Chap 13

Yuri's POV

Why did I agree to buy this huge and heavy book? I so should have stuck with the boring, pictureless, and small English book. Having to carry that and Jessica at the same time was like trying to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from tipping over. During the walk from the restaurant to the front of our building and then up the stairs to the dorm, Jessica placed more than half her weight on me. At one point, her weight and the encyclopedia-like book started to feel the same. I almost wanted to leave one of them on the streets.

One more flight of stairs to go. As I'm struggling to drag Jessica up the stairs, her body and my arm around her waist are moving in opposite directions --hers going down with gravity while I'm trying to keep her up with my arm-- causing her shirt to lift. I'm constantly grabbing her by her smooth bare skin to readjust her weight and to keep her upright.

After what seemed like half an hour, we finally made it up the stairs and I lay Jessica against the door, propping her up with my own body. Breathing heavily as I'm trying to catch my breath, I realized that my hand is still resting on her naked waist. Embarrassed, I quickly retract my hand and place it in my purse to look for the keys. It wasn't hard to find the keys in my simple and organized purse. The difficult part was trying to balance a sliding body, a sliding book, and now my sliding arm against Jessica's stomach.

After a few fumbles with the key, I desperately attempt to unlock the door. The sooner I open the door, the sooner my arms are free of weight --and free from Jessica's droopy stares. Already feeling uncomfortable from our bare skin contact, her drunk glares add to the awkwardness.

"Yuri ah..." I hear her say and my heart immediately starts to pace faster matching my increased breathing.

Embarrassed by my own physical reaction upon hearing Jessica say my name, I keep my eyes down and stare at the keyhole, unable to look at her.

"Mmmmm?" was the only response I gave as acknowledgement.

Unexpectedly, a burst of energy overcomes Jessica, lifting her lazy body off the door and more onto my body. She looped her arms around my neck and the next thing I knew, her lips were pressed tightly against mine.

Surprised and weak from the ultimate physical contact, I dropped the keys that I was holding. Then I feel Jessica's lips pulling away from mine as is her body. Seeing her fall backwards, I quickly drop everything in my hands to catch her.

The sound of the book hitting the floor can be heard from miles, but all I heard was my own loud heartbeats -and the heavy bang when my head hit the doorknob in my attempt to hold onto Jessica. My head starts to spin and I see stars and colors take over my vision.

Not long after, the door swings open and from my hunched over position, I see a never ending pair of legs. Sooyoung.

"What's with all the noise? We thought somebody got shot right outside our door." Sooyoung looks at the mess on the ground as well as the mess in my hands. "What happened to her? Looks like she's the one that got shot."

"More like she's had one too many shots," I said as I push past Sooyoung and entered our dorm. Must be otherwise she wouldn't have kissed me just now.

"Could you help me pick up my things? I'm going to bring Jessica to my room." Tiffany and Taeyeon rush over to my side to help me carry Jessica.

We gently place her on my bed and Taeyeon leaves to get a warm towel.

"Oh my god Yuwree! What happened tonight? Why did Sica drink so much?" Tiffany now lowers her voice. "Did she get rejected?"

I see that she's unbuttoning Jessica's jeans and ignore her question. "What are you doing?!" I scream while pointing at her hands.

"Changing her... Duh! Unless you want to do it."

Dying from embarrassment, I quickly grab my pj's and excuse myself to go shower.

That was so embarrassing. Obviously Tiffany was just helping Jessica change out of her clothes and into her pjs. I would have probably done that too. Maybe. Even if she hadn't kissed me and made me feel all disoriented because that kiss totally didn't mean anything. My heart is just racing because the soju is finally kicking in. As I'm passing by the living room, I quickly glance up at the big clock. 10:42pm. What can I say, I have an extremely high alcohol tolerance and I'm only starting to feel the effects an hour and fifteen mins later.

"Yuri unnie, what happened to Jessica? Is everything ok?" Yoona stopped me at the bathroom to ask.

"Yeah, what happened? Did that guy at the bookstore say something bad to Sica? If so, I'm going to go down there and break every bone in his body. After I eat something for energy, ya know,"Sooyoung also piped in.

I give them an exasperated look as I'm closing the door to the bathroom. "It's really nothing. We were having too much fun tonight and just got a little bit carried away with the soju. I'll tell you all about the guy later. I just want to shower."

Right before closing the door, Sooyoung whispers to me, "Come to our room later. Tell us all about Sica's guy. I'll make us ramen noodles."

The alcohol effects must have been getting worse and worse as time passed. During my shower, I had mistakenly used Jessica's kiwi shower gel as shampoo and her floral shampoo as body wash. And because of that, my shower took longer than usual.

