I try pulling the ends of my fur coat, covering my petite palms completely from the freezing weather. My nose is all pink and my winter breath is fogging my specs as I make way through the snowy road. Huffing and puffing the cold air, I was almost going to faint as I kept walking on the path that my mind subconsciously took me to.

I note that I am finally here.

I look at the Neon sign board gleaming,

Alice in Drunkenland

Sighing, I enter the bar clinging the wind chime at the entrance.

"Alice, I'm Back." I mumble before slumping down at the seat before the counter.

Alice was in her mid 20s and was the most zippy, high-spirited woman you've ever known to come across. She was full of energy Every single day. Like EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. You scream that in your head everyday imagining how a person could be so effortlessly happy. Well, I'm not tryna be the party pooper but I try being happy one second and poof! Something depressing happens the next second. It has just become 'the Usual for me now.
Welcome to the story of my life.

"..And don't even begin. Today's exam was the worst!" I sound so dull and breath out like my soul just left my body.

"YOU MAKE ME BEGINNNNNN" Alice screams all of a sudden and quickly looks at me squeezing her face. "Sorry, force of habit!" She says biting her tongue.

I give her a skeptical look having no idea what just happened. "Whatever" I say and drop my head on the bar counter slab.

"What? Not again! Jeez, I actually felt sorry for you crying last time but only to find out you lost Fucking TWO marks!" Alice roled her eyes.

"First of all, LANGUAGE." I say with an eye roll.

Second of all, I was expecting a Full score, okay?" I mumble still with my head hung low.

Alice sighed.

"Sweetie. Hey! Come on. Look up. Look here." She combed my ruffled hair away and made me look up.

"You are going to make it through. Dont stress yourself okay?" She coos to me gently.

I stare a second longer before nodding my head assuring myself the same.

We hear the wind chimes again with a gush of the winter wind that slashed through the door along with the person who just walked through it.

There stands Yea-ji, tall and with perfect curls of brunette. She wasnt smiling like Alice. Ive always seen her exhausted. Mostly drunk. But i preferred her that way. Cause the sober one was a total mess anyways. I guess she isnt high today. I can tell that with the way she kept looking at me and Alice, bouncing her eyes back and forth to the both of us.

And she stops at Me. Okay..

She rushes to me and i can already sense something bad. Pulls me from the seat, away from Alice.

"You have to do this for me." She whispers ever so softly.

"Well, Hello to you too!" Alice says with a growing confused look.

And i just stand there perplexed. What was Yea ji talking about? And how am i linked to whatever she was talking about? Before my mind wavers i look back to her, direcly meeting her gaze.

"What?" I whisper back with the same tone, with a shrug. Not because i was going to do whatever she was going to say. But curiosity took over me as to why would Yea-ji ask this,not to her long term bestfriend Alice but to me. Not that I am not her bestfriend, but we just know each other not longer than how long they both have known each other. I practically live with Yea-ji and Alice is just a Room away. We couldnt ask her to move in because she needed her space. Which I totally am okay with, owing to the fact that her room basically screams with all the Korean songs she daily listens to. But she does crash back at ours most of the time. So basically she was paying rent to another house just to listen to music in loud speakers? Weird.

Okay, so back to what was happening..

Yea-ji took a deep breath and held my shoulders tight. "Remember that blank promise you made me 5 months back. Im using it." She says eyes boring into mine.

What. OH NO NO. Yea-ji isnt the one to randomly use the only trump card she has against me. If she was going for it, this must be huge. What was so important that she had to use this now.

"Im still here!" Alice says squeeking her voice.

Yea-ji turns to Alice and couldnt look into her eyes. Weird Again. "Hai Alice" she finally voices out like Ross from FRIENDS, not wanting to extend this conversation any longer.

"AH! So I am NOT invisible?" She sighs dramatically and chuckles the next momemt. Maybe she mentally High-five'ed herself like she usually does.

Yea-ji turns to me again with desperation in her eyes. "I know your exams got over today. And that your next semester doesnt start for another month. I know you are completely free, so Do Not try to come up with an excuse." She grabs my shoulder a little tighter.

"I am not getting a good vibe here. Yeaji-ah, Can you stop beating around the bush and tell me what exactly?" I now face her and grab her hands that are on my shoulders.

She takes a deep breathe and I am already convinced im not going to like this.

"I'm taking a break from work. You know that nosy cousin i told you about? She's getting married. And i need to be there. So.. " she pauses and looks at me with an apologetic look.

"So?" I narrow my eyebrows.

"So i kind of put your name on proxy." Her eyes were squeezed by the end of her sentence.

"You did WHAT?" I raise my voice in utter shock.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Alice sounded even more shocked.

"You need to take my place in Bighit for a week. At the max. Please dont bail out on me!" Yea-ji rubbed the back of her neck keenly scrutinizing my expressions as to how i was reacting to what she just said.

"But... but... Yeaji-ah" I stumbled for words.

"You made a Blank promise, y/n. Sorry." She plotted the right time for this.

I knew it was going to be something ridiculous. But taking Yea-ji's place in her workspace was beyond insane. She was basically the Head of the Stylist department. Or atleast that's what i think. She heads a team of makeup artists in a huge company.

She works for a Boyband. They are pretty famous i guess. And Alice is Crazy for them. Wait.. Alice!

I turn and I see Alice with bloodshot eyes. She was literally.. Crying? Wait what!! It was rare Seeing Alice cry. Why would she cry?

"IM GOING TO KILL YOU" Alice literally threw herself onto Yea-ji.

They were already having a hair-pulling fight.
And there's me cursing myself for making an absurd promise months back.

I huff out dropping sluggishly on the seat burying my face into my hands.

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And here begins the Adventure. Lol.
Hey Y'all ! Finally up with a Bangtan story and finally decided to post it. I promise it'll get better. Lol.

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