Jonghyun's POV

Stupid Key declared that we all have to wear the same costumes we wore today tomorrowon Halloween.  Hell no!

It was embarrassing in those suits!

.....then again, Nikka said I looked cute. :)

But she also mentioned that I look like a dinosaur without the costume, which made me chase her during lunchtime.

I didn't know yesterday that the pep rally was of some football game later on in the nighttime.

I also didn't notice until the last second that a photographer was taking pictures of me finally catching Nikka in my arms and hugging her from the back side.

I thought it'd look sweet, but then again it'd look really erted.

A 21 year old man in a dinosaur suit chasing after a 17 year old girl in a schoolgirl outfit.

How pedo is that. =___=

Anyways, we all ended up going to the football game in the evening because Nikka and Connie had to come since they're in band.

They also had to march in their costumes, which caused the outfits to get sweaty later on.

Lucky them!  Today Key just announced that those 2 would get to wear different Halloween outfits!

Going back on the subject, I noticed the same photographer taking pictures of only me with Nikka, or everytime I'm closer to her. o_O

Who the f*** is following us?

I know he's not a Shawol, otherwise he would've taken a picture of the rest of SHINee.

....is he a stalker?

AH!  LET'S NOT MIND HIM!  LET'S STICK TO THE PRESENT!!!

Today is Nikka's friend Eunhye's birthday, so she's going to her house to give her a present.

Right now I'm walking with her to Eunhye's house.  I'm her best penpal buddy - I need to know where she goes and who is friends with her!

And, no, I'm not a stalker. -__-

Nikka happily skips beside me and I look down a bit at her.

My first thought is:  Yay!  I'm taller than her by a few inches!

My second thought is:  Wow, look at her.  She's so pretty....

It was then I realize we match like a couple.  Her outfit is gorgeous whereas mine is awesome!  We really do look like a pair!  I smiled at the thought of us as a couple.

Wait - a couple?

Nonononono - she's just a friend. Just a friend.... right?

I continued to shake my head but stopped immediately when I noticed Nikka was staring at me like I'm some crazy maniac.

"You okay?" she asked.  My eyes widened at what she just said.

"Yeah! I'm okay!"  Her head tilted to the side.

"Are you sure...?"  she asked again.  This time I stopped us from walking any further and placed my hands on her shoulders.

"Nikka, you're speaking in Korean!"  I exclaimed proudly.

She merely smiled at me and shook her finger.  "No, correction!  I can only speak little Korean~"

"But still!  When did you start learning?"

She shrugged and replied, "Last night after the game and when you guys went to the hotel."

"Ah~ I see.  Work on your pronunciation a little bit more, and I think you'll do just fine naturally speaking in Korean."

She playfully punched me in the arm.... which hurts by the way. T_T

"Yah!  This is America!  Why would I speak in Korean naturally?"

Then she stopped walking, causing me to follow suite.  We both looked up at a simple green and white house.

"This is Eunhye's house."  she breathed out.  For some reason, she looked like she was freaking out.  Why would she?

We both walked up to the steps and rang the doorbell.  After a couple of minutes, the door flung open and a skinny girl who was a centimeter taller than Nikka appeared before us.

Omona, this girl looks drunk. O.O

She was in her basic party outfit and giggling at the boy next to her.  She was also holding a bottle of vodka.  Okay...?

Nikka showed a pained expression towards her friend. [Note:  This entire conversation is in English.]

"Eunhye, where'd you get that bottle?!" she shrieked.

"Where the hell have you been?!  Don't you remember I always keep one at the top shelves of the kitchen?!"  Okay, where is this girl's parents?!

"Where are your parents?!"  Oh.  Nikka asked what I was thinking.

Eunhye rolled her eyes at Nikka.  "Whatever, they left somewhere for errands at work.  Let's party~!"   Wow.  She's so bipolar...

She grabbed Nikka's arm and dragged her into the wild party at the back of her house.  Sure enough, there were people drinking beer and laying around randomly on the ground.  I think one of her friends threw up. Ew.

I watched carefully as Nikka pulled her arm away from Eunhye's grasp.  She looked around the dance floor outside and realized what I've been seeing.  She checked her watch and looked back at Eunhye dancing like a freak.

She took a deep breath and sighed.  It seems it took her enough courage to pull her best friend away from the dance floor and back into the den of the house.  I followed the two quietly and tried to hide from the other female guests.

Honestly, they're young and they scare me with their short skirts and beer cans.

Again, where did they get these things?!

I looked around the empty den.  Only the 3 of us are here - Eunhye, Nikka, and me.

Eunhye glared at Nikka.  "What's your problem, Nikka?"

