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Chapter 1/Preface:  Why does everyone have a secret?
As Sullyoon approached the cafe, she saw Yeji standing outside and beamed a smile at her.She squealed, "YEJI" and excitedly scurried toward her, giving her a quick hug.Yeji said, "Hi Yoona!"They went inside, spying Heejin and Sohyun sitting at a table.  Yeji pulled a chair out for Sullyoon and then sat down herself.Sullyoon and Sohyun looked at each other, trying not to giggle or even smile, not revealing that they obviously knew each other from the April Fool's Day party.  Yeji and Heejin had already seen through their charade, but an unknowing observer would be certain they didn't know each other.Yeji said, "Yoona!  I want you to meet Heejin and Sohyun."Sullyoon bowed to each and shook their hands.Heejin said, "Sohyun, meet the famous Yeji as well!"Sohyun said, "She's stunning in person, but not as pretty as Yoona..."Yeji said, "What?"Sullyoon blushed.Yeji said, "Anyway... Heejin and I have a proposal and have chosen Sohyun and Yoona as the representatives of your groups."Sullyoon said, "Uh?  Why me?  I'm the worst representative…  No one ever lets me represent."Heejin said, "Well, Sohyun was chosen because only her and Xinyu know about this, so she is obviously going to be in charge."Yeji said, "I chose you because... Haewon, Lily and Bae - and apparently Jiwoo - have motives.  That leaves you..."Sullyoon said, "You're forgetting Kyujin, but yeah... I guess that leaves me..."Heejin said, "Did you happen to ever watch any episodes of the TripleS reality show, 'Badge War'?""Of course!  I follow everything that Sohy...  I mean... I might have seen one or two episodes."Yeji said, "What do you think about this?  We have the six Nmixx members versus six TripleS members in our own little 'Badge War' in the JYP party room."Sullyoon looked shocked and amazed.  "YES!"Sohyun smiled, "Isn't this a fantastic idea?"Heejin said, "Yeji and I will be MC's since I'm in the same company as TripleS and Yeji is the same company as Nmixx.  It appears fair that way."Yeji said, "It isn't, because Heejin knows Bae, Lily, and Haewon - but I’ll make sure she behaves.""I don’t necessarily like any of those people, also, you making sure I behave?  You weren’t doing that the last time we met…  I was making sure YOU behaved, over and over.”Sohyun said, "MC drama...  So, Yoona, do you have a favorite TripleS member?  I haven't totally decided who our six will be!"Yoona said, "You know who my favorite member is, dummy..."Sohyun winked.Yeji said, "Heejin and I are happy to MC, but... we need someone to design the games.  I don't want 12 angry girls yelling at me for having stupid games."Sullyoon looked at Sohyun.  Sohyun gave her back a knowing glance and said, "The choice is obvious... you know her quite well, Heejin..."***Kyujin grabbed Jiwoo around the waist from behind.  "My-jjyu...  Why is Yoona calling a group meeting?  It is very strange!"

"Don't worry twinsie...  She might surprise you!"

Kyujin flipped around to the front of Jiwoo and looked at her in the eyes.  "You know something?"

"I know a lot of things!"

Kyujin said mostly to herself, "What is even happening right now?"

All six girls gathered on couches in the dorm's living room.  Kyujin and Jiwoo on one.  Bae and Haewon on another.  Lily sat alone.

Sullyoon stood in the center.  "I have been tasked with bringing Nmixx to an evening of fun games.  Has anyone ever watched either season of TripleS badge wars?

Kyujin said, "I watched!  Soomin and Yeonji are the cutest things ever!  It was very fun to see them all competitive with each other.  We should compete more!"

Sullyoon said, "Perfect!  We are going to have our own badge war!"

Bae said, "WITH TRIPLES?"

Haewon said, "Why would YOU care about TripleS?"

Bae looked down and without looking at Haewon said, "Umm... Soomin and Yeonji are the cutest things ever?"  Bae looked up and raised her eyebrow to Haewon.

"You and Yoona know them!"

"No... that's dumb..."

Sullyoon said, "I don't know anyone..."

Jiwoo was feeling very left out, obviously knowing Sohyun and Xinyu as well.  She said loudly, "IF anyone knew them, I would too, but obviously I don't..."

Sullyoon said, "You and Jinsol know Yeji all of a sudden... if we are going to expose secrets..."

Lily said, "Calm down... no one is exposing anything.  Probably...  Continue Yoona..."

"The six of us and six TripleS members will be having our own badge war.  No cameras... we can do and say whatever we want with no one watching.  Cursing allowed."

Lily said, "Nauuurrrrrr!  No cursing!"

"We are all going to dress the same, kind of like ISAC, so we have to decide on that.  Also, it is going to be Halloween themed, so prepare to be scared!"

Jiwoo rubbed her hands together, "HOW FUN!  I've been waiting for... Nothing..."

Haewon said, "We are watching you too..."

Lily said, "Anyone who has ever told Jiwoo a secret should be ashamed of themselves..."

Jiwoo shrugged.  Bae looked down again.

Kyujin said, "Why do I feel like I don't know anyone in this dorm anymore?"

Bae said, "Haha, just wait!"

Sullyoon said, "That's all!  Go back to whatever annoying things you were doing."

***
Sohyun and Xinyu sat together at a table in the back room of a cafe.  They had a lengthy discussion about who they wanted to invite to join them and today was finally the day.

Nakyoung was the first to arrive.  She pulled out a chair and sat at the table next to Xinyu.  "Are were filming something together?"

"Nope, no cameras allowed," said Sohyun.

"Why am I here?"

"Wait for the others!"

"Others?"

It wasn't long before Yooyeon joined them.  She slowly approached, her brain trying to compute what was going on, "Seems like I know the three people at this table..."

Nakyoung said, "You can sit over there at the other table if you want.  Might be safer, these two are up to something."

"Aren't they always?  Are we the wedding party?"

A very loud voice followed Yooyeon.  "SOHYUN, XINYU!  I'm here!"  Chaeyeon bounded into the room excitedly.  "Oh, more people... I thought I was the only special one."

Yooyeon said, "You're special alright..."

Chaeyeon grabbed her around the waist.  "Yooyeon…"

Yooyeon pretended like she hated the attention.

The sixth girl wasn't far behind.  Seoyeon grabbed a chair at the table as well.  "What the heck is this about?"

Sohyun said, "I have been tasked with gathering six girls from TripleS for a very unique badge war."

Nakyung said, "Again so soon?"

Yooyeon said, "I am NOT going to pull Chaeyeon's butt out of the mud again..."

Chaeyeon said, "Booooo...  I tried my hardest..."

"... not to smudge your makeup," Seoyeon finished her sentence.  "You got to pick who you wanted on your team?"

"Yes, Xinyu and I decided."

"Why the two of you?"

"You'll see in time.  This one will be much more fun.  There will be no cameras, we can do whatever we want, or need to... to win…"

Seoyeon said, "OH?  I like to win."

Nakyoung asked, "But just the six of us competing against each other?"

"Oh no!  Wait for it... we will be competing against six girls from... wait for it..."

Seoyeon said, "Xinyu, slap her please."

Xinyu kissed Sohyun's cheek and blurted out, "NMIXX!"

Chaeyeon said, "Wait, what?"

Nakyoung said, "The six of us against Nmixx?  Is there a prize?"

"I'm sure there is," said Sohyun.  Xinyu nodded enthusiastically.

Chaeyeon said, "But we can't tell any of the other girls?"

"No... this is a big secret.  If you can't keep it, I will replace you with someone who can..."

"I can keep it.  Can Seoyeon?"

"What? Why single me out?  If anyone can't keep a secret, it is Xinyu..."

Xinyu said, "I don't have any secrets, other than that I already know Jinsol, Yoona, and Jiwoo..."

Sohyun face-palmed.

Yooyeon said, "So this is a new secret on top of a pile of secrets that we may or may not know about..."

Chaeyeon said, "Do you know about them?"

"Obviously!" she shrugged, Nakyoung, Chaeyeon and Seoyeon had no idea if she was lying or not.

Sohyun said, "Anyway... it is going to be Halloween themed and we will all dress the same.  DON'T TELL ANY OTHER GIRLS, we will have a solid excuse for all of us to be away that night.  Got it?"

The girls all nodded. 
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Chapter 1:  Many Meetings
Yeji felt strange sitting in the party room on a couch, scrolling through Instagram, nothing important to do.  She had never been there before without a sense of urgency, getting decorations hung, getting food ready, or getting everything cleaned up after.  But today… her job was much simpler than usual.Finally, there was a knock on the door.  “Hwang!  Open up!”Yeji jumped to her feet and excitedly ran to the door and opened it.  Heejin smiled at her from ear to ear and jumped into her arms.  Yeji quickly carried her inside the party room and kissed her.Heejin said, “Let’s forget this stupid competition and you and me get serious for the rest of the evening.”Yeji said, “I was just sitting on the couch wondering why I was just sitting on the couch.  It is strange not having to do… something… in here…”“See!  Let’s make out!”Yeji’s phone started ringing.  She grabbed Heejin by the waste and pushed her off of her hips.  Heejin said, “Boooo.”Yeji answered her phone, “Yeji here!”It was a very brief conversation and she put her phone away again.  “Nmixx will be here shortly.”“Curses!”“Check on your girls?”Heejin pulled out her phone and made a call.  She only said, “E.t.a.?” and then hung up.Yeji said, “Isn’t it great having helpers to set everything up and keep track of the girls?”“Yeah… this first game was crazy to set up.  There is no way we could have done it…”Yeji and Heejin, and the secret game designer, put together their respective cache of managers and helpers of several groups both current and previous, to help get everything set up and keep eyes on the girls.Only a minute later, there was a knock at the door.  A loud bossy voice vaguely resembling Haewon’s said, “Nmixx is here!  Open this door or we’ll ‘Break the Wall’!”As Yeji walked to the door, Heejin said, “I can’t wait to see how Hornywon behaves in front of ALL of her groupmates.”Yeji giggled as she opened the door.Haewon pushed the door open past a startled Yeji and five of six Nmixx members nearly ran her over as they bolted into the room.  Sullyoon respectfully stayed behind the crowd and bowed to Yeji.  Yeji gave her a brief hug. Sullyoon said, “This is my life… every day…”Nmixx were wearing stylish black hoodies and light grey sweatpants with a darker grey jacket.  Haewon was also wearing a black cloth hat.

Bae spied Heejin in the room and instantly ran toward her, giving her a massive hug and using all of her height to pick up the tiny Heejin and squeeze her.Kyujin was shocked at Sullyoon hugging Yeji and was instantly starstruck by the girl she has always looked up to.  Well, Ryujin wasn’t here, but Yeji was next in line…  She said, “Can I get a hug too?”Yeji shrugged and gave her an awkward hug.Sullyoon said to Heejin, “Nice to meet you again, Heejin.  Excuse my clingy friend.”Jiwoo joined them as Bae put Heejin down.  Lily and Haewon gave Heejin greetings and brief hugs as well.Heejin said, “Why is Jiwoo staring at me like that?”Jiwoo shook her hands in front of her face and said, “Noooo, sorry…”Sullyoon said, “We might have heard stories about you… from back in the old days… from someone and her little friend…”Heejin looked worried, “Oh, I see… that’s never good for Heejin.”Bae said, “They are ALL true!”Heejin said, “Last time I was at a gathering with Bae, she spilled a drink all over my sweater.  Needless to say, the Cola stain never did come out of that…”Bae looked down.Heejin and Yeji looked at each other.  Yeji said, “We need to borrow Lily for one brief moment, we will be right back.  Jinsol will entertain you all with a skit or a joke.”Kyujin and Jiwoo simultaneously said, “Nooooooo.”Heejin grabbed one of Lily’s arms and Yeji the other and they dragged her to the door and outside of the party room.  Haewon watched the entire thing suspiciously, but pretended to jeer at Bae and not be worried.Yeji got out her phone.  “I want to show you this clip.”Lily said, “Ohhhhr?”Yeji held it up to her as played it.  Lily closed her eyes as she was on a show with Bae and accidently called her Haewon.“Naurrrrrrr.  I always forget people’s names.  I’ve called Jiwoo Kyujin before… I’m just dumb…” pleaded Lily.Heejin said in English, “INTERVENTION…”“Naurrrrr.  Stopppppp.  It is nothing.”Yeji said, “We’re going to be watching you two tonight.”Lily said, “Naurrrrr!” and quickly ran away from them, back into the party room and grabbed Jiwoo around the waste as if she might save her.Jiwoo said, “What is this?”Lily said, “My-jjyu-love!”  It wasn’t lost on Heejin and Yeji that she ‘accidently’ called Haewon Hae-love at the July party.  Is she trying to throw them off the scent?Haewon knew exactly what was going on, but pretended to be oblivious.Heejin said to Lily, “You aren’t a better actress than Bae.”Lily totally ignored her.There was another knock at the door.  A loud voice resembling Sohyun said, “’Girls never die!’ We are TripleS!”Yeji opened the door and said, “Sohyun!  Nice to see you again!”The TripleS girls were re-wearing their outfits from ISAC, tan sweatpants and a matching jacket over white tee shirts.

