Seduce Me {GNCD (Golden Child) Joochan}

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When Jaehyun and I arrived at the party, it was still early. There were around twenty people, all waiting for others to arrive. Jaehyun and I had dressed up kind of quirky this time, because we didn't feel like wearing anything too fancy. As it seemed, the theme of the party was also far from chique. 

"Shall we go grab a drink, now that it's not overloaded with people?" Jaehyun suggested and I nodded, following him through various rooms, until we arrived at the spot where we could grab drinks. To my surprise, Jibeom was standing in the kitchen, talking to some random dude I had never seen before. "Jibeom," Jaehyun greeted as he quickly glanced at me awkwardly. I'd also rather avoid him, but there was going to be some point anyway that I had to face him again.

"Hi," he said a bit awkwardly as he looked at the guy he was talking to. "This is my cousin," Jibeom said as he introduced the guy to us. "He studies abroad, but he's currently on a break, so I wanted to throw a party for him." he explained. So the party was Jibeom's party? Then why was Jaehyun invited and I wasn't?

"I'm Youngtaek," he greeted as he shook my hand on the American manner. it had been a while since I had such western greeting. "I'm Rosaline," I said after Jaehyun had introduced himself. "It's nice to finally meet your friends, Ji. Now I'm gonna see what your brother's been up to." he greeted us again and walked away. "So, want anything to drink?" Jibeom asked as both Jaehyun and I nodded. It was really weird that we had never been inside Jibeoms house before. I mean, we always either went to public places or either Jaehyuns house or mine. We rarely went to Seungmins house, but the fact we had never been to Jibeoms house made me slightly suspicious. As Jibeom was grabbing the drinks, he also seemed quite uncomfortable. Didn't he want us to be here? Was he hiding something?

I made a sign to Jaehyun I wanted to talk to him in private, so after Jibeom had given us our drinks we excused ourselves to the bathroom to clean up before attending the party. We went towards the bathroom and looked around to see if there were any people nearby. "I am actually confused," Jaehyun whispered as I raised my hand, "That makes two of us." I responded and moved a bit closer towards him. "Why has Jibeom been hiding his house in the first place? Look how big it is." I wondered as jaehyun shrugged. "It could be right because of that. I mean, we all live in quite small houses compared to his. Maybe he didn't want us to think he's some crazy rich fatass." Jaehyun noted as I nodded a bit doubtful. "But then why not invite me?" I wondered as Jaehyuns facial expression became a bit suspicious. "Maybe because you two just kinda broke up?" Jaehyun suggested and I shrugged. "And he has a brother? He also never told us about that. Just like his cousin! I'm starting to feel like we didn't know him at all, Jae." 

We went silent for as while when suddenly music started playing and more people started entering the room. "Shall we go upstairs? I can't properly hear you here." Jaehyun suggested and I nodded, so we went to walk up the stairs. However, as we walked up onto it, we started hearing someone talking. It was quite a familiar voice...

It was the voice of the angry librarian, the student council leader and moreover, a suspicious figure in our daily lives...

It was Bomin.

"I can't just do that," we heard him say, "You're the genius that came up with this plan. Stick to it." he angrily said, "We can't control what people do, especially you should know that." he continued, "So shut up or I will get my men to get you instead." With that he hung up the phone and walked away, leaving me and Jaehyun in a position with no place to hide.  We shared a panicked look and decided to just randomly run into a room, acting as if we were a couple ready to get going.

We fell into the room, locked the door and breathed out of relief by the fact Bomin didn't catch or notice us. "Things are starting to get more suspicious by the minute," Jaehyun sighed, "We need to find out what or who Bomin's after." I agreed with him and stood up carefully, as suddenly, my gaze fixed onto something in the room where we were sitting in.

It was a picture, a small picture on the nightstand next to the bed in the room.

"Jaehyun," I said with open mouth, 

"You won't believe your eyes."