Never | Lee Haechan

Her devil's dare 📍

"You didn't tell Jaemin you're coming this year did you?" Mina asked as Ryujin pulled over their car.

"He'd have a cardiac arrest just at what I'm wearing,"

"It's literally knee length. Looks more like you're being considerate of him being there," Ryujin changed gears with a smirk as she parked the car.

"I'm so glad you're finally here I swear, you're on third year yet you still haven't experienced this side of Hanyak," Somi added as they came out of their car making Jiae chuckle.

"Be careful though," Mina made sure to add to which Jiae rolled her eyes, "This ain't nothing new to me. It was just church boy Yangyang,"

"Something always felt wrong about him, glad you're out of it," Karina smiled sweetly trying to make sure Jiae wouldn't feel upset at the mention of her ex and locked arms with Jiae.

"Let it all out tonight babe,"

"Been waiting to,"

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The ambient lighting at the front counter lead them through a foyer and then down the stairs where music was booming through huge speakers. The girls walked into the hall room.

Jiae smirked internally as the scent of an obvious amount of alcohol that went around in the air, bodies clashed on the dance floor; half of them probably unaware what they were even doing. Tables at both ends of the widely spread out hall and people gulping down shots at the bar. Not too huge of a place, but the amount of people packed in here made it appear vast. The dark blue lighting of the room with sprinkles of red and green gave it more intensity.

"God it's been a while,"

They decided to walk up to the bar first, right beside the table of truth or dare which was being lead by none other than the infamous senior, Johnny Suh. His hair slicked back as always, no shirt but just a black leather jacket on. The girls got there Jiae caught sight of  Jaemin there, his arms wrapped around a girl she's never seen before.

He barely noticed her until he realised all his friends were particularly eyeing someone. Some with caution and some blatantly staring. He followed their gaze and alarm bells rang in his head as he hurriedly removed his arms from the girl he was flirting with.

"Jiae....what the fuck?"

Jiae couldn't hold back her laugh at his reaction, "It's okay, you can go back to what you were doing,"

"Respectfully, damn," Jeno said carefully, knowing his position as Jaemin's closest friend. "Yeah it's a good change from the usual," Renjun said with a sincere smile.

"Dude, you look amazing," Mark and Renjun seemingly were the only ones not eyeing her like they secretly wanted to devour her- of course and Jaemin who looked thoroughly pissed.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

She ignored him and smiled at the rest of them, "Thanks y'all I appreciate the support, but some of you might wanna tone down those looks,"

"I mean, let's not act like we're not all here to do what we do," Jiae's eyes shifted to Haechan who was eyeing her a bit too shamelessly, leaned over on the table on his elbows, right beside Jeno who adjacent to Jaemin.

Jiae felt herself almost choke on her drink at the way his gaze trailed on her.

"Since when do you even know what we do?" She teased like how they'd usually bicker, expecting him to throw out an insult.

"Why? Desperate to find out babe?" He raised a brow swinging the cup on his hands a bit. For a second she had to register that this wasn't....the regular Haechan. He had high tolerance but he wasn't completely sober either. The way he eyed her with amusement didn't feel like the usual jokes like she was trying to play it off. It was mischievous in the most exciting way possible.