cavalier | lee taeyong

five

Loud music is blasting and everyone is drunk and hyped. I have never been that kind of person to enjoy drinking alcohol, I just don't get the point, and I hope Taeyong isn't as well for tonight at least. Char and Dean are dancing together whilst I'm just watching from afar, sitting on the bench. I suddenly noticed Taeyong staring at me so I turn my head. "Hm?" I ask.
"Do you want to go dance? You look so bored." He asks whilst raising his eyebrows.
"Ahh no I can't dance, why don't you go?" I request.
"I can't just leave you alone here? I don't trust the people here." He says, looking around.
"I'll be fine, now go, I don't want to ruin your night." I push him so he gets up.
"Alright but you better join later, and also please do me a favor, don't leave your drink alone okay?" He begs and slowly walks away.
"Don't worry about me, go have fun!"

I see Taeyong dancing and talking with some boys I have seen at the hallways before. Didn't know he was that popular. If he has so many friends, why does he even hang out with me so often? I'm the most boring person ever like why do people even talk to me? I ask that myself a lot.

I see Dean walking towards me but without Char this time. He takes a seat next to me, drinks his drink and starts talking to me. "Where is Taeyong? Why are you alone here?"
"Oh he wanted to dance but I wasn't in the mood so I told him to go alone." I response, resting my chin on the palm of my hand.
"He just leaves you alone here? How boring wow." He chuckles and shakes his head.
"Nahh it's fine I told him to go and I didn't want him to be as bored as me." I mean I'm not someone who always needs others to be entertained, I'm always fine by myself, but Dean is probably the complete opposite of me and always needs to be socializing with someone.
He chugs down a drink and seems to lose himself slowly.
"Wow you drink a bit fast don't you think? Slow down a bit." I say a bit worried, I have already heard of bad things happening to people that were too drunk. Not cool.
"Yah it's fine hahaha." He answers laughing.
He tries to get up but he seems to be too dizzy to do so. Suddenly he loses his balance and tries to catch himself on my shoulder. I hold his hand and try to help him get on his feet again, but he comes really close to me which also makes me feel really uncomfortable.
"Hey what are y'all doing?" I hear Taeyong shout from the distance. "Bro what the hell? Don't get too close to her." He says with a pissed face expression.
"Taeyong stop, he lost his balance, I'm trying to help him, he's so drunk." I try to calm him down.
"Go away and let me help him." He suggests since he's stronger than me.
"Where is Char I feel sick." Dean asks.
"Wait I'm gonna look for her." I stand up and make my way to where everyone is dancing. Here are so many people that it's hard to walk without getting pushed. I spot her dancing and tap on her shoulder. She turns around and has a bright smile plastered on her face. "Yayyy Mina you're finally joining me! Ugh I waited for so long." She says happily.
"Listen, Dean is so drunk right now and I hope you didn't drink any alcohol because you both need to go now. He feels dizzy." I reply and pull her by her hand towards the bench where Taeyong and Dean are.
"Ugh this boy I swear to god." She sighs.

We arrive at the bench and Cher already grabs Deans keys so she can leave. "Bye you both, I hope we can party longer next time!" Char says whilst holding Deans hand.
"Yup! We'll see you at school, bye!" Taeyong answers.
Char just waves her hands and I wave back. She's so bubbly even though her best friend literally just ruined her night. She's such an angel.
I wave back at her and see her driving away.
"Mina?" Taeyong suddenly speaks.
"Hm?"
"Do you like Dean?" He asks with a serious face expression.
"What? No! Why would you ask that? I don't even know him for too long." I get surprised at his random question.
"Your eyes get so sparkly when you talk to him." He replies.
"I don't know what you're talking about I'm sorry." I turn around and grab my jacket.
"Alright then." He says grinning.
"You're weird." I snort with laughter.
"Hey it was just a question don't be mean." Taeyong starts fake crying. I hit his arm and we both burst out in laughter. "Let's drive you home." He puts his hand on my back and walks to the car with me.

We're on the way home and it's completely silent. He focuses on driving and I just lean my head towards the window. Suddenly the silence gets broken by me bursting out in laughter. Taeyong completely confused, he starts to speak. "What is it?" He laughs whilst asking.
"You literally got mad at Dean for no reason for fucks sake Taeyong let that boy live hahah." I giggle.
"Oh yeah haha I thought he was being a creep so I tried to make him stop, even though he just turned out to be a drunk dumbass." He replies, laughing really hard.
"This night was for sure real interesting, thanks Yongyongie." I thank him with a slight smile on my face.
"Yongyongie? Already giving me nicknames? Oh shit I better give you one as well." He starts thinking. "Hmmm I'm gonna call you minion then."
"Choke." I say not even a second after.
"I WAS JOKING OKAY I'm gonna just call you Mina since I'm uncreative as fuck." He laughs a lot harder than before.
"Okay I'm fine with that." I response smiling.

Finally we arrive and we both try to open and close the car doors as quiet as possible so we don't wake up my mom. He walks me to my window and starts speaking. "It was fun with you today, thanks."
"Don't thank me what the fuck, I'm sorry for being so boring, I mean I didn't even get up and go dance or something I-"
"Shh it's okay, I only wanted you to come with me, it means a lot." He interrupts me and smiles.
"Oh well you're welcome haha, thank you too. Well I'm starting to get really cold here so I guess it would be better to go inside now, or else we both might catch a cold." I smile back at him.
"Alright, see you at school Mina. I'll text you later." He starts walking backwards towards the car.
"Bye!" I wave at him and open my window to get inside.
Finally, at 3 in the morning, I'm back home.

All ready for bed I lie down and get text messages as expected.

TY: u asleep yet?

Mina: nope

TY: ah good, can you please do me a favor?

Mina: yeah what is it?

TY: could you please say sorry to dean later if you see him? he probably already forgot but still

Mina: sure no problem

TY: thankssss
TY: let's sit together in math class again ok

Mina: aight

TY: sweet dreams mina 💓
TY: 😴*
TY: soz wrong emoji

Mina: goodnight tae

I fall asleep not even a minute after the conversation.
What an exhausting night.