double-barreled shotgun: chenle's birthday

Although I wouldn’t say I have a favourite scene from this fic, this scene definitely has my favourite dialogue in the whole fic. The nonlinear timeline of this fic was crafted by having both Chenle’s character arc and Mark’s character arc running side by side (Chenle’s in the past and Mark’s in the presence) and I think this scene is the climax of Chenle’s character arc (Mark’s climax being running away after the shower, and the whole fic’s climax being the 7-Eleven fight). By all technicalities, not a lot actually happens in this scene, but I tried to cram a lot of feelings into it, all the little details I was going to draw upon later. It’s a loaded one!
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