Chase The Dark Together || Nishimura Riki (Ni-Ki)

9 ¦ The "Party"

Saturday 06:00 PM

It's time.

The party was coming up. Every three months the boys planned a party where the whole school gets invited. I don't know exactly what time the boys had agreed on for everyone to come, but I didn't care anyway.

As I was walking downstairs, I met Jay in the kitchen who was preparing the drinks and snacks.

 "Don't drink tonight," he warned. "Sunghoon will kill me if he finds out that I let you drink." 

Yea whatever you say, big brother. But I shook him off. "You're not 'letting' me do anything."

"Come on, please?" he begs. "We'll see," I said walking away from him and on my way to greet the boys who have arrived while I was talking with Jay.

"Hey Hey Hey look who's there." "Hello to you too Jungwon."

"Join me for a drink, will you?" I took a side glance at Jay but whatever we're at a party and I'm seventeen I won't let him baby me around and neither Sunghoon.

"Yes sir, let's go."

09:00 PM 

I had been talking with Jungwon in a corner while we were judging all the people who were trying something like dancing on the dance floor. I was bored but I didn't dare get up and go to the dance floor because no one except Vic and the guys know I dance and I want to keep it that way and I hadn't drunk enough to do that yet. 

Just out of nowhere, a girl came up to Jungwon and put her hand on his shoulder. "Jungwon, are you coming to play 7 minutes in heaven?". A teasing smile was on her lips as she asked. Jungwon looked at her for a moment before turning back to me.

"Do you want to play?" he asked me uncertainly. 

"Sure, why not," I said with a shrug. I didn't really like those kinds of games, but whatever, I didn't do more than sit around here anyway.

The girl who asked us didn't look too happy when I said yes, but said nothing and went upstairs. Better for you, little bitch.

When Jungwon and I got up to follow that girl, Jungwon pulled me back a little by the arm. "You do realise she was talking about seven minutes in heaven?"

"Are you backing out or what?" I looked at him sceptically while he just shook his head silently.

We walked up the stairs and I noticed we were walking towards our guest room, as it was unoccupied but had a large wardrobe. The room looked pretty empty compared to the people downstairs, there were about 15 people up here. Well, that was going to be fun. I had only seen a few in the school corridors, the rest were unknown to me. The girl, Amanda, who had asked us if we wanted to play, sat down next to Heeseung, who was also here, and then spoke to the group.

"Guys, Jungwon and Camila have also joined us. I would say that we are now complete." If everyone hadn't been looking at us before, they were now. 

Great... I hate being the centre of attention, so I quickly sat down on the floor, followed by Jungwon who took a seat next to me. 

While drinks were being passed around, a boy I didn't know put an empty bottle of vodka in the middle of the circle and started explaining.

"So I think each of you knows about 7 minutes in heaven and with this bottle we will find out who has to go to heaven with whom," he grinned like the devil himself. "But so that it doesn't get boring, we'll first determine what the two in the wardrobe must do at least. Understood?" asked the boy who I think was called Aiden.

"Yeah, yeah, turn the bottle now," a girl grumbled at him. Aiden just looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "I see you haven't been paying attention, we first need to determine what the two involved need to do in the wardrobe." Aiden bitched back as I sipped my beer. 

If this keeps up, we might not play the game at all. But no, Lilien, I think her name was, had to interrupt.

" Can you please discuss your relationship problems in bed? We want to play now." Before the two bickering couples could say anything, Lilien continued. "I suggest the first couple has to make out at least." 

'Yeah very creative Lilien,' I wanted to say. But I held back so as not to draw all the attention to myself again.

"Everyone would have done that anyway." Another boy said and they all laughed, while my gaze wandered to Vic, who was also looking at me. After they laughed it off, Amanda spun the bottle.

The bottle pointed at Lilien who, with a big grin, spun the bottle again. When the bottle landed on Heeseung the second time she spun it, I couldn't help but widen my eyes for a moment.

 There were a few "Uhhhh's" to be heard and as Lilien stood up, I looked at Vic. She bit her lower lip for a moment and then took another sip of her beer, trying not to look at Lilien or Heeseung.

Before Heeseung got up too, I didn't miss the brief glance he gave Vic. As soon as the two disappeared into the walk-in wardrobe, a girl started the 7 minutes on her mobile phone. 

During the 7 minutes, everyone chatted to each other or just kept drinking their drinks. After about 5 minutes Vic was still looking down a little sad, so I put my hand on her arm so she looked up at me. 

"He didn't want it, I could tell by the look on his face." I whispered to her, to which she smiled weakly and nodded.

More rounds went by in which neither Vic nor I were caught by the bottle and I slowly started to relax. Probably the alcohol I had already drunk was the reason I was more relaxed.

"Okay, for the next couple, one of them has to have a hickey on their way out. Of course, you can choose where." Amanda paused briefly to grin. "But the hickey has to be shown as evidence, so it's best not to do it in places you don't want to show." Oh God...

All eyes were on the spinning bottle in the middle of the seating circle. Whose turn is it next? The bottle landed on...Ni-ki. 

I hadn't even noticed him yet. 

 All the girls, including my best friend Vic, gasped. Ni-ki, grinning, ran his eyes over the available girls in the circle. As if he could choose one...

Again everyone looked at the bottle as Ni-ki spun it again to find out who was the 'lucky' one who had to go into the closet with him for 7 minutes.

The bottle was spinning slower and slower and I could literally hear the girls' prayers for the bottle to point at them. The only prayer I had in my head was 'please not me, please not me, please not me!'

I tried to calm down and sipped at my bottle of beer. 

Why do they all want to spend 7 minutes alone in a closet with such an arrogant, needy idiot? Oh yeah...because he's so incredibly good looking and if you believe the rumors, he's a sex god.

 Suddenly I felt all eyes on me and woke up from my stupor. Confused, I looked at the people.

 Was I thinking loud? No. 

The next moment I knew why everyone was looking at me.