Rhum & Regrets 🥃

Chapter 3

"Passengers for flight Ar167 bound for Tokyo, Japan, please board to...."

"That's your flight Oka-ssan, Otou-san. You should go now." I am at the Airport sending my parents off after their 3-day visit.

"Hai. You should also go now, the lady who drove us here might be bored already. Please send her our thank you's, okay?" Oka-ssan hugged me and kissed my forehead. "Take care always and you should visit us next time."

Otou-san hugged me after her. "Hai. You hugged Onii-chan for me also, okay." Otou-san laughed and nodded to me. They both went inside and I waved goodbye to them one last time.

I hurried back to the parking lot. She might be waiting for too long.

I saw her outside the car, leaning on the driver's seat door. She's talking with someone over the phone. Her back was facing against me and she's oblivious of my presence. I stand there and stared at her.

She's laughing and smiling, I smiled sadly on my own.

"Chae?" I called her out.

She turned around and faced me. "Oh, unnie. Your parents boarded already?" She asked while still on the phone with Somi.

I smiled and nodded then went inside the passenger seat. She followed me inside, and heard her "I love you." before she hanged up the call. I rested my head on the window and looked outside.

This is what I chose. This is for the best. I sighed.

"You'll be seeing them again next time Unnie." Chae turned the engine on and drove the car away slowly.

"Yeah. I just miss.." You. I miss you Chae.

"them already..." I said instead.

She suddenly held my left hand. I looked at her. She's looking at the road but she's smiling. "That's okay unnie. We are here, we are your friends but we can also be your family." She assuringly told me.

I wanted to hold her hand as well but she already took it back to drive properly.

Friends.

I smiled bitterly. I looked outside the window again. This is for the best Mina, right? Right.

"We're back." Chae shouted when we came back at the dorm.

The girls are circled around in the living room. "They're finally here. We can start now Unnie!" Dahyun excitedly shouted.

"We can see them Dahyun-unnie. We're not blind." Tzuyu said coldly. Dahyun just pouted to Tzuyu's sarcasm.

"What's this? What's happening?" Chae asked and sat beside Tzuyu.

I followed her but Jihyo signaled me to sit between her and Jeongyeon-unnie.

"We'll play spin the bottle. Just to bond, we haven't been together since our break." Nayeon unnie said and took the bottle. "But, I wanted to make a twist for this game." She smiled evilly.

"Naahhh." The girls reacted negatively.

"Yahhh, don't be so kj."

I chuckled with the girls reaction. "So here's the twist, you can't always choose Truth or Dare whenever you get selected. If you already chose truth earlier, you should do dare next time. We should do it alternately. That's just easy, right?"

Everyone forcefully agreed and so we started the game. First chosen one was Tzuyu, she picked Truth first. The girls asked her silly to random questions and Tzuyu answered each one of those without hesitation.

Then finally, it was my turn to ask a question. "Hmmm, alright. Tzuyu-yah.. wha-"

"Be sure to ask me a good question Unnie, 'coz I've already prepared a good one for you later." I was stopped by her warning.

Eh?

"Woah. Tzuyu-yah can really be scary." Dahyun jokingly commented.

I suddenly became nervous. I do not know what question she prepared for me but I have a bad feeling about it. At the end, I just asked her a random question.

The game went on. Dares became so intense especially when Jeongyeon-unnie gives it. And then Chaeyoung turn for a dare came. She was told to drink cola with milk and ketchup by Jeongyeon-unnie. Nayeon-unnie made her knock on our neighbor then ran away after the door opens. And so on.

Then Tzuyu's turn came. "Shout the name of the person who gave you your first kiss."

I gasped. My heart started to beat so fast. Could it be?

"SOMIIIIIIIIIIII."

"Daebak! Really?" Sana was so excited upon Chae's confession. The rest of the girls cornered Chae and asked questions everywhere.

I looked down on the floor and sighed. Whether it's for relief or not, I couldn't say so. All I know is that it hurts. It hurts so bad.

"Well, now that's interesting Chae." Tzuyu commented while staring at me.