Preview

At a noraebang in Hongdae, a room is bustling with music overpowered by laughter and shouts from twelve young men. They were partying to their hearts content after seven years of separation.

Four of them were standing up, holding microphones to their lips with some singing seriously while the other was playing around, making weird sounds to ruin the song.

“Wooo… Ahhh… Yiii… Yooo… I love, Byun BaekHyun!”

“Shut up, Park ChanYeol!”

“Get your own mic, Chen!”

“Oh c’mon! I can sing better than you, JoonMyun.”  

From the table that sat in the middle of the room, seven men occupied it. Five of them sat opposite each other, with four of them trying to get the other drunk. They were successful on their plan of getting the brown-haired boy wasted as the said man had been muttering gibberish words while the four of them laughed at him.

“You’re so drunk, hyung.”

“Heh! I’m not frunk, SeHunnie!”

“Frunk? Seriously what’s frunk, Yixing?”

“Pffft. You frunk, Kris?”

“What? Frunk? I don’t get it.”

“It’s because you’re a kid, Tao. You don’t understand things.”

“You’re so mean, MinSeok hyung!”

“Hey! I’m just joking! Come back!”

A man with light brown hair entered the room, almost bumping to the man who just walked out of the group of five. He stared at him in shock while the other looked so annoyed.

“Whoah. Where are you going?”

“I’m leaving this place, LuHan hyung.”

“Why?”

The said man ignored him and walked away, leaving him shrugging to himself. He settled down beside a reddish-brown haired boy, typing away on his laptop.

“What happened with Tao?”

“The dorks are being childish.”

“Oh… Jong In, shouldn’t you take that?”

“Nah… She’s just going to nag again.”

“Don’t tell me you’re getting tired of her?”

“Well…”

“Well?”

“No.”

“Even though it happens over and over again?”

“Yes.”

“Girls are like that. It doesn’t mean when you say sorry, everything would be fine. No matter how long that mistake was, they would still remember it.”

“Yes yes! Even if it’s just a simple thing, they would get mad and in the end, they would start stating things you thought was already forgotten.”

“Ahhh. The headache.”

“But come to think of it, no matter how difficult our lives when we’re with them, we’d rather go through it with them, than with someone else.”

Terms used:

*noraebang - karaoke box