Dare. (1/1)

October 25/ Jonghyun’s POVKibum was out since he had schedules, but the four of us had nothing to do.“You know there’s something really odd about Kibum lately,” Onew-hyung said, out of the blue.In synch, we glanced at him.“Why?” I asked.“How come you said that, hyung?” Taemin echoed.“There are times when he’s in a really good mood and sometimes I feel like the world’s gonna blow up when he’s in a bad one,”“Ever since what we saw the other day?”“Well…honestly, it just became worse after that,”“Yeah and I catch him smiling for no reason at all then when I ask him, he’d reply with ‘mind your own business’,” I intoned with a little sigh. My yeobo’s been dumping me lately.“Well, I know you know who may be responsible for this,” Onew-hyung grinned.“But hyung, what if…wait, is it really like that?” Taemin asked in extreme bewilderment.“Let’s find out,” Minho stood up.“How?”We commenced our brain-storming, and then— Light bulb! “Aha! Let’s dare Kibum!” I slapped my fist against my palm and pointed  them.“How, hyung?”“As a penalty for a game,”“What game?”“I propose a game of pool,” I eyed Minho.“Aw, but he beat me once in that…oh well. It was only luck,” he shrugged.“Are you sure about this, hyung?” Maknae looked like he shrank.We just smiled at him. The next day/Le Diva’s POV“Um…okay?”“No, really.”“What’s wrong with you, that you brought me here?” I asked Minho as we walked towards our billiards-pool. “Haven’t you learned from the first time?”He handed me a long stick. “I’m just bored,”“Oh, really,” I snickered. “And what if I lose?”“Let’s just put it this way,” he put the balls in the triangle. “The losing player will have to do something,”“Look if you want something from me just say so,” I said, rolling my eyes.“Let’s play,” he ignored me and rubbed the tip of his stick with the chalk. October 29/HyunMi’s mind “Sorry. Bye.”Was the last thing I received from Kibum. I haven’t seen him for the last…one, two, wait. Three days already? And he hasn’t even called or even text me. I know he’s busy, but ignoring me—not visiting or even just a message saying what he’s doing, whether he can come or what… WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? We’re going to start the painting in a few weeks and we need to practice! It’s not that I miss him, well…not really. But hey! He’s like, obliged to come here! Even when he wasn’t able to visit me he’d call to say it! Damn… WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!Ugh. Whatever. I’ll just go downstairs and grab something to munch. If he doesn’t want to see me, fine!JJONG’S POVSix days.Six days was the allotted time Kibum wasn’t allowed to see HyunMi, nor call or message her.It was supposedly three days, but hard loser Kibum would not accept defeat and demanded another round. He lost again, so the penalty got doubled.To make sure that he wouldn’t contact HyunMi while the penalty was effective, we swapped phones. Sure, Key-goon is an honest person, but we just felt like doing it. We more or less exercised sadism on this one.As I watch him every time, he just looks normal, but it was visible that he’s gotten moody. He’s most of the time cross, and just when we thought his nagging couldn’t get any worse—well, we stood corrected on this one. Poor Taeminnie was the usual victim of the perpetual vexing of his umma. Sometimes we regret why we even dared him.All of us knew of the dare, but we made it look like it was just Minho who started it. But of course, it didn’t really work. Nonetheless, we forced ourselves to act normal while it’s going on, and not making it obvious that we were enjoying this.KEY’S MINDThe dare was fine with me, and I went on with my usual life, just before HyunMi came. But everyday feels incomplete. I’m aware of the fact that I won’t see and communicate with her will devastate her, and it pretty much makes me want to dash off and do otherwise. But I can’t. They seem to be playing with me, and my defense mechanism is to not make it obvious that I was being affected by the dare. I was looking at the pictures taken in the mansion, and most of so contained my partner. What a camwhore. Then I realized, some of hers were sneakily taken by me. Some pictures were her selcas, and we had a couple of ours, and I compiled them all in a folder, and they were quite many.All of a sudden her memories revolved in my head. So many things we’ve done in less than a month, I thought. I found myself smiling, then I was attacked by intense sadness when I heard in my mind something she said once:“I’ll be back as soon as this is over.”I felt like I was running out of time. Two months is not enough. After this contest, she’s going to leave. After that, what?I put my head face-down on the table. Moments later, my throat felt painfully tight, a cloudy liquid was blocking my sight, and the next thing I knew, there was something wet on my cheek. October 31/HyunMi’s POV“HyunMi-ssi…eat something,” So Eul unnie tapped my hip with a pleading voice as I lied on my bed face-down.“Unnie… I think I’m going crazy,” I said in a rough voice from under the covers.She heaved a sigh. “He’ll be back, HyunMi-ssi. He’s just busy,”I removed the cover and shifted my position. “How come you know about this?”“Of course I do. We all do.”“Do you know why he’s not here?”“I’m sorry but, no. Plus, you’re too obvious,”“Obvious?”“Obvious that you miss him.”I growled. “AWW UNNIIIIIEEEEE!” I felt my cheeks burn. “EWW! OF COURSE NOT!”She stroked my hair. “Gwaenchanayo, I miss Kikwang sometimes when he’s not around.” I was about to poke her tummy in teasing but she instantly added, “I mean, in a way I feel for my brothers. I found myself a very good friend in him,”I compared our situation to theirs. All I could remember were the fights, skirmishes, pillow fights. But this was our partnership’s foundation—not in a bad way; this was what brought Kibum and I closer to each other.“Gotcha,” Unnie winked.“Mwoh?”“Your brows are all scrunched up together. And you look sad. I won’t speak of it anymore, HyunMi. But I know  what that is,”“What’s what?”“You want me to say it?” she smiled.“Um…okay?”She leaned in close to my ear, and whispered the word. ------------------------------------300+ views... whoa O__e