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Music booms so loudly and free drinks are everywhere. "Let's party till we're wasted!" Glasses full of wine clank together as the man who's holding the party shouts.
Taehyun sat there with a glass of wine in his hand, watching the people at the bar enjoying and getting wild.
He knows that he doesn’t belong here because these people are too much for him, but he doesn’t have a choice since one of his friends invited him, and he can't say no since this will be their last time bonding together.
"Taehyun, you ok right there?" Mark, the friend who invited him, asked.
"I'm fine here." He gulped the wine in one go, which made him choke.
"Easy, man, that wine is strong," his friend said while laughing, filling the glass in Taehyun's hand with another wine.
Taehyun is not used to drinking strong liquor as he can't afford such fortune, but he drank some soju before."I didn't know this wine was strong," Taehyun spat while drinking the orange juice next to his wine glass.
The burning pain that lingered in Taehyun's throat was replaced by the sweet and juicy orange drink as he drank the orange juice.
Mark, who watched Taehyun with wide-open mouth, suddenly burst into laughter. "Wow, this juice is so tasty," Taehyun suddenly chuckled as he could feel his surroundings getting shaky.
"Taehyun, what are you doing? The one that you drank is not orange juice but wine that can make you drunk in one go." Taehyun blinked his eyes a couple of times and said, "That's why my surroundings are suddenly dancing."he then chuckled
Taehyun rested his head on the table while humming to the song that was being played at the bar. His neck and face are red, and he knows that he's drunk.
Suddenly he feels like his body is getting hotter, sweat beginning to form on his forehead, and his breathing is getting uneven.
He closed his eyes tighter as he knew what he felt but chose to ignore it.
"Mark, I want to experience what sex feels like" he suddenly said, raising his head to his friend but was shocked when he found a stranger instead.
The man standing before him wasn’t Mark. His features were sharper, older, his gaze heavy and unreadable.
Taehyun blinked several times, confusion mixing with the haze of alcohol that burned in his veins. “You… you’re not Mark” he mumbled, words slurring. The stranger’s lips curved into a half-smile. “No. But maybe I can give you what you’re looking for.” Taehyun’s heart skipped.
His body felt too warm, his skin prickling as though the room had shrunk around him. He wanted to protest, to ask where Mark had gone, but instead, the only thought echoing in his mind was the one he had just spoken aloud. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒
The stranger extended a hand. “Come with me. Just for tonight.” Taehyun hesitated, staring at the outstretched hand. Every rational thought screamed at him to walk away, but the alcohol dulled his reason, leaving only the ache of curiosity and the gnawing hunger he had buried for years.
And so, with trembling fingers, Taehyun reached out and placed his hand in the stranger’s.
It was the first step into a night he would never forget.