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14 September, Friday
"Starting the timer in three, two, one. Go!" Felix and Minho cheered Jisung on as he tried to down 10 shots in less than a minute. The dimly lit blue and purple lights shone above them, the music loud and the air full of the smells of weed, alcohol and sweat.
"Times up!" Felix yelled over the music just as Jisung downed his last shot.
"What the fuck!?" A flushed Minho laughed, "You're not making it past 30."
The three drunk friends were in the club celebrating Jisung's twenty-third birthday. He had said all he wanted for his birthday was for his friends to put on some slutty outfits and get extremely wasted at the club, and that's exactly what they did.
"Minho, aren't your parents gonna kill you for this?" Felix asked, finally putting his phone down.
"Only if they find out." Minho winked and downed another shot.
"Wait, waitwaiwai, I want to make a toast!" Jisung stumbled closer to his two friends, "May our night be as lit as my future! And my- " he fell forward, Minho catching him while Felix laughed.
"Your night is about to end if you don't slow the fuck down!" Felix said and hit his shoulder.
Jisung stood up and closed his eyes as Minho balanced tried to balance him, which proved to be difficult since he was just as drunk. "But Felix, it's my birthdaaaaayyyyyy."
Felix had already logged out of the conversation as he started patting his pockets and looking around frantically.
"Why? What's wrong, what are you looking for?" Minho asked.
"Where's my vape?" He sounded stressed.
"It's in your hand, you idiot." Jisung laughed, "Holy shit, just as drunk as I am."
"Shut up." Felix said and took a hit. He inhaled the smoke before breathing it out through his nose.
"Minho, you try doing it!" Jisung said to his best friend.
"Doing what?"
"10 shots in 1 minute." Jisung said.
"I would like to keep my liver."
"Booooo, we can get you a new one if it starts failing." Jisung rolled his eyes, "Come on, just try if. Felix will do it, too." Jisung nudged Felix to help him convince Minho.
"I am?" Felix held the smoke in his mouth, "I am." He quickly said after seeing Jisung's threatening gaze.
"Fine." Minho rolled his eyes, "I swear you're gonna kill me these days." He said as a smiley Jisung poured the shots for him.
"I'm starting the timer!" Felix said.
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A phone kept chiming. Messages after messages coming through. Jisung groaned and opened his eyes, his late night and early morning activities catching up to him as his body ached. He searched around him for the phone, which had cut his sleep shorter. He reached his hand to the floor and finally found it.
Twenty-seven missed calls and eighty-one texts. He looked closer as he realised that it was Minho's phone. The phone rang again, the caller ID showing who Jisung knew to be Minho's dad.
Groggily, he sat up in bed and answered the phone. "Mr Lee? It's Jisung." Jisung said into the phone, his voice hoarse from alcohol and having just woken up.
"Good morning, Jisung-ah. Where is Lee Minho?"
Oh shit. Jisung fully woke up and quickly shook his friend, who was lying next to him. "Here he is, just one second." Jisung said into the phone before putting it far from his mouth to whisper hell at Minho.
"Wake the fuck up! Your dad is mad!" Jisung yelled at Minho.
"Ugh, what does he want." Minho complained and took the phone. Answering with his eyes still closed. "Dad?"
Minho's face scrunched and he held the phone away from his ear as he yelled. "But why does that matter? It's not like I like women anyway." He deadpanned. He moved the phone away again as his dad shouted yet again.
"Now?" He asked. "Okay, okay. I'll be there in an hour." His dad started shouting again, but Minho hung up before he would hear any of it.
Minho sat up and started typing something in Google until he found what he was looking for.
'SCANDAL MAGNET OF LEETECH STRIKES AGAIN'
Jisung got closer as the screen to read the article with Minho.
'Lee Minho, the 25-year-old heir to the LeeTech empire, has once again found himself at the centre of a scandal. The young executive, who has a history of controversial behavior, was spotted at a exclusive club in the late hours of Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning, surrounded by a group of women and engaging in what witnesses describe as "rowdy" and "inappropriate" behavior.
According to eyewitnesses, Minho was seen drinking excessively, dancing on tables, and engaging in suggestive behaviour with several women...'
"Suggestive behaviour? I'm fucking gay what the fuck." Minho clicked onto the video evidence in the article. In the video, he was sitting on a couch surrounded by three women. "I don't even remember that shit. Where were you?" He turned to look at Jisung.
"I'm next to you passed out on the couch." Jisung snorted as he pointed at himself in the picture where he was laying next to his best friend, his face turned away from the camera.
"Ugh, I'm too hung over to deal with my parents." He groaned and slipped out of bed.
"While you're doing that, I'm gonna recharge. Tonight's round two for Felix's birthday." Jisung said, excited as he watched Minho walk to the bathroom in just his boxers while he got back under the covers.
