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"Just a game"

December 2017

In two far away areas of the Hongdae district, two people were staring the same sky, the same light in their eyes unable to rest. But it wasn't the stars that attracted their gaze, nor the city shining of lights beyond the glass. Nothing that they could actually see intrigued them, but it was the memories that brought their eyes to the dark night sky. Memories of a not remote past.

It hadn't been easy, but they had made it. They insisted to death, they used all the persuasion techniques that they knowed and, in the end, they managed to snatch a "yes" to the great boss and their managers. It was thanks to that yes if that night of December 26, instead of immediately returning home after the Gayo Daejun, the girls and the four boys headed to their trusted Noraebang, where their long-time friends were already waiting for them. They had never been very free to see each other, but things seemed to be worsened in the last period: when they lived in the same building, some upstairs and others downstairs, it was really easy to transgress, even just a little, the rule and spend some time together, on the roof of the building or in one of their apartments, with or without the complicity of the managers, but since the girls had been transferred to the Blackpink House for their reality show, it had become almost impossible to meet them and as time goes by the situation was starting to get a little rough for all of them. They were a large, noisy family after all, and it was extremely difficult to stay distant from each other for long periods.

That evening, eleven brothers and four sisters gathered in that Noraebang of Hongdae where they used spent their free time when they were still traineers and also after their debut, a place where they could safely have fun away from the walls of their dorms. Their way of spending time was no different from other groups of guys in their same age: after everyone arrived, the first thing they did was ordering such quantities of food that would be enough to feed an army, and then chatter, improvised musical performances and play games that at their age maybe they should avoid trying. But still...

"Let's play of Truth or Dare" proposed Hoon at some point, as soon as the duet between Minho and Jennie was finished. Half of the people present there didn't even hear his words, busy as they were in their conversations, but Jisoo, who had the misfortune to hear it, temporarily paused her conversation with Jinwoo and Chanwoo - from the moment they had met, they spent all the time just chatting about videogames and, above all, about the new screen that she had bought and that the boys absolutely wanted to try - to jokingly throw him the cup of coffee that she had just finished, without even really hit him.

"We're not in middle school anymore" she scolded him, but she couldn't help but smiling a little at his puppy-like face. "and apparently nobody wants to participate"

Those were, as they say, the famous last words. That sentence attracted the attention of Jinhwan who, after hearing about the proposal, didn't think twice before confirming his participation, immediately followed by Minho - who, focused on something else, only then decided to participate in the conversation -, Junhoe, Chaeyoung and, consequently, all the others too.

As happens in the best and worst American movies, the boys and girls settled on the floor, sitting in a circle with their legs crossed. To Jinwoo, as the oldest of the gang, was given the honor to start the game with the first round of the bottle.

More or less shocking revelations - and more or less fake - alternated with obligations worthy of censorship, mostly dictated by the wise and mischievous mind of Kim Jinhwan, who sometimes seemed to be able to be cruel even to himself.

This lasted much longer than expected, mainly because boys and girls continued to waste their time in jokes, in random funny stories and in teasing each other, until the situation suddenly began to get too embarrassing. Essentially it happened like this: after a long line of funny confessions and related teasing, finally Lisa decided to opt for "dare" rather than "truth", unaware that it would come to be a much worse choice than expected.