Alone (hyungwonho)

10.

Even though I had been chained and imprisoned for four days, I had actually gotten even closer with Hoseok. We had texted each other everyday, talking about our days. I felt grateful, that I had met someone like him. He seemed to understand me very well.

Now it was friday, which meant a party was coming. Namjoon had actually invited all of us, but I still had to ask my parents if I could go.

I had prepared to ask them and walked to the kitchen where mother was preparing dinner.

"Mom?" I asked carefully.

"Yes?" She hummed, while cutting carrots.

"Tonight, one of my good friends has a birthday party... so I..."

Mom turned around to face me. "So, you would want to go?"

I nodded, playing with the sleeve of my shirt.

"I think you can go, but you just have to remember the rules." She said.

"I know. No drinking, no smoking... It's actually a small party. We'll probably just hang out and stuff." I said.

She turned back to the vegetables she was cutting. "Are you going to stay over?"

"I thought I could, because you have to be up early, so I don't want to wake you up when I get home." I said, sitting down at the kitchen table.

She smiled warmly. "Okay. You can go. You've been behaving very well these days after all."

"Thanks mom." I smiled. "Do you think dad will be against it?"

"He will be against it, but you have my permission. But that means, I trust you not to break the rules, honey."

"I know mom, thank you." I grinned, while walking away from the kitchen.

The night started well. When I arrived at the party, I noticed the beer-pong pals gathered around the couch. I immediately went to them.

"Hyungwon! You made it!" Namjoon smiled.

"Yeah, mom gave me permission, but she said I can't drink or smoke, but I think I'm gonna break those rules." I laughed.

"Totally." Kyungsoo nodded.

"Let's start breaking them! Let's go for a smoke." Namjoon grinned.

We walked to the porch and Yoongi took out cigarettes. "I'll offer." He said and gave each of us one cigarette.

So, there we sat, smoking. Bright stars were scattered over the jet-black sky over us. We just looked at the smoke fading away as the wind blew around us.

After that, the party got real.

As expected, we drank a lot, smoked a lot and laughed a lot. In the end it was just me and Kyungsoo awake of the four of us. Of course, there were other people also awake, including Kihyun and Hyunwoo, who happened to be swallowing each other's faces in the kitchen.

Kyungsoo poured me a shot of something bright colored. "Here you go."

"Thanks... I think this will be the last one." I mumbled after I downed it.

Kyungsoo let out a really raspy laugh. "I don't think so."

"You know what?" I suddenly said.

"What?"

"When we played with the freaky board... and when it said someone named Hoseok wants to meet me..." I started.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that." Kyungsoo laughed.

"I actually met someone named Hoseok."

Kyungsoo looked at me wide-eyed, even though he was really drunk. "What? When?"

"Ah... it's been already over a week." I mumbled. "I've been talking with him a lot."

Kyungsoo smiled. "It's still kinda weird that the board knew that."

"I know... I've been thinking about it a lot."

"Hmm..." Kyungsoo stood up. "Smoke?"

I nodded. We walked to the porch again, seeing someone passed out on the grass. We didn't really care. Kyungsoo gave me a cigarette. After we both had lighted them, we sat down on the stairs.

"So, what's this Hoseok like?" Kyungsoo asked.

"He's nice. He really understands me." I said, but then it hit me like a lightning. "Oh... Kyungsoo... I- this is a secret okay? You can tell no one."

He raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"I... I promised Hoseok I wouldn't tell anyone."

"Okay then. I'll keep it to myself. But, may I ask... why does he want you to keep it a secret?"

I sighed. "He thinks it's weird that we're friends, because he's 23. I don't really know, he's really odd sometimes."

"Oh? Well, I don't think it's weird at all. It's only six years. He could be like... your brother." Kyungsoo said laughing.

I nodded. "Yeah... he could be..."

Somehow, we managed to get into the living room, before we passed out. Kihyun woke me up in the morning and me, Kihyun, Hyunwoo, Kyungsoo and Namjoon decided to go for a coffee. We talked for half an hour and after that I went home.

No one was home, so it was the great opportunity to sleep my hangover off. And so. I went to sleep.