Who would have expected that halfway through the party, only Wonyoung would be sober? The girl hasn't had a drink for several years. She was forced to do so by a past situation when she was going through a rebellious period and made rash decisions.
With terror in her eyes, she watches everyone else, including her youngest sister, who was in this state for the first time and drowned her fear in alcohol after she ran into the man who was stalking her.
It is true that a drunk person becomes an entirely different person and has no control over what he does.
Because how can you explain Niki sitting next to the unconscious Sunghoon, whom he has hated from the start because he is a scholarship student? He puts his arm around him, telling him to wake up because he will eventually take him to him place.
His behavior could be understood differently now. Deep down he likes him, but in front of others he pretends to hate him? Hence, the desire to care?
The absurd sight is the youngest sister, who is snuggling into Jake's arm, not wanting to let go. The boy rests his head on hers, nodding off.
- I feel so good with you, so free, as if I loved you in my previous life - the girl declares, without any embarrassment. - Why couldn't I fall in love with you? Why does it have to be that bastard? Because of him, I'm so unhappy...
The nineteen-year-old girl frowns, wondering who Sullyoon is talking about, but when her younger sister stares sadly at Niki, all doubts are dispelled.
She's shocked. She never expected this. How could it have escaped her attention before?
The strangest sight, however, is the hysterically laughing twenty-year-olds who, while talking about something, almost choke on laughter.
Wonyoung feels sad, so she stands up without even noticing herself. She walks through the dancing people and heads to the bathroom. She's tired and would like to go home, but judging by the people she's with, that might not be possible.
How will she manage them?
Ignoring everyone around her, she wants to go into the bathroom, but then her attention is drawn to the man standing opposite her, his back against the wall. With his head tilted forward, he's playing with something between his fingers, looking at her with a deadly, yet terrifying smile on his lips.
He is still here.
Wonyoung stands frozen, watching him with wide eyes. Someone comes out of the bathroom and slams the door on her, pushing her forward. She is apologized to by a drunk girl, and then she notices that the man is no longer there.
What is wrong with him?
- You're as delicate as a flower, and incredibly tasty. - He hears a voice in his ear. He turns around quickly and sees his tormentor. - Like once, Inha.
The name he says sends shivers down her spine. It's the same name she's been called in her dreams every night for a long time now.
- What do you want from us? Why did you pick on my sister? - she asks, looking him in the eye bravely. She is afraid, she is shaking inside, but she does not intend to show it. - Who are you?
- Someone who wants to get close to your sister - he replies cheekily.
Wonyoung slaps him, but when she pulls her hand away from him, she realizes that the man is freezing cold.
Overall... when you look at him, you see a male porcelain doll.
"Leave my sister alone. I'll kill you if you hurt her," she threatens him, looking at him with panicked eyes.
"Wonnie, I think I'll kill you before you do anything," he replies in an amused voice. "But I'm glad you're so temperamental."
- Does this amuse you?
"Of course," he replies more seriously, leaning over her. He looks into her eyes from a close distance. Wonyoung swallows harder, because she feels a terrible anxiety again. His gaze is strange, it seems to her that his eyes sometimes turn black, although usually, they are brown. "I find it amusing because your life so far will be more painful than the last," he adds, then claps his hands. "I can't wait for the whole truth to come out and your destiny to be painful..."
- What are you talking about? - Wonyoung feels like he's some kind of madman.
- Let's start the countdown... 3...2...1...
It disappears in the blink of an eye. The girl can't explain it. She would blame it on the alcohol, but for God's sake, she didn't even take a sip.
The whole situation makes her not want to use the bathroom, and she nervously returns to the others, grabbing her purse from the couch.
"Move it, now!" she shouts at them.
Niki obediently stands up, although he sways from side to side. He looks at Sunghoon with blurred vision.
- I have to take care of you, right? If I don't, your new friend, Somi, she'll leave you here.
Wonyoung doesn't pay much attention to it because the words she heard from that man are still echoing in her head.
She grabs her youngest sister by the hand and rips her out of his friend's embrace. She forcibly places her next to her, grumpy and unfocused.
- Yuna, Jake? - she turns to them. - Move, now.
- You won't be arranging my life, little sister. I'm staying with Somi and Jake. We'll party until the very end - the twenty-year-old girl answers her glumly. - Until the bright dawn! - she announces, raising her hands in the air.
- Great, then do whatever you want. You're adults. Just don't split up.
