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Ding dong bing bong
“Good morning my-”
I groined and put a pillow over my whole head before I could even hear more… Well I obviously could still hear the announcement but it was so mumbled from how tired I am, everything felt dizzy and so tiring already.
Why was I tired anyway? I feel like I almost forgot about why I was so dizzy and all these, I almost wondered if I was sick.
….
Oh.
Maybe it was the alcohol from last night's party… yeah I think I remember, Wenona and Cassidy decided to come up with another idea to get along so they decided on.. a party with whatever alcohol we could get. I thought it was a little naive, considering the fact someone could come up with a murder plan and get a better chance at getting away with it because everyone was drunk.
But after… all the stress and.. well deaths of recently, I couldn't say no, plus Kai was basically begging me to go again, like last time with the gaming tournament. Jeez he is too social.
Hopefully no one died last night… like last time, I don't even know what alibis the ones at the party could do, I mean I can barely remember what happened last night!
But did everyone else do the same…? Forget most of it? Did I just drink more than everyone else? … Did I? I mean I can't really say I didn't, I don't remember and after the last trial……
Maybe I drank my feelings a little too much. But hopefully everyone else did or I look like a sad sack.
I finally stopped thinking to myself, or teachally I still am but I have to get up and eat breakfast, plus even with a hangover, I bet everyone is still going to breakfast, especially Cassidy, I mean she seems like the type to get over a hangover quickly, or act like it.
So I put my hand over the top of the blanket to get it off me- until I noticed… wow my clothes feel.. light? I barely feel the fabric, am I that dizzy?? It felt especially cold when I felt the air hit my skin… it felt so cold, and bare.
Bare? Why was I so-
“Ah!” I finally took notice of my surroundings, and my clothes, or rather my lack of clothes. I had no shirt, no pants or anything- expect my boxers.
What the hell!? I never sleep naked! Or half naked ..I basically sleep with my shoes on more than I sleep half naked!! So why the hell was I half naked right now??
I looked at the bed I was sleeping on and instead of seeing my own green sheet, I saw pink sheets, and the pink walls…to the pink everything.
Shit! Why the hell am I in Kai's room!?- ok well dumb question, I know I'm still…kinda roommates with him still but did I really go to his dorm last night?? Why?? And did Kai see me half naked and go “oh that's fine” or something!? Maybe Kai isn't sleeping here? Or maybe I got too hot, y'know from being drunk and dizzy so I took some clothes off?...
I shook my head, I had to get a hold of myself… I needed to look around. So I did, I looked over to my side, my right side and saw that pink hair, peeking out the blanket.
Goddammit! He was here then!? What happened last night!? I need to know how he reacted. Maybe I just took off my clothes because I was hot and I have no thinking skills when I'm drunk, maybe that, right?
Y'know what, I just needed to wake up Kai and we had to get to breakfast anyway so I just had to hurry up and talk to him
I put the covers over my chest a little more …just so Kai wasn't too surprised when he woke up. I leaned over and shook his shoulders. If he doesn't wake up after this, I'll push him off the bed!
I shook him until I looked him down, he also had ….. no shirt? Wait, did he have…
No he didn't, he just was wearing his underwear.
…
“Shit..!” I muttered to myself. What does this mean?? Maybe he was hot too? Or… God what the hell happened last night!? And it got even worse when I focused on his neck!
It had bruises, over to his neck and collarbone, like 5! Or maybe not just bruises but… hickeys.
Hickeys too!? You have to be kidding me! I'm never drinking again I swear to God-
“H….mhm? Damion…?” He fluttered his eyes open, obviously too tired to understand what was going on, his voice was cracky and low.
“Uh…”
“Huh?” He finally woke up enough after rubbing his eyes and looked up at me, looking me down. Before he started to freak out.
“h- Huh?- HUH!” He yelped out, looking at me, shocked. Backing away in the bed- well he couldn't really go that far back, it went back to the headboard.
“W-what are you doing- Put on some clothes or something!”
“....you don't have clothes on either, Kai.”
