SOUR

'Red lights'

milli.

"Is it too much?" I turn around and Olivia scans my fit.

"Never," She says and turns back to her eyeliner.

The dress is dark blue and strapless. It hugs my body tightly, and with my hair straightened I think I look like a completely different person.

But I feel the same. Luckily the dark cloud looming over me from yesterday is gone, as it always is, and today I actually feel better. Maybe I'm just excited to see Sunwoo.

"Okay, I'm ready," Olivia stands up and straps her shoes on.

"No rush," I tell her and I grab my bag.

We leave my room together and I knock on Sunwoo's.

"Yeah one second!" He yells.

Olivia and I wait for a moment and the door swings open. At first I don't recognize him. His hair is slightly swept back and he's wearing a nice black button up shirt, though the top three are loose. There's a small peak of his tan skin beneath the shirt around his collarbone. I struggle to swallow.

"You're staring." Olivia whispers to me.

"I'm! It's the... the shirt, it's nice!" I saw quickly.

Sunwoo's dark eyebrow lifts and one corner of his lips does as well.

"Ready?" He asks.

"Y-yeah," I turn around, there's no way he's walking next to me when my face is this flustered. But the way his hair isn't covering those straight eyebrows, and the way the shirt almost looks too small for him...it's all too much.

The three of us take the stairs up to the rooftop and Olivia ditches us as soon as we get there.

"Have fun babes." She says to the both of us and disappears into the crowd.

There's a lot more people here than I thought, and it's a little bit cold. Sunwoo and I stand awkwardly in a corner watching people talk and laugh and drink.

"You thirsty?" Sunwoo asks. He rolls his sleeves up, and I follow the vein running from the back of his hand up, where the black material bunches at his elbows.

I get a waft of his cologne, that smells like his room, and my stomach does a flip.

"Thirsty??" I ask like it's a crime.

"Yeah?" He gives me a look and then smirks at my wide eyes. "Not like that, Milli. I was asking if you wanted a drink."

I turn around and I face the edge of the rooftop, wondering if I should just jump off.

"What am I going to do with you?" Sunwoo laughs, and his laugh to me sounds like bells ringing. I look up at the sky, wondering what to do about this. I have so much love for this boy.

"A drink sounds good," I turn back towards him but I stare at his shoes. Even though it's dark I'm sure my red face would glow in the dark.

Sunwoo nods. We weave through the masses of people to the drink table. He grabs two cups and pours from a bottle of champagne. Seeing him like this makes him look older. I barely recognize him because he looks so good. I wonder if he thinks the same about me in that light.

"Hey, Milli," I hear an unfamiliar voice.

I turn my head, there's a girl standing next to me, the girl who hosted the party.

"Miji!" I smile. I don't know her very well, just that she's in one of my classes and lives in this building.

"I'm glad you could make it. My boyfriend got good alcohol for this," she says.