"Try not to die before twenty-four. I obviously can't make it tonight, but have fun." Minho left the door slightly open so he could still hear Jisung as he went to the toilet to pee.
"I won't drink for the next month after this." Jisung said.
"Liar." Minho scoffed and flushed the toilet before walking to the sink to wash his hands.
"I'm being honest! Scout's promise!" Jisung said in a stern voice.
"You got kicked out of the boy scouts for stealing all the cookies." Minho reminded, "I don't know if I trust a thief. "
"I was 12."
"Stealing at such a tongue age." Minho tsked.
"Fuck you. I swear I hate you trust fund kids." Jisung complained, and Minho chuckled before turning on the shower water.
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"Hello, sunshines! Welcome back to my channel. I'm here with my best friend..." he pointed to him so he could introduce himself.
"Hyunjin." He smiled into the camera.
"And today I'll be using my birthday PR to do his makeup while we answer some of your questions." Felix finished introducing his video.
Felix was a well known beauty influencer with 30M subscribers on YouTube, 10M followers on Instagram and 12M followers on tiktok.
"First, I'll be using the Rare Beauty liquid touch weightless foundation." He showed the bottle to the camera before putting some on Hyunjin's face. "Read the first question." He said as he lightly dabbed his makeup brush against Hyunjin's face.
"You're in my face." Hyunjin complained.
"Just take the tablet and look at it." Felix pushed the device closer.
"Ah, this one is for you." Hyunjin said in Korean before switching back to English, "When are you doing a boyfriend reveal?"
"Straight into it huh?" Felix joked.
"He's painfully single so I wouldn't expect one for a while." Hyunjin answered on Felix's behalf.
"Haha very funny Hyunjin. But yes I am currently single so no boyfriend reveal, sorry to disappoint." Felix answered.
"How are you friends with so many rich people? Share your tips!" Hyunjin read the next question.
"So the thing about rich people right." Felix started, "They tend to do a lot of charity work. Just look helpless, and they'll take you in out of pity." Felix joked.
Hyunjin closed his eyes, and Felix fixed the foundation there and snorted at his reply, "I'm glad you're aware of how terrible you look today."
"I barely got any sleep because of Jisung." Felix complained even though he had no problem with it when they were partying until the morning.
"You should be doing this make up on yourself, you need it." Hyunjin joked.
"Keep talking and I'll make you look like the clown you are." Felix quickly said before looking for the next item. "Okay next I'm gonna go in with rare beauty concealer. I really love this concealer so much. It's good for oily skin and can still give you that glowy skin look."
Hyunjin looked at the camera and gave it a awkward thumbs up while Felix spoke.
"I'm gonna go in the inner corners here and just a bit here. We don't need much because Hyunjin is absolutely flawless!" Felix said.
"Do you have a crush on me sir?" Hyunjin lifted an eyebrow.
"And you ruined it." Felix dramatically sighed, "Shut up and just read the questions."
Hyunjin scrunched his face and pulled his tongue out before looking back at the tablet.
"Hey don't do that! I'm trying to do your makeup here, jeez." Felix complained and Hyunjin just rolled his eyes in response.
"Hyunjin, spoilers for the next fashion event?" Hyunjin read out loud. "Ummmmm." He trailed off in thought.
Hyunjin worked as a fashion designer. Due to his amazing talent and his lineage of other amazing artists, he quickly gained the attention of the public eye. Hosting many art events and fashion shows all over the world as well as working with other big names in the fashion industry.
"Splash." Hyunjin smiled in contentment after the very vague spoiler.
"Wow, how helpful." Felix said sarcastically. The two continued on filming and reading and answering questions until Felix was done with Hyunjin's makeup about an hour later.
"That's it for today's video, guys. Thank you to Rare Beauty for all the goodies they sent me, I will enjoy using them. I'm sure Hyunjin enjoyed being my lab rat for the video."
"Lab rat?" Hyunjin looked at him offended.
"What? You thought I had you here for anything other than being my experiment device?" Felix laughed before continuing with his outro, "Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell so you don't miss a video. Let's do it together." He nudged Hyunjin to say his outro with him.
"Bye, Sunshines." Felix and Hyunjin waved at the camera at the same time. Felix went forward to stop the video.
"Go get ready while I send these clips to Hana so she can start editing." Felix said to Hyunjin.
"Felix, we're only leaving in three hours."
"That's why I'm telling you to start getting ready!" Felix hurried him up.
Hyunjin sighed as he got up and walked into the next room. Years of their friendship taught him it was better not to argue with him over these kinds of stuff.
Once Felix had finished off doing his job he too got up to prepare for his birthday night. Jisung had gone wild for his special day and he was determined to go even crazier for his.