"En" my brothers snap out of their shock and start following me. We keep walking away from the busy street where we come across a small alley that could fit a car in it.
"Is this a good spot?" I ask while pointing down the alley.
"Mm" Christopher hums while stepping into the small alley, "You can do it now Adi".
"Okay" I reply before waving my hand which makes a portal appear. The cars that we drove in appear above the portal. We all get into the cars before pulling out of the alley and onto the street.
We drive to a small karaoke place which has private rooms so that you enjoy without anyone being interrupted. We buy Sage a big birthday cake from a cake shop while driving over. We arrive at the karaoke place and pick one of the largest and more private rooms.
My brothers start singing Chinese pop songs since we are in Beijing before singing in a different languages.
1 hour later,
"Adi, why don't you give it a try?" Sage asks while holding the microphone in front of me. He is slightly panting from singing a few high pitched songs.
"Oh come on Adi. we haven't heard you sing for a long time" My brothers chant when they see me hesitating.
"Fine!" I say while snatching the mic in Sage's hand. 'Argh why is it so hard to say no to these brothers' I say in my head. "What song?" I ask them.
"Um...?"
"Oh I know!" Raphael exclaims. Raphael is wearing a red turtle neck sweater with black pants and red sneakers. He has dark blonde hair that looks like it hasn't been brushed. He is the youngest of the quadruplets. The one before Sage. He is 18 years old.
"What?!" I ask him.
He gives an answer. "Although it doesn't have rapping it does have really good lyrics"
We all applaud him for his smart thinking. I am good at both vocals and rap. My brothers call me the karaoke queen. Raphael sets up the song while I get ready to sing.
The music starts and I start singing the first verse very well. Although the song isn't that high pitched or has rapping in it but it does have meaningful lyrics to it. Nearly 3 minutes have gone by and the song has come to an end. I go back to my seat after the song finishes. My brothers sing a few more songs until they take a 5 minute break to drink and eat some snacks.
"You know what we should do!" Lorenzo says with a mouth full of food.
"What?"
"We should dance" Lorenzo answers.
"What dance do you have in mind?" Felix asks.
"Kpop!" Lorenzo shouts excitedly.
"Any objections?" Chris asks. We all shake our heads. "It looks like we're doing this then".
There are two problems to the song we choose. One, there are twelve of us so someone has to do two parts which Sage gets picked from a draw. Second is Zane's dress. The only solution that I can think of is to cut the dress, so I did and not it floats just above his knees.
We put the song on and grab more microphones so that we can sing along to it. Luckily we all know Korean and the dance steps or else this would be a fail. We get into our position. We do adjust the choreo a bit so that it doesn't look like we are missing a person even though we are.
The song plays and we all start walking at first but then we start doing the start of the choreography which is pretty simple but then gets harder. Less than a minute in we are going all out in the choreo especially me since the person I chose has a small solo dance in the beginning of the song.
We all go back to the middle of the room before dancing outwards. We go all out in the dance and singing we even do the part where they dance on their knees before standing up again, We have done this dance so many times that our synchronization cannot be challenged. Eventually the song comes to an end.
We haven't danced together for nearly a year. This is why Sage's birthday is one of the most precious times of the year because we can all get together and do whatever we want.
We stop singing on the karaoke machine and take a seat.
My brothers and I are talented in different aspects but we all love dancing because we are all great at it. Our mother loved music that is why we are all talented in dancing, singing and playing instruments.
When Ellora was still alive she made us chose one instrument any instrument and practice it until it's perfect. The only instrument that we didn't want to chose is the piano which was Ellora's instrument.
We are ready to sing happy birthday to Sage which he doesn't like but we do it anyway. We start singing while Christopher lights all 16 candles. When it comes to 'happy birthday to you dear...' we say gege because it is Sage's nickname.
The birthday song comes to an end and Sage blows the candle out. We do 16 claps and add another one to make him taller. Sage holds the knife and cuts 12 slices in the cake evenly.
"He touched the bottom!!!" Lorenzo squeals. "You have to kiss the closest girl".
"I thought we weren't doing that this year" Zane says worriedly because he wore a dress.
Sage gets up and..... passes Zane???
'Sh*t!' I inwardly swear.
Sage stands in front of me before leaning down and planting a kiss on my forehead. Being the annoying person that I am, I stand up and plant a big kiss on his left cheek causing Sage to blush.
We burst out laughing at his cute response. The others get up and plants kisses on his cheeks which makes him blush more. Sage is not used to being kissed on the cheek so he does this to anyone who kisses him on the cheeks.
"What's the time" I ask Nicholas after finishing my slice. Nicholas is wearing a dark grey trench coat and a white long-sleeved shirt underneath with a thin black tie. He is wearing dark jeans and shiny black office shoes. His hair color is light ash brown and is into a low side ponytail which just pasts his shoulder.
Nicholas checks his watch "4:58. Why" he answers.
"Nothing. I am just asking" I answer.
"Are you sure you are alright?" Nicholas asks.
"I am fine, Nicho"
"Okay so can I ask you a question?"
"Yeah. What is it"
"Are you going to school?" Nicholas inquires while examining my face. I pause at his question. "Here let's go outside" he says while making his way towards the door and into the hallway.