Hyunah felt a little awkward with them. She wasn't really close with any of them beside Minho. And if she knew that their hang-out included hanging out with them she would have declined his invitation.

"I'm sorry." Minho whispered against her ear. "I promised to hang-out with them a little more." His breath reeked lightly of alcohol. Who was he kidding? He had fun. Why would he leave?

Hyunah overlooked the room. They became more by the time and she had difficulties to find the other SHINee members in the mids of people. Once she found one though, frowned she slightly. Baekhyun's girl was cuddling with Jonghyun in a corner and it didn't look like a friendly hug or something. She had her arms circled around his neck while both her legs were placed on top of his lap. Jonghyun's face disappeared entirely on her neck. 

"Minho.." Hyunah tugged lightly on his sleeve to get his attention off of a terribly karaoke-singing Key. She managed to do so and he turned to look at her. "Are they.. together?" 

"Who?" Minho leaned his ear in towards Hyunah's lips. She nodded towards the couple's direction, who had caught her attention as of now. "Jonghyun-ssi and Taeyeon-ssi. Are they.. it?" 

"Oh, them? Not really, they just have flings on gatherings like this." Minho explained. 

"How appetizing.." Hyunah murmured to herself once Minho turned back to the big screen and Key's overexaggerating performance. 

Hyunah tugged on her blonde strand of hair and leaned back in her seat. Unlike the others chose she not to drink although she could've just done that since she didn't come with the van. 

It was after 5 terrible sung songs that Hyunah finally decided that this was definitely not her cup of tea. They didn't leave like Minho promised and she wasn't really warming up with any of them there either. She would even pick a fight with Lay over this night-out. 

Without Minho's notice stole Hyunah herself away from his side to sneak to the nearest restroom. She sighed to herself once she didn't feel stuffy anymore. "I wanna go home." 

"Then go." She heard another voice response before she heard the flash of a toilette. The door opened to a cabin and revealed the petite girl from earlier. Hyunah raised a brow at Taeyeon, who went in front of her to wash her hands at the sink. She was smiling at her through the reflection of the mirror by doing so. "It's not like you will be missed- I mean it's not like you'll be missing out on anything." Taeyeon added. 

Hyunah turned slowly around to face her properly while Taeyeon dried her hands with paper towels. She already knew that the female was hostile towards her, so, her way of speaking didn't shock her when they were on their own. "Does Baekhyun know that you are with that guy?" 

Taeyeon chuckled to herself before facing Hyunah. "Baekhyun knows our relationship. So, yes he does." 

"So, you wouldn't mind me telling him about you and him?" Hyunah added and responded to the glint in Taeyeon's eyes by crossing her arms.

Taeyeon's smile faded. She glanced at Hyunah's wrist first before replying. "And why would he care about your opinion? You guys are just mere strangers." 

"Maybe but I'm at least honest." At this point had Taeyeon to force herself to not throw her head back. 

"Sweetheart, you really know nothing about the showbiz, hum?" Taeyeon flicked the dust off of her perfect manicured nails before forcing another smile at Hyunah.

"I will tell Minho that you had cramps. You know girls have to stick together." She winked at Hyunah as she was about to hold the doorknob.

"Good night, Manager-nim." 

Hyunah's frown didn't disappear even after Taeyeon left her alone. It really left a bitter taste in . "I seriously hate her." She then stared down at the bracelett she shared with Baekhyun. Were they really just strangers? She went through a lot with the guys the past months. Things, she didn't even went through with her family. But, if they weren't strangers. What were they then?

***

"Oh god! It feels like I'm floating!" Lay chortled before he jumped off of his bed. He hit the floor straight with his face while Hyunah stood on the side as she watched the idiot having fun with his dirty socks on the floor. Like she said she would have picked Lay over all the SHINee boys anytime. Even if he hated her. 

"Didn't I tell you to only take those when you're heading to a variety show?" She asked when he suddenly started to jump on his bed. 

"But I'm feeling so light!" He replied in excitement. 

"Yixing." 

"Did you see the blue mouse over there?!" He exclaimed and pointed madly at the corner behind Hyunah. She shook her head as she replied with a annoyed voice. "Yixing, are you listening?" 

"I'm craving for some crabs somehow.." He replied although that wasn't the answer to her question. He was still jumping until he heard her next question. "Yah, why aren't you listening?"

He sat still all of a sudden and stared at her. "I'm high. What did you expect?" 

She was about to reply to him when all of a sudden she didn't find a answer to that. "Wow. You are actually saying something that makes sense?" 

"I know, right?" 

They looked at each other for a while before bursting into fits of laughter suddenly. Hyunah was still giggling to herself while Yixing was already distracted by 'his pretty nails' or so he said. That his cuticles were important to him, who knew that?

"Hey." 

"Do you still have something left?" She asked when he suddenly whipped two small plastic bags out of his pocket. "I tried dying them with food colouring before." 

