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The girls were in Thailand. They’d taken a plane really early in the morning and arrived at their destination around noon. In a little over a day, they’d be performing in front of a humongous crowd, on stage at SM Town. Unfortunately, the girls each had their stage rehearsals at different times during the day, which made it a little hard to go explore the city of Bangkok together. Not that this was a big drama; the weather was really pretty terrible so no one was complaining to be spending the day indoors.

 

Riki was heading for her rehearsal alongside Luhan and Kai, who were part of the same act as her. She was dancing as one of the backups in the special dance act of the evening. As expected from SM Entertainment’s dancers, the choreography was immensely difficult and honestly, Riki was really scared to mess it up. After practice for the event had started earlier this week; she’d really started to doubt herself. Being around professionals and people who’d been training their butts off for years made her feel very much unworthy. She knew that if she wanted to keep up, she’d definitely have to take her dancing to a new level and she wondered whether she was of the right caliber to do so.

 

Luckily, Luhan had been a great help to her in the past couple of days. He’d been practicing with her a lot, even after hours, helping her remember all the moves correctly. She was incredibly grateful for the boy’s help because she knew that if it wasn’t for his continuous support, she would have most likely cracked under the stress. She was still really nervous and scared for the performance but she felt a lot more confident than she was at the beginning of the week, which was a godsend.

 

A few hours later, she came back from final rehearsal with a bright smile on her face. Everything had gone practically perfect. She heaved a sigh of relief as she left the stage and she felt an arm around her.

 

“Hey I told you you’d be great!” Luhan said, still panting slightly as he clapped her on the back.

 

Riki chuckled. “Yeah well we’re not there yet.”

 

Luhan just shook his head and smiled before disappearing with Kai.

 

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It wasn’t until the sun had set completely that the four girls had returned to their hotel rooms together. Riki and Sen were just done washing up when there was a loud knocking on their door. Riki opened the door, revealing a jolly looking Luhan.

 

“Hey have you girls eaten yet?” He asked. “Some of the guys are hanging out in me and Sehun’s room. We’re going to order a crap-load of room service.” He then took a look over Riki’s shoulder to address Sen. “Oh and Kris is there too” He smiled sheepishly. “He was asking for you.”

 

Riki and Sen exchanged a few looks before nodding happily at Luhan and following him out the door. When they arrived in the hallway they were glad to find Els and Kelly were being lured out of their room as well by Baekhyun. They followed the boys up to the next floor and as they approached Luhan’s room, a bunch of voices could already be heard from behind the door.

 

“Oh there you are!” Chen called as the girls entered. “We were really hungry so we already ordered but don’t worry; we ordered a bit of everything so there will be plenty for everyone!”

 

Sen was instantly pulled away by Kris, who wrapped his arms around his girlfriend and planted a kiss against her forehead. Before Riki could smile at the cuteness of the sight however, something had grabbed hold of her leg. She looked down to find Chanyeol sitting cross-legged on the floor, clinging to her leg.

 

“I haven’t seen you in ages!” He whined before tugging at her sleeve to pull her down next to him. Even if she’d never show it, Riki secretly enjoyed Chanyeol’s clingy behavior. Not that she thought it meant anything; Chanyeol simply craved attention a lot.

 

After a mere five minutes the food arrived and everyone dug in at once. Riki wondered whether the guys always ate this much on the night before a performance. It was fun though. The atmosphere was completely relaxed and everyone seemed very excited about SM Town. Chanyeol particularly seemed elated, Riki thought. He kept playing jokes on her. At one point, he tried to shove pork into though and she ended up punching him in the nose. Riki was a vegetarian after all.

 

Everyone ate until they couldn’t fit another single thing into their stomachs. After Luhan had cleared all the left-overs, there was a loud knock at the door. It swung open before anyone could even reach to answer it and Eunhyuk, Kyuhyun, Heechul and Donghae pranced in carrying some wine bottles and glasses. They had a few girls with them that Riki recognized as other trainees.

 

“Hey” Eunhyuk grinned, obviously ready for a celebration. “We thought we heard some noise.” He plopped down onto one of the beds and opened up a bottle.

