Two months earlier
Geum Jandi was walking to the cafeteria after finished her very long and tiring Advance Biology class.
"Jandi!" a voice called. Jandi stopped and turned her head to find Oh Minji was jogging toward her.
"I've been calling you, why don't you answer?" Minji pouted. Jandi had been friend with her since Minji entered this school a year ago. Her family moved from Seoul after they took over electronics factory in town where Jandi lives. Unlike Gaeul, Minji was so spoilt like rich kid should be. But she wasn't really bad at all.
"Sorry Minji, I didn't hear you. You wanna eat? I'm heading to cafeteria" Jandi said and Minji nodded at her "Sure."
They walked together and found empty seats near the burger stand. They both ordered burger and water. Jandi couldn't wait to eat, her stomach had been grumbling like crazy. She quickly took a large bite after the waiter gave her food she had ordered.
"Gosh, I'm hungry." Jandi said while munching the burger. Jandi was eating eagerly like there was no tomorrow.
Minji could only watch Jandi amusingly. "Yah, calm down! They won't go anywhere." Minji said tapping tha table.
"Jandi, don't you think that's not fair, you eat like a bashee, i mean a lot but you don't get any fats on your body. I don't know what's gonna happen to me if I eat the way you do." Minji added checking on her overly skinny body. Any girl would kill for body like hers.
"Studying Chemistry and Biology need more calories you know." Jandi said absently.
"Yeah, you right!" Minji said "Maybe I should study more seriously."
And what then? If Minji studied just like Jandi, there would be only bone and skin with her. "Yeah, you should!" Jandi nodded agreeing to what her friend just said. Jandi was in the mood for joking.
"Jandi!" Minji exclaimed then went quiet. Someone definitely was not in the mood.
Jandi smiled and said "Sorry" with her mouth full of food, but Minji was still pouting. Jandi started to worry. Jandi immediately swallowed her food before she said. "Minji, I said sorry." She reached Minji's hand on the table.
Minji turned away sighing before she faced Jandi again. "Jandi, can I ask you something?"
That was good sign, right? Jandi sighed too and removed her hand from the table. "What?" Jandi said spinning the water bottle to open the lid.
"Miranda, Ginger, and Sunny invited me to come to her party tonight." Minji explained.
"Wow… Good for you!" Jandi said sarcastically. She knew how Minji always wanted to be part of that gang. Who wanted to be like them? Always partying never thought about school. Jandi wondered if every girls in this country acted like them this country would be doomed.
"But the party is at Seoul. You know my parents will not allow me to go." Minji said sadly.
"So…?!" Jandi asked. It didn't mean that she cared.
"I need you to go with me. My parents will say okay if you go too. Okay? Please..." Minji plead.
"But I have test tomorrow I have to study and it's at Seoul. Two hours of taking MRT. Sorry Minji. No! Nada!" Jandi waved her hands disagreeing with Minji.
"Jandi, please…! We will go with my driver so we won't be late also you can study on the way." Minji was pleading and trying her best to make Jandi agreed. Please… Please… Please..."
After seconds of thinking Jandi finally said. "Fine, let's go."
"Really?"
Jandi nodded "Yess!"
Minji hugged Jandi "I will pick you at five. Wear anything you like they said it's casual party." Minji said cheerfully "I have to go. Bye Jandi." Minji left Jandi alone. Jandi looked at Minji's food which she didn't bother to eat.
Jandi shook her head, amused by her friend sudden change. One moment she was mad, and then voila she was all happy. Jandi smiled and quickly forgot Minji's antics.
They arrived at Seoul after two hours' drive. Jandi was just wearing her shirt with T-shirt in it and jeans. But to her surprise Minji wore a sexy dress, too much for something casual. It wasn't fair that the dress fitted Minji so well and made her looked beautiful.
"You said it was casual?" Jandi asked.
"I can't help it Jandi. It's a party." Minji said checking her already perfect make up on her compact.
