Stigma | KTH ✔

08 | Pepero

A/N: happy monday here's the last part of baekhyun's partayy woop

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My mind was all over the place, the thoughts within piling up, twisting and clouding my judgement and rational thinking. Confusion with a sprinkle of panic took over my senses when I realized what I had least expected.

Jimin and those guys are Taehyung's friends.

They're the ones Areum warned me about. The Playboy league, fuckboys, whatever. The sudden realization slowly started to freak me out. However, I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact how someone like Jimin could be friends with people like them -- he's way too kind. Something definitely didn't add up. Guys like them don't engage in conversations like he did, which is why I find it hard to believe that he could possibly be a playboy. Perhaps Jimin is just misunderstood, trying to fit in with the other ones by forcing himself to be like them. They don't waste their time like that. Or maybe that's what he wants me to believe...

My overthinking had now given me a severe headache, and I was tired and still a little too drunk to even try analyzing this properly.

The final conclusion I could draw was to be cautious around him from now on, even though I still had a sparkle of hope left that kept believing that he has a good heart, deep down.

Suddenly, a hard nudge was delivered to my shoulder, causing me to flinch and break out of the prison that is my thoughts. Areum nod her head towards the bottle, which immediately makes my eyes curiously avert to the crowd that was looking at our direction. I furrow my eyebrows in a confusing manner before warily muttering, "What?"

This caused the room to erupt in laughter.

"You're doing a dare with Jimin," the handsome guy with the plump lips says. It was then I finally noticed that he bottle was indeed pointing directly at me.

My stomach flips nervously.

Fuck.

My eyes travel to the familiar kind gaze that belong to my apparently assigned dare-partner; Jimin. However, there was something behind those dark irises that suddenly made me feel very uneasy. He cracks a small smile, almost apologetically. It would've calmed me down, if it wasn't for the complete opposite vibe that his eyes were radiating that made a cold shiver run down my spine.

"I dare them to do the pepero game!" Suddenly someone from the crowd exclaims, causing the entire room to roar with cheers. The sudden uproar causes me to look back at Areum with a confused look on my face, but my stomach immediately drops in dread when I notice her expression with pure horror written all over it. My eyes scream for help as someone suddenly grabs me by the arm and pulls me over to the center of the room. I watch nervously as Jimin slowly approaches me with a small smirk playing on his plump lips. With my heart pumping and hammering fiercely against my ribcage, he soon stands in front of me, his eyes never leaving mine.

What the hell is a pepero game?

"Um.." I mumble quietly, "what exactly is a pepero game?"

He stares at me in disbelief, but shortly after he cracks a wide smile as he lets out a chuckle in amusement, before turning his head towards his best friend. "Joon, go through the rules. She's never done it before," he says, immediately earning a mischievous smirk from the tall male.