“I just remembered an idea for a dare I’ve always wanted to try. Brace yourself, Mina-chan.” Nayeon exclaimed with a smirk as she rubbed her hands together.

Mina could only gulp in fright while the other girls watched on curiously.

Jeongyeon and Jihyo were already preparing themselves for a bat-sh*t crazy idea since they knew the girl.

“So! I dare you to kiss three girls here- but there’s a catch.” the Juliet-actress began, “This spinning bottle will decide who you’re kissing, and a blind-folded you will decide where to kiss. All you need to do is reach your hand out and wherever you touch will be wherever you kiss.”

“Wow, that’s a really detailed and specific one.” Jihyo marvelled, somewhat amazed by her friend’s weird effort for a silly game.

“Isn’t three people a little too much…” Mina tried to fight against the oldest, yet all she received was a shake of a head.

“If you don’t even attempt the dare, you’ll have to down the rest of the bottle, sweetheart.” Nayeon addressed while shaking the half-full liquor, instantly making the ballerina gag from imagining herself chugging it in one go. She couldn’t even handle a few shots, let alone the rest of it.

“… Fine. I’ll do it.” Mina eventually sighed which resulted the audience to cheer, but two particular girls were getting nervous within- for obvious reasons.

“May I do the honour?” Jihyo pointed at the bottle to which Nayeon handed over. The photographer grinned before spinning it with force.

After the bottle had slowed down its pace, the crowd started tapping on the floor noisily, creating their own drum-roll.

“And the winner is…” Nayeon MC-ed as the bottle finally halted, “Kim Dahyun!”

Dahyun awkwardly looked at the apartment-owner whom she had just met for the first time; Mina made eye-contact with her before glancing worriedly at her friend, Sana.

“Alright, now someone go blindfold this babe up.” Nayeon ordered, which made her faithful right-hand woman Jihyo take action.

The photographer slapped both of her hands onto Mina’s face which made her flinch violently.

Nayeon waved her hand in front of the dancer to make sure she truly couldn’t see. “Now sloooowly reach out your hand. I’ll make sure her face is somewhere in front of it.”

“D-Do I have to kiss her on the face? Can’t I touch her arm or something?”

“Do you want to get drunk or not, Myoui-sshi?”

“… Sorry.”

Releasing a small squeal from as she touched something, Mina felt her hand tremble as her eyes were uncovered.

She stared at where she touched and luckily for them both, it was merely Dahyun’s right cheek.

“Now go straight for it like a champ, sweetheart!” Jihyo cheered, but the shy ballerina was still hesitant.

Dahyun was still a stranger despite having a connection thanks to their mutual friend, Son Chaeyoung.

“Um… Can I ask Sana to accompany me for this one time? I need a little reassurance for the first round.” Mina blinked towards the dare-maker, politely asking for permission.

“Reassurance, eh?” Nayeon smirked, “Whatever makes you happy, Sa- I mean Mina.”

Sana, who literally did nothing yet still got attacked, tried to ignore everyone teases.

… She still agreed to help though.

Dahyun couldn’t help but gulp as she became sandwiched in between to Japanese girls, the two both placing a hand onto a side of her shoulder. The musician tensed up upon feeling two soft lips on her face, making her blush furiously.

“Dahyun, you lucky bastard- Do you know how many people would love to be in your shoes?” Chaeyoung tried to joke even though her words were perfectly describing herself.

Momo accidentally let out a single giggle from hearing her words, but she managed to contain the rest before she gets beaten up by a baby tiger.

“Okay, next!” the satisfied dare-maker shrieked as she spun the bottle again, her anticipation growing with a specific person in mind.

Although she enjoys bickering and triggering Jeongyeon, Nayeon still loved her friend greatly; of course she wanted her fellow musical actress to end up getting a kiss from her crush-

She also couldn’t wait to use that as an excuse to make Jeongyeon be nice to her until they’re wrinkly grandmas.

… But unfortunately for her, the second spin ended up with Momo as the chosen one.

