disbelief. It was obviously taking a while before his mind finally registered what was happening.

"Aya, take them to the wardrobe and give them proper clothes" Tala instructed one of the maids. Aya gladly followed his orders and before anyone of the four could protest, she dragged them to the room where the clothes were.

Tala and Bryan watched them go with complete amusement.

"I didn't know you were planning something like this" Bryan smirked and tugged Tala's side.

"So what do you think?"

"Well, even if Kai completely despises this kind of stuff and would probably kill you if he finds out, I think it's perfect" Bryan winked.

"Trust me; if things go the way I'd planned, Kai will be thanking me instead."

Before long, Tala's guests arrived one by one. Most of them were university friends of the three Russians like Claude Tavarez, who's now the current head of the sales department of Hiwatari Enterprises. Mathilda Alster and Aaron Silva were also present and are employees of the company as well. They are under Claude in the sales department. Miguel Lavalier who's currently working as a male model were with them. Then there's Robert Jurgens who used to be a regular client of the company. He now owns a hotel which Tala and Bryan frequently visit whenever they had their dates. Together with Robert were Enrique and Oliver who own a restaurant and Johnny McGregor, their business partner. Spencer and Ian who used to share the same condo building with Tala and Bryan were also, of course, there.

Then there's Ming-Ming, who's also a famous singer and came with Brooklyn Masefield, once a rival both in studies and in business of Kai. Garland Siebald, Mystel, and Crusher were also invited but unfortunately weren't able to attend due to some other businesses.

"Aw, and here I was hoping the cheerful Mystel would help light up the party for us" Tala pouted.

"It's your fault for sending the invitation only yesterday. Sheesh, we have our own businesses now too you know" Miguel rubbed his head.

"Sorry. It kind of slipped my mind" Tala snickered.

"You did a pretty good job here, Ivanov" Brooklyn said and marveled on the Christmas tree.

"Ah-huh. But still, I never imagined you'd think of something like this" Claude said.

"Oh speaking of which, what made you celebrate Christmas with everyone so suddenly? I never thought you were the type who enjoyed cheesy reunions like this. And most especially since Kai's involved. I thought he hates these kinds of things?" Brooklyn wondered.

"He does and I just planned this without consent from him" Tala giggled.

"When did you ever ask him any permission before you did anything? Anyway, the food's ready. We can start anytime you like, Tal" Bryan said coming out from the dining room. He walked up to his lover and wrapped an arm around his waist. His act earned them a lot of whistles from their guests.

"Ooh, lovey-dovey already huh?" Ming-Ming cooed.

They were still teasing and chatting when Rei's group entered the main hall. The four young men were dressed in floral shirts and loose shorts. Hilary was dressed in a white sleeveless floral dress that reached about three inches above her knee which obviously revealed her unexpectedly (as Tyson said) flawless legs. It sure was hell not comfortable with her but most of the guys were enjoying the sight.

"Guh, this skirt is too shirt damnit" Hilary cursed as she tried to push down the skirt a bit hoping it would at least lessen how much of her skin were exposed.

"C'mon Hil, with legs like yours, you should be proud to flaunt them!" Max cheered. Some of the guys were surely pleased with Hilary's legs but the others, Mathilda and Ming-Ming included were focusing on another lovely sight.

Aya just decided to be Rei's personal stylist and forced him to just let his long black locks hang lose over his shoulders and on his back. With his shirt open, his well-toned upper body was also in perfect view. What's more, his brilliant natural amber-gold eyes were definitely something none of the guests have ever seen.

"With looks like that, I wouldn't mind doing him even if I'm straight" Miguel whispered to Claude. The latter snickered and elbowed Miguel.

On the other hand, Tala was marveling at Rei as if he's just found a really rare stone.

"Eh, is that really you Rei? Rei Kon?" Oliver voiced out. Rei turned to him and his eyes widened upon seeing the green haired young man.

"Oliver?"

"Oh wow, it really is you! It's been a while!" Oliver cheered happily and jumped on Rei. The raven-haired welcomed him in open arms.

Enrique, Oliver's lover, didn't kind of like the scene so he coughed to remind Oliver that he was there. The younger male laughed lightly and released Rei but hooked his arm around the raven's.

"Mind telling us what's going on?" Hilary said, one of her eyebrows raised as high as possible as she eyes Oliver's arm on Rei's. She was obviously getting crazy ideas about the pair's relationship so before anything got out of hand, Rei explained everything.

"It was a few months before I took over uncle's shop, I joined a baking competition in France and Oliver was one of the contestants. We were the ones who fought in the final round."

"Yup but unfortunately I lost. He-he" Oliver laughed, "And since then, we've been good friends. I used to send him letters but after getting busy with managing the restaurant with Enrique, I didn't have free time anymore and soon stopped."

"Hnn, that's the first time I've heard of it" Enrique pouted.

"What, that was before we even started dating. And why would I tell you about it, Rei was just a friend. No actually, he was even my rival before we became friends."