Each TripleS girl greeted Yeji with a bow and a handshake.  First Sohyun, then Xinyu, then Seoyeon, then Nakyoung, then Yooyeon, and then finally Chaeyeon.Heejin ran over and gave them each a hug.  Heejin said, “TripleS is here!”Kyujin clapped, she excitedly put her arms around Jiwoo and said, “Yay, we all get to meet TripleS for the first time!”While it appeared that each group was about to line up for formal introductions, Xinyu suddenly bolted from her group and ran as fast as she could to Bae.  They fell into a tight hug and Xinyu kissed her.Sohyun said, “My wife and her mistress… well one of them…”Lily whispered to Haewon, “What the…?  Did that really just happen?”Kyujin said to Jiwoo, “Why is that gigantic Chinese girl molesting Jinsol?”Jiwoo shrugged, pretending she didn’t know anything.Sullyoon said, “So much for that secret… well what the fuck…”  She bolted toward Sohyun and gave her a massive hug as well.  She kissed her briefly, nothing like Bae and Xinyu going at it, but also far from simple peck.Haewon said to Lily, loud enough for everyone else to hear, “WE WERE RIGHT!”Jiwoo was not the best actress and pretended to be in shock that those two things just happened.  Luckily, no one was really paying attention to her bad acting.  Unlike Nmixx, the TripleS girls were like, ‘what’s the big deal’?Heejin said, “Nmixx is dying, but you girls aren’t the slightest bit surprised.”Nakyoung said, “Please… have you met those two?”Heejin said, mostly to herself, “Not like that, but now it is on the list of things to do…”Uncomfortable that there were multiple other huggings going on without her, Chaeyeon put her arms around Yooyeon from behind and laid her head on her shoulder.Seoyeon said, “I see fractures all over the place in that group… this should be easy for us to win…”Nakyoung said, “Girl… we didn’t even start yet…”Seoyeon turned around and grabbed Nakyoung’s shoulders, facing her, shaking her a bit.  “Think about what we’re doing, I guarantee the game has already started, BE READY.”Sullyoon let go of Sohyun, blushed, and went back to stand next to Haewon.  She stood there a bit, but was being judged too harshly, so she moved and went and stood next to Kyujin and Jiwoo instead.Yeji said, “We are going to start soon!  Jinsol, the TripleS girl, though stunning, is now your enemy.”Bae said, “Fine…”  She pushed Xinyu off of her and they fought each other like cats, eventually each going to be with the rest of their group.Yeji said, “Quiet please!”The girls all stood at attention watching Yeji like she was the only thing they ever needed to watch.“For the first game, we are actually going on a little field trip!”Haewon said, “Whoa!  We are doing something outside of the party room?”“Just for the first game, then we will come back for the rest of the evening.  Is everyone ready to walk?”The girls all yelled, “Yes!”Heejin and Yeji led them outside of the party room, outside of the JYP building and they marched down the street.  It was after 16:00 and the sun had just set, under the cover of night the girls walked to their first mission.***Yeji and Heejin led the girls, in two packs of 6 down the sidewalk on their way to the secret location.  TripleS was first and generally stayed close to each other, but Nmixx were in pairs, Lily and Haewon, Sullyoon and Bae, and Jiwoo and Kyujin, each pair behind the other, all three pairs behind TripleS.Jiwoo was mindlessly chattering away to Kyujin when she suddenly realized Kyujin was no longer standing next to her, so she ran up between Sullyoon and Bae.Kyujin quickly made her made past the rest of Nmixx and tapped Chaeyeon on the shoulder.  Chaeyeon was immediately startled, jumped a bit and then saw Kyujin standing there.  Chaeyeon smiled at her cutely.Kyujin said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."Nakyoung overheard and said, "She startles if you sigh too loudly."Chaeyeon said to Nakyoung, "Shut it..."  She turned to Kyujin, "Don't worry, I wasn't expecting anyone so cute to be suddenly standing next to me!"Kyujin said, everyone still walking, "Oh stop...  I hope this doesn't make you feel bad, but I kind of grew up with 'Talk! Talk! Boni Hani'.  I watched whenever I could when you were MC.  I loved it!""Awww, thank you so much!  I'm glad you enjoyed the show!  It seems like so long ago now...  How old are you?""I'm an '06.""Ah, like Shion, Lynn and Sullin.  I'm an '04.  Not that much older.  Not going to lie, it is strange to be hanging out with the older girls..."Nakyoung, still listening, said, "I'm not old..."Chaeyeon said, "Stop listening to my conversation, no one is talking to you..."The mass of girls still moving forward on the sidewalk, Xinyu grabbed Chaeyeon around the waist.  "Chaeyeon, stop talking to the enemy..."Chaeyeon said, "Oh really?  I saw what you were doing with the enemy a few minutes ago..."Kyujin said, "Yeah... how do you know Jinsol anyway?"Xinyu let go of Chaeyeon and put her arms around Sohyun instead, who gave her a strange look."Chaeyeon said, "I'm pretty used to things going on around me that I have no clue about."Kyujin said, "I am not..."Jiwoo saw what was going on up there and grabbed Kyujin and pulled her back.  Kyujin gave her an evil look and nearly tripped while being pulled back to Jiwoo’s side.Up at the front of the pack, Yooyeon was generally shy, but was determined not to let this opportunity pass her by.  She ran up beside Yeji.  "Am I allowed to speak with the MC's?"Yeji said, "Of course!  How are you Yooyeon?""A bit star struck and shy.  I've looked up to you for a long time...""You make me sound like I'm an old lady, we're the same age, aren't we?""You're a year older than me, I think."Yeji shrugged.Yooyeon said, "But still... that's not what I meant!"Heejin said, "Excuse me?  What about Jeon Heejin?  I'm a bit famous also..."Yooyeon smiled at her.  "I've spoken with you before... Heejin... THIS IS YEJI!"Heejin scoffed, "Yeah yeah, Hwang this, Hwang that..."Yeji said, "Heejin is very jealous of me.  I love it!"Heejin said, "I'm not really... but Yooyeon, you better pretend like you are starstruck around me too..."Yooyeon said thick with sarcasm, "I guess...  Oh... Jeon Heejin... I've looked up to you for a long time also... blah blah…"After Kyujin  was pulled away from Chaeyeon, lonely Chaeyeon ran up to Yooyeon and grabbed her, "Yooyeon... I'm getting tired of walking...""Do you want me to carry you or something?"Yeji turned to her, "We don't have much farther to go."Chaeyeon looked startled that Yeji addressed her and was embarrassed for her whining.  She sunk back into the pack, pulling Yooyeon along with her.Lily and Haewon were also having a conversation.  Haewon said, "You see what Kyujin did?"Lily said, "Yearrhhhhhhh.  We shouldn't bother the enemy.""I don't know Lily...  Clearly Yoona and Jinsol know Xinyu and Sohyun.  Now Kyujin is sucking up to Chaeyeon.  Maybe we should go talk to one of them also?"Lily looked at Haewon, unsure what to say.  "Alright... who?""Whoever is closest... what difference does it make?""Come on Hornywon... who do you want to talk to?""She's not here, I just want to win badges!  That's what we are doing, right.""Honestly, I have no clue.  Let's talk to Nakyoung, I think she is a vocalist.""Lily... think strategically... I think Seoyeon is very competitive, fun, and no one else from Nmixx seems to randomly kiss her.""Hornywon wants Seoyeon?"Haewon stomped both feet, grabbed Lily's wrist and pulled her ahead to Seoyeon.Seoyeon turned to look at them.  She raised her hand and said, "Help! Help!  I'm being attacked!"Nakyoung said, "Oh, you're fine..."  Seoyeon looked at Nakyoung, expecting her to help.  Instead, Lily said, "Naurrrrr, we just want to chat and meet everyone!"Seoyeon eyed them suspiciously. Haewon said, "She's lying.  I'm trying to get information from you and scare you, in case it gives us an advantage later."Seoyeon eyed Haewon even more suspiciously, totally unsure if she was kidding, serious, or something in between.Lily said, "Naurrrrr, she's being stupid...  We just want to get to know you."  Lily held out her hand, "I'm Lily!"Seoyeon warily shook her hand, "What are you two?  Good cop, bad cop?"Yeji turned around, she said, "Seoyeon!  Don't get between those two, they are a thing!"Seoyeon looked at Yeji like she was an alien.  "What even is going on around here?  Am I being pranked?"Haewon said, "Ignore Yeji... she's... confused... misinformed..."Heejin yelled, "I HAVE EVIDENCE!"Yooyeon said, "Did you just call Yeji confused and misinformed?  Now I REALLY want to beat Nmixx..."Lily said, "This plan isn’t going well..."Haewon said, "Seoyeon, later, when you need a surprise ally... come find us!"Sullyoon whispered to Bae, "Did you just hear all of that?"Bae nodded emphatically.Sullyoon said, "We are going to play dumb and pretend like that didn't happen and we aren't wondering things, just so we don't get exposed for other things our self?"Bae nodded and started a lengthy mime about Sullyoon kissing Arin and then playing naked BlackPink monopoly with her and Sohyun."Right..." said Sullyoon. Bae said, “Look at Jiwoo behaving…”“She loves it when people think she is oblivious.”“Well, her mother would be most embarrassed of the three of us…” said Bae.Sullyoon smiled widely.***Yeji yelled, “Everyone!  We are here!  Stop and listen for a moment.”The girls gathered in a huge mass. Yeji said, “We are taking over this supermarket for a bit, and to do that we had to kick out some of the patrons.  To appease them for their inconvenience, they are standing outside the doors, please take a moment to sign something for them, they were supplied with postcards and markers.  There is only a dozen or so people.”TripleS and NMixx split into groups.  Seoyeon made eye contact with each of her members, “You all know we are being watched… Nmixx has no idea they are being watched… Don’t do anything dumb…”  The girls all nodded at her.After about five minutes of signing various things, they all walked into the very large supermarket.Lily asked Haewon, “We are going shopping?”Haewon replied, “Not exactly what I was expecting for a ‘game’.”Seoyeon yelled, “I LOVE TO SHOP FOR GROCERIES FOR THE KIDS.”Nakyoung said, “She is already too good at the first game.”Yooyeon said, “Nakyoung… we are working TOGETHER at this…”Nakyoung looked at her dubiously.  “We’ll see…”Chaeyeon said, “We need to work together, first priority, CRUSHING NMIXX!”Kyujin yelled, “BUT MY NEW FRIEND…”Chaeyeon shrugged and said, “Sorry…”Yooyeon said, “Nice pep talk, only because you can’t actually do anything alone…”Chaeyeon said, “TOGETHER…”Both Nmixx and Triples gathered just inside the doors.  Heejin said, “Give us one moment to make sure everything is ready.”TripleS and Nmixx both mingled in their own groups, giggling about various things that happened when they were signing things outside.  Seoyeon saw an opening, one member of Nmixx wasn’t really engaged in the chat, just standing there wishing she could just go home.Learning exactly what NOT to do from Lily and Haewon, but knowing time was short, Seoyeon snuck up to Sullyoon.  “Hi Sullyoon!  Nice to meet you!  I’m Seoyeon!”Sullyoon turned to her and smiled.  “Hi Seoyeon, nice to meet you as well.  You can call me Yoona.”“You seem different than the rest of them…”“Oh, you noticed so quickly?  I’m the only introvert.  I mostly just ignore them as often as possible.”“TripleS is a good mix of introverts and extroverts.”“Yeah… but 23 other girls… seems like you are always stuck with someone that annoys you…”“Well, we don’t all live together, there are separate dorms, but also… we are always stuck with someone we like!”“I see…”“I was the very first member… so… I’m kind of the mom of the group.  If you get tired of your group, you can come join us!  I’ll take good care of you!”Sullyoon knew she was being buttered up, but didn’t really care.  She said, “Maybe…  Look Heejin is back!  You shouldn’t be seen over here.”Seoyeon shuffled back to her group.Heejin was holding 12 envelopes.  A store employee handed Yeji a microphone and bowed to her.  Yeji said, “We have…” she was startled at hearing herself so loudly.  The girls all looked around at the Yeji voice booming around them.  “…taken over the store’s PA system!”The girls ‘ooohed and aaahed’.Yeji said, “Is everyone ready to hear the rules of the first game?”The girls all cheered.Yeji continued, “We kicked out the few patrons of this fine establishment for about an hour, thank you for giving them a memorable moment in return.  Our fine game designer has given you all a fun first game for the first group badge or badges.  This game is very simple.  Why is my voice so loud on this thing?”Bae yelled, “Simple enough even for Jiwoo?”  Jiwoo pushed her.Yooyeon whispered to Chaeyeon, “And Chaeyeon…”  Chaeyeon gave her an evil look, then sad eyes.Yeji continued again, shooting back at Bae, “Jinsol, please don’t knock over any displays…”  Bae shrugged and looked down as Jiwoo pointed and laughed.  “We have twelve envelopes, that is an envelope for each of you.  Heejin will hand them out as I’m talking.  Don’t open them yet…”Six envelopes had Nmixx written on them, and six had TripleS written on them.  Heejin randomly handed them out to the appropriate groups.“You will only have five minutes.  The time starts when I say ‘GO’.  You will open the envelopes and read the clue.  The clue has two parts:  Part one tells you which item in this store you are looking for.  Part two is a question about one of your opponents.  You find the item mentioned in the clue and behind that item will be TWO photocards.  One of the photocards is the girl who is the correct answer.  Grab the one you think is correct and come back to the front of the store.  If you can’t find the item in five minutes, you get nothing.  You CANNOT ask for help from your groupmates, you are all alone for this game.  ALSO NO PHONES.”Lily said, “Intense…  And this is only the first game…”Kyujin said, “For real…”Nakyoung said, “This is pretty easy, Nmixx already looks nervous.  They have no clue what these games are going to be like.”Yooyeon said, “Don’t you think maybe they would have watched our shows before coming here, if they hadn’t seen them already?”Nakyoung shrugged, “Maybe… They are busy…”Seoyeon said, “Focus… let’s get this done…”Sohyun and Xinyu were holding hands.  Seoyeon pulled their hands apart.  “FOCUS!”  They both looked at her like she was crazy and got ready to open their envelopes.Out of nowhere, Yeji said, “GO!”Sullyoon and Jiwoo, to not make Bae correct, were ready and both started opening their envelopes.  Seoyeon and Nakyoung already ran into the store and up the middle aisle as they were opening them.Nakyoung read her clue, “‘This girl’s favorite food is fish, she can be found behind this refrigerated spread named for an American City’.  OMG why is this so hard.  I hope everyone’s is this hard…  I’m looking for fish?”  She immediately started running toward the fresh seafood.  “Nono… I’m looking for the spread…  I have no idea what I’m looking for…”  She sprinted off toward the butter in the refrigerator section.Seoyeon read her clue also, “’This girl refuses to eat vegetables, she can be found behind something named for the Italian word for slipper and containing a Mediterranean fruit.’  WTF, this is hard… Well, the answer is Jiwoo… anyone would know that, now what the heck food am I looking for…”  She saw Nakyoung suddenly change direction and run the other way.  Seoyeon took off to the produce section, hoping the fruit would give her a clue.Sullyoon and Jiwoo simultaneously opened their envelopes.  Sullyoon read hers, “’This girl’s favorite snack is Oreos, she can be found behind this American snack containing peanut butter, required for Halloween.’”  She got as excited as Sullyoon can get.  She told Jiwoo, “I THINK I KNOW!”  She bolted off toward the candy.Jiwoo read hers, “’This girl likes mint with chocolate…’”  She interrupted herself, “GROSS…”  Then she continued reading, “’She can be found behind this famous Korean snack filled with marshmallow perfect for Halloween.’”  She giggled to herself, “HAHA, the girl that can eat a dozen cookies gets the easiest question!”  She bolted toward the dessert section.Chaeyeon dropped her envelope and Yooyeon picked it up for her while simultaneously opening her own.  “Dear lord, girl…”Chaeyeon tore open her envelope and read it, “’This girl loves pumpkin and can be found behind roasted, boiled, and dehydrated beans sold in a stick.’”  She stood there stunned.Yooyeon read hers, “’This girl’s favorite season is summer and to be visited by the ‘greatest’ one of these, you must find her in the most sincere patch.’”  Yooyeon jumped in glee and bolted toward the front of the store.Chaeyeon yelled after her and somewhat followed her, “YOOYEON, HELP!  I don’t know…”Kyujin and Bae both opened their envelopes.  Bae read hers to herself, “’This girl prefers Sprite over Coke, she can be found behind this snack containing seaweed but in the shape of the logo of a famous boy group.’”  Bae just stood there, then got an idea what the snack might be and took off to the deli salad and snack displays.Kyujin read hers, “’This girl’s favorite food is ice cream, she can be found behind a breakfast food named after the German word for ring or bracelet.’  Wow… this is hard…  No clue…”  She ran off toward the frozen breakfast section.Sohyun looked at Xinyu.  “I guess we need to open these and play.”Xinyu said, “Only five minutes, how are we going to have time to find an Nmixx member and make out with her…”“Well, let’s try to be fast.”Xinyu smiled and tore open her envelope and read the clue, “’This girl likes spicy food and can be found behind this fruit that you might bob for at Halloween.’”Sohyun said, “Girl, that is easy…”“What is ‘bob’?”Obviously Sohyun had no idea how to explain ‘bob’ in Chinese, or even Korean.  She mimed putting her face in a bowl and biting something.  Xinyu smiled and took off toward the produce.Sohyun, happy with herself that she successfully cheated without anyone noticing, read her clue, “’This girl’s favorite color is yellow and can be found behind this milk that didn’t come from a cow.’”  She thought to herself, “Was Chaeyeon crying because she is Chaeyeon, or did me and the wifey get easy ones?”  She realized she was wasting time thinking about it and sped off toward the non-refrigerated milks.Lily and Haewon unexcitedly tore open their envelopes, not really sure what was going on around them.  Lily quickly read her clue to herself, “’This girl’s favorite fruit is grapes, she can be found behind a pastry named using the French word for crescent.’ Croissant!  Is it this easy?”  Lily tore off toward the pastry section.Haewon hoped hers was easy as well.  “’This girl loves sweet coffee.  She can be found behind some famous black and white American cookies, but in the cold section.’”  She excitedly repeated to herself, ‘OREO!  Oreo!  Oreo!’…”  She tore off toward the cookies.***A very excited Jiwoo knew exactly where she was going and even which product she was after, and its likely place in that aisle.  She chattered to herself, ‘Chocopie!’  Every time she rounded a curve or made a change in direction she chattered, ‘Chocopie!’  She came to a stop right in front of the Chocopies and said triumphantly, “CHOCOPIE!”  She wasn’t entirely sure what she was supposed to do, so she pulled a couple Chocopies off of the shelf and saw the two photocards sitting behind the first pie.  She looked back at her clue, ‘likes mint with chocolate’.  She saw Nakyoung and Xinyu photocards.  She said to herself ‘Does the Chinese girl ruin her chocolate with mint?  Or is it this girl I know nothing about…’  Still hugging a Chocopie, she grabbed a photocard and ran back to the front of the store as Yeji was announcing, “One minute gone!  Four more minutes left!”Yeji saw her, “Wow, you are first?”Jiwoo nodded excitedly, a bit out of breath.“I’m sorry girl, you can’t have the Chocopie.”  Yeji took it from her.She looked at Yeji like she was the meanest person on the planet and could only sadly say, “What?”***Yooyeon, still shaking her head at Chaeyeon crying at her from across the store, arrived at the display of ‘carving’ pumpkins at the front of the store.  She only had to move two when she saw the two photocards staring at her.  She said to herself ‘Lily or Haewon… which is a summer girl…’  She grabbed a photocard and sprinted to the front of the store, just catching Yeji taking the pie from Jiwoo.Yooyeon said to Jiwoo, “Are you okay?”Almost literally in tears Jiwoo said, “She took my pie…”Yooyeon raised an eyebrow at Jiwoo.Yeji said, “Yooyeon!  Impressive!”Yooyeon said, “I got an easy clue, I love ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown’!  My family watches it every year.”Yeji smiled, “I see!”***Nakyoung had no idea what she was looking for, but there really aren’t that many options for ‘spreads’.  She took a few seconds scanning the butter and various other things when she saw the giant ‘Philadelphia’ logo on the cream chest.  “AMERICAN!” she said.  She moved the front two packages of cream cheese aside and Kyujin and Sullyoon photocards were looking back at her.  She looked back at the clue.  ‘Favorite food is fish?’  “How should I know…”  She grabbed a photocard and ran back to the front of the store.She saw Yooyeon and gave her a hug.  “Of course you are first…”Yooyeon smiled and humbly said, “Luck…”***Lily ran straight to the pastry section but seeing the rows of cases of various breads, cakes, enticing desserts she got a little distracted as her stomach made her look at each one and imagine eating it.  After about thirty seconds of wish-eating she shook out of it and found the croissants.  She saw the photocards through the first transparent container the croissants were in and set it aside.  Sohyun and Chaeyeon were staring at her.  “Favorite fruit is grapes…” she repeated to herself.  “Naurrrrr.”  She picked a photocard and ran to the front of the store just as Yeji was announcing, “Two minutes gone, three minutes left!”She gave Jiwoo a hug and surveyed the situation.  She said, “Yeji…  Did you take cookies from Jiwoo?”Jiwoo whined, “Chocopie…”Lily shook her head at Yeji.***Bae arrived at the salads and refrigerated snacks.  “Kimbap?” she kept repeating to herself.  “Sushi isn’t really a ‘snack’, must be kimbap?”  She found the kimbap and started moving various kimbap wrapped in cellophane on a Styrofoam trays.  “Why not kimbap?”  She wasn’t finding any photocards. She pulled the clue out.  “Oh, in the shape of a boy group logo.  Read the clue, Jinsol…” There was some kimbap in the shape of a triangle, “Seventeen?”  She picked up the first triangle kimbap and saw two photocards looking at her.  She said, “KIMBAP!”She looked at the clue again, “Prefers Sprite over Coke…”  Xinyu and Yooyeon photocards were looking at her.  “I feel like I should know if my girl prefers Sprite…”  She grabbed a photocard and ran back to the front of the store.Lily greeted her, “Easy?”Bae nodded, “No idea if the photocard is correct though and I’m going to be embarrassed if it isn’t.”Lily said, “I had no clue either…  Hard game and we had easy clues for what to find…”***Sullyoon arrived in the candy section, taking note of American candies but aiming for the Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.  She found some and pulled a bunch off the shelf, but no photocards.  She thought for a second, ‘the clue specifically said Halloween…’  She wasn’t sure, but she left a pile of Reese’s on the floor and bolted toward the Halloween section instead.She again found Reeses, this time in the shape of pumpkins and only had to pull one candy off to find the two photocards.  Yooyeon and Nakyoung were staring at her.  “Likes Oreos…  I mean, who doesn’t like Oreos…  I have a hunch…”  She grabbed a photocard.She ran back to the entrance and got hugs from Lily, Bae, and Jiwoo.  Jiwoo said, “You smell like Reeses…”Sullyoon pulled a pumpkin-shaped Reeses out of her pocket and handed it to Jiwoo.  Jiwoo yipped in glee and then turned her body to make sure Yeji couldn’t see her transfer it to her own pocket.  She said, “Yoona, my favorite!”***Xinyu hoped that Sohyun’s hint was correct and arrived in the produce section.  She was a bit shocked at how many apples there were in the grocery store.  “Why so many fricking apples?” she said out loud.  She started moving around bags of apples.  It took her over a minute to finally find the photocards.Yoona and Bae photocards were staring at her.  ‘Likes spicy food…’  “I wonder if my mistress likes spicy food.  Surely, she does…  Who to pick?”  She grabbed a photocard and ran back to the front of the store.Yooyeon and Nakyoung greeted her.  “Xinyu!  Nice job!”She obviously didn’t mention she got help or how long she was moving apples around and simply enjoyed the praise.***Yeji said, “Three minutes up, only two to go!  Better hurry!”Kyujin was looking through the frozen breakfast section, not really having any clue what she was doing.  Suddenly, a roughly nine-year old boy came walking towards her.She was too busy looking for rings or bracelets, then realized the store was supposed to be empty.  He  walked up to her and said, “What are you doing?”She said, “Hi cutie!  Do you know German?”He said, “I don’t think so…”“Do you like breakfast?”“I don’t think so…”“Your mother must feed you breakfast…”“I like chocolate cereals…”“I will scold your mother… you need to eat better…”He grabbed Kyujin’s leg and hugged it.Kyujin said, “Show me which cereal you like!  Very quickly!”The boy ran off toward the cereal aisle and Kyujin ran after him.  He pointed toward the cereal.  It was cocoa flavored flakes.Kyujin thought for a second, ‘I’m not dumb, this kid is here for a reason’.  She said, “You’re super cute little guy…  But you need to eat better.  Is there something else you would like to eat for breakfast?”He bolted toward the pastries where Lily had been earlier.  Kyujin ran after him again.  He pointed at the croissants, that had obviously been disturbed.Kyujin patted him on the head.  “How about a banana?  Or a healthy smoothie for breakfast?”He frowned.  Out of the side of her eye, Kyujin saw the bagels.  “Bah-kehrl, could be German?”  She moved aside the first bag and saw Sohyun and Seoyeon photocards looking at her.Kyujin again had no clue.  “Little guy?  Which of these girl’s favorite food is ice cream?  Do you know?”  He grabbed a photocard and handed it to her.She gave him a giant hug and ran toward the front.  She greeted Jiwoo and Sullyoon with hugs, but didn’t mention anything about what happened.***Sohyun made it to the non-refrigerated milk section and then lamented calling her clue easy when she realized why it wasn’t.  Many shelves of oat milk, soy milk, and almond milk were arrayed in front of her.  She looked for any hint that something had been moved or had something behind it.  She had two options, start moving all of these, or she was doing something wrong.She spent almost two minutes systematically moving the front carton of each type of milk.  She had confidence that the game designer would not make it a game of luck, requiring her to move more than one carton on each row. She bolted off toward the refrigerated milk section.  There was a different nine-year old boy in front of the cow’s milk section.  She found it strange, even though she realized it was probably part of the game.  She had a plan and didn’t want to be bothered. He walked over to her, and said “What are you doing?”She ignored the cow’s milk section, opened the door to the other milks and was vigorously moving almond milks.  She mindlessly said, “Nothing…” mostly ignoring him.He said, “I like real milk.”She said, “Well, I don’t…”She was getting frustrated when saw there was an entire display of brightly decorated yellow banana milk next to the rest of the cases.  Her intuition told her that she was onto something and only moved two containers of banana milk when she saw the two photocards.  Bae and Sullyoon photocards were staring at her.  “Favorite color is yellow… duh… easy!”  She grabbed the photocard.The boy said, “Rude…”She ignored him and ran off to the front of the store, hugging her husband.***Seoyeon was looking through the fruits in the produce section trying to figure out what to do.  ‘Lemons?  Figs? Apricots?  What the heck Mediterranean fruit?’  She saw Xinyu roughly moving bags of apples around.She saw the olive bar.  She said aloud, “Are olives fruits?  What would have olives in it?”She systematically, but quickly, wandered around the produce and deli sections, her eagle eyes trying to find something.  She made her way to the breads and pastries.  Kyujin had moved bagels and Lily croissants, she saw the remnants of both and the lone photocard left behind.  Then she thought, ‘no one has touched the loafs of bread, doesn’t Italian bread have olives maybe?’Finally, she saw a label, ‘Olive Chiabatta’.  She picked up the massive loaf of bread and Haewon and Jiwoo photocards were behind.  She grabbed a photocard and ran to the front of the store, just as Yeji was announcing, “Four minutes gone, one minute left!  Better hurry!”She saw that everyone was back except Chaeyeon.  Yooyeon said, “What the heck took so long?”She handed her envelope to Yooyeon.  “Did you know the answer to this, smartypants?”Yooyeon read it and blushed.  “Wow, no…  How did you get it?”“Worked my way through it!”Yooyeon gave her a high-five.  “Nice job!”“Dang, husband and wife still beat me…”Sohyun and Xinyu were holding hands again.***Haewon wasted three solid minutes moving Oreos in the cookie section.  She pulled out the clue and read it again.  “BUT IN THE COLD SECTION…” said shouted.  “YOU DUMMY!” She grabbed a spatula from a random display hanging next to her and hit herself on the head with it a few times.  She dropped it and ran off to the cold desserts.She heard Yeji’s four minute announcement as she was opening two cases.  Finally, she saw the ‘Oreo cheesecake’.She thought, ‘Glad Jiwoo didn’t come over here…’  She moved the front cheesecake and saw Seoyeon and Chaeyeon photocards looking at her.  She wasn’t going to mess up again and carefully read the clue out loud, “Likes sweet coffee…”  She grabbed a photocard and ran back to the front of the store.All five of her groupmates clapped for her.  Sullyoon asked, “What happened?”“Didn’t read the clue…”Bae slapped her on the side of the head.“I’m here!” she said excitedly and jumped up and down a few times.***Chaeyeon realized no one was listening to her or was going to help her, but kept repeating to herself, “Why would beans be roasted and boiled?  I don’t even know what dehydrated means…  Black beans? Red beans? Soy beans?  Think Chaeyeon…”Then she read it again and saw stick.  The first ‘stick’ that came to mind was Pepero, so she ran to the sweet snacks.  She started looking at the various Pepero.  It was a large section. Would she ever figure it out? 
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Chapter 2:  Hyeju Knows How to Make an Entrance
Chaeyeon started scanning the Pepero section, still having no clue what she was looking for.  She happened to look at the Latte Pepero box.  “Coffee… beans…  Coffee is beans!  Chaeyeon you’re so dumb…  I still don’t know what dehydrated means though…” Chaeyeon ran as fast as she could to the coffee aisle.  She could hear Nakyoung and Seoyeon cheering loudly for her back at the entrance.“YES!  Maxim advertises their coffee as ‘sticks’!”  Still there was a huge section of Maxim sticks.  She started pulling off random boxes, dropping them to the floor, finally finding two photocards.Yeji started counting down.  “Ten!  Nine!”Chaeyeon didn’t even look back at the clue or look at which photocards were there, she just grabbed one and ran back toward the entrance as fast as she could.“Four!  Three!  Two!  One!”On ‘one’, about 10 meters from the cheering group of TripleS girls, Chaeyeon tripped over her own feet and tumbled over, albeit gracefully, still holding a box of Maxim sticks and a photocard.Yeji said, “Time’s up!  You didn’t make it…”Chaeyeon rolled over on the ground, looking and sounding like a dog that was being kicked, “What?  What?  I’m right here… I fell…  YEJI…”Nakyoung said, “She’s going to literally cry the entire night now… Good job, Yeji…”Kyujin ran over to Chaeyeon and gave her a hand and helped her to her feet.  “Nice try, girl…”Chaeyeon smiled at her, then went back to whining, “YEJI!  I have the photocard right here!”  She waved it at Yeji as though she was a bad soccer referee, rather than Itzy’s Yeji.Seoyeon and Yooyeon looked at each other.  Seoyeon sighed, knowing what she had to do, and stepped toward Yeji.  “I hate to be like this already… but when you were reading the rules… you didn’t specify where the finish line was.  Or even where the entrance was… She was literally right there…  There’s no tape, ribbon… nothing…”Haewon whispered to Lily, “Damn, these girls are serious about this…”Lily looked at Haewon, wide-eyed and worried. Yeji had a brief chat with Heejin, they exchanged some whispers.  She said, “Does anyone from Nmixx have a problem with us giving her the ‘success’?”Chaeyeon started whining again, “I don’t even remember what the clue was, I just grabbed whatever photocard was first, I don’t even know who it was…  Please…”Sohyun poked Chaeyeon, who was now back with the rest of her team, “Okay… you’ve done enough.”Kyujin said, “Awww, she fell and was here on like ‘minus one’, of course it is okay.”Bae said, “Kyujin… who said you could speak for us.”“Does someone have to give me permission to speak?  Speak for yourself?  Do you have an opinion?”Bae raised her eyebrow at Kyujin.Lily said, “What do you think leader?”Haewon gave Lily a mean look, typical when Lily invoked the ‘Leader’ title.  She said, “Kyujin is right, it’s fine…  We won’t be like them…”  She pointed at Seoyeon.Sullyoon and Lily clapped for Haewon making the correct decision.  Bae and Jiwoo were less excited.Yeji said, “Okay!  You can keep the photocard!  But not the coffee…”  Yeji grabbed the box of coffee from her.Heejin laughed.  “Okay girls, let’s give these nice people their store back!”Sullyoon cursed under her breath.  Hoping that Yeji didn’t see her, she quickly ran over to the nearest checkout cashier.  “Miss… Miss…”  She tried to get the cashier’s attention.  She pulled a few bills out of her pocket and threw it at the lady.  “I bought one of those pumpkin-shaped Reese’s.  Keep the change for having to clean up the mess I made in the candy aisle.  Sorry…”The cashier took the cash and looked at her like she had two heads as she quickly turned around and ran back to Nmixx as everyone was filing out of the store.TripleS was mostly quiet on the way back to the JYP building.  Haewon wanted to talk to everyone about strategy, but couldn’t do it without TripleS hearing, so she didn’t bother.  In the cover of night, Jiwoo got the pumpkin-shaped Reese’s out of her pocket and ate it before someone else discovered she had it.  She tucked the wrapper in a trash can entering the JYP building and giggled to herself about her secret snack.***Everyone safely back in the party room, Heejin said, “Girls!  Leave your jackets, purses, and shoes on the couch over there.  Go ahead and get comfortable, we won’t be leaving this room again tonight except for the kitchen and bathroom.”In the middle of the party room was a massive cork board with things pinned to it.  Yooyeon asked Nakyoung, “Was that there before?”“Girl, I know sometimes you don’t see obvious things, but you would have run into it like 4 times earlier if it was there…”“Okay good… just checking…”Yeji and Heejin stood in front of the cork board.  Yeji said, “Girls!  Come gather and bring your photocards!”TripleS stood on Heejin’s side of the board and Nmixx on Yeji’s side.  The board had a title across the top, “GAME ONE!  Supermarket Scavenger Hunt”.  Yeji said, “The board has pockets for the photocard you found.  If everyone got all of the answers correct, there will be a photocard for each girl!”Haewon asked, “Who made this and rolled it out here?  No one was in here when we left…”Yeji said, “Haewon…  please… patience…”Bae said, “Yeah… patience… let Yeji do her job.”Haewon glared at Bae.Yooyeon poked Nakyoung who turned and smiled and nodded at her, accepting her pointing out the Nmixx ‘cracks’.Yeji said, “Let’s start with Nmixx, since Chaeyeon had the dramatic finish.  Who had to find the pumpkin-shaped peanut butter cups?”Sullyoon raised her hand, “Yoona!”“Okay Yoona, put the photocard you chose in the first spot.”Sullyoon proudly inserted the Yooyeon photocard, certain Yooyeon loves Oreos, but unsure how she actually knew that.  Oreo sixth sense…Yeji said, “Who had to find triangle kimbap?”Bae raised her hand said much more loudly than Sullyoon did, “Jinsol!”  She put the photocard in the slot without letting anyone see and then in Bae style suddenly revealed… “Hot girl Xinyu!”  Xinyu blew her a kiss.  Bae beamed a smile at her before returning to Nmixx.“Who had to find the Chocopie?”Jiwoo jumped forward, “ONLY to have it stolen by a greedy MC!”“Were you going to pay for it?” asked Yeji calmly.“Isn’t that the MC’s responsibility?  To pay for whatever items we find?”Sullyoon put her hand on Jiwoo’s shoulder and said, “Jiwoo… don’t antagonize… you are speaking rudely to Hwang Yeji…”Jiwoo ran up to Yeji and gave her a hug in penance, then put the photocard in the third spot, it was Nakyoung.Sohyun said, “I don’t like this… The first three are in age order, I bet they are correct…”Nakyoung said, “You don’t know… you and I literally just had our birthdays on the same day.”“And yet somehow you are always older.”Nakyoung shrugged at Sohyun.Yeji said, “Who had to find the croissants?”Lily meekly raised her hand and walked forward, obviously unsure about who she picked.  She inserted a Chaeyeon photocard.  She asked Chaeyeon in English from up front.  “Do you like grapes?”Chaeyeon looked at her strangely and didn’t say anything.Lily shrugged and went back to Nmixx.Yeji said, “Who had to find the bagels?”Kyujin raised her hand and said, “Kyujin!  And my helper!”Haewon said, “Helper?”Yooyeon said, “What helper?”Kyujin zipped her lips with her fingers, sorry she said anything, and put Seoyeon’s photocard in the next spot.Nakyoung said, “Lily is just wrong…”Yooyeon said, “Obviously!”Lily said, “I’m standing right here!”Yeji said, “And the last?  Who had to find the Oreo cheesecake?”Haewon walked slowly up the pocket, making a dramatic show of putting a photocard in the slot.  When everyone saw it was Seoyeon, she skulked back to her spot silently.Seoyeon said, “TWO OF ME!  I’m popular!”Nakyoung gave Sohyun a high five.  “They got two wrong!  We have hope!”Yeji said, “TripleS has a theory that Lily and Haewon got theirs wrong.  Wouldn’t that be a shocker!”Lily said, “Nauuurrrrr.”Haewon said, “I don’t think I like MC Yeji…  You sing or dance or something instead…”Yeji giggled and said, “Heejin!  Take over!”Heejin said, “First question!  Who had to find a girl in the big box of pumpkins?”Yooyeon raised her hand and calmly and softly said, “Yooyeon.”Heejin motioned for her to come forward and Yooyeon walked up to the board and proudly put Lily’s photocard in the slot.  She winked at Lily, “Summer girl!”Lily only frowned.Heejin said, “Which girl had to find the coffee… and was successful… barely…?”Chaeyeon jumped up and down.  “Me!”  She jumped her way to Heejin.Heejin moved back a step, worried Chaeyeon might fall on her.Chaeyeon put Haewon’s photocard in the slot.  “I’M RIGHT!  FATE IS KIND!”Heejin asked, “You really just grabbed whoever?”“Yeah, I didn’t even look.”Heejin said, “Lucky girl.”Haewon jeered, “It will run out soon enough…”Chaeyeon looked gave her the cutest look of extreme torment from Haewon’s rude words.Heejin said, “Who had to dig through all of the apples?”Xinyu said, “Me!”She made eye contact with Bae.  “Are you next oldest?”Bae said, “Sorry mistress, if I say things, I might get kicked off of my team.”Xinyu put Sullyoon’s photocard in the slot.  “Pretty sure Yoona is older than you.  I think I’m right!”“You better be!  I got yours correct!” said Bae with a wink.Xinyu winked at her back.Nakyoung said, “You two with the winks… one day your eyes are going to get stuck like that…”Heejin laughed and said, “Who was hunting through the non-cow milks?”Sohyun didn’t say anything.  She just walked up to the board, put the card in the slot and walked back.  There were two Sullyoon cards next to each other.Seoyeon said, “And the married couple… lets us down… again…”Xinyu said, “WRONG!  Only one of us let you down… one of those is correct.”Lily said, “Well thank heavens they didn’t get them all correct at least…”Heejin said, “Who was hunting through the bread in the bakery?”Seoyeon said, “Me!  Jiwoo hates veggies!  Everyone knows this!”  She proudly put Jiwoo’s photocard in the slot.Sohyun said, “Why did you get such an easy question?”“Well, trust me… finding the bread was NOT easy.  You wouldn’t have found it, so shut it…  Our amazing game designer had easy things to find with hard questions and hard things to find with easy questions…”Nakyoung said, “And questions for Chaeyeon…”Before anyone could jeer at Chaeyeon or defend her, Heejin said, “Last girl.  What photocard did you pick Nakyoung?”Without looking at Chaeyeon, Nakyoung put a third Sullyoon photocard in the last spot.Chaeyeon booed.  “HOW DARE YOU comment about my game play when you are obviously wrong…”Nakyoung said, “Sorry…  My bad…”Sohyun gave Nakyoung a hug, “Come hang out with the other losers, my dear!”Bae said, “It is just a simple game and somehow this girl gets three photocards on display.  She is the most ANNOYINGLY blessed girl that everyone loves, and think is hot, and she’s STILL oblivious… I can’t stand it…”Bae then hugged Yoona as though she never said any of those things.Yeji said, “Yoona… Bae is sooooo jealous of you.  A lot…”Sullyoon just smiled and blushed.  “What to do…”Yooyeon said, “Heejin!  What happens?  We both got two wrong?”Yeji said, “I can confirm that Nmixx got two incorrect.  Lily and Haewon…”Heejin said, “I can also confirm that TripleS got two incorrect.  Sohyun and Nakyoung.”Xinyu jumped up and down like she won a gold medal at the Olympics.  “Wasn’t me!”Yeji said, “Well girls, I think there is only one person who can settle this…”Heejin said, “Indeed…”Seoyeon said, “What does that mean?”Jiwoo said loudly, “WHAT PERSON?”Suddenly, there was a loud crash vaguely resembling thunder from the kitchen.  The door to the kitchen opened, the lights in the party room flickered and a shadowy figure made her entrance.  She was wearing a black cape covering most of her body, and the hood covered her head and most of her face.    She walked through the front of the room and stood between Heejin and Yeji.Chaeyeon said, “Guys, I’m kind of scared…”The figure said in a somewhat menacing voice in English, “Perrrrrrrrrfect!”  She threw back her hood and standing there was Son Hyeju.  “Welcome to my games, my pets!”Chaeyeon jumped at the reveal.Kyujin said, “Olivia Hye?”Jiwoo turned to her and tersely said, “Don’t call her that…”Kyujin just gave Jiwoo a look.In the meantime, Sohyun pushed Nakyoung away from her and ran to Hyeju, giving her a massive hug and kissing her neck.Seoyeon said, “You can’t know her… she’s the WRONG half of Loona…”Xinyu said, “See, I’m not the only one with a mistress.”Yooyeon said, “She knows Hyeju?”Jiwoo looked at Sullyoon.  Sullyoon gave her a knowing look back and shook her head, essentially giving her permission.  Heck, Sullyoon did the same thing just an hour ago to Sohyun.Haewon said, “NOT FAIR!  One of the other team is licking the game master!”Jiwoo said, “It’s fair… watch this…”Haewon said, “What?”Jiwoo walked right up to Sohyun, grabbed her arm, and pulled her off of Hyeju.  She then put both of her arms around Hyeju’s neck.Hyeju said, “Your mouth smells like chocolate and peanut butter.”Jiwoo kissed her on the lips.Sullyoon said, “Kim Jiwoo…” doing a bad job of pretending to be horrified.Lily put her arms around Haewon’s waist.  “Our children… what has become of them…”Haewon said, “Well, at least it is fair I guess…”Yeji and Heejin giggled as Jiwoo let go of Hyeju’s face and ran back to Kyujin.  Kyujin angrily avoided her and went to stand next to Bae, as far away from Jiwoo as possible.  She whispered under her breath, “She previously kissed Olivia Hye and never even told me…”Hyeju said, “Did you enjoy the first game?”Sullyoon and Bae clapped.  Chaeyeon said, “No…  I have a complaint…”Yooyeon put her hand over Chaeyeon’s mouth.  “Not the time…” she whispered to Chaeyeon.Seoyeon said, “Your game ended in a tie…  Do you have a contingency for that?”Hyeju laughed maniacally, getting a little too much into character.  Heejin gave her a look and cracked up laughing.Hyeju said, “What?”Heejin just shook her head, “You…”“Of course there is a contingency…  It seems one of your group members on each side wasn’t telling the entire story about their run through the grocery store.”Seoyeon rolled her eyes, “Of course…”Haewon said, “What the heck does that mean?”Hyeju said, “Come here Miss Kyujin.”Kyujin walked forward to Hyeju and bowed to her and shook her hand.  “Nice to meet you!  Can I call you Olivia?”Hyeju said, “No… never call me that…”Jiwoo said, “Told you…”Hyeju said, “Kyujin!  Would you like to tell everything that happened?”Kyujin got quite excited and took a few seconds to recall the entire story, then she started talking quickly, “I was minding my own business, trying to figure out what I was looking for… and this little boy showed up… so I figured it would be rude to ignore him… and I talked to him… and his mother’s food choices for his breakfast were hideous… and then he led me to the wrong place… and then we found the right place… and then for my trouble for talking to him… I had no idea which photocard to choose, so I asked him… then he picked one!  I guess he knew… because I was correct!”Hyeju said, “You were very kind to the boy and had fun with him.  Because of this, you are the first winner of a solo badge!”  Hyeju fished out a badge with a child on it and gave it to Kyujin.Nmixx all clapped for their maknae star.Lily said, “Do individual badges count toward our team’s total?”Hyeju said, “Indeed they do!”“Awwwwwwr!  Nice job Kyu-love!”  She glanced at Yeji.All paying attention to Kyujin’s story and Nmixx getting praise, no one in TripleS noticed Sohyun gradually tip-toeing backward, away from the everyone else.Hyeju said, “Sohyun!  Hottie!  Come tell your story!”All of TripleS turned to look at her, realizing she was up to something.Sohyun walked forward and stood next to Hyeju.  “I…  There was oat milk, and soy milk, and ten kinds of almond milk.  Sweet… chocolate… not sweet… vanilla… sweet and vanilla…”Xinyu said, “Wifey is making excuses…”Seoyeon said, “Spill it…”Sohyun said, “I couldn’t be bothered by the boy and mostly ignored him to find the milk… it was banana milk by the way…  who would pick banana milk THAT HAD TO BE REFRIGERATED.  The photocards had condensation on them…”Nakyoung said, “You knew damn well that boy wasn’t just randomly walking around a supermarket, alone… in a supermarket where everyone else was kicked out… and you still ignored him?”“I had a system…  THAT WAS A LOT OF MILK…”Hyeju pushed Sohyun back to her wife.Yooyeon said, “And then you found it, and got the wrong photocard…  What a disappointment…”Nakyoung was pleased, and counting her blessings she wasn’t getting yelled at like this…Hyeju said, “Thanks to Kyujin being kind to her little friend, Nmixx wins first game!  Everyone gets a badge!”The Nmixx girls hugged each other and jumped up and down cheering.  Hyeju gave them each a badge with a shopping cart.Seoyeon said, “That’s embarrassing…”Chaeyeon said, “Trade us Lily and Haewon for Nakyoung and Sohyun…”Yooyeon said, “Hush…”Chaeyeon grabbed Yooyeon around the waist and hugged her.  “I got mine correct!”“You are LUCKY…”Chaeyeon pouted.Hyeju also gave Sohyun a badge with a big black X on it.  “Hottie Sohyun gets a badge too.  Mwaahahahaha,” she giggled maniacally.Lily said, “She’s really scary…”Jiwoo said, “Yeah, at first.  But at heart she’s a big, fluffy… WOLF!”Lily jumped.Hyeju said, “I will explain what the ‘special’ demerit badge means later.  I believe everyone is quite warmed up now… so it is time for the second game.  Anyone want to guess what it is?”Sohyun pinned it to her tee shirt and Xinyu looked it over closely.  She said, “You are screwed… but is it in a good way? Or a bad way?”“Remember how horrified we would have been if last time, Hyeju had come up with the games instead of Jinsol?”Xinyu shook her head ‘yes’.“That is now…”Xinyu shook her head ‘yes’ again.  “Hey Jinsol, my wife is screwed, want to be my new wifey?”Haewon glared at Bae.Bae said, “I will consider your proposal and we can discuss later…”Haewon said, “Okay big bad Hyeju… with your black… and your scary…”Jiwoo said, “Remarkably accurate in such a short time knowing her!”“I assume we get some manner of prize for participating and winning your… games?”Hyeju said, “Of course!  Using Yeji and Heejin’s JYP and Modhaus resources, we have put together a very nice package for each member of the winning team.Heejin said, “Each girl gets a very expensive Olive Young AND Hydrogen Outdoor Wear, gift card perfect for winter approaching.”Yeji said, “And the winning girl on the winning team and the winning girl on the losing team get a dinner at a very fancy restaurant together.  Trust me, it is worth it!”Haewon said, “Yeah yeah… I still don’t believe that restaurant even exists…”Bae said, “Clearly not…”Yeji fired back, “Not my fault the two of you need to be MORE competitive…”Lily said, “Naurrrrr, don’t tell her that…”Yeji giggled.Yooyeon said, “So… the next game!  You were saying?”At Yooyeon’s cue, the girls stood in silence, looking at Hyeju expectantly.Heejin and Hyeju said simultaneously, “LOONA TRIVIA!”Yooyeon said, “Oh yes!  We got this one!  We are much smarter than them…”Lily said, “Are you now…”Yooyeon nodded shyly.Nakyoung said, “I wish I had paid more attention when Kotone was going on and on about Loona.”Chaeyeon said, “Yeah, and Joobin… I just ignore when they get started…”Hyeju pulled out a binder containing the questions and Yeji and Heejin fought with some buzzers, putting them on a chair on either side of the corkboard.Yeji rang hers.  “Nmixx gets this simple bell.”  It was a bell that you might see on the counter of a small business to alert the cashier that they were needed.Heejin pressed hers and it made an annoying low-pitched buzz.  “TripleS gets the buzzer!”  It was a large red disk with a black button.Yooyeon walked to the chair and looked carefully at the buzzer.  She said, “Theirs is mechanical, no delay.  I’m not sure about this thing…”Heejin said, “I picked it out… it’s fine…”  Yooyeon pressed it a few more times, then put it back on the chair.Seoyeon whispered to her, “Is it good?”“Barely…  Be fast…”Hyeju said, “I have prepared easy questions, medium questions, and difficult questions.  We will start with the average difficulty questions.  You guys will go head-to-head, one girl from each team.  The winner goes to the winner’s bracket, the loser goes to the loser’s bracket.  Then the winner’s bracket will answer the hard questions, and the loser’s bracket will answer the easy questions.  There will be a single badge winner.  And a single black X winner!”Kyujin said, “No strategy?  We just answer the questions?”Hyeju said, “Young maknae star!  Of course there is strategy.  You’ll see!”Seoyeon said, “You aren’t telling us things… what if TripleS wins all six of the medium questions.”“I said that it is an individual badge!”Nakyoung said, “I don’t like this…”Haewon said, “Lots of complaints from girls over there, I guess they don’t seem to know much about Loona!”Yooyeon said, “We’re ready!”Hyeju said, “I thought so…  Each team, pick who goes first!”Yooyeon proudly walked up to the chair, “I listen with Kotone talks… and never forget anything.”Nmixx made a huddle.  Haewon said, “This is the strategy part… They start with their best.  Do we try to beat her, or don’t even bother?”Bae said, “She’s distracted, she is worried about the buzzer.  Hit the bell hard.”Haewon and Bae pushed Jiwoo toward the chair.Jiwoo yelped.  “What to do?”Nakyoung said, “They send their bottom girl against Yooyeon… smart…”Jiwoo pointed at Nakyoung, “Oh, you’ll see the bottom…”  She psyched herself up and tested out the bell, startling everyone on her team.  Then she did it again, enjoying it a bit too much.Hyeju said, “Yooyeon vs. My-jjyu!  First question.”Jiwoo got into a ready stance, prepared to pounce on the bell.  Yooyeon stood calmly in the vicinity of her chair.“This Loona member’s solo was released in October.”Like a snake, Yooyeon’s arm shot toward the buzzer and rang it.  Jiwoo was contemplating ringing the bell, but had not yet committed.Yooyeon shouted, “HEEJIN!”Heejin ran forward and gave Yooyeon a hug.Hyeju said, “Correct!  Yooyeon go to the right for the winner’s bracket, Jiwoo to the left for the loser’s bracket.”Sullyoon said, “Jiwoo, the answer is standing right there…”“Like I’m not heart broken enough that other girl got the hug instead of me… thanks Yoona…”Heejin said, “Hyeju was licking your lips… not hugging me shouldn’t even register for your heart…”Jiwoo said, “Yeah… I guess!”Hyeju said, “Who is next?  TripleS choose first again.”Seoyeon said, “Let’s just send Chaeyeon…”Chaeyeon tried not to get her feelings hurt.  She giggled and just stepped forward.Seoyeon said, “Unexpected reaction…”Nmixx huddled again.  Haewon said, “Let’s save our best two girls for the wives… don’t think they will be very good at this.”Sullyoon said, “Ummm, Sohyun has written lyrics for songs on ARTMS albums…”Haewon said, “Oh… well, who are our best two Loona stans?”Bae raised her hand.Sullyoon said, “I’m probably pretty good.”Haewon said, “I’ll get this one... I have a plan.”  She walked forward to her chair.  She smirked at Chaeyeon.Chaeyeon looked at her, doing her best to hide her worry.Haewon said, “What’s wrong?  Seems like your team doesn’t have much confidence in you.”Chaeyeon said, “Umm…  Yooyeon loves me, I’m going to go join her to get away from these other girls…”Haewon made a funny face.Hyeju said, “’So What’ brought Loona our first win at a music show.  Which show was it?”Chaeyeon quickly buzzed.  Haewon rang the bell as well.Hyeju said, “Judges?”Yeji said, “Chaeyeon.”  Heejin agreed.Haewon said, “Nauurrrrrrr.”Chaeyeon said, “Mcountdown!”Hyeju said, “Are you guessing?”“No… it was Mcountdown… don’t mess with me, I’m fragile...”Hyeju said, “Correct!  It was Mcountdown!”Seoyeon and Nakyoung cheered for Chaeyeon as she scampered over to Yooyeon and grabbed her around the waist and put her head on her shoulder.Haewon went to join Jiwoo.Jiwoo asked her, “Did you know it?”Haewon said, “Nahhh, but I rang because it wasn’t Inkigayo and I don’t think Music Core had a winner then, so one out of four choices really.”Jiwoo patted Haewon on the head.Hyeju said, “TripleS!  Who is next?”Seoyeon and Nakyoung pushed Xinyu forward.  Seoyeon said, “We’re up by two, maybe she’ll get lucky…”Xinyu looked back at them like a deer in headlights.Sullyoon stepped forward for Nmixx with no discussion.Xinyu said, “Hey beautiful…”Sullyoon said, “No… you…”  They winked at each other.Hyeju read the third question.  “What important event happened on September 15, 2023?”Sullyoon rang the bell.  Xinyu had no clue.  Sullyoon said, “Loossemble debut!”Hyeju said, “Correct!  Nmixx has as least one smart member!”Haewon and Jiwoo both jeered at Hyeju.Xinyu ran over to Haewon and shook her hand.  Then Jiwoo, seemingly half of Xinyu’s size, hugged her and latched on to her side.Sullyoon was a bit scared of Yooyeon and Chaeyeon and didn’t get too close to them, trying not to make eye contact.Hyeju said, “Nmixx gets to choose who goes next!”Lily said, “Go ahead Jinsol, give us some momentum!”Bae stepped forward to her chair.Xinyu said, “Come join us.”Bae shook her head, ‘no’ vigorously.Nakyoung stepped forward for TripleS.Hyeju read the fourth question, “Which Loona member’s representative color is orange?”Bae was extremely quick on the bell.  Nakyoung rang the buzzer, but was clearly late.Bae said, “Yeoooooojin!”Hyeju said, “Nice job Jinsol!  That is correct!”Bae hurried to Sullyoon.  Nakyoung reluctantly walked over to Xinyu.“Nmixx again!”Lily looked at Kyujin.  They both shrugged.Lily stepped up to the chair.Seoyeon said to Sohyun, “Thoughts?”Sohyun said, “I’ll go…”  She stepped forward to the chair.Hyeju read the fifth question, “What place did Loona finish at the end of Queendom 2?”Neither of them rang anything.  Lily said to Sohyun, “No clue… you?”Sohyun said, “Nope…”Seoyeon’s sigh was audible to the entire room.Hyeju said, “Guesses?  There aren’t that many…”Lily said, “If I guess and get it wrong, she automatically wins, right?”Hyeju shook her head, ‘yes’.“Go ahead, you can guess first…”Sohyun glared at Lily.  “No, you…”Seoyeon said, “Dear lord, one of you has to win…”Suddenly, Sohyun shot her finger toward the buzzer.Lily said, “Ohhhhr?”Sohyun said, “Second?”Hyeju said, “Total guess?”Sohyun made a fake cough a couple of times.  Then she said, “Something like that…”Hyeju said, “That’s correct!”Lily said, “Naurrrrrrr.”Sohyun casually walked over to Yooyeon and Chaeyeon.  Honestly no one had any clue if she actually knew it and was acting, or was just acting.Lily joined the losers.Hyeju said, “Seoyeon and our wonder-maknae Kyujin!”Kyujin cheered for herself.Seoyeon crouched down, keeping her finger as close to the button as possible, anxiously waiting for the question.Haewon shouted, “Is she for real?”Seoyeon shouted back, “You only wish you could be me…”Kyujin pretended like she was getting ready to hit the bell also, she didn’t want to hear about it all night if she was just a second too slow.Hyeju said, “Last medium difficulty question!  Which Loona member decided she wanted to be an idol after going to an Oh My Girl concert?”Seoyeon moved her finger toward the buzzer, but realized she didn’t know the answer.  Kyujin hit the bell.  Hyeju said, “Kyujin?”“Umm… I think… Gowon?”Hyeju said, “You got it!”Lily cheered loudly, followed by Haewon and Jiwoo.  “Kyujin on fire tonight!  And we need her!”Hyeju said, “How about that!  The law of averages is always average!  Three from each team in each bracket.”Heejin said, “What WOULD you have done if it was like four Nmixx and two TripleS?”Hyeju said, “Just because you’re a rocker chick performing solos on stage now, you aren’t going to get extra information out of me…”Heejin said, “We’ll see about that…”Yeji said, “SO EXCITED to see these two finally interact…”Hyeju said, “Winner’s bracket!  Let’s narrow it down further!  Losers chat amongst yourselves.”Yooyeon, Chaeyeon, and Sohyun stood on one side, Sullyoon, Bae, and Kyujin on the other.Hyeju said, “Nmixx won last, pick a girl to go first.”Kyujin stepped forward.  Chaeyeon smiled at her and took her spot at the buzzer as well.Hyeju said, “These are pretty hard questions!  Here we go!  Loona 1/3 only promoted on ONE music show.  Which was it?”Chaeyeon instantly buzzed.  Then she was a little unsure.  Kyujin looked at her surprised and expectant.Hyeju said, “Do you know?”Chaeyeon said, “INKIGAYO!”Hyeju said, “Nice!  That’s right!”From across the room, Haewon shouted, “That girl obviously knows her music shows… stop asking her those questions…”Hyeju said, “Don’t worry, that was the last music show question.”Lily said, “Miss Hyeju, please don’t entertain Haewon’s jeers, just ignore her…”Haewon said, “That girl gets questions in her wheel-house AND gets the benefit of the doubt when she’s late.”Chaeyeon said, “Jeez…  I thought my own team was rude enough…”Lily said, “Chaeyeon, don’t mind her, Hornywon just likes you… you are her body type.”Haewon glared at Lily.Chaeyeon said, a bit scared, “Okay?”Kyujin said, “What do I do?  I’m out and no more questions?”Hyeju said, “Yes ma’am!  You can go relax and watch the show!”Kyujin wandered around, staying away from other girls.Yooyeon stepped forward.Bae looked at Sullyoon.  Sullyoon said, “Let me… you beat your mistresses husband.”Bae nodded.Sullyoon got ready to hit the bell.Yooyeon crouched down, ready to hit the buzzer.Hyeju read the next question, “Why… Did Loona come in second on Queendom 2?”Yooyeon hit the buzzer.  Sullyoon didn’t know and didn’t ring the bell.Yooyeon turned around and gave Sohyun a double high-five.  “Sohyun gave me a hint without even knowing it!  You guys all got COVID and couldn’t participate in round one and if you had the points from round one, you would have won!”Heejin and Hyeju both got very angry faces, assaulted by bad memories.Sullyoon said, “Still a bit bitter I see.”They simultaneously said, “YES!”Sullyoon went and stood with Kyujin.  “Jinsol!  You need to get this!”Bae said, “Yeah… no pressure…”Sohyun said, “If I show you my boobs, will it throw you off?”Bae said, “Please…  of course it would…  Go for it!”Sohyun wagged her finger at Bae and her sudden smart reverse psychology.Hyeju said, “Which Loona title song was released on February 19?”Neither of them rang their bell/buzzer.  Sohyun said, “Shit, that’s hard…”Bae suddenly rang the bell.Hyeju said, “Jinsol?  You know?”Bae said, “Mmmmm.  Butterfly?”Hyeju said, “You got it!”Bae jumped up and down and the rest of Nmixx cheered for her.  Haewon said, “We’re still alive!”Hyeju said, “Guess?”“No… I remember that February, it was such a mind-blowing song… I remember what I was doing when it was released, it was February for sure…”Lily said, “Yeji party Jinsol is very smart… I’m shook…”Bae shrugged at Lily.Hyeju said, “Alright!  Bae, Chaeyeon and Yooyeon will be competing for the win in a bit!  Loser bracket, take your places!”Xinyu, Nakyoung and Seoyeon shamefully stood in line.  Jiwoo, Haewon, and Lily stood on the other side, ready for action.Hyeju said, “Okay bottom half… don’t lose!  Bae just won, so Nmixx, choose your girl first.”Haewon and Lily pushed Jiwoo forward again.  Jiwoo said, “What is this?”Seoyeon said, “Let’s just make sure we keep beating Jiwoo… I’ll go.”Jiwoo shrugged and got ready to press the button.Hyeju said, “Easy questions!  Which Loona member’s solo track was titled “New”?”Jiwoo and Seoyeon rang their bells nearly simultaneously.Yeji said, “I think Jiwoo hit it first…”Heejin said, “Yeah, it was close, but I agree.”Yooyeon made a face at the stupid buzzer and shook her head at Heejin.Hyeju said, “Jiwoo?  Do you know?”Jiwoo said, “Is it my twin Kim Jiwoo?  Chuu?”Hyeju said, “Nope!  Seoyeon wins!  Go join the rest of the girls that are finished.”Seoyeon said, “It is Yves… by the way.”Jiwoo said, “Show off…”Hyeju said, “Who is next?  TripleS?”Xinyu stepped forward.  Lily joined her.  Lily looked her up and down.  “So, you think you like my Jinsol, eh?”Xinyu shook her head.  Lily said, “Yay!  I’m so happy!”  Lily clapped excitedly that there was someone that liked Bae.  Xinyu smiled.Haewon said, “Don’t worry beautiful tall girl… I’m the bad cop.”Xinyu looked at her, a bit disturbed.Hyeju said, “Second easy question!  Which Loona member’s representative animal is a cat?”Lily rang the bell quickly.  “Hyunjin!  She is such a cat… and I love Paldo, he is beautiful!”Hyeju said, “Australian girls love Hyunjin.  It is strange…”Xinyu stood next to Jiwoo, both of them wondering who the third would be.Haewon took her place at the bell and Nakyoung at the buzzer.Hyeju said, “Third easy question!  Which Loona member was a trainee for only one day?”Nakyoung quickly hit the button before Haewon could react.  She said to Haewon, “You don’t know?”Haewon shook her head ‘no’.Nakyoung said, “Embarrassing for you…  It, of course, is Hyeju!”Haewon said, “Eh?  One day?”Hyeju said, “Haewon…  OFF TO THE BOTTOM WITH YOU!”Haewon looked down and wandered over to Jiwoo.  Jiwoo said, “Damn… everyone knows that… when she doesn’t even happen to be in the room…”Haewon asked, “How can you be a trainee for only one day?”Jiwoo said, “BE AS AMAZING AS SON HYEJU!”“I see…  I see…”Hyeju, giggling the entire time said, “Haewon, Jiwoo and Xinyu!  Who will get the black X?  Yooyeon, Chaeyeon and Jinsol, who will win?” 
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Chapter 3:  What Happened to Haewon’s Hoodie?
 “Okay, you three Loona failures need re-education later.  But for now, let’s see who gets the black X,” said Hyeju.Jiwoo said, “Juju honey, we only have two buzzers, but there are three of us.”“Well, there are two Nmixx and one TripleS.  Jiwoo and Haewon, decide who is going against Xinyu to start.”Haewon said, “Then what?  We need to know what happens next to pick properly?”Hyeju said, “Do you?”Haewon looked at Jiwoo.  “Fine…”  She pushed Jiwoo forward again and stood behind her.Hyeju giggled, “Xinyu versus Jiwoo!”Xinyu smiled, as though she knew something important.Jiwoo poked her.  “Stop that…”She said, “What?”Haewon grabbed Jiwoo’s shoulders and moved her back to the chair.  “Even the giant girl is psyching you out without doing anything other than looking pretty…”Jiwoo said, “No… I know that look… she thinks she knows something…”Sohyun shouted, “Come on… you know she doesn’t…”Haewon said, “Yeah!  Focus!”Xinyu giggled cutely.Hyeju said, “What was the title song on Heejin’s post-Loona solo album?”Xinyu rang hit the buzzer before Jiwoo hit the bell, by about a second.  “Algorithm!”Jiwoo said, “Dammit… that’s a hard English word… you knew?”Sohyun said, “Her English is as good as her Korean… sucks to be you, My-Jjyu…”“Curses…”Xinyu framed her face with her hands and made a cute face as Heejin ran up to her and gave her a huge hug.Jiwoo said, “Nmixx needs Heejin hugs also…”Heejin said, “WIN SOMETHING!”Jiwoo looked down.Hyeju said, “Okay, try against Haewon, Xinyu!”Yooyeon said, “Wait, she shouldn’t have to go twice…”Xinyu turned to Yooyeon, “I got this…”  Jiwoo and Haewon switched places.Hyeju said, “Which Loona member is the oldest?”Xinyu quickly buzzed again.  Haewon was reaching for the bell, but didn’t ring it.Xinyu yelled, “VIVI!”Hyeju said, “Nice job!  Easy question expert!”“Vivi isn’t Chinese, but Hong Kong is close, I like her.”Haewon shrugged.  “That’s just great…”Hyeju said, “Well, here we go!  My cutie My-Jjyu against her leader Haewon!”Xinyu casually walked back to her wife.  Jiwoo shuffled over to the TripleS buzzer.Haewon said, “You don’t think I’m a cutie also?”Hyeju shrugged.  Haewon growled at her.“Last easy question!  Loser is the… LOSER!  Which member is the shortest?”Jiwoo quickly buzzed before Haewon could ring the bell.Jiwoo started jumping up and down, “YEOJIN!   YEOJIN!”Hyeju said, “Jiwoo wins!”Six more times she jumped up and down repeating, “YEOJIN!”Haewon said, “How did you know that?”Jiwoo said, “I cannot say…”“I’m fairly sure every bit of this game was rigged against me…”Lily came over and gave Haewon a pity hug.  “Why are your reflexes so bad?”“They aren’t!  I just didn’t know Loona… and that one staring at me is scary, and that other one over there doesn’t really like me much…”  She pointed to Heejin.Heejin ran over and gave Haewon a hug.  “Don’t be silly you big bad loser…”Jiwoo said, “HEYYYY, I won… my hug?”Yeji said, “Sorry to say, but you didn’t win Jiwoo… you just didn’t lose…”Jiwoo skulked off to stand next to Sullyoon and Kyujin.Hyeju handed Haewon the black X badge.  Lily said, “Miss Hyeju, this one doesn’t scare easily.  Nice job!  Now be nicer to us please…”  She grabbed Haewon’s arm and pulled her away from Hyeju.Hyeju said, “Winners!  Come on over!”Yooyeon and Chaeyeon stood on the TripleS side, Bae on the Nmixx side.Bae said, “Hyeju… am I doomed to have to answer two hard questions?”“Yup!  Which TripleS girl is going first?”Yooyeon looked at Chaeyeon, Chaeyeon rolled her eyes and went up to the buzzer.  Yeoyeon grabbed her.  “No no!”Chaeyeon said, “Eh?”“That is what they did and it didn’t work, let me go first.”“You are assuming you are better than me, AND that Haewon is better than Jiwoo, which probably isn’t true.”Yooyeon said, “You are overthinking it…  I got this!”Chaeyeon said, “Okay…”  She switched places with Yooyeon.Bae mimed having a friend on her side to have an argument with.Chaeyeon said, “What is she doing?”Yeji said, “Trying to distract you with a funny skit.  Have a seat and watch!”Yooyeon said, “Hyeju!  Question please!”Bae stopped being silly and got ready to ring.Hyeju said, “Hard question!  What was Loona’s unofficial fandom name before it was officially Orbit?”Bae and Yooyeon stared at each other, neither ringing in.Yeji said, “Jeez…”Bae said, “I don’t know… obviously she doesn’t either… if I was a crazy Loona stan wanting a fandom…  oh crazy…” She instantly rang the bell.Yooyeon said, “Wow, you are just going to guess something you might have made up?”Bae said, “Puns are my thing…  How about, LUNATIC?”Hyeju looked at Bae in amazement.  “Jinsol!  That’s correct!”Yooyeon said, “Are you fucking kidding me…”Chaeyeon said, “Got this, did you?”“Did you know?”“Of course not… but I would have lost and then it would be your turn, now WE ARE DOOMED!”“A little confidence already?”Haewon shouted from across the room, “Go Chaeyeon!”Bae turned and glared at her as Chaeyeon stood over the buzzer.Hyeju read the next question, “Which Loossemble member wrote the lyrics for our song ‘Starlight’ on the ‘One of a Kind’ album?”Bae rang the bell almost immediately.  Chaeyeon said, “Oh?”Bae said, “Hyunjin!”Hyeju shouted, “Bae wins Loona trivia!”Yooyeon said, “That was easy…  Jeez Chaeyeon, one out of five chance…”Heejin asked, “Did you really know, Jinsol?”“I was pretty sure, she has had writing credits from each of your Loossemble albums, no?”Heejin looked and Hyeju and smiled.  “That one was pretty easy though…  for hard…”“MC’s can’t criticize the game master, I will fire you…”Yeji said, “If you fire her, I will quit also… then you will have to do everything yourself.”“Will I?”  Hyeju giggled maniacally.Lily said, “You’re right Haewon, she is pretty scary…”Hyeju said, “Heejin, please take Sohyun and Haewon to the kitchen.”Heejin said, “X girls!  Come with me please!”Xinyu gave Sohyun a hug.  “Don’t worry, when you are gone, Jinsol will make me happy.”Sohyun slapped her gently across the face.Yeji said, “Who is going to keep Lily happy without Haewon?”Lily said, “Miss Scary Hyeju!  Please fire the MC’s…”Hyeju smiled at her. Heejin led Haewon and Sohyun to the kitchen.  She opened the door and let them enter the kitchen, then closed the door behind them.  She wandered back to Hyeju and Yeji.  The rest of the girls just stared at her wondering what was about to happen.***Sohyun and Haewon looked at each other, not sure what they were supposed to do.Sohyun being Sohyun said, “So…. Haewonnie… do you want to make out?”“Well… I’m not going to say no…  Except…  Among Yoona, Jinsol, and Jiwoo, how many of them have you made out with?”“Not allowed to say…”“Are you just collecting Nmixx members?  For some kind of score card?  Like this other girl I know…”“Of course not, I just like to make out… a lot…”“What’s the deal with your wife?  She doesn’t mind?”“No secret she likes Jinsol, she started it all…  Just because she found another girl her own height…”“Ah, so you two are competing over Nmixx members?”“Why does everything need to be a competition, I just like making out…”“I used to be like that, but this competition has totally thrown me off balance, I wasn’t really expecting anything that has happened.”“Why does Yeji keep implying that you and Lily are a thing?”Haewon rolled her eyes, and for once things went her way… well sort of.  The lights in the kitchen suddenly went out.Sohyun went to grab Haewon’s hand, but mostly missed and Haewon moved her hand so she couldn’t try a second time.There was a loud scream in the Bluetooth music system out in the party room.Haewon said, “Damn… Jiwoo would have peed herself by now…”A voice, also in the kitchen, that wasn’t either Haewon OR Sohyun’s said in English, “Come here my prettttties!”Haewon said, “We are not alone…”Sohyun said, “That voice… I think…”  Sohyun instantly hopped up on the counter top.“Okay… interesting reaction…”   Haewon decided to investigate, slowly walking toward where she heard the voice, it was not a big space and she bumped into countertops several times.Haewon now at the back of the kitchen, the voice said, “Over here…”  It was now in the center of the kitchen.  Haewon couldn’t hear Sohyun at all.  She moved to the center.Suddenly she felt something cold and wet splatter all over her neck and chest.  She wasn’t expecting it and although not particularly scared, she still screamed, “FUCK!”  She then accidently licked some of whatever splashed her and said in a very soft voice, “Oh, raspberry…”***In the party room, there were conversations going on when there was the loud scream on the speakers.  Chaeyeon suddenly hugged Yooyeon tightly.  Jiwoo literally jumped into Bae’s arms.Bae said, “Okay, okay… it is just sound effects…”  Bae put Jiwoo down but Jiwoo wouldn’t let go of Bae’s arm.After recovering for a few minutes, they heard Haewon’s curse.Bae, Sullyoon, and Lily all looked at each other, Jiwoo hid her eyes.  Kyujin said, “Oh my… it takes a lot to make Haewon do that…”Heejin asked TripleS, “Difficult to scare Sohyun?”Xinyu said, “She’s a rock!”Nakyoung said, “Compared to Xinyu she’s a rock… she isn’t that hard to scare though…”Heejin said, “Interesting!”The girl’s all made small talk for a bit, Nmixx trying to figure out the last time Haewon was scared and TripleS having flashbacks to the scary part of the first badge war.Suddenly, the door to the kitchen opened.Sohyun and Haewon walked out as though they were quite happy they weren’t in there anymore.  Curiously, Haewon was no longer wearing her hoodie, just her black Calvin Klein bra.Seoyeon said, “Oh, Sohyun ripped her shirt off!”Sohyun shook her head adamantly and said, “While I offered to before the lights went off, I had nothing to do with this…”Xinyu said, “Lights?”Nakyoung said, “Calvin Klein sports bra, that’s hot Haewon!”Haewon was looking around nervously, but calmed for a second.  “Oh thanks!  Haha Minji… screw you…”Yeji laughed.Hyeju said, “Well, it seems Haewon no longer has a black X, congrats!”Haewon said, “Right…?”Yooyeon asked Sohyun, “What happened?”“I can’t say… but I had a feeling about something and was right, and Haewon is a bit of a curious cat if you know what I mean?”“I see…”Hyeju said, “Haewon is free of her black X, and hoodie… unless she gets another one… X, not hoodie…  Sohyun still has hers though!  You might not be so lucky next round.”Sohyun gave Hyeju an evil look.  “I’m so going to mess you up later…”Hyeju grinned at her.Lily hugged Haewon.  “Are you okay?  I haven’t heard you scream in a long time…”“I’m fine…  was just surprised, not scared…”“You smell fruity?”Haewon smiled.Hyeju said, “Who is ready to hear about the next game?  Oh, by the way, Nmixx is winning 8 to nothing…”TripleS all moved to Hyeju and stood in front of her, waiting expectantly to hear about the next game.“Now this is the attention I deserve…”Heejin said, “Girl…”Nmixx also shuffled forward, much less excited.Hyeju said, “This one is quite simple!  The party room is about to become an escape room.”Yooyeon said, “Yes!  Right up my alley!”Hyeju said, “With a twist!”Yooyeon sighed.  Sullyoon said, “This girl isn’t going to give us any alleys…”“MCs ready?”Heejin and Yeji both said, “Ready!”  They both pulled flashlights out of their pockets and turned them on. Hyeju said, “I’ll make sure no one cheats.”  Heejin and Yeji rolled the corkboard in front of the door.  Hyeju said, “If you are scared of the dark… oopsie…”Yeji flipped the main light switch and started doing various things behind the corkboard.  All the girls could see was the pair of flashlights moving around the front of the room.Jiwoo grabbed Bae’s side again.  Xinyu sat on the floor and tried not to cry.Heejin and Yeji were doing something for nearly five minutes.  Finally finished, Yeji turned the lights back on and they stood by Hyeju again.Hyeju said, “This escape room will be totally in the dark!”Seoyeon said, “How is that even possible?”“You’ll figure it out…”Sohyun said, “Well, we have to do this with five…”Sullyoon pointed to Jiwoo… “Same…”Trying not to call any attention to herself, Seoyeon quietly pulled a bit of black cloth out of her pocket and wrapped it around her head.Nakyoung just happened to turn to look at her.  She quietly asked, “What is that?”Seoyeon said, “Getting my eyes adjusted sooner than everyone else… I practiced this… Spooky badge war?  Come on…”“Damn…”Yeji said, “Full disclosure.  I didn’t agree to this at first, but you guys will have to trust us.  We have two IR cameras covering the room for this task, so we can make sure you all are safe.  Me and Heejin will be watching from outside.  As soon as this game is over, we will take them down.  Nothing will be recorded, we will only be able to view it live during the game.”The girls gave her a thumbs up.Lily said, “I’ll make sure shirtless Hornywon behaves in the dark.”Yeji pointed to Lily and said, “I’ll be watching YOU… all…”Xinyu was literally crying.  Sohyun patted her on the head.Hyeju said, “Girl on the losing team that helps least will get a black X.  Everyone on the winning team gets a badge!  Good way for TripleS to catch up.”Yooyeon said, “Okay, let’s strategize…”Hyeju said, “On that note…”  Yeji and Heejin ran to the party room door and left.  Hyeju did something at the door behind the corkboard, turned off the lights and made her way to the kitchen.  The girls couldn’t see the kitchen door open for her to let her in, in the dark.  She shouted, “GO ALREADY!”  The kitchen door closed behind her.Yooyeon said, “Or not…”Bae said, “It sure gets dark in here…”“And quiet, so much for talking amongst ourselves.  Everyone will hear everything.”Haewon said, “Usually when it is this dark in here, I’m at least grabbing a boob.”Sohyun said, “You had your chance in the kitchen…”Haewon cursed under her breath.Seoyeon already took off the blindfold and darted toward the door.Lily said, “Girls… let’s just work together!  It will still be fun!”Several voices giggled and scoffed.Suddenly Lily screamed.Kyujin covered her ears and said, “Please don’t make the main vocalist scream…”Sullyoon grabbed Lily’s hand, “Hon, what’s wrong?”“Something wet touched my cheek and blew in my ear…”Sullyoon pawed around the open air around Lily’s head.  “It is your imagination…”Lily put Sullyoon’s hand to her face, there was a wet spot on her cheek.Sullyoon said, “Eww….  You mean TripleS girls messing with us!”Yooyeon said, “You don’t know what you’re talking about, we are just trying to escape.”Haewon wandered to that side of the carpet, “Umm, they have all scattered except the giant one on the carpet, it was probably one of them.”Kyujin said, “We are already behind… let’s go!”Bae said, “Let’s stay in pairs…”Haewon said, “Yoona, you hate us anyway, you can be alone.”Sullyoon sighed, “Sure… why not…”Nakyoung said, “You JYP girls sure are noisy…  We are trying to concentrate…”Lily said, “The only thing in this room are the couches and the corkboard… let’s search the couches…”Haewon said, “Lily, if TripleS isn’t standing in the middle of the room, they are already searching the couches.”Bae awkwardly grabbed Lily’s hand.  They both knew the party room quite well and they bounded off to the nearest couch.  Haewon grabbed Kyujin and went to a couch on the other side of the room.  Sullyoon went to check out the door.Sullyoon ran into someone going behind the corkboard in front of the door.  “Oh, sorry…”“Sorry… hi Yoona…”Sullyoon grabbed the nearest body part of whoever it was, it turned out to be her shoulder.  She spun around.  “How did you know it was me?”“Super vision… and you’re the only one smart enough to actually check the door.”Bae said, “We can hear you, meaniepants!”Sullyoon felt around the door.  “Two new locks in a chain around the door, one is a padlock… the other is a combination lock…”Bae said, “How the fuck are we going to open a combination lock in the dark?”Lily said, “There must be a hidden light.”Sohyun asked, “Seoyeon?  Is all of that true?”Seoyeon said, “Yup…  You girls keep talking, you sure are making it easier for us…”Haewon said, “Okay, shut up!  Only talk in code!”Bae pretended to be a quokka, making a series of sounds that may have been made by a marsupial.Chaeyeon started cracking up laughing.Seoyeon homed in on where Sohyun’s voice had come from.  She felt around until she found Sohyun’s back.  She said, “Me…”For every previous party, the hosts rolled out a giant bit of carpet in the center of the room.  It was quite plush and the table didn’t sit well on it, so they rolled it out after moving the table away.  The table wasn’t necessary at this party, so the carpet was already rolled out.  Sohyun grabbed Seoyeon’s hand and put it on the floor and she pushed it under the carpet, showing her what she intended to do.Seoyeon said, “Good thought.”  Then she whispered into Sohyun’s ear, as softly as she could, “You might have to move your wife…”Not quietly, Sohyun said, “Shit…”Seoyeon said, “You got this…”Suddenly there was another scream, this time Chaeyeon.  After screaming, she kept yelling, “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!”Seoyeon ran to her.  Kyujin said, “Now who’s being noisy?”Chaeyeon screamed, “LILY ISN’T DELUSIONAL, IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO!”Lily said, “Thanks…”Nakyoung said, “Not sure you’re the best to back up that statement.”Seoyeon was pretty sure she felt something small go by her.  “Sohyun, is Jiwoo still on the carpet?  Maybe Nmixx is messing with us…”Sohyun felt around with her foot.  “Yup!  Just kicked her…”Jiwoo said, “Ouch!  Rude!”Nmixx definitely had the advantage of knowing the party room the best.  Lily and Bae were alone at a couch and started quickly feeling around the cushions, Lily accidently hit something that made a faint noise like chains rattling together.  It startled her.  Bae heard it too and carefully felt around where Lily hit it and grabbed the item, a pair of handcuffs.  She struggled to pick them up and carry them around without them making any noise, but did her best.Haewon and Kyujin were similarly feeling around and found a funny shaped little key.  Haewon had an idea and said loudly, “I’ve already found like six keys, I bet there are a dozen in this room.”  She hoped the mind games might distract them if they found an actual key.Lily led Bae to Haewon’s voice.  Lily whispered in Haewon’s ear, “We found handcuffs…”Haewon whispered back, “I have the key to them.”“Do you really have six keys?”“No, just this one…”  She gave Lily the key.  “Don’t lose it…  Jinsol, give me those, I’m going to go catch one of them…”Bae said, “Why can’t I catch one of them?”“There is no need to catch the one YOU would want, we need you to feel around high places.  Go do that!”Bae carefully handed Haewon the handcuffs and then took Lily to the kitchen door and started feeling around above it.Nakyoung said, “Nmixx is whispering about some keys over there… and trying to catch one of us…”Chaeyeon made her way to a couch and didn’t find anything in the cushions, but there was a large bowl under the couch.  She pulled it out and when she went to feel inside it was full of a stiff but jiggly and slightly wet substance.  She shouted, “NO!  I HATE THIS GAME!”  She shoved it back under the couch.Sullyoon was also obviously very comfortable in the party room and she looked for a couch as well, she ran into Nakyoung searching in one and decided just to move on and found herself alone at another.  She searched around and found a long necklace with a key as the pendant.  She got very excited, and now just had to make her way to the entrance to try it.  She could tell Haewon was lying earlier. Nakyoung found a metal cylinder in her couch.  Totally by accident, she pressed the button.  Everyone was startled by the sudden light.  She said, “Shit…” and quickly turned it off.Haewon said, “Target acquired!  Help me Lil-Sol.”Kyujin, Haewon, and from the kitchen door, Lily and Bae started moving toward the couch where the light was.Nakyoung had to think fast.  As quietly as she could, she dropped to the floor, doing her best to slowly squirm away from the four Nmixx members who were pushing each other trying to find her.Chaeyeon and Yooyeon decided to go see if Nakyoung needed help.  In the mass of girls moving around, Sullyoon used the opportunity to go to the door and test her key.  She tried three times, but it didn’t open the lock.Seoyeon was also unphased by what was happening, she continued searching the room.  Sullyoon made her way around the perimeter of the room as quickly as she could until she ran into something, which was Seoyeon...  “Sorry…”“Hi again Yoona…”Seoyeon was searching down low around the baseboard.  Sullyoon recognized which way she was moving, and hoping that it would buy some time from the most dangerous searcher.  She carefully dropped the fake key where Seoyeon should find it very soon.  She made the most adorable look on her face, pleased with her plan, it is unfortunate that no one would ever see it.  She heard something going on in the center of the room, and decided to check that out.Seoyeon said, a little louder than she meant to, “Key!”  To cover her mistake, she added, “Haewon was right…”  She sat on the floor for a bit to make sure no one was on to her before she went to try it in the door.Haewon was too busy to hear her, we’ll get there in a minute.In the center of the room, everyone heard Sohyun say, “Jiwoo… can you function?”“I’m okay, just please don’t make me move and please don’t scare me…”“Jiwoo… Xinyu is crying, can you at least get close to her and hold her hand if you aren’t going to do anything else?”Sullyoon immediately knew Sohyun was up to something with her sudden concern for Jiwoo.  She stood and ‘watched’, without being able to see, what was going on with those three at the carpet.  Suddenly, as a wet finger tried to attack Sullyoon, but she was already on high alert and grabbed the hand, which was surprisingly tiny.  “Got you!”  Whatever it was used its other hand to grab Sullyoon around her neck and pull her head down.  It kissed her in the ear and whispered, “Tough girl Yoona.”Sullyoon whispered, “You’re cute… NOW GO AWAY!”Kyujin said, “Yoona?  Are you okay?”“I’m fine!  Having fun!”Sohyun managed to get Jiwoo up.  She grabbed her wife, “Xinyu… please get up, I’m going to move you to a couch and Jiwoo will keep you company.”Xinyu shouted with a sob, “NO!”“Xinyu… come on… You’ll be much safer over there, something around here keeps scaring girls and it is going to be you next if you don’t move…”Xinyu instantly got up.  Sohyun pulled her and Jiwoo to a couch and sat them there, then she went back over to the carpet, not realizing that Sullyoon was right there.  Sohyun started rolling back the carpet and found a piece of paper all the way under the center.  She made an excited yip, but Sullyoon was right there to hear it.Sohyun said, “Junseo!  I need you!”Lily said, “Who is Junseo?”Lily, Kyujin, Haewon, and Bae were feeling around trying to find Nakyoung.  Yooyeon said, “Noisy Nmixx girls looking for something?”Lily said, “Get her!”Bae tried to grab Yooyeon, but she jumped backward, Kyujin was less shy and jumped forward, grabbing Yooyeon.  Bae grabbed a hand, but Yooyeon was struggling and flailing as much as she could.Haewon said, “I have no idea who’s wrist?”Bae said, “Don’t get Kyujin!”There was a tap on Haewon’s shoulder and a voice asked.  “Is that you Yooyeon?”Haewon spun around, easily grabbed the wrist and handcuffed it and then closed the other end on her own wrist.  “GOT YOU!”Chaeyeon said, “What?”“Who did I get?”Chaeyeon realized she had a handcuff on her wrist.  “What is this?”Haewon excitedly said, “Seoyeon?”“Come on…  I’m Chaeyeon dummy…”Lily said, “You caught Chaeyeon?  What is wrong with you today?”“I DON’T KNOW!” lamented Haewon.Bae and Kyujin managed to get Yooyeon onto the ground and were sitting on her.  Lily helped.Yooyeon said, “This isn’t how you are supposed to play this game…  Seoyeon, there are three Nmixx thugs sitting on me… you have free run of the place… solve it please!”Lily said, “Naurrrrr, I’ve never been a thug before…  I guess I’ll try it!”Haewon pulled her new friend cuffed along to a couch and they sat down.  “Well, you are stuck with me…”“Great…”“Wanna make out?” asked Hornywon.“EWWW, NOOOOO?”“Oh well…”“Yooyeon!  Help!  I’m cuffed to Haewon!”“Did you not hear me say there are three Nmixx sitting on me?”Sullyoon sighed to herself.  Literally doing this alone… but she had Seoyeon distracted and knew Sohyun was on to the combination.She was surprised when Nakyoung came crawling over and literally continued crawling under the carpet.  She turned the flashlight on under the carpet, hoping it wouldn’t show.  Sullyoon was the only one who could see it.Nakyoung whispered to Sohyun, “The combination is a math problem…”Sohyun shouted, “Yooyeon!  We need you!”Yooyeon said, “Ummm…  Why do I have to keep repeating?”Sullyoon thought for a minute.  She had no idea how to deal with all of this, but she clearly couldn’t do it herself.Sohyun said, “Where’s Yoona?  Seoyeon?  Where’s Yoona?”Seoyeon shouted, “How should I know… I found a key, but it doesn’t fit… Haewon was right…”The Seoyeon distraction was over, the three of these girls should be able to solve a math problem together, even without Yooyeon.  Sullyoon decided what she had to do.  She shouted, “Sohyun found the combination under the center of the carpet, Nakyoung is here and they are looking at it with the flashlight, they need Yooyeon because it is a math problem to solve it.”Sohyun said, “I KNEW IT!  Yoona, I’m going to get you!”“Bring it, babe!” said Sullyoon.  “Keep Yooyeon down, but I need help!”Lily said, “Go help her Kyujin… Jinsol and thug-Ily can keep her from helping.”Kyujin hopped up.Nakyoung got up and said, “I’m going to ditch this flashlight.”Sohyun said, “No!  We’ll need it at the door!”Suddenly, everyone heard a puff of air.  Nakyoung said, “What is that?”Kyujin sniffed and said, “Teen fresh?”Sullyoon said, “What?”Lily said, “I love those Stayc girls, but their perfume is horrible.  I can smell it from over here.”Kyujin shouted like an anthem, “TEEN FRESH!  Wait… who has Teen Fresh and why?”Nakyoung said, “Well, no hiding for me, I’m now easily tracked by scent…”Seoyeon said, “Naky!  In three!”Kyujin made her way to Nakyoung, using her nose, but didn’t notice Seoyeon run by and Nakyoung handed her the flashlight like a perfect transfer of a relay baton, even in the dark.  Kyujin danced with Nakyoung a bit, “Where is it, Teen Fresh girl?”Nakyoung pretended like she was playing keep-away from Kyujin.Seoyeon said, “Even with the combination, we still need the damn real key?”Awkwardly sitting with Haewon, a ton of bricks fell on Chaeyeon’s head.  “OMG…”Haewon said, “What?  You decide you want to make out?”Chaeyeon said, “If you promise never to ask me that again, I’ll show you where the real key is…”Sohyun joined Seoyeon at the door.  Sullyoon stayed near them, watching.  Sohyun said, “Do you really think Chaeyeon knows where the real key is?”“No… but I need you to help solve this… so we just have to hope she does…”Seoyeon turned on the flashlight behind the corkboard and both of them looked over the problem.  Sullyoon waited until they were both thinking intently and then lunged forward and grabbed the flashlight from Seoyeon.Sohyun said, “Have it your way, pretty girl… now you’ll never know the combination.”  Sohyun tore the paper up into a hundred tiny pieces.”“Damn you!” said Sohyun.Lily shouted from across the room, “Yoona!  Cursing!  Shameful…”Sullyoon shouted, “Quiet, you thug!”, then Sullyoon darted away from them with the flashlight.  She shouted, “Kyujin, I have the flashlight, help me defend it please!”  Kyujin darted toward Sullyoon, but Nakyoung followed behind.Yooyeon asked, “Did you solve it?”Sohyun said, “Hope so!  Because the clue is now in a million pieces…”“On a scale of 1 to 100, how sure are you that you think you solved it?”Sohyun said, “42.”Seoyeon said, “53.”Yooyeon said, “I guess spending the rest of my life with Jinsol sitting on me isn’t horrible.”Lily said, “I’m here too!”Without saying anything, Haewon motioned with her cuffed wrist to Chaeyeon.  The two of them quietly got up and Chaeyeon led them to the couch with the bowl and they both sat on the floor.  Chaeyeon put Haewon’s hand on the bowl.Haewon sighed.  Then she dug in with her hand, there was a key in the bowl, encased in gelatin.Chaeyeon whispered in Haewon’s ear, “Now what?”Haewon said, “I don’t know…”Kyujin and Yoona were no match for Seoyeon, Sohyun, and Nakyoung, there was no way she was going to hold on to that flashlight for long.Sullyoon shouted, “Jinsol!  I need you!  I’m screwed!”Bae and Lily got up off of Yooyeon and moved toward Sullyoon as fast as they could, but it was too late.  Nakyoung turned to block them and Sohyun solidly grabbed Sullyoon with her arms and managed to find her face and kiss her.  Seoyeon said, “Dear god, your tactics…” but easily grabbed the flashlight from the distracted Sullyoon’s hand.  She bolted toward the door.Chaeyeon wrapped her entire arm around the sofa’s leg.  “You aren’t going anywhere with that key unless you uncuff us.”Haewon said, “Fine… Lily!  Meet us at the door with the cuff key!”Seoyeon shouted, “First lock is open!  I got the combination!”Yooyeon shouted, “Nice job!”Chaeyeon let go of the couch and the pair of them stood up and started moving toward the door.  Chaeyeon shouted, “XINYU!  XINYU!”At the door, Seoyeon held the flashlight as Lily unlocked the handcuff on Chaeyeon.Haewon dropped the key to the door, still dripping with a bit of red gelatin, down her bra.  “You want it, you are going to have to fish it out…”Chaeyeon said, “EWWWW, NOOOO!”“Nmixx, I have the key at the door, come clear the way for us to leave please!” shouted Haewon.Seoyeon grabbed Lily and made sure she didn’t interfere.Chaeyeon said, “Fine…”  She grabbed Haewon’s head with one hand and kissed her.  She put her other hand under the elastic at the bottom of Haewon’s bra and grabbed the key.  She removed the hand from Haewon’s head and with both hands, one holding the key, used her entire strength to push Haewon away from her.  A shocked Haewon fell backward onto her butt.As Chaeyeon hurried to open the lock, Seoyeon, still holding Lily, with Chaeyeon’s help opened the party room door and literally fell down outside.  From nowhere, Sohyun and Nakyoung, Sohyun carrying Xinyu’s shoulders and Nakyoung her feet, flew through the door.  Yooyeon exited last and made sure they were safe as Sullyoon and Kyujin followed them out. Bae, dragging Jiwoo stopped to help Haewon get up.Bae said, “You okay?”Haewon said, “I got the kiss!”Sullyoon said, “And then the smart girl solidly rejected you!”Haewon winked at Chaeyeon.  “She loves me…  I could tell in her kiss.”Chaeyeon said, “Ewww, NOOOOO!  But thanks for calling me smart!”Haewon said, “Did bruise my butt though…”Lily started rubbing it for her.Yeji and Heejin came to the door to congratulate everyone.  Lily saw Yeji and moved away from Haewon.Heejin said, “Wow, we greatly enjoyed watching all of that!  Better than TV!  Nice job girls!  TripleS finally gets a win!  Nice teamwork!”TripleS clapped and cheered.Sullyoon said, “It really was nice teamwork.  Although it was five against one…”Seoyeon said, “Did you put that fake key where I found it when you went past me?”Sullyoon giggled, “Yeah….”“Gotta watch this girl… she is smart, cagey, and beautiful…”Bae jealously said, “Dear lord…”Nakyoung noticed no one else was standing near her and said, “Wait… who sprayed me with Teen Fresh?”Everyone shrugged.  Sullyoon giggled, Sohyun giggled also, pretty sure what was going on from her experience in the kitchen.Sohyun said, “Who gets the black X with me?”Yeji said, “Sorry Jiwoo…  Xinyu’s team saved her… you didn’t help at all…”Jiwoo said, “I don’t care… please don’t turn the lights off again?”Yeji said, “No promises…”Jiwoo said, “I HATE HALLOWEEEN!”Xinyu patted her on the head. 
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Chapter 4:  Seoyeon Flips Out on a Stormtrooper
 Yeji said, “Let’s go back inside and see if Hyeju has removed the gelatin mess from the carpet; as I requested.”Haewon said, “Maybe she wants to remove it from inside my bra also?  Chaeyeon didn’t clean it properly.”Chaeyeon cringed, “I don’t believe you made me put my hand under there…”“You don’t have to believe it, your hands are welcome there anytime…”Chaeyeon stomped up and down and tried to shake out the shivers.The girls filed back into the party room, lights now on, rolling corkboard still generally blocking the entrance.Hyeju asked, “Did everyone enjoy the escape room challenge?”Chaeyeon shouted, “NO!”Yooyeon and Seoyeon said, “Yes!”“Right, the girls that finally won something enjoyed it.  Well, here are your badges!”  Hyeju gave each member of TripleS a badge with a padlock on it.  “TripleS is back in the competition, the score is now Nmixx 8 to TripleS 6!  My-Jjyu, come here!”Jiwoo slowly walked forward to Hyeju.  Hyeju said, “Jiwoo… I didn’t know you were afraid of the dark… you didn’t show it… before…”“There were candles… and I knew you would keep me safe… and no one would scare me…”Hyeju said, “Awwww…”Sohyun shouted, “Kissing up to the game master!  Ban her!”Hyeju pinned the black X badge on Jiwoo’s hoodie.  “Okay, you two girls not-so-secretly battling for my attention… off to the kitchen!”Jiwoo anticipated that she would not find this fun, so she ran to grab Sohyun’s wrist and they walked together to the kitchen and closed the door behind them.Looking around Jiwoo said, “So what goes on in here?”“The little butterfly is in here somewhere…”“Oh?  Are you sure?”“Pretty sure…  Also, the lights go off.  Wanna make out?”Jiwoo was visibly shaking.  “The lights are going to go out and a butterfly is going to try to scare me… Why did I sign up for this?”Sohyun put her arm around Jiwoo.  “Calm down girl… it’s all in good fun.”Right on cue, the lights went out.  Sohyun said, “Sorry…” and let go of Jiwoo and hopped up on the countertop again.  She was certain that if it really was who she thought it was, she wouldn’t be able to get to her up on the countertop.There was a loud sound of creaky chains on the Bluetooth system.  A not well-disguised voice in the kitchen said, “WHO IS MY NEXT VICTIM?”Jiwoo said shakily, “Please… whoever this is… please get it over with… I REALLY hate this…”The voice said, “Awww, okay…  Have a snack, my love!”Jiwoo screamed as a thick red liquid hit her squarely in the mouth, chin, and neck.  She accidently licked some as she was ending her scream.  “Oh yum… Cherry?”The voice said, “Raspberry is not a vegetable… why do you not know it?”“Close enough…”***At the sound of the chains out in the party room, Xinyu would normally have latched onto Sohyun, but she wasn’t around, so she ran to Bae and hugged her instead.Bae said patted her on the head, “It’s okay Xinyu, scary sister isn’t going to turn the lights off in here.”That’s when they heard Jiwoo scream.Lily said, “Poor girl is going to literally have a heart attack…”Several minutes went by.  Yeji inspected the floor where the gelatin-filled bowl was and Heejin finished taking all of the chains off of the door.Finally, the kitchen door opened and Sohyun led Jiwoo out.  Lily ran to her and gave her a hug, but then realized she was only wearing a bra, no hoodie, and smelled like raspberry.“Ooohhhhhr, the same thing happened to you that happened to Haewon…”Nakyoung said, “Only Haewon can afford Calvin Klein?”Jiwoo looked down and realized she was just wearing an ordinary black bra, now showing her cleavage quite well.  She walked over to Hyeju and made sure she was looking.  Xinyu gave Sohyun a hug.  “Why don’t we get to see your bra?”Sohyun pushed her wife off of herself, “Keep wishing…”Heejin said, “Sohyun eats another hoodie?”Sohyun said, “I mean, I have no issues with this rep… I just wish it were true…”Hyeju said, “I think it is time for the next game!”Nmixx and TripleS gathered separately, and Hyeju explained:  “Next you will be doing a series of challenges in partners.  The twist is that you will have a partner from the other team.  You will have to work together through three challenges and then the top team will battle against their partner at the end to crown the winner.”Seoyeon asked, “Only one badge for all of that?”Hyeju said, “Of course not… there will be twists and turns along the way.”Nakyoung said, “Joy… so, Miss Hyeju… how are we going to pick partners?”Hyeju said, “While I’m a big fan of people getting screwed by randomness, I don’t think it is time for that yet.  And I wanted it to be as fair as possible.  So… The MCs are going to choose the teams.”Yeji and Heejin looked at each other and giggled.“I hope you all have been nice to them!”Lily grumbled something in English under her breath.Haewon wasn’t afraid to ask, “So Yeji… What is your strategy going to be?”Yeji said, “I think you’ll be able to figure it out fairly quickly…”Heejin said, “I’ll say it… mine is going to be ENTERTAINMENT.”Nakyoung said, “You are going to pick teams for your own personal amusement?”Heejin said, “Got a problem with that?”Nakyoung said, “Miss Yeji!  Itzy is my favorite JYP group!”Kyujin said, “Hello… standing right here… maybe we should be your favorite?”Nakyoung shook her head ‘no’.Yeji said, “Don’t worry… we’ll be fair… while being amused…”Haewon said in an evil voice, “We must rid ourselves of these MCs…”Yeji and Heejin had a quite brief conversation.  The task was apparently quite easy for them.Yeji said, “First group!  Chaeyeon gets to enjoy competing with my favorite fan, HAEWON!”Chaeyeon said, “Nooooooo!  I HATE THE MCs TOOOOO!”Yeji said, “See how much you have in common with Haewon?”Haewon winked at Chaeyeon and pointed into her bra.  Lily slapped Haewon along side of her head.  “Stop traumatizing the poor girl…”Yeji said, “Partners number two!  Yooyeon and… Lily!”Lily said, “Ohhhhr?”Yooyeon smiled at Lily shyly.Yeji said, “Partners number three!  Nakyoung and… Kyujin!”Kyujin ran over to Nakyoung and gave her a high-five before running back to her group.Bae said, “This is slightly shocking… they aren’t going to put Yoona and Sohyun together, or me and Xinyu…”Sullyoon said, “Maybe they want to watch you and Xinyu compete against each other!  You know… for amusement?”“I’m amusing… not sure about her…” Xinyu winked at Sullyoon.Yeji said, “Xinyu’s partner is…  Yoona!”Sullyoon smiled, but her eyes showed that she was clearly uneasy about this pairing.Yeji said, “Sohyun’s partner is… Jinsol!  And that leaves Seoyeon with Jiwoo.”Seoyeon was clearly unimpressed by her partner, but did her best to look upbeat.Hyeju said, “Nice!  Alright, go stand with your partner!”The girls rearranged to stand with their partners.  They stood in the back of the room. Xinyu hugged Sullyoon and Sohyun held Bae’s hand, otherwise, there wasn’t much partner love going on.Hyeju said, “The round one minigame is called, ‘pin the tail on the MC’.”Yeji said, “Oh!  Heejin, Jinsol, and I have played something like this before.”Hyeju continued, “Both MCs will be standing up here at the cork board, facing away from everyone else.  One partner will have a ‘tail’ with a sticky bit on the end.  You just have to stick the tail on either Heejin or Yeji’s butt.  Yeji’s butt is worth 2 points… Heejin’s is worth 3 points…  Closest tail to the spot where a tail should be gets the max points, then next closest gets next, so one team won’t get any points.”Heejin said, “Oh, my butt is worth more than Hwang’s?  Seems right!”“Yours is slightly smaller, more difficult target…”Seoyeon said, “This is easy… what’s the twist…”“Of course!  Each pair will decide who is the ‘silent ghost’ and who is the ‘wailing banshee’.”Yooyeon looked down, “Oh dear…”Hyeju opened a box containing six black bed sheets.  “The ‘silent ghost’ will be wearing one of these bed sheets like a bad ghost Halloween costume with no giant holes for the eyes.  The ‘wailing banshees’ will all be standing at the back of the room and will be trying to direct their ghost partner to the proper place to stick their tail.  Now who are my ghosts?”She carried the sheets to each pair.  Xinyu said, “I’m good at being noisy.”  Sullyoon nodded and took a sheet.Jiwoo said, “I’ll scream.”  Seoyeon agreed as well.Hyeju walked to Sohyun and Bae.  They all looked at each other.  Bae said, “I don’t care… but there is no way my voice can compete with Xinyu and Jiwoo… That’s already a nightmare, and I’m assuming Kyujin will be added to it…”Sohyun said, “Okay, I’ll try…”Hyeju walked to Kyujin and Nakyoung.  Kyujin said annoyingly loudly, “I CAN BE LOUD!”  Nakyoung agreed.Yooyeon took the sheet without even consulting with Lily.Haewon said, “I can be loud and my voice really pierces through noise.”Yooyeon, putting a black sheet over her head and trying it out said, “Not to interfere, but Haewon, you’ll be good at following directions, and she… wont… also, her voice…  she is… loud…”Chaeyeon glared at Yooyeon who couldn’t see her because she was wearing a black sheet.  Haewon grabbed the last black sheet from Hyeju.The ‘silent ghosts’ got used to wearing their sheets for a few minutes.Haewon said, “This really isn’t safe, too easy to trip on this thing.”Hyeju said, “You’ll be fine.  It won’t be attached anywhere, so you’ll just pull it off of yourself if you catch it.  If you do, stop and put the sheet back on before continuing on.  I’ll be watching!  If I see any cheating from my ghosts, you instantly get the black X.”Hyeju gave each of the ghosts a tail.The MCs took their spots by the corkboard and pointed their butts at the girls.  The ‘wailing banshees’ all gathered in the back of the room.  The order was Kyujin and Nakyoung, Lily and Yooyeon, Sohyun and Bae, Chaeyeon and Haewon, Xinyu and Sullyoon, and Jiwoo and Seoyeon across the room.Hyeju said, “Ghosts… spin around ten times in a circle, please.”The ghosts did hilarious varieties of spinning around in their sheet, each holding a tail in their hands out in front of them.“Here we go!  In three… two… one…!”The ghosts all went in random directions to a chorus of “NO!” and “STOP!”  Startled from the get go, they all at least somewhat paused in their tracks.The first loud voice that pierced through the rest of the sounds was Lily singing in a high pitch, “Yoooooooooyeon!  Turn around!”In a rhythmic rap Kyujin repeated loudly, “Naky right yo!  Naky right yo!  Naky right yo!”Jiwoo just screamed at the top of her lungs, “WRONG WAY, FLIP AROUND!”Chaeyeon also just screamed, “TURN AROUND.”Sohyun and Xinyu were both quiet.  Sohyun slid down the back of the room a bit because Bae was going in the totally wrong direction.  She literally caught her partner who almost ran into the wall and said, “Wrong way.”  She grabbed her waist through the sheet and pointed her directly at Heejin.  “Go!” she screamed with a little push.Yooyeon couldn’t miss her name being sung by Lily and immediately turned around and started heading in the opposite direction.  Nakyoung steadily turned a bit right as she walked forward, assuming Kyujin would change it up if she was supposed to stop doing it.  Seoyeon recognized Jiwoo’s voice and turned around as close to 180 degrees as she could.  Haewon did the same.  Bae hoped she was now facing the correct direction and bolted quickly forward.  Sullyoon was still listening carefully for Xinyu but couldn’t hear anything, so she just kept moving forward.Lily sang in English, “Go go go!” Kyujin kept rapping, stomping her feet with each phrase, hoping the rhythmic and repetitive nature would keep Nakyoung going in the right direction.  “Naky right yo, Naky straight yo, Naky straight yo!”Jiwoo realized Seoyeon was pretty much alone on Yeji’s side, so she slid all the way down the wall to the corner, hoping her voice would stand out better alone in the corner and screamed, “A BIT LEFT!  I’M SENDING YOU TO YEJI BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS.”Chaeyeon was pleased that Haewon turned nearly perfectly 180 degrees and after Jiwoo was done screaming, screamed herself, “GO STRAIGHT FAST!”Sohyun and Xinyu stayed quiet, hoping their partners would both stay on the right path.Yooyeon didn’t realize it, but she was heading toward Yeji, but going through a bunch of traffic heading toward Heejin.  Bae quickly brushed by her which startled her a bit, then she solidly ran into Haewon, they both fell down in a tangle of sheets.  Nakyoung continued a slow steady pace, following Kyujin’s rap.  Seoyeon picked up the pace a bit, following the instructions that she was mostly alone, though already upset she was only going to get two points.  Sullyoon kept heading forward, fingers crossed Xinyu wasn’t just sitting on the floor crying or something.Haewon and Yooyeon both flailed around a bit, attempts to get up were thwarted by the other girl making some movement.  Chaeyeon yelled, “HAEWON, STOP TRYING TO GET FRISKY WITH YOOYEON.”Lily was quiet, watching the mass of black sheet move around.Chaeyeon yelled again, “HAEWON, STOP MOVING AND LET HER GET UP.”Haewon went limp and Yooyeon crawled out of the mass of sheets.  She grabbed her sheet and put it back on, not wasting the chance to see which direction she needed to go.Chaeyeon screamed, “NOW GET UP!”Haewon got up as well, straightening her sheet and making sure her tail wasn’t stuck to anything.Kyujin was worried Nakyoung was going to run into Bae, but it was clear Sohyun wasn’t helping her much and she was going way too fast.  Something bad was going to happen, so she just kept Nakyoung moving steadily forward.  Jiwoo screamed to Seoyeon, “CLEAR SHOT, GET HER BUTT!”  Sullyoon kept moving forward steadily.  Xinyu saw that Sullyoon was slightly off course and was trying to figure out what to do.Bae was indeed going too fast and Sohyun yelled, “STOP!” but Bae wasn’t used to hearing her voice as it suddenly appeared.  Heejin was looking over her shoulder at a tall girl moving toward her very quickly and took a step to the side.  Bae plowed into the corkboard, knocking it back against the door.  She held out her tail toward where she expected Heejin to be.  Sohyun shouted, “THAT’S HER BOOB, NOT HER BUTT!”  ‘Silent ghost’ Bae shrugged, not sure what to do now.Sullyoon was still a bit off course, more so now that Heejin moved a bit.  Suddenly the Chinese girl screamed at the top of her lungs, “YOOOONA!  LEFTTTTTTT!”  Sullyoon giggled to herself and adjusted her course, figuring it wouldn’t take much of a change if she hasn’t said anything until now.Kyujin kept rapping, “Naky slow yo, Naky slow yo.”  Nakyoung held out the tail, figuring she was close.  “Naky down, Naky too tall, Naky down, Naky left.”Xinyu screamed, “YOOOOOOONA, NAKYOUNG GONNA GET THREE!  HURRY!”Chaeyeon said, “Damn, that’s impressive screaming Xinyu.”Kyujin suddenly changed her rap and loudly repeated, “PUSH YOONA, PUSH YOONA, PUSH YOONA, DON’T MOVE THE TAIL.”Nakyoung heard something moving into the vicinity and with her right arm she pushed whatever was there as hard as she could.  She caught Sullyoon solid on the shoulder.  She wasn’t expecting it and fell down in a pile of black fabric.Xinyu screamed, “RUDE!  GET UP YOONA!”Nakyoung put her right hand with the tail back to near where it was before.  Kyujin said, “DOWN DOWN DOWN RIGHT DOWN RIGHT GO!” and Nakyoung stuck the tail on Heejin, hitting the small of her back.  Nakyoung moved to the side and Kyujin jumped up and down, happy with their performance.Sohyun wasn’t saying anything, so Bae moved away from the corkboard to reset.  Unfortunately, Yoona was right there on the ground and Bae tripped over her and fell as well, now a double mass of black sheets and tall Nmixx girls.Lily sang, “YOOOYEON!  Yoo-sol in front of you on the ground!  Don’t fall!”  Yooyeon kicked them to see where they were and skittered around to the left of them, holding her left hand out with the tail, knowing Heejin must be close.Lily sang, “OOOhhhhrrr left-handed!  Down!  Down!  Left!  No right!  No up!  Down!”Yooyeon said to herself, “Dear lord…” and lunged forward with the tail hoping for the best.Heejin said, “My BUTT!”Yooyeon jumped up and down twice.  Lily cheered.  Yooyeon, keeping the sheet on, kicked Yoona and Bae again and then proceeded to sit down on the pair of them.  Xinyu screamed, “HYEJU!  YOOYEON IS CHEATING!”On Yeji’s side, Seoyeon was getting close, but Haewon had recovered and had a solid idea where to go and was gaining quickly.  Jiwoo kept chirping small course changes to Seoyeon, who was already holding out the tail.Chaeyeon shouted, “HAEWON!  SEOYEON IN FRONT OF YOU!  BE CAREFUL, SHE IS CAGEY!”Haewon was moving in very quickly, but Seoyeon wanted nothing to do with unarmed melee like was apparently going on on the other side and Jiwoo was doing very well.  She got into the zone and when Jiwoo stopped chirping, she lunged forward and hit Yeji’s butt.Yeji said, “OH!”Seoyeon even slapped the other butt cheek with her hand after delivering the tail.Yeji said, “Okay… I see…”Seoyeon giggled, obviously not giving up the opportunity to slap an Itzy member on the butt.  Haewon interrupted though, arms, hips and shoulders pushing Seoyeon out of the way.Chaeyeon screamed, “THEY HIT PERFECT, JUST GET HER BACK.  GO NOW.”Haewon pushed the tail forward and missed entirely, as her partner’s instructions were far from helpful.  Then she tried again and hit Yeji randomly on the side.Chaeyeon screamed, “GOOD JOB!  WE GOT A POINT!”Nakyoung had taken her sheet off and walked back onto the ‘field’ and grabbed Yooyeon and dragged her off to the side.  Yooyeon said, “Heyyyyyy, karma...”Sullyoon and Bae crawled out of their sheets, stood up, and put them back on.  Bae started to talk to Sullyoon when Hyeju yelled at them, “NO!  ‘SILENT GHOSTS’ NO TALKING.  I’LL GIVE YOU A BLACK X RIGHT NOW.”Xinyu screamed, “ANYWHERE ON HEEJIN TO GET THE LAST POINT!”Sohyun yelled, “BAE, JUST PUSH YOONA AND GET THE POINT!”Sullyoon was having none of it and pushed her hip into Bae, knocking her to the side.  She then held out the tail and caught Heejin on the shoulder.Hyeju yelled, “GAME OVER!”Bae threw her sheet down and then pulled off Sullyoon’s as well and threw it down.  “Yoona… what was that?”“I wanted the point?”“You pushed your helpless friend and teammate out of the way for a point?”“Yes?”“That’s it!  You can’t hang out with TripleS members anymore after this… they are corrupting you!”Bae mimed hitting Sullyoon on the head with a hammer several times.Nakyoung ran to Kyujin and gave her a hug.  “That was great!  You were amazing!”  Kyujin smiled and cheered.Yooyeon stood next to Lily.  Lily said, “You are left-handed!  It was a big help in that random situation!”“Sorry I sat on your friends.  I get a little overcome by the competition as well.”“Ohhhhr, naurrrrrr.  Sitting on Nmixx members who are being ridiculous is often the only solution…”Bae walked up to Sohyun.  “You aren’t very good at being bossy…”“Sorry, there was no way I could in any way scream louder than the rest of these girls…”Bae gave her a hug anyway.Chaeyeon said to Haewon, “Other than that goof at the beginning, you did very well.”“Well, your voice is difficult to ignore…  Actually that ‘goof’ was a help, because I had the opportunity to see where to go.”Chaeyeon nodded.Sullyoon hugged Xinyu, “Wow, you can be loud.”“Of course!”“I was worried, because you didn’t say anything at all for a long while.  I thought maybe you fell asleep or something.”“You were on the right track from the very beginning.  Impressive really…”Seoyeon gave Jiwoo a big hug, picking her up off of the ground.Jiwoo said, “Oh!  Hi!  Nice job out there!”“I slapped Yeji’s butt!”Hyeju said, “The score after the first game is:  Yooyeon and Lily, three points!  Jiwoo and Seoyeon and Kyujin and Nakyoung, two points!  Chaeyeon and Haewon, and Xinyu and Sullyoon, one point!  Jinsol and Sohyun heading toward another black X…  What to do with you Sohyun?”Sohyun said, “Don’t worry, I’ll give you a list of things you’ll enjoy!”Bae, Sullyoon and Xinyu all grumbled at her.Hyeju said, “Give me one minute to reset for minigame two!  Xinyu and Jiwoo go hug or something, it will only be for a moment.”Xinyu scurried to Jiwoo, pushing Seoyeon aside.  Xinyu stared down at Jiwoo’s chest.  “Even more fun now!”  Xinyu hugged her just as the lights went out.There were various movements at the front of the room with flashlights.  After about a minute, the ‘Star Wars’ theme started playing on the Bluetooth system.The girls all jumped.Lily said in English, “OOOOhrr!  Star Wars!  How exciting!”When the lights came back on, there was a giant R2D2 cutout on the corkboard, but he had some pieces missing and some bits were smoking.Yeji and Heejin were standing on either side of R2D2, Hyeju was nowhere to be found.  Suddenly, the kitchen door opened and a stormtrooper walked out carrying a large nerf rifle.  The costume was some pants and a shirt with appliques barely resembling stormtrooper armor.  The helmet wasn’t too bad, it looked fairly authentic.Seoyeon said, “How is that stormtrooper so short?”Nakyoung giggled, “Guys… it looks like you bought the cheapest stormtrooper costume possible…”Heejin said, “Hyeju is busy, but she suspected someone would comment and said that the costume rental place did not have a nice stormtrooper outfit so small and the person wearing it would have complained the entire time in a high-quality outfit with actual armor.”Suddenly a muffled male voice came from the stormtrooper.  “LUKE!  I am your father!”Yooyeon said, “Ummm, stormtroopers don’t say that?”Next it said, “USE THE FORCE, LUKE!”“Or that…”The stormtrooper pointed the rifle at Yooyeon and fired.  The nerf dart hit her square in the forehead.  Yooyeon was stunned and then cracked up laughing.Seoyeon said, “DAMN!  Nice shot!  Don’t antagonize the stormtrooper.  The short… confused… stormtrooper.” The stormtrooper pointed the rifle at Seoyeon, but she quickly hid behind Xinyu.Yeji said, “Here is how this will challenge will work!  Your droid has taken some damage and needs to be repaired.  The parts required to fix him are a bit peculiar…”Yeji pulled out a 1 cm wooden dowel painted black and a small 5 cm square box with various stickers of gears and electrical circuits around it.  “Each pair will start back there with one of each of your legs tied together.”Bae said, “Three-legged race!”The stormtrooper pointed the rifle at Bae for interrupting.  She stared him down, daring him to shoot her.Yeji continued, “Each girl simply has to balance her droid part on this stick and make it from the back of the room, up to the R2D2 and drop it in this box at the foot of R2.  All pairs will have to do this twice.  First pair to finish gets three points, second pair gets two points, third pair gets one point.  The stormtrooper is protecting the broken R2D2 and may try to prevent you from getting to it.The stormtrooper said, “LUKE!  I AM YOUR FATHER!”Heejin said, “Okay girls!  Head to the back of the room and let’s get your legs tied together!”Yeji said, “Of course that’s the part Heejin is excited about…”While the partners had their ankles and thighs tied together, the stormtrooper kept pacing back and forth in front of R2D2.The girls all looked at each other.  The pairs were almost all similar heights, with the exception of Xinyu still having a solid six centimeters over Sullyoon, who was far from short.  And, of course, Chaeyeon was seven centimeters taller than Haewon.Jiwoo said, “You guys picked these pairs so our heights would be similar!  Not your amusement…”Yeji pointed at Haewon.  “Amusing!”Everyone giggled at her.  Lily frustrated for Haewon said, “Hey… not funny…”Heejin said, “Come on… those two had to be together…”Chaeyeon was looking increasingly annoyed as well.  Haewon put her arm around Chaeyeon’s waist.  “Can’t get away from me now… can you?”“Stop coming on to me just to make Lily jealous…”The girls all said, “Oooooooo.”Haewon let go of Chaeyeon and said, “Don’t you start with that too… Yeji… What did you start with your lies!”Chaeyeon was pleased that her little shot in the dark worked.Seoyeon said to Jiwoo, “Just when you think that girl isn’t paying the slightest bit of attention to anything…”Yooyeon wanted to clap for Chaeyeon, but figured it wasn’t a good idea standing next to Lily.Sullyoon said, “Come on girls, focus!  Let’s get some points and save that pathetic S2 droid.”Xinyu said, “R2!”“Whatever…”Heejin and Yeji gave each girl their stick and box to balance on it.  Yeji said, “If you either of you drop yours, you have to pick it up and go back to the start.”Kyujin and Nakyoung got their things first and then stood waiting.  Nakyoung whispered, “Are you okay?  You seem shocked about this Lily/Haewon thing.  Is it just lies?”“I would say it is just a joke.  But I saw Yoona kiss Sohyun, Jinsol kiss Xinyu, AND THEN my best friend Jiwoo kissed Olivia fricking Hye and I had no idea she even knew her.  What do you think?...  I clearly don’t know anyone in my own group…”Nakyoung couldn’t think of much to say, “Well, imagine not knowing anyone in a group of 24…” was the best she could come up with.Chaeyeon noticed Haewon wasn’t herself.  She poked her in the side with her free hand.  “Hey… I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings.  I didn’t mean to…  I won’t say things about that again, I promise.”Haewon looked at her partner.  She wasn’t often impressed with someone she had the wrong idea about, but Chaeyeon was proving to be much more than her outward personality suggested.  “Sorry also… I’ll stop being Hornywon around you if you really don’t like it.”“I don’t like it.  But you don’t have to stop.  Let’s be ourselves and try to win this!”Haewon’s put her hand on Chaeyeon’s back and ran her fingers down the back of her tee shirt like a spider, settling on her butt.  Chaeyeon swatted her hand away, dropping her box in the process.Yeji turned back to look at them.  “You two… we haven’t even started yet…”Haewon said, “You wanted entertainment, didn’t you?”Haewon had to drop her box as well so they could pick both of them up and sit them back on their sticks.Seoyeon kept staring at Jiwoo’s chest.  Jiwoo looked at her shyly.  “You are distracting now…”Jiwoo winked at her.Yeji finished handing out the gear and her and Heejin went to the front standing on either side of R2D2.  They looked at each other and said, “GO!”In general, the pairs were a mess.  Moving their joined leg without jerking the stick with the box awkwardly was more difficult than it seemed at first thought.Everyone except Lily and Yooyeon and Chaeyeon and Haewon dropped their boxes quickly and had to start over.  Kyujin and Nakyoung and Sohyun and Bae were by far the worst, dropping boxes several times. Lily and Yooyeon went rather slowly, seeing that everyone else was having trouble.  Haewon and Chaeyeon weren’t exactly tearing it up, but when they got a bit unsteady, they would just go slow and not try to rush it.  Both pairs approached the big front box together.  Xinyu and Sullyoon were getting used to the height difference on their bound leg and weren’t far behind after dropping twice.The stormtrooper decided to cause trouble.  Lily and Yooyeon were slightly in the lead, but Chaeyeon and Haewon were right there and the stormtrooper was slightly to the side and could only shoot at Chaeyeon and Haewon.  Lily dropped her box into the big box and Yooyeon dropped hers right after her.  The stormtrooper shot three times at Chaeyeon.Chaeyeon shouted, “WHAT THE FUCK?” and dropped her box and Haewon started laughing hysterically which caused her to drop hers as well.  They both picked up their boxes and ran back to the start.  Chaeyeon said, “STOP LAUGHING AT ME!”“But you’re so damn cute when you get flustered…”Chaeyeon hit Haewon on the back of the head with her stick.Xinyu and Sullyoon were the sole target of the stormtrooper now.  It fired at Xinyu twice, hitting her in the chest which caused her to drop her box, but Sullyoon didn’t drop hers and managed to propel it into the big box.  “Oh, now what?  We got one?” asked Xinyu.“Let’s run back and just bring the one, I’ll carry it…” said Sullyoon.  Xinyu nodded.Sullyoon picked it up.  They ran back to the starting line and she balanced it on her stick.  She held it steady and motioned to go.  Without even a bit of uneasiness they ran forward through Jiwoo and Seoyeon who finally were having some success.  Bae and Sohyun and Kyujin and Nakyoung were still struggling, but both teams were at least moving forward, although slowly.  Chaeyeon and Haewon were making progress again as well.  Sullyoon dropped in her second box and Chaeyeon and Haewon dropped in their boxes with no interference from the stormtrooper who was reloading.Lily and Yooyeon were already approaching with their second trip.  Lily had the game down and was trying to go very fast.  Yooyeon was doing okay, but had to stop and steady herself a few times which made Lily stop.  Xinyu was similarly slowing Sullyoon down.  It was going to be very close.  Chaeyeon was trying to keep up, but Haewon dropped her box twice and couldn’t stop laughing.  Jiwoo and Seoyeon dropped their first boxes in the big box and were running back to grab their second. Yooyeon decided to be Yooyeon and pretended like she was struggling, to slow Lily down on purpose.  Just as she planned, Sullyoon, pulling Xinyu along, passed them.  The stormtrooper jumped into action shooting at Sullyoon.  What Yooyeon didn’t plan for was, two darts bouncing off Xinyu’s legs with no effect and Sullyoon had switched the box and stick to her left hand and literally grabbed a dart heading toward her shoulder out of the air with her right hand.A high-pitched female voice came from the stormtrooper and said, “DAMN YOONA!” followed by a husky computerized male voice that said, “USE THE FORCE, LUKE!”Sullyoon and Xinyu dropped their boxes into the big box, earning first place.  Yooyeon and Lily were right behind.  After dropping their boxes, Yooyeon bent over and cursed to herself.Lily said in English, “Naurrrr, it’s okay!”Yooyeon admitted, “I was being slow on purpose… I wanted them to get shot, assuming they would drop one and we would get an easy win.  Your groupmate is a fricking ninja…”Lily said, “Ahhhhhr, good thinking!  And yeah… who would have guessed.  She just got lucky.”Sohyun and Bae finally got their act together, dropping their first boxes in and running back quickly.  They did much better the second go-around, moving much more quickly and steadily making it a game between them and Jiwoo and Seoyeon.  Kyujin and Nakyoung got the hang of it as well for their second run, but were still lagging a bit after a dismal start.It would come down to what the stormtrooper did at the front.  Bae and Sohyun were ready and got hit twice, but managed not to drop their boxes.  Seoyeon was not prepared to get hit in the side of the head, however, and she dropped her box.  Bae and Sohyun got their boxes dumped for third place, just as Haewon got control of herself and she and Chaeyeon were also making up ground.Yeji said, “That’s it!  Winners are in!”Haewon fell down onto the carpet, taking Chaeyeon with her, laughing hysterically.  Seoyeon picked up the box that she dropped and threw it as hard as she could at the stormtrooper.  “WHEN I FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE I’M GOING TO STRANGLE YOU!”The stormtrooper made some loud Chewbacca grunting noises.  Jiwoo started cracking up as well.Chaeyeon sat up, “Why are you laughing?”Haewon said, still giggling.  “I don’t even know… the entire thing is hilarious… Yoona caught that dart and Seoyeon keeps staring at Jiwoo and Bae and Sohyun are the worst at everything…”Seoyeon threw one of the darts at the stormtrooper for good measure.  “BAD ENOUGH THIS NICE GIRL’S CHEST IS STARING AT ME, THEN I GET SHOT…”Jiwoo hugged her partner.“NOT HELPING!”Heejin gave Yeji a high five.  “I think our partner choices have been brilliant!”“Indeed!” agreed Yeji. 
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Chapter 5:  Xinyu Finds a New Mistress
As the stormtrooper retired to the kitchen, the girls gathered themselves and stood around R2D2, Yeji and Heejin in the center.Yeji said, “Here are the point values after minigame 2:  Lily and Yooyeon are in the lead with five points.”Haewon said, “Who would have guessed…”Yooyeon said, “If you get to know me, you’ll discover I’m amazing.”“Yes, if you are winning things that have nothing to do with singing with Lily as your partner, you are amazing.”Lily glared at Haewon.Yeji continued, “In second place is Xinyu and Sullyoon…”Seoyeon said, “Are we going to redo that entire conversation replacing Lily with Xinyu and Yooyeon with Sullyoon.”Sullyoon said, “No… I’m modest.  And Xinyu is good at things…”Yooyeon tapped her temple with her finger.  “Ouch…  I’m modest…”Sullyoon ran to Yooyeon, “No no, I didn’t mean it like that…”  She gave her a quick hug.  Yooyeon didn’t say no.Xinyu said, “Don’t worry Yoona, best partner at everything ever, I’ll deal with them later.”Heejin said, “Isn’t it ironic you guys work better together in pairs from opposite teams…”The girls were quiet for a bit, contemplating Heejin’s words.Nakyoung said, “We have to work together every day, it is fun to have a new partner.”Kyujin said, “My new partner doesn’t have a habit of lying to me or hiding things from me.”  Kyujin stared at Jiwoo who then just looked down at the carpet.Yeji said, “Jeez girls, let me finish…  Tied for third place with 2 points are Kyujin and Nakyoung and Jiwoo and Seoyeon.  And tied for fifth place are Chaeyeon and Haewon and Sohyun and Bae with one point each.  At least Sohyun and Bae are no long pointless!”Sohyun and Bae hugged and jumped up and down like they won something.Jiwoo said, “Heejin… Where’s Hyeju?”Heejin said, “Oh dear…  I have never been that girl’s keeper.  Too much even for my eyes…”Jiwoo snarled at her.Heejin pulled a ping pong ball out of her pocket and held it up.  “Guess what the next game is!”Kyujin said, “TABLE TENNIS!  I ROCK AT TABLE TENNIS!”Haewon and Lily looked at each other.  Lily said, “Nauuuurrrrr.”Haewon said, “Sorry kiddo… you are going to be disappointed…”Kyujin frowned.Yeji went to the side of the room and opened up the small card table that was usually used for storing gifts for the gift exchange.  It was folded up behind a couch.  She put it on the far side of the room where the pairs started the first two minigames.  She sat a box on top of it, full of ping pong balls.Heejin said, “Each pair will pick up a ball.  YEJI!  Come here!”Yeji ran up to Heejin and bent over a bit.  Heejin put the ball between their lips, both girls kissing the ball.  Then she grabbed it with her hand and said, “Each pair will hold the ball with their lips like this.  You have to transport the ball from the table to the big box here at R2D2.  Two pairs will compete at a time.  The first pair to successfully drop the ball in the box gets a point.  Losers are out.”All of the blood ran out of Kyujin’s head.  Chaeyeon said, “Heeeeejinnnnnn… whyyyyyyyy?”Haewon said, “Don’t worry partner.  I’ll be serious and behave!  Let’s win!”Chaeyeon gave her side eye, not sure if she could believe her or not.Nakyoung said to Yooyeon, “Why do Sohyun and Bae and Xinyu and Sullyoon not look the slightest bit nervous about this?”