Mina let out a relieved sigh after seeing that she was supposed to kiss her close friend.

She had nothing to worry about this situation since her and her two Japanese friends would occasionally give each other small pecks already.

“Come here, Momorin.” Mina was finally capable of smiling as Momo scooched to her side, snuggling in her arms happily.

Jihyo did her job as the human blindfold while Nayeon positioned Momo.

“Okay, go ahead.”

Mina immediately giggled as she felt her finger touching an obvious part of Momo’s face.

“That was your nose wasn’t it, Momorin?”

“No fun.” Momo pouted after Mina got to check for herself.

Without any signs of hesitation, Mina planted a quick smooch on Momo’s noise, making the girl beam in joy.

Momo didn’t forget to stick her tongue out towards Chaeyoung as a tease, which successfully made the short girl blush in embarrassment.

Sana caught sight of the duo’s interactions.

“Moguri, don’t let your guard down just yet. You still have a chance of getting murdered by the one who kissed you.” Sana pretended to speak out without much thought, making Momo hiss at her nervously.

“Why? Did she do something while we were gone?” Mina immediately questioned, though their side conversation got cut off as Nayeon cleared out . Momo secretly thanked the older for her interruption as she basically saved her life.

“Alright, last spin here we go!”

Crossing their fingers behind their backs, Chaeyoung and Jeongyeon had the same wish in mind-

But only one of them got it granted.

“Son Chaeyoung, eh?” Nayeon sighed as her Romeo lost her chance, “Get your lil’ here while Mina gets ready.”

Both the kisser and the to-be-kissed girl’s hearts were now beating rapidly.

Chaeyoung was ready to face the gates of heaven, while Mina had an internal struggle with herself.

Despite co-existing with the strange feeling within her for a while now, she had yet to understand it.

The only fact she was certain of was that only Chaeyoung and Jeongyeon were involved, yet unfortunately the ballerina was too dense in such a subject to elaborate it for herself. She needed someone to lead her to the discovery of what it truly meant.

“She’s ready for you, Mina.” Nayeon’s voice made Mina flinch before she slowly reached forward.

It was the exact opposite to how she felt with Momo; with her dancer friend it was all fun and games, but with her artist friend she felt as if the butterflies within her stomach were about to burst through and escape into the world.

Her finger immediately retreated itself upon contacting skin.

Her own reaction was too fast for her to be able to guess where she touched, but she could somewhat guess the answer based on the look of Nayeon’s face.

“Congrats Mina-chan. The corner of her lips you shall smooch.”

“… Eh?!” Mina covered her own mouth with both hands from shock.

Momo was now smiling way too wide while Chaeyoung became a ripe tomato.

“Wouldn’t that count as ual assault if it wasn’t consensual?” Jeongyeon frowned, not just because of that important factor, but also due to the fact she wasn’t Son Chaeyoung.

“Easy.” Nayeon blinked back at her sudden question. “Chaeyoung-yang, do you agree to this?”

“Uhhhhh…” the artist panicked in gay, “Sure…?” she answered despite wanting to scream out ‘ YESSSS!’.

Thankfully her self-control was decent-

When she was sober.

“Then no problemo, Romeo.” Nayeon turned back to her sulking friend before leaning towards her ear, whispering secretively. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure you’ll get to finally bang your Rosaline by the end of the night. Juliet has granted you the permission.” she then winked at the flustered-looking Jeongyeon.

“WHAT THE F-”

“Go ahead and get this over with, my dear!” Nayeon smacked a hand right onto Jeongyeon’s mouth before she could cuss in front of eight other people, moving the game along.

Mina naturally cupped her hands onto Chaeyoung’s face, resulting the artist to hold her breath.

The older was taking quite some time to approach, which made the artist assume she’d pass out from the lack of oxygen first before she could experience the barely-counting kiss.

Thankfully, the shy dancer had forced herself to do the deed before she takes up too much of everyone else’s time.

To her disbelief, however, she felt someone pressing onto the back of their heads, forcing the kiss to last longer than she had planned.