"Whatever!" Jandi said turning back to her book. She was glad she could bring her book, so that she could study. She didn't want to flunk at the subject. She too was gratefull that she didn't have to have people staring at her reading that book of hers which was really big, it probablly had five thousand pages.
"Nerd." Jandi thought she heard Minji said. Jandi wanted to say something but the driver cut her.
"We're here Miss!" The driver informed the girls "I will park the car nearby. You may call me when you need me."
The girls climbed down the car, actually it was luxurious expensive limo, yeah Minji owned her own limo plus the driver, and even she went to school with it. Wasn't that crazy? Jandi guessed it wasn't crazy if your father was electronic company owner.
Jandi on the other hand was the opposite of Minji. Didn't mean that she was poor, no she wasn't at all. Jandi never had any financial problems. Her parents had left enough money for her to live without even working. That was what her brother, Woobin, always said. He told her not to worry about money, all she had to was study really hard and be the best doctor in this country and she was so eager to prove it to her brother.
"Here we come!" Minji chirped.
"What?! Minji you didn't say we're going to a club." Jandi's eyes widened looking at the neon lights. 7Heaven was famous club in the country and mentioned as a place you must visit when you're at Seoul at some TV programs. Too bad not all people would be allowed to enter. You must be rich enough to enter. By the meaning of rich it meant really rich like Minji or Miranda or Ginger or Sunny.
"I didn't?" Minji said nonchalantly didn't bother to say sorry "Jandi how do I look?" She posed like one of the model from tha magazine.
"Good" Jandi said rolling her eyes. Gosh, Minji had already checked her reflection for God knew how many.
"Thanks, here is the invitation." Minji handed her invitation "Let's go!"
Minji walked to the guard and gave her invitation. He easily let her in so Jandi followed.
Jandi was taken aback when she saw the guard closer. He looked scary. She forced herself to smile but came out as awkward smile "Good night." Jandi said awkwardly handing her invitation to the guard.
"ID please!" the guard said with scary voice.
"I come with the girl that you just let her in. I go to university with her ad we're at the same year." Jandi explained.
"Nice try little girl, I got that a lot. Even you had the invitation still I cannot allow a school girl like you. You must be over twenty to enter. How old are you seventeen?" The guard mocked at her.
"What?! Fine!" Jandi was furious. She grabbed her bag pack and fished out her ID. "Here!" she shoved her ID to the guard. He checked her ID and raised one of his eyebrows looking disbelieved of what he saw.
"Satisfied?!" Jandi smirked at him.
"Wait, I have to check for its authenticity. Kids these days, they will do anything." The guard left Jandi there with her eyes widened. What was wrong with the guard?
The guard came back few minutes later. "Come on in, sorry for the inconvenience. I was just doing my work."
"Sure, fine!" Jandi entered when the guard opened the door for her. At least he knew how to say sorry.
Jandi entered the dim lights of the club and finally understood why the place was famous. It wasn't like club she ever saw on TV. Yeah, she never went to a club before. Just watching it on TV was enough for her to not go.
Jandi searched for Minji and found her with a group of popular girls from university. Jandi looked around and found any familiar face. The party definitel was too exclusive. Wait, what kind of party the had any way? Jandi scolded herself in her head for not checking the invitation.
"Jandi!" Minji waved at her and Jandi waved back. Jandi walked toward the group. "Jandi we're playing games, it's really fun. Come on join us" Minji grabbed her hand and made Jandi sat near her.
"Okay let's start again." One of the girls held the bottle. Jandi never saw her at school, maybe she was a junior. The girl spun the bottle. Its head pointed to Minji when it stopped.
"Dare!" Minji said excitedly.
"Drink this!" Sunny handed Minji a bottle of beer and she drank it in one shoot. What the heck? Jandi gulped looking at her friend. Minji just drank it as if she was drinking water from its bottle.
"Whooo…" Minji exclaimed "It's my turn to spin" the bottle kept spinning and Jandi was shocked when it pointed at her.
"But… I didn't play." Jandi said.
