Chapter 1
We Danced
I'm not used to the loud noise of the club it feels like my ears are going to bleed from all the music in here.
"I'm gonna miss you, Krystal. " says my friend Euna. She's seating at my left side and we have to lean closer to hear each other.
"Oh come on, Euns, We're just moving to another city. I'm not leaving the country."
"Yeah, city that is hundred of miles away from here." says my other friend Reese whose seating at my right.
"It must be because of Hiro." says Jinree. She's seating beside Reese but I can still clearly see the signature smug in her face. The bartender placed another glass of vodka in front of her. It's already her fourth.
"No Jin. It's my own decision, Hiro got nothing to do with it. Besides it'll be the first time for my family to be together again after mom died."
"Seoul is a very busy city. You think you can handle yourself there?" Reese asks.
"What are you talking about? She's 21 years old of course she can handle herself. Duh." says Jinree.
I rolled my eyes, sometimes I don't get why I even hangout with Jinree, she's the definition of a bully.
"I'm sad that you're leaving but I'm also excited for you. I mean you got accepted to SAA easily." says Euna.
Reese puts her hands on each side of my shoulders. "Krystal! I've always been saying that you're the most talented in school and here you are, about to enter the most prestigious performing arts school in the country. Your destiny has arrived and it is now your time to shine. Krystal, Fighting!" she says dramatically.
"Don't give me that destiny bullshit. There's no such thing as destiny, Reese. If you want something work your ass off to get it. Simple as that." says Jinree.
Euna and I laughed at Jinree's irritated face and at Reese's puppy dog face. Man, I'm gonna miss them.
"I'm getting bored. Let's do something else, lets see if Krystal here really has what it takes to be in SAA, shall we?" Jinree said.
"I'm your entertainment now, huh?"
Jinree stood up and scans the dancing crowd in the middle of the club. Currently a popular remix song is being played by the DJ and it's making the crowd dance wild, I have to admit even I was tempted to dance to the music.
"I can't find any target." Jinree said, sounding a little pissed.
"Target?" Am I gonna shoot someone?
"Oh! How about that guy?" Reese pointed over the crowd. We followed her gaze, she's pointing at a tall guy in the middle of the dance floor. I can't clearly see his face since it's dark here but his blonde hair is visible through the crowd.
"Perfect!" Jinree exclaimed.
"Let me guess, you want Krystal to have a dance off with that tall guy." says Euna.
"Me!? Dance off with a guy!? Are you serious!?"
"Ppff! It's easy. Just shake your ass in front of him and he will surrender." says Jinree. Those mischievous sparkle in her eyes were visible even in the darkness of the club.
"What exactly am I suppose to do anyway?"
"Simple. Make out with that hottie ...after he beats you on the dance floor." says Jinree with a smug.
"What?!" That doesn't make any sense at all.
"What? You said you're done crushing over Hiro, right? It will be the highlight of this farewell party. Go to that man and make his night even hotter... that is if you can." says Jinree with a satisfied look in her face.
"Why kiss him though?"
"If you win you can just walk away from him but if he does then you have to kiss him. Plain and simple. Now go."
"Krystal you don't have to do this." says Euna. She looks at me with sympathetic eyes, after all she is my best friend. Plus the guy that Jinree choose looks like he's a good dancer.
"Fine." I said.
I stood up from our table and joined the crowd as I dance my way into the middle. Lots of guys but there are also many girls dancing. I dance around my target.
Gosh I sounded like a predator waiting an opportunity to eat my prey.
As I continue to dance, I can't help but notice the way he dance. Damn he's really good. He's killing it! He must be a professional dancer, the way he dance, it's so beautiful so smooth I'm having a hard time taking my eyes away from him.
And so does dozen more other girls.
The competition is tight. Three girls are dancing in his front, three more are almost rubbing themselves to his back and four more seductive dancers on his each sides.
How the hell am I supposed to have a dance off with this guy? I can't even get near him!
Then a hip-hop song came up. A really good one.
A smile curved in my lips, I love this song. I started dancing, not minding my target and his fans. Guess I don't really care if I won't be able to do Jinree's dare. I think I just agreed to this because even I wanted to see if I'm really SAA material.
I was so into the dance, I didn't see people are also showing off their hip-hop skills on the dance floor. They had formed a circle in the middle with me inside! A guy joined me but then he stepped out of the circle after a while. Next is a woman, she dance beside me but just like the guy earlier she stepped out. Are we having a dance off now?
