The Dare

Birthday-Bash

I wake up to four of my five roommates jumping on my bed, yelling at me to wake up. opening my eyes and positioning myself upright, my fifth roommate walks into the dim room holding a small chocolate fudge cake with 2 lit candles, 21, and singing Happy Birthday to me.
"Happy birthday cheolie!" This is Kihyun, full name; Yoo Kihyun. An amazing singer and an even better mother-of-the-group!
"I'm so excited! Today's gonna be so fun! I can't wait!" This, is Dokyem, currently still jumping in my bed and almost my legs. Clearly the crazy one, but even crazier when he's with his best friend Hoshi!
"Hope you're ready to hit up the bar later! Don't worry, it'll be fun!" This is Jun, the calm one, currently sitting on the foot of my bed.
"Okay, we're gonna  have fun, and drink, but not too much okay!" This is Joshua, the smart, controlling one, in a good way of course! He keeps everyone from going too overboard a lot! Although he can never tame his boyfriend, speaking of;
"Oh come on! Let him drink as much as he wants! Let us have fun! It's his birthday, we're allowed!" This is Joshua's boyfriend, Jeonghan. Currently holding Joshua on his lap in my beanbag chair, with his head on his shoulder. Their a cute couple, although jeonghan can be a little too crazy sometimes.
"what if I want to go back to sleep..."
"At least have some cake first, I made it! I convinced Mingyu to come over and help make it so it'll be amazing!" Kihyun says, emphasizing the amazing part. I believe it! Mingyu and Kihyun are two of the most amazing cooks I have ever met!
"Hmph... okay sure." I say walking towards Kihyun.
"Okay, everyone! Happy birthday to you~" he says getting everyone to sing happy birthday to me. I sit back down blushing and smiling inside, glad I have these friends.
"Okay now make a wish! And blow out the candles!" Kihyun says excitedly.
I wish...I...wish...why can't I think of anything?!....Oh! I got it! I wish for this...these people...but...with a boyfriend! Someone super cute!
I make my wish and blow out my candles.
"What did you wish for!?" Dokyem asks immediately.
"This, you guys." I answer with a warm smile, making everyone smile and walk over to me, hugging me softly as a group of 6. We move to the dining room to eat the cake Kihyun made.
"This is really good! But I expect nothing less from you, and Mingyu!" I say warmly with my face full of chocolate fudge cake.
"Hm, thanks! We had fun making it, and were really excited." He replied taking another small bite of his dessert.
"Wait let me see!" Jeonghan blurts out at me.
"What! What is it!?" I ask worried somethings wrong.
"You have a little-" he leans into my face looking toward my mouth, but before I knew it he grabbed my plate of chocolate and flung it in my face, covering it in fudge cake, but causing everyone to burst out in laughter.
"Oh you little-" I return the karma by smashing his plate in his face, but because they were so close, I accidentally got some on Joshua too.
"Uh ooh~" jun said, knowing exactly how this is gonna turn out. All of a sudden Joshua is throwing his plate at me but only getting a bit of cake on me, the rest lands on Dokyem. He throws his plate at Joshua, the majority making it on him, and some landing on jun. He then decided to smash half his cake at Joshua, and attempting the other half at Dokyem— poor jun, never could throw— he ends up hitting Kihyun completely. Everyone falls silent as the cake hits him, because knowing his temper, everyone involved, is screwed!
"Sorry~ I—um—" jun stutters trying to apologize before he does whatever he's going to do. He scrapes the cake off his face, and slowly stands up, starring at the large half of cake in the center of the table. He picks is up fast and begins throwing small pieces at everyone, everyone starts laughing again as we stand up, blocking the flying cake. Once he gets to Jun, he lifts the rest of the large cake over his head, and throws it all at him. Jun is completely covered in cake, but frozen. We all burst out laughing causing Kihyun to lighten up and laugh as well. Jun also breaks out in laughter before we decide to clean up and get ready to go out. Once we all shower and get into our day clothes. We head out to the shopping center at 1pm. We get to the Shopping Center to meet a few friends. We walk into the crowded mall, busy because it's a Saturday.
"They said to meet them at the food court!" Dokyem says with excitement.
"Okay, cool." Kihyun returns. We make our way to the food court, making small talk on our way.
"Hey guys! You're late!" Our neighbor and friend yells at us the moment he sees us. This is Soonyoung, aka hoshi. He's a joker in the group but a million times worse if you get Dokyem and him in the same room.
"Yeah sorry, cake mishap." Kihyun says, taking a seat next to his best frenemy, Minhyuk.
"Well glad you guys made it, here cheolie, we have some things for you!" Minhyuk, also hour neighbor, also a joker, and sometimes can be worse than Hoshi and Dokyem. He's also very loud and we can hear him screeching through the walls...
"Really? Thanks!" I say blushing slightly.
"Yeah, here! Open up!" Vernon, the sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, friend from when I was 7. You can usually see him with earphones in or with his best friend, Seungkwan.
"Yeah we kinda got some stuff for you too." Jeonghan says walking with hands full of boxes and bags with the words Happy Birthday written all over them, Joshua soon follows with even more boxes and bags.