 

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Not before long, the little get-together in Luhan and Sehun’s hotel room had become a somewhat larger get-together. Quite a few empty wine bottles lay discarded across the floor and people’s conversations had grown considerably louder. Not that anyone was completely wasted or anything; there was still a show to put on the next day after all; but there was definitely a whole lot of ‘tipsy’ going on.

 

Sen and Tao were caught up in their own little world as Tao flamboyantly showed off all the new clothes he had bought in Bangkok that day; much to Kris’ irritation, who had wanted to spend some time with his girlfriend. Kyuhyun was in a corner conversing with Els and in the meantime, on the floor in front of the TV, the rest of the gang was sat in a full circle.

 

Heechul, being the bastard he is, had started daring people at random to do stuff; mostly embarrassing stuff. Somehow, he’d gotten Chen and Luhan to shout the Korean anthem from the balcony at the top of their lungs and he’d made Kelly and Lay dance to Miss A songs together. When Heechul wasn’t daring people, Euhyuk or Donghae would tell some of the funniest jokes Riki had ever heard. Well, it might have had something to do with the fact that she’d had a few glasses of wine but still; she thought they were funny. She hadn’t had a laugh like this in a while. She was pretty much in tears, holding her tummy as she slunk down against Chanyeol’s shoulder.

 

“No way Heechul! No way!” Eunhyuk spat at the smug faced guy. “I’m for sure way prettier than you as a lady!”

 

“Excuse me?” Heechul replied, raising an eyebrow. “How about you prove that statement to everyone here?”

 

“Fine!” Eunhyuk got up from his sitting position and pointed his finger at Riki. “You!” He yelled in a slur. “Where do you keep your make up?!”

 

Now usually Riki would have told Eunhyuk to sit his back down keep his boy hands away from her precious makeup. However, the wine in her body was screaming ‘Yes! This’ll be funny!’ so loudly that she caved in and handed over her makeup case to the two men, who proceeded to transform themselves into women quite disturbingly well.

 

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After a round of hilarious drag performances by Heechul and Eunhyuk, Riki finally started to feel the fatigue of the day weighing down on her. She was nuzzled into Chanyeol’s lap as they watched Donghae trying to get off Eunhyuk’s fake eyelashes. Chanyeol was playing with her hair and slowly, Riki was becoming aware of the boy’s proximity to hers. She was enjoying his touch way too much; she knew it but she couldn’t really bring herself to care. She merely let her head fall backwards into the crook of Chanyeol’s neck and sighed in contentment.

 

“I think it’s someone’s bed time.” A deep voice called right next to her ear.

 

“You think?” She murmured.

 

She heard the boy chuckle behind her before she was pushed upright.

 

“Come on, let’s get you home.” Chanyeol stood up and extended his hand towards the girl.

 

It was only when she was standing again that she realized she might have had a little bit too much to drink. She felt somewhat dizzy so she was happy when Chanyeol put his arm around her. He guided her towards the elevator and got in after her. Riki went to lean against the fancy mirrored wall but she was yanked back by Chanyeol who proceeded kneel down to the ground with his back towards her.

 

“Hop on!” He laughed.

 

Riki frowned at the sight. “Na-ah dude! I’m not going on that death ride again.”

 

Chanyeol just rolled his eyes. “Don’t be such a baby!” He said and he reached his arm back to pull her onto his back and before Riki even knew it, she was aboard the Chanyeol-Express once again.

 

“If you drop me again I swear I’ll cut holes in the crotch of all of your pants and put spaghetti in your shoes.” She mumbled drowsily into his ear.

 

Chanyeol just chuckled a little. He was stumbling through the hallway clumsily, apparently also not as sober as he had initially thought. He bumped into the walls a few times as he swayed around with the girl clinging to his back for dear life. After almost crashing into the door, he managed to set her down safely.

 

Riki fumbled with the keys of the room for about half a minute before getting inside her and Sen’s hotel room. As she’d expected, Sen wasn’t present. She’d figured her roommate would end up sleeping in Kris’ room. As she went over to the nightstand to switch on the light she heard a pair of footsteps behind her.

 

“Who said you could enter?” She turned around and smiled at the tall boy now standing just about a meter into the room.

 

Chanyeol chuckled as he shook his head. “Fine” He mumbled and he stepped back into the door opening.