“Huh!?-” he finally took notice of himself, like I did and gasped. “Oh my God- Dude wha- I … what happened!? Did you do something!? Oh my God- ohh my God!!” he repeated.
….
Maybe I should've prepared myself for his outburst.
“Calm down! Ok!? I didn't do anything- and before I talk to you… go look at your neck in the mirror.”
“What!? What's on my neck!?” He asked but he didn't hesitate to look or not believe me, he got up quick and ran off to the bathroom to go look at his neck. I waited until I heard him yell.
“THE FUCK??”
He immediately ran out and went over to me. “What happened!? Did… you do that??”
“What!? No!!”
“ …I don't think I did?”
“What do you mean you don't THINK you did!?”
“I barely remember last night! Ok!?”
“Well!- ..I don't either but you should!”
“Well I remember Cassidy and Wanonas idea for a drinking party, hopefully you do, it's not like that was when we were drunk …and that's all I remember, I must've drank a lot but I don't remember how much or what happened ... Alright?!”
He listened intently and after I was done he spoke. “I…I don't remember either. what do you think we did..? I mean you're the only one in my bed and I got all these…hickeys y'know?! I mean who else could've done that!?”
And before I could say anything. “And don't say someone else did THAT! Cause even if they did…we probably got half naked in here, I mean there's no way I walked all the way from the hallway to here, I wouldn't be that stupid to walk in the hallways naked!”
“Oh God and if I did… someone at breakfast will definitely point it out…”
….
“So!? C’mon man, say something!? What the hell did we do!?”
“I…I don't think did anything too far, I mean we have boxers on…there's no way we did something… really..-”
“And put them back to sleep, right? We'd be too drunk and tired to even our clothes back on..…and nothing smells that weird, I guess…”
“So, what? you just …kissed…”
…
He could barely even talk about the idea that I kissed him and honestly I would make fun of him but I'm feeling the same way… it's way too embarrassing to think about what we did and .. especially with HIM out of all of the people here!?
And the idea of doing something even intimate with someone after all of this..I can barely handle the idea of something like what happened with Eva to happen again… even trusting someone is… too much for me to do right now.
But something intimate? That's way too close for comfort… so if I did do something intimate with him…I can't … think about what would happen.
I just wanted to stop thinking about it, I don't want to care about people or go far with anyone…especially in a killing game like this…
….
“Ahem…. Anyway maybe after breakfast you can ask Diana to cover it up? She seems the best at it–”
“No way, dude! I'm not letting her know I have a hickey!”
“What? Why not?... Do you actually think she'll tell someone!? C’mon you can't actually think that, she's not the type and y'know that.”
“So what!? She might know immediately! L ..like if we were together a lot at the party!?”
Oh. Was that a good point? Maybe… I rather no one knows that I got touchy during a killing game… a killing game of all things isn't somewhere I want to get all intimate.
“Fine, you're kinda….right, ok? Your sweater already covers it up enough.” I admitted in defeat.
“Ok- ok!! C’mon the others are probably already at breakfast, dude!! Hurry the hell up!”
“Wha- ok I got it, I'm getting up.”
Kai was frantically running to his wardrobe, clothes in hand as he ran over to the bathroom. I sighed and remembered I didn't have any clothes in here, great … so I grabbed some of Kai's clothes and put them on before walking out of the dorm. Just for a second.
I went over to grab the door handle until I heard something behind me, footsteps and-
“Hey! Damion!” A voice spoke behind me, God no…
“Uh …h..hey.” I turned around and looked at the person who was behind me and as I thought… from the booming voice, it was Jean.
“Hey man! I was just coming to get you and Kai, the others are in the dining room. I know you drank pretty hard last night so I'm not gonna go tough on you! I know I have a good tolerance for all kinds of alcoholic drinks!” He laughed and it felt like it was gonna cause an earthquake.
I don't doubt that he has a good tolerance for it …I kinda expected it.
“And you're wearing something completely different today! It looks Interesting… not as green.” He chuckles, jeez how many times a day does he laugh things off?
