Coven | BTS 🔞

21| Burning hot

"Where are you? I've been calling you!"

Jungkook's pleading tone was too loud and Alice moved away her cellphone from her ear, wincing.

"I was sleeping, your call just woke me up."

Alice's voice was still hoarse from her nap. After her lab, she came straight back home and had been sleeping for the last 4 hours. The girl was so exhausted from her exams that she just couldn't stay awake for a second longer.

"Bring your ass here! Come on, it's Friday night!"

In the background, Alice could hear people talking loudly and the familiar clicking of glasses.

"I told you I wasn't interested in going to the mid-term party," The girl whined, pulling her duvet on top of her head.

She was already half-asleep again. Jungkook had no chance of convincing her to come out of her bed.

"I told you, I'm not at the mid-term party," he said, and all of a sudden Alice could hear him more clearly, like he had stepped outside.

"Even Megan is here."

Alice couldn't believe it. What was Jungkook doing with Megan? They had absolutely nothing in common, well, except for her, and last time she had checked, Megan pretty much hated the guy.

"What? Where are you? What is she doing there?"

"I'm at the Southside Parlor, I think you should come," and he hung up.

Alice tried to call him again, but he didn't answer.

"For fuck's sake!!" she yelled out loud, pushing her duvet away.

She didn't stop swearing in the twenty minutes it took her to get ready and leave the apartment. She was mad at Jungkook for calling her, mad at Megan for being there with him, and was hoping they wouldn't kill each other before she arrived.

After taking the subway, she finally found the place she was looking for, nestled between a bookstore and a charity bazaar. The Southside Parlor was a cocktail bar and restaurant, owned by an American. There was a nice rooftop section opened during the summer, which was now closed due to the cold November wind. The inside was pub-like and cozy, with couches in a corner and wooden table with high stools. The lighting was dimmed, and the place was crowded.

Alice knew that Megan hated those kinds of places. She preferred fancier, bigger locations, with electro music, dancefloors, private tables, and neon lighting. The Southside Parlor was nothing like that.

So, what in hell is she doing here?

Alice entered the bar with the idea that she was probably going to find Jungkook and Megan at each other's throat. On the contrary, she found them sitting at a table across from each other, the two of them alone and seemingly in deep conversation.

Alice's heart dropped in her chest and a wave of frustration ran through her body. This whole time, Megan had disapproved of her friendship with Jungkook and now she was hanging out with him as if they were best friends?

Alice approached them, shouldering someone on the way. She sat down at their table and without a word, took Jungkook's beer. In four large gulps, she finished the drink, brutally dumping the empty bottle on the table. After that, she took Megan's glass and downed the whole thing. The taste of the white sangria still on her lips, she finally looked at her two companions who were both staring at her with wide eyes.

"Hello friends," she said loudly, putting down the empty sangria glass.

"Are you okay?" asked Jungkook, brows furrowed.