Seoyeon said, “Yeah… I’m going to be looking down Jiwoo’s bra the entire time…”Nakyoung flicked Seoyeon’s nose.  “You don’t HAVE to…”Yooyeon said, “Yoona, have you played this game before?”Sullyoon shook her head ‘no’.Haewon said, “But Yeji has…  We can thank Saer… um, nevermind…”Lily asked, “Are we going in some set order?”Yeji said, “Sohyun and Bae and Chaeyeon and Haewon, you are both on the bottom with one point.  Do you want to rock paper scissors to determine who gets to choose their opponent first?”Haewon said, “Oh, I see…  bottom gets some seeming advantage that probably isn’t an advantage at all…”Bae said, “Clearly Haewon doesn’t want an advantage, so I’ll TAKE IT!  We’ll pick our opponent first!”Chaeyeon said, “Dear partner, does your mouth always mess up the lives of everyone around you?”Haewon admitted, “Yes?”Yooyeon said, “Please?  YOU are going to accuse her of that?”Chaeyeon asked, “Do you want to be her partner?”“OMG, not my point.  Both of your mouths… should be GREAT at this challenge, if they can stay shut long enough…”Chaeyeon glared at Yooyeon, Haewon giggled.Bae said, “Anyway… clearly no complaints from them…  Thoughts Sohyun?”Sohyun said, “You seem to have this under control, do you have a plan?”“I pick Kyujin and Nakyoung as our opponent.”Sohyun gave her a high-five.Heejin said, “Yeji will be up there with you to make sure no one cheats.  No touching the ball with your hands unless you drop it!  I’ll be down here at R2D2 in case it is close at the final box.”