“Uh…uh yeah I changed into other clothes for bed last night, I guess …so I just decided to do Kai's clothes.. probably the quickest.” I hope he bought it.. it doesn't sound like a complete lie.
“Huh, really? I thought you were coming from your dorm?”
“N…no I was just gonna go into my dorm to change. I can't wear last night's clothes, right?” I laughed nervously, shit too friendly. I never act that friendly, that's suspicious.
“Oh- alright well come down quick! Ok?”
“Uh…yeah I will. Kai's awake, he is just changing-”
Immediately Kai came out of his dorm, smiling nervously but maybe to Jean it looked normal enough. “H-hey I'm ready!”
“Great timing! We're waiting for you! I'll just get back down to breakfast, I'll make sure to wait for you guys! see you there.”
….
After he left, I looked over to Kai. “Were you just listening in?..”
He laughed nervously. “W…well I was just waiting for the right time in the conversation where I could get out.”
“...ugh whatever, I'm getting changed.”
“Oh Yeah– … hey aren't those mine?-”
I walked into my dorm before he talked about me using his clothes, I couldn't waste anymore time. So I got in quick and into my wardrobe. I looked around the room to see if there was anything out of place, just in case…. And saw everything seemingly normal.
When I was done, I went to the door right away. Kai's clothes in hand, I handed them over to Kai. “Here.”
Kai looked at me weird, scoffing. “Ugh… now I can't wear these again.”
I scoffed and rolled my eyes. “Oh shut up, it's just clothes, it'll wash off. Plus it's like the same clothes… except the cyan sweater with it instead, it's just the sweater…”
Honestly surprised he had different colored sweaters because he never wore the others. I guess the one he is wearing right now is his favorite one.
“C’mon let's go!” Kai said frantically and grabbed my arm, running to the stairs.
“O- ok! Ok! I got it, I'm going.. you don't have to grab my arm.”
……
Everyone glanced over at us entering the dining room.
“Hey!! Damie!-”
“Damion.”
Cassidy was the first to wave over and use that dumb nickname.
“Hey! There you are.” Jean smiled and declared. “I'm glad you guys got here fast!”
“Fast!?? They took forever!” Grace complained.
“Well I meant when I went over to get them up! They were already getting ready!”
“Still…. There's no excuse! Even if you were drunk last night, I have a bad hangover but you don't see me late!”
“Hey! It's ok, we know they're ok now and maybe the drinks got to their heads!” Diana smiled warmly and Grace scoffed, obviously not impressed by our late arrival.
Me and Kai got breakfast and sat down in one of the chairs, trying to ignore what we discovered this morning….
“So how do you guys think the party wassss? I need feedback!” Cassidy asked excitedly.
“Huh?.. uh well I barely remember.”
“Me too …” Kai mumbled.
“Really!? Wow you guys drank a lot, huh?” Cassidy teased.
“Jeez, do you want me to recap?” Jett asked.
“Uh- sure!” Kai nodded, and honestly I did too so I nodded.
“Well, Diana decided to go but not drink, Grace went, I went and got broski to come!”
“You dragged me there..” Mark mumbled but Jett didn't listen.
“Well broski left pretty far into the party, never drinking anything! Cassidy and Wenona obviously went because it was their party, Ulysses didn't…Toshiko wanted to come but we made sure she didn't, too young, y'know?”
“Hphm, I've been around plenty of drunk adults before…” Toshiko mumbled to herself as she scoffed. Yeah I expected her not to be at the party.
“Desmond and Jean decided to go, Ingrid did after half way into the party, and Eloise didn't! And I think I got everyone.”
Kai and I nodded, Diana didn't drink and watched over us…..maybe she noticed us being…
….
“What were …we doing?” I asked, a little nervous if we were acting weird.
Kai glanced at me nervously, well he thought the same thing as me.
“Huh?” Jett thought for a second. “Uhhh… well I couldn't hear you too much, I wasn't hanging around you two much but we always got you to grab snacks and shit.”
Wow so I was like a butler for them, that's great.