"Are you idiot? You're sitting here it means you play." It was Miranda. She pretended coughing and muttered "Coward" made Jandi furious. Did she just call her idiot? She was for from idiot, didn't mean to boast but her straight As transcript could prove that she was far from idiot.
"Fine!" Jandi said. She knew she shouldn't get affected by their comments. But her pride got the best of her.
"Dare or Dare?!" Gingger snapped in.
Jandi raised her brows. "What? Wait! Wasn't it supposed to be truth or dare?" Jandi innocently said. So, who was the idiot?
Sunny then commented. "Sorry but your secret is not important for us! We already knew you by the way you look." She looked at her up and down mouthed "Loser" and all the girls were laughing at her even Minji did too. Somehow that hurt her feeling.
Jandi gritted her teeth. "Fine! Bring it on!"
"Drink it!" Sunny pointed at the bottle just like Minji just had.
"No way in hell I will drink that!" Jandi refused.
"Guys, I have an idea." One of the girls that Jandi didn't know said. "What about she stands there?" The girl pointed to the spot near to where Jandi had entered. "She must ask the first guy who enters to buy her drink."
"Agree!" Jandi said before they even agreed, few more minutes whit them would make her crazy. She left the girls as soon as possible. She was almost there when she realized something. She walked back to the group and asked "How long I should stay?"
"Are you idiot or someting? Just wait until a guy walks in!" Miranda answered.
What?! Did she just say that?
Jandi rolled her eyes. "Look, what if there isn't any guy enters this club? Should I wait until morning?"
"You got the point." Miranda admitted. "Fifteen minutes then you done."
Jandi stood for almost ten minutes but no one seemed to enter, except for two girls who wore transparent dress, Jandi thought she saw their underwear. "Great, five more minutes and done." Jandi muttered wavim pom pom in her head.
Her too early celebration was disturbed when Jandi saw a guy entered. The dim lights made her hard to see his face but she could see that he was busy talking to his phone. She didn't mean to overhear what he said, she just couldn't help it. "Show her what you made of." Then he laughed. Gosh, she loved the sound of his laugh.
"Okay I won't bother you guys anymore." He ended the call and pocketed his phone.
"Wait!" Jandi called when he walked pass her. The guy stopped and turned to her. Jandi was stunned by the way he looked, he was handsome. No. He was more than that. He was tall, maybe six two, definitely towering her only five four, almond shape eyes, strong jaw, the only thing bothered her was his curly hair, but weirdly it fitted him to well.
"Ehm…" The guy cleared his throat. It startled her. Jandi blushed knowing he had caught her staring. "Did you talking to me?" he continued.
Jandi nodded "Buy me a drink!" she said suddenly.
The guy smiled showing his dimples. Gosh the guy was too perfect, complete package, it wasn't fair. "And what?! Got me jailed for making under age drink. What are you seventeen?" Of course everyone had flaw.
Okay, Jandi took back what she had just said about him. The guy definitely was a total jerk. His all good features couldn't cover his jerkiness.
"I'm not seventeen, and I'm old enough to drink." Jandi said angrily, she had enough with the guard about her age issue.
"Kids these days." The guy gave his annoying but weirdly nice lough according to Jandi.
Jandi was getting out of her patience she had no idea what to do. "Please…" Batting her lashes, Jandi showed him her very best pleading look that even her brother couldn't say no to it "My friend dare me to ask any guy who enter to buy me a drink and…" It worked! The guy looked speechless. Way to go Jandi, she praised herself. But she reminded herself to not get her hope up.
Jandi waved her hand in front of his face, "Hey…" The guy didn't respond so she tried again. "Hey… I will pay my drink just…" Jandi was cut when the guy grabbed her wrist and dragged her to bar table.
The guy sat on the chair and talked to the bartender "Hi, Marco!"
Meanwhile Jandi had problem sitting on the chair, the chair was too high for her. Jandi watched the guy smiled looking at her, she was almost giving up but he lifted her to her chair like she was nothing. "Thanks." She said but he ignored her, he talk to the bartender instead.
"Hi man, long time no see. How have you been?" The bartender said.
