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It's the girl in the stands at football training. His ex-girlfriend, with whom he had broken up about a week ago.
Jay seemed to have recognized her as well. "Arin at 12 o'clock," he whispered through his teeth, and the whole group turned to the girl.
She didn't seem to want to come to the group, but Jay was also sitting with us and if she wanted to congratulate him, there was no way around it.
Heeseung chewed tensely on his cheek as he saw her approaching and suddenly placed his hand on my thigh while his gaze was fixed on the wall opposite. I winced a little and peered down as he traced slow circles with his thumb. OMG I'm dying. How would I ever be able to hide my flushed cheeks?
Arin stopped on the spot. She looked at me for a few seconds before turning around and walking quickly out of the house.
My hand clung to the end of the couch while I tried not to freak out at any second.
"Why don't we keep playing?" Heeseung suddenly asked, trying to get everyone's attention. "I broke up with her, that's it. So no reason to mess up our evening now, okay guys?".
Siu nodded and unlocked her phone again to scroll through some more questions. "That's a good one.", she announced with a smirk. "Never have I ever had sex with someone I wasn't attracted to because I wanted to get laid that badly.".
Jay raised his shot in the air. "Cheers to our lifestyle.", he nodded at Sunghoon, who also swallowed immediately. But everyone else drowned their shots one after another, which honestly surprised me. Maybe that's really a thing. But something my virgin ass can't talk along with the others.
Heeseung's hand was now moving on my skin again. Did he possibly not realize it at all? Because if he does, he can hide it pretty well, because the butterflies in my stomach are about to kill me.
"You didn't, Hyeona?", Jake asked me, which made me startle a bit, because my head was obviously in a completely different dimension right now.
"I, well...uhm...I-I don't think so.", I almost tripped over my own words.
Beomgyu winked at me. "We have a good girl here.".
I glanced over to Heeseung and found him chuckling at Beomgyus statement.
The latter now grabbed Siu's cell phone from her hand and began to look for questions himself.
"Hee?", I whispered softly to get his attention. I carefully reached for his hand to slide it off my leg. âHm?", he hummed in response and glared down at my lap as he felt my hand on top of his, before our eyes met again.
"Never have I ever kept a crush secret from a person in this room.", smirked Beomgyu, and I slightly started panicking.
"I need to use the restroom.". Everyone was surprised as I suddenly got up from my seat. So I broke eye contact with him and left the group. âUpstairs and then left!", was the last thing I could here.
Even though I did not have to use the restroom at all, I still entered and locked the door behind me. With a little shaky hands, I pulled out my smartphone and called Jungwon.
âHey, what's up?", he picked up a few seconds later. In the background, music could be heard as well.
"Wonie, I'm so done!", I sighed. "Look at my hand, I'm actually shaking.".
âWhat happened?". I noticed him leaving the crowded area to find a more silent spot.
âHeeseung happened.", I explained with a smile but my best friend seemed confused. âBut isn't that a good thing tho?".
âI'm not even here for 3 weeks and crushing so hard, Jungwon.". You could hear the desperation in my voice. âI don't know what to do..."
âWhy don't you just go with the flow?"
âHOW on earth should I go with the flow when he placed his fucking hand on my tight out of nothing?". I whispered.
âUhm...I guess he wants you?", Jungwon answered, but of course he had even less idea than me.
I shook my head âHe did it when Arin appeared. Probably to make her jealous, but I'm not sure...".
A sudden knock interrupted our conversation. âHyeona? Are you in there?".
âThere's somebody. I'll call you tomorrow, okay?", I whispered and ended the call.
I sneaked closer to the door to unlock it. Siu was standing outside with a worried face.
âHi! What's up?", I asked.
âOh, uhm I just wanted to check on you because you suddenly left.", she explained and I lifted my phone. âI just had to call someone". A smile spread across my face to show her I'm really fine.
But Siu blocked the door with her body, clasping her hands in front of her chest with a smirk. âHow long?".
âHow long what?", I nervously played with the handle of my clutch.
âSince when do you like Heeseung?", she repeated her question more properly.
"Ah this...you know...is it obvious?", I slightly panicked.
"For me yes. But boys are a little slow with realizing such things.". Siu laughed.
"You maybe wanna come down with me and grab a drink? We can sit down outside somewhere in front of the house?", she offered me and held the door open.
I nodded with a smile. "Yes, sure!".
