CHAPTER ONE- The Invite

Keitaro clicked his pen and he finished the sentence in his journal. He was just finishing the script for the news channel on YouTube. After Camp Buddy and when his journal was published to the public, he had gotten many part time career opportunities that paid well for someone so young like him. It helped that he was making money, it let him help his sister pay for his photography degree he was working on.

He looked up from his journal (because writing was so much better than typing when doing the rough scripts) and looked to his computer desk for the time. He looked at the screen and noticed his screensaver.

He smiled wistfully.

Enclosed within the black walls of the computer, was a picture of five smiling boys smiling as they posed for the camera. He sighed with content. It was a photo of the last day of camp with him, Hiro, Yoichi, Hunter and Natsumi, which they referred to themselves as the Cabin One Crew, COC for short (Yoichi immensely enjoyed how the word sounded out to cock. Natsumi had never looked so offended).

When the camp had ended two weeks or so after, Natsumi had managed to get everyone's contact and had already created a group chat just for the five them. Even Scoutmaster Yoshinori had bought Yoichi a laptop, cell phone and got the camp better service. It had been awkward at first, but soon enough, just like at camp, the chat was as lively as their conversations at camp.

Of course they had hung out together, outside of camp. In fact, Keitaro himself had seen his friends more often than his parents (that fact almost didn't bother him. Almost.). It already had been a while since camp had taken place and the COC had slept over at each other's homes for some of the holidays, like the days after Christmas, with New Years being quite the event, the February mid-term break and all of Easter.

Just like in the summer, they made so many more memories. Like the time Natsumi had gotten his driving license and had almost hit SEVERAL cars and out drove the damn POLICE because of his reckless speeding. In his defense, he had already a serious case of 'Close Your Eyes While you Sing Along to the Radio'. Natsumi was forever banned from playing Taylor Swift while he was driving for life.

Or like that one time it was Father's Day and Yoichi wanted help getting a present for Yoshi. They learned a lot of things that day:

1. Never let Yoichi push a shopping cart around with Hiro inside.

2. Yoichi had started calling the scoutmaster Dad in his head and wants to start calling him that aloud.

3. Scoutmaster Yoshi can cry. A lot.

And who could forget about when they all visited Hunter's art school. Long story short, someone had broken off a testicle from a statue. To this day, no one at the school had noticed. Hiro kept the clay penis proud on his desktop.

Like he said, there were so many memories made and Keitaro couldn't be happier. The five boys' friendships had only grown stronger over time, no matter how far away they were. Which wasn't that far. Hunter, along with the help of Ms Yuri, had mama get to convince his parents to let him attend the local prestigious art school, keeping him within travel distance. Natsumi and Yoichi were already practically neighbors, which Natsumi's neighborhood was just 20 minutes away from the camp. And Hiro and Keitaro himself both lived a 45 minute bus trip from their friends.

Keitaro blinked and blushed at his recent thought. Hiro had matured and grown up so much since camp. When he came to the camp, he was so jealous of anyone close to Keitaro and his friends, but now he more open and loved his friends just as dearly as Keitaro did. He even got along much better with Yoichi (obviously their banter had never stopped. It would always be part of their friendship.). Hiro and him had stuck through and thin, from when they were young to when Hiro had almost moved to the capital forever. Even when Ms. Akiba had gotten better, Keitaro continued to be by Hiro's side.

They started to hang out way more often, taking up each other's time more than half of the week. Both of them went to the same school, with Hiro taking a cookery course and selling his food from time to time. They had so many sleepovers just with one another, talking well past midnight in the darkness of their room and just talking about everything and anything. All the intimacy, all the closeness, it was only after camp and their rekindled strong friendship Keitaro had realized that he had developed a crush on Hiro.

A big one.

Who could blame him though? Hiro, with his enthusiasm, balanced Keitaro's timid nature perfectly. Hiro brought out his bold side like no one could. Hiro made him a better person, helped him dare to dream and be himself loudly and proudly. He was sweet, kind, hilarious and really, really, cute and hot. It was illegal to be so much of both honestly. Yet Hiro dared to do so.

While Hiro did make him more confident, he was still a weakling, so he hasn't told anyone of his feelings for his best friend. And despite his horrible lying skills, Hiro hasn't seems to have caught on at all. Of course, the question of if Hiro liked him back was a blurry and complicated answer. For a long time, Hiro's jealous manners had Keitaro thinking that he did, but after he stopped, there were still moments that were... more than platonic.

Those midnight talks where they laid close to one another, sharing a same bed cause the floor was uncomfortable despite the sleeping bags. Their hidden smiles in the dark while they talked of the future, a brush of fingers on the pillow, with their legs slowly but surely intertwining with one another. The disregard for personal space when their foreheads touched, their puffs of breaths mingling as they got closer and closer-

A loud noise disturbed Keitaro's quickly escalating thoughts, which he was kind of grateful for. He finally realized that the sound came from his mail slot in his front door, signaling he had mail. With that, Keitaro rose from his bed and stumbled to the door. There lying on the floor mat was an envelope addressed to him.

