Ten (1/1)

Chanyeol pulled into the gravel driveway. "Shit. Looks like the White House." he muttered as he pulled up behind Baekhyun's car. He was right. Park Chungho's "house" was more like a mansion. I heard the gravel crunching as D.O pulled up behind us. Ours were three out of twenty or so cars parked in Chungho's driveway, and around the large stone fountain in front of the house. The two grand oak front doors were wide open, casting a warm light onto the stone steps in front of the house. As we stepped out of the cars, I could hear a low beat  and the buzz of a definite party emanating from inside the house. Late comers like us were walking up the steps, towards the light. To say we were excited was an understatement. Kai and Chanyeol were pretty tight with the older kids at school, and we all knew senior parties were a whole other level. And this wasn't just any senior's party. This was Park fucking Chungho, captain of the football team, school heart throb, my ultimate crush's party. How, us lowly second year dorks got invited is beyond me. Well okay, I guess Chanyeol is pretty popular at school. Baekhyun is too... and Kai... and.. oh I guess we're not as derpy as I think we are... I don't understand how they don't see it. "All right, this party is going to be lit", Kai said gleefully, rubbing his hands together. Even Kora was laughing at Baekhyun's ridiculous moonwalk up to the house (he looked like a chicken walking backwards). The only calm and collected person amongst us was D.O. I don't know if it's just D.O being D.O, or if it was him dreading spending the next hours with Suhwa clinging onto his arm as she was now. My bestfriend 6th sense says its the latter. I stifle a laugh when he catches my eye. He looked borderline miserable. There must have been at least a hundred people in his house. Such a huge mansion, and it still looked full. I could see many seniors from our school, and also many from no doubt other schools in the area. Kai and Chanyeol were instantly swallowed into the crowd, fist-bumping every second person they saw. Baekhyun grabbed Kora by the arm and dragged her towards the dancing crowd. She didn't resist, in fact, she looked rather happy. I smiled to myself. They might bicker and fight 24/7, but they sure can be cute sometimes. I was so enthralled and in awe at the atmosphere in the house, I had completely forgetten that D.O and Suhwa were still standing beside me. "Oh my goodness, I see people from my old school!" Suhwa said excitedly, still holding onto D.O's arm. D.O. made an attempt to unlatch himself, but the girl has a grip like an octopus. "That's awesome, you can say hi to them, where are - " I started to say, but she let out a small shriek that made me jump in shock. "OH MY GOD! KIM MYUNGSOO!!!!" And before either of us could blink, she had bounded across the room and flung herself at this tall, dark-haired boy, apparently called Kim Myungsoo. D.O and I stared as they hugged rather intimately."What... the..." I said in shock. D.O was equally surprised. Next thing I know, they were full on snogging. I did another double take and felt my jaw drop to the floor. "What... the... heck???" I said again. D.O took one look at the snogging pair, then one look at my face, and burst into a fit of laughter."She... she.. what just happened?" I asked incredulously, gaping at Suhwa like a fish out of water."Long lost love perhaps? Ex boyfriend maybe?" D.O said between chortles, wiping tears from his eyes. "But... I thought she liked you!" I said still incredulous.D.O rolled his eyes. "Oh yes. I'm heartbroken" he said, dramatically clutching at his heart. I shut my mouth and threw him a dirty look. The sarcasm was strong in this one. I guess he really was fine with it... suspiciously happy even... that previous aura of misery had completely dissipated. "Come on, let's go find the others" he said happily, taking my hand and dragging me into the crowds. I still was recovering from mild shock.It was not a difficult task finding the gang. We simply followed Chanyeol's deep, booming voice over the rest of the noise. Soon enough we found them all at the back of the house. Baekhyun was on the table, dancing in the most kkap way possible, being the clown he is. The senior kids surrounding him were laughing their heads off, and Chanyeol was laughing the loudest. Kora appeared beside us, holding a drink in one hand. "There you guys are, where's Suhwa? How'd you dump her?" she asked looking around. "Uh... we didn't "dump" her..." I started, unsure what to say."More like she dumped us" D.O said, cracking up again, as if he said the funniest thing in the world."