Just once

The craze

It was raining heavily. It was pouring.

to take shade from the rain, the people were running helter-skelter under the rooftops of buildings to not get themselves wet. each drop seemed to wet you more that 10 regular droplets of rain. its was ridiculous.

there was a man, around age 21, running with a coat on his head to keep himself dry. he quickly jumped inside a club to seek protection, and waited anxiously for the rain to stop. He stomped here and there, and looked at his watch repeatedly.

he was thin, but looked quite healthy. he had blond hair neatly, yet messily arranged on his head, with tint-emerald colored eyes.

the club's reception was open, it wasn't bounded by walls or anything, and you could see it was quite empty, and peaceful. not the type of environment in a club. The club was actually a club-hotel-bar, that had a hotel for guests, a night club, and a bar. the man checked in for one night at 'grand Serina hotel & bar' and walked in. 'its not gonna stop raining anytime now, is it?' he thought.

He opened a door, titled 'club entrance'. the door to the hotels section of the complex was actually located in the other side of the club entrance, and he had to cross through hell to get some sleep. 

opening the door was another world, a world full of light, disco, party, and definitely not his niche. women and men were dancing and looked like they were having a lot of fun. it had been years since the last time he had been connected to such 'craze'. He thought of standing there a little bit before he went to see his room, he got lost in his old memories and drifted to a corner of the room.

suddenly, there was someone next to him. the person seemed to be the type to not get carried away by all the drinking and watch the crowd and fun from a distance.

"hey, you look new here."

"yeah, I'm just checking in the hotel for a night."

"why don't you go check in then, the doors rights there"

"i thought of looking at the crowd a bit."

"..."

"what's your name?" the man holding a glass of wine said, in a friendly manner to his companion in the world of lights, standing with his coat still on his head. "you're not in the rain anymore, y'know" he chuckled

"yeah, um...i didn't notice that" he took the white coat off and put it on a table aside "my name is  Colin"

"hm...Colin? nice name. I'm Nathan"

"nice to meet you"

the rain was still pouring outside, but the party was intense.

"why don't you drink something? its all on me"

"no, I'm good. thanks" he rubbed his neck, and decided to drink a glass anyway, he didn't get to do this very often, so why not give it a go? He grabbed a glass from the table next to him and brought the glass near his lips, then  took a sip.

it was good. he decided to take a bigger sip

"gah!" he slammed the glass back on the table. how'd it get so intense all of a sudden?"

"it's a new mix, and it's not that intense thought, are you new?"

"yeah, I never drank before...how long have you been drinking?"

"2 years"

"2 year?-"

suddenly his eyes cast upon someone else. A beautiful woman holding a tray with wine glasses was zipping around giving seconds and thirds to her customers

"what's her name?" Colin asked, his eyes still fixed on her

"she's Eve. She works here" he looked at him and smirked." she's 21"

"wow..." Colin kept drinking and didn't realize he had already drank 25 glasses during the conversation, equal to one full glass of wine. he was already feeling drowsy, and wasn't fully aware of his surroundings, nor what he was blabbering. Eve saw the opportunity to hand a glass to another customer, and walked towards Colin. then she handed Colin a glass and turned to Nathan

"how many did he drink?" she asked, smiling at Colin as his face started to color red.

"25 and counting"

"haha, you're funny, as always" she waved and went back to the center of the crowd.

"don't drink so much dude, its you're first time isn't it? that's enough" Nathan said chuckling

"but i want more!" Colin had completely lost himself, and grabbed Nathans red tie, leaning on him slightly with a pouting face "i want more...gimme more!" Nathan pulled back in surprise, he did not expect Colin to go off like that after 15 glasses, thought he was a beginner

He felt something go off inside of him, he felt his ears go red, and his face felt as if it was on fire. Nathan tried to recover, and pushed Colin off of him

Colin had turned weak and couldn't balance himself when Nathan pushed him away. Nathan grabbed him by the arm and stopped him from completely collapsing on the ground.

"Aw....Nathan∼∼, please∼? ....you said this was on you∼" Colin had done it. he was now hugging Nathan like a child, insisting for more candy, or in this situation, more wine. I'm sure he had never seen anyone in such a state.

Nathan's face grew slightly red, and he found himself looking back at Colin in a different way from before. "get off..." he whispered

" where's Eve? Eve! I want more∼ more please∼"

Nathan suddenly smiled, an ide popped into his head. "haha! you're so funny Colin, hey Eve! get him a glass!" he called

"what's going on?" Eve rushed back, and saw Colin absolutely drunk, supported by Nathan. Nathan was holding Colin by the waist, and put Colin's hand over his head around his neck so he could comfortably grab it by his other hand.

"Nathan, you've got that twinkle." Eve said, knowing Nathan's type of ideas

" Eve.." he started.

"lets have some fun"

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