“How many times do I have to tell you to watch your language around children!?” Ingrid warned and Jett yelped.
“Y- yes ma’am! Sorry… won't happen again!
“Ahem, anyway.” Diana started. “Damion, you were talking a lot, sometimes we couldn't even hear what you were saying but you were social enough, still your moody self but you were talking at least! I'm really glad!” She chuckled, it made me irritated but at least she didn't notice anything weird about me…or us.
“It was a little concerning, you were drinking your feelings!” Cassidy laughed but she seemed concerned.
“Oh.” Jeez I did, I knew …that made a lot of sense. So I did look like a sad sack.
“What did..I do?” Kai asked.
“Hm? Oh yeah, you were normal! Just cheerful and all.” Jett shrugged.
“Yeah, you don't really change when you're drunk, except you're touchy! I guess Damion was too but you two weren't weirdos about it!” Cassidy told us. We were touchy!? Well I guess we got more touchy in the dorm…shit i didn't even want to think about it.
“Yeah if you were weirdos, I'd punch the daylights out of you…” Grace threatened. Well I don't plan on being a weirdo.
“Oh! H ..hah yep.” Kai nervously chuckled. A little more scared by the threat.
“Oh- you did ask about each other? Like together? Well I don't know, you guys talked to each other a bit …. And when Jett kept making Damion get all the stuff from the closets and pantries, Kai went over to you to follow you but that's it, then you guys went to bed.”
“...ok cool!- hah ..” Kai nodded, I noticed his relief and I honestly felt relieved too… no one noticed us. That means we weren't being touchy to each other!- …at least at the party or in view of others. That's good.
“Oh but you guys should probably just lay down in bed, you guys are really that type?” jean said vaguely
“What?? Huh!?” Kai said way too nervous and everyone looked at him weird.
“Uh, what type?”
“Oh I just meant you guys shift around in bed instead of just sitting still? Look, I'm not that type of sleeper. I get to bed quickly in one position but some people I've met are those kinds of sleepers! Like you two! I bet you guys could make a tornado with how much you two shift around in bed!” He laughed, and some others did too.
“Hm, I did hear that.” Ulysses mumbled, agreeing.
“Hah…yep, I got it, I guess we are the type ..” Kai laughed with the others nervously. Hm… we shifted around a lot? …Jesus that makes me nervous, that probably proves how touchy we were, maybe it's not that much proof but we were shifting in bed… at least not enough for actual… sex, right?
I mean he would've complained about more noises but he said he just heard shuffling… I let out a sigh of relief. We weren't doing too much then…thank God.
…
…
It was quiet after the conversation, sounds of spoons clicking and munching. until Diana spoke, slightly concerned.
“Hey, Kai are you ok?”
“H…huh? What do you mean?”
Everyone stared over at Kai, but also confused by Diana's question so they probably looked over to see if Kai was doing anything concerning.
“You're rubbing your neck a lot, I just wanted to know if you're ok? Do you have a rash?”
“W-what!? Uh …I.. I'm fine! It's just sore after sleeping, that's all!” He said fast and nervous, eyes wide. Jeez he is obvious.
Everyone stared for a while until Diana spoke.
“Ok, I believe you…just tell me if anything is wrong, I wanna help!”
“O..ok…will do.”
Well that was stressful, but way more stressful for Kai.
…..
After I was done, I got up quickly and washed my dishes. I wanted to get out as quickly as possible, it felt like everyone was suspicious of me- they weren't but…still it felt like any second, someone would know we did something last night and question us both.
so I went quickly, Kai didn't when he was done, I guess he didn't want to get out as fast as me but when he was done we glanced at each other.
“Ahem…” I tried to ignore him a little, just so people wouldn't see us, plus what would we even talk about? … At least we'd be very awkward about it.
I walked over to the dining room door and twisted the knob. Thank God… I can get away with this awkward environment, even though no one else thought it was awkward except us. And tomorrow morning at breakfast, I doubt anyone will bring up the party again so tomorrow we are all good.
I wonder what I should do in my free time.