"Yuri! Are you ok in there? You've been in there for a long time. You didn't pass out did you?" Taeyeon yelled.

"I'm fine! I'm actually almost done. Just wanted to really condition my hair tonight." Yeah right, more like taking my third shower to get the shampoo off my body.

As I continued to apply shower gel on my arms, I thought about how much fun the two of us were having tonight at the restaurant. Jessica opened up pretty quickly to Jae's mom and even with Jae she was smiling and laughing which is a relatively rare sight for me. Now if only this was caught on camera and broadcasted on TV then people would stop calling her 'Ice Princess'.

By the time I got out of the shower, everybody had already gone to bed. I was about to check if Sooyoung and Yoona were asleep yet, instead, my feet brought me to the edge of my bed --where Jessica was peacefully sleeping. Right next to her was the medication for her hand which served as a reminder that I still haven't applied it on her. I throw back the covers slightly so I can remove her injured hand from underneath, but what I saw underneath those blanket covers completely took me by surprise.

Underneath the covers, Jessica was wearing one of my tank tops and a pair of shorts that looks similar to mine. What kind of a joke is Tiffany trying to play here by making us look like we're wearing couple clothes.

I force my eyes to move away from Sica's shoulders to where her hand is and as I'm applying the ointment, I thought about the kiss. Why did she kiss me? Who did she think I was? When we left Yol Saek, she did seem a bit tipsy but not to the point where she was hallucinating and talking nonsense. As a matter of fact, she was pretty quiet the whole way back. Jessica only had trouble walking straight without my support so she was holding onto my arm for dear life. I even noticed a bit of bruising on my arm during my shower.

There was a faint knock at the door, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Unnie, are you still coming to my room? Sooyoung's getting sleepy waiting for you."

"Oh! Sorry about that, Yoona. I'm almost done here." I slip Jessica's hand under the blanket and stare at her briefly. It would be too awkward sleeping on the same bed with Jessica. Too awkward because we kissed and even more awkward when we wake up in the morning wearing the same clothes.

"Yoong, can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Sure! It'll be like a sleepover party."

"It's just that I'll probably be too tired to go back to my own room," I justified.

Before following Yoona to her room, I couldn't help kissing Sica lightly on the forehead. As I did that, she stirred a bit. Afraid that she was going to wake up, I sprinted out of the room and caught up to Yoona.

Sooyoung was sprawled across her bed with her laptop in front of her. Also in the room was Tiffany.

"Where's Taeyeon? I thought she would be sleeping already," I asked the girls in the room.

"I switched with her tonight. No way am I letting these two have advantage points," Tiffany replied.

"Interesting choice of clothes to change Jessica in, Fany."

"Hehe, you're welcome Yuwree! So tell us all about Sica's man. Is he tall? Good looking? Long hair or short?"

I'm still glaring at Tiffany over the pjs as I plop down on Yoona's bed. Suddenly, talking about the guy Jessica likes doesn't feel like fun anymore.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! When I went to go buy the book, I saw him! He's definitely tall, short hair, and very good looking. When he turned around to get the book, his t-shirt showed some really nice back muscles." The girls are all squealing. "And Yuri, did you see his arm muscles?" Sooyoung asked while falling backwards onto the bed.

"Yes." I really wasn't in the mood to gush over a guy right now.

"And his smile, oh my god! Yul, did he smile at you? 'Cause he smiled at me." Sooyoung challenged.

"He did more than just smile at me."

"Ahhhh! Yuwree, hurry up and tell us more!" the mushroom on my left demanded while shaking me.

I told them everything from how he didn't try to rip me off by recommending an expensive book to all the little tricks that I did on him.

"Could somebody that good really exist?" Yoona said rhetorically.

"Omo! Do you think he knew that you two are from SNSD so he was just acting?" Sooyoung asked.

"I don't think so. If he already knew, he would be a lot more hyper and ask you for an autograph. Right, Yuwree?"

"I guess." I didn't want to guess anymore. The more we talked about Kevin's good qualities, the more inferior other people are going to sound compared to this godly creature of perfection. "Sooyoung, where did you put the book?"

"In your drawer, under the jewellery box."

"So what should Yuwree's next step be?" Tiffany looked at the other two who were already half asleep. "You guys say it first 'cause I'm not letting you steal my ideas again."

"Fany, let's plan tomorrow. The alcohol is starting to make me sleepy." I crawl under the blanket and lay down next to Yoona.

"Yuwree..." Tiffany whines while shaking me by the arm. Tiffany raises my arm to smell it. "Why do you smell like Sica?"

"I used her shower gel by accident." I reach for Yoona's hand and she automatically snuggled closer. "Anyway, goodnight, Fany."