I'm not doing it on purpose. I'm not trying to win or anything. I was just literally having fun. Hey maybe I'll ask those three to join me.
The song ended immediately followed by another hip-hop dance then another guy stepped in and started dancing before I got to go back to our table.
It's him!
I take my word. He is not a good dancer, he's a freaking Dancing God! He's so amazing I feel like he's killing the little ballerina inside of me.
How am I suppose to beat that?!
He lifted his face to look at me and it made me gasped. I saw he's eyes. He's smiling! No scratch that, he's smirking! At me! He lifts up his hand and motioned his index and middle finger for me to come closer.
He's challenging me.
I know he's great and he's the one I have to beat or else I'll have to make out with him but still I accepted his challenge. After all this is the very reason why I'm in the dance floor anyways.
Screw this. He's asking for a battle, well I'm gonna give him war.
Then our dance off had begun.
People seem to enjoy our game, they cheered on us as we continue our dance off but when the music changed and turned into a more sexy song our battle turned into a duo.
We dance together, bodies touching, I can almost smell his entire being and I would lie if I'll say I didn't like it. He smells so good it's intoxicating. I had my few drinks but he's more intoxicating the the alcohol.
His hands were around my body and so does mine as I place my hands on each side of his well toned shoulders. But he still have those smirk in his lips. It's bothering me but not in an irritating way, in fact it's doing the opposite. It's melting me making me forget our surroundings.
It's just me, him and his goddamn smirk.
God, his lips are so tempting right now.
But then the music stopped, waking me up under his spell. I turned my head at the stage as the DJ introduces the band that will be performing next. I can feel his gaze on me, not even interested to look at the new band who started playing their original song.
I looked back at him, he still have his eyes fixed on me.
Wait, who won?
He's staring into my eyes and I just realized he got beautiful eyes. It's so warm yet so cool, so gentle yet I can feel danger. My heart started beating faster and it is not because we're panting from all the intense dancing that took place.
I honestly didn't know what came over me.
I snaked my left hand to his neck and pull his head down to me. Our lips met. I close my eyes as I kiss him, I know he was shocked, he became stiff at first then I felt his lips move in sync with mine.
His big hands pulled my waist closing the small gap between us. My body's hot but I think his is hotter. I flinched when I felt his warm tongue evade my mouth. I let out an involuntary moan as he played with my tongue.
Then I felt his fingers tracing the sides of my waist, sending thousands of volts to my intoxicated body.
This is too much. I have to stop. I need to stop. But how the hell can I stop?!
I ran out of breath. And so does he. We pulled apart. I looked up at him. Damn he still have those smirk. But now it's even bigger and more mischievous.
God, he'll be the death of me.
He was about to say something but I was suddenly pulled out of his embrace.
"Wha-?! I glared at the intruder. "Euna?!"
She pulled me back to our table. Reese's clapping her hands while Jinree is, well being herself.
"Congratulations Krystal, that was good." she said.
"Too good that I have to pull you away from him before you jump him in the middle of the dance floor." says Euna.
"I'm not gonna jump him. It's just a kiss." I said, even though I felt like killing my best friend right now from interrupting my hot session with blondie over there but then maybe I have to thank her for saving me from my own sin.
"Oh really? You're all over mister dance machine and you tell me it's just a kiss?" says Jinree then she laughs loudly.
"I'm glad you're no longer bored." I said. Did I sound irritated?
"Well if you like him you can always go back to his arms." says Reese. "Wait, where did he go?"
We all looked at the crowd, he's tall so it's easy to find him even in a crowd like this but he's no where in sight.
"Maybe he's in the washroom doing his thing. Hahaha." says Jinree. Yep, she had too many drinks.
"Or he went home already?" asks Reese.
"Yeah...maybe."
"You sound disappointed, huh." says Euna.
"No I'm not." I turned back to my seat. Good thing it's dark inside or else they might see that I'm probably blushing right now.
"You make a good couple though." says Reese.
"Nah, he's too hot for her." says Jinree.
"And you're too drunk!" we all said to her.
"Pheft! 'Course not!" she protested.
We laughed at her since clearly she is drunk.
"Come on we need to get you home." says Euna.
