"Welcome to Allure"
Life itself is hard as it is.
It becomes even harder when you're left alone to care for your younger sister.
Shailene will do whatever it takes to properly provide for her sister. And the need to do so places her in a difficult l...
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THE EXOTIC DANCER CHAPTER 046 ✔
"Drink Up."
"So you and Taehyung? That's a thing?" James asked with a concerned tone before leaning his head down slightly to sip from his cup. He seemed to be extremely curious about the entire situation between me and Taehyung.
I didn't understand it at all, and maybe i should have been a bit more focused on that fact but i was a bit too busy trying to calculate exactly how much i could drink before being completely out of my mind.
I wanted to be slightly buzzed but not careless enough to not be in control of my own faculties. James has treated me with nothing but respect since we met but i still don't trust him enough to be drunk and alone with him.
I'm not upset enough to want to be careless... at least not completely careless.
"Mmmhm. I guess, depending on what you mean by." I lifted my hands to make air quotations while repeating a portion of his previous statement. "A thing."
"I mean have you been with him? Taehyung is someone who has the means to afford a night-"
I cut him off, holding my finger up to his mouth. Already feeling the confidence that the drink in my other hand was bringing to the table. "I have never slept with Kim Taehyung. That is one bridge i will not be walking over."
He smiled lightly. "But you obviously like him." The suggestion slipped from his mouth with a bit of envy laced between his words.
"Why the hell do people keep saying that?" I frowned, taking yet another sip. Probably my last if i wanted to stay on top of my game. I had never been one for drinking, i had seen what it did to my friend. I didn't want that to ever be me, it just never felt worth risking.
Although if there ever was a time to get drunk now felt like it.
I had admitted my slight interest in him to Max. I liked Taehyung but I couldn't trust him.
"Maybe because it's true? I mean he knew where you lived. You don't seem like the type who would give out that information to just anyone." he continued, putting more emphasis on his theory.
"It was a spur of the moment thing. I wanted to prove a point and when times like those come i can be pretty persistent." I groaned, thinking about that day spent with Taehyung. We acted like children. It was reckless but despite all the indifference i may feel for him now I must admit that I had fun.
In that moment Taehyung seemed like an actual person. Not a forcibly conformed lackey who followed and did all of his fathers bidding. He was shy and nervous, he stepped out of his comfort zone and tried new things. He stepped into a new light that day.