"What's my problem?!  Dude, it's 6:08p.m.!  What if you get caught by the cops?!  When Jonghyun and I walked over here, we kept seeing cop cars drive past us - "

"Wait!  Who's Jong-Jong wha?"  Damn, this girl is drunk!

I coughed lightly for their attention.  Both girls turned their heads to look at me, each with a different expression.

Nikka looked at me with an apologetic look.  Eunhye looked at me like I'm going to be her dinner.

I don't want to be her dinner. T_T

The drunken girl walked towards me, but Nikka rushed over and blocked herself in front of me.  What's going on?

"Dammit, Nikka!"  Eunhye cried out in frustration, "Why the f*** do you always have to get what you want?!  Don't you know no one wants you?!"

I saw Nikka's body tense up from that last sentence.

The continued on.  "F***, I understand you like guys but do you have to be so clingy?  Everyone's just friends with you because they feel sorry for you!  I bet this random guy even feels sorry for you, don't ya?  Hey you, I'm talking to you!"  Oh God, she wants me to speak?  Well, I've got some English words for her to hear....

"F***.  OFF.  B****."  I calmly yet tensely said to Eunhye.  She literally gaped at me with her jaw flung open.

Nikka looked back at me with her tears nearly spilling out of her eyelids.  She did NOT just make my penpal cry!

I glared at Eunhye.  "Nikka's not clingy.  She likes being close to guys because she prefers to hang out with them more.  I don't know who you are, but if you really consider Nikka as your best friend, then why hasn't she told me about you?  And no, I'm not just some random person who heard about YOUR party just to get drunk and f*** other people.  And I don't feel sorry for her, because she MY best friend.  Got it?  So stay away from her!  Gosh!  I bet SHE feels sorry for YOU, and that's why she's still friends with you!"

Both Eunhye and Nikka stared at me with wide eyes and jaws flung open.  Nikka immediately closed hers as she realized almost half of Eunhye's drunken guests overheard my loud scolding.

Oh boy....

Eunhye glared at me and drank the remaining contents of her vodka.  After she was done, she looked at Nikka with stern yet glossy eyes. 

Aish~  is she trying to cry to get sympathy?

"Nikka,"  she started out, "is this true?  Did everything this f***hole say is true?"  Did she just call me a f***hole?!

I watched Nikka move forward to Eunhye, but she backed off.

"B****!  HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!  I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR BEST FRIEND!" she yelled then scoffed at Nikka.  "You know what~?  I should've known - you were never there for me-"

"WELL YOU WERE NEVER THERE FOR ME!"  Nikka yelled at Eunhye.  That grabbed a few sober people from the front door of the house to come into the den.

Nikka's voice sounded like she was about to crack, but she remained firm and strong.  "What the hell happened to us after 1 year of being friends?  You slowly gained new friends and decided to hang out with them more than with my presence around.  What happened to us after 3 years since we've started being friends?  You drifted away from me and we rarely hang out.  The year after that?  You and your friends always pulled the nastiest pranks on me.  And now?"

Nikka paused and moved slowly closer to Eunhye's ear and whispered loudly, "And now.... can you really say your my loyal friend after saying all those things about me?"

That led a tear to drop from Eunhye's eyes.  "N-Nikka...."

Nikka moved backwards and faced me.  She gestured for me to follow her to the front door of the house.  I was about to follow when Nikka stopped walking halfway towards one of the doorways out of the den.  She turned to look at Eunhye.

"Oh, by the way," she pulled out from her pocket the small bracelet in a fancy box that I saw her working on it during the game last night.  She threw it at Eunhye direction, which she catched.

Eunhye looked at the small box in her hands and looked at Nikka.  "Happy birthday, Eunhye."  she calmly greeted and brushed herself away from the crowd around the doorway.  I quickly followed behind, hearing Eunhye cry out, "Nikka!  If you walk out on me right now, we're no longer friends!"

That b**** still talks after the cool burn that Nikka just gave her?!

I watched Nikka freeze right after Eunhye said that, but she simply looked down at the ground and kept on walking away from the house.

About a block away, I checked behind me, and sure enough there was a cop car slowing down in front of Eunhye's house.

That's what that b**** gets after everything that happened and was happening before we arrived.

When we've turned a corner and reached the second block, that's when Nikka slowed down her pace and I heard a whimper ahead of me.  I rushed towards her and pulled her into a hug.

"It's okay, you can cry."  I told her, and she did so against my chest, which was now wet.

I patted her back and slowly drew circles on it to calm her down a bit.

A few minutes later, she managed to calm down and pull away.  I wanted her near me, so I held her hand the whole way back home.

I didn't want to let her go, plus I didn't want to show her parents that she cried (maybe her father will think it's because of me...) so we walked to the hotel SHINee is staying at in incognito.