Heading for the exit, Wonyoung leads his drunk sister away, while Niki literally carries the semi-conscious Sunghoon.
In front of the club he places it on the sidewalk.
- Niki, what are you doing? Hold him! – the nineteen-year-old girl shouts at him.
- I'm the one taking care of him, not you, so don't tell me what to do! I can even drown him in the Han River!
- He won't go anywhere with you, no way...
- I'll go with Niki. - Drunk Sullyoon is an entirely different person. She pushes her sister away and cuddles up to her crush. Now that Wonyoung has figured out how her younger sister feels about him, she will never let them go out without the rest of their company.
Sunghoon lying on the pavement, and a feeling of concern fills her at seeing him so vulnerable, looking so wonderful even now in his death.
He crouches down next to him and touches his cheek with his hand. Sullyoon ignores it, snuggling up to Niki. The twenty-year-old boy, however, is good enough at communicating that he doesn't like the sight.
- Leave him alone! Don't touch him! I was taking care of him for most of the party!
"I wonder if you'd be taking care of him if you weren't so drunk, you idiot," she scolds. "You were throwing yourself at him a few hours ago."
"Because he's cute, and I'm jealous," he replies, smiling stupidly.
Wonyoung stops a passing taxi, thinking hard about what to do in this situation. She doesn't know where Sunghoon lives, and she has to take care of him.
Her sister is so wrapped up in Niki that there is no way she will let go of him.
- Where are we going? - she asks her friend.
- You go to your place, I'm taking the scholarship holder to mine.
- I will never allow that. I will not let him alone with you. I am worried that when I wake up, the news of his death will be the first thing I hear - she claims. - We are all going to see you. You bragged that your parents were out of town.
- Will we sleep in the same bed? - Niki asks her jokingly, with Sullyoon hanging on her arm, picking Sunghoon up from the sidewalk.
- No way! - the eighteen-year-old girl screams, hitting him on the back. - I sleep next to you.
They throw the unconscious Sunghoon into the back of the taxi, Wonyoung sits next to him, and his younger sister squeezes in next to her. Niki takes the seat in the front, next to the driver.
The car starts moving, and the eighteen-year-old boy's head falls onto Wonyoung's shoulder. She swallows nervously, feeling her heart start to pound. His proximity makes her bite her lower lip to keep from smiling.
***
The clock reads four in the morning as the remaining three leave the club laughing their heads off, their drunken behavior heard by the entire neighborhood. Jake, walking in the middle, is a raisin, embraced by two beautiful women.
- My dear ladies, did you know that the best friendships are between blondes and brunettes?
- So why did my friendship with Wonyoung end so tragically? - Somi asks, barely meeting her eyes.
This man is practically carrying them because they are in such terrible shape.
- Because you wanted me. I was your poison that destroyed your friendship. Handsome, charismatic Jake is every woman's weakness - he declares shamelessly.
- Somi, do you want him? - asks Yuna.
- Yes.
- Me too, even though he's a good friend of mine - the brunette girl says, laughing stupidly. - Do you think we can share him?
This sentence makes Jake's eyes widen, even though he is exhausted and drunk.
- Yuna, didn't you say a while ago that I could only dream about you?
- My friend, I was sober, and then I don't say what I think - she replies to him.
- But wait... - Somi reaches out her hand to touch Yuna. - But how do we share it? Do you want to cut it in half?
The twenty-year-old boy looks terrified at this point.
- What do you like more about him? The pretty face or the firm butt? – asks the brunette girl.
- There is a problem, because this and that.
- Damn, this is a serious issue.
- I've got a serious issue! - Jake shouts unexpectedly, pushing them away and running forward. - You won't take me by force! You won't cut me up alive!
The girls, wobbling, stand together, looking amused.
"Now that you started this, charmer, you won't get away from it that easily. You're ours," Somi says, giggling.
- The only woman I belong to is my mother!
A man passing by looks at him with pity in his eyes.
- Dude, you'll never get a girl into bed like that and you'll die a virgin.
- Do I look like a virgin?!" Jake shouts at him, blushing to his ears with anger. "All the chicks in town know me!"
The girls are having a blast. They all agree it's cute.
- Jake, hail a cab, and we'll figure out what to do next. You can't help being a cookie we want to eat - says Somi, amused.
When they sober up, most of them will be in total shock at what happened, but that night will make them look at themselves completely differently than before.