"And I think the smoke came out as pink once." He added while she sat down beside him. "You sure? And that wasn't just the result of you not being sober?" She wiggled her brows at him while he handed her a lighter and one of the plastic bags from earlier. 

Hyunah was a little hesitant at first when she held the against her lips. However, she lit it up after she heard Lay murmur something to himself. 

"This is how you feel everyday..? Yixing?" She mumbled before glancing at her right. Only to find Lay hanging down from his bed, his legs were up in the air while he made all kind of noises. She giggled to herself before smacking his left calf. "You're such a idiot at times." 

"What are you even doing down there?" Hyunah asked as she tried to pull him up with his legs. Lay struggled against her before glancing up. "Leave me alone! I'm trying to count my socks!" 

"You idiot! You forgot the ones you are wearing!" Hyunah exclaimed before laying down beside him in the same position. "Uh, I feel.. dizzy." 

Lay chuckled as he leaned away from her to take a better look at Hyunah. "The pink one was too strong, huh?" 

"Say.. did you count the dirty ones too?" She mumbled while resting her head against her arms. 

"Nooo.. I forgot!" Lay exclaimed suddenly. He was hieving a deep breath and pulled up. The moves were a little over the top, when he suddenly fell forward. Hyunah slid a litlte forward take a better look at Lay. He was groaning against the floor. Both his legs were still up in the air. "Buddy, that must have hurt.." She commented. 

"Actually, it didn't. I landed on the socks." He pointed out before stretching one out under her nose.

"Socks are more useful than I thought." Hyunah supplied before rolling onto her back. 

"You are pretty." Lay stated suddenly. 

"You don't mean it." 

"I do." 

"Really?" 

"Who knows?" Lay replied after a while. Hyunah titled her head before glancing at Lay. "This is quite heavy stuff you got." 

"I know, right?" Lay shrugged before turning onto his back. He was now staring at the ceiling. He didn't know what time it already was but guessing from the stomping outside the boys were back. 

"Why did you wanna smoke with me?" Lay asked. 

Hyunah's mind felt light. She would've almost forgotten why she came in here but even the drugged Lay could pull her back to reality. "I wanted to float in the air too." And that wasn't a lie. She really wanted to get rid of the stress she was feeling lately.

"It's cool, hehe." He grinned to himself. "Well, are you floating?" 

"If I raise my hands I am, but I don't want to stretch them too far. I can't get down if I do so. Feel me?" Hyunah shrugged. She stretched her hand out towards Lay, who responded with a high-five. 

"That's why I can't go outside I'm always scared of flying away." Lay complained which earned him a thumbs up from the girl on the bed. 

"Lay?" 

Both the potheads looked slightly up at the door. However, they didn't respond to the call and watched how the door opened instead. "Have you seen Hyun-" Hyunah smiled instantly when she saw Kris standing in the door frame. "It's Kris!"

"Yo." Lay wasn't moving a inch even when he noticed Kris more agitated than ever. He was charging for Hyunah, who was laying carefree on the bed. 

"What are you doing?!" He exlaimed and pulled Hyunah up. She sat up with a ruck and stared wide eyed at Kris. "Did you see that? It went whoosh!" Hyunah exclaimed in excitement and turned to Lay. Lay chortled upon hearing the whoosh word. "Whoosh whoosh!" He added before laughing to himself. 

"Are you insane?! Taking this kind of stuff with your condition?!" Kris added. There wasn't a end to his lecture although it didn't really make it to Hyunah's conscious mind. 

"Don't go around and give others drugs!" He yelled at Lay, who bounced away from Kris because he was way too loud and close. 

"Chill. It's not that harmful for-" However, Hyunah didn't get to finish her sentence when Kris pulled her fully off of the bed. 

"Hey, it wasn't my first time. I know what I am doing." She said once they came to a halt. She was still staggering when they finally faced each other. Kris was still fuming with anger although she didn't really get why he would get so mad at her. "Do you have the slightest idea what you are doing to your body?"

"I am. I'm just trying to get off of some things." Hyunah replied although that didn't help calming Kris. 

"Do you know how many side effects weed has? And in your condition on top of that!" 

"It's not! It's chilling and it was even proven that it's actually good. It helps killing-" 

"You don't believe yourself that, do you?" Kris stared at the shorter one. He got why she wanted to shut down. Lately the boys were a lot rougher with their ways. Especially Chanyeol and Kai. The D.O debacle wasn't helping either and Hyunah was lately kinda stressed out by something. She was behaving weirdly whenever they were out late at night.

He sighed before finally pushing her back. She landed on the soft mattress of her bed. She had no idea how she got so quickly onto her bed or even her room but felt thankful. It felt so nice to lay down. "I feel dizzy." "I will get you something to drink." 

Kris was standing by the sink