Downstairs, she filled two new red cups and handed me one of them.
In front of the house, it was definitely less crowded than in comparison when I arrived. A few people were standing together in smaller groups, some of them smoking.
Me and Siu sat down on a stone wall next to the house, facing the entrance.
I took a sip from my new drink, and it was actually the best one so far. "So if you wanna talk about Heeseung then I'll be listening, but if you don't, that's okay for me.". She smiled at me.
"I don't really know what to say, because I'm low-key confused myself.", I explained while watching my feet dangling in the air. "Sunghoon might have told you I was abroad about 3 years and came back not even 3 weeks ago. And...this Heeseung thing suddenly hit me out of nowhere.".
"We used to be friends before I left. Yeah, I'd say we were very close because of my brother. But now...after I came back, it's hard to see him as a friend. I don't know.".
âThat's probably because you grew. How old were you when you left? 15 or 16? Of course you see people differently that age than when you're close to 20.".
âYou know, I've been a pretty close friend of Hee since we were kids. Like you and that Jungwon guy. But that's not the point. In my personal opinion, it's really not that easy with Hee. He's not as bad as Jay or your brother, but there are hardly any girls who meet his taste to start a serious relationship."
An image of Arin immediately popped into my head. She's beautiful, long blonde hair, white skin, just like photoshop.
âBut I'd feel very bad if I told you to not even try, because you'll never know.".
âIt's just...I'm feeling so bad because he broke up with his girlfriend about two weeks ago. So I assume he just needs time for himself now, and I really don't wanna bother him.", I explained and Siu nodded.
âI understand what you mean. But never blame yourself for your feelings, okay? It's not your fault it happened now at the same time they broke up.".
âThank you, Siu". I hugged the older girl thankfully.
After we finished our drinks, we went back inside the house. In the meantime it was 1 a.m and I noticed my feet were about to fall off in these heels soon.
"Siu, I really think I need to change before I can go back in.", I confessed. "I'm gonna call a taxi and change at home.". I was about to pull out my phone, as the older girl shook her head.
"My house is over there, you can borrow some clothes from me.". She pointed to a building about 200 meters away from us.
I agreed, and we quickly went to change my clothes. Even though Siu is three years older than me, I've barely met such a nice and funny girl until now.
In her apartment, I exchanged my uncomfortable dress for jeans, sweater and sneakers. I have never missed in life to wear flat shoes as much as at this moment. Quick reminder to Hyeona: Never wear high heels to someone's party again.
When we went back to Jay's house, everything was still the same. Nothing has changed, the group was still sitting on the sofas in the living room and seemed to be chatting.
"Do you want to go back to them?", Siu asked me, but I hesitated for a moment. My eyes directly hit Heeseung, who was currently talking to Jay.
Without answering, I walked through the crowd into the kitchen and grabbed another plastic shot mug from the package. "You want one too?", I asked the older one with a grin and poured us two vodka shots without even waiting for her response.
"Cheers!" we toasted and finished them together.
"Let's dance a little first before we go back," I suggested, pulling the older one through the crowded area. Some guy took a step back and rammed me to the side, causing me to stagger backwards a bit.
"Are you okay?", Siu grabbed both my shoulders from behind as I looked slightly disoriented. "Um yeah. I'm great.", I replied, looking around for a moment.
Next to me was a girl with a red cup in her hand, grooving to the music. As if something had taken possession of me, my eyes stared at the cup. But only for a second, because not a moment later I tore the drink out of the girl's hand and gulped it down.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" she yelled indignantly and turned in my direction. Only now I recognized the girl in front of me. It was obviously Arin, who now looked down at herself in shock, because I also poured some alcohol over her dress.
"YOU BITCH?", Arin screamed.
Siu was obviously surprised by my action as well and tried to pull me away from the upset girl. "Hyeona ! Come with me now! What's wrong with you all of a sudden?".
I don't know why, but my feet suddenly stopped doing what I wanted them to do.
"You're totally drunk!", she pushed me in front of her like a bagger and held me upright as best she could.
"SORRY ARIN!", Siu yelled shortly after.
"NOT SORRY ARIN!", I called after her with a wry laugh.
We suddenly ended up at the sofa group. My body suddenly hit the backrest hard and might have even fallen over it, if Jake hadn't caught me and pushed me back.
"Which one of you idiots put something in her drink?". Siu looked around furiously and all eyes automatically darted to us.
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