I Love You, Always ((Sangwoo x Reader FanFic))

Unfamiliar With // An Amazing Trick

The next seven minutes went at a snail's pace. Y/n lifts a can of beer to her lips as she pretends to laugh at Ji Eun's friend's joke. Even if she was fluent in the language, she was still unfamiliar with some of the pop culture and various things those in South Korea grew up with. Some jokes just go over her head, but Y/n tries to laugh and pretend she understands them, the alcohol helps.

The closet door creeps open and conversations subside. With a quick glance around the table, she notices the once bubbly smiles falling into a simple friendly grin. Sangwoo and Ji Eun emerge from the quiet dark room, hand in hand. It sends a pang through Y/n, but she quickly pushes the feeling away. To her surprise and dismay, she finds herself pulling on a fake smile. She is just as bad as everyone else.

"Why so quiet?" Sangwoo's question is given to all seated at the table, but no one answers. We all watch Ji Eun's sly expression form as she stumbles over to the table with her tentacle suckers latched firmly onto Sangwoo. She is claiming him as hers. Y/n can't help distracting herself by cracking open another beer and throwing it back. Ji Eun is claiming Sangwoo as hers, and he isn't rejecting her. The emptied cold tin can slams against the table harder than Y/n had meant it to, causing everything to jump back into movement as if nothing ever stopped in the first place.

Y/n can't look up at Sangwoo's face when he sits down next to her. Instead she leans on Bum's bony shoulder and grabs another beer. What had she been expecting anyway? How stupid was she? Why would she get so far ahead of herself? So far away from reality? She drowns out the series of unanswered questions with a cold soothing gulp of beer.

Y/n must have taken a vacation into her own world. Her (e/c) dazed eyes are open and unblinking. Her fingers twitch and shake as she cracks open beer after beer and brings the liquid poison to her lips. It makes Sangwoo's skin crawl. She's an ugly drunk. "Hey, Y/n. That's enough don't you think?" He ignores Ji Eun to address Y/n for the first time in an hour.

She doesn't even flinch. "Y/n." Sangwoo begins to chuckle. "Are you fucking with me?" Playful because of the alcohol, or maybe Ji Eun's cunt, or possibly Bum, he takes her head and separates her eyelids. He closes one of his eyes and stares into her widened one as might a doctor when inspecting a patient. "Earth to Y/n, do you come in?" Everyone that's anyone laughs.

Y/n and Bum don't.

"Um, Sangwoo..." Bum whispers as he stares at the foreign girl. He watches her pupil grow and dilate before they roll slowly into the back of her head. One before the other. They lock into the back of her head with a soft but undeniably audible thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Her eyes bounced into the back of her head. It could have been an amazing trick. Only it isn't. And it's mortifying. "I don't think that's normal."

The laughing stops.

"Shit."