 

Riki moved over to Chanyeol again, still not sure what it was the two of them were doing.

 

“Well” she started at him. “Thanks for bringing me.”

 

She couldn’t help but notice how great he looked in the warm lighting of the room, smiling down at her. She knew she might lose herself but she was far beyond the point of caring. Her heart started beating out of control when he replied with a simple “No problem” and leant down to hug her tightly. She moved her arms around his neck to pull him closer into the embrace and as her lip ever so subtly brushed the boy’s neck it took all of her efforts not to kiss-attack the exposed skin.

 

She had no idea for how long they stood there, but she knew it felt right. When his grip finally began to loosen around her waist, he refrained from pulling back entirely. Instead, his face came to a halt right in front of hers, connecting their foreheads.

 

Riki was so entranced by everything that was going on that when Chanyeol brought his lips to hers, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. It wasn’t a particularly deep or passionate kiss but the contact of his lips as they pressed into hers was something that she’d craved for so long that it overwhelmed her completely nevertheless.

 

The two stayed like this; seemingly frozen in time as neither seemed to want to see the end of it; before very slowly pulling away from each other. Chanyeol once again brought his forehead to rest against hers. They looked at each other for another long moment. And then it was over.

 

Chanyeol’s eyes were wide now, as were Riki’s; the reality of what had gone on finally sinking in. His hands moved away from her hips quickly as the boy cleared his throat.

 

“Um… well, goodnight.” He said, looking at the ground.

 

Riki followed his eyes to the ground and nodded. “Yeah, goodnight” She stumbled out, completely flustered.

 

He walked off without another word, leaving her alone in the doorway.

 

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Riki awoke the next morning with a slight headache. She turned around in her sheets for a few minutes before realizing that there was someone in the room with her. She pushed herself upright in the bed to see Sen walking through the room, brushing her teeth. When she noticed the sleepy girl in the bed Sen waved hello and murmured something inaudible due to the toothbrush in . Riki decided it was probably a good idea to get up; she sensed it was probably passed noon already; and today would be quite a big day.

 

After washing up and having a quick breakfast, the two moved to the venue again, where the final rehearsals were being held. There wasn’t much to do for the four girls so they spent a lot of time hanging out on bleachers, watching stuff go on onstage.

 

“So what was going on with you and Kyuhyun last night?” Sen asked Els.  

 

Els clearly hadn’t seen that question coming. “What are you talking about?” She said. “We were just talking for a little bit.”

 

Sen smiled at her friend’s reaction when Kelly chimed in. “Well, as long as Baekhyun’s okay with it.”

 

Els rolled her eyes. “Baekhyun isn’t some jealous lunatic, you guys. He’s happy for me to make friends.”

 

“Okay then” Kelly said. “Let’s talk about someone else then.” She turned her attention to Riki.

 

“What happened with you and Chanyeol last night?” She questioned.

 

At first, all Riki could do was frown in confusion.

 

“No, no, no!” Kelly sang happily. “Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about. I saw you leave the room with him last night.”

 

It took her a while but slowly, Riki realized what her friend was talking about. She remembered Chanyeol taking her into the hallway to her room.

 

“Oh that!” she laughed. “That was nothing; he just took my drunk home that is all.” As she was explaining herself though, an eerie feeling overtook her and the next thing she knew, a recollection of the tall boy’s lips against hers flashed across her mind. Her heart seemed to stop for a moment.

 

“You okay?” She heard someone ask but she had no idea how to answer that. Instead, she got up from her seat, murmured something about needing to pee and fled the scene.

 

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She was pacing through a random empty hallway, trying to explain what had happened the night before. She remembered it all now; the hug, the kiss, the awkward goodbyes; she just couldn’t wrap her head around it.

 

She knew why she’d done what she did. She’d been drunk and unable to neglect her feelings for the boy. It was a moment of weakness and it shouldn’t have happened. But on Chanyeol’s part, she didn’t have a clue as to what was going on. As far as she remembered, he was the one who kissed her. Of course maybe she’d been leading him on, she didn’t know but still, he’d made the move.

 

Now she knew Chanyeol had been at least a little drunk too and therefore it might have meant absolutely nothing to him. That’s what she figured it was. She just wished it wouldn’t have to hurt this much. Hell, she didn’t even know whether Chanyeol remembered the entire thing.