"But I don't wanna go home." says Jinree, she's pouting at Euna like a little lost puppy. It's too cute we can't stop laughing because it's so not Jinree.
"Wait I need to take a picture of this." I can't help it. I pulled out my phone from the side pocket of my jeans and started taking pictures of a drunken Jinree.
"She's gonna kill you." Reese warned me but she's also helping me to take good shots of our victim.
Then Jinree gagged. It made the three of us jumped.
"Oh-o! Time to g-." Euna didn't even got to finish her sentence, Jinree threw up at the bar.
I quickly put down my phone at my seat and grabbed a handful of napkins in the middle of the bar and drop them at Jinree's puke. Reese also grabbed some to wipe Jinree's face.
"Take her to the car, I'll handle this." I said to them.
Euna and Reese supported Jinree's body as they go to the exit. I payed for our bill to the bartender and also apologized for the mess. I followed the two outside and I drove them home. I made sure the windows are open for Jinree.
Man, what a night!
It's already half pass 2 when I finally got home. For some reasons I'm not sleepy at all. Maybe I should eat something or drink a good cup of hot chocolate but I'm not really up for food right now. And also most of my stuff were already packed.
I got up from my bed and grabbed my purse. I'll just tire my eyes from random videos on the internet or a random book on Wattpad.
Wait...where's my phone?
A cold feeling came to my body like a bucket full of ice poured down on me. I removed all of the stuff in my purse. It's not there!
I ran to the clothes I wore at the club and checked if my phone's there.
But nothing.
Then realization hit me like a bullet.
"Shit!"
I opened the club door with such force it's good thing nobody's behind it. I went back to our previous sits at the bar and of course it's already clean. I checked the chairs, maybe I left it there and no one had seen it yet since it's dark in here. But no, it's not there too. I squatted down to check the floor, maybe, just maybe I dropped it somewhere here...
"Looking for this?"
A deep velvety voice said behind me. I stood and looked up at the person, only to find myself staring at his mesmerizing eyes.
And there it is, my damn phone in his long fingers.
I let out a relieved sigh. "Thank goodness."
I walk towards him and reach for my phone but he quickly let go of it but I'm not near enough to catch it yet. My eyes went wide as I look at my falling phone but before it crashes to the floor, he's left hand catches it with ease.
Then slowly his sexy smirk went back to his lips.
I had to mentally slap myself for thinking his smirk is sexy.
I glared at him. What is this dude's problem?!
"Give me back my phone." I said or rather demanded.
"You shouldn't go around and just leave your phone anywhere." his deep voice is killing my reserve.
But I stood on my ground. "I didn't do it on purpose. You think I will leave my phone here then drive home then after an hour go back and retrieve it?"
"Looks like it." now his smirk is starting to irritate me for real.
"Just give me back my phone." I said firmly.
Instead of handing it over to me, he put my phone inside his back pocket then he went to the dance floor. He turned back to me, I can see his face illuminated by the colorful club lights.
"How far will you go to have it back?"
He's challenging me. Again.
But I don't have time for his games. I need to get my phone and go home already. Jessica and I have an early flight tomorrow and I don't plan on staying up for the whole night. What should I do?
He started dancing. And like the first time, my eyes are glued to his glorious dancing form. If there's a god for dancing it must be him. His body's tempting me, his eyes calling me.
Well I guess I have no choice. I mean, he have my phone.
It was a different DJ this time but the music is even better than the last time. I started joining him in the dance but when he did a turn I suddenly got an idea.
Two can play this game after all.
Even though the music is kinda hip-hop, I changed my moves into what I think is somewhere between jazz and sexy dance. Somehow it still suits the music then I knew I'll win this little game when I saw his reaction.
His swag smile faded and I think he even gulped upon seeing me dance like this.
I got this game.
I grabbed his neck and use his body as if it's a pole. My dance were a combination of hip-hop, jazz and sexy, making my pole stand stiff like a real pole.
I made sure to grind my behind whenever our bodies are touching. I went behind him as he remain standing so still at the dance floor. I did a chest popping move, making sure my breast is brushing his back. Then I grabbed his butt, it's firm as I squeeze it forcefully.
This is what you get from playing games with me, mister dance machine.
I went back in front of him and showed him that I won as I opened my palm to reveal my phone.
I turned around to leave but I suddenly felt hot breaths on my nape. His hands closed my hand over my phone and guided me to put it inside my pocket. "That's dangerous, you know. So dangerous...."