They could hear the other girls loud cheers for them while Mina tried to repress the attack.

Momo, the cheeky pusher, ducked behind Sana as soon as Mina managed to release themselves, still managing to stick a tongue out towards the half-deceased Chaeyoung before feeling a violent punch on her left .

She had to take a break on the sofa alongside with Chaeyoung whose soul seemed to have already ascended into heaven- or hell, based on whichever religious beliefs one follow, but of course the artist didn’t give a damn.

She had a five-second long barely-counting kiss with her crush.

She’d gladly go chill with Satan to experience that again.

Eventually, the liquor that had finally settled in disrupted the games and turned things into random chaos instead.

Jihyo and Nayeon’s loud voice amplified to the point Mina was amazed that none of her neighbours had complained- yet they may be too scared of the two to dare give her door a knock.

Jihyo was nagging her about how she had ditched their photoshoot session, while Nayeon merely wanted to move on from the past and enjoy her drinks with the girls.

The two ended up starting a brief fist-fight before Jeongyeon stepped in to physically tear them apart with the help of Dahyun- whom she threw in between them so that they’d stop their brawl from not wanting to hurt a bystander.

Basically, the poor girl was live bait.

But hey, it worked.

Tzuyu, who barely had a of alcohol, was prepared for such an aftermath.

She decided to be a responsible and mature student by not acting like the others.

She had also vowed to herself and the home-owner that she’d be on look-out for her tipsy roommate, who was already in a flirtatious state.

“Mina-unnieee.” Chaeyoung slurred as she leaned against the wall, blocking Mina from re-entering the living room after she had changed into another set of clothing- as her previous outfit was drenched from Momo’s glass of booze.

“You’re almost drunk again, aren’t you?” Mina smiled while patting her head. “You should only drink water from now on.”

“I will, but Mina-unnieee…”

“Yes?” Mina patiently answered again.

“Who are you trying to impress with your y lingerie?”

Mina could only blink back while her face gradually turned pink.

She finally understood Sana’s past comment.

“Excuse me for just a second, Chaeyoungie.” she said briefly as she rushed past the artist and straight towards the troublemaker whom she trusted.

The culprit was enjoying herself by teasing Sana; she somehow got Dahyun to sit on her lap, and Momo was now snuggling into the younger as if they’ve been dating for three years- though in reality Momo had only known Dahyun for half a day.

Luckily Dahyun didn’t seem to mind.

… But Sana did.

“HIRAI MOMO, WHAT DID YOU DO WHILE WE WERE GONE?!” Mina stormed in embarrassment, completely surprising the other girls with her unexpected loud voice. It was their first time to witness her raise her volume, so it made the three who missed out become curious, while the ones who knew didn’t dare to make eye-contact with either of the Japanese duo.

Also thanks to the alcohol in her system, Momo didn’t piss herself from witness the sight of a fuming Mina up close. “Oh, I found a cute pair of undies and decided to share.” she was capable of smiling sheepishly back, baffling Mina with her carefreeness.

“Why on Earth would you do that? That’s super disrespectful!” Jeongyeon nagged like a mother, though her scolding failed as Momo simply shot her a mischievous grin.

“You’re just saying that because you’re jealous, baaaaka.” the half-drunk dancer poked Jeongyeon on the arm, “I know you’d love to see it too.”

“Wha-” it was the performer’s turn to blush, looking at Mina in shock and embarrassment.

She knew Momo was correct, yet she couldn’t simply confess right in front of the -owner.

The shade of her cheeks now matched Mina’s.

“Okay, let’s just forget that it happened, okay? I’d love to move on from this topic.” Mina suggested hastily. “And Momo, you’re no longer trusted.”

“Ehhhhhh?” Momo whined until she caught sight of Chaeyoung in the distance. “But Chaeng enjoyed it! Didn’t you, Chaeng?”

“Even if I did, would I ever say that out loud in front of Mina-unnie?!” the artist shot back, acting surprisingly sensible and sober despite being borderline drunk.

