The Invitation
When She Was A BoyShe rolled over on her soft, fluffy, and very comfortable bed. She leaned closer to her pillow... she hugged it... and cuddled more... and sniffed it delicately - it smelled of a baby cologne with a mixture of sick in it - but she did not mind, she still liked the smell. A small smile appeared in her dreaming face.
Slowly, Amber opened her eyes. A pair of tiny, black, shining eyes welcomed her. It was looking at her coldly. She continued to smile..
*I must be still dreaming, those eyes looked exactly like Lee brat's*. She blinked a few times. Her smile slowly faded, and a frown was etched on her face.
"Having fun?" Taec asked her coldly. Their faces were so close to each other that Amber breathed alcohol, sick and strawberry scent from his mouth.
"AAHH!" Amber frantically removed her hug from him and pushed Taec hardly, backing a few spaces away. Taec looked at her furiously, his teeth gritted with annoyance.
"This is the second time I'll ask you this lesbie..." he hissed. "What are you doing inside my room?!!!"
Amber opened but Taec cut her.
"Oh, I know. You must be taking advantage of me last night, when I were all drunk and unconscious, huh? What did you do to me last night? huh? Why am I shirtless? huh? Are you a ert? HUH??"
Amber looked back at him with a piercing glare. "If you don't mind, sir.." she dabbed a finger to his chest while she advanced at him. "Try remembering what you did to me last night." she hissed back. "You were the one who hugged me. You were the one who sniffed my neck. You were the ert here, NOT ME!"
"T-that's not true!" Taec shouted back, his neck turning red. "YYAAAHH! This is the most disgusting day of my life! I slept with a tomboy! And look at your drool, it's all over my chest!"
True enough, an amount of silvery fluid were on his chest. Amber blushed furiously. "T-that's not mine..." she denied, cowering in shame.
Taec snorted. Then she pushed Amber from his bed. "OWW!" she landed flat on her bottom, cursing under her breath. "GET OUT!" he shouted. Amber made faces then she went outside his room, rubbing her . Then, the doorbell rang.
"Minjun?" she asked as she opened the door. Minjun smiled at her.
"I'm sorry, did I disturb your sleep?" he asked.
"Oh, not at all..". She let Minjun inside and prepared him coffee.
"Where's Taec?" he asked. Amber nodded at his door. She put his coffee on the table. A few minutes later, a disgruntled Taec went outside his room, clutching his head.
"What are you doing here?" he snapped at Minjun.
"Bad morning, I guess?" Minjun chuckled. "I came here to give you these." he gave him two pieces of handsome, violet and silver envelopes. "That's our invitation for our inter-college night." he said.
"I'm not going." Taec said unconcernedly. "Ahh, my head hurts!" he ruffled his hair in frustration.
"That's our requirement Taec. You need to come. Here" Minjun answered while he gave Taec pills.
"Pssh. Rubbish. Why do profs always do that? 'Your fieldtrip is a requirement', 'Your night is a requirement' What for? It's not even related to our course!" he grumbled. "And why are there two invitations??" he added.
"First is yours, the second would be for your partner."
"I'm not interested." he said flatly. "Get out of here now Minjun." then he ran towards the rest room, probably to puke.
Amber read the invitation. "Inter-college night?" she asked.
"Yup. The school will partner two colleges and they will spend their college night together. Architecture was partnered with College of Music and Performing Arts."
"Isn't the college of Wooyoung and Junho?" she asked.
"Yup. Then Taec, Chance and I were in the College of Architecture and Fine Arts. Therefore, we will all go together." he answered.
"Except Nichkhun." Amber reminded. Minjun nodded. "Too bad for that dork." he said.
Taec appeared again, looking weak. He wiped his sweat. "I... won't drink anymore.!" he said.
"You always say that every time you wake up." Minjun noted.
"Shut up. And why are you still here?! I thought I told you to get out of here now??" Taec said irritably.
"Ok, ok." Minjun put his hands up in surrender. "I'll go ahead. Start looking for your date Taec! Bye!." he waved and closed the door.
"I said I'm not going!" Taec shouted back. "You!" he turned to Amber. "Prepare my breakfast." then he went inside his room again.
Amber rolled her eyes and started preparing breakfast. They ate together with the usual, awkward silence. After breakfast, she washed the dishes, cleaned the house, and prepared herself for work.
"Good morning AJ!" Fei greeted the moment Amber went inside the shop.
"Morning." Amber greeted back.
"Why didn't you go to work yesterday? Sir Chansung did not go here too." she asked.
"Er...." the bell rang again.
"Good morning Sir Chansung." the other employees bowed and greeted at the new comer.
"Good morning Sir Chansung." Fei and Amber greeted together. Chance smiled at them all and he patted Amber's head gently. "Had a good night's sleep?" he asked her kindly.
"Uhh, yeah. I guess." Amber answered. She did not think it would be a good idea to mention that she slept beside Taec last night. "How about you?".
"I did sleep well." he answered, still patting Amber's head.
"Stop patting me, I'm not a dog." Amber said frowning.
"I'm sorry, hahaha." Chance laughed but he continued patting Amber's head.
"What is it that you did not say?" Chance walked inside the kitchen, smiling at her.
"Nothing. Oh, here's their order..." she walked towards him and stepped on her shoelace. "AGGGHHH!!"
"Stop." Amber said, pursing her lips and glaring at Chance. "Stop laughing Chance!"
"HAHA.. HAHA... Ok, ok.. I'll stop." Chance zipped his lips while he tried to muffle his laughter. He walked towards her and put a finger on her nose. He tasted the icing.