Yeji and Heejin took their spots, along with Sohyun and Bae on the right side of the card table and Kyujin and Nakyoung on the left side.Yeji said, “Choose your ping pong ball and let’s go!”Both teams grabbed a ball.  Sohyun said to Bae, “Hey…”Bae turned to look at her and Sohyun kissed her gently.  After she let go of Bae’s face, Bae smiled at her.Sohyun said, “I don’t remember if I kissed you that night or not, but just to get it out of the way.  I see why my wife likes you, maybe we should turn into a threesome.”Bae was focused on getting a point for a change and didn’t entertain her idea.  She only said back, “Slowwwwwwwwww.”Sohyun nodded ‘yes’.They put the ball between their lips, heads tilted, Bae had to bend just slightly.  Sohyun put her hands on Bae’s waist, to both keep them from doing something they shouldn’t and to keep the distance between them steady.Kyujin and Nakyoung were almost exactly the same height, they put the ball between their lips but their noses knocked together like reindeer kissing.Yeji said, “You have to pretend you are kissing each other, one of you has to tilt.”They both tilted the same way and were still knocking noses.  Sohyun and Bae were waiting patiently, pretending the ball wasn’t there.Yeji said, “Oh my… teenage girls that have never kissed anything…”Haewon said, “You should have brought Nayeon for them, she sure fixed you…”Yeji said, “Shut up…”They finally got their lips on the ball at a semi-comfortable angle.  Yeji said, “GO!”Sohyun and Bae inched slowly forward, putting a lot of pressure on the ball to make sure it didn’t drop.  They slowly made their way across the carpet.Kyujin and Nakyoung tried to shuffle quickly, but Kyujin shuffled a bit faster than Nakyoung and they dropped the ball.  Kyujin picked it up and they skittered back to the start and tried again, still taking three tries to tilt their heads correctly.Sohyun and Bae steadily made their way down the carpet toward R2D2.  Like clockwork, Kyujin and Nakyoung would get the ball steady, and run for a bit and either trip on the carpet or outpace each other and drop the ball.Bae was having a hard time not giggling at them, trying to focus on the task and Sohyun’s warm breath.The fourth time, Kyujin and Nakyoung now were forced to try to move quickly.  They made it halfway down the carpet.  They almost dropped again, but Kyujin stopped the ball from falling with her index finger and they continued.Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon and they both shook their heads, but no one else said anything.They recovered and were actually approaching the box, but it was too late.  Sohyun put pressure on Bae’s waist with her hand as a signal and together they propelled the ball forward a bit and right into the box.After dropping the ball in the box after them Kyujin said, “This game is stupid…”Bae hugged Sohyun, squeezing her tight.  “We liked it!” she said triumphantly.Heejin said, “Point for Sohyun and Bae!  Who knew it was even possible!  Naky and Kyujin are out.  Your final total will be two points…”Nakyoung said, “Boooo.  Well, we tried… after such a good start too.”Kyujin said, “Sorry partner…”“No worries, it’s all good!”Holding hands, Bae and Sohyun ran to the side of the room with the other girls.  Xinyu pulled their hands apart and inserted herself between them, holding each of their hands.Sohyun said, “Don’t you have a partner of your own?”Xinyu growled at Sohyun like a cat.Yeji said, “Haewon and Chaeyeon!  Pick your opponent!”Haewon said, “Do you have an opinion?”Chaeyeon said, “Lily and Yooyeon are both two shades of pale.”Haewon said, “Right, but Seoyeon is going to be very distracted and Jiwoo can’t focus on doing any one thing for long enough to make it to the end.”Jiwoo said, “WHAT?”Chaeyeon said, “I feel like if Jiwoo and Seoyeon was my preference, you would have made up a reason why Lily and Yooyeon are a better choice.”Haewon said, “Look how pale and nervous they are… obviously…”Lily said, “Chaeyeon… just let her…”Chaeyeon said, “Fine… PICK…”Haewon sheepishly said, “Jiwoo and Seoyeon please.”Jiwoo gave Seoyeon a high-five and said, “LET’S GO!”Seoyeon was a little surprised by her partner’s enthusiasm.  “Oh, okay, excitement.  Sure!  Let’s win!”Both pairs walked over to the table.Haewon asked Yeji, “We can touch each other, right?”Yeji said, “Yes… just not the ball…”Chaeyeon pointed at Haewon.  “DO NOT TOUCH ME.”Haewon said, “Do you want to win?  Just trust me?”“I DON’T TRUST YOU.”“You could try it just for once…”Chaeyeon said, “BOOOOOOO.”Jiwoo was anxious to show that she was ready to go AND was paying close attention.  She pulled out a ping pong ball, directed which direction for Seoyeon to turn her head and they kissed it together.  They were both the same height, so they seemed easily ready to go.Haewon did the same.  Just before they put their lips on the ball, she said, “I’m going to put my hand on your head.  Don’t freak out…”Chaeyeon sighed.Chaeyeon was quite a bit taller and had to lean over uncomfortably a bit and Haewon tried to stay on her tippy toes.Yeji said, “Go!”Haewon put her hand on the back of Chaeyeon’s head to hold their heads steady.  Both pairs started making slow but steady progress forward.Haewon did a good job keeping Chaeyeon’s head steady, but it’s a good thing she did, because otherwise they would have been a mess.  They even went a bit faster than Sohyun and Bae, mostly because Haewon wasn’t sure how long she could keep her feet elevating her body enough.About halfway there, Seoyeon tripped a bit and dropped the ball, which hit Jiwoo right in the center of her cleavage.  The ball stopped for a second as though stunned, and then fell to the carpet.Nakyoung yelled, “DID YOU JUST DO THAT?”  Seoyeon shook her head no violently and Jiwoo was giggling uncontrollably as Seoyeon grabbed the ball and they went back to start.  They got situated again and Seoyeon decided to use Sohyun’s trick and put her hands on Jiwoo’s sides, briefly forgetting that she wasn’t wearing a shirt, now both hands on bare flesh.Yooyeon said, “Oh, she’s getting frisky…”The hands helped and Seoyeon and Jiwoo were making up ground, but Haewon and Chaeyeon made it to the box first and dropped the ball straight down.Heejin said, “Point for Chaeyeon and Haewon!  Look at the bottom striking back!  Seoyeon and Jiwoo are out of the game with two points.”Chaeyeon ran back to the group, closely followed by Haewon.  Yooyeon gave her a high-five.  “Nice job!”Haewon said, “Why is your head so damn heavy?”Chaeyeon said, “What is this?  An airhead joke?”“The opposite of that?  My wrist is killing me from keeping you straight…”Chaeyeon shrugged.Jiwoo and Seoyeon joined them.  Nakyoung said, “Did you try to drop the ball down her bra?”Seoyeon said, “Haha, you’re funny… obviously not?”Jiwoo said, “You don’t have to be shy, you can grab my waist and stare at my chest all you want.”Seoyeon put one hand on Jiwoo’s side.  Jiwoo smiled at her.Yooyeon grabbed Seoyeon’s hand off of Jiwoo’s side and held it instead.Seoyeon said to Yooyeon, “You have a game to play.  You enjoy kissing Lily…”From behind them Lily said, “Naurrrrrr.”Yooyeon let go of Seoyeon’s hand and walked over to the table with Lily.  Sullyoon and Xinyu joined them.Sullyoon said, “Okay Miss giant… how are we going to do this?”Xinyu said, “I’ll bend my knees, don’t worry.  The waist thing seems to work, so you can grab me if you want.  Also, should we kiss first to make my wife jealous like she did to me?”“I don’t care about making anyone jealous, but I would like to see what it feels like to be kissing you.  You know… to gauge our heights and stuff…”Xinyu winked at her and they kissed.  A bit less briefly and gently than Bae and Sohyun.  Over at the side, Sohyun grabbed Bae’s hand again in retaliation. After the kiss, Sullyoon grabbed a ball and said, “READY!”Lily and Yooyeon looked at each other awkwardly.  Yooyeon was a bit taller than Lily, but not enough to cause any issues.  Lily said, “I think I’ll be pretty good at this.  Try not to be shy, you can touch me if you want.”Yooyeon nodded shyly.Lily shrugged and grabbed a ball and held it between their lips.  They tilted their heads and inched forward to put pressure on the ball.Sullyoon did the same.  Yeji shouted, “GO!”Sullyoon put her hands on Xinyu’s hips, Xinyu put her arms on Sullyoon’s shoulders and they moved quickly forward.  Lily and Yooyeon did great, staying steadily behind Sullyoon and Xinyu, but they couldn’t keep up with the tall girls.  Sullyoon and Xinyu dropped their ball in the box and then pulled each other close and hugged.Lily said, “SH…”Kyujin and Jiwoo both said simultaneously, “DID SHE ALMOST CURSE?”Yooyeon said, “FUCK AND SHIT!  I’ll curse for both of us… how did we end up against those two?  Stupid Haewon had to do the opposite of what Chaeyeon said?  Grrrrrrrr….”Lily patted Yooyeon on the shoulder as they walked back to the group.Nakyoung said to Lily, “Sorry about her… she’s quiet… until she isn’t…”Lily said, “It’s okay…  She’s fun…”Yooyeon just looked down at the carpet.Seoyeon said, “Our night has become hanging our hopes on Chaeyeon, Sohyun, and Xinyu…”Sohyun had her arm around Bae and Xinyu had her arm around Sullyoon.  Chaeyeon was avoiding Haewon.Nakyoung said, “We’re doomed…”Sohyun said, “One of us HAS to win this part… Shut up…”Yeji said, “You guys are so much fun.  Well, Lily and Yooyeon are eliminated with 5 points.  Xinyu and Sullyoon are the only group near them, also with five points.  Going to be a fun ending!”Bae said, “Yeah yeah… more importantly, which of us gets to choose next?”Yeji said, “Xinyu and Sullyoon have 5 points, Chaeyeon and Haewon have 2 points and Sohyun and Bae have 2 points.”Yooyeon instantly protested, though there was nothing quite yet to protest.  “Yoona and Xinyu should NOT get two chances to get enough points to beat us…  Make the bottom fight please…”Yeji said, “I don’t take commands from contestants.  Even if they are super cute when they are super competitive.”Yooyeon made a cute cat face and gave herself cat ears with her fingers.Yeji said, “Since Yoona and Xinyu are in the lead, they get the bye.  Next match is Sohyun and Bae versus Chaeyeon and Haewon.”Yooyeon gave Lily a high-five, although Lily was a bit clueless about why everything that just happened was important.Sohyun and Bae got ready, as did Chaeyeon and Haewon.  Chaeyeon said, “Yeah yeah, you’re going to touch me…”Haewon said, “OOO, begging now?”Chaeyeon said, “I really hate you.”“Shut up and kiss a ball…”Sohyun and Bae looked at each other and rolled their eyes at their competition. Sohyun and Haewon grabbed a ball and both pairs got ready.Chaeyeon kissed the ball and Haewon got on her toes and grabbed the back of Chaeyeon’s head again.  Sohyun and Bae kissed the ball as well.Yeji said, “The battle to have MORE than two points!  Go!”Haewon and Chaeyeon started moving forward.  Bae decided randomly, as Bae often did, to try something new.  She grabbed Sohyun and pulled her close.  Sohyun responded and put her arms all the way around Bae’s waist, Bae put her arms around Sohyun’s shoulders.  They were like a couple dancing at the prom, only kissing a ping pong ball.  They danced forward, moving quite efficiently.Haewon saw them and tried to pick up the pace, also trying to figure out how she could hug Chaeyeon like that, but she wasn’t ready to get beat over the head with a ping pong ball, so they just did the best they could and hoped Sohyun and Bae would drop the ball.They did, but right into the box.Heejin said, “Sohyun and Bae win!”Chaeyeon quickly pulled away from Haewon and ran to her groupmates.Heejin picked the ball out of the box.  “LOOK!”  The ball was badly deformed.Bae said, “We did that?”Sohyun said, “I really want to throw you on the ground and jump on you right now.”Heejin said, “Me?”Sohyun rolled her eyes. Xinyu ran over and pushed them apart.  “Maybe AFTER me and Yoona kick your butts…”Bae said, “Let’s go giant Chinese girl!”Yeji yelled, “Heejin!  They’ll all turn into a mass of kissing girls on the carpet if you don’t maintain order!”Kyujin said, “They will?  Do I want to see that?  Maybe?  NOOOOO!  I don’t… Why would I even think it…”Jiwoo patted Kyujin on the head.  Kyujin barked at her, “YOU STAY AWAY FROM ME!  Fake friend… walking around in a bra…”Nakyoung whispered to Yooyeon, “Cracks abound.”Yooyeon said, “It is getting a bit late in these games to point them out… we don’t really seem to be able to exploit them…”Haewon was standing very close to Lily. Nakyoung whispered, “Watch those two!”Yooyeon rolled her eyes at her.Heejin started pushing girls toward the table, one at a time.  “Go to Hwang!  Go to Hwang!”Yeji said, “Final match!  Can Sohyun and Bae keep Yoona and Xinyu from beating Lily and Yooyeon for the overall title?”Haewon said to Lily, “No offense, but I think it will be more fun to watch Yoona battle Xinyu at the end.”Lily said, “Yauuurrrrr!  Obviously!”Yooyeon swatted Lily on the shoulder.  Lily said, “I mean… Nauurrrrr!  Yooyeon and I will be an epic fight!”Haewon laughed.Sohyun and Bae grabbed a ball, kissed it and hugged each other, ready to go.Xinyu looked at them, then she looked back at Sullyoon and then whispered something in her ear.  Then she said loudly, “Wanna try that?”Sullyoon said, “I feel like we can’t get any better than last time, that hug might be awkward with the height difference and slow us down.”Xinyu gave her a thumbs up.  They kissed the ball, grabbing each other’s hips and shoulders like before.Yeji said, “GO!”Both pairs bolted from the starting line at nearly equal speed. Jiwoo said, “Yoona and Xinyu are slower this time?”Both pairs were literally staying back-to-back.  Suddenly, Sullyoon bent her knee and stuck her foot out backward.  Sohyun unexpectedly caught her ankle on Sullyoon’s and tripped.  Holding each other so tightly, Bae and Sohyun tumbled toward the ground together.  Xinyu and Sullyoon sped up a bit and dropped their ball in the box.Heejin said, “Xinyu and Yoona win this match!  And the entire set of games!”Xinyu and Sullyoon hugged and jumped up and down together.Even lying on the ground, Bae and Sohyun were still kissing the ball.  Heejin pulled it off of their lips and said, “OH MY!  You two still didn’t drop it and deformed another ball!”Bae screamed, “FOUL!  WE WERE TRIPPED!”Sohyun screamed, “IS THAT LEGAL?  I HATE YOU YOONA!”Sullyoon smiled cutely at Sohyun.Heejin said, “We never said you couldn’t interfere with each other!  It is a very risky in this game, but if you can pull it off…”Bae said, “Chinese girl!  Watch this!”  Bae kissed Sohyun and they started rolling around on the carpet.Xinyu shrugged and grabbed Sullyoon’s hand and led her back to the group, ignoring her wife and mistress.Heejin tried to pull Bae and Sohyun apart, but Yeji had to run up and help her.  They let go of each other and climbed to their feet before rejoining the other girls.Kyujin looked at Bae, “Who are you?”Bae said, “Jinsol!  High on TripleS!”Jiwoo said, “How about you get high on your team and focus on winning?”“What did I just do?  Until right then when they cheated.”Jiwoo shrugged.“How many points did you get again?”Jiwoo shrugged.Yeji said, “Xinyu and Sullyoon!  Come here!  Time for your epic battle for the final badge!”The pair walked over to Yeji as everyone clapped and cheered for them.Yeji said, “You two will compete in three more mini-games, each containing aspects of the three group games.  The first game will be ‘Pin the tail on Yeji’.  You will both be wearing a black sheet and have to get the tail to my butt.  Instructions are going to come from your groupmates over there.”Yeji pointed to the other girls.Yoona patted Xinyu on the back, “Sorry girl… there’s no way TripleS can be louder than Nmixx…”All five TripleS girls instantly huddled up and started whispering to each other.Lily said, “Oohhhhr?”Haewon also saw and gathered the five of them together, but they weren’t really saying anything to each other, so they broke the huddle.Heejin brought the sheets over and both girls were equipped with their black ghost costume and a sticky tale.Heejin was in charge of Xinyu and Yeji was in charge of Sullyoon.  They made sure each girl was spun around twenty times.  Yeji yelled, “GO!” and then scampered into the center of the room and stood still.Five Nmixx girls started shouting various things at Sullyoon.  It was loud, but they weren’t even saying the same things.  She stood still for a moment for things to stop spinning and at least she knew from all the noise coming from the side of the room roughly where she was facing.Buried in the cacophony of Nmixx voices was a loud Chaeyeon, screaming a single word as loudly as she could.  Xinyu instantly picked up on her voice and followed it.Sullyoon tried to focus just on Jiwoo, Lily, or Haewon, but it wasn’t really working.  If anything, Bae’s low screams were the easiest to hear, but she was unreliable about the direction, or even shouting anything at all.  Haewon saw that their black ghost was confused.Yeji suddenly started walking slowly around the carpet.  For the first time Chaeyeon screamed more than one word, “OMG YEJI IS MOVING AROUND!”Sullyoon heard that from the other team, at least she was aware.  Maybe if she could find Xinyu, she could just follow Chaeyeon’s instructions and push Xinyu out of the way at the end.Leader-Won kicked in.  Haewon went to each girl, telling her to shut up.  Except Lily, who she told to sing.  Then she snuck up behind Chaeyeon.  She pointed to Lily.Sullyoon was suddenly shocked by quiet Nmixx and moved to where she thought she heard Xinyu moving around.  Xinyu was still listening to Chaeyeon and heading carefully toward the moving Yeji.Suddenly, between Chaeyeon’s screams, Lily started singing in Korean-English, as high as she could still belt.  “YoooooNAAAAAAAAA!  RIGHHHTEUUUU!  FAST!”Haewon sprung at Chaeyeon, putting her right hand over her mouth.  Chaeyeon made a mumbled scream, “HEY!  I’LL BITE YOU!”Seoyeon and Nakyoung saw what was happening, but Jiwoo and Kyujin did their best to keep them from helping Chaeyeon who was still struggling to get away from Haewon.  Haewon grabbed Chaeyeon’s other arm and pulled it behind her back.Lily kept singing away and Sullyoon was getting close to Yeji.  Xinyu accidently followed some of Lily’s instructions, and she was far enough off line to make her moves go in the wrong direction.Yooyeon ran up to Lily to try to keep her from singing, but Bae stepped in front.  Yooyeon had no hope of getting around her.  That left Sohyun.  She said to herself, “Well shit…”  She screamed, “Wifie!  No no, go left!”Unfortunately, it was too late.  Lily guided Sullyoon right to Yeji and she quickly hit her in the small of the back with the tail.  She remembered the exact height from last time and felt fairly good about it.Sohyun guided Xinyu to Yeji right after, but the tail went well up her back.Heejin ran over, “Yoona wins match one!”Haewon carefully let go of Chaeyeon.  Chaeyeon turned around and looked at her like she was about to rip her head off with her bare hands.  She said, “You go to police academy or something?  That was a very effective hold…”Haewon put her hands up.  “Don’t kill me!  Just making sure we won!  You were too good…”“I know… you recognized that I’m good.  That’s all I needed…”  She turned back around, switching back to ignoring Haewon.Haewon looked at her like she had two heads.Yooyeon and Bae were still dancing back and forth, occasionally striking at each other like cats.Seoyeon grabbed Yooyeon’s wrist.  “Stop playing with tall girls on the wrong team… I’m getting tired of it…”Yooyeon winked at Bae and shrugged.Heejin helped the girls shed their sheets and told them to sit in the center of the carpet.With no pause, Yeji and Heejin tied Sullyoon and Xinyu’s ankles and then thighs together as they did for the three-legged R2D2 race, but they were sitting rather than standing.Yeji said, “For the second mini-game, each girl gets ONE coach.  Everyone else has to stay quiet.  Who is it going to be?”Nmixx all looked at each other.  They nominated Bae.  Bae cheered for herself and ran to the carpet and stood over Sullyoon, patting her on the head.Sullyoon said, “Remember, you are MY coach, not hers…”Bae hit her over the head with an invisible hammer three times.TripleS was huddling for quite a while.  Most of what could be heard was Sohyun whining about something.  Finally, Seoyeon cursed and walked over to Xinyu.  Xinyu looked up at her.“Your wife didn’t want to do it and our best cheerleader claims her throat now hurts from all the screaming and being attacked by Haewon.”Xinyu looked away and shook her head.Yeji said, “There is only one rule to this one.  Please don’t hurt each other.  I know you both will respect the other.”Xinyu held out her hand.  Sullyoon shook it and then kissed it.Bae asked, “Can I hurt Seoyeon?”Seoyeon looked at Bae like she just kicked her puppy.Yeji continued, “This game is as simple as it gets.  First girl to have any body part outside of the carpet wins.”Sullyoon said, “Oh damn…  But she’s 5 meters tall…”Bae said, “Don’t worry Yoona, you are stocky and powerful, you can throw her around easily!”Seoyeon countered, “Xinyu… just get close and then extend your limbs, piece of cake!”The carpet was quite large, easily 4 meters by 6 meters.  It was going to take some effort to make it to an edge stuck to another girl.Yeji said, "Alright coaches!  Any last words for your girl?"

