Chapter 7
The party was over flowing, people stood from all corner's of the living room and flooded through the back doors and across the backyard. The atmosphere although, chaotic, screaming and shouting, was so energetic and positive, smiles adorned everyone's faces as they laughed and danced. Dahyun had questioned why she had never come to parties more often, she loved to see how simple things like music and alcohol can change a whole aura about a person. The room was comfortably dim, the flicker of rainbow lights making it just enough to see across the sea of dancing bodies.
"I can't seem to find the girls." Sana said, leaning down into Dahyun's ear to be heard.
She smiled, a familiar silhouette, pressed up against another, catching her eye as Sana spoke. She pointed towards the petite body of what she had now confirmed to be Chaeyoung, engaging in a rather passionate exchange with another girl, her long hair cascading through Chae's fingertips as she ran her fingers through it.
"Ah, that's Mina, Chae's semi-girlfriend. It's complicated, rich girl who's too scared to come out and stand up to her parents, or even so herself, and the girl that's hopelessly inlove with her."
Heartbreaking? Heartwarming? Dahyun couldn't decide.
"I can't find Jihyo or Nayeon, do you want to dance until they maybe find us?" Sana shouted, grabbing Dahyun's hand in hers as the younger nodded in agreeance.
Stepping into the crowd, the two were cloaked in an instant flush of heat, everyone thrashed their bodies unforgivingly, much to Sana's worry, they all threw themselves against Dahyun, Sana wincing everytime she felt a struggle from the hand in hers, turning worryingly to see that same innocent smile radiate smile. Dahyun was surprisingly unbothered with the situation she was in, the feeling of a slightly sweaty girl nudging or pulling her didn't cause the usual bout of anxiety, instead she felt the fun of the whole situation.
'is this what alcohol does?' she thought, which only lead her to wonder why she had put of trying these kinds of things for so long.
The music blared in the girls ears and Dahyun felt Sana come to a halt, the hand gripping hers flailing as read her lips, making out something about this being her favourite song. She pulled Dahyun closer as she took a gulp of her drink, the younger doing the same. The two danced closely, Dahyun felt her heart rising in her chest once again as the hand she held travelled to her waist, this time, she moved her own hand to Sana's waist, pulling flush against eachother, bouncing to the music, that type of unconcealable smile, adorned Sana's face.
Dahyun admired the way Sana's skin glistened under the flashing lights and the way her arms being around her waist allowed her to feel the jolt of her body as she laughed so unforgivingly out of pure joy. Dahyun had never seen a galaxy in someone's eyes before, she'd never felt skin so soft, never been so short of breathe because every fibre of her being had stalled so her only focus could be to admire the heavenly body that somehow rested under her fingertips, she was in absolute dismay, the alcohol swirling in her system making everything so confrontingly present and she felt nothing, but also everything at the same time, the one thing that always remained was the swelling in her heart at the sight of the pink haired girl that smelt of strawberries, the girl that somehow she was fortunate enough to have care about her so much, her, a girl who so many didn't bother to know existed.
So overwhelmed in emotion and such little space to express it, Dahyun felt her tears well up, embarrassed, she smothered Sana in a hug, her head burying into the crook of her neck, dropping her now empty cup onto the floor below. She felt the taller one still beneath her, a soft sigh escaping her chest as her arms slid up Dahyun's back, returning the affection. They stood there for what felt like forever, statues in the middle of a moving crowd. Dahyun sobbed quietly on the girls shoulder, enough for Sana to feel the dampness of her tears against her skin.
"Are you okay, baby?" Sana whispered, just enough for Dahyun to catch in over the noise.
She said nothing, only squeezing the petite girl tighter, inhaling her scent. Sana taking her head in her hands, softly petting her braider hair. Nayeon had spotted the two girls in the crowd and pushed harshly through the crowd, worried of the state of her bestfriend. When Sana looked up to see Nayeon infront of her, face strewn in worry, mouthing a 'what's wrong with Dahyun?', she shrugged and she'd be lying if she said she wasn't worried too. The movement from Sana caused the youngest to shift from her position of helpless clinging, to face to face with Sana again, bleary eyed, but instead of returning the worried gaze, she smiled, a smile so big that her eyes squinted closed and her cheeks strained.
"You scared me, sweetpea!" Sana used the pads of her thumbs to wipe away the dampness on Dahyun cheeks.
Dahyun caught her hand before it could fall, resting her face in Sana's palms. Once again they stood there for a while, lost in eachother, so much so that Dahyun didn't feel the constant tapping of Nayeon's hand on her shoulder until she had to practically shake her.
