- the part where there's loud music and everyone's talking too loud -
(Ch1) (Ch2)
"You sure about this?" You would've thought this would be asked by me but it was Felix, he's never really been the type to come to big parties but neither was I. He shoved his hands in his jeans as I told him "we're gonna go in there and we are gonna have the best night of our lives and if we don't we can vow never to do this again, right?" He looked into my eyes sternly and nodded once "right!"
And in that moment we had arrived. As we walked through the open door surrounded by other drunk teens I could feel the bass pumping throughout my body. The music was loud, the smell of alcohol was sour through the air, it was anxiety inducing. We had prepared for this though, our plan was to drink until emotions didn't really matter that much.
We followed the path of the halls and lo and behold we found the kitchen. The counters were strewn with opened liquor bottles, by the door sat a keg. I had to admit, Minho was prepared. Felix reached out for the vodka, I thought we would've started slow with a couple of beers but I guess we were going in strong. He filled two shitty red plastic cups with a mix of coke and vodka, I took a sip of the one he handed me and I practically gagged, it was so strong "Lix, what the fuck?" I coughed so hard, it was obvious that I barely drank, my cheeks were flushed with red. His response was short "sorry, I just-" he was cut off by a sudden cheering, what the fuck was happening "MAKE WAY FOR THE KING" on Minho's head sat a blown up plastic crown, his hand held a stick with a beer can on the end he was carried on the shoulders of two jocks. They placed him down, he tossed the crown and sceptre onto the counter as he swanned toward me "I've not seen you before, you new or something?" I shook my head and took a sip of liquid courage, forgetting how strong it was I coughed again. He waited for me to finish with a hand on my shoulder "no, I'm not new, I grew up here, I'm Jisung" I held my hand out for him to shake and he took it and pulled me in for a bro hug. I didn't even hug him back, I couldn't help but be so awkward but God he smelled good.
Then it was over. Felix came running over to me yanking at my arm like a child "Jisung, bro, please, fuck, Jisung!!" He was erratic and I was confused "what's up?" He pulled me out of the kitchen and down the hall to a room with a huge TV and dim light, this was a room that was made to be made out in. "There's someone here I need you to see" (emphasis on need) he pointed over to this stranger talking to a boy with blonde hair that obviously seemed older, both of them were leaning against the wall laughing about a joke no one else was in on. "Them... Look J, they're perfect."
When we were younger we had a game, both of us would design how our soulmate would look, the stranger across the room from us was everything he had asked for, I just used to make things up, I didn't take it seriously because we were kids and I... I didn't know myself properly. I nod at the couple and I tell him "Lix, I'm sorry man" the music blasting my words away, I speak louder " they look like a couple." I saw it in his eyes, he was disheartened. "I'll still go and talk to them" we both looked over at the two strangers, the blonde guy says something and then the enigmatic stranger nods slowly, they both looked like they had a secret agreement but what was it?
I turned back to talk to Felix to tell him that the futures still open but he just looked at me and fake smiled "I'll be back soon, I'm gonna go and find the bathroom." Not wanting to make this as awkward as I probably would've I nodded "come find me when you're done okay?" He just grinned "I can only go up from here J." Leaving it at that I smiled softly at him walking away.
I wanted to talk to Minho again, I felt like we could probably be pretty good friends. Maybe. Who knows? I was thinking so hard about what I wanted to say to him that I didn't watch where I was going that was until I slammed into 'the perfect stranger'