... She's over there...snogging some guy called Kim Myungsoo.... I think they have.. history..." I said weakly, pointing in the general direction of where Suhwa was. D.O laughed even harder when I said "history". Kora peered over my shoulder with a raised eyebrow. "What on earth..." she muttered. "Wow, she got over you fast Kyungsoo, the heaven's were kind to you. Dodged a bullet with this one" she said patting D.O on the shoulder. They both started cackling gleefully.I was too distracted by an approaching figure to reprimand them for being rude about Suhwa. You guessed it.Park Chungho. In all his glory, was walking towards us. Towards me.Before I knew it, the man himself was standing right in front of me, with the god-given smile on his face. "Hey" he said, in his low voice.OMG HE SAID HEY!!! Think Miyul!! Think! Say something smart!"Hey!" I squeaked. Damn it.. you turd. Why are you so lame. Be chill.. be CHILL....Luckily, Kora sensed my panic and jumped in smoothly."Sick party Chungho, thanks for the invite!" "No problem, glad you could make it" he said smiling still. He turned to me again."Miyul right?" he asked. "Y-yes" I said. Surprised was an understatement. My all time crush knew my name! And I could hear D.O's voice in my head saying he probably doesn't even know you exist. HA! TAKE THAT DO KYUNGSOO! But I guess I sounded a bit too surprised, because Chungho laughed and explained."I asked Chanyeol for your name. I couldn't have a cute girl come over to my own house and not know her name now could I? he said with a laugh and a wink.Okay. It's official. I've died and gone to Heaven. My life is peaking. He just called me cute. D.O snorted and very unelegantly disguised it as a cough. Luckily Chungho didn't seem to hear it. I ignored him. I was in cloud nine. Do Kyungsoo couldn't even sink this ship, not with a million snorts. "I see your friend has gotten a drink" Chungho said, nodding charmingly at Kora's cup in hand. "Where's yours? It's my famous jungle juice recipe, you should try it!" "Okay!" I said. Still struggling to form sentences longer than one word obviously. He could have been asking me to try some Ancienct Chinese herbal concoction and I still would have said yes. Chungho took my hand and led me towards the beverages table. As we were walking away, I turned around to see the reactions of my friends. Kora simply looked surprised. D.O was frowning. I guess the miserable aura had returned to him for some absurd reason. Maybe because Chungho didn't offer to get him a drink.  "Do you wanna dance?" Chungho asked me. I downed the drink in my hand in a couple of gulps (it was actually really delicious!), and agreed. Again, he led me to the dance floor by the hand and my heart was pretty much spasming like a sledge hammer against my chest. The party was in full swing now, and music was blaring loudly through speakers. We danced, and laughed and danced some more, it was getting really hot. At one point Chungho leant down and drew me closer. I could feel his hand on the small of my back for a second, but I unconciously twisted away, and he removed it. I guess I just wasn't accustomed to being so close to a guy before (well besides D.O... but that doesn't count)."You look really cute tonight" he said into my ear, over the loud music. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I made a mental note to thank Kora for the dress. My face flushed and I couldn't meet his eyes. My head was starting to spin. It was probably the heat. "Hey let's go sit down, I'm getting a little tired" I said, smiling up at him. Chungho agreed and lead me out of the crowd. As we made our way towards his group of friends sitting on the couches, I scanned the room for my friends. It didn't take long to spot D.O standing at the back of the room, arms crossed and still frowning. Kora was still with him and she looked like she was talking to him, but he simply stared at my direction, eyebrows knitting closer together by the second. What's got his knickers in a knot... I wondered. I shrugged. He was probably just hating on this party. It's not really his type thing. We are alike in this manner, but I was actually having fun tonight.   