"You guys—you really—shouldn't...have..." I stutter out.
"Nope, but it's your Twenty-First Birthday! We have to do something! You're an old man now, like me." Another neighbor and close friend jokes out, making everyone erupt with laughter. This is Shownu, basically the 'dad' of the group, oldest and most caring.
"Okay...well thanks?" I mutter our laughing slightly. Everyone gets settled around the long table and Jun begins handing me presents one by one. Once we get through everything we decide to order food and walk around for a bit. Before I know it it's 6:45pm already. We pile in our separate cars as everyone decides what bar to drag me to. They choose Lava Java, a nice chill bar, down the street a little ways from our apartments. We walk into the semi-crowded Bar.
"Hey! Happy birthday dude, good to see you!" The bartender, and our good friend, Wonho says when he sees me.
"Hah, yeah good to see you too man!" I reply taking a seat on a barstool, everyone else following and making conversation.
"Seungcheolie! Happy birthday! Here, I got you something!" Another friend and bartender says when he sees me. This is seungkwan, everyone calls him Boo, he's best friends with Vernon, some of us even suspect something more going on with them two.
"Hey seungkwanie! You really shouldn't have, I got enough from the guys!" I say with a chuckle.
"Nonsense! Here, don't worry it's not much but, I feel like it means a lot, to all of us!"
"Yeah we all kinda came up with the idea, Boo was just the one who went through with it and bought it in his own!" Joshua says from a few stools away.  Boo hands me a little black box with a tiny red bow on top, wrapped with a red ribbon. I pull the ribbon off and the bow and open the box. The box contains a ring with many sides on it.
"Thanks...but why does it mean so much?"
"Because dummy!" Jeonghan answers.
"So you get the ring because you're always there for us, like a leader or something, and the amount of sides is all of us! Your friends! So it's a way of saying we're all one, together!" Kihyun clarifies.
"Wow! Thanks! I-I don't really know what to say now!" I reply, speechless and thankful.
"Don't worry about it! Just enjoy your night!" Boo replies.
"Yes! Enjoy your night! AND! Go home with someone! You have to go home with someone else tonight!" Minhyuk says, making everyone yell out 'yeah' and 'you have too'.
"Hey guys! What's going on! What'd I miss!?" Another bartender friend shows up. This is minghao. He's a bartender because he likes wine, and got Boo and Wonho their jobs here.
"Oh, well cheolie already got the ring for one, and..." Wonho says without finishing.
"And?"
"Minhyuk told him he had to go home with someone else tonight!" Dokyem finished.
"Oh! That's a great idea! It's about time you met someone!"
"What-why- I'm not even looking for anything?" I lied hoping to get them off my back.
"Well, we want you to at least look!" Jeonghan protests.
"Why-" I'm cut off by minghao.
"You know what? I dare you to find someone to go home with tonight! It's doesn't even have to be anything! You can just make it a one night stand!"
"Yeah! We dare you!" Everyone else agrees with this compromise.
"Okay! Okay! Fine. I'll find someone to go with tonight." Everyone erupts with cheers as I mumble this.
"But you guys have to help me." Only yeses okays and deals can be heard after that. They try with a few guys and girls, with only trial and error.
"Okay, well." Boo starts, the only one to not suggest a person yet.
"Well?" I ask.
"Well, that guy has been sitting there watching you this whole time, he looks cute!"
"True! Oh and seungcheol, he's 100% your type!" Vernon agrees.
"Okay, so where is this mystery guy?" I ask looking around the bar. Jun grabs my face and points it in the guys direction, pointing for help.
"Okay, lets try this again then!" I say taking another drink of my jack and coke before standing up. As I walk over to him I get this weird nervous adrenaline rush. Once he notices me he sits upright and focuses on me.
"Hey!" I let out, my voice cracking a bit making him chuckle.
"Hi!" He returns with a warm smile. I take that as a good sign and sit across from him.
"So you gotta name?" He asks before I could.
"Could ask you the same. Seungcheol." I answer him with a smile.
"Nice name!"
"Well? What about you? Name?"
"I guess you'll have to try to figure that out by the end of the night, if you're really interested." He answers cleverly.
"Okay, sure! But it is my birthday." I say giving him puppy dog eyes.
"Not good enough, cute, I'll admit, it's adorable, but not good enough." He says bluntly.
"Okay well, my friends-I'm supposed to- I-" I stutter out words, unable to make a sentence.
"What are you drinking, I can get you another one, or whatever you want. If that's enough?" I try again.
"Not really, Another one would be nice but, still not what I'm looking for."
"Okay well what do you want?" I ask.
"Just to talk for a bit, I guess."
"Okay, what do you wanna talk about?"
"Anything. Life?" He answers and we end up having a nice long chat about out lives, but still no name.
"Well?"
"Are you really interested? Or do you just want me to get your friends off your back?"
"Both? Can I do that?" I ask laughing.
"No, only one." He answers with a smirk."so what do you want more?" I turn around and look at my giant group of friends, starring at me before turning around simultaneously.
"Ugh, get me out of here." I say laughing nervously.
