The Tomb Of My Heart | SF9

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I was woken up by the sound of someone knocking on my door loudly.

"What the hell?" I mumbled, trying to get out of the bed. I noticed that I was in my hotel room, but as soon as I got up, a really nasty headache hit me.

I tried to remember the events of last night and what could've caused it. However, as much as I tried to to remember, no thoughts were coming to my head whatsoever.

The last thing I could remember was going to dinner at the hotel's restaurant. But after that, everything was just a huge black hole. I had no idea where I went, or what I did.

Suddenly, I heard the knocking again. This time, it was even louder.

"Jaein, open the hell up! Have you died or something?!"

I made myself walk to the door and unlocked it, just to find myself face to face with my cousin.

"Juho? What are you doing here?" I asked, rubbing my eyes, still not fully awake.

"What kind of question is that?" He asked nervously. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"...No." I checked the time on my phone. "Oh, God! Why the hell didn't I wake up? I didn't even set an alarm!"

"I don't know, it's none of my business." Juho said. "But when I saw that you were not coming for breakfast, I got worried. You better get ready while you still have some time. You have to eat something before we leave."

"Yeah. Thank you." I said, closing the door.

As soon as I did so, I washed my face with some cold water, hoping that I could somehow remember anything from last night, but I still couldn't

Never mind, I thought, I don't have the time for that now, anyway.

*

Fortunately, I managed to get ready and have a breakfast just on time and I showed up at the hall exactly at 10 AM. By the time I arrived, everyone else had already been standing there.

"Good morning." I said, and while saying that, I tried to analyze everyone's faces and see if anyone actually knew what happened last night. "I'm sorry for being late."

"It's okay, Jaein." Mr. Jung said. "You arrived just in time. Just make sure that it doesn't get any later than that."

I quickly nodded, my cheeks turning red. I noticed that everyone else was now looking at me as if I was an artifact of some kind.

While we were walking outside, I heard someone whisper behind me.

"I'm so sorry, Jaein. We shouldn't have given you the beer. I didn't know alcohol makes you so sleepy."

I turned over my shoulder to see Sanghyuk's worried face. He wasn't mocking me by saying that, he was just genuinely worried.

"What do you mean?" I asked, not really remembering any beer.

"You don't remember? You were in our room for a while after dinner, we were just drinking and talking. You were there for about an hour, maybe." He said, and I slowly, but surely started to remember that part. Suddenly, Youngbin joined the converstaion.

"But she didn't even drink that much, though." He said. "While cleaning, I noticed that her bottle was actually half-full."