We sat on the couch amongst Chungho's friends. I guess they were Chungho's football team, because the conversation very quickly turned to football.... and stayed at football. I listened patiently. Fourty minutes passed.. and they were still talking football. I admit I was starting to get bored and started zoning out. The novelty of sitting with Chungho, looking at Chungho, listening to Chungho's deep voice was wearing off. I never thought this was even possible. But I suppose... it's because I know nothing about football. To me, it has always been a bunch of big guys knocking each other out. I prefer soccer, expecially after D.O explained it to me. Speaking of D.O... where was he? I scanned the room, I looked towards the back of the room, he was no where to be seen. I stood up suddenly, and Chungho looked up at me, mid sentence. "Uh.. I'm gonna go... get something to drink..." I said awkwardly. I guess I stood up too abruptly and interrupted their conversation. "Oh, do you want me to come with you?" he said politely, but I could tell he didn't really want to leave."No, no!" I said earnestly. "Stay where you are!" He nodded and turned back to his friends. I made my way slowly towards the beverages table... eyes unconciously scanning the room. Where was D.O? I took two cups and poured some of the punch I had before into them. Then I made my way through the crowds of people searching for Do Kyungsoo.I spotted Kora and Baek standing together in the corner, and waved them down. "Hey guys have you seen D.O?" I asked."He said he was going out for some air" Kora said pointing towards the front door. "Okay thanks" I said, turning to go. "Miyul  - " she called after me. I turned around again. She hesitated for a second and shook her head. "Nevermind." I shot her a questioning look, but she didn't say anything else and turned back to Baekhyun, so I shrugged and started making my way through the throngs of people.As I stepped outside, the noise from the party died down to a low buzz. The air outside was considerably cooler. I squinted out into the dark, looking for D.O and spotted him sitting on a bench under a tree by the side of the house. Suddenly, I felt a twinge of guilt, he looked kinda lonely sitting there all by himself in the dark. I skipped down the steps and crunched my way through the gravel with my two cups of punch.He looked up with the sound of my footsteps and raised an eyebrow. Don't ask me how I could see it through the dark. "There you are, geez, life of the party aren't you?" I said jokingly. "Here, I brought you some punch" I said, stuffing the cup into his hands, and sitting down beside him."What are you doing here?" he said in a low voice."I was looking for you!" I said taking a sip from my cup."Finally remembered me? Bestfriend of seventeen years?" he said, with a smirk. I couldn't see him very well through the dark, but I could hear a twinge of something in his voice behind the joke. Just couldn't put my finger on it. "What's up? You're not having fun?" I asked, genuinely concerned now. "You wanna go dance?" I asked, "I'll break out those dance moves from when we did dancing classes in middle school." I joked. He snorted. Okay good, he's fine. False alarm. I finished my drink. I was trying to cool down, but for some reason I was only getting warmer. I noticed he had placed his cup on the bench between us. "You don't want that? I'll have it, I'm so parched." I said, taking his cup and taking a huge gulp."I can't drink it" he said, "I'm driving." I stop mid gulp and stare at him wide eyed."What...?""I'm driving." he said again, in the faint moonlight filtering through the tree I could see the corners of his lips twitch with amusement."... But it's just punch right?" I said slowly."It's called jungle juice" he said shaking his head, "does that sound like punch to you?" I slowly lower the cup from my lips. It was all making sense to me now. My head spinning, feeling hot... I felt my face flush red. Thank goodness it was dark. I was legitimately embarrassed, how could I be so stupid, not even knowing the difference between punch and jungle juice. "I thought... it was just a fancy name... how was I to know...." I said weakly. D.O laughed and took the cup from my hands. "So I think you've had enough" he chuckled. "It's getting late. You wanna head? I'll drive you home." "Yeah...okay..." I said quietly, still mulling over my own stupidity. All the while, the effects were starting to kick in and I stood up gingerly, trying really hard to steady my spinning head. I made my way towards his car, taking unsteady steps. He followed suit laughing quietly.  ----------A/N: kkap = so energetic you are borderline annoying.New update! Hope you liked it :) HAHAHA Miyul doesn't know alcohol at all that noob. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND COMMENT IF YOU LIKE IT!!! <3 <3 Thanks for the support!