never not ✧ mark lee

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As she sipped her drink, Dasom exited the elevator onto the first floor of the SM building. This place was a lot bigger than she anticipated, and she could not for the life of her remember where the practice room she had seen earlier was.

By the time she found the room, her drink was almost finished. To her dismay, when she looked inside, there was no sign of Mark. She walked back out into the hallway, feeling her body become lighter.

Oh yeah, four drinks... it was about time for the alcohol to kick in.

Unsure of whether she should go back to the party or keep searching, she decided to try calling Johnny, Ten, or Jaehyun to ask. Unfortunately, she realized she didn't have her phone, since she had given it to Ten for safekeeping while they were dancing since she didn't have any pockets on her outfit.

She decided to explore a little instead, thinking there might be a chance she'd eventually find Mark in one of the many, many rooms equipped for musicians in the building.

When she turned a corner, she saw two girls walking ahead of her. Since her social skills were a lot better when she wasn't sober, she decided to ask them if they knew where Mark was since they might be company staff.

"Hey!" she called, her state making her forget to speak in Korean as she sped up to catch up to the girls. "Have either of you seen..."

When the two girls turned around, Dasom trailed off and stopped in her tracks as she recognized them. It was Yeri and Seulgi from Red Velvet.

Holy shit, they were basically my bi awakening.

"What?" the two girls said at the same time. Yeri then noticed the drink in Dasom's hand.

"Wait, where did you get that?" she asked.

"Uhh, the party upstairs?" she said hesitantly, unsure if she should have answered truthfully. To be fair, no lie would have made sense in that situation.

"See?!" the girl cried out, hitting Seulgi's arm. "I knew NCT was having a party tonight."

"And they didn't invite us?" Seulgi said. "How rude."

Well this is awkward.

"Let's go crash it," Yeri said, a cheeky smile growing on her face.

"Yes," Seulgi agreed. "The other girls are having fun tonight, we should too."

"By the way," Yeri said, remembering Dasom was there, switching to English. "Did you need something?"

"Uh, yeah," Dasom chuckled nervously. "I'm looking for Mark Lee, have you guys seen him?"

"Didn't we pass him in one of the vocal practice rooms?" Yeri asked Seulgi.

"I think so," she replied.