Keitaro leaned down to pluck the letter from the ground and saw the words "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL" in bold. Keitaro cocked his head in curiosity. He wasn't one to usually get mail, unless it was some letter from... he didn't want to further think about them. He trotted back to his room while sliding his finger through the seal to open it. He sat back on his bed as he pulled out the letter that was slotted inside.

The first thing he noticed was the loopy, elegant writing. It looked as if the letter was handwritten with a quill dipped in ink (both him and Hunter were avid Harry Potter fans. They had several movie binges of the series). Keitaro went on to read the actual letter itself:

DEAR MISTER NAGAME,

You are cordially invited to the celebration of Mister Felix Leroy Clermont.

Please bring this invite as evidence of your invitation. We hope to see you attend.

Keitaro grinned. He had almost forgotten about Felix's upcoming birthday. The last time he saw the small guy they had all gone out to celebrate him and Seto getting together at the local cafe. He flipped the page to see more writing on the back. This time the writing looked more natural and written in a ball point pen. It seemed to be a note:

Hey Keitaro,

Long time no see! I hope you can make it to my party in a week and a few days. Don't worry, I've invited all the other campers so we can all celebrate. Please come in a nice suit and tie but being a change of comfy clothes.

Hope you can make it, Felix xoxo

P. S: the password is silver fox!

Keitaro's smile only got wider. A party? With his friends and Hiro? He wouldn't miss it for the world. He has to text the crew about this.

He pulled out his phone and entered the Discord app and pulled up the group chat.

Froppy: guys! have you gotten the news?

Immediately he had gotten a reply.

Gordon Ramsey: OMG YOU TOO? WE'VE JUST GOTTEN INVITED TO A BILLIONAIRE PARTY!!!!

SonicTheHedgehog: Yes! I'm quite excited. I just received mine in the mail!

Matilda: Felix had texted me mine in the mail to print because the college mail system is an absolute mess. Him and Mr Clermont are very busy getting things ready

Teen Wolf: oh thank fuck I thought it was just me cause if so I wouldn't fucking go to a party with a bunch of snobs

SonicTheHedgehog: Yoichi! Our friend is not a snob!

Teen Wolf: shit sorry mr perfect. he's a rich snob

SonicTheHedgehog: -_- Why do I bother?

Gordon Ramsey: f in the chats for Natsumi

Froppy: f lmaooo

Matilda: Personally I'm still surprised your going Yoichi. He did say that it's a suit and tie event

Teen Wolf: ughhhhhh don't get me started twinkle toes. Dads fucking taking me shopping for a suit

Froppy: OUUU now that's a great idea! Mind if I tag along?

Matilda: yeah that's not a bad idea there! We'll all go together so we can get opinions and embarrass Yoichi!

Teen Wolf: HEY

Matilda: oh sorry. Yoichi and Natsumi. Where are my manners?

SonicTheHedgehog: :0 I feel betrayed Hunter

Matilda: Don't hate the player, hate the game

Keitaro chuckled aloud. Over the course of time, Hunter had became more talkative and confident in his friendships. They had all come to learn that the bookworm was quite the savage when it came to comebacks.

Froppy: how about you Hiro? You coming along?

Gordon Ramsey: nah it's cool, I want mine to be a surprise!

Froppy: aww cool, sad you cant come tho

Gordon Ramsey: I may not be coming, but dw I'll meet up with you guys after!

Teen Wolf: OI WHO SAID YOU BOZOS WERE COMING

Matilda: we did, did you not just read the gc

SonicTheHedgehog: Awww please Yoichi, it'll be more fun with us coming!

Teen Wolf: ...

Froppy: plssssss

Matilda: Plssssss (人;)

Teen Wolf: UGH FINE WHATEVER

Froppy: YAY

Matilda: I knew you wouldn't say no

SonicTheHedgehog: Yes! Thanks Yoichi!

Gordon Ramsey: i know I'm not coming, but you bringing Taiga along Yoichi?~

Teen Wolf: Watch it torchhead

Froppy: ouuuu yes bring Taiga Yoichi!

Like he said at the end of camp, Taiga had been interning at the camp since last summer. And despite not actually being there, everyone had noticed Yoichi's and Taiga's budding friendship blossom to a fully grown bromance. The two boys were quite similar and completely different in a sense, but were two peas in a pod. The COC had invited Taiga to several of their sleepovers and outings, and he was slowly but surely being integrated into the group. Keitaro was surprised he hadn't been added to the group chat.

Teen Wolf: yeah yeah I will

SonicTheHedgehog: What day are you going anyway Yoichi? I want to make sure I'm free.

Teen Wolf: Brokeback said on Saturday at one

SonicTheHedgehog: Then I'll be there!

Froppy: count me in!

Matilda: I can't wait!

Gordon Ramsey: have fun!

Keitaro shut off his phone and smiled. It seemed that he and his friends were off on another adventure. He was a little disappointed that Hiro wouldn't be coming to the shopping spree. He could've seen Hiro... in a suit...

Keitaro blushed madly at the thought and shoveled his face into his hands. He was in far too deep.