MANIA

Part 6

Making it back to her room, Y/N quickly step inside. Carefully, she hung the suit off to the side for later tonight, a soft smile tugging at her lips. Glancing at the time, she sees a few hours have passed already, and her eyes nearly bulge out of her head. 

There’s no way time should have moved that quickly! It should have only taken her an hour, maybe an hour and a half at most to have tried on that suit with Jisoo. She could have swore it was only half passed two when she first made her way over there. 'So, how can it already be five o’clock?'

She huffed, shaking her head to clear her thoughts. Maybe she really is losing it. First, she's missing seeing people that are apparently right in front of her eyes. Then, she swears she keeps hearing things, like that weird thump in the bathroom last night. Now, she's pretty sure she's starting to hallucinate things.

Perhaps it’s best if she leaves this place after dinner tonight instead of staying in the morning like she originally planned. She would leave sooner, but they’re already expecting her for the evening, and she do not want to be rude. Especially given everything they’ve done and provided for her in the past twenty-four hours alone.

Either way, Y/N just hope this evening passes quickly, and without a hitch.

An hour later and she begun to get ready for the evening. Once she's finished, she still has a bit of time to spare, so she spends the remainder reading some more of her book while she waits.

Around five to the hour, she then head to the lobby.

Emerging from the hallway, she actually sees someone standing in front of the reception desk wearing a purple finely tailored dress. She watches as the girl turns around, and she comes face to face with Mina whose eyes light up as soon as the girl sees her.

Y/N return her kind smile with a polite nod of her head.

"I’m here to escort you to dinner." Mina said, clinging onto Y/N's arm. "Shall we?"

Y/N hummed and nodded her head. As Mina walks with Y/N down a separate hall and to a section of the hotel she have yet to traverse, Mina revels at her touch. The feeling of her hand wraps around Y/N's arm makes a tingling feeling beneath the material of her dress wherever she touch Y/N.

The whole time, she cannot help but steal glances at the latter from the corner of her eyes. When she first saw Y/N emerged from the hallway, her breath got caught in her throat. Y/N look absolutely charming, even if she's not wearing the suit Mina had picked out for her in hopes that Y/N would wear it.

Mina's jaw had twitched at that, slight irritation flooding her veins at the thought of Y/N wearing Jisoo's pick tonight. 'Well, let’s see what the others make of it, and if they think Jisoo might have influenced Y/N's decision as well.'

After a solid minute of walking, in which Y/N make idle smalltalk with Mina, they reached a set of intricately carved wooden doors.

Y/N marvel at both the size and design as they open, seemingly on their own, to reveal a finely decorated room. A room which looks much too small to house all of the guests that she was sure were going to be joining her for dinner.

A single table with nine place settings sits in the centre of the room, lit candles lining the middle. Around the table, the other seven stand precariously placed throughout the room. Some converse with each other while a few others sip on the drinks they all seem to be holding in their hands. Each wears a finely tailored dress, wanting to look their absolute best for Y/N only.