My heart started beating wildly. His words echoing in my head making it hard for me to realize what was he talking about. From my hand, his fingers slowly glide up to my arm then to my shoulders and to my neck, giving me goosebumps. He moved my hair aside then I gasped loudly when I felt his warm lips on my neck.
He bit me!
I quickly turned to face him but before I can do anything he started dancing again. His eyes never leaving mine. The dance floor is a little less crowded than earlier and his fans were definitely not here anymore. I got this guy all to myself but how come that very thought is making me nervous and excited at the same time?
He pulled my hand and guided me to his dance. There's a lot of hand movements and his body is driving me insane. With our every move, little by little my anxiety were fading, He's a good dancing partner. I can almost feel all his emotions just by dancing with me.
I just found myself giving in and dance with him like we've been doing it for a long time.
I can't help it. He really is amazing.
The DJ had probably noticed our little game, the next song he played is a remix of Sweet Love by Chris Brown.
I knew we both smiled mischievously to the song. We continued to dance like nobody's around.
Bolder. Sexier. Hotter.
I turned my back at him, I accidentally grind my bum at his front. I gasped.
I can feel him under his clothes. He felt big!
His hands flew to my waist, he grips it firmly as I continued to grind at him. I heard him let out a low groan in my ear, I felt myself get wet.
We were both turned on by the music and the dance.
"I guess I won this round." he whispered in my ear. My hands went to my pocket and sure enough my phone is not there anymore.
I turned back to face him but we were suddenly bumped by a small group of guys who look like teenagers. They apologized but when they saw me, their eyes went from my head to my feet. It made me look at myself, then I realized my hair is messy, my clothes disheveled from all the dancing and touching and my face is really hot it's probably red as tomato.
"Looks like you guys are having fun, mind if we join in?" the guy in the middle said to us.
"No thanks." I said firmly. Clearly these guys are drunk already, besides I don't like the way they look at me.
"Aww come on, it'll be fu-" the guy at the left stopped from talking. He's face looked really scared, I followed his gaze and saw what he was seeing.
My dance partner is glaring at him like a wolf staring at his enemy.
I sensed danger. I grabbed his hand and pulled him away from the dance floor. I run outside the club without letting go of his hand. When we reached my car I let it go but before I can say anything he quickly pinned me against my car. His body's so close to me, making sure I can't escape.
"What are you-"
"Take me away from them."
At first I thought he was just joking then I realized he's dead serious. His brown eyes stares at mine and for a second I felt like he is even pleading. It looks like he's in pain for controlling his anger.
Without hesitation I unlocked my car and he quickly jumped inside. Not in the passenger's seat but to the driver's seat. He took the keys from my hand and made me sit at the passenger's sit instead.
"Excuse me this is my car."
"I can see that." he said as he started the engine and quickly drove off the street.
I want to protest but he's eyes are focused at the road and his hands are gripping the stirring wheel too tightly.
What the hell is wrong with him?!
"Are you okay?"
He was driving so fast. I can't even see where we are right now, he's going way too fast.
Then he stopped at one of the side streets. He closed his eyes, his hands still in the stirring wheel, it's getting really pale from gripping it too tightly. He's definitely not okay.
"Hey, you need to relax." I said softly.
"Distract me." he said with closed eyes.
Distract him? How?!
I looked around my car helplessly. Distract him...distract him ...distract him...
I look back at him. He really looks like he's in deep pain.
Again I didn't know what came over me, I just reached to his face with both hands. He opened his eyes from the sudden contact but I didn't stop there.
I kiss him full in the lips just like how I did back at the club. The moment our lips met I felt a burning sensation inside of me. It's a different one from earlier. It's intense and full of need.
He pulled me to his lap in the driver's seat. I put my legs on each side of him as we continued our kiss. His hands roam at my back, sending electricity throughout my body. My hands flew to his hair, as I thought earlier, it's so soft.
I flinched when he slips his tongue in my mouth and all sane thoughts were drained from my brain.
I started straddling him. I moaned at his mouth when I felt his erection brush to my heated core through our clothes. We broke apart but he immediately attacked my jaw. His wet kisses went down to my neck then to my collarbones. I can't help but moan at the sensation he's giving me.
Then he stopped and looked into my eyes. I can see his eyes darken with lust.
"I need you. Now."
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