Rivals - Taejin

Chapter 3

Seokjin's POV:

Jackson's parties usually don't end up well. Everyone gets really drunk. He's one of the popular guys, so his parties are also often packed with people from many schools.

As I walk into his house. I wasn't expecting it to be a pool party. I don't mind pool parties, I actually enjoyed them. But with drunk and careless people it could get really funny.

Everyone was staring at me. I was used to it. After all, I'm popular and I know it. I don't bother with their staring. I just continue my way to the bar. Jackson had a whole party house. He loved throwing them.

I saw Jungkook enjoying himself with a few fellow friends at the bar with a red cup in his hand.

"Hey what's up", I greet them.
"Hey, Jin, we've already started drinking.", Jungkook said showing me his drink.
"What are you having?", I ask him.
"Some cocktail mix.", he says grinning.
"Damn they must be strong. I'm starting this slow with a beer."

As I was asking for a beer. I couldn't help but overhear that voice, that deep, ugly voice.
Taehyung is here too.

How great. This is one of the things that I hate about parties. He is invited to every party that I am invited to (so basically any party) since we are both popular.
Two girls clinging onto him.
Why the heck is he coming towards me?
I just ignore him, I can't waste my breath on him.
I turn to my back to him and focus on Jungkook and some friends of his.
I'm not really interested in their conversation. The thing that had caught my attention is Taehyung ordering a very strong drink for his first drink, I believe, since he had just arrived.

I know for a fact that Taehyung is not the type to drink.
I should probably just shrug it off. I bet he's in a mood since he wasn't able to become the captain.

The loud music was ear deafening.
Jungkook wasn't even speaking anymore he was yelling.
It was quite funny.
We had went to a back area, away from the crowd. People were getting more and more drunk.

Taehyung had taken off his shirt already. It was pretty humid here. People dancing, sweaty bodies, completely wet people coming out of the pool.
I mean it's a pool party so.
Taehyung was in the water, girls surrounding him. All of them taking shots and cheering at something. I don't care what it is.

Taehyung's eyes catch mine. Tf is he looking at.
And there it is. A wink.
This guy is testing my limits. What does he want.
I make a face, like the heck do u want.
I nod at him.

He just shakes his head and looks back at the girls grinding on him.

"Do you want to go inside the pool?", Jungkook asks.

"To swim in pee water?", I ask back.
Clearly, I wasn't planning on getting into the water, especially when Taehyung is in that pool.

"Do you even have swimwear here?"
I ask Jungkook.
He nods. Showing me the material his shorts were out of.
"If you want to go for a swim, go ahead, I'm not in the mood to swim right now, I'll just grab another drink."
"Alright, join me when you changed your mind."
I just nodded and went over to the bar. They were handing out shots. I wasn't gonna pass on them.

Taking shot by shot. I think this was my fourth or fifth.
I was feeling it getting to me.
The drink Jungkook had earlier didn't look too bad. And what didn't look too bad was getting a little wasted at the moment.I mean, I'm miserable anyways at the end of the day. I lost my opportunity of becoming the team's captain.
"Can you give me another one of your cocktails", I asked the barista girl.
She nodded and handed me a cup with the cocktail. Our hands brushed. She blushed.
I really wanted to roll my eyes but I don't want to beef with her right now. She will be handing a few more drinks out to me.

I've been enjoying my cocktail. It's strong but the taste wasn't bad at all. It was getting really hot, I was getting sweaty. I decided to take my shirt off too. Everyone was partially naked anyways.

The barista girl was drooling. I'm really trying not to laugh.
"Would you like another drink?"
I only nodded.

Watching people through the crowd made me kind of uncomfortable. It seemed all too intimate to my liking. I'm not scared of physical touch but people are doing the most right now. Like get a room or something.
My eyes once again landed on Taehyung. He was making out, again.
I rolled my eyes.
Why is it so easy for him to enjoy himself while I'm being miserable. Didn't he want it all as much as I did with becoming the basketball captain?

I bet he doesn't even care to be the captain but rather wants me to not become the captain.
That thought really made me boil.

I stood up.
Woah, I had a little too much.

*Seokjin's POV ends*

*third person's POV*
Taehyung has been making out with some girl for the past 10 minutes.
He opened his eyes to see that Seokjin has gone away from the bar and is no where to be seen.

He did not care though. He went out of the pool to grab another drink. He had been drinking a lot too, the music and the heat wasn't helping. He was lightweight.

Suddenly he bumped into a person. The person being no one other than Seokjin.

They both stumbled a little since they both were drunk.

"Watch where you're going.",Seokjin says, clearly annoyed.
"Hold up, ur telling me that I should watch where I'm going when ur standing in my way.", taehyung remarks.
" I didn't know you own paths to walk now.", Jin said slowly getting angry.

"I don't but I own you.", taehyung laughed.

Seokjin just laughed. "You don't own me, who do you think you are? You don't own shit."

"No need to overreact over a little joke.", taehyung says.
"If I had won the match, you would have been only a player, who needed to obey his captain. Trust me, I'm going to get that position.", Taehyung said.
"In your dreams.", Seokjin laughed,
"That position is mine already".

Taehyung raised an eyebrow.
"How so? Last time I checked, we both didn't win."  

Both clearly didn't think straight.
"Believe me, I'm going to show you, who wins, right here.", Jin says with a smile, even  though he's not actually smiling but rather trying to obtain his composure.
"Right here, right now?", taehyung provokes.

"Yeah, right here, right now.", Jin says with a last smile before he lands a punch in taehyung's face.

Taehyung, who held his jaw, where the punch had landed, was absolutely maddened, he threw himself on Jin and they both landed on the floor, throwing kicks and punches at each other.

Bystanders were fishing out their phone and filming and no one was breaking the two apart. A duel between the school's most popular. Of course everyone wanted to see, who was stronger.

Jungkook, who reached the scene was shocked to even see how his friend was literally in a fight with taehyung.

"GUYS BREAK IT OFF, YOU GUYS WILL REGET IT.", Jungkook said trying to pull the two guys apart from each other.

After he successfully had gotten them both apart, he dragged Seokjin with him.
Seokjin, who was still fuming, was pointing at taehyung and yelling: "I'm not done with you"
Taehyung, whose eyes were focused on Seokjin, wiped the blood from his lips with his thumb and smiled as if he couldn't believe what had happened.
He enjoyed it.

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