 

After a great deal of freaking out, worrying and weighing her options, she decided it would be best to pretend it never happened, and if Chanyeol ever wanted to bring it up again, that would be his choice.

 

She rejoined her friends later that evening, backstage right before the show. She refused to explain her odd behavior from before, saying that everyone should focus on the show instead.

 

When it was finally her time to go on stage, she was so consumed with nerves and excitement that she seemed to have forgotten about the entire Chanyeol thing. She enjoyed her little moment on stage so much it seemed to fly by in a matter of seconds. She hung around after her act was done, to proudly watch her friends’ performances on the monitor. It was so cool watching her friends owning the stage. It wasn’t like the cameras were on them 24/7 but still, the few shots they were in were absolutely fabulous and Riki simply couldn’t conceal her happiness.

 

When everything was all over, the four girls couldn’t help but break out into the grisliest group-hug they’d ever been a part of. Of course the feelings of elation soon made place for a terrible exhaustion. It was needless to say there would be no party tonight.

 

After saying goodbye to Els and Kelly, Riki and Sen made for their room as quick as possible. Riki grabbed the TV remote from the nightstand and threw herself onto her bed at once however Sen seemed to have other plans.

 

“I’m going to take a quick shower and then I’m going to Kris’ again.” She smiled and left for the bathroom.

 

Riki wondered how Tao put up with the lovey-dovey couple sleeping in his room all the time. She chuckled at the idea. She the TV and flicked through the channels, stopping at what seemed like a Thai version of ‘Days of our Lives’. She didn’t have a clue what was going on but she was amused nevertheless. A few minutes later Sen came out of the bathroom and left for her boyfriend, leaving Riki alone with the television.

 

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After about fifteen minutes, Riki found herself, lying on her belly on the bed, flicking channels again. She figured she might just go to bed early but as she was fumbling with the remote to find the off switch, someone knocked on the door.

 

“Come in” she called, expecting to see Kelly or Els and therefore a little startled when she saw Chanyeol open the door.

 

“Hey” he smiled. He’d already changed into comfy sweatpants and a loose shirt. “I was bored and most people are asleep.” He said, standing in the doorway, looking unsure of whether he would be allowed in this time.  

 

She smiled back at him and motioned for him to come in. “Want to watch some Thai TV?” She asked and he nodded, moving to lie next to her on the bed.

 

Riki was determent to not let whatever had happened the previous night get in the way of their friendship. It would be the best, plus it’s what Chanyeol seemed to want too.

 

The two proceeded to search for something good to watch. They laughed at some of the commercials that came on and watched a quiz show for a while but after about half an hour they were back to lazily flicking through the various channels. Riki was getting a little tired but just as she thought there was nothing left to watch, her eyes lit up at the TV screen.

 

“Oh my god!” She let out in excitement. She turned to face Chanyeol who was notably not as excited as she was.

 

“No” He said. “Not this again.”

 

“Aw come on!” Riki smiled brightly.

 

“We watched this just last week.”

 

“Yes but this is the Thai version!” Riki answered loudly, her full attention to the TV screen now.

 

Chanyeol put his palm to his face and sighed. “We’re not watching a Thai dub of Harry Potter.”

 

“Oh yes we are.” Riki replied, not even paying attention to the boy anymore. She was so completely engulfed by the movie that she didn’t even hear Chanyeol’s further complaints and retorts. It was only when the boy dived at her and ripped the remote out of her hands that she snapped out of her daze.

 

“Hey! Give it back!” She snapped after seeing him change the channel. She lunged at him to try and get the remote back but it was pretty much impossible; Chanyeol was way taller and stronger than her. He simply had to hold the remote out towards the ceiling and use his free hand to push the girl over on the bed.

 

Riki wouldn’t give up this quick though; not when Harry Potter was involved. She tried to push herself back up but Chanyeol’s hand held her down by the shoulders and soon he had crawled over her completely, with a knee at either side of her hip. He was mocking her, with the remote still in his hand and this pissed Riki off even further. She was flinging her arms around above her trying to hit him from different angles when one of her hands suddenly crashed into contact with his face and Chanyeol screamed out loudly.