Bae said, "Yoona, your team hopes you win.  I'm okay either way.  No pressure."

Sullyoon looked at Bae with the same annoyed look she has given her a million times.

Seoyeon said, "Everyone thinks this girl is all that.  She's not that special.  She's just your average Nmixx.  Below average at everything.  You've got this won!"

Sullyoon looked at Seoyeon with the same annoyed look, but giving it to her for the first time.  She wanted to say something smart back, but just focused on Xinyu.  It was one of those introvert moments where she was thinking of awesome comebacks for the rest of the night, long after the moment had passed.

Yeji said, "Coaches, you can stand anywhere you like, as long as you are off the carpet.  You can say anything you want to your girl, everyone else has to be quiet."

Jiwoo said, "Boooooo."

Bae said, "My-Jjyu!  I got this!"

Jiwoo said, "Doubtful!"

Yooyeon was going to shout something to Seoyeon, but decided not to.

Bae and Seoyeon moved to the edge of the carpet.

Heejin said, "GO!"

Xinyu extended all of her long limbs and attempted to squirm a bit toward the edge of the carpet.  She had under a meter left to go.  However, her leg pulling Sullyoon's leg she got absolutely nowhere.  Sullyoon giggled at her.

Seoyeon said, "She's not even trying, she is sitting there giggling!  Get up and do something!"

Bae said, "You're annoying Seoyeon..."

She continued, "It’s just an Nmixx girl... pull her along!  We hate them!"

Chaeyeon said, "Yeah!"

Haewon walked up behind Chaeyeon and grabbed her around the waist from behind.

Chaeyeon said, "EWWWW!" and squirmed out of her hug and moved away from her.

Sullyoon planted her foot of the tied leg that Xinyu was pulling on, but her cute white socks gave her no friction against the carpet.  So she flipped over on top of Xinyu and reached for the edge of the carpet.  She was still half a meter short.  Xinyu grabbed the extended wrist and held both of their hands close to her chest.  She wrapped her other arm around Sullyoon, essentially hugging her and keeping her from moving her torso.  Sullyoon's free leg was flailing, which accomplished nothing.

Seoyeon shouted, "You need to flip!  You can't move from the bottom!  Flip her over!"

Bae was about to shout something, but knew she wasn't going to out-noise Seoyeon, and it was unlikely Sullyoon would listen to her anyway, so she got on her knees and pretended she was a quokka.  She scurried to Seoyeon and rubbed her head on Seoyeon's leg and pawed at her shirt with her short quokka arms.

Seoyeon looked down at her, "The fuck is this?"

Bae said, "My Japanese mistress would be proud of me..."

"How many do you have?"

"One from each country..."

"We're not letting you get anywhere near Sullin..."

Xinyu tried to follow Seoyeon's commands and tried to flip, but obviously Sullyoon heard them too and was able to shift her weight and keep her hips tight to Xinyu's pelvis to keep them from flipping.  Xinyu tried to move them, but she couldn't get any friction with the carpet either, any movement was difficult.

The only thing Xinyu could think to do was to be annoying.  She licked Sullyoon's neck and blew in her ear.  Sullyoon said, "Hey... stop..."

Sullyoon planted her free foot and put her free arm around Xinyu's neck.  She pushed off with all of her weight and not only did they flip, but continued rolling.  They got to the edge of the carpet and Xinyu extended her hand that she was using to hug Sullyoon and Yeji yelled, "Xinyu wins!"

Sullyoon said, "Noooo!  I had that perfect but I forgot to put my arm out..."

Seoyeon said, "See!  She's just a loser!"

The game now over, Yooyeon yelled, "Seoyeon... stop attacking her... you are just going to piss them off and they'll try harder..."

Chaeyeon ran over to Seoyeon, grabbed her wrist and pulled her back to the rest of the group.  She forced Seoyeon to stand behind her and hug her from behind.  "Be useful, protect me from Haewon..."

Quokka Bae turned back into Jinsol and helped Sullyoon and Xinyu get untangled as Yeji and Heejin untied their leg.

Bae then walked back to the group, Jiwoo gave her a big hug.

"I don't need to see your boobs any more than Seoyeon did..." said Bae.

"Seoyeon likes them... I'm just innocently giving you a hug for being such a good groupmate and pest..."

Sullyoon and Xinyu sat on the carpet and rested, wondering what was coming next.

Yeji said, "Both girls have won, that means the last minigame will determine the final winner!"  She grabbed two ping pong balls.

Sullyoon said, "Oh dear... now what..."

Heejin said, "You are both going to be blindfolded, sitting on the carpet cross-legged, facing each other.  You will have thirty seconds to hide the ping pong ball somewhere on your body.  Then you will try to find where the other girl hid hers.  First girl to find it and hold it up wins the game and this entire match!"

Yeji said, "Everyone who is not Sullyoon or Xinyu needs to be quiet!  Including Chaeyeon and Jiwoo.   If you aren't, you WILL get a black X."

Jiwoo said, "Yes, Ma'am."  Chaeyeon didn't say anything.

Sullyoon and Xinyu took their spots sitting facing each other and put on their blindfolds.  Yeji said, "Okay, thirty seconds starting now!"

The other girls spread out around the carpet, watching intently, but doing a good job at remaining quiet.

After thirty seconds, Yeji said, "Times up!  GO find them!"

Xinyu lunged forward knocking Sullyoon backwards and grabbing her around her back to break their fall.  They landed on their sides, locked in a hug.  Sullyoon said, "Oh, okay..."

Xinyu's chest was fairly small and Sullyoon was pretty sure she wouldn't try to hide the ball in her bra, because it would be easy to find.  Sullyoon briefly ran her hand over Xinyu's chest outside of her shirt, giving each of them a feel, just to make sure.

Xinyu was less subtle, getting a hand under Sullyoon's shirt and giving each of her breasts a solid feel over her bra to 'check' them.  Sullyoon whimpered a bit both times.

Sullyoon twisted a bit, so she was mostly under Xinyu and used both hands to feel her butt.  Her sweat pants were baggy, so that move failed.  She got one hand under Xinyu's waistband and felt her entire butt under the sweatpants, but over her safety shorts.  No ball.  She moved her hand around Xinyu's side and felt the ball on her upper thigh, but under her safety shorts.  But how to get it?

Xinyu realized that Sullyoon found it, so she decided to switch to 'distract' mode while searching Sullyoon's butt and thighs.  Xinyu squirmed under Sullyoon who re-adjusted to be solidly on top.  Xinyu put one arm around Sullyoon's neck and pulled her head down and kissed her passionately.  There were gasps from the crowd.  Xinyu shot the other arm down Sullyoon's sweatpants and managed to get her long fingers under the safety shorts as well, she gave Sullyoon's butt a solid grab, much more making out than finding a ball.  Sullyoon moaned and fell into the kiss.

She wasn't that easily distracted though.  Xinyu's butt was solidly on the carpet, so she was going to have to go down the front to get to the ball.  She slipped her hand under Xinyu's sweatpants and safety shorts in the front.  She moved her hand to the side, but judging from Xinyu's tongue suddenly jumping deep into her mouth, she accidently brushed something.  The safety shorts were snug, but she used all of her arm strength to move that hand around to the ball, grab it, and pull it out.

Sullyoon proudly held up the ball and Yeji yelled, "YOOOOOONA WINS!"

Having won, Sullyoon could relax a bit and let Xinyu's tongue explore her mouth and hand explore her butt.  She grabbed Xinyu's head and ran her hands through her hair.

Sohyun and Bae ran over them and started to pull them apart.  Sohyun said, "GET OFF OF MY WIFE!"

Bae said, "GET OFF OF MY MISTRESS!"

Sohyun said, "I MEAN, get off of my Yoona!"

Bae said, "Never mind, she won, do what you want to her..."

Sohyun and Bae started swatting each other's hands like cats.

Haewon said, "You two are worthless..."  She dove in between them and started to pull Sullyoon and Xinyu apart.

Sullyoon and Xinyu finally let go of each other and sat up on the carpet and took off their blindfolds.

Seoyeon said, "Okay, that was hot..."

Jiwoo said, "You are going to add hot to all of those nasty things you said earlier about her?"

"I was just..."

"I know..."  Jiwoo gave Seoyeon a side hug.

Xinyu said, "Yoona... where the heck is the ball?"

Sullyoon reached back under the back of her hair.  "Lily... can you help?  I only had thirty seconds, so I made a real mess of it..."

Lily crawled over and sat behind Sullyoon.

Xinyu said, "It is in your hair?"

"Yeah... I stuffed it in my hair and tied it with a few strands of hair."

Lily dug into Sullyoon's hair, flipping the top portion over her head and over her eyes.  "Naurrrrr girl... this is going to take some effort.  There is a ball in here though!"

Nakyoung said, "Wow, sacrificing her hair to win... you girls should be very glad she is on your team and very proud of her..."

Yeji sat in front of Sullyoon.  "Before anyone is too proud of her... she has a decision to make."

Yooyeon covered her eyes, "OH NO..."

Seoyeon looked down, "Poor Yoona..."

Sullyoon looked up at Yeji, only somewhat able to see her with her hair over her face, "Poor Yoona?"

Yeji said, "You have two choices.  Either you take the single badge you just won with an immense amount of effort and well deserved."

Chaeyeon said, "OR WHAT ELSE?"

Sullyoon repeated softly, "Or what else?"

"OR... you can turn that badge into five badges and everyone in Nmixx gets one… except you..."

Sohyun said, "NO WAY!"

Xinyu added, "Well, I don't feel so bad about losing..."

Lily suddenly screamed, "I GOT THE BALL!" and held it up triumphantly.  Everyone staring at Yoona stared at Lily instead.  Lily said, "Ooooohhhr..." and went back to untangling Sullyoon's hair.

Yeji said, "What's it going to be?  Nmixx winning the night?  Or one step closer to that nice dinner for you..."

Sullyoon said, "We aren't being filmed or anything, right?  I don't need to make a dramatic pause like I actually need to think about i?  Time for a commercial break in the middle of the sentence describing my decision?"

Kyujin said, "Yoona... you watch too much American reality TV..."

Yooyeon giggled, "Or TripleS badge wars..."

Sullyoon said, "Of course I'll turn it into five badges... team always comes first..."

Yooyeon pushed Seoyeon.  "See that... team always comes first..."

"Why are you singling me out?"

"What would you have done?"

"I didn't win..."

"Sure..."

Heejin said, "One other minor bit of business while Yeji grabs the badges.  There is one other badge AND the black X to give out as well!"Yeji gave a badge with a ping pong ball to the five Nmixx members.  Then she said, “It turns out we also have an R2D2 badge!  It goes to the girl that we feel performed the best in the R2D2 game.  Congrats Yoona!”  Yeji handed her the badge.“Oh, me?” asked Sullyoon.Seoyeon said, “Why is she so disgustingly modest, and kind, and good at everything, and beautiful?  She didn’t choose herself and STILL got a badge…”Lily said, “That’s our Yoona!  Who has a hidden habit of making out with TripleS members behind our back…”Lily was done unknotting Sullyoon’s hair and helped Sullyoon get up.  She wordlessly went and stood next to Bae.Heejin said, “We also have a black X.  Would Chaeyeon and Kyujin please come here?”They both stepped up to Heejin to silence from the rest of the girls.  Heejin continued, “Chaeyeon… you made sounds when we expressly told everyone who was not a coach to be quiet.”  Chaeyeon looked down.  “I do that a lot…  I’m sorry Miss Heejin…”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon.  Seoyeon shook her head ‘no’ anticipating what was going to happen.“You should thank your new friend Haewon who kept you from saying anything else, or you would have gotten this badge for sure.”Haewon considered saying something, but decided to save it for later maybe…“Kyujin…  you used your finger to steady the ball during your run with Nakyoung.  Unfortunately, that is also against the rules, so we are giving you the black X.”Kyujin said, “Okay, sorry… we should have done something with our hands like the smarter teams did…”Sohyun gave Bae a high-five for being considered smarter.Heejin said, “Kyujin and Sohyun!  Off to the kitchen with you!” 
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Chapter 6:  Twister Showdown - Jiwoo Versus the Giant
Sohyun and Kyujin went off to the kitchen.  Kyujin looked at Sohyun expectantly.  “Are you going to rip off my hoodie?”“Not my job… I mean… I guess I can!  Do you want to make out?”“Is that all that goes on at these parties I’m apparently never invited to?”“What else would we do?  Something dumb like play ‘Truth or Dare’?”“How should I know?”Suddenly the lights went off.  It has worked until now, so Sohyun jumped up on the counter again.  Kyujin, however, was standing right next to her and there was enough left over glow from the unpowered fluorescent lights that she saw Sohyun jump up.“Why?”  She didn’t think, she just jumped up as well.Sohyun said, “Noooooo.”A high-pitched female voice from the other side of the kitchen said in English, “Come here my prittttties…”Kyujin strained to try to see who was over there, but it was now pitch black.  Sohyun wanted to move away from Kyujin, but the countertop wasn’t that long and she didn’t want to hop back down.The voice, now closer, said in English, “Why are my prittties always climbing on things… it is dangerous!” Kyujin screamed loudly realizing there was now a gooey liquid all over her sweatpants.***Out in the party room, Heejin and Yeji made a hasty exit.Seoyeon said, “Yooyeon, you must have offended them…”Yooyeon said, “Don’t you mean NMIXX offended them?”Jiwoo said, “Someone is up to something… I don’t like it…  Hyeju disappears, that stormtrooper is around here somewhere and then they leave, like the building is on fire.”That’s when they heard Kyujin scream.Lily said, “Naurrrrr.”Chaeyeon said, “Wow, she screams loudly.  I’m impressed…”Haewon said, “Sohyun eats another hoodie…”After a few minutes passed, the door opened and Sohyun came out, leading Kyujin.  Nmixx clapped for her and then they all paused simultaneously as they realized she was still wearing a hoodie, but no sweat pants.Sohyun said, “Don’t look at me…  I know nothing…”Lily said to Sullyoon, “Good thing you told her to wear safety shorts…”“Yeah, I mean… of course that was going to happen…”Kyujin stood with the rest of Nmixx.  She saw Xinyu looking at her.  “What are you looking at?”“New Nmixx girl to look at,” said Xinyu.Kyujin said, “I don’t understand why they say you two are married, when you clearly look at everything around that is NOT her…”Sohyun grabbed her wife around the waist and hugged her.  “Don’t mind her…  I keep her hungry so she is more fun when no one is around.”Lily said, “Oh my… TMI!”Sohyun shrugged.Bae said, “What are you holding Kyu?”Kyujin remembered she was holding something.  “Oh right!  We are supposed to read this!”  She handed an envelope to Bae.“You can’t read?”“You asked about it…”Bae sighed at her and opened the envelope.  TripleS gathered around also. Chaeyeon stood next to Kyujin and asked her, “Aren’t you cold?”Kyujin shook her head ‘no’.  “It is quite toasty in this room.  Now I understand why…”Bae read the note in the envelope.  “Your precious MC’s have been kidnapped.  When you are ready to save them from our horrible torment, knock on the kitchen door.  Signed… Catwoman…”Xinyu said, “Catwoman?  Hot…”Sohyun agreed.Haewon said, “Well, let’s get this over with…”  She marched off to the kitchen door and knocked on it.An unassuming Korean woman in her late twenties, wearing jeans and a Loossemble tour tee shirt, was standing just inside the kitchen, next to a cart on wheels.  On the top of the cart was a large LCD monitor and computer.  On the bottom shelf of the cart was a black sheet hiding some square-shaped boxes.Haewon said, “Hello?”The woman motioned for Haewon to get out of the way.  Haewon moved and the woman struggled to push the cart into the room, the wheels didn’t work well on the carpet.  Haewon helped the woman pick it up and move it that way.The woman said shyly, “I’m Jiwon, Loossemble manager.  I’m just here to make sure no one cheats, I’m told you all are very untrustworthy.”Haewon and Bae shrugged and nodded ‘yes’.  Lily said, “Naurrrr, rude!”Jiwon continued, “Anyway, turn on these monitors.  I’ll be over there…”  She ran off to a couch.Chaeyeon whispered to Yooyeon, “Is that the stormtrooper?”Yooyeon said, “I don’t know, but I don’t think so…”Haewon said, “We read the envelope and knocked on the door, one of you turn on the monitor…”Seoyeon said, “Okay…”  She walked up to the monitor and turned it on.The screen was split in half.  On the right side, Heejin was tied to a chair, both wrists to the arms and both ankles to the legs.  Standing over her was the stormtrooper.  The stormtrooper was holding a very non-Star Wars-like feather on a stick and tickled Heejin’s feet causing her to scream and giggle at the stormtrooper, although there was no audio with the feed.On the left side Yeji was similarly tied and standing over her was Hyeju… wearing a black leather catsuit and a Catwoman mask.  One hand was wearing a glove with long exaggerated plastic claws.Sohyun said, “OH HOT FOR REAL!”Xinyu said, “Told you…”Catwoman pointed at the camera and then lifted Yeji’s tee shirt and tickled her side with her long claws.There was another envelope tucked into the bottom of the monitor.  Bae said, “I guess we are supposed to read this one now?”Haewon said, “TripleS friends…  Instead of this silliness, I propose that we take a little excursion to the grocery store and buy some snacks and then come back and watch the MCs get tickled for some hours…”Nakyoung said, “I would be up for that.”Seoyeon ignored her and said, “Read the envelope Haewon…”Chaeyeon said, “I mean… the MCs are overrated… why do we need to save them?”Yooyeon said, “Because we are supposed to…  Play the game please…”Bae shrugged and opened the envelope.  “On the bottom of this cart are six common games.  You have thirty minutes to decide which member of each team is playing which game and play the game.  Jiwon will give the winner of the game cash that can be used to pay ONE of the MC’s ransom of 30 million won.  Choose wisely.”Jiwoo said, “That’s not much instruction…  Also, now I agree with Chaeyeon, they clearly aren’t worth 30 million won.”Bae pulled the black sheet off of the boxes.  “Chess, checkers, oooo twister!”Yooyeon said, “We have to finish a game of chess in thirty minutes?”Seoyeon pointed to a counter on the bottom of the LCD screen that was covered by the envelope.  “28 minutes and counting because Haewon had to explain how not to play the game and wants snacks…”Kyujin said, “Usually, we are late because Jiwoo wants snacks.”Sullyoon said, “No worries, I fed her…”Jiwoo growled at Sullyoon like a puppy.Lily said, “How are we going to decide who is playing what?”Sohyun said, “With this group, it will take 20 minutes to figure out how to pick the players.”Yooyeon said, “No time for any crap…”  She looked at the boxes.  “BATTLESHIP!  I LOVE BATTLESHIP!  Who wants to play against me?”Seoyeon said, “Hon… we need you to play chess.”“Tick tock… are you really going to argue with me?”Lily said, “I’ll play Battleship with you!”Yooyeon and Lily grabbed Battleship and ran off to a couch.Bae said, “Jiwoo… you have to play Twister… you are by far the best.”Sullyoon said, “She’s wearing a not-particularly-supportive bra?”“Oh, she’ll be fine…”  Bae handed the box to Jiwoo.Jiwoo winked at Seoyeon.  Xinyu stepped forward.  “I’ll crush you Pupper-woo!”Jiwoo scoffed at her and they took the Twister game to the center of the carpet.Haewon said, “I’m pretty good at Jenga.  Anyone want to play with me?  Maybe we can use the card table?  Hopefully it is sturdy enough.”Sohyun said, “I’ll Jenga you.”Haewon said, “I’m sure you will… but I just want to PLAY Jenga right now.  Since no one else liked my superior plan.”Sohyun said, “Haha.  For real…”Chaeyeon said, “Let me beat her at that!  We need you for something… more… smart…”Sohyun said, “Even you can play checkers… I want to play Jenga with Haewon…”Yooyeon shouted from across the room, “TICK TOCK”.Chaeyeon stepped in front of Sohyun and grabbed the Jenga game from Haewon and took it to the card table.  Haewon giggled and followed her.  She said to Sohyun, “She’s REALLY cute when she’s bossy…”Sohyun said, “Good luck with that…”  She then looked through the boxes.  “I like Connect4!  Who wants to play Connect4?  Yooooooona?”Sullyoon said, “Nope, that would be Kyujin.  Our tic tac toe expert.”“I’ve never played Connect4 with someone not wearing pants… Let’s go!”  Kyujin excitedly joined Sohyun and went off to a couch.Sullyoon looked at Bae.  “Well, we are chess and checkers…  I guess I’m getting stuck with chess.”  Bae nodded ‘yes’.Sullyoon asked, “Seoyeon and Nakyoung?  Which for chess and which for checkers?”Seoyeon said, “I’ll play chess with you Yoona.  Nakyoung will play checkers with Jinsol.”Nakyoung said, “Don’t I get an opinion about what I’m good at?”“Do you want to play chess?”“No…”Seoyeon sighed at her, grabbed chess and Sullyoon’s hand and they went off to a couch.Bae gave Nakyoung a quick hug.  “I’m going to kick your BUTT at checkers.”Nakyoung scoffed at her.  “Hug your opponent while jeering at her… I see how you are…”Bae giggled and they started setting up checkers on the floor just below the monitor.Lily shouted across the room, "Hae-love!  Should I put my submarine along the outside?"Haewon shouted back, "Yes, dear... tell your opponent exactly what you're doing."Yooyeon, fiddling with her own ships said, "Are you messing with me?"Lily winked at her.  "I would never!""And now you're being cute...  stop it!""If I'm so cute, make sure you try to hit my ships all along the outside.  Obviously, I didn't put them there."The combination of cute, clueless, and obviously not clueless were messing with Yooyeon's calculating brain.Jiwon approached them.  "I'm going to look at both of your ship placements, to make sure they are the same when the game is over."Yooyeon said, "Damn...  Loossemble cheats at Battleship?  Why would anyone do that?"Lily said, "Yauurrrrr, cheating is lame.  Win fair and square... with all your ships along the outside.""Miss Jiwon?  Are all of Lily's ships along the outside?"Jiwoo shook her head at Yooyeon and walked away.***Haewon and Chaeyeon were quickly setting up the Jenga tower, each grabbing three logs together and alternating layers in the template.  Chaeyeon said, "Look at you two using pet names when the MCs aren't around."Haewon glared at Chaeyeon, "Don't you start with that bullshit too...""I don't really like you that much, but I am SO interested what is going on with Nmixx... I will figure it all out...""Will you now...  With lofty goals like that, you better start liking me.""Why?""Because if we 'like' each other, you can just ask me what's up and I'll just tell you.  Save you a lot of effort and false information."Chaeyeon was clearly trying to determine if this was true or not.Jiwon approached the Jenga table next.  "I'm going to stand here and watch this game... please get started... You both look like cheaters.  Remember, only one hand and the turn lasts ten seconds if the other person chooses to wait that long."Haewon said, "If I weren't trying to get Chaeyeon to like me, I would knock the tower over three or four times while building it, just to make you stand there watching us longer...""Oh, I would totally do that also..." said Chaeyeon.Jiwon said, "Does the winner of this game actually want to get their cash?  I have the ability to not give it to anyone if I deem necessary."Haewon looked at Chaeyeon.  "How do we decide who goes first?"Chaeyeon said, "You are trying to get me to like you.  That means you should go first...""Fine..."  Haewon poked the middle log of layer four and sat it on the top edge of the tower. Chaeyeon poked out the middle log of layer five and sat it as the middle log in the new layer.  The epic game of Jenga was underway and Jiwon watched intently.***Seoyeon and Sullyoon put the chess board on the floor in front of a couch and started setting up the pieces.  Seoyeon said, "We are going to have to play speed chess... It will be rough getting a game in in thirty minutes.""Fine with me... my moves won't improve that much with minutes to stare at the board.""Not a thinker?""I mean... I think... but my brain can't handle trying to think more than two or three turns ahead.""Yeah, me either.  But you obviously have played before and know how all the pieces move?""Oh sure... My grandfather used to make me play with him, but it was years ago.""Same!" said Seoyeon.  "I guess our grandfathers will be playing chess together, just using our fingers."Sullyoon smiled.  "Imagine if they knew we were playing for fake money to rescue Yeji from being mercilessly ticked by Cat-ju...""What the heck is our life?  Wait... you want to save Yeji?""Sure!  Obviously, you guys would save Heejin.""My brain wants to figure out what the consequences of this decision probably are, but first I need to beat you at chess.""I will just save Yeji and hope for the best.  Would you like to go first?""You are letting me go first?""Do you know some epic opening move sequence?""Of course..."  Seoyeon smiled at her."You're lying..."Seoyeon moved her fifth pawn forward two squares.  Sullyoon responded by moving her sixth pawn forward one square and the epic game of grandfather speed chess was underway as well.***Bae and Nakyoung similarly sat up the checkers board.  Bae said, "I so baited you into playing checkers.  I'm a checkers MASTER.  Easy money for Nmixx..."From across the room, Kyujin said, "Ignore her Nakyoung...  She never controls the middle and her pea brain is too stingy to sacrifice her own checkers."Bae yelled back, "Excuse me?  Why exactly are you helping her?"Nakyoung said, "Sounds like a different member is the checkers master...""The only thing she's a master at is being annoying."Nakyoung said, "Rock paper scissors?"Bae threw rock and Nakyoung threw scissors.  Bae moved her second checker in the front row up and right.  Nakyoung responded by moving her fourth piece up and right, diagonal to the position of Bae's moved checker.Nakyoung said, "I've never been this nervous about a simple game of checkers..."Bae raised an eyebrow at her.  "Nothing is simple in this room!"***Sohyun and Kyujin both sat cross-legged on a couch, putting the Connect4 grid between them.  Sohyun kept looking at Kyujin's legs."Why are you staring at my legs?" asked Kyujin."Because I can see them and I like skin.""I see...""Does it make you nervous?""Yes..."Sullyoon shouted at Kyujin.  "Kyu... Sorry to overhear, but she is messing with you.  If you show it, she will keep doing it...""In the kitchen she asked if I wanted to make out...""Just ignore her, she would make out with the refrigerator if she was alone in the kitchen..." shouted Bae.Sohyun kept staring at Kyujin's legs.  "Can I touch them?""OMG...  Who goes first?  Get me out of here!"Sullyoon shouted again, "Kyu... she's not actually like this...  I was scared of her at first also.  She's actually a sweetheart.  Don't let her fool you..."Sohyun said, "You can go first..."Kyujin didn't hesitate and quickly dropped her black token in the middle of the board.***Jiwoo and Xinyu got the Twister mat set up in the center of the carpet.  It wasn't trivial to get it flat on the plush carpet.  Jiwoo said, "We might die playing on this surface.""It's okay...  It will be worth it...  Should we start?""Who is going to spin?"Jiwon, still intently watching Chaeyeon and Haewon for cheating said, "The game of Twister will be short.  When Jenga is over, I will come over there and judge your Twister game."Jiwoo said, "Guess we just stand here then..."Xinyu said, "I have a good view of your chest from up here.  Wanna make out?""NO!  No kissing the enemy... at this juncture..."Xinyu turned up her nose at Jiwoo, not sure what a juncture was anyway.***All of the games, other than twister, were progressing feverishly.  The room was awash with shouts of "HIT", and Bae unmistakenly yelling, "KING ME!"Finally, with about fifteen minutes left, there was the unmistakable sound of a tower of logs tumbling over.  Lily said, "Naurrrrr.  I don't want to look over there and see who it was."  Lily covered her eyes, everyone else in the room looked.Yooyeon said, "Chaeyeon is crying.  I think she lost."Lily said, "No.  That is just what happens when you hang out with Haewon."Haewon just tried to hug Chaeyeon and got slapped.  Instead, she proceeded to jump up and down rubbing it in her face.  Jiwon handed Haewon a wad of cash.  Haewon stuck it in her bra.Lily smiled and said, "B-3!"Yooyeon said, "Miss..."Chaeyeon sat on a couch by herself, Haewon checked around the room.  She started with Lily's Battleship board.  "How's it going?"Lily said, "Good.""You don't know if you are winning?""I said... good."Haewon tried to look at Yooyeon's board.  Yooyeon shouted, "NO!  MISS JIWON!"Jiwon quickly ran over.Haewon said, "I just want to see who is winning, I'm not going to tell her anything...""You two are a couple... you can communicate just by looks without saying anything.  You might even just do it subconsciously.""You are totally going to cry when you lose like… Chaeyeon just did..."Yooyeon ignored Haewon and called "E-7!"Lily said, "Hit..."Haewon shook her head and moved on to Kyujin and Sohyun.  "How's it going Kyu?"Kyujin said, "Connect4 is a very quick game, so we made it best out of three.""What happened so far?""We each won one..."Sohyun said, "This one is for all the cookies...  or Yejis..."From the center of the room Jiwoo yelled, "Cookies?  I'm standing over here doing nothing, why mention cookies?"Sohyun yelled, "It's an expression..."Sullyoon yelled, "I'm trying to concentrate?"Haewon yelled, "How's it going Yoona?""I don't know... seems very close... going to be tough to finish in time...  so shut up..."Seoyeon clapped in agreement.Haewon walked over to Bae.  She whispered very loudly, "How's it going Jinsol?""I have three kings and she only has one.  She's screwed.""Oh, nice job Jinsol!"Nakyoung said, "I have her right where I want her!"Suddenly Yooyeon squealed and jumped up and started dancing.Haewon walked over to Lily.  She stood up and hugged Haewon.  "Sorry Hae-love... I lost Battleship...""It's okay my Lily-pad."Yooyeon stopped dancing and stared at the two of them.  Chaeyeon joined her.  Jiwon handed Yooyeon a wad of cash.  They counted it together.  Yooyeon whispered, "10 million won..."Chaeyeon was fascinated by the fake cash, but then saw Lily and Haewon hugging.  She yelled, "Kiss!"Lily looked into Haewon's eyes.  "Those nasty MCs are gone.  We totally could...""With Hyeju's spy and my new love interest looking at us.  I think not...""Anyway, sorry I lost...""It's all good, between the two of us, we are 50%.  That seems good really!"Chaeyeon put her arm around Yooyeon and the two couples moved to hover over Kyujin and Sohyun.Staring at the Connect4 board, Yooyeon's eyes suddenly got very large.  Haewon said, "Kyu!  Be careful, Yooyeon sees something!"Sohyun dropped her token into the grid and shouted, "I WIN!"Kyujin looked at Haewon.  "Little earlier notice next time?"Haewon shrugged.  Jiwon handed Sohyun a wad of cash.  She held it in her hand.The girls shuffled their way to checkers.  Bae looked very confident and quickly finished off Nakyoung.  Jiwon handed Bae a wad of cash, she didn't count it, she just stuck it in her pocket. Sullyoon said, "DO NOT COME STAND OVER HERE... I'm already sweating bullets..."Haewon said, "No pressure Yoona, so far we both have two wins... all even... coming down to chess...  and Jiwoo... please win..."Jiwoo said, "Miss Jiwon, can we get started?  That chess game might not end for a while."Jiwon said, "Yes, take your positions for Twister..."Sohyun said, "This is going to be epic!"Jiwoo ran over and gave her groupmates all a high-five.  Xinyu saw it and then copied her.  Sohyun gave Xinyu a hug.  "You can do it giant girl!"Sohyun said to Yooyeon, "Hey, what do you think happens if we tie?"Sohyun counted her money.  "10 million..."Yooyeon said, "Same...""She gave us each 10 million won, so we only need three wins to save an MC.  If we split the wins we can save both MCs?""But there is no winner, so no badges?""Probably...""But there is some benefit for saving both MCs?""You know Hyeju better than me.  What do you think?""If we lose, we're screwed.  If we tie, we're screwed.  If we win, we're screwed."Yooyeon sighed, "I was having fun until I decided to answer your very first question..."Sohyun grabbed both of Yooyeon's cheeks, "But it will be fun getting screwed!"Yooyeon rolled her eyes and sighed again.Haewon crept away from Lily over to Yooyeon.  "How did you win?  Luck?  She didn't put her ships around the outside.""She's silly... she didn't, but she did... each boat was touching the outside.  I figured it out and narrowed it down pretty quickly, struck all at once at the end.""You did?""Yeah...""Who uses mind games and strategy to win Battleship... Playing games with TripleS is..."Yooyeon looked at her expectantly.Haewon couldn’t figure out any meaningful words.Yooyeon said, "Take good care of your Lily... she's a very special gift.""She is?" asked Haewon, being totally serious.***