Dahyun turned, her smile still firmly planted on her face, Nayeon tilted her head at her in confusion, before huffing.
"Sana, I think she needs some food!" The two girls nodded, grabbing Dahyun's hands and pulling her away from the crowd.
In the backyard sat a large table covered in an array of foods, Chaeyoung and Mina were already helping themselves to the food, whilst other party goers did as well.
"Choco pies!" Dahyun smiled, grabbing one and biting into it.
Nayeon leaned on Sana's shoulder, "So, an emotional drunk, I thought she'd become extroverted instead."
"Maybe the party atmosphere was a little too overwhelming." Sana decided, looking over at Dahyun, her heart swelling at the sight of the younger one's cheeks full of food as she smiled as Chaeyoung introduced her to Mina and a new exceptionally taller friend that had come to join them.
Sana wondered over, her hand finding it's way back onto Dahyun's waist.
"This is Tzuyu," the taller girl smiled shyly, "Tzuyu, this is Dahyun."
Her soft expression changed as soon as she heard the name, "Dahyun? You're the Dahyun that Sana won't shut up about. Wow, you're so pretty!"
She took a very flustered Dahyun into her arms, "Tzuyu-ah!"
San could just kill her and her naive-ness when Dahyun turned to her a smiled smugly, god this alcohol was giving her confidence that Sana wasn't used to.
"Won't shut up about, huh?"
"Yes, sweetpea, now eat your choco pie."
"I love choco pies." She smiled at the food in her hand, giggling lightly.
The rest of the night ran well, Sana and Dahyun spoke with their friends and drank slower, to make sure a Dahyun incident didn't happen again.
It was at 2am when the party had died down, people were sleeping and sat around the house, most had already left.
Dahyun and Sana lay on the grass of the backyard, staring at the stars, the soft breeze cooling their hot skin.
"Sana, thankyou for taking me to this party I had fun." Dahyun said quietly.
"No, thankyou for coming, it wouldn't have been the same without you." Sana's words still had that effect of Dahyun that had her forcing tears back into her eyes.
Dahyun shifted so she was sitting on her side and Sana did the same looking into her eyes, smiling.
"You're really adorable when you're drunk, not that you-"
Dahyun cut her off as she dove towards the pink haired girl. Her lips were so soft against Dahyun's, it was like kissing the clouds and her lips tasted like peach with the faint taste of coca cola still there.
Worry coursed through Dahyun as reality came back into being and she pulled back, looking into those wide puppy dog eyes. Sana looked shocked momentarily but before Dahyun could apologise she was being pushed to the grass, those peachy lips returning passionately back to hers. Dahyun felt it again, that feeling she had on the dancefloor, except it was multiplied, she swore she had never felt this..this... euphoric in her life.
Dahyun was clumsy and inexperienced, but nothing had ever felt more right and perfect to the two girls than now.
"Chaeyoung! Sana! Dahyun! Jihyo is leaving now!" Nayeon's voice echoed along the walls and into the backyard, causing the two girls to jump a little, hesitantly pulling away.
Sana's eyes looked bleary as she giggled a little at Dahyun's swollen lips. She stood, holding her hand out for Dahyun to grab, pulling the younger one up. Dahyun stumbled a little, her head swirling from the recent events.
The five girls all trudged back to their dorms, hair messy and eyes heavy, except for the two that stood hand in hand, not even hiding the smiles on their faces.
"Come sleep in my dorm, Dahyun, Momo isn't back from practice yet." Sana whispered, kissing Dahyun's cheek softly.
"Ah, Nayeon, I'm gonna hang out in Sana's dorm since I'm not too tired, you should sleep, you definitely partied harder then me."
"I'll sleep for eternity, just for you Dahyun! Bye Sana." Nayeon said, using her last ounce of energy to wave them goodbye.
Dahyun slumped onto the bed as she heard Sana close and lock the dorm door.
"Are you really not tired? Or did you just say that so you could come here?" Sana smiled.
"I could seriously pass out right now!" Dahyun confessed kicking her shoes off.
Sana went into her cupboard retrieving comfortable clothes, she handed them to Dahyun to change into.
The two girls slipped into bed together, their arms tangled together in a half awake attempt at cuddling.
The room was comfortably quiet.
"Sana, I like you." Dahyun whispered, her semi-closed eyes opened for a moment to stare at Sana's.
"I like you too."
(I'm kinda disappointed in this chapter, I might fix it later but I have a serious problem with staying on task and this took me wayyy longer than it should of to write so I hope it isn't too unbearably trashy, anyway I miss Sana so much, I hope she's okay in quarantine!!!!!!!!!)