"Rique, you can't be seriously jealous of Rei" Johnny said and patted the shorter male's shoulder, "Sure he's gorgeous, and sexy, and charismatic, and goddamn hot―"

"Yes, Johnny, we get it" Enrique shook his head and sighed.

Rei was blinking in disbelief and had his mouth open with what Johnny just said. Max, Tyson and Hilary also had the same expression.

"Did he seriously just hit on Rei?" Tyson whispered to Max.

"You bet he did" Max chuckled. Hilary face-palmed.

"Moving on, Rei, I didn't know you were acquainted with Tala."

"Eh? Actually I'm not." Rei then looked at Tala, who was oddly just staring at him with a suspicious mischievous smile.

"Mr. Ivanov―"

"Tala, just Tala is fine." Tala said and walked up to Rei.

"Tala―"

"Hold up your hands" Tala ordered. Strangely enough, Rei obeyed and held out his hands in front of him.

"Here, I told you I'd like you to give this cake personally to a friend of mine, remember? Do it now." Tala then placed the box of strawberry cake on Rei's hands.

Rei stared at the box then to Tala and back to the box again. He sighed.

"Tala, actually I don't think we should stay any longer. Isn't this a private party for you and your friends? We've intruded far enough. We just came solely to deliver the cakes, and that's all" Rei said.

"Are you saying you don't want to stay?" Tala then used his infamous and deadly puppy dog eyes. Bryan face-palmed and muffled a laughter.

Rei gulped and in less than a minute…

"Fine. Where's the room?" Rei caved in.

In an instant, Tala's face brightened up again.

"Upstairs, third room from the right!"

The others then watched as Rei obediently climbed the stairs.

"What're you planning?" Miguel asked.

"Wait and see" Tala snickered.

"Kai, will you loosen up? You've been busy the entire year already."

The words his VP said floated in Kai's mind and what's worse, stupid Tala had a point. If there were things Kai hated, one would be when Tala actually makes a point. But what can he do? If he became careless even for just one moment, the other members of the board could take the chance to finally succeed in throwing him out of the company. And hell will freeze over first before that happened.

"If those old geezers took over, the company would be bankrupt in less than a week" Kai said as he rinsed off his hair. He was actually taking a shower. With all the stress he's been having both from work and from Tala, he desperately needed one.

Kai sighed before turning off the shower. He got out of the shower room with a towel wrapped around his waist and another towel draped over his shoulders. He was about to wear the clothes Tala had picked and readied for him when a knock came from the door.

Thinking it was just Tala again; he sighed and walked to the door, turned the knob and opened it (with only the towel on his waist).

"What is it now Tal―"

Gold then met with crimson.

Rei stared up at Kai's deep crimson eyes with a dumbfounded expression, a slightly open mouth and a face completely resembling a ripe tomato. Who wouldn't blush at the sight of someone as extremely attractive and charming as Kai who's currently half naked with a body that was still wet from taking a shower and some of his hair stuck to his angel of a face?

Kai stared back at him with a mixture of annoyance and interest. But the feeling of interest was slowly taking dominance inside him as he just stared back at those brilliant amber-golden eyes that he's never seen before. Oh and the parted pale-pink lips was also kind of tempting. How he'd love to shut that mouth closed.

When such a train of thought came to his mind, Kai snapped out and annoyance started to take over again.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked in his usual 'I'm-annoyed-as-hell-so-don't-waste-my-time' tone.

"T-Tala…" Rei stuttered. It wasn't that he was too flustered that he can't answer properly; it was more like he was shocked because the angelic person before him just became a demon in an instant. If there was such an expression worse than annoyance, Kai just wore it. It was like he was close to killing somebody.

"I-I mean, Tala sent me here. I'm Rei Kon, from Le Patissiere Merveilleux and he wanted me to give you this" Rei bowed and handed the box to Kai.

"This is?"

"Tala ordered it, it's strawberry muffin cake."

Kai opened the box. Rei was hoping for a softer expression when Kai saw the cake but instead, Kai looked closer to a demon than ever. And whether it was just his eyes or what, there was some strange killing aura around the president.

"Who decorated it?"

"I-I did."

Kai glared at Rei. Rei took a step back.

"Who asked you to make it like this?" Kai asked in a seriously angry tone.

"T-T-Tala sir!"

Kai noticed the panicked expression slowly appearing on the shorter male's face. He realized, 'what the hell's the point in getting mad at him?'

Kai then breathed out to regain composure. When he's finally calm, he went to the stairs.

"Tala!" he shouted from the second floor. Everyone looked up at him and was horrified, except from Tala of course.

"Oh, hey Kai, did you like my―"

And the cake successfully smashed on the redhead's face.

"I hate pink!" Kai shouted as furiously as possible.

"But it was cute!" Tala shouted back as he tried to removed the cake from his face.

"Shut it!"

Rei, who was behind Kai that time, was just frozen in utter disbelief.

And horror.

Thank you for reading!

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