a minor inconvenience

4. a rough night

Seung-cheol♡ (that same night...)

One hour...it had been one whole hour since the troublemaking trio booseoksoon had promised they would be here in a few minutes, they had supposedly forgotten their things in the practice room we had been using. For the first 15 minutes, I was understanding, 30 minutes in I was worried, 45 minutes in with no text or call I was angry, and now I'm back to worrying. Those boys were prone to getting into trouble and I was starting to think the worst. Had one of them gotten hurt? Did they get caught in a fight? Were they swarmed by fans? All of my questions were answered as they walked into the restaurant completely fine. As they approached they looked between each other and then past me expectantly, I stood up seeing they were avoiding my eyes.

"Where have you three been? You were supposed to be right behind us! None of you even let me know why you were so late." I tried to sound serious but not to the point of drawing attention. The others behind me snickered and giggled, an hour of drinking had passed so I guess I should have expected them to start getting buzzed by now.

"Oooo you're in trouble~" sounded a few voices from behind me. I looked back to see Jeonghan and Joshua laughing and leaning on each other.

"Hyung you were supposed to cover for us!" Soonyoung whisper-shouted at Joshua.

"Oh yeahh, hold on," Shua reached out and grabbed the hem of my shirt and pulled on it, "Soonyoung, Seungkwan, and DeeeKayyy are gonna be latee, " he smiled and gestured to me, "there, is that good?" It was slightly unusual to see Joshua so...sloshed but he had decided to play a drinking game with the others and most definitely did not win.

The trio bowed after a not so subtle nudge from Seungkwan "we're sorry we were so late, it won't happen again." they all waited for a second before bringing their heads back up.

"I was mostly just worried. Worried that you'd gone and caused trouble somewhere, now sit down!" I really was just worried about them but as leader it was important to set an example. They nodded sitting down and in no time at all a server came around asking them for their orders and another round of games and drinking started. Joshua had the good sense to sit this one out.

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Two more hours had passed, we were the only customers left and things were starting to get rowdy. A couple of the boys were stood up singing, Hansol was sleeping with his head on the table and Minghao was stacking bottle caps on the sleeping boys head while Jun recorded, the tower had gotten impressively high. Jihoon had spotted the growing tower and was now aiming paper balls made of straw wrappers and napkins at it, Soonyoung was cheering him on, team tower was trying to quiet him down so he didn't wake up their sleeping friend. Before I could say or do anything to stop the catastrophe in front of me everything came crashing down. Jihoon's paper ball found its target, the tower fell and Jun and Minghao screamed out in agony over their hard work falling to the floor, their cries of course woke up the sleeping boy between them who flew back as he was startled awake. Hansol's sudden backwards movement had him going from his chair to the floor with a loud crash.

The whole group went quiet, wide eyes darting around the room. The owner walked over calmly taking a deep breath.

"We'll just, we'll leave now.." I said bowing my head then looking at the other members quietly grabbing their things.
"We're very sorry!" I bowed again and the rest of the members copied and we quickly filed out.

We all had work tomorrow and it was starting to get late, so we paraded our more than half drunk selves home and turned in for the night.