“Why wouldn’t you?! You’re always proud to be bold!”

“That doesn’t work in this situation, pabooo.”

“It’s okay, Chaeyoungie, we all know that you liked it.” Sana suddenly joined in the fun, baffling the petite artist from her participation.

“You too, Sana-unnie?!”

“I have nothing to tease Romeo with, so I might as well join in this ruckus.” Sana shrugged, though her own words brought her an idea. “Romeo! What colour do you think it was?”

“Huh?!”

“Just say a colour. Any colour.” Sana insisted for an answer, causing Jeongyeon to sigh out loud.

“… Black?”

Sana immediately turned back around to face her friend, placing a hand on Mina’s shoulder’s.

“Okay Mi-tang. That’s the colour Jeongyeon-unnie would like to see. I’ll go shopping with you next time.” she said with a straight face, making Jeongyeon’s mouth drop agape from her conclusion.

“YAH!!!”

“Wow Yoo Jeongyeon, that’s bold.” Jihyo whistled, “But good choice.”

“I see you’re into that sort of y stuff, hmm? You nasty.” Nayeon snickered also.

“YOO JEONGYEON!” Chaeyoung suddenly shrieked from afar, catching everyone’s attention. “I STILL THINK THE ORIGINAL PURPLE COLOUR IS PRETTIER!”

Mina was ready to lock herself in her bedroom while the other girls laughed at Chaeyoung’s accidental reveal.

Tzuyu and Dahyun could only face-palm at their small friend’s behaviour, wondering how they ended up being friends with her in the first place.

They finally moved on from the topic as they finished more bottles, resulting some of them to truly become drunk.

Sana was now openly flirting with Dahyun, whose cheeks were getting played with by Momo.

Tzuyu was half asleep on top of Chaeyoung since she still did whatever she could to prevent a round-two from happening despite her lack in energy.

The squished female beneath had quietly accepted her defeat and decided to keep herself busy by people-watching.

She was observing her crush and her enemy who were chatting peacefully on the other side of the sofa.

The smile on Jeongyeon’s face after she had successfully made Mina laugh from her dad-jokes caused Chaeyoung’s heart to ache in disbelief.

The sincere look on each of their faces made her think that competition might’ve really ended, and that Mina did seem to prefer the actress over herself. She seemed to be in pure bliss just from being by Jeongyeon’s side.

But Chaeyoung still didn’t want to give up.

Not after experiencing the joy she felt whenever she hung out with her art model.

Not when she still had some hope, even if it was as tiny as herself.

Chaeyoung decided within her mind that she had to act soon, while the chance still exists.

“Sorry for bring chaos into your private space.” Jeongyeon slurred slightly, trying her best to fight against her drunk-state. She was still capable of thinking clearly despite her body not cooperating. “I hope we didn’t bother you too much. We can go to our dorm next time for these sort of parties.”

“It’s okay, I enjoyed all of your company.” Mina smiled, “And that’d be lovely too. I’m looking forward to our next gathering already.”

Jeongyeon smiled back from her response. “So… do you like those two weirdos?”

“Yes, they’re very entertaining people.” the ballerina couldn’t help but to giggle as she took a glance at the girls who were now having their own side-karaoke party; Nayeon was crying for some reasons while singing ‘Work’ by Rihanna, while Jihyo attempted yet failed at twerking to the song- or in general. The sight was indeed very entertaining, and Mina’s laughter became unstoppable as she watched on.

Jeongyeon stared at her crush’s side profile, admiring her features while the girl had her attention on her friends.

The performer felt her pulse increasing as her gaze dropped to Mina’s lips, making her gulp down her thirst; if it wasn’t for her strong will of not acting recklessly, she would’ve ended up like Chaeyoung with her first drink-

Mina’s lips looked way too delicious to be real.

Shaking the scandalous thoughts away, a new one entered her mind.

She blinked a few times to confirm with herself, but she knew she had made the right decision.

Jeongyeon decided that she was also ready to take the leap and let her feelings be known to the girl before her.