"Okay! Sound good then! Let's get outa here." He says chuckling, but also smirking slightly. We get up and he walks me to his car, I walk by my friends as they all stare, smiling and laughing. The moment I'm outside I can hear cheering from my friends inside. I decide to not turn around and just continue following the unnamed man. He's much shorter than me than I thought when we were sitting.
"Okay hop in!" He says unlocking his matte black car. I sit in the passenger seat and we start driving to his house. We pull up to an apartment building just a few blocks away from my own apartment building. He parks in his designated parking spot and we get out and head into his apartment.
"I have a roommate but he's not home, he works nights." He informs me.
"Okay, cool." We walk into the hallway and he stops at the door 17.
"Oh, seventeen! My lucky number!" I say with a bright smile.
"Really? Hm? Me too!" He replies as he unlocks the door and heads inside. The moment he closes the door behind me, he starts kissing my neck roughly. I moan slightly, causing his hands to pull off my jacket. His hands start roaming my chest under my shirt as I just stand frozen. His hands move down to my crotch area.
"Wait Wait Wait!" I stop him from going any further, making him move away slightly.
"What is it? I thought you just wanted a one night stand?" He objects.
"Well... I mean I do, but..."
"What?"
"I really don't need it as much as people think..?" I say making it sound like a question.
"Oh? So then what?" He asks, taking his hands away and stepping back a little. I think for a minute, not sure what I want myself.
"I guess I just, like you? Maybe we can just turn this all into a date?"
"Sure! Yeah! Um...movie and popcorn then?"
"Yeah! That'd be nice!" I reply and he smiles as we head over to a loveseat couch. He puts in a movie and sits next to me.
"Not sure if you like horror but, this is good."
"Yeah, sure I like horror!" I bluff.
"Nice! This is a classic." He says as the tv shows the title; Donnie Darko. We watch the movie for a bit until he breaks the silence between us.
"Popcorn? Sorry I forgot earlier."
"Oh yeah! Sure!" I reply with a warm smile. He gets up and heads to his kitchen, leaving me in the dark alone with only the tv playing. And of course he left at the worst time, the biggest jumpscare. I jump in my seat and scream, causing him to run in.
"What's wrong!? Are you okay?! Did something happen?!"
"The-bunny-he-" I stutter out.
"Oh, so you don't like horror?" He asks laughing, and crossing his arms.
"Um...well...well you put it on so..."
"It's okay, here I'll pause it and you can come in the kitchen with me as I make the popcorn!" He says pausing the tv and grabbing my hand to lead me into the kitchen. He grabs a pack of popcorn and pours it in the popcorn maker. I jump on the counter and sit as he pours the popcorn in.
"Jihoon"
"What?"
"My name, it's jihoon."
"Oh, OH! Jihoon!" I panic at the suddenness, but smile warmly. "Why so sudden?"
"Um, I don't really know? I just feel like this—we might—um. I guess we got along better than I thought so far. And I feel like we might...maybe get closer?"he says looking away from the popcorn machine, then taking a few steps closer to me.
"Oh...really?" I ask surprised. "But really? Me?"
"Yeah, you seem pretty interesting, cool, nice, sweet. And you're handsome. I mean you turned down sex because you wanted a date. I think that's why I gave you my name..." he trailed off turning back to the popcorn.
"Hm, well I'm glad you like me, Jihoon." I jump off the counter and walk over to him. He turns around and I smile at him softly, making him smile and blush, looking down in embarrassment. I grab his chin and make him look up at me. I lean into him and give him a soft kiss, he returns the kiss and I can feel him smile into the kiss. He grabs my hand and locks our fingers. Our kids is cut short by my jump from the popcorn popping. He laughs at my yelp as I back away slightly, before chuckling. Soon we head back to the living room, he presses play on the remote and walks over to turn on the lamp next to the TV.
"Better?" He teases.
"Haha, very funny! But yes thank you." I reply sarcastically.
"Don't worry though, if you get scared I'll be right next to you, okay?" He says comforting me as he sits next to me again.
"Okay," I smile at him. He grabs a small blanket and covers the both of us. The movie continues for a while before the next jump-scare. I scream again and jump. Without hesitation, he pulls me closer and holds me, pulling the blanket back over us. He looks down at me and kisses my forehead, I look up at him and kiss him. We focus back on the movie and when it's over I look up at him to see him sound asleep. I get up as carefully as I can and search for his bedroom. I look for a minute before I find a room with a sign on the door. 'Woozis room" with a little 'Jihoon' in the corner. I open the door and head back to the living room. I pick up Jihoon and carry him to his room. I set him down on his bed and cover him with the blanket, I lay down in the other side of him and get comfortable. I check my phone to see tons of messages from everyone. I decide to only reply to Boo,
Hey, everything's fine, tell everyone to chill. We watched a movie and made popcorn. He fell asleep and I think I'm just gonna stay here tonight.
I don't wait for a reply, I jus lay down on the pillow and get ready to fall asleep. I turn on my side and look at him for a minute. His black hair just barley covering his eyes. He breaths softly as his eyes moves under his lids. He moves his hands under the covers and gets comfortable, making little cute noises as he moves. I fall asleep soon enough under his comforter.