 

He dropped the remote; which Riki was quick to pick back up; and brought both his hands to his nose.

 

“What the hell woman!?” He cried out. “That’s the second time in two days you hit me in the nose!” He moved off of her and went to sit at the edge of the bed.

 

Riki had to admit, it seemed to have been a hard blow and she was a little worried. “Let me see.” She said, taking away his hands to inspect his face. Everything looked perfectly fine.

 

“Am I bleeding?” Chanyeol asked, pouting.

 

Riki chuckled. “No you big baby.”

 

And in that little moment of weakness, Chanyeol took the opportunity of reaching out and grabbing the remote from Riki’s hands again and running off.

 

“God ing damnit Chanyeol!” She yelled, immediately charging after him. She’d had enough.   

 

She slammed herself into the boy against the wall and managed to yank the device from between his hands, immediately holding it up in the air in victory. Chanyeol however was still taller and stronger than her so, in a flash, he’d grabbed hold of the wrist that held the remote and turned the two of them around, harshly shoving Riki into the wall.

 

They were both panting now, staring at each other. These last few moments had all happened so fast and Riki was now very confused as to how she’d gotten herself into this situation. Chanyeol was so close to her now that she could feel the warmth radiating from his body. He’d never looked at her like this before either. His eyes bore into hers like he was trying to figure something out and it made her nervous. His breathing warmed her cheeks as she stared up at him, terrified, yet not daring to look away.

 

And then, things went fast again. He took the remote out of her hand, which was still up in the air, and threw it across the room before putting his hand on her cheek and kissing her.

 

It was nothing like the kiss they’d shared the night before. While the first one had been careful and reserved, this one was full of dedication and desire. He pushed himself into her as his lips moved against hers, slowly but fervently. Riki’s mind was absolutely blown at this point and all she managed was to return the kiss with equal passion.

 

When the two pulled away for a breather they looked at each other again, stunned and openmouthed and after a few seconds of silence in complete derp-mode, Chanyeol finally made a sound.

 

“Wow” He stumbled out in a monotone voice.

 

It was a little hard for Riki to process everything that had just happened; no, scratch that; she had no freaking idea what was going on. She did know however that Chanyeol had just kissed her, again, and that he seemed to have enjoyed it. She also realized that standing there like a plant wouldn’t get them anywhere so in that moment, she decided to do what would make her happy; and that was to fling her arms around his shoulders and kiss the boy again.

 

She deepened the kiss even more this time, forgetting about all the things that held her back for so long. Chanyeol’s hands wrapped themselves around her entire body now, pulling her close. She could even feel him smiling into the kiss a little. She smiled too and pulled away to look at him. He still seemed at a loss for words, which was quite remarkable since this is Chanyeol we’re talking about.

 

“I, um…” Riki began, trying to explain herself in words that wouldn’t sound cheesy. There was no getting around it though. Whichever way she put it, she was going to sound dumb; that’s what you get when you fall in love.

 

Watching her try to speak, Chanyeol snapped out of his derp. He averted his eyes downwards and spoke.

 

“Um… I’ve never felt this way before.”

 

Riki nodded a little. “Me neither” and the next moment she was pulled into a soft embrace. She listened to Chanyeol’s heart beating at a steady rhythm before she heard his deep voice next to her ear saying softly. “I want you to be mine, okay?”

 

She felt her own heart skip a beat and her hands voluntarily curled themselves into his shirt. “Okay” she smiled against his chest. She felt his hand at the top of her head now; it brushed slowly through her hair. And then she remembered something.

 

“One thing though” She said, pulling away to look up at the boy with a serious expression. “You disrupt my Harry Potter time again and I’ll kick your so far out of here you’ll never find it back.”

 

Chanyeol looked down at Riki, a little uncertain of how serious she was being when the girl’s face turned to a smile.

 

“You filthy muggle” She added, unable to contain her amusement now.

 

Chanyeol shoved her away from himself, laughing.

 

“You’re stupid.” He said as he rolled his eyes.

 

“Yeah, well, so are you.” She retorted.

 

Chanyeol considered this for a moment before nodding and breaking out into a goofy smile as he watched Riki turn the channel to Harry Potter again.

 

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