Music blared throughout the dimly lit room, and bodies were busy mingling with each other. The room smelled of not only sweat and various mixes of alcohol, but also the infamous smell of weed. All in all, it was a typical college party.
A college party that our main characters were not attending.
Instead, they were having a study session in Mark and Youngjae's room. Study session meaning that Yugyeom and Bambam were fooling around, rather than doing their assignments, while everyone else did theirs.
By seven in the evening, almost everyone was done with their homework, save for Jaebum, who was stumped with his music theory assignment, and the two youngest, who were forced to do their homework by Jinyoung.
At that time, Mark's phone alarm went off. Youngjae's eyes lit up immediately, and he rushed to the kitchen for whatever reason. The others were confused as to what was going on, but it was all clear to them once they saw Mark pulling out a few baggies of pre-made joints literally of out nowhere.
"You smoke weed?!"Jaebum exclaimed. "Why have we never heard of this before?"
Mark looked up at the five confused faces of his friends and shrugged his shoulders. "You never asked."
Youngjae came rushing back in, his sunshine-like smile on his face, and with him was a plate of peculiar looking food and a couple of boxes of pizza. The other five shifted their attentions to their otter friend with the same bewildered looks that they gave Mark.
"You smoke, too?" Jinyoung asked this time.
Youngjae shot them a sheepish smile and nodded his head.
"Mark hyung said that we should tell you guys today, since we don't want to keep this a secret from you. I hope you guys aren't mad."
With his furrowed eyebrows and pleading eyes, how could any of them be mad? It wasn't like they were mad in the first place. They were just surprised, is all.
"We also figured that you might want to try it, too?" Mark said, coming out as more of a question than a statement. "You don't have to. It's more of an open offer in case you wanted to try it at least once."
Jackson and Bambam were quick to slide on over next to Mark on the couch, both talking mad game about wanting to try it. Jaebum, Jinyoung, and Yugyeom on the other hand, were left standing and exchanging unsure looks with each other as Mark lit the first joint of the night.
"I think I'll pass." Jaebum stepped away to the side to avoid the puff of smoke Mark exhaled. "I still have to finish my music theory work."
"Okay, but you're welcome to join anytime."
Youngjae was the second one to light one of the blunts from a different bag and sat next to Mark to take his first puff. It was their usual routine to smoke together, and they didn't plan on changing it up anytime soon. Their routine also consisted of making out on the couch afterwards, but that was later.
Jinyoung, upon seeing his favorite son enjoying himself, decided that maybe just this once wouldn't be so bad. When he asked which one he recommended, Youngjae giggled and handed one of the ones from his baggie.
He was hesitant at first to even put his mouth on the rolled up piece of paper, but the second the sweet taste of strawberry hit him, he was instantly hooked. He figured that the weed was going to taste as bad as it smelled, but he was pleasantly surprised with this new taste and feeling.
