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[Did I dream all of that?
I smiled just by thinking of his warm hand on my shoulder. My eyes shifted to the left when I saw a glimpse of movement in the mirror. I quickly looked over my shoulder, still sitting on my bed. That's when I noticed the man in my bed.
So I didn't dream it.
A raspy, but rather welcoming voice said: "I'm surprised you're up already, thought you weren't a morning person?"]


My friends Taeyong and Youngheum, I really call them TY and Ten, were over at my house. That doesn't happen a lot lately, because we're all so busy. I would say it was around 3am, but then again, we did have a few beers and I'm quite the lightweight. We had some girls over and we were having fun. One of them sat on my lap and had her arm wrapped around me. She yapped something about going to some festival soon. I tried to pay attention, but really I could only focus on the way her hands were twirling the necklace she was wearing around.
"My eyes are up here, pretty boy".
I blushed. Of course she thought I was staring at her boobs, anyone would. I started to explain, but before I could form some words together she kissed me. Her soft lips made me forget about the unfortunate event before. And then it was over. She smiled as she stood up from my lap. My cheeks still tomato red, I smiled back.
"Let's go girls", she said. "Time to get your asses home".
Some random girl came running from upstairs, Ten coming through the door right after. The other girls stood up and walked towards the door as well and I waved them goodbye. The guys sat down on the couch and I managed to walk to the kitchen to get us some more drinks. When I came back, I noticed that they were just as drunk as me, because their bodies were lifelessly spread out over my couch.
I laughed a bit and said to myself: "Who's the lightweight now huh?"
As I sat down, Ty woke up. He suggested to put on a movie and woke up Ten. We agreed that the first one to fall asleep was gonna be drawn all over with a marker. It was my idea, so I was not about to lose this one. I saw that Ten was already struggling to keep his eyes open when I hadn't even pressed play yet.
This should be remotely easy.
Spoiler: it was not easy.
We were more focused on each other than on the movie, so we didn't even notice it when the end credits were playing. To my surprise, they both hadn't fallen asleep. That was kind of disappointing, but I'll get them next time.

I woke up to laughter. My eyes shot wide open and there they stood. Ty and Ten, basically rolling over the ground with laughter. I guess I looked kinda confused, because Ty brought me a mirror and showed me my face. Well, my forehead to be exact. It showed badly drawn wrinkles and really thick, mad eyebrows. I tried to keep a straight face, but when Ten mentioned that I share some similarities with his CEO, I lost it. I quickly got out of bed and kicked him in a pretty gnarly spot. I went to the bathroom to wash the marker off my face, while a brave soldier sunk to the ground and lost his ability to have kids. When I got downstairs a bit later, they were cleaning yesterdays mess up. Mainly empty cups and spilled drinks. I found a necklace on the ground and immediately recognized it as the necklace of yesterdays girl, Chungha. I got my phone out of my pocket and called her.
"Hey girl, I found your necklace. You should come pick it up".
I heard loud music at the other side of the call and heard Chungha yelling something that I could not understand. I told her to text me and hung up. She texted me that she was at a festival and she wasn't leaving till midnight. She invited us to come too, because the knew the three of us had the day off.
"I'm in", Ty said, "people, booze and music, what else could we possibly want? Let's go!".
And that we did. Ty got his car keys and we went on our way.

When we got in, Chungha was already waiting for us. I gave her the necklace and thanked me for bringing it, then we went to the bar that was not too far away from the entrance. When we got there, I saw an old friend of mine, Jackson Wang.
"Hey man, didn't know y'all were coming to my party too!", Jackson said.
"Wait you organized this? Of course you have, all the good party's are yours, somehow".
Jackson smiled, not able to hold back the pride in his face. "We have quite the artists performing today too; SHINee, TVXQ, Wonder Girls, f(x)".

It was getting a bit dark when our group finally got to the front of the crowd. Someone announced that the next performance would be SHINee and the whole crowd started making all kinds of loud noises. Five handsome men entered the stage and started performing. From the moment the music started I was only focused on one guy. His whole body operated as a well oiled machine and he SHINed (obviously no pun intended) while doing it. My mouth was wide open as I stared into the soul of this poor man. I just couldn't help it, everything about him was so perfect. It finished so fast. It felt like I had only been watching for a minute when they fabulously walked off stage, though it must have been an hour or so. Everything happened so fast, that I forgot to ask someone what his name was. When i realized that, it was too late already. I felt as if I had completely sobered up, so we went to the bar to get another drink. And another and another and another. The world kept spinning, so I thought about it and then started spinning with the world. I don't know, maybe if we turned the same way, everything would be not spinning anymore? I accidentally knocked over Ten in the process, which made me fall down. Then whole world just went black.

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