By the time she got out of the bathroom the club was still loud and noisy, but this time more heated bodies were pressed together dancing to the pulsating beat.  

Suzy kicked the discarded bleu fabric to a corner of the bathroom. Let somebody else try to figure out why there were hairpins and pieces of cloth scattered across the floor. 

The bouncer, who guarded the VIP restroom with a sense of profound duty, looked at her twice then peeked into the restroom, as if wondering how one girl had gone in and another had come out. Suzy laughed to herself. She certainly looked like a different woman. While previously the black lights in the club had made her gown look fake and ridiculous, the light now made her newly designed cocktail dress look like a sheen satin. The blue dress and little silver stilettos gave her an entirely new ethereal glow. 

She was making her way back to the group  and this time with a newfound sense of empowerment, she strode out the bathroom door and back into the crowded club. 

She caught Baekhyun's attention and his jaw literally dropped as she walked back towards the crew and slid into the booth. 

"What happened to your dress?" 

Suzy lifted an eyebrow and gave him a challenging look. "Is there something wrong with it?"

"Ummmm," he shifted uncomfortably, "It's just that...I mean...Aren't you showing a lot of leg?" 

At this, Suzy couldn't help but laugh. "Why Baekhyun, I do believe you like this dress." His face reddened and he mumbled something that sounded like 'Mrs. Bae is going to kill me,' but Suzy ignored him. She had finally decided she could be free for at least one night, her eighteenth birthday night, and she wasn't about to let him spoil it for her. He was being ridiculous anyways. 

Someone else began to laugh, and then Suzy  heard an unfamiliar deep voice, "She looks good."  

She froze for a split second before turning to where she taught the owner of the voice was.  

Suzy's brown eyes meets a much more deep, hypnotizing  ones... it was his eyes. She didn't realize how close he was. He was practically sitting next to her, she could smell the alcohol on his warm breath and the musky scent of his cologne. And she couldn't help but drawn ed to perfect chiseled face, the individual features.  Black brows; strong, straight nose; well-shaped, sensual lips. Everything about him was perfect and... intimidating.  

"You like what you see?" A ghost of a smirk appeared on his face. She quickly looks away from his gaze. 

"I've seen better..." her voice falters.  

"Oh, right. Strangers. You two." Baekhyun was now sporting a wide grin.  "Before Anyone Else, Bae Suzy, meet Oh so Dreamy, Oh Sehun."  

Suzy shot Baekhyun a death glare, making a mental note to kill the boy.  

"No need Byun, princess here had already stated 'she had seen better'." Sehun replied nonchalantly. 

 Make that two deaths. He was acquainted with Baekhyun, of course, he was a prick, arrogant, hot jerk! 

"Hot? Yes. Arrogant? A little pushing don't you think." 

Suzy never blushed, well in public. But she suddenly felt like she had been caught with her fingers in the cookie jar.  Had she really said that outloud? Oh the embarrassment.  

"YOU!-"

"This is so fun. We should play spin the bottle." Baekhyun quickly interjected. 

                                                   ...

A couple more drinks, and she hardly noticed that she was speaking louder, laughing more, or possibly even slurring her speech. Nobody else seemed to notice either, as they were all under the same euphoric effects of alcohol. Eventually, their spin the bottle game had spined more into a make out session.  Her foggy brain took in the fact that Baekhyun was practically making out with a really cute boy across the table. 

A cocktail waitress, dressed head to toe in black leather, brought them a round of drinks. Suzy eyed the tequila like it was a smoothie, the thick liquid sank down , leaving an after-burn that could only come with a heavy dose of strong alcohol. The night proceeded with more drinks and Suzy found herself having more fun than she had ever had in her entire life, and that wasn't saying much, since she couldn't even remember the last time she had really let loose.

"Nobody would suspect the only Bae daughter to be anything but prim and proper upon seeing this sight, now would they not?" 

Humid heat surrounds her.  She studied the bodies pressed together, dancing in slow motion to a beat that consumes and devours. Loneliness within a overflowing room.  Suzy smiled. How ironic. 

"You don't know anything...after tonight everything will be back to how they were... to how I was." She turns her attention the boy next to her.  Her head was spinning.  Everything was spinning, but him.  

"Succumbing in self pity, aren't you? A perfect Cinderella rendition. But, this time the princess wants a pumpkin not her glass slippers."

"Why can't you just say something nice for once?  You were in my party earlier. So, that means you're one of my suitors. Shouldn't you be pouring flowers and sweet words to me?"

She studied his side profile for a moment, soaking in his defined features, the high cheekbones and straight nose and his... lips.  She had to admit, he was extremely good looking. She bit her lip. 

After a few moments he turned to meet her stare, the dim light was making his deep brown eyes even darker, he looked dangerous.  

"I don't think that's what you want from me." He said slowly, now fully facing her. 

Suzy felt her head start to spin and her knees go weak.  If she had thought that her heart was beating was beating fast before, that was nothing to the way it was pounding now.  

"I-I don't want anything from you..." She couldn't hear the words she was speaking, her eyes was glued to his lips.  His lips that was merely three inches away from hers.

"Just say it." His breath was warm against her cool skin. 

She could feel his fingers brush her skin, and it sent goosebumps blossoming along her arms. "Tell me your birthday wish."

Her face was hot and somehow his lips was an inch more closer. His eyes was filled with intensity and a seductive grin was plastered on his lips. 

"K-kiss me."

Then his lips crashed against hers. His lips moving over hers with masterful persuasion. One second his kiss was demanding and rough and then the next it was gentle and controlled. His tongue seeked entry into , and Suzy was caught up in the sheer wonder of it.  And him. 

His caressing lips and searching tongue sent shivers of awareness darting through her.  Her stomach fluttered, her heart pounded, and she felt herself growing weak-kneed and light-headed.  Just when she thought she might pass out, he kissed the pulsing area at the base of , her cheeks, then his lips landed light as a butterfly's wing on her eyelids.  Finally he took again, and Suzy knew she was lost. 

No one had ever kissed her like this before.  No one had ever made her feel the way he made her feel.  Suddenly his mouth wa no longer upon hers, but on the nape of her neck. His mouth, his tongue, his lips was all over leaving hot trails on her cool exposed skin.  

But suddenly, the warmth that was once present, was gone... now replaced with a sharp, cold pain.