I blame the moon | nct mark lee ff

4 : underestimated

THE SCHOOL DAY WENT by really quickly. I had 5 classes through the day, two of which with Mark.

I was starting to get more comfortable with him and his friends, but honestly it was draining because they were all guys, so I was hoping to make some female friends soon.

After classes, Mark and I walked to the train station. After getting off near the apartment I said I was hungry and he suggested we go to a fast food restaurant nearby. And that how we ended up at subway eating our sandwiches.

I found out that he was majoring in musical arts and production, and minoring in visual arts, like me. He's also a dancer and makes his own music.

I looked at the time. "it's 6, i should probably go home to get ready and all."

He looked at me surprised, "the party's at 10... That's in 4 hours?"

"yeahhh but I wanted to take a nap before we left. I'm tired as hell"

He laughed. That fucking laugh again. "ok let's head back."

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I OPENED MY EYES, still feeling tired from my nap. It was already 9 and I had to start getting ready.

I went to the bathroom and freshened up, changing out of my jeans and hoodie from school and into light purple mom jeans, white low cut platform sneakers, and my black lace bralette with a mesh button-down shirt on top. I brushed my teeth again, (you never know what'll happen) and to brushed my curly hair into a sleek low-bun as I hadn't gotten it braided yet. I don't really wear makeup so I just put on lip gloss, mascara and brushed my eyebrows.

I checked my phone to see mark texted me. I opened the text to see that he asked me to meet at his apartment and sent the number.

I checked the time to see it was 9:50 so I grabbed my phone, bag, jacket and went to the elevator. I knocked on the door and someone immediately opened. I was surprised to see it wasn't mark.

"umm, I think I have the wrong apartment. Sorry." I said as I quickly turned around only to be stopped by a hand grabbing my wrist.

"nope. Right place. I'm Johnny, you're Nayoung right? Mark's inside, he'll be out soon." the tall man said.

He speaks English too? I thought to myself. So Mark must have a lot of Korean-American friends huh.

"Oh. Ok." I stood awkwardly outside the door, not sure what to do.

The tall guy, Johnny, laughed.
"you can come in.."

I laughed at my awkwardness as well. "right, haha. Sorry."

He stepped aside to let me in. I looked around at how different the place looked from mine, even though it was the same building.

The apartment was at least three times as big as mine and I could see they were living in luxury.

"damnnn y'all living GOOD, huh." I said, with my mouth wide open. It was like a completely different building. 'So my apartment really was the shitty one here. Sucks
to be me.' I thought.

Johnny looked at me and laughed,
"don't you live in the same building?"

"well, yeah, but my apartment is like, nowhere near this big. Damn. That's crazy."

Johnny was still laughing at me as Mark appeared from around a corner but stopped when he saw me. He looked down at my outfit then quickly looked away as he started walking towards me.

"wassup." he said.

"hey"

His dark hair was slightly wet indicating he had just taken a shower. He was wearing light blue jeans, a black beatles t-shirt, and black converse all-stars, us matching unintentionally. I looked at him and suddenly realized I was staring.

I sensed some sexual tension between us for the first time since we met and quickly looked away and stood up, clapping my hands once, "well. It's 10, are we leaving?"
Mark and Johnny laughed at me, as I looked at them confused.

"what's so funny" I said through squinted eyes, "doesn't the party start at 10?"

Mark just ignored my question and walked towards the cupboard in the living room while Johnny said, "we can't arrive at a party sober dude, are you serious"

I laughed as I saw Mark pulling out drinks from the cupboard and looked at him.

"rightttt. I really underestimated you guys." I laughed. "let's get fuckeddd"

We all laughed as mark started pouring shots. me realizing something, "wait, I thought Jaehyun was your roommate?" I asked Mark as he lined up the glasses.

"oh yeah he is. He's just at his girlfriend's place" mark said before handing me a shot.

"ohhh ok." I took the shot and downed it. I'm not sure what I even just drank. Pretty sure it was vodka, only lord knows at this point.

This is gonna be a hell of a night, I thought to myself as I downed the second shot.