Tangled Webs [ Rosekook ]

Tangled Webs: One

--ONE--

Want you so bad I can taste it,
but you're nowhere to be found.
I'll take a drug to replace it,
or put me in the ground

Placebo – Exit Wounds

As they stand in the spacious elevator, a piano piece merrily playing in the background, Park Chaeyoung reaffirms to herself once more that she absolutely doesn't want to go to this party.

But democracy is unequivocally dead.

It's BamBam's birthday and Lisa pleaded with huge puppy dog eyes that he somehow absolutely insisted that they should all come, so he could 'hang out with all of them more'. He really wants to, she had whined in a high-pitched voice as lovely to the ears as nails scratching a blackboard.

Jennie had scoffed, wondering why he wanted to hang out with them 'more' since he really just talks to Lisa whenever they encounter him. Lisa had babbled on about how he's her childhood friend and they're her closest friends, and he just needs to get to know them better and what better opportunity than his birthday.

None of them believed his excuses, but Lisa refused to listen to their arguments, firmly on his side. Sure she's known him longer, but the dancer should put a little more trust in the members with whom she's spent the most of the 24 hours of her days for more than seven years.

Not that the girls dislike BamBam, or think he doesn't like them. He just tends to forget about their existence if Lisa is around.

And Lisa is oblivious to it all.

Their usual friends won't even be there. Chaeyoung received a text earlier from Twice's Chaeyoung saying that she couldn't come, Red Velvet are busy with a fan meeting so they also can't attend, and her own close friends don't run with this particular circle.

At least Jisoo knows Jinyoung with whom she kept a solid friendship since their emceeing days.

Chaeyoung is so awkward at gatherings where she knows no one so she's prepared herself mentally for a very long, probably boring, night. At least, she'll have her other members at her side for company, her only consolation.

So here they stand, at the entrance of the hotel suite. Because yes, BamBam is throwing his party at one of the most luxurious hotels in Seoul, in its grand suite.

"Why a hotel suite?" Chaeyoung had asked as Lisa told them the location earlier.

"So he can get laid, after or maybe even during?" Jennie had answered with a snicker, thankfully out of Lisa's earshot who would've surely jumped at the defense of her childhood friend.

"At least it's not the honeymoon suite," Jisoo had added and they all giggled until Lisa whipped her head at them with a suspicious glare.

The room, sleek and modern in design with a black and white theme, is full of idols and celebrities, chatting in circles with drinks in hands or dancing in the spacious living room to the music blasting from the huge TV screen hanging between two floor-to-ceiling windows.

BamBam greets them all with a smile and thanks them for coming before whisking Lisa away so he can introduce her to some of his friends.

Wants to hang out with us all my ass, Chaeyoung thinks as she watches Lisa bowing to BamBam's friends with a huge smile.

"So am I the only one who thinks BamBam has a huge crush on Lisa?" Jisoo asks, slinging her arms over the shoulders of her two members, as the three of them stand near the room's entrance, eyes on the youngest.