Jiwoo and Xinyu stood on either side of the Twister mat, Jiwoo on the right, Xinyu on the left.  The green dots were along the back, then yellow, then blue, then red in the front.  Jiwon held the spinner, ready to get started.Nakyoung started chanting, “Xinyu Xinyu Xinyu!”Kyujin started chanting, “Jiwoo Jiwoo Jiwoo!”Chaeyeon said, “Do you guys always have to copy what we do?”Haewon said, “We aren’t used to hanging out with such cool girls, so yeah…”Sohyun asked, “Do you really just compliment us?”“Something like that.”Jiwoo said, “And then she ruins it…”Xinyu said, “Spin the thing… time is short!”Jiwon said, “Decide who goes first.”Xinyu and Jiwoo agreed on ‘rock, paper, scissors’.  Xinyu threw paper and Jiwoo threw rock.  Chaeyeon and Nakyoung cheered for Xinyu who bowed to them.Lily said, “Is going first an advantage?”Chaeyeon said, “Of course it is!”Yooyeon shook her head ‘no’ at Lily.  Lily smiled back at her.Jiwon spun the dial, holding it in front of her where everyone could see.  “Left foot blue.”[I numbered each circle of a particular color from one to six starting from the girl.  For example, Xinyu’s second circle is the same as Jiwoo’s fifth circle.]Xinyu put her left foot on her second blue circle, keeping the rest of her body standing off of the mat.Jiwon spun again, “Right hand yellow.”Jiwoo sat down on her side of the mat and put her right hand on her second yellow square now slightly crossed in front of her body.Lily said, “This is exciting!”Jiwon said, “Right foot yellow.”Xinyu put her right foot on her first yellow circle, now diagonally behind her left foot.“Left foot yellow.”Jiwoo put her left foot on her first yellow circle, now just behind her left hand.  She stayed crouched on the carpet.“Right foot green.”To get her right foot onto green, Xinyu spun around counter clockwise about 90 degrees to her third green circle.  Her right leg was now crossed awkwardly across her left leg.Kyujin said, “It’s like she’s a dancer or something…”Sohyun said, “It’s like she wanted to stand over Jiwoo and look down her bra or something.”Xinyu shook her finger at Sohyun.“Right hand red.”Jiwoo sighed.  She put her right hand on her second red circle.  It was now awkwardly crossed under her left arm, barely able to touch the circle, barely keeping her left foot on the yellow circle and putting all of her weight on her foot still off of the mat.Yooyeon said, “She’s a pretzel!  She can’t do that for long.”Kyujin said, “Shut up!  We nominated her for this for a reason.  She is shockingly flexible.  She can limbo for hours.”Yooyeon looked impressed.“Right foot green.”Xinyu already had her right foot on green, so she had to decide whether to go forward or backward.  She chose backward to her second circle.  She kept her hips perpendicular to the line her feet made across the mat.“Left hand red.”Jiwoo moved her hand from her second yellow circle to her first red circle, her hands now next to each other on the first two red circles.  It made her upper body more comfortable, but now her foot was very awkward on the yellow circle, the entire weight of her body on the back foot not yet on the mat.Sohyun said, “Oh yay! The entire audience can see down Jiwoo’s bra now.  Seoyeon, win and come over here!”Seoyeon mumbled, “I’m trying…”Bae said, “Sohyun… trying to make Jiwoo self-conscious.  Don’t listen Jiwoo, we love your boobs!”Lily said, “We do?”Nakyoung said, “I’m definitely not looking.”Sohyun rolled her eyes at Nakyoung.  “Dear god, I’m trying to do a thing here.”Nakyoung said, “Oh.  I mean, I’m staring, hoping I’ll see something unintentionally good soon!  Be nervous!”Sohyun patted Nakyoung on the head.“Left foot green.”Xinyu gracefully picked up her weight onto her right foot and did a 270 degree clockwise spin to get her right foot on her fourth green circle.“Right foot green.”Jiwoo now had to put her free foot onto the mat.  She shifted all of her weight onto her left foot on the first yellow circle and moved her right foot onto the mat on her second green circle.  Her right foot was next to Xinyu’s left foot on green.“Right hand yellow.”Xinyu lunged forward putting her right hand on her fifth yellow circle, right in front of Jiwoo’s left foot, Xinyu’s shoulder nearly rubbing on Jiwoo’s right knee.Bae said, “Giant girl attacks!”Jiwoo said, “I’m used to being attacked by a giant girl… it’s fine.”“I would never!”“All the time!”Kyujin said, “Is this the time to banter?”“Left hand blue.”Jiwoo moved her hand from her first red circle to the second blue circle, still next to each other.“Right hand blue.”Xinyu moved her right hand from her fifth yellow circle to the fourth blue circle.  Her left hand was still not on the mat.  She put her shoulder against Jiwoo’s shoulder and rocked her back and forth a bit, Jiwoo fought back.Lily said, “Naurrr, is that legal?  Disqualify the giant!”Jiwon said, “There is no rule against it.  It is rare that a hand is free for so long and she can rock against her without risking falling herself.”Nakyoung said, “Miss Jiwon.  Did Hyeju force you to sit down and read the entire rules for all of these games?  Blink if you need help…”Jiwon ignored her and spun again. “Left foot green.”Jiwoo moved her foot backward from her first yellow circle to her first green circle.  Both of her feet were next to each other and she was having a very difficult time leaning forward all the way to red to keep her hand there.  Most of her body’s weight was on her right hand on her second blue circle.  Her two feet and Xinyu’s right foot formed a line on green and now Xinyu could push her shoulder against Jiwoo’s side.  She rocked a bit, without being rude about it, just playful.  Jiwoo pushed her back.“Left hand yellow.”Xinyu decided to make her move.  Her left hand was the one that was still free, so she put it on her sixth yellow circle, directly under Jiwoo’s body.  Their faces were very close together and Xinyu looked down Jiwoo’s bra, her boobs hanging nearly out of her bra.  Xinyu whistled at her.“Left hand green.”Jiwoo picked up her left hand.  The only place she could put her hand was her fourth green circle under Xinyu’s crotch, but Jiwoo’s arms were too short and she topped over.  She rolled onto her back and whimpered.Xinyu cheered and jumped up and down.  Sohyun ran over and hugged her.Kyujin went over to Jiwoo and blocked everyone’s view of Jiwoo’s chest.  “Girl… pull up your bra… we can see everything…”Jiwoo said, “Awww, who cares…  Hyeju doesn’t even get to see it…”Jiwon said, “I saw it… I’ll tell her… Here’s your cash Xinyu…”Haewon said, “What’s the time?”Lily ran over to the monitor.  “Three minutes!”Bae yelled, “Yoona!  Did you win?  Three minutes left!”Seoyeon said, “CHECKMATE!   I win!”Jiwon ran over to check the board and handed Seoyeon her cash.  Seoyeon jumped up and down, “I BEAT YOONA!   I BEAT YOONA!”Seoyeon ran over to look down Jiwoo’s bra, but she had already sat up and readjusted herself.  Jiwoo shook her finger at Seoyeon.Bae gave Sullyoon a hug.  “Looks like it was close!”“It was… I tried, girls…”“You got the hardest game!  We are impressed you could even play…  You did great!”Haewon and Lily joined the hug as well.Jiwon said, “TripleS each wins a badge and now has enough cash to save an MC.  Who is it going to be?  Choose wisely!”Yooyeon shook her head at Nakyoung.Seoyeon facepalmed.  “What we get for winning is making a hard choice with unknown consequences?”Jiwon said, “I just work here.  You have one minute to pick before you lose both of them…”Sohyun said, “You seem to have worked for kidnappers before, and MIGHT even enjoy it…”Jiwon pointed at her watch. 
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Chapter 7:  Seoyeon Falls into the Dealer’s Trap While Becoming Heejin’s Bias
TripleS huddled briefly.  Seoyeon said, “Since she is supposedly here for us, we choose to save Heejin.  Itzy will be okay with four members, they have done it before…”Lily said, “Naurrrrr.”Jiwon held out her hand, expecting cash.  They handed over 3 million won.Nakyoung asked, “We have another million?  And what about Nmixx’s 2 million?”Jiwon said, “I don’t know… I’m here for 3 million.  I’m leaving now.”Jiwon started walking toward the party room door.Sohyun shouted after her, “Where are the badges?  Who gets the black X?”Jiwon ignored her and left the party room.Chaeyeon said, “Now what…?”They stood around awkwardly making small talk for a few minutes.  Finally Hyeju, wearing tight black pants and a black leather bodice, and of course, a cat woman mask, came into the party room.Sohyun vocalized loudly, “MEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW.”Xinyu said, “Purrrrrrr!” and tried to rub against Hyeju.Kyujin said to Jiwoo, “You really know those three?”Jiwoo said, “It is difficult to take you seriously when you aren’t wearing any pants…”Kyujin looked offended, half acting, half actually offended.  “YOU can’t take ME seriously?”Kyujin walked away from Jiwoo and stood next to Lily instead.Sullyoon wasn’t one to start trouble, but this time she couldn’t resist.  “Hey Kyu… It seems Lily and Haewon may randomly make out when we aren’t paying attention.”Kyujin sighed and walked away from Lily and went and stood next to her new friend Nakyoung.  Nakyoung patted her on the head.Hyeju said, “You two calm down and stand with your group.  We have much business to attend to.”Xinyu hung on Sohyun and they walked back to Yooyeon and Seoyeon.Yooyeon said, “Miss Cat-ju?  Do we get badges please?”Hyeju said, “Yes!  But we have to do one thing before I can hand them out.  Because I only have five chess badges.”Seoyeon said, “I beat Yoona at chess!  Can I please have one?”“Maybe…  First there is a twist…”There were a lot of groans from the audience.Sohyun said, “You’re just making all of this up as you go along…”Hyeju wagged her finger at Sohyun.  “The natives are restless…  It isn’t my fault you are still wearing a shirt.”A faint voice from the kitchen shouted, “Boooooooo!”Haewon said, “Even your own minion is turning on you.”Hyeju pointed at Haewon.  “Coming from the girl that wanted to skip saving the MCs and playing my games?  Should you be talking?”Haewon motioned zipped up her lips.  So did Bae… just because.“Nmixx… you all fought valiantly at all of the games and even as much as you try to hide it, ALL had a good time.”Lily nodded ‘yes’ vigorously.“Your reward for playing well is that YOU get to determine which TripleS member doesn’t get a badge AND gets the black X.”Yooyeon also wasn’t usually one to start trouble, but she couldn’t help mimicking Lily and shouting, “Naurrrrrrr.  We won!  This is shit!”Haewon whispered to Lily.  “Remember that time that everyone tried to rebel against your games?”Lily nodded ‘yes’ vigorously.Hyeju said, “Don’t worry, you will also get an unexpected reward along with the expected reward and the unexpected twist.”Sohyun said, “I’m going to unexpectedly punch you and then expectedly kiss you.”Hyeju winked at Sohyun.  “Nmixx!  Who gets the black X?”Nmixx slowly huddled, not really excited about picking someone.  Kyujin rejoined them.Seoyeon said, “She is just making them make enemies.  We are all getting too friendly.”Yooyeon said, “She’s the one that made us team up with someone from the other team and then play a game with one of them.  The one that might be the same girl for both that we suddenly start to like.”Lily was oblivious, but Sullyoon looked over at Yooyeon and smiled.Hyeju motioned to Yooyeon moving her hand like a roller coaster.Haewon said, “Well, what to do girls?”Kyujin said, “Let’s just give it to Xinyu.  Will be fun to see what happens to those two in the kitchen.”Jiwoo agreed.Haewon agreed also, “It would… but she beat you fair and square Jiwoo.  That is sort of lame to pick a winner.”Sullyoon said, “So it is between Chaeyeon and Nakyoung then?”Bae said, “You know you want to see Chaeyeon without her shirt…”Haewon said, “Is that really a good reason to make her cry?  She is probably going to cry again.  And I want her to like me, not hate me…”Lily said, “I pick Chaeyeon.”Bae said, “Me too.”Neither Sullyoon, Jiwoo, or Kyujin said anything, obviously not unhappy with the choice.Haewon said, “Fine… maybe she’ll lose her shirt.”Nmixx broke their huddle.Haewon said, “Miss Cat-ju.  We have chosen.”Hyeju handed Haewon the black X.  “Give it to your choice.”Haewon walked up to Chaeyeon and said, “Please don’t cry.  Lily made me do it…”  She handed her the black X and ran back to Nmixx.Chaeyeon was quiet.  She didn’t cry, at least openly.  She didn’t make a face or even say anything under her breath at Haewon.Nakyoung whispered to Yooyeon.  “Is she going to explode?”Yooyeon shrugged.  “She should have tried harder at Jenga…”Chaeyeon just looked down at the carpet while Hyeju handed the other five TripleS members the ‘chess’ badge.Hyeju said, “Nmixx has 14 badges, TripleS has 11.  Off to the kitchen with you two!”Sohyun grabbed Chaeyeon’s hand and drug her along to the kitchen.  She shouted at Hyeju, “Can I just stay in there?  Why do I bother coming out?”Hyeju wagged her finger at Sohyun again.***Sohyun and Chaeyeon settled in the kitchen.  “You okay kiddo?” asked Sohyun.“Of course.  So, what goes on in here?”“Yeojin is in here somewhere.  The lights are going to go off and she’ll shoot one of us with some jelly resembling blood but made out of raspberries.  It is very sticky and you’ll have to take off whatever clothing gets hit.  Don’t worry, I’ll protect you, just stay behind me.”As if on cue, the lights went out.Sohyun kept Chaeyeon behind her.  A voice from the other side of the kitchen said in English, “I smell fresh meats.”Sohyun said, “That’s new…”“I’m excited to meet Yeojin, but are you sure that’s her?”“Yes, she was the stormtrooper also.”“Oh?”***Back out in the party room, Hyeju said, “This would be a good time if anyone needs to use the bathroom, you are free to come and go for a few more minutes.”Seoyeon asked, “Then what?”Hyeju ignored her.  “For real!  Go!”Nakyoung, Xinyu, Bae, Lily and Sullyoon all went to the bathroom.Hyeju said, “Well, if you didn’t leave, you have to help me!  Yooyeon and Seoyeon, please roll up the carpet.  Haewon, Kyujin, and Jiwoo, bring the big table over once they get the carpet out of the way.”Jiwoo said, “Bossy Cat-ju is double-ju hot.”Haewon asked Hyeju, “Are you sure it is okay with Yeji that we rearrange the party room like this?”“Who cares, she’s gone forever because no one wanted to save her…”The girls moved the carpet and setup the table.The girls that went to the bathroom started coming back as well.  Nakyoung asked, “Are they still in the kitchen?”Haewon said, “Yeah, something strange is going on.”Hyeju rolled out a felt mat on the table.Lily asked, “What is that?”Hyeju said, “Baccarat.”“Back-a-rat?  Is that English or Korean?”Hyeju shrugged.  She then laid a second felt mat over the first.Xinyu said in English, “Blackjack?”Hyeju nodded.Jiwoo asked, “Cat-ju casino?”Hyeju nodded.  “I have to get one thing from outside, oh, and the cards of course.”  She scurried out of the party room.***Chaeyeon asked, “Why is nothing happening?”Sohyun yelled, “Yeojin!  Butterfly!  Hit me already!  Come here!”Several minutes of silence went by.“Sohyun, I’m starting to freak out a bit.”“It’s okay, just hold my hand, let’s go find her.  Reverse this little game.”“Oh, okay…”Sohyun tried with little success to not run into the corners of countertops in the pitch black while keeping Chaeyeon behind her.A faint voice said, “You can’t hunt what you can’t see!  I need fresh meat!”Sohyun said, “Right there…” and moved forward, dragging Chaeyeon along.***Hyeju came back carrying a large, heavy, roughly circular object covered by a sheet.  She sat in on the side of the table, off of the blackjack mat.Jiwoo said, “Hyeju, what the heck is that?”Hyeju snarled, “Your worst nightmare!  Mwahahahaha!”Xinyu said, “Is she starting to scare you yet?”Jiwoo said, “Nah, she’s just into it…”“Into what?”Hyeju threw several stacks of cards onto the table.Finally, there was a loud, shrill, Chaeyeon-like scream from the kitchen.Yooyeon said, “There we go…”Sullyoon said, “Sohyun’s poor ears…”Hyeju said, “Impeccable timing.  Pull up some chairs around the front of the table girls!”Xinyu, Seoyeon, Yooyeon and Bae started fetching chairs.Sohyun opened the kitchen door and led Chaeyeon out.  Chaeyeon was missing her tee shirt.Haewon said, “BOOO, why sports bra!  Why not pants?”Chaeyeon scowled at her.Sohyun said, “I tried to protect her, but somehow that little snot still snuck up behind us…”Chaeyeon was wearing a pink sports bra which well covered her ample chest.  She stood next to Yooyeon and Seoyeon, only slightly bashful.Sullyoon whispered to Haewon, “You need to let it go.  She stopped fighting back at you, which I think means she is just super pissed at this point.”Haewon whispered back, “I don’t agree.  But okay, I will…”Lily said, “Lily is super pissed…”Yooyeon spied the entire conversation and put her arm around Lily’s shoulder.  “Hey Battleship buddy.”Lily turned and smiled at her.  “You’re so cute!”Yooyeon shrugged, “I know!”Hyeju said, “Now that everyone is here, we have more business to attend to so we can get the next game started!  Split up into your teams!”TripleS went to the left, Nmixx to the right.  Hyeju stood behind the table.“Welcome to Hyeju’s casino!”Jiwoo said, “What the heck do you know about a casino?”Bae said, “Yeah, Koreans can’t even go into our own casinos…”Hyeju responded, “A friend of mine showed me around a casino when we were in America.  It was eye-opening.  I loved it and learned everything I could!”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon.  She said in English, “I have a bad feeling about this…”Hyeju looked at R2D2 still on the corkboard.  “Star Wars reference!  Nice!”Yooyeon smiled weakly.“Now opens Hyeju’s casino!  We are going to start by playing blackjack!”Nakyoung said, “I would rather play poker.”“Well, my friend, we could arrange that.  Blackjack is a game of luck, played against the ‘house’.  Poker is a game where you all play against each other.”Bae said, “So you are going to make us poor with blackjack and then make us fight it out amongst ourselves with poker.”Hyeju made a questioning look.  “Well, if I hadn’t thought of that before, I sure have now… let’s do it!”Sullyoon said, “Thanks Jinsol…  But we don’t have any money…”Hyeju said, “Yes you do!  TripleS spent 3 million to save Heejin, but still have one million left.  TripleS will split the 1 million and Nmixx still has 2 million and will split it also.”Seoyeon said, “We get penalized for winning, AGAIN?”“Simmer down, you’ll get an advantage for winning also…”Sullyoon was suspecting things, and asked a leading question, “Cat-ju… What happens when Kyujin accidently blows all of her cash on one hand because she doesn’t know what she’s doing?”Kyujin looked back at her and said, “What?”Hyeju said, “Well, I’m going to do a very good job explaining, of course.  No one will be confused.”  She then casually added quickly, “And of course if she needs more cash, she can sell some clothing to the bank…”Yooyeon said, “I KNEW IT!”Seoyeon said, “Dear lord…”Xinyu and Sohyun gave each other high-fives.“Give me those fake millions and I’ll give you each the correct amount of chips.  If you trade in clothing, they are worth 500, but undergarments are worth 1000.”The girls handed in their winnings and each TripleS girl got 166 in chips and each Nmixx girl got 333 in chips.Hyeju shouted.  “A few surprises before we start!”Yooyeon said in English, “I have a bad…”Nakyoung interrupted her, “We get it…”Hyeju said loudly, “Is the drink service ready?”Everyone stood around waiting for something to happen.  Finally, there was a knock on the other side of the kitchen door.“Come in already!” she shouted again.In came Yeojin, wearing a French maid costume.  She was wearing a tiny black and white dress, quite low cut.  She was wearing black nylons and a white garter.  She was carrying a waitress tray.  She said, “Yeojin is here!”Everyone clapped for Yeojin.Jiwoo said, “Damn, that’s hot Yeojin…”Yooyeon asked, “Nice to meet you Yeojin!  Were you the stormtrooper?”She pulled a device out of a pocket in her skirt.  She pressed a button, “Luke… I am your father…” it said.“You are a damn good shot with that dart gun.”“I practiced a lot!”Haewon said, “Isn’t some Nmixx member I thought I knew, but actually don’t know very well, going to run up there and make out with her?”No one moved. Yeojin said, “Oh, that’s not how it works.”  Yeojin charged Nmixx, landing in Bae’s arms and kissed her on the cheek.  She then kissed Sullyoon on the cheek and might have accidently kissed Jiwoo on the lips.  Lily was terrified as she was next. “Ohhhhr, okay…” she said as Yeojin kissed her cheek.Yeojin then kissed Haewon and Kyujin, leaving lots of bright red lipstick on faces.Kyujin said, “I got Loona kisses!  Hey… how can you see who you are shooting in the kitchen?”“Night vision goggles.”Sohyun said, “Get over here and kiss us too!  Also, are you shitting me?  Night vision?  That’s how you got around behind us and never miss?”Yeojin bounced to the other side of the room, skirt flipping around, not being the slightest bit modest.  She ran into Sohyun’s arms.  She kissed Sohyun on the cheek, but Sohyun turned her head and caught her lips. Yeojin then kissed Xinyu.  She didn’t stop there, making sure Nakyoung, Yooyeon, Seoyeon and Chaeyeon got kisses on the cheek.Seoyeon said, “Isn’t she delightful… compared to Cat-ju…”Yeojin said, “Ignore scary sister… She’s just… scary…  This one time, we all went to a casino in America.  I was having fun spending nickels here and there but Hyeju started spending the big bucks.  Then…”Cat-ju pulled Yeojin behind the table and put her hand over her mouth.  Hyeju said, “We have water, soda, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, soju, beer, and some mixed drinks ready in the kitchen.  Yeojin will be happy to get whatever you need while keeping quiet.”Chaeyeon, a bit overwhelmed, sat down on a chair at the table and yelled, “Soju!  Now please!”Yeojin smiled, nodded, and skulked off to the kitchen.Again, with perfect timing, there was a knock on the party room door.Hyeju said, “I wonder who that could be?”  She walked to the door and said, “Oh right…”Someone outside handed Hyeju a very nice jacket.  She walked back to her place at the table and showed off the jacket.  “This very nice fleece jacket from ‘North Face’ will be part of the winning team’s package.  A new addition.  And they aren’t cheap…”Sullyoon said, “Let me see that!”  She grabbed it from Hyeju.  She looked it over carefully.  “I need this,” she stated.  She threw it to Kyujin and they passed it around, then they threw it to TripleS.  The girls were generally quiet observing their new possible loot.There was another knock on the party room door.  Hyeju said, “Come in!”Heejin came bounding in the room.  She saw TripleS and ran over to them, jumping up and down and giving each of them a high-five.  “You guys saved me from my HORRIBLE kidnapper.”From the kitchen a meek voice said, “YOU LOVE ME.”Yooyeon said, “What are you wearing?”Heejin took a moment to show everything off, “Look!  I’m now the biggest WAV ever to exist since you girls saved me.  I have this ‘Lovelution’ tour hoodie!  I have this ‘Assemble’ baseball cap.  I have this ‘Authentic’ lightstick.  I have these ‘Visionary Vision’ sweatpants!  Not yet available!”Nmixx stared at Heejin acting even more strange than usual.Heejin started taking off her hoodie, “I have the ‘KRE’ tee shirt too!”  She handed the hoodie to Chaeyeon.  “You might want that…”Haewon said, “Nooo!  You WOULDN’T!”Sullyoon said, “Ah… there is their advantage for winning and saving Heejin.”Heejin jumped up and down, “BIGGEST WAV!  Wearing tons of clothing!”Lily said in a low voice, “Nauuurrrrr.”Jiwoo said, “Whelp….”Bae pointed at Hyeju.  “Hey!  What badges are we playing for?”Hyeju said, “There are a lot!  One group set and many solo badges.  Obviously, either side can still win.”Sullyoon said, “Start listing them…  I’ll take notes.”“It doesn’t work like that.  You should be surprised when you earn one!”“I don’t need to be surprised.”Hyeju shrugged.Sullyoon glared at her and growled.Kyujin said, “Yoona getting frisky… this is new…”Bae said, “Oh yes… Hyeju gets us all… going…”Hyeju winked at Kyujin.  “I’ll be nice.  There is going to be a Blackjack badge for the girl that has the most cash after five rounds of Blackjack.  And a black X for the girl with the least cash.”Kyujin said, “Advantage Nmixx!”Haewon asked, “Wait.  Can’t we all just give our cash to one girl, to make sure she wins?”Hyeju countered, “No… no sharing cash.  With one exception.  Heejin can give her cash and clothing to whoever she wishes.   And clothing doesn’t count as cash, until it is traded in.”Bae asked, “Ah, so one girl can strip naked and trade in all of her clothing on the last round of Blackjack to make sure she wins.”“None of you are going to do that… so yes… she can…”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon expectantly.  Seoyeon shouted, “No!” and shook her head.Jiwoo pointed to the thing on the side of the table and said, “What’s that thing?” “My-jjyu!  Thank you for asking!”  She pulled off the sheet.  “This is ‘Hyeju’s Wheel of Fortune and Terror’!  At any time, you can bet any amount you like and have a spin on the wheel.  You can win your cash with various multipliers.  You can even win a badge!”Nakyoung said, “And the terror?”“Well, you’ll just have to spin to find out!”Haewon said, “So someone down on their luck can spin and suddenly end up in the lead or something.”Hyeju shrugged.  “At Hyeju’s casino, the bold are rewarded with… rewards…”Nakyoung said, “Or terror…”Yeojin came back with Chaeyeon’s soju.  Chaeyeon said, “What the heck took so long?”Yeojin held out her hand, expecting a tip.Chaeyeon patted her hand.  “Be faster if you want tips…”Yeojin said, “This one time… me and Hyeju were at a restaurant and the service was really bad, but the waitress was super cute.  Hyeju refused to leave a tip, but I took pity on her and left her double without Hyeju noticing.  It obviously was the kitchen’s fault, not hers.”“Was it the kitchen’s fault you couldn’t get that soju out of the fridge and walk it 10 meters to the person that wanted it in an acceptable amount of time?”“No… I was just telling a story about Hyeju not tipping… sheesh…”  Yeojin stomped off.  Almost at the kitchen she yelled, “Does anyone else want a drink?”Heejin said, “I’ll take something stronger please.”  Yeojin looked excited.  “I know just the thing for you!”  She disappeared into the kitchen.Heejin said, “BIGGEST WAV EVER READY TO PLAY CARDS!”Seoyeon said, “There are only three of them here… and maybe they are the three worst… but can you IMAGINE living in the Loona dorm?”Simultaneously, Heejin said “Hyunjin!” and Hyeju said, “Chuu!”Jiwoo said, “I can vouch that my namesake is a lot…”Seoyeon said, “Point made…”Heejin snuggled up beside Seoyeon and put her arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.Hyeju said, “This Blackjack table only seats seven.  Each group will have three girls playing this game and eligible to win the badge.  Each girl will have a partner to help her make decisions if she allows it, but as I said before, no sharing money or clothes.  Heejin will be the seventh.”Nakyoung said, “Well, we each have two badges, except Chaeyeon.  Should we give her a chance to get a badge?  I know Blackjack fairly well, I’ll coach her.”Chaeyeon said, “Okay!  I’m excited to play.  Hyeju, I’m going to turn in this TripleS hoodie in for cash though.  I feel bad wearing it after I lost my tee shirt fair and square by getting shot in the back with raspberry jelly.”Haewon said, “Aww, really?”Chaeyeon nodded ‘yes’ to her.Nakyoung said, “Who else wants to play from our side?”Yooyeon and Seoyeon both raised their hand.  Seoyeon gave Yooyeon a high five.  “Of course we want to play…” she said.Sohyun said, “This is Hyeju… There is a good chance if you play this game, you won’t be able to play poker later or something stupid like that…”Hyeju smirked at Sohyun.Yooyeon said to Seoyeon, “Are we better at poker or blackjack?”Seoyeon said, “Wouldn’t the wives be better at bluffing than adding numbers?”Xinyu said, “I resemble that remark…”Nakyoung said, “Okay Hyeju… Seoyeon and Yooyeon will be playing with Chaeyeon.  I’ll be Chaeyeon’s partner, Sohyun will be Seoyeon’s partner and Xinyu will be Yooyeon’s partner.”After a nice orderly decision-making process, they all turned and looked at Nmixx.Kyujin said, “I’ll play!  I wanna play!  Also, I’ll trade in my hoodie for some extra starting cash!”Sullyoon said, “Hon, you don’t have to do that…”Lily said, “Girl… you don’t WANT to do that…  You already don’t have any pants…”Kyujin responded, “It is fine!  I want to play!  You aren’t the boss of me!  You don’t ever invite me to things!  I’m going to play!”Lily looked at Haewon.  Haewon shrugged.Bae said, “Well, I was going to suggest that Kyujin, Haewon, and Jiwoo shouldn’t play, because they are already missing clothing… but what do I know?”Lily said, “I know blackjack and I suck at poker.  Let me play.”Bae said, “I’m better at poker.  Yoona, you play also, if you get a good poker hand your face is going to tell everyone in the room.”Sullyoon nodded.Haewon said, “Alright… Kyujin, Yoona, and Lily for Blackjack.  I’ll be Lily’s partner…”Lily interrupted, “… no.  You make sure Kyujin doesn’t do anything else dumb…”“I’ll be Kyujin’s partner, Jinsol will be Yoona’s partner and Jiwoo will be Lily’s partner.”Hyeju said, “Brilliant!  Seven chairs here across the front of the table, partners can sit behind their player on a chair also.  I’ll get the cards out, let’s go!”Kyujin took off her hoodie and took a seat in a chair now only wearing her black sports bra and black safety shorts.Hyeju collected Chaeyeon’s new hoodie, Kyujin’s hoodie, and Heejin’s hat and rewarded the three of them with 500 chips.
[Starting chip values and seating order:  Heejin 500, Chaeyeon 666, Seoyeon 166, Yooyeon 166, Kyujin 833, Lily 333, Sullyoon 333.]
Yeojin returned with a steaming cup of coffee for Heejin, that vaguely also smelled like alcohol.Heejin smiled at her and gave her a kiss on the cheek as a tip.Seoyeon said, “Me and Yooyeon would like water please.  We need to stay hydrated during these intense games.”Kyujin said, “I would like water also…”Yeojin looked at Seoyeon like she was an alien.  “You are strange.  I didn’t expect to be wasting my time serving water…”  She pouted and ran back to the kitchen.Seoyeon looked at Yooyeon, “Am I strange?”Hyeju said, “We’re off!  I will deal the first round!  50 credit minimum bet.”Each girl put their equivalent of 50 worth of chips on the table.Hyeju dealt a card face up to each player and a card face down to herself.  She then dealt a second face up card to each player and herself.  In Blackjack, everyone can see all of the cards, except for the one hidden card for the dealer.Hyeju was showing an eight of diamonds next to the face down card.  She pointed at Sullyoon, the first player.Sullyoon said, “Oh, me?  I’m supposed to say something?”Hyeju looked at her expectantly.“I have a 10 of spades and 2 of spades.  That is 12 and I need 21?  That seems bad…”Bae patted her on the shoulder.  “It is bad…  but since there is a good chance the dealer has an 18, you need to hit.”Sullyoon proudly and excitedly said, “HIT ME!”Hyeju dealt her a seven of clubs.“Nineteen!  That is good, right?”Bae said, “Indeed!  Tell her you ‘stay’ now.”Sullyoon proudly and excitedly said, “STAY!”Lily said, “You don’t have to yell at her, I don’t think she is deaf.”“Oh sorry…”Lily had a 10 of hearts and a 9 of diamonds.  “I also have 19, I’ll stay!”Kyujin had a King of hearts and Jack of clubs.  “I HAVE BLACKJACK!”Haewon said, “No kiddo.  You need an ace to have blackjack, but 20 is the best you can have without having blackjack.”Kyujin said, “STAY!”Yooyeon had a queen of hearts and two of diamonds.  She looked back at Xinyu.  Xinyu said, “You are screwed…”Yooyeon said, “Yoona wasn’t screwed… Hit me!”Hyeju gave her the ace of hearts.Yooyeon said, “The ace can be one or eleven, so now I have thirteen?  Hit me again!”Hyeju gave her the king of spades.  Hyeju took both of her cards and her 50 credits.“Rude!  You haven’t even flipped your card yet.”Nakyoung said, “If you bust, you automatically lose, no matter what the dealer gets…”While Yooyeon was pointing, Hyeju looked at Seoyeon who had a seven of hearts and a seven of spades.Nakyoung said, “You can split that if you want.  Then it turns into two hands.”“Do I have to bet again?”“Yes, you will have a separate bet for each hand.”“I’m already one of the poorest here with my child Yooyeon…  I’m not going to do that…”Nakyoung said, “Do you have any advice for her Sohyun?  You are supposed to be helping her…”Sohyun said, “Oh… well… I’m just trying to distract Hyeju so she makes a bad move.”“Sohyun, the dealer just keeps hitting until they get seventeen or over.  She doesn’t have to make any decisions…”“Well maybe she will be distracted for something later…”Seoyeon said, “Hit me… and my partner!  Except hit her literally.”Hyeju gave Seoyeon the 10 of diamonds, and took her cards and chips.  Seoyeon pouted and Yooyeon patted her on the head.Chaeyeon said, “I have an eight with three circles on a triangle and a scary old lady looking at me.”Nakyoung said, “Eight of clubs and queen of diamonds.  That is eighteen which is pretty good.  You should stay.”Chaeyeon yelled, “STAY!”Nakyoung said, “Okay, you can just wave your hand over your cards.  That’s the signal to ‘stay’.  You don’t have to yell at her.”“Maybe I want to yell at Hyeju!”“Maybe you do, but maybe me and Seoyeon sitting close to you don’t need to hear it.”Chaeyeon waved her hand over her cards.Heejin said, “You guys are comical.”  Heejin had seven of diamonds and five of clubs.  “Hit me.”Hyeju gave her the three of spades.  “Oh, fifteen… I don’t want to look incompetent like my idols Seoyeon and Yooyeon.  I’ll stay.”Hyeju casually flipped her face down card.  It was the three of clubs.Nakyoung said, “Well shit… that’s a dangerous eleven.”Hyeju ‘hit’ herself again.  It was the three of diamonds.Bae clapped and cheered.  She sang, “One two three four five six seven… you make me feel like eleven… I mean fourteeeeeeen.”Hyeju drew another card, it was the nine of clubs.Nakyoung clapped loudly.Chaeyeon asked, “Did we win?”Heejin said, “Yes!  Everyone who is not Seoyeon and Yooyeon won.  Because Hyeju went over twenty-one.”Chaeyeon said, “The two girls most fascinated with winning seem to have lost… interesting game…”Hyeju paid the girls 100 credits for winning (you win 50 and get back the 50 from the bet).
[Heejin 550, Chaeyeon 716, Seoyeon 116, Yooyeon 116, Kyujin 883, Lily 383, Sullyoon 383]
Hyeju then gathered the cards and shuffled them.Nakyoung asked, “You are going to shuffle between each game?”“Haha, are you planning on counting cards?”“Eh, no… but I could probably teach Yooyeon to do it…”“Shuffling!”While shuffling Hyeju said, “Don’t forget, you can take a spin on the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ at any time!  You losers getting low on credits might consider it, or are you just planning on getting naked?”Yooyeon said, “Is there some manner of explanation about all of the things on the wheel?”“Oh, sorry, I meant to show you.  Full transparency here at Hyeju’s casino.  Here is a laminated list.”

