he isn’t sure if this is a great idea.
but who is he kidding—his life has been comprised of ideas ranging from not-so-good to terrible, and tonight isn’t an exception. stalking a group of older males, he has one of their lanky arms wrapped around his shoulders, making him seem like he belongs in the cluster. leather jacket, tattered jeans. a snapback. he probably still looks like a high schooler (which isn’t too far off from reality—which is the truth, actually), but the term ‘baby-faced’ is worth holding onto so taeyong believes that he’s on the safe side.
they’re on the queue, and it creeps. the night is colored with the stale air, shrouded with the shade of carcinogenic dreams. the moon hangs sullenly against the empty sky, dark and gloomy. this is a weekend night too precious to be wasted on sighing at home while drowning in assignments like what his twin is doing at the moment. no, really, in all honesty he’s pretty certain that taemin would bail on his personal promise and probably get wasted at a friend’s home party.
a lie: if he says he isn’t jittery. about the prospect of getting in. or moreover, about the prospect of not getting in. which isn’t miniscule.
he doesn’t voice it, though; these college kids don’t take him in for being a weenie. he plasters a confident smile, a smirk, a laugh. the line moves forward. before he knows it, he’s being faced with the threshold, the bouncer asking for their id’s.
he fishes his second to last, getting his fake id card out of the pocket in his (branded) wallet. he hands it over casually, and as the seconds pass, his heart rate grows along with the tick tick tick. the bouncer squints, and throws a look at him.
this isn’t the first time he does this, he convinces himself inwardly. in previous instances, he always got a pass.
he’s, after all, quite tall for kids his age. but this bouncer doesn’t seem convinced, and he waits. waits. waits. agonized is a predetermined consequence, but he really can’t turn around now, so he does nothing but fakes calmness.