The Coffee Shop (Scoups)

𝟷𝟺 - ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ

I narrow my eyes and blink at piecing ringtone of my phone.

It wakes me up from my deep slumber and it takes me a few seconds to reach out and find my phone before answering it.

"Hello?"I speak groggily, my voice obviously indicating I was asleep.

"Cupcake! Good morning!"

"Dad?" I ask.

"Your mom and I made a bet last week about who could get more kids to hug them after getting their cavities healed and guess what? I won!"

I make a 'are you kidding me' face.

"Did you call me to tell me this?" I ask, speechless, my voice evident of being woken up from deep slumber.

"Aren't you happy for me? Now your mom has to give a shoulder and foot massage!" Dad spoke happily in the phone.

"That's great dad," I tell him, "But it's seven."

"So?"

"It's a Sunday," I point out.

"And?" My dad continues to question and I suddenly hear my mom's voice in the background, "Is that Jia? Why would you call her? Let my poor child sleep. My god, you brainless man!"

I hear my dad fire something back but I don't stay around to hear the rest of their conversation.

I hang up the phone, knowing my mom will stop my dad for calling me again and fall back to sleep.

When I wake up nearly three hours later, Yewon unnie is already out of the room and half of the curtains are pushed open.

And I have a hangover.

I definitely drank more than I should last night.

I sit up groggily, my head hurting from my hangover.

I can't remember much of last night after I drank over my limit but I think I came back home with either Minnie or Jihyo or even Yugyeom. I know one of them also lives in the Maple dorm so I probably walked back with them and apparently Yugyeom lives in the dorm next to us.

Unless I came back with Soyeon or Emily but I don't recall spending time with any of the three last night. I wonder if they even did find me in the end. 

My mind did replay brief events of coming across Seungcheol in an isolated area but I can't recall how our conversation went. Clearly not too well if I didn't spend any time with him.

So much for being my boyfriend. Didn't he say he wanted to be with me at the party? 

I get up from the bed and make my way towards the bathroom, having a strong urge to brush my teeth and rinse off the bitter aftertaste of the alcholo still lingering around.

At least I had removed my makeup and washed my face last night, even if I was drunk. Luckily for me, I am not the type to be overtly emotional or the type to get sick when I am drunk. Instead I tend to talk a lot more than I usually do and Soyeon has told me that sometimes I do unexpected things.

Whatever that meant.

I was starving and too lazy to get out of the dorms so I pulled out a ramyeon from the stack of ramyeons I have in my storage and used the kettle in my room to make myself some ramyeon.

Eating it while watching some tv on a low volume made me feel better. Apparently subsidizing your hunger can also help with your hangover.

I ate slowly, not in a hurry and then took a long bath, letting myself relax underneath the hot water.