Yooyeon looked it over.  There were sixteen possible numbers on the wheel.  Most of the possibilities won money back, a couple did not.  “Lose clothing and not get anything for it?  Have an epic Twister battle with the opponent of your choice, winner gets the combined pot for both players?  No way I’m spinning that thing…”Hyeju said, “Okay!  Very good odds of making cash!  You’ll change your mind in a bit!  What if you need that badge to win?  New bets!”Chaeyeon turned to Nakyoung.  “Can I bet more than 50?  It seems I’m pretty good at this game.”“Girl… I’m not going to stop you, but you aren’t good at it, everyone is equally good at it.”Sohyun said, “Maybe she has a four-leaf clover in her pocket and is extra lucky tonight.”“Maybe she is…”Seoyeon pointed to Chaeyeon and said, “Child… do NOT bet extra.”Chaeyeon said, “Fine…” and put out her 50.Kyujin put out 100 instead of 50.Jiwoo said to Haewon, “Are you going to forbid her from doing that?”Haewon said, “Nope…  If I yell at her like Seoyeon just yelled at Chaeyeon, she will put 200 out in retaliation.  I will just remind her she is half-naked and be ready for a quite rewarding ‘I told you so’ later tonight.”Seoyeon started giggling.  Kyujin was less amused.Hyeju dealt the cards, showing her face up card as an ace of spades.There were grumbles from behind the girls actually playing.Hyeju looked at Sullyoon.Sullyoon said, “Everyone is assuming you have Blackjack and we are all screwed?  She could have any other card under there…”Bae said, “Yeah… just percentages.”Yooyeon said, “52 card deck, right?  Twenty of them are worth ten in this game, three of them are showing, but still roughly 50/50 change she has blackjack and thus we all need blackjack to win.”Nakyoung clapped for Yooyeon.  “Told you Hyeju…”Sullyoon said, “I didn’t understand any of that and I have eighteen and believe in the power of positive thinking.  I’ll…”  She didn’t yell ‘stay’, but instead waved one hand over the cards and then the other as if invoking ancient magics.Lily had a two of diamonds and six of diamonds.  “Nakyoung… how do I tell her to hit me without yelling at her.”“Tap on your cards, or right next to them.”Lily tapped on her cards and Hyeju rewarded her with a queen of clubs.  She said in English, “Ohhhr eighteen!  That works good!”Kyujin had a nine and ten of hearts.  She waved her hand over her cards.Yooyeon had a queen of diamonds and six of hearts.  She tapped to ‘hit’.  Hyeju gave her the ace of clubs.  “Yes, my dear Lily!  It does work indeed!”Xinyu said, “Dear?”Yooyeon motioned to ‘stay’.Seoyeon immediately said, “Stay.”  She had an ace of hearts and eight of diamonds.Chaeyeon had the five of clubs and three of hearts.  She tapped for a ‘hit’.  Hyeju gave her the four of clubs.  She looked back at Nakyoung.  “What do I do with twelve?”“Not much kiddo… pray you are lucky and ‘hit’ or pray you are lucky and ‘stay’.  But since Hyeju is showing the ace, I would probably go ahead and ‘hit’ again.”Chaeyeon tapped again.  Hyeju gave her the two of spades.Chaeyeon waved her hand over her cards to ‘stay’.Heejin was sitting on the nine of diamonds and five of hearts.  “I think Hyeju is overrated.  I’ll ‘stay’.”Hyeju shook her head and revealed her hidden card.  It was the king of clubs.  “Blackjack!” She exclaimed loudly.Chaeyeon said, “That meanie just took all of our money…”“Welcome to the casino!” said Nakyoung.
[Heejin 500, Chaeyeon 666, Seoyeon 66, Yooyeon 66, Kyujin 783, Lily 333, Sullyoon 333]
Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon.  “Should I spin it?”Seoyeon pointed at Hyeju.  “I hate you.  You are totally tickling my competitive side with this entire thing.  You know damn well that clothes aren’t going to hold me back from winning a badge.”Seoyeon stood up and took off her tee shirt.  She had a light grey sport’s bra underneath.  She threw the shirt at Hyeju.  “GIVE ME MY 500 YOU MEANIE!”
[Heejin 500, Chaeyeon 666, Seoyeon 566, Yooyeon 66, Kyujin 783, Lily 333, Sullyoon 333]
Chaeyeon said, “Miss Heejin-WAV… don’t you have some clothing for Seoyeon?”Heejin said, “I mean, I do… but the night is long and I kind of want to see my bias sitting there without a shirt.”Seoyeon said, “I’M YOUR BIAS?”“If you aren’t wearing a shirt…”Yooyeon said, “Well shit… Fine, I’ll spin the stupid wheel…  I figured out this counting card thing, I think I can do better moving forward, I just need cash.”Nakyoung and Xinyu shook their heads, “…said every gambler ever…” added Nakyoung.Hyeju pointed to the wheel.  “I’ll give it a spin for you!  How much are you betting?” Yooyeon handed her the entire 66.  Hyeju grabbed the wheel and gave it a solid spin.It stopped on 6.  Yooyeon looked at the chart, “WIN DOUBLE!”Seoyeon said, “Uhoh… she’s got you hooked…”Yooyeon said, “It’s fun!”
[Heejin 500, Chaeyeon 666, Seoyeon 566, Yooyeon 132, Kyujin 783, Lily 333, Sullyoon 333]
Kyujin turned around and looked at Haewon.  “Doesn’t it seem like we are beating them easily?”Haewon pointed to Sullyoon and Lily and said, “These two are even steven and you’re half naked.  Heejin probably has six different kinds of underwear on.  We aren’t winning anything easily…”Kyujin said, “Sheesh… overreact much?  I just meant this one badge…  Calm down, you aren’t even playing…”Hyeju started dealing again, “Hand three of five!”Everyone bet 50, except for Chaeyeon, Seoyeon, and Kyujin who all bet 100.Hyeju had a three of clubs showing.Hyeju pointed at Sullyoon.“Looks like the dealer isn’t so lucky this time…”Bae said, “Hon, you have a thirteen, don’t taunt the dealer.”Sullyoon looked at her king of clubs and three of diamonds.  She did the magical wave over them again to ‘stay’.Lily had an ace of spades and a four of spades.  “Fifteen is better than Yoona… I’ll stay too…”Bae said, “You aren’t playing against Yoona…”“Yaurrrr, but if she does a smart thing, I will do the same smart thing.”Sullyoon tapped her temple with her finger and smiled.Kyujin had a six of diamonds and eight of hearts.  “You guys don’t respect Hyeju enough… Hit me!”Hyeju gave Kyujin the 6 of hearts.  “TWENTY!”  shouted Kyujin.  She turned around and stuck her tongue out at Haewon.Yooyeon was also sitting on twenty with the ten of diamonds and queen of clubs.  She waved her hand over her cards.Seoyeon had the queen of hearts and nine of hearts.  She ‘stayed’ as well.Chaeyeon had the ace of diamonds and four of diamonds.  She looked at Nakyoung.  Nakyoung told her to say, so she ‘stayed’ as well.Heejin had the ten of hearts and king of hearts.  She also ‘stayed’.Hyeju flipped the face down card, it was the ten of spades.  She dealt herself another card, it was the eight of clubs.  “TWENTY-ONE!” she shouted.Seoyeon said, “Are you fucking kidding me?”Chaeyeon said, “HYEJU CHEATS!”Bae gave Sullyoon a hug from behind.  Sullyoon said, “You just had to invite her that one time… didn’t you…”Jiwoo said, “HEY!  You all stop talking about Hyeju like that!  She is very fair…”Kyujin shouted, “WHERE’S MY WATER?”
[Heejin 450, Chaeyeon 566, Seoyeon 466, Yooyeon 82, Kyujin 683, Lily 283, Sullyoon 283]
Hyeju said, “Two more hands!  Kyujin heading toward a badge, Yooyeon toward an X.”Haewon said, “Okay Kyujin, seriously now… only bet 50, you can be conservative and stay ahead of Chaeyeon.  She’ll have to chase you…”  Kyujin nodded.Everyone bet 50 except Seoyeon who bet 200.Sohyun said, “Umm, you sure about that?”Seoyeon shook her head ‘no’.Nakyoung said, “Okay kiddo, this time you need to bet 100.”Chaeyeon said, “Are you sure?”“Haewon was right… You need to chase Kyujin.”Chaeyeon added another 50 to her bet.Hyeju dealt the cards.  She again had an ace of clubs showing.The girls all grumbled as they almost all had horrible cards.  Xinyu said, “Its rigged…”Sullyoon had a nine of diamonds and three of hearts.Bae said, “You have twelve, not great, but you should probably hit!”Sullyoon tapped on her cards really hard with her index finger over and over again.Bae grabbed her hand.  “Once is plenty…”Hyeju gave her a two of hearts.“If I had tapped one more time, I would have gotten a better card.”“Girl, the universe doesn’t work like that…”“You don’t know…”“Okay… well… do it your way this time…”Sullyoon only tapped one solid time.  Hyeju gave her the two of diamonds.  She shrugged at Bae.  Bae shrugged back.  She waved over her cards to stay at seventeen.Lily had the eight of hearts and five of diamonds.  She tapped to ‘hit’.  Hyeju gave her the ten of clubs and she went over.  Hyeju took her cards and chips.Kyujin had the six of spades and six of hearts.  “I’ll do that split thing…”Haewon said, “Kyu… what did we just decide about being conservative…”“I want to do the split thing…”“You will have to do the same bet again and she is sitting on Blackjack, you will lose double…”“I hate you…”Haewon just shook her head.“HIT ME!” shouted Kyujin.  Hyeju gave her the queen of spades.  Hyeju took her cards and chips.“I would have had sixteen…”“And Hyeju has twenty-one… I saved you… you’re welcome…”Yooyeon had the six of diamonds and five of spades.  “Hit me.”Hyeju gave her the two of clubs.Yooyeon said, “You only give out two’s from that deck?”Hyeju shrugged. Yooyeon said, “Hit me again…”Hyeju gave her the queen of spades.“Oh my god, I hate this game… Can I go carry Chaeyeon through some mud or something instead?”Seoyeon had the ten of diamonds and six of clubs.  “Not many people playing… I guess I’ll stay…”Chaeyeon had the jack of hearts and nine of spades.  She waved to stay.Heejin had the jack of clubs and seven of clubs.  She waved to stay as well.Hyeju flipped her card.  Kyujin chanted, “Don’t make Haewon right… don’t make Haewon right… don’t make Haewon right…”It was the eight of spades.  Hyeju said, “Nineteen!”Kyujin clapped, “HAEWON WASN’T RIGHT.”Haewon said, “That is higher than sixteen!”“SHUT UP!”Jiwoo said, “Kyu… she’s trying to help you win you know…”“You SHUT UP too, go back to hitting on the dealer…”Hyeju motioned to Chaeyeon that they pushed and didn’t take her chips.  Everyone else lost their cash.
[Heejin 400, Chaeyeon 566, Seoyeon 266, Yooyeon 32, Kyujin 633, Lily 233, Sullyoon 233]
Hyeju said, “Yooyeon, you can’t play the last hand, you don’t have 50.  Can I interest you in 500?  Maybe a spin?”Yooyeon said, “No… I’ll sit this one out…  Hopefully Chaeyeon can pull it off… I mean… We’re doomed…”Hyeju said, “Okay!  Bets everyone!”Haewon said, “So we can see what everyone else is doing and just adjust?”“Of course!  I mean, let’s time it so it doesn’t keep going all night… but just like the casino.  Bet away!”Heejin put in 50, Chaeyeon put in 200, Seoyeon put in 200, Kyujin put in 100, Lily put in 200 and Sullyoon put in 50.Hyeju said, “Ten seconds and then I start dealing and bets are frozen.  Let’s see your pretty heads doing some math!”Haewon said, “Kyu, you need 50 more, if you and Chaeyeon both win, then you will win, you won’t with only 200…”Kyujin quickly moved in 50 more.Nakyoung said to Chaeyeon, “More kiddo.”“No…  what if I lose.  If I put more, I can’t win for sure.”“Ummm…”Yooyeon said, “She’s right… I think it is good.  If Kyu loses and she pushes, she still wins.”Kyujin said, “Are you sure this is right?”Hyeju interrupted the conversation and started dealing.  She had a two of clubs showing.Nakyoung and Yooyeon ‘ooooooohed’.Sullyoon had the nine of clubs and seven of clubs.  She tapped exactly five times, telling Hyeju exactly what she wanted.  Hyeju gave her the eight of spades.  Hyeju took her cards and chips.  Sullyoon said, “NOT what I asked for…”Bae said, “One tap…”Lily had the king of spades and ten of spades.  She waved over her cards.Kyujin had the ace of spades and five of diamonds.  She looked back at Haewon.   Haewon nodded her head ‘yes’.  Kyujin said, “Hit me…”  Hyeju gave her the three of spades.  She turned and gave Haewon a high five for her nineteen.Seoyeon had the seven of hearts and two of clubs.  She motioned to ‘hit’.  Hyeju gave her the eight of hearts.  She waved to ‘stay’ with seventeen.”Chaeyeon had the five and six of clubs.  She started chanting, “Lucky clover gimmie a ten…”  She said, “Hit me!” and then closed her eyes.  Hyeju gave her a king of hearts.  Nakyoung, Sohyun and Yooyeon all cheered loudly.Heejin had the three of diamonds and three of spades.  “Hit me!”  Hyeju gave her the ace of hearts.  She motioned to ‘stay’ with her seventeen.Chaeyeon said, “FLIP IT ALREADY!  WHAT IS IT????”Hyeju flipped over the facedown card, showing the six of spades.Kyujin said, “What happens if she gets 18?”Haewon said, “I think we are okay, but there is a lot going on, I’m not sure…”Hyeju flipped another card.  It was the four of hearts.  The girls all cheered for Hyeju’s awkward 12.  She flipped another card.  She flipped the king of spades and went bust.  “Everyone wins except Yoona!”Sullyoon said, “Boooooo.”Hyeju gave everyone their chips.  “Kyujin wins the badge!  Yooyeon gets the black X and will now fight Sohyun in an epic battle of Twister to see who loses clothing!”Yooyeon said, “Yooyeon does what now?”
[Heejin 500, Chaeyeon 766, Seoyeon 466, Yooyeon 32, Kyujin 783, Lily 433, Sullyoon 183]
 
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Chapter 8:  Jiwoo Is… Jiwoo
 Yeojin came running into the room with three bottles of water, no waitress tray.  She handed one to Yooyeon, one to Seoyeon, and one to Jiwoo.Kyujin pointed to Jiwoo, “That is mine…”Yeojin said, “You can’t have Jiwoo…”“The WATER.  It is mine…”Jiwoo handed the water to Kyujin.“Oh right, the half-naked one got the water.  My bad…”“My name is KYU-JIN.  Like yours, except ‘Kyu’ instead of ‘Yeo’.”“Do the two TripleS girls that I delivered water to have any complaints?”Yooyeon shook her head ‘no’.Seoyeon said, “It took too long, blackjack is over.  There is no need to hydrate now.”Xinyu said, “Yooyeon still needs to hydrate, this twister dual is going to be epic!”Yeojin said, “Oh?  Twister?  Exciting!”Chaeyeon whispered something in Yeojin’s ear.Yeojin said, “Chaeyeon has made a request, would anyone else like a mixed drink?”Chaeyeon facepalmed.  “She doesn’t know what secret means…”Yooyeon said, “You can have ONE…”“Shut up.  You aren’t the boss of me…”Yooyeon countered, “Is your plan to start liking Haewon staring at your chest?  That is already your second drink… The last thing anyone in this room needs is a wasted Chaeyeon…”Yeojin whispered something in Chaeyeon’s ear.  She smiled. Heejin said, “Another of these hot chocolate and Kahlua things please!  It was delicious!”Seoyeon said, “Fine… I’ll take a soju to go with my water.”Yeojin ran off to the kitchen.Hyeju rescued the twister mat from being randomly thrown on top of the twister box and laid it out on the floor in front of the table and chairs.  Sullyoon helped her straighten it.Jiwoo said, “Xinyu… we had to play on the plush carpet, we could have injured ourselves, we should sue…”Yooyeon had already gotten up and was stretching at the wall.Seoyeon said, “Sohyun, you gonna go stretch?”Sohyun looked at Seoyeon like she was crazy and took her place on the right side of the twister mat (red in the back, green in the front).  Yooyeon joined her on the left side.  Hyeju grabbed the spinner and put in on the blackjack table, ready to spin.Something was clearly bothering Yooyeon.Sohyun said, “Girl… what’s up?  You okay?”Yooyeon said, “I’m trying not to be like this… but… I…”“Spill it…”“Jiwon didn’t play right…  I’ve read the English rules on the box in the past…”Hyeju said, “I told her she could run the games however she wanted.  I mean she was nice enough to help us out… I wasn’t going to tie her to some rules.”Jiwoo said, “I’ve played like that before.  How are you supposed to play?”“Everyone plays twister differently.  But if we are playing for clothing, I think we should play properly, as the rules are written!”Seoyeon clapped.Haewon said, “Wow, you guys…”Hyeju said, “Fine… tell us how to play ‘properly’…”“We both put our feet on blue and yellow at the end facing each other.  You spin it and announce the result.  We immediately BOTH respond to it with the proper move.  That way there is some strategy, getting to the spot that is advantageous first and making your opponent put their body somewhere else.”Hyeju pointed to Xinyu, “How did you two play?”Jiwoo didn’t let her answer, “We started off the mat and each got a spin separately.”“I see… Okay Yooyeon, we’ll do it the ‘proper’ way.” Yooyeon put her right foot on her blue #1 and left foot on her yellow #1.  Sohyun put her right foot on her blue #1 and left foot on her yellow #1. Hyeju immediately spun and announced, “Left hand blue!”Both girls squatted down and put their left hand on their respective blue #2.“Left foot blue!”Both girls mirrored each other and put their left foot forward onto their blue #3.  Sohyun had her right foot, then left hand, then left foot in a line on her first three blue circles.  Yeoyeon was similar except her right foot was still on yellow from her starting position.Sohyun hit Yooyeon’s big toe with her own, both of them were wearing white sports socks.Lily said, “Even that girl’s toes have to flirt…”Yooyeon did her best to ignore Sohyun… and Lily.“Left foot yellow!”Sohyun quickly moved her left foot from her blue #3 to yellow #3, one circle over.  It was a bit more awkward for Yooyeon.  She moved her left foot from her blue #3, but her arm was in the way on blue #2, so she put her knee under her arm and put her foot on yellow #2, right in front of her right foot that was still on her yellow #1.“Right foot blue!”Sohyun quickly moved her right foot forward from her blue #1 to her blue #3, avoiding her left arm.  Yooyeon let Sohyun settle and then moved her right foot from her yellow #1 to blue #3.  Their feet were again on blue next to each other.  Sohyun made sure their knees didn’t knock, but rubbed the side of Yooyeon’s foot with her big toe.Chaeyeon said, “Yooyeon?  Is it against the rules if you just push her over for being dumb?”Yooyeon said, “Yes…  Also, you are the only person I like to push over for being dumb.”Chaeyeon pouted.Haewon said, “You need a hug yet?”Chaeyeon pouted more.“Left foot green!”Both girls moved their left foot from their yellow #2 to green #2.  The result, however, was that both girls had to extend both legs, both of them sticking their butt into the air, although facing different directions.Hyeju said, “Oh!  Sohyun’s butt is flirting with me!”Haewon said, “We get Yooyeon’s, but those sweat pants are unfortunate.  Can’t see much.”“Use your imagination!”Lily said, “Naurrrrr…. Don’t call Hornywon…”Yooyeon put her still-free right hand on her own butt, inefficiently trying to cover it.Lily said, “Don’t fall!  We won’t look!  Too much!”Yooyeon was looking at Lily head pointed at the ground and through her legs, but she smiled at her.“Left hand red!”Sohyun again quickly moved, but her move was very tricky.  She had to move her left hand from blue #2 to Red #2.  Because Yooyeon was in the way, she moved her hand behind her right leg (foot on blue # 3) making her perch very precarious.  Yooyeon, on the other hand, easily moved her left hand from her blue #2 to red #2.  Sohyun’s right shoulder was on top of Yooyeon’s right thigh and she put her entire neck and shoulder against Yooyeon’s thigh making her start to giggle.“Right foot green!”Sohyun cursed.  Yooyeon moved first this time.  She put her right foot on her green #4, directly under Sohyun’s face.  Yooyeon’s butt was now proudly displayed to everyone watching, but Sohyun was screwed.  The only thing she could do was move her foot forward from her blue #3 all the way to green #4, which was impossible and she fell hard on her butt.Yooyeon jumped up and cheered.  “Karma for all of that pushing and toe touching, eh?”Lily said, “Naurrrrr, put your butt back!”Yooyeon winked at her, “I thought you weren’t looking…”Xinyu helped her wife stand up.Hyeju said, “Well Sohyun, you finally lost… what’s it going to be?”Sohyun made a show of taking her tee shirt off for everyone.  She was wearing a white bra, quite skimpy considering her cleavage, and showing all of it.Haewon said, “DEAR LORD HER BOOBS ARE HOT!”Chaeyeon said, “Hey… I’m almost as big as she is…”Haewon smiled at her, “Oh?  Are you now?”Seoyeon said, “Why the hell did you wear that?  You knew what we were doing?”“I wanted to be hot for Hyeju…  And Yoona…”Sullyoon blushed.“Why am I trying to win things with you on my team?”“THE ENTIRE THING WAS MY IDEA.  I recruited YOU!”Seoyeon said, “Oh right…”Yooyeon laughed at her.Yeojin came back from the kitchen holding a tray.  “Oh, Sohyun’s boobs are back… there’s a shocker…”She gave Heejin her drink and Chaeyeon a similar looking mug.  Heejin sniffed Chaeyeon’s.  She said, “Whoa…” and smirked at her.  Yeojin also handed Seoyeon her soju.Hyeju said, “Let’s get ready for poker!”Kyujin said, “Hey waitress!  Can you bring me a soju please?”Jiwoo said, “I don’t really want a soju right now…”Kyujin gave Jiwoo a fake laugh and waved at Yeojin to hurry up.Heejin pulled her chair back, grabbed her ‘coffee’ and started sipping.Seoyeon said, “Best WAV not playing?”“I’ll be watching,” she responded.Hyeju punched a few buttons on her phone and said, “On that note…  Allow me to introduce you to our seventh player for poker!”Lily said, “Seventh player?  Introduce?  Naurrrrrr.”The party room door opened and Yeji walked in the door.Her hair was redder than before and was up in a ponytail.  Instead of the ordinary tee shirt and jeans she was wearing before, she had on a low cut black top, only being held up by a strap that went around her neck and connected to long black sleeves all the way to her hands.  She was also wearing a plaid red and black skirt over black sheer nylons with a pattern of large hearts.  She was also wearing large dark sunglasses.The girls all clapped for her.Haewon said, “Yeji!  You finally escaped!”Yeji said, “I’m not Yeji… she’s gone now… I’m Lucy…”Jiwoo asked, “Rooooo-sssseeeee?”Yeji corrected her, “LLLLLLLoooooooo-seeee…” Heejin ran up to her.  “Lucy Hwang!  Nice to meet you, I’m Heejin!”Heejin and Yeji, I mean Lucy, shook hands.Hyeju said, “Lucy lovesssss poker.  She will be our seventh player.”Nakyoung poked Yooyeon.On cue, Yooyeon said, “I have a bad feeling about this…”They also noticed Lucy was carrying a briefcase. Lily said, “I’m so sorry about the things Haewon said Yeji…  I obviously was going to do everything in my power to save you…”Lucy said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.  But I’m going to take all of your money…”Everyone looked at Yooyeon.  She hid behind Nakyoung.Hyeju said, “Well, unlike blackjack, the position you sit is fairly important with poker, so we will determine seats randomly.  I’ll deal everyone a card.  Highest cards chooses their spot first, if there is a tie, red beats black, hearts beat diamonds, and spades beat clubs.”Hyeju gave a card to each of the girls about to play, they all laid them down on the table.  The girls looked over the array of cards, from the two of spades to the 9 of hearts and diamonds.Sohyun said, “Nice job dealing a bunch of shit cards Hyeju.”Hyeju said, “Well look at this… it seems that our card shark gets to choose her spot!” Lucy pointed to her nine of hearts.  She took the first seat to the right of the dealer.  Hyeju giggled.Seoyeon said, “We are so doomed…”Xinyu said, “Haewon… this is when we should actually quit and go to the grocery store.”Haewon watched Lucy stride to the first chair and seductively sit down and cross her legs at the table.  She then opened her suitcase and pulled out a pile of chips and started stacking them on the table.  There were more in the briefcase, she just left them in there.

Haewon said, “Ummm, Lily won’t let me…”Lily got a rare evil look across her face.  “I don’t need snacks to watch Haewon lose all of her clothes to Ye-… Lucy… while unnecessarily staring at topless TripleS girls.”The rest of Nmixx was either shocked or unphased by the comment, except Sullyoon who blushed and cracked up laughing.Kyujin and Haewon both gave her glares and she quickly composed herself while moving to hide behind Bae.Hyeju said, “Haewon, you also have a nine, you get to choose your spot next.”Haewon said, “I’m going down there, pointing to the last chair in the betting order.  Come on down, Kyu…” “We have our end spots…  Nakyoung, you are next!”  Nakyoung had the eight of hearts.“I’ll sit next to Haewon.”Chaeyeon said, “Do we have to?”“Yes, you are going to distract her.  She won’t be able to stare at you because you’ll be sitting behind me, but you’ll be able to stare at her.”“I don’t know what that matters, but okay…”Hyeju said, “Jiwoo, you have the seven of hearts.”“I’ll sit next to Nakyoung.”Jiwoo grabbed Lily’s hand and pulled her to their new spot.Hyeju said, “Bae, you have the six of spades, you’re next!”Bae said, “I’m not scared of Rooooo-seeee.  I’ll sit next to her…”Sullyoon said, “But I am…”“You aren’t playing…”“But I have to sit here…”“Yes, you’ll have to sit there and stare at hot card shark costume Yeji while I have to play poker against the girl with unlimited chips…”Sullyoon zipped her lips.Lucy said, “LLLLLLLLooosie.  Please pretend you are American when you say my name.”Bae said, “I’ll I’m calling you from now on, IS BROKE!”Lucy admired Bae’s confidence.  Sullyoon shook her head.Hyeju said, “Two more spots!  Sohyun, you have the four of clubs and Xinyu, you have the two of spades and get the last seat.”Sohyun asked her wife, “You have a preference?”“No…  I like us being next to each other though…”  They gave each other a fist pump.Seoyeon said to Yooyeon, “You think they actually might be good at this?”Yooyeon gave her a hopeful head nod, first ‘yes’ then ‘no’.Sohyun said, “I’ll sit in the middle so my wife can sit next to her mistress.”
[Starting chip values and seating order (betting order is opposite):  Haewon 333, Nakyoung 166, Jiwoo 333, Sohyun 166, Xinyu 166, Bae 333, Lucy 5000.]
Hyeju said, “Great!  It is settled!  Let’s get started!  We are playing American Old West ‘Five card draw’.  Everyone who is playing a hand has to ante ten credits to join.  Then everyone gets five cards.  We go around the table, you either bet, check, or fold.  You can only check if no one else has bet yet.  Then you can put down up to three cards to discard and I will replace them with new cards.  Then we have another round of betting.  Since you all… except Lucy… don’t play poker often, here is a list of hand hierarchy, on a handy laminated sheet!”  Hyeju handed it to Haewon.  She looked at it a bit and the passed it down the table.  Jiwoo studied it the longest.  Curiously, Sohyun and Xinyu also studied it for a long time together, occasionally pointing things out to each other in Chinese.  Seoyeon and Yooyeon were both giving each other the side eye the entire time trying to figure out what they were up to.Haewon said, “Hyeju!  Badges?”“Obviously, Lucy is just playing for the fun of it and cannot win badges.  But just like blackjack, there will be a winner’s badge and black X after 6 hands.”Hyeju shuffled the cards and started dealing.  The girls all put in their ten credit antes.Lucy immediately bet 100 credits.Sullyoon rolled her eyes, but Bae pretended to be unphased.  She also put in 100 credits.Sullyoon said, “Maybe ask your partner for her opinion before you fall into Lucy’s devilish hands?”Bae turned and looked at her.  “I think her hands are hot… in those long sleeves…  with the thumb hole…  Also, I can’t really easily show you the cards without said card shark accidently seeing them?”“Turn them that way, who cares if Yooyeon accidently can see them.”“Right?  Think about your words.  Letting the girl that is counting cards see what is out there is dumber than letting Lucy see them.”“Why did you choose to sit here?”Yooyeon said, “I really appreciate that everyone thinks so highly of me… but I can barely count sheep.”Xinyu said, “If my mistress is finished bantering with Yoona, I would like to bet now?”Bae sat silently.Xinyu also put in 100 credits.Seoyeon said, “Holy shit already…”Sohyun also put in 100 credits.Jiwoo put in 100 credits.Nakyoung put in 100 credits.Haewon, sitting on the end was able to show her cards to Kyujin fairly easily.  Kyujin nodded at her.  Haewon said, “I’ll fold…”Kyujin shouted, “Yeo!  I NEED that drink!”Lucy, eyes hidden by her sunglasses, but with a massive smile on her face threw two cards at Hyeju.Sullyoon said, “Oh dear… she wasn’t bluffing.”Bae said, “Seriously hon… I can’t deal with the commentary right now… she is bluffing on top of a bluff…”Sullyoon shouted, “Yeo!  Can I get a soju?”Bae, copying Lucy exactly, also threw two cards at Hyeju.Xinyu only discarded one card.Bae said, “Eh?”Sohyun also only discarded one card.Yooyeon moved her chair closer to Seoyeon and put her arms around her.Chaeyeon said, “Why is everyone acting like this?  What am I missing?”Jiwoo discarded three cards and Nakyoung discarded two cards.Hyeju filled everyone’s hands.Lucy bet another 100 credits.Bae’s knee was nervously jumping up and down under the table.  She really wanted to ask Sullyoon for her opinion, but after rudely shutting her down decided not to.  She folded.Xinyu, Sohyun, and Jiwoo also folded.Nakyoung stared at her cards for a while.  She whispered to Haewon.  “Did you have any aces?”Haewon said, “No.  Wait… are we allowed to talk about this?  Wait… are we working together now?”Nakyoung said, “You answered me…”Haewon gave Nakyoung a look, trying to figure out what she was up to as well.Nakyoung announced, “Okay, here’s the thing.  Jinsol doesn’t think Lucy is all she’s cracked up to be.  Let’s see if she’s just bluffing with big bucks, or if she is actually ‘Lucky Lucy’.  I’ll match her bet and let’s see what she’s got.  But I can’t unless Heejin helps me…”Heejin sat her drink on the carpet and ran over.  “You are very brave, and although Sohyun is now my bias, I will help you!”  Calm playing cards, Yeji was having a heart attack that there was an unsupervised drink sitting on the floor where someone could easily knock it over.  Luckily the sunglasses hid that also…Seoyeon said, “What?  Just because her boobs are bigger?”Heejin said, “Welcome to Kpop kiddo…”Heejin took off her KRE tee shirt and handed it to Nakyoung.  She was wearing a white tube top under.Nakyoung turned in the tee shirt to Hyeju to get 500 credits back.  She then matched Lucy’s bet.Hyeju said, “Let’s see the cards!”Nakyoung proudly put down her pair of kings, along with an ace kicker.Lucy giggled.  She put down her hand as well, two queens, two threes, and a ten.  Hyeju gathered all of the chips and sent them down to Lucy.Chaeyeon said.  “Oh… okay…  But Naky… why did you give her an extra hundred if you already knew she was going to win.”“Well, I’m fairly certain the game isn’t actually fixed.  This is a fairly good hand.  If I just folded, Lucy would have just won and wouldn’t have had to show up what she had, so we never would have known if she was just bluffing or not.”“So, she’s just going to use her ridiculous briefcase of chips to make crazy bets whether or not she has the cards?”Haewon clapped for her new friend, “Yay, you’re getting it!”“Except she wasn’t just bluffing, she had a really good hand…”Yooyeon said, “See, we aren’t just doomed, we are double doomed…”“She’s just going to keep doing that until everyone is naked.”Nakyoung said, “In theory that sounds correct.  But the cards don’t lie, at some point we will start winning part of her massive load of cash.”Lucy said, “BAH!”Haewon said, “We only have to last through five more rounds…”
[Haewon 323, Nakyoung 456, Jiwoo 223, Sohyun 56, Xinyu 56, Bae 223, Lucy 5660.]
Jiwoo said, “Jinsol, what did you have that hand?”Bae said, “Pair of tens, along with ace king and queen.”“Oh, shame about the Yeji thing…”“Right?  Did you have a good hand?”“Pair of sevens, and an ace.”Jiwoo said, “Wives?  What did you have?”Sohyun said, “We don’t kiss and tell…  Well, I mean, we don’t tell…”Xinyu said, “I had five aces, I just felt like letting Lucy win.”Chaeyeon said, “Everyone at this table is a bit unhinged…”Haewon smiled at her, “They are making me look good!”“You are included in people sitting at the table…”Jiwoo said, “Nmixx, we need someone to be able to at least have a chance against Lucy…  These girls have Heejin and we’ve only got Bae and Haewon…”  Jiwoo unhooked her bra and threw it at Hyeju, who was now staring at Jiwoo’s naked chest.Hyeju smiled.“Don’t act like you’ve never seen it before…”Hyeju said, “My memory isn’t very good.  I was hoping though…”Sohyun said, “WOOT!  I’m sitting next to boobies!”Seoyeon said, “Hey turn around, I want to see…”Jiwoo did her best to cover her chest with her arms for now.Lily said, “Naurrrr, STOP!  PUT IT BACK!”Kyujin said, “My eyes!  I’m forever scarred!  And I haven’t really even looked yet!”Haewon took a peek.  “About what I expected.”Bae and Sullyoon just looked at each other.  They said together, “Kim Jiwoo… Your mother is going to be soooo embarrassed.”“Shut it… she’ll be proud when I win that briefcase of chips…”Lily said, “This night should be a public service announcement of why we don’t have gambling in Korea for Koreans!”She was expecting others to clap, but no one did.Jiwoo said, “And now, I’m betting 500 and spinning the wheel.”Lily said, “WHAT?  Is anyone going to support me now?”Haewon said, “Wait until we see what the wheel does.”Lily shouted in English, “OH MY GOD.”Hyeju picked up the wheel and moved it to the center of the table.  She collected Jiwoo’s 500 chips and spun the wheel.  Jiwoo crossed both fingers.As it stopped, Hyeju said, “15!”  She pulled out her laminated list of numbers.  “You lose!”Jiwoo said, “Boooooo.”Lily said in English, “Nowwwwwr?”Chaeyeon said, “Fine… I agree we should ban gambling…”Lily gave Chaeyeon a high-five.Then Chaeyeon added, “At Kpop girl parties…  With Lucies…”Jiwoo said, “It’s fine… I still got a spare 500, I’ll use it well.”Sohyun said, “Well, if Hyeju is ‘fixing’ things, maybe she will mess up now, staring at them…”Sullyoon yelled, “Speaking of fixing, WHERE’S MY DAMN DRINK?”
[Haewon 323, Nakyoung 456, Jiwoo 723, Sohyun 56, Xinyu 56, Bae 223, Lucy 5660.]
A faint high-pitched voice yelled from the kitchen, “I’m coming already!”Yooyeon and Seoyeon looked at each other and walked over to Heejin.Seoyeon said, “Sooo, best WAV… as your bias wrecker, I have a request.”Heejin said, “Oh?  Do you now…”Yooyeon said, “The wives might actually be good at poker and they are both broke.  Can you please donate some clothing?”“I can… but Yooyeon, you only have 32 chips, what if you need some later.”Yooyeon looked down at the carpet.Seoyeon said, “We think this is our best chance.  We need this badge.”Heejin stood up and took off her ‘Visionary Vision’ sweatpants and a pair of white shorts.  She was left with a tube top and white safety shorts.Yooyeon and Seoyeon gave each other a high five and presented their winnings to the wives.Sohyun and Xinyu gave them hugs.  Sohyun said, “We won’t let you down!”Xinyu said, “Probably…”They threw the last of Heejin’s extra clothing at Hyeju who rewarded them with chips.Yeojin came slowly across the room with a tray holding six bottles of soju.  She said, “If you want it, grab it and stop yelling at me…”Kyujin and Sullyoon grabbed a soju, followed by Sohyun, Xinyu, Seoyeon, and Chaeyeon.Bae said, “Yoona… please don’t get tipsy like you did in April…  We need you for smart games if there are any later…”“On what planet am I the smartest member of a Kpop group?” asked Sullyoon.Bae looked at her quite seriously and said, “Earth?”The girls all put down their ten credit ante.
[Haewon 323, Nakyoung 456, Jiwoo 723, Sohyun 556, Xinyu 556, Bae 223, Lucy 5660.]
Hyeju said, “Okay!  Anything else before I start the second hand?”The room was filled with an eerie silence.  Hyeju started dealing.Like a silent killer, Lucy bet 100 credits.  She said nothing, but turned and smiled broadly at Bae.Bae tried to decide what to do.  “Umm…”  She looked back at Sullyoon.  Sullyoon looked at her strangely.  “Umm…”She looked down the table at topless Jiwoo.  “Jiwoo, what’s your favorite vegetable?”Jiwoo also looked at Bae strangely.  “You know I’m not eating any vegetables…”Sohyun and Xinyu were quietly amused.  They knew she was up to something. Bae slammed her head down on the table.  Then she quietly pushed 100 credits forward.Xinyu and Sohyun both matched the 100 as well, as did Jiwoo.Nakyoung said, “I fold…”Haewon said, “Yeah… me too.  Better to fight another day, especially with Jinsol’s bad acting of random emotions.”Bae sighed loudly and moaned a bit, head still laid down on the table.Hyeju said, “Discard!”Lucy said, “Three please.”Bae sat up quickly.  She giggled at Lucy.  “HAHA, Three!”  She took one card and put it forward and said, “I ONLY WANT ONE.”Hyeju, smiling from ear to ear gave Lucy three and Bae one card.Xinyu said, “I only need one… what’s the big deal?”Bae looked at Xinyu like she kicked her puppy.Sohyun and Jiwoo both requested three.Hyeju gave them their cards and looked at Lucy.Lucy was undaunted by Bae.  She said, “I’ll bet another 100.”Bae said, “I’ll match it.”  She pushed another 100 forward.  Sullyoon choked on her mouthful of soju seeing that Bae now only had 13 credits left.Xinyu said, “I’ll fold.”Chaeyeon said, “What?  You only got one card, but you are going to fold?”Xinyu didn’t even look back at her, totally in the zone.Seoyeon said, “She was probably trying for a straight or flush or something like that and failed.  It would have been epic if successful, but didn’t happen.”Chaeyeon said, “Aaahhhhh.”Sohyun folded as well.Jiwoo said, “I’ll add 100.”Hyeju said, “Showdown!  Show your hands!”Bae proudly threw down two pair, a pair of kings, a pair of nines and a jack.With no emotion, Yeji put down her pair of kings.  She patted Bae on the back.  “Well played… maybe you want to be my apprentice?”Bae was excited, but played it very coy.  “Only if I get a pair of kickass sunglasses like that…”Lucy said, “Maybe…”Jiwoo put down two jacks, then went back to hiding her chest with her arms.Lily patted her on the head.  She said meekly, “Keep trying!”  Jiwoo ignored her.Hyeju gave Bae the massive pile of chips.  “Jinsol on the way to a badge with 873 credits.”Sullyoon got up off of her chair, with her soju, and paced around a bit.  She was mumbling to herself, “My heart… my heart…”Heejin got up and stood between Seoyeon and Yooyeon then pointed at the wives.  “Are these two going to start playing well soon?”Seoyeon looked at her and said with a bit of anger, “Ma’am… they are only as good as their cards…”Heejin said, “Your tone… this is why Sohyun is my bias now…”  She went back and sat down.  Seoyeon grabbed Yooyeon’s hand and squeezed it.
[Haewon 313, Nakyoung 446, Jiwoo 513, Sohyun 446, Xinyu 446, Bae 873, Lucy 5450.]
Everyone anted 10 credits and Hyeju started dealing the third hand.Lucy said, “Let’s see if my apprentice has learned anything.”  She only bet 50 this hand.Bae said, “Oh no… we are doing 100.”  She pushed forward 100.Lucy smiled at her.  Sullyoon was about to sit back down in her chair, but got decided not to and started pacing again.Xinyu, Sohyun, Jiwoo and Nakyoung all bet 100.  Lucy then went ahead and matched with the extra 50.Haewon folded.  Kyujin said, “Nothing good?”Haewon said, “I could have done that thing where you try for a straight, but I would rather sit out…”Kyujin patted her on the head.Hyeju said, “Discard!”Lucy motioned for three cards.  Bae only requested one.  Bae beamed a smile at Lucy, knowing she had the upper hand this time.Xinyu asked for two cards, Sohyun asked for three cards, Jiwoo only asked for one card and Nakyoung asked for three cards.  Lily cheered for Jiwoo, who clearly had a good hand this round.Lucy said, “Check…”Bae said, “What’s that again?”Lucy sighed at her apprentice.Hyeju said, “She isn’t betting any more, but is staying in the hand.  If someone else bets, she will then have to decide whether to match the bet or fold at that point.  If no one else bets, we go right to showdown.”Bae said, “I see… I ‘check’ also.”Xinyu said, “Check.”Sohyun folded.Jiwoo said, “What the heck… I’ll ‘check’ also.”Nakyoung silently pushed forward 200 chips.Hyeju said, “Now everyone that checked has to decide whether to match that and stay in, or fold.”Five other girls all grumbled and folded.  Bae watched Lucy fold.  “Oh…” she said.Hyeju said, “Nakyoung wins!  She goes ahead of Jinsol!”Chaeyeon stood up and did a little dance for her partner.Xinyu said, “Jinsol, what did you have?”“Pair of eights, plus an ace and king.”“Ah, I only had a pair of sevens.  You had me beat.”Haewon said, “Jiwoo… what did you have?”She laid out her hand, “Queen, jack, ten, eight and three.”“Why are you playing that shit?”“Because I want to play?”“Your boobs verify that you want to play… but… now you are just disappointing them…  If you have a bad hand… don’t play…”“I mean…”Lily patted her on the head.  “You don’t listen to your meanie leader… you do what you want…”Jiwoo turned and smiled at her and gave her a thumbs up.Lily got a solid view of her naked chest.  “Naurrrrr.”Haewon giggled.
[Haewon 303, Nakyoung 1096, Jiwoo 403, Sohyun 336, Xinyu 336, Bae 763, Lucy 5340.]
Hyeju said, “Fourth hand!”  The girls all put in their ante.Hyeju dealt the cards.Lucy bet 100. Bae folded.  Xinyu bet 100, Sohyun folded.Jiwoo bet 100, looking a bit excited.Haewon looked at her.  “Actually have a good hand this round, eh?  You are telling everyone…”Jiwoo scoffed at her.  “I didn’t say anything…”Haewon just sighed.Nakyoung folded, Haewon bet 100.Hyeju said, “Discard time!”Lucy asked for one card.  Xinyu asked for three cards.  Jiwoo asked for three cards and Haewon only asked for one card.  Hyeju dealt them their new cards.Lucy pushed forward another 100 credits.  Xinyu folded.  Jiwoo bet 100.  Haewon bet 100.Haewon flipped over her cards.  “Two pair!  Tens and fours!”Jiwoo flipped over her cards.  “I have a pair of kings!  Do I win?”Haewon said, “I have two pair… you only have one pair.”“But I have kings… that should be better than tens and fours combined…”“Hyeju… pay me and give her the laminated sheet so she can see it please…”Lucy said, “Forgetting someone?”Haewon looked down at her.  “Trying to…”“Don’t…”  Lucy flipped over her two pair, aces and fives.”Hyeju said, “Lucy wins!”Haewon sat back in her seat.  “YEOJIN!  I NEED LIQUOR!  STRAIGHT!”
[Haewon 93, Nakyoung 1086, Jiwoo 193, Sohyun 326, Xinyu 226, Bae 753, Lucy 5890.]
  