"Tastes sweet too." he said.
"Shut up. I'll go and clean this up, then I'll clean myself." Amber growled.
"I'll take care of it." he said.
"What? No way it's my job, you're the boss here." she said.
"Who says I'll be cleaning this?" he pointed at the messed cake. "I'll be cleaning you."
"Are you sure Fei?" Amber asked uncertainly. She nodded.
"What?"
"Change your clothes too, we're going somewhere."
"What? Where?" she finished wiping her face and went outside.
"Just do it. I'll be waiting at the parking lot ok?"
"Are you going somewhere AJ?" Fei asked.
"Uh, yes, but I don't know where. Bye Fei," she waved at her and proceeded to the changing room. After changing her clothes, she met Chance at the parking lot. He was already seated on his motorcycle.
"Hop in. You'll see soon."
"Where -?!"
"Scared???" he dared.
"Of course not!" she answered back. Chance increased their speed and Amber hugged his waist more tightly. They could do this everyday... He liked this feeling... This feeling when he was being hugged by Amber....
"Shopping." he shortly answered.
"I don't like shopping."
"We boys don't like it too. But Wooyoung kept on nagging us to do so."
"Wooyoung is here too?"
"Yes. And Minjun, and Junho, and NIchkhun, and Taec." They walked passed the entrance guard and strolled on the corridor.
"Suits for the inter-college night." Chance stopped and looked at her.
"What?" she asked. Chance opened his mouth but hesitated.
"I thought Lee brat won't come?" she continued.
"I don't know..." Chance looked around and spotted his friends in front of Jag Jeans store. Together they walked towards them.
"Shut up Wooyoung. You're so noisy." Junho grumbled.
"Hmm... I don't think this suits me.." Minjun muttered to himself.
"Khunnie oppa this looks good to you!" Luna said sweetly to Nichkhun, holding a piece of tuxedo.
"Luna baby... I'm not going. I only accompanied them here." he answered patiently, pinching Luna's chubby cheeks. "You're soooo cute." then he kissed her.
"UGH! Do that outside will you?!!" Taec growled.
They stopped kissing. "Mind your business Taec," Nichkhun smirked. "Here, take that with you." he grabbed the tuxedo that Luna picked and gave it to him.
"I said I'm not going." he threw the tuxedo away.
"What?!" Amber asked furiously.
"You got a problem?" he flashed his eyes dangerously at her. Amber pursed her lips. "Good." Taec said.
"Did you let me come here just to hold your bags???" Amber hissed furiously at Chance.
"Of course not. Let me help you with that..." he said.
"You don't need to. Or that devil will shout at me." she said.
"AJ! My shoes too!"
"Oh oh! Don't forget mine AJ!"
"Here."
"AJ! AJ! Hold it properly, please!"
"Aj!"
"AJ!"
"AAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!" Amber shouted in frustration. She was getting behind the boys already, holding twelve - no - thirteen? fourteen? bags at once. These boys say that they're not into shopping? Who are they kidding?!
"Thanks.." Amber said, smiling, then she followed Chance.
"I don't remember you calling me 'Krystal' babe." she said.
"A-ahh.. Hehe.."
"Khun?" a melodic voice said.
"Sulli..." he grinned weakly. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm with my sister... What are you doing here? I though you have your photo shoot?" Suli asked.
"And who are you?" Krystal snapped at Sulli.
"I'm Sulli, Khun's girlfriend." she answered calmly. "And you?"
"I'm Krystal. Nichkhun's babe." Krystal said icily.
"I'm not. I'm his baby." she said proudly. "Right Khunnie?"
"Would you like me to slap you Minjun?" Nichkhun retorted. Everyone sniggered.
"Did you see Sulli cried? You're a bad boy Khun! Bad boy!"
"How were your cheeks? I can give them another try..."
"What if I give yours a try?!"
"Oh oh! Don't forget me! I want to try too!"
"Shut up Wooyoung!"
"Shut up all of you! Aish! Too noisy!"
"Shut up Taec you're being noisy too!"
"Changing the topic eh?" Minjun said.
"I'm not!"
"You all know that I already have a girlfriend. She'll be my date." Junho said seriously.
"I still don't have one.." Wooyoung said worriedly..
"Is that your girlfriend AJ?" Minjun asked.
"No.. she's my.."
"Ambie I missed you!" Torrey hugged Amber tightly.
"Get off Torrey, we just met yesterday." she said. "Uh, this is Torrey, my best friend." Amber introduced Torrey to her companions. She in return bowed to all of them and landed her eyes on Nichkhun.
"N-nichkhun....." she said, her eyes bulging in surprise.
"V-victoria... but you can call me Torrey..."
"What a beautiful name... Torrey." Nichkhun let go of her hands and smiled at her. Torrey looked like she ran out of breath.
"What? I -"
"I understand, I understand.. Bye!" she pushed Torrey away from Nichkhun. Then she rounded at Nichkhun and the rest. "Why are we still standing here? It's getting dark, let's go." she said, and she carried their bags again. They started walking, Nichkhun looking back at Torrey.
"I'll ride you home." Chance offered.
"Eh? I don't like.."
"Come on." he tugged Amber near him and smiled at the camera. Amber shrugged and slightly pouted. "Chance really -"
"On 3. 1, 2, 3!" he clicked the icon and looked at their picture. He smiled. Amber looked so beautiful with her jet black short hair and her little pout. "Perfect. Let's go!" he started the engine and went off.
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