"I've been busy." The guy answered shortly. By the way they interacted they must know each other.
"I'll leave first." Another guy beside Jandi said, she didn't notice him before. "When will you go home?" The guy said.
"Just wait at home baby, you look tired." The bartender leaned and kissed the guy on the lips. Jandi gasped and blurted "You guys are…?"
"Yess, honey we are!" The bartender said, he didn't seem mad "Bye Baby." The other guy then left.
"So, new boyfriend?" Thecurly guy asked. Jandi was still in awe.
"Yeah, going on six months." The bartender cheerfully said "So, who is this pretty girl?"
"Jandi, Geum Jandi" Cheerfully Jandi offered her hand and the bartender took and kissed it. "Nice too meet you miss Geum, call me Marco!" The bartender winked. Jandi nodded frequently, she definitely liked the bartender.
"Give her orange juice." The guy told the bartender.
"Why…?" Jandi protested. "I told you I'm old enough to drink. Give me tequila!" Jandi said to bartender. She didn't even know what tequila was, she just heard it from TV. They would order that drink in club like this.
"Yah! I'm buying here and you are not allowed to drink that." The guy said.
"I told you I'm not seventeen!" Jandi took her ID and handed it to the bartender "Look!" actually she despised the idea of drinking. It was just the way he treated her like she was teenager made her mad. Gosh, she was almost twenty two.
"Sorry man, she is okay!" The bartender gave her the drink.
"Thanks" Jandi muttered. She turned to the guy and gave him I-told-you-so look.
"What's your name?" Jandi asked the guy. He was half way emptying his glass.
"Call me Junpyo!" he said shortly without even looking at her.
"Jerk!" Jandi whispered.
"What?!" Junpyo eyed her suspiciously.
"Nothing." Jandi said then focused on her glass and smelled it. Even the laboratory smelt better than that. Suddenly the idea of drinking it was terrifying. Jandi looked at Junpyo who gave her mocking look as if he dared her. She drank the whole glass, the faster the better, and threw it before it entered her throat.
"What the hell?!" Junpyo stood up looking really mad but the bartender was laughing uncontrollably.
" .God. I'm sorry, I never, I mean... I thought..."
"Let me clean your pants!" Jandi made him sit again. Jandi took the towel from the table and innocently brushed his wet pants. She brushed his pants over and over hoping that it would dry soon. It was strange that the guy gave weird sound. Did he just moan?
"Stop!" Junpyo stood up again. "I… I need to go to bathroom." then he left.
Jandi decided to just stand. She watched as Marco the bartender serving another costumer.
"We change the dare. You must ask the guy to go to hotel nearby" Ginger said behind Jandi.
"What?! Are you crazy? I did as you told and now you just change it." Jandi snapped.
"Sorry sweetheart, we held the party so we own the rule." Ginger annoyingly said. "See your friend over there!" Ginger pointed at Minji who was totally drunk. "Do as you told and your friend will be okay." Ginger threatened.
"That is stupid, you know. Do you think I will follow your stupid idea." Jandi fight back.
Ginger scoffed. "Why Geum Jandi, are you affraid the guy will refuse you? I wouldn't be surprise if he just ditched you."
"He just went to restroom. He will comeback." Why did she even bother her? The image of him leaving terrified her. "Fine!" Jandi snapped. Going with Minji was terrible idea. Why did she even agree on it in the first place? So, basically it was her own fault.
"We will be tailing you, until you guys enter the room. Understand!" Ginger spun her heels headed back to her group.
Crap! Jandi cursed at her unlucky day.
"Geum Jandi, you are so screwed." She whispered helplessly looking at Miranda and friends walking away from where she stood.
Author note,
I have confession to make, but I want to say sorry for taking too long to update at first. the truth is I've almost completed this story but I'm not sure of uploading it. I'm not confidence with my English and Grammar and the story maybe boring. So, if you find many mistakes I'm really sorry for it. And reader out there if you mind of helping me feel free to do so. Thank you for the reviews. Love Jundi couple always...