Fireworks. (1/2)

FIREWORKS ~~Dec. 31, New Year's Eve 10:30PM~~

Bernice had just connected her laptop to her TV, getting ready to watch all the videos she had loaded of her favorite group, Infinite. Well, she was spending New Year alone, might as well have fun right? …Right.

She was watching the performance of her favorite song, “Can U Smile”, when there was an urgent knock on the door. Sighing, she paused what she was watching and smiled when she saw that she paused it at the exact time the camera was focused on her bias and love, Lee Sungyeol.

Getting up from the couch, she walked over to the front door of her apartment and opened it …and blinked. Once, twice, making sure she wasn't hallucinating. She pinched herself, but that only resulted to tears springing into her eyes. No, the boy with the big smile and red-tinged eyes was still there.

"S-su-sungyeol?" She finally managed to stutter out, looking back and forth from the idol on her TV in the living room and the one right in front of her. Yes, it was him, there was no denying it. She was suddenly conscious of her outfit, being just in boxers and a giant t-shirt.

Until...

"Heeeeyyy you..." Sungyeol slurred and swayed a bit. He gave her a lopsided grin as he leaned against the doorframe.

"A-are you drunk?" Bernice asked the grinning boy. 'Great, my bias turns up at my door and he's drunk.' She thought. She didn't know whether to feel disappointed that he was drunk and probably won't remember anything about her or happy just by the fact that he was there.

"Hmm? I don't know. I don't re-re-remember." He slurred again, hiccupped once and giggled. "Aren't you going to invite meeeee iiiiiin?" was the last thing he said before he sort of just fell forward.

Bernice was able to snap out of her shocked state and react before her bias face-planted onto her apartment’s floor.

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?’ She asked herself. She dragged Sungyeol, who was in her arms, to her couch, barely able to support his weight. She laid the unconscious boy on her couch and just looked down at his sleeping form, not really knowing what to do next.

Sungyeol shivered in his sleep and Bernice had just decided to go get him a blanket when a phone rang. She looked around. It wasn't her house phone and she knew her cell phone had a different ring tone…Her eyes then zeroed in to the slightly glowing pocket of Sungyeol's pants. ‘Crap’ she thought.

Trying her best not to wake him up, she slowly reached into his pocket, ignoring how fast her heart beat when she did so. She looked down at his phone in her hand and checked the caller I.D.

'Whiny Little Girl'

Confused, she pressed the green answer button and put the phone to her ear.

"Yeoboseyo?" She asked.

"SUNGYEOL!" The person on the other line screamed. Bernice recognized the voice of her other idol and Sungyeol’s fellow band member, Sungjong. She tried not to laugh out loud at what she read on the caller I.D. and answered calmly,

"Um no, sorry, this is Bernice."

"Who are you?! Where's Sungyeol?!"

"I'm Bernice? And he's here, passed out on my couch."

"Omo! Did you drug him?!"

"Bwoh?! No! He turned up at my door DRUNK and slurring. He nearly face-planted outside my door too! What was I supposed to do, let him sleep there?!"

"Oh. Oh okay. Thanks then? Um, Bernice?"

"Yeah?"

"Do youknow who Sungyeol is and who I am?"

"You guys are from Infinite." She answered and looked towards the still paused performance on her TV.

"Right...Are you an Inspirit?" He asked, sounding kinda nervous and Bernice understood why.

"Yes. But don't worry. I won't do anything to him. I'm not one of the really crazy fans. I won't tell anyone either."

"Oh okay. Tha--YAH!"

"Yeoboseyo?" A new voice asked from the other line, a voice that Bernice recognized as no other than Sunggyu, the leader of Infinite.

"Hi...My name is Bernice and yes Sungyeol is here in my apartment. He turned up here drunk and then passed out so I put him on my couch. Yes, I'm an Inspirit. No, I will not do anything to him or tell anyone. Promise." She said, before he could ask her anything.

"…O-oh. Oh okay. Look, can we really trust you? We're still at the party and most of us are not good to drive anymore so can we just pick Yeol from your apartment—Yah! Hoya! Get off me! Dongwoo, can you get him!—uhm, tomorrow afternoon?"

"Y- yeah. Sure."

"Okay thanks, just text us your address from Yeol's phone."

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye."

He hung up and Bernice puffed her cheeks. 'I have Sungyeol for the night. He’s in my apartment, on my couch. He'll be picked up from my apartment tomorrow afternoon. His band members were going to come to my house. INFINITE IS COMING TO MY HOUSE. Okay then.' She thought, or more like ranted in her head. She wanted to scream and hyperventilate but she knew that wouldn't do anything except wake up Sungyeol.

After finally fetching that blanket that she was supposed to get earlier, she sat down in front of her couch. She lowered the volume of the TV and continued watching the Infinite videos. The fact that one of the boys on her screen was behind her, fast asleep, never left her mind.

Her other favorite song, “Amazing”, came next. She was watching it and swaying slightly when she heard a weird sort of humming coming from behind her. It was in tune, if not a bit messed up in some parts.

She turned her head to look behind her and found Sungyeol awake. He was looking at her with half-lidded eyes. She could hear the chorus of “Amazing” playing behind her but only had eyes for the drowsy boy who was still staring at her.

Sungyeol suddenly reached a hand out and tucked a stray strand of hair back behind Bernice's ears and kept his hand there, cupping her face. He suddenly opened his mouth and sang her favorite line of the song, in perfect time to the TV version of himself,

"eojjae jeojjae nami dwingoya~"

Even though the lyrics didn't really make sense to her at the moment, given the fact that they really were strangers, she was touched nonetheless, it was her favorite line of the song after all. She relaxed into his palm and continued to watch as he hummed the end of the song to her.

"Aren't you a fan? B-but why haven't we met before?" Sungyeol said as he suddenly stopped humming and wondered out loud, running his thumb down her cheek.