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Chapter 9:  Sohyun:  Loser and Winner
Yeojin returned with six more bottles of soju and the bottle of Kahlua.  She handed the Kahlua to Haewon.  Haewon poured a bit into the lid and downed it.“Damn that tastes horrible…”Yeojin said, “You aren’t really supposed to just drink it…”Chaeyeon had already finished her soju and opened a second.Yeojin asked Hyeju, “Can I play poker too?”Hyeju said, “No… it is only for the girls who are competing for badges…”Yeojin pointed to Yeji.  “Yeji isn’t competing for badges.”“That’s not Yeji, that’s Lucy.”Yeojin got very close to Lucy and looked her over from head to toe.  She grabbed a bottle of soju and opened it.  “Guess I shouldn’t be the only sober one around here…”  She took it back to the kitchen with her.Hyeju said, “Should we get on with the poker?”Lucy said, “Yes!”  She caught Sullyoon’s eye and lingered, staring at her.Sullyoon blushed and looked down.  She said quietly to Bae, “Lucy is staring at me.”“She’s just trying to freak you out…”“I’m not even playing…”Bae poked Lucy’s knee.  “Yo… you stare at me…”Lucy shook her head ‘no’.Lily got up from behind Jiwoo and walked over to Kyujin and Haewon and whispered something to Kyujin.Kyujin said loudly, “OF COURSE!”Haewon said, “That’s a stupid idea…”Hyeju said, “So much for dealing…”Kyujin said, “Haewon only has 93 credits left and I have a lot.  I want to switch places with her…”Without a pause, Chaeyeon said, “NO?”Nakyoung said, “Not our fault your leader is bad at poker.”Jiwoo said, “But she’s not as bad as me… let her switch…”Lucy said, “More fresh meat… let her switch!”Hyeju said, “We can let her switch.  With penalties, of course…”Haewon looked at Lily.  “Go sit down…  Now look at what you did…”Lily went back to her seat behind Jiwoo.Haewon said, “I’ll just trade my pants in for 500.”Kyujin said, “At least listen to the penalties…”Chaeyeon said, “TRADE YOUR PANTS IN!”Haewon giggled, “My crush wants me to trade my pants in so she can stare at my legs.”“No, because you’ll be humiliated.  I’m happy staring at Hyeju’s legs…  With the black leather… Purrrrr…”Yooyeon said, “I’m sorry, we tried to keep her from drinking.”Lily said, “She turns into Horny-yeon?  We have a Horny-won!  That is hilarious!”Chaeyeon said, “How can Haewon be even more horny?”Haewon picked up the bottle of Kahlua.  “Wanna try me?”Chaeyeon went back to staring at Hyeju.Kyujin said, “PLEASE, FOCUS…  Why am I the only one that cares about why we are actually here? penalties please explain…”Sullyoon choked on her mouth full of soju.  “Kyujin is the one acting like an adult and is focused on the task?  We are so doomed…”Lucy winked at Sullyoon and she choked a bit again.Hyeju said, “Well, Haewon would leave the game, so she immediately gets a black X.  Kyujin would be cheating, so she gets a black X as well.”Haewon said, “So I can just trade in my pants for 500, or we can switch and I have a 50% chance of losing them anyway and Kyujin has a 50% chance of losing underwear AND she will probably lose all of her credits during poker.”Haewon stood up, untied her sweatpants and let them drop to the floor.Nakyoung clapped, “Those cotton Calvin’s are hot on you!”“Thanks, but everything is hot on me.”Horny-yeon tried to get a few looks without Haewon seeing her.Heejin said, “Haewon’s thighs… never cease to amaze.  Shame I have to be best WAV instead of NSWER.”Seoyeon said, “Lily, why are you staring at Haewon’s legs?  You see them all the time…”Lily stuttered, “Ohhhhr, aaaaaahr.  I haven’t seen them in some hours.”Yeji was about to say something, but remembered she was actually Lucy.Haewon threw her pants at Hyeju and sat back down in her chair.  “You can deal now…”
[Haewon 593, Nakyoung 1086, Jiwoo 193, Sohyun 326, Xinyu 226, Bae 753, Lucy 5890.]
Everyone anted their ten credits and Hyeju dealt the fifth hand.Lucy bet 200.Bae said, “Come on…  I fold…”  Sullyoon patted her on the shoulder, “You’ll get her next hand…”Xinyu said, “I fold also…”Sohyun said, “Me too…”Jiwoo said, “Me too…”Chaeyeon said, “Thigh-ju… I mean Hyeju…  No one wants to play with this stupid Lucy girl…”Hyeju turned to the side to show her a profile of her butt.“Nevermind…”Nakyoung said, “I’m 300 ahead of Bae?”“350.”“Okay, I’m in for 200.”Haewon said, “I’m in also.”Lucy said, “A lot of girls still want to play with me.  Maybe I’ll buy your pants later Horny-yeon.”Chaeyeon pulled her pants tight around her waist as if to protect them.Hyeju said, “Discard!”Lucy asked for three.Bae said, “Ha!  She is totally bluffing!  Get her Haewon!”Nakyoung asked for one.“Oh.”Haewon said, “Lucy is not your problem here Jinsol…”“No… she is your problem now…”Haewon asked for three.Hyeju dealt their new cards.Lucy said, “I’ll bet another 100.”Nakyoung took a long breath and put in her 100 as well. Haewon folded.  “I hate this stupid game…”Lucy said, “Go ahead Bibi’s sister… show me your cards…”Nakyoung threw down her pair of 10’s with an ace and king.Bae said, “Come on LUCY!  TAKE HER MONEY!”Lucy showed her pair of jacks.  “Oopsie!”Nakyoung threw down the rest of her cards and put her head down on the table.Yooyeon got up from behind Xinyu and ran over and hugged Nakyoung from behind.  “Calm down hon, you are still in the lead!  You are doing great!  Just stay with Bae this round, she has to bet first.  You got this!”
[Haewon 383, Nakyoung 776, Jiwoo 183, Sohyun 316, Xinyu 216, Bae 743, Lucy 6540.]
Hyeju said, “Last hand!  Let’s go!  Nakyoung and Bae fighting for the win, Xinyu, Jiwoo, and Haewon fighting for the black X!”Kyujin said to Haewon, “You didn’t consider the possibility of losing your pants AND still losing the game and getting the black X.”Haewon said, “Obviously…  But Sohyun is below me also… Hyeju is just messing with me…”The girls all anted their ten credits and Hyeju dealt their hands.Lucy said, “Check…”Bae turned to her.  “Really?”“Yeah…  I have a bad hand and perhaps you all should fight this one out without my awesomeness ruining your game.”Bae smiled at her.  She bet 100.Lucy said, “I fold…”Xinyu and Sohyun looked at each other for an awkward amount of time. Xinyu said, “I fold…”Bae said, “What?”Yooyeon patted her on the head, “Chinese girl making sure she doesn’t get the black X.”Xinyu smiled back at her.Sohyun said, “I’m in…” and pushed in her 100.Jiwoo said, “I fold also…”Haewon said, “What are you doing?  You have less than Xinyu…”An agitated Jiwoo said, “ONE MINUTE I SHOULDN’T BE PLAYING AND THE NEXT MINUTE I SHOULD… FRICKING PICK.  OH TOO LATE, WE’RE DONE!”Haewon turned around and looked at Kyujin and they both smirked.Nakyoung pushed in her 100.Haewon pushed in her 100 also.Hyeju said, “Discard!”Bae asked for three.Sohyun smiled broadly.  “I only need two…”Nakyoung and Haewon both asked for three.Hyeju dealt their new cards.  Hyeju pointed at Bae.Bae said, “I’m uneasy… I’ll put in 100.”Sohyun immediately said, “200.”Bae looked at her and raised an eyebrow.Sohyun smiled, “You gonna match?  You gonna lose.”Bae said, “Sure.”Sullyoon said, “JINSOL!  SHE’S PLAYING YOU!”Bae ignored her and put in an extra 100.Nakyoung said, “Nope…  It’s all up to you Sohyun.”  She folded.Seoyeon said, “NOW WHO’S DOOMED?  HMMM?”Haewon folded also.Bae said, “Is Yoona right?  Are you playing me?”Sohyun put down a pair of jacks with a king kicker.  “A little of this, a little of that… a little acting… a little Sohyun…”Bae looked shocked.  “Oh darn.  Well…  I only have three.”Sullyoon said, “A three and what else?  How many threes?”Bae threw her cards down and stood up.  “THREE ACES!”Sullyoon jumped up too and they hugged and started jumping up and down together. Sullyoon screamed, “JINSOL WON A BADGE!  JINSOL WON A BADGE!”Lucy said, “I’m so proud of my apprentice!”Bae said, “Do I get a hug from you too Lucy?”She pointed to Sullyoon.  “No… but she can…”Sullyoon flipped around and hid behind Bae.Hyeju said, “Bae wins and Sohyun gets a black X for her bad bluffing.  I would like to add that Jiwoo and Haewon tied for second to the bottom with 173.”Jiwoo said, “So?  Shut up and stare at my boobs.”“Take your boobs somewhere else, Sohyun and Yooyeon have a new game to play…”
[Haewon 173, Nakyoung 666, Jiwoo 173, Sohyun 6, Xinyu 206, Bae 1293, Lucy 6530.]
The girls cleared the two middle seats for Sohyun and Yooyeon and Hyeju rolled up the blackjack mat that they were using revealing the baccarat mat beneath.Bae said, “Ba-ka-rat”.Yooyeon said, “No, the t is silent.  Ba-ka-ra.”“I think Ba-ka-rat would be a much more fun game.”“It might be, but I only have to beat Sohyun at baccarat.”Sohyun said, “You cheated at twister.  I’m winning this one!”“Did I now?”“You didn’t fall for my toe flirting…”“There is no toe flirting in baccarat…”As Yooyeon and Sohyun got settled at the table and Hyeju shuffled the cards, the rest of the girls pulled chairs back from the table and sat around, most working on their soju or other drinks.  Seoyeon sat next to Jiwoo, who was mostly covering her chest with her arms.Jiwoo asked, “What are you looking at?”Seoyeon smiled but didn’t say anything.Lucy sat on a chair and motioned for Sullyoon to sit on her lap.Sullyoon said to Bae, “Please help me…  Yeji wants me to sit on her lap.  Why is she flirting with me?”Bae said, “That’s not Yeji… that’s Rooooo-seeee.”“Right…”“Go sit on her lap, she’s not even real…  What harm could it do?”Sullyoon put a chair right next to Lucy and sat on it.  “What do I have to do to make you stop staring at me like that…”Lucy asked, “Too dangerous for you?”“You are making Sohyun look like a kitty cat…”“Am I now?  Like Bae said, I’m obviously harmless.”“You and your apprentice BAE are up to something.  You usually call her Jinsol.”“You are confusing me with someone else.  Sure you don’t want to sit on my lap?”“Are your hands going to wander like your eyes do?”“Probably…”Lily was eavesdropping, heard the entire thing and plopped down on Lucy’s lap.  “You wander your hands and eyes around me, Missy…”Sohyun and Yooyeon were all settled to play baccarat at the front of the table.  Hyeju started to explain.  “You both start with 100 credits.  These credits are unrelated the credits you had for poker and blackjack.  They are temporary, you both have them for this game to determine who loses her black X.  Got it?”Both girls collected their chips and nodded, ‘yes’.“You two are going to play five hands of baccarat.  Here is how the game works.  It is the simplest casino game, anyone can easily play.”Yooyeon protested, “Right… bring games that even Sohyun can play…”Sohyun pouted.Hyeju continued, “This game is just like blackjack, except instead of trying to get 21, you want to get 9.  Aces count as one, number cards are themselves, tens and face cards count as zero.  If your cards add up to something higher than nine, you subtract ten.  For example, if you had a pair of nines, nine plus nine is eighteen, so your number would be eight.  Got it?”Sohyun said, “Sounds pretty easy.”“So, there are two hands dealt.  The player and the banker.  Both hands get two cards.  If neither the player or banker get a natural eight or nine, they get a third card based on these rules.”  Hyeju handed them a laminated sheet detailing the rules for whether the hand gets a third card or not, it was a complex table.Sohyun said, “What the fuck?  I thought you said it was easy…”  Yooyeon studied it carefully.“The game is easy, because whether or not the player and banker get the third card or not is only determined by those rules.  The player makes no decision about whether to hit or not.  You two players, not to be confused with the ‘player’ hand have three choices to bet.  You bet that the player is going to win, you bet that the banker is going to win, or you bet that there will be a tie.  Ties pay 9:1, and it is a rare occurrence and no one ever bets tie.  But in the case of our fun competition, if one of you gets helplessly behind, it might become necessary.”Sohyun, “So you bet player or banker, why not just coin flip, you have a 50/50 chance of winning.  Why do we need cards?”“That seems true…”Yooyeon interrupted, “Because of this ‘hitting’ chart, the odds are different between the player and banker winning, although not by much.”“That is correct!” said Hyeju.“Which one is more likely to win?  I’ll just bet that one?” asked Sohyun.Hyeju said, “The banker is more likely to win.  But, to make up for that at a casino, you have to pay a 5% tax on all winnings if you bet banker and banker wins.”Yooyeon said, “Really?”“Yes… but instead…”Yooyeon said as fast as she could get it out of her mouth, knowing that Hyeju was going to cut her off, “Ihaveabadfeelingaboutthis.”“… If you bet banker for the better odds, one member of your team gets nominated to receive a penalty in a future game.”Sohyun said, “I’ll just nominate Yooyeon every time.”“You can’t nominate each other…”Yooyeon said, “What does nominate mean?  Who actually gets the penalty?”“Whoever gets the most nominations, or everyone that is tied for the most nominations.”Haewon said, “Did I hear TripleS and penalty in the same sentence?  SIGN ME UP!”Kyujin chimed in, “Yeah, spread them out!  Let’s go!”Jiwoo said, “I kind of love this game all of a sudden.”Seoyeon poked her in the side.“HEY!  Stop that…”Hyeju said, “Should we play before Haewon, Lucy, and Seoyeon completely alienate their crushes?”Chaeyeon yelled, “TOO LATE!”Haewon said, “I only need my crush to have some penalties!”Chaeyeon growled to herself.Bae said, “Hey Yooyeon, it is really isn’t ba-ka-ra, it is ba-ka-ju.”Yooyeon looked at Bae just like everyone else looks at Bae when she makes a bad pun.Hyeju said, “We’re off!  Okay, I need my chart back so I know who gets the third card… it is complicated.”Yooyeon handed the chart back to Hyeju.  Both girls put down ten credits on the ‘player’.Hyeju said, “Okay, but… if you keep doing that, there isn’t going to be a winner and you BOTH lose clothing.”Yooyeon said, “Go on… just give your wife a penalty vote.  I’m sure she won’t care…”Sohyun looked at Xinyu who shrugged back at her.  “Hyeju… I hate you… you are just stirring things up!”Lily said, “Ba-ka-ju!  The funnnnnn!”
[Sohyun 100, Yooyeon 100]
Sohyun moved her ten credits to the ‘banker’, Yooyeon, with a huge sly smile on her face, left her ten credits on the ‘player’.Hyeju dealt the cards.  The ‘player’ had a 4 of diamonds and seven of spades.  The ‘banker’ had a three of diamonds and ace of clubs.  “The ‘player’ has one and the banker has four.  Since neither has an eight or nine, we see who draws a card.  With a one, the ‘player’ draws.”  Hyeju flipped a card for the ‘player’, it was the queen of spades.  “’Player’ still has one.  ‘Banker’ wins!”Hyeju moved Yooyeon’s chip over to Sohyun and pulled out a Xinyu photocard and sat it on the table.  “You are nominating Xinyu, right?”“Sure…” said Sohyun.
[Sohyun 120, Yooyeon 90]
“Place your bets for round two!”Yooyeon put twenty on the ‘player’, Sohyun did the same.Yooyeon said, “This game is shit Hyeju!  Now she can just match whatever I do and will win.”“I guess you better do something she doesn’t want to match!”Yooyeon sighed and moved her bet to the ‘banker’.  “She is making me do it!”Sohyun stayed on the ‘player’.Hyeju shuffled and dealt the second hand.  The ‘player’ had a nine of spades and an ace of diamonds.  The ‘banker’ had an ace of spades and a ten of clubs.  “’Player’ has one… ‘banker’ has one…”  She dealt the ‘player’ a third card, the seven of hearts.  “’Player’ now has eight!  That is a natural win, ‘player’ wins!”Sohyun said, “SOHYUN LOVES BACCARAT!”Yooyeon said, “So I don’t have to nominate anyone because I lost.”“Correct!” said Hyeju.
[Sohyun 160, Yooyeon 70]
Chaeyeon said, “I think Yooyeon is getting her butt spanked.”Nakyoung said, “Indeed…”Lily said, “Nauurrrrr.”Sohyun put forty on the ‘player’.Yooyeon said, “I shouldn’t have made fun of her, she clearly knows what she is doing…”Yooyeon put ten on the ‘tie’.Hyeju said, “Desperate already?  Don’t you want to make your groupmates suffer?”Yooyeon said, “I don’t know what happened to you in Loona?  Heejin!  What happened to her?”Heejin said, “I could tell you… but… you might be scarred…”“I’m not making my groupmates suffer, unless there is a significant game advantage, ‘banker’ is like a half of a percent advantage, not worth it.”Seoyeon and Nakyoung clapped for Yooyeon.  “That’s our girl!”Xinyu sighed, “My wife…” and shook her head.Hyeju dealt the third hand.  The ‘player’ got the queen of clubs and nine of diamonds.  The ‘banker’ had the five and six of clubs.  “’Player’ has a natural nine!  Player wins again!”[Sohyun 200, Yooyeon 60]Yooyeon said, “I need a minute… Two more hands…  Gotta figure this out…”Sohyun put forty on the ‘player’ again.  After a lengthy pause, Yooyeon put forty on the ‘banker’.Nakyoung said, “What happened to that speech earlier?”Yooyeon said, “Game advantage now…”“Right…”“Shut up and let me play…”Hyeju dealt the fourth hand.  The ‘player’ got the eight of clubs and three of spades.  The ‘banker’ got the five of spades and king of clubs.  “’Player’ has one, ‘banker’ has 5.  Maybe Yooyeon can win something?”  Hyeju gave the player a third card.  It was an ace of clubs.  “Player only ends up with two!  Yooyeon wins!”Yooyeon clapped.Hyeju asked, “Finally happy to nominate someone?”Yooyeon scrunched up her nose.  “I’ll nominate Seoyeon.”Seoyeon jumped up.  “WHAT?”Yooyeon said, “Girl… trust me!”“I don’t!”
[Sohyun 160, Yooyeon 140]
Yooyeon threw her 140 down on the ‘banker’.  Sohyun put her entire 160 also on the ‘banker’.Yooyeon said, “You don’t want to do that…”Sohyun said, “Yes, I do!  I already win, don’t even have to deal!”“But… if we both win, then we both have to nominate someone, which means we end up with TWO girls with a disadvantage.  You realize we are behind on badges and there aren’t many more games, right?”“If we both lose, I still win.”“You going to take that chance?”Sohyun said, “Who cares if two girls have a disadvantage?  You are taking your shirt off and I’m not taking my pants off.”Yooyeon said, “Hyeju.  I’m assuming that this disadvantage is going to be savage enough that it could determine who wins or loses the badge war?”“OF COURSE!” said Hyeju.“Sohyun, please… we don’t want two disadvantages, one is bad enough…”Sohyun pushed her 160 over to the ‘player’.  “Fine…”Yooyeon was about to burst, but held it together while Hyeju dealt.The ‘player’ got an eight of hearts and eight of spades.  The ‘banker’ got a seven of spades and ace of hearts.  “Banker has natural eight!  ‘Banker’ wins!”Yooyeon jumped up and cheered and jumped up and down.  She turned to Sohyun, “You’re a SUCKER!  I totally swindled you!”Sohyun said, “I know…  what is wrong with me…”Lily said, “Wow… that girl is something…”Seoyeon said, “You have no idea… she is… deadly… if she tries…”Nakyoung buried her head in her hands on her own lap.Hyeju said, “Well Yooyeon?  Who gets the disadvantage?  You can give it to a third person and three girls get the disadvantage!”Haewon said, “PICK THAT!”Yooyeon calmly said, “Seoyeon.”Seoyeon jumped up and ran toward Yooyeon who dodged and ran away from her.  They chased each other around the party room.  “WHAT THE FUCK YOOYEON?”Xinyu, giggling, gave her wife a hug for sucking.Out of breath, trying to keep away from Seoyeon, Yooyeon said, “You…  You can make up for the disadvantage!  You’ll… make it disappear!  Xinyu can’t…”Seoyeon stopped and glared at Yooyeon.  “How the fuck did I get swindled too?”Haewon said, “MORE!  MORE!  MORE TRIPLES ENTERTAINMENT!”Jiwoo said to Kyujin, “And they keep commenting on our cracks… hilarious girls…”Hyeju said, “What’s it going to be Sohyun.  Match Jiwoo with the boobies?  Or do the predictable thing and take the pants off?”Sohyun slithered out of her sweatpants, now only wearing black safety shorts and her bra.Haewon said, “Oh!  You have amazing thighs!”Chaeyeon slapped Haewon on the back of the head, “MINE ARE BETTER!”Haewon smiled at her, “Are they now?”Yeojin came back from the kitchen.  “No one is yelling at me anymore?  Oh… Sohyun is almost naked… shocker…”Sullyoon asked, “What are you doing in the kitchen by yourself, anyway?”“Nothing…”Nakyoung asked, “Playing with your night vision googles?  Skulking around?”“Nothing…”Jiwoo begged, “For real Yeoyeo… what are you doing in there?”“Playing ‘Angry Birds’ on my phone…”Sohyun said, “That is more fun that watching Seoyeon chase Yooyeon around the room?”“Probably…”Lucy said, “Stay here with us!  You are a hottie in that casino waitress outfit!”“I am?”“Get yourself a drink?  The soju is flowing out here…”Hyeju said, “Enough of paying attention to the waitress… It is time for the last casino game!”Bae sighed, “Okay… what is it?”“You all have mostly neglected the ‘Wheel of Fortune’?”Sullyoon said, “I distinctly remember you calling it Hyeju’s Wheel of Fortune AND TERROR.”“There’s a badge on it!”“It’s not worth it,” said Nakyoung.“Turns out it is the last group badge…”Yooyeon said, “WHAT?  Seoyeon, spin!”Seoyeon glared at Yooyeon.  She turned to Hyeju, “Are you joking?”“No, it was going to be a huge surprise when someone won it, but now to get it, we’ll have to play a little game.”“What’s my disadvantage?”“Your disadvantage will show up in the next game, after the casino is finished.”“Joy…”Jiwoo ‘accidently’ showed Hyeju her boobs.  “Let me spin.”Hyeju said, “Sure, now everyone wants to spin it…  Well, we are going to do it in order.  The rules are simple.  Girl with the lowest amount of credits spins first.  We keep going up the list of credits until someone wins the badge.  Girl that wins the badge gets the ‘wheel of fortune’ badge for all six members of her team.  If you win money, and would be able to get another spin, you have to wait until the end and then you can go again in the same order of eligible girls.”Kyujin added, “And if no one wins it when we are all out of cash, we have to keep trading in clothing until someone still doesn’t win it and we are all naked.”“You’re catching on, maknae!  But with a one in sixteen chance, and a lot of girls winning money along the way, someone will win it long before then.”Haewon said, “And also losing clothing ‘along the way’, three out of sixteen times.”Hyeju shrugged.  “Everyone grab the last of your chips!  They aren’t good for anything after this game is over.”Lily said, “Is Lucy going to take the wheel outside and keep spinning until all of her credits are gone also?”Lucy said, “Anxious to see me naked Lilypad?”“Anxious to see YEJI COME BACK!”Lucy shrugged.Hyeju said, “Lucy, Heejin and Yeojin, come back here with me and help keep track of credits and prizes and clothing, instead of inciting the girls…”Yooyeon was still in disbelief about the entire thing.  She said, “This entire casino and SIX badges are going to come down to whoever spins this wheel with a one in sixteen chance?”“While it seems like luck, your performance up to this point put you all in the order you will be spinning in.  It might seem random, but a lot of factors have influenced the outcome.”Yooyeon nodded and carried her chair away from the table and sat down.TripleS and Nmixx pulled the chairs away from the table, making room for the girl spinning to stand at the table.  Everyone else sat in a semi-circle in front of the table.
[Sohyun 6, Yooyeon 32, Haewon 173, Jiwoo 173, Sullyoon 183, Xinyu 206, Lily 433, Seoyeon 466, Nakyoung 666, Chaeyeon 766, Kyujin 783, Bae 1293]
Hyeju said, “Sohyun!  Hottie!  And epic loser!  Come spin!”Sohyun made a show of getting up and strutting to the table in her safety shorts and bra.  Haewon whistled at her.Lily said, “Yoona, I thought Sohyun was YOUR girl… You need to show her (and Haewon)!”Sullyoon tried hard to whistle, but no sound would come out.  She tried three times but failed.Lily said in English, “Oh well.”Sohyun grabbed the wheel and gave it a solid spin.The girls watched as it went around and landed on…Sohyun screamed like a girl, a rare occurrence, “SIXTEEN!”Yooyeon and Seoyeon jumped up and hugged and jumped up and down, before Seoyeon remembered she was pissed and pushed Yooyeon down to the ground.Xinyu ran over to Sohyun and gave her a massive hug and grabbed her butt hard.Nakyoung stood behind Chaeyeon and patted her on the head.  “You don’t seem very excited?”“I’m scarred…”“Eh?”“I saw Sohyun jumping up and down and for a second was a bit horny for her and then quick turned to look at Jiwoo instead and then I saw Haewon.”“You have had too much soju…”Haewon smiled broadly, “Don’t be a stranger Horny-yeon!”Lily said, “Alright everyone, let’s compare how many badges we have!”Bae said, “I WON ALL OF THOSE CREDITS AND DON’T EVEN GET TO SPIN THE DAMN WHEEL?”Sullyoon said, “Jinsol… I’ve never seen you testy before…”Without dropping a beat, Bae turned to Lily and said, “I agree Lily… Gambling should definitely be illegal!  LOOK WHAT I’VE BECOME!”Kyujin said, “Stop being ridiculous…  Maybe after this stupid war is over we can play some more poker.”Lucy said, “Saturday nights at the Nmixx dorm just got FUN!”Lily said, “Naurrrrrr.”Heejin proudly gave out the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ badges to her favorite group. Hyeju said, “Everyone come up here and let’s count the badges.”Haewon said, “Can we just hang them all on the corkboard?  Some of us don’t have enough clothing to pin badges anyway…”Hyeju said, “Brilliant idea!”The girls hung all of their badges on the board.

Hyeju said, “Group-wise, for the big prize, TripleS has 17 badges, Nmixx has 16.  Either group can still win!  For the individual prize, every TripleS girl but Chaeyeon has three badges.  No clear winner there!  For Nmixx, Kyujin and Bae both have four badges, everyone else only has two!”Bae and Kyujin gave each other a high-five.“Don’t forget the top girl from each team gets that nice dinner together.”Bae and Kyujin remembered they were competing and started fighting like cartoon cats.Hyeju said, “It is going take us a little while to get set up for the last game, this is a good time to use the bathroom and get drinks and hang out for a bit.”Seoyeon said, “Last game?”“Yes!  There are two badges left!  It is going to be an epic fight for them!”Chaeyeon, Haewon, Bae, and Kyujin all got up and went to the bathroom and/or kitchen.Xinyu and Sohyun went and relaxed on a couch.  Xinyu draped herself over Sohyun to make sure she stayed warm.  Nakyoung chatted with them as well.Yooyeon ran over and grabbed Lily’s wrist and pulled her off to a couch.  Lily said, “What is this?”“Come chat with me!”“Ohhhr, okay…”They both sat on the couch. “So, you and Haewon?” asked Yooyeon.“Are friends and groupmates!  Only…”“Good…”“Are you trying to flirt with me?  You are bad at it.”Yooyeon shyly looked down.  “I am bad at it.  Is that why it has taken this long for you to catch on?”“Naurrrr, I’m good at playing dumb…  We are battleship buddies!”“I don’t know… you just got stuck in my brain after battleship.”“Of course I did.  I’m amazing!”“Is that why Haewon ignores you for every other girl?”“Hey, what did I say before?”“Just checking…”“She isn’t Hornywon in the dorm, only at these parties…”“She doesn’t make comments about random girl’s legs when you are waiting around in the green room at music shows?”“Oh no…  Only at Yeji parties…”“This is the last time I’m going to bring it up.  And your last chance to stop me.  If you two are a thing and you want me to stop flirting with you, just say!”Lily was silent.***Seoyeon was sitting in a chair next to Jiwoo.  Jiwoo was poking around on her phone, keeping her chest covered.Seoyeon said, “I’m staring at you again.  I’ll stop if it bothers you.”“It doesn’t.”“Are you sure?  Because it creeps me out, and I’m the one being creepy.”Jiwoo accidently flashed her.  “Creep away!”“So, what is really up with you and Hyeju?  Anything?”“Not really.  We text occasionally, obviously we are both very busy.  You see how hot she is though…”From nowhere, Yeojin came bouncing over.  “Seoyeon!  Can I sit on your lap?”“I guess…”Jiwoo looked at Seoyeon shook her head ‘no’, as if to warn her.Yeojin flipped around facing Seoyeon and straddled her, her French maid dress flopping over their laps.  Seoyeon looked like a deer stuck in headlights and Jiwoo smiled widely.Jiwoo said, “BUTTERFLY!  My boobs are trying to flirt with Seoyeon, why are you interrupting?”“I want to flirt with her too…  Do you mind Seoyeon?”Seoyeon shook her head ‘no’.  “Aren’t you supposed to be helping the other Loona girls?”“They are about to move that table and corkboard and I’m not built for manual labor…”“You could go sit on Jiwoo, you’ll be against her hot breasts…”“Nahhh, I’ve played with Jiwoo before.  I want to play with you!”Finally, Heejin saw what was going on and ran over to help Seoyeon.  “Yeojin!  Why are you bothering my bias wrecker?”“I want to get to know her better.”“Please don’t scare the poor girl… Are you okay Seoyeon?”“It’s fine…” she said.Heejin looked at Jiwoo.  “Can I sit on your lap?  We haven’t really properly been acquainted with each other.”“But you’ve been acquainted with Jinsol?”“Yes, and especially Lily and Haewon.”“I see… well obviously I’m better than them.  Have a seat!”***Hyeju looked at Yeji.  “Well, we seem to have lost our help.  As unreliable as predicted.”“Indeed.”“I’m going to go hang the penalties on the back of the corkboard.  Can you finish clearing the table?”“Of course.”Sullyoon approached them.  “I’ll help.”Hyeju said, “The contestants shouldn’t have to help…”“Shut up.  I like helping… tell me what to do…”Hyeju left her alone with Yeji and went behind the corkboard.Yeji smiled.“Who is this?  Yeji or Lucy?”“Who do you want it to be, Yoona?”Sullyoon grabbed Yeji’s hand.  “Surprise me.”“You are full of surprises yourself, Yoona.”“I get that a lot.”“Is Lucy scary?”“She reminds me a bit of Sana, with a bit of extra… something…”“So not scary.”“VERY SCARY.”“Help me clear the table?”“Yes ma’am.”Yeji smiled brightly as they removed the last remnants of Hyeju’s casino. 
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Chapter 10:  Nakyoung gets tickled, Haewon gets spanked
After Yeji and Sullyoon cleared the table, they folded it up and stashed it away.  Yeji asked Hyeju, “Should we unroll the carpet?”Hyeju loudly announced, “BREAK OVER!  Nope, grab eleven chairs and put them in a giant ring.”Bae said, “One two three four five six seven, you make me feel…”  Kyujin slapped her on the back of the head.All of the girls were quite interested in Hyeju’s announcement and what the last game would be, so they ended their conversations and helped bring chairs to form the circle.After they had arranged them nicely, all facing toward the center of the room, Nmixx and TripleS all looked at each other suspiciously and suddenly sat in a chair.  Sullyoon was the only one standing.  She looked around and pouted.Hyeju said, “Look at you girls all reading my mind…”Bae said, “You are going to kidnap Yoona for your Hyeju plans and we have to fight on with five members?”Hyeju looked at her strangely.  “I mean, that might be better, but NO!  For our last game, you all will be playing musical chairs!”Lily said, “Nauuurrr… first checkers and battleship and now musical chairs?  You couldn’t find any adult games for us to play?”She realized what she said as everyone giggled at her.  “NEVERMIND!”  she shouted.Hyeju said, “Yeojin!”Yeojin looked over at her, “What?”Yeji said, “She is gathering up empty and half empty drinks so Yeji doesn’t have a heart attack when she comes back and girls are running around crazy with half empty drinks sitting about.”Heejin said, “Wait?  She’s being helpful?”Yeojin shouted, “I CAN HEAR YOU!”Hyeju said, “Yeji and Heejin, can you please bring the small table over?  And the wheel?”Sohyun said, “I BROKE THE WHEEL, NO WHEEL!”Hyeju said, “I know I said that was the last time…. But we need it one last… last time…  While they are gathering the table, shall I explain the rules of our last game?”The girls all had a low energy round of, “Yes…” and “Sure…”“Is everyone tired already?  Or just focused?”Yooyeon said loudly, “FOCUSED!”Sullyoon said, “I was tired half way through the grocery store game.”Chaeyeon said louder than Yooyeon, “DRUNK!”Haewon decided maybe it was a good time to test the waters.  “Hey drunk girl, wanna make out?”“NO!  GO AWAY!  Show me your butt again Hyeju!”Hyeju gave her a quick side profile to look at.  Then she flipped the corkboard around.Seoyeon said, “No!  Our badges!”“They’ll be fine…”“But I need to see all of my hard work…”Yooyeon said, “You have three… we all have three… except Jinsol and Kyujin who are apparently better than us at everything.  Make them go away Hyeju, I don’t want to look at them…”Finished flipping the corkboard, Hyeju remarked, “And they are gone!  But look what has appeared…” The other side was decorated with eleven envelopes held to the corkboard with thumbtacks.Hyeju said, “Yeji and Heejin, please put the numbered post-its on each chair from one to eleven, in order, clockwise.”Bae started to sing eleven again but Kyujin threatened to slap her.  Yooyeon was about to say, “I have a bad…” but Seoyeon threatened to slap her also.Hyeju explained, “We are going to play an ordinary game of musical chairs.  There will be one less chair than we have girls.  When the music starts, you all circle the chairs, staying in the order that you are in, no chaos, and when the music stops, you can break order and do whatever you like, but everyone sits down.  The last girl that doesn’t get a seat is eliminated, we remove one chair and keep going until we have a winner!”Yeji and Heejin finished moving the small table and sat Hyeju’s ‘Wheel of fortune and terror’ on top of it.Jiwoo said, “And there’s envelopes, and a stupid wheel, get on with the explaining…”Hyeju said, “Someone’s boobies are restless…”Seoyeon said, “Hey Yooyeon, I wanna be first out so I can watch Jiwoo run around the rest of the night.”Yooyeon was about to verbally let Seoyeon have it, when she realized she deserved her attitude and decided to stand there quietly instead.Hyeju said, “There is also this other stack of envelopes.”Yooyeon plead with Nakyoung to let her say it.  She was denied.Hyeju giggled to herself, “The envelopes on the board are for the losers.  Each round the losers will grab an envelope and see what it says.  It is typically a punishment.”Nakyoung said, “So… this is your way to be able to punish eleven of the twelve of us…”“I said typically…  A few are not punishments, IN FACT, one is the fabled “LOSER” badge.  The next to the last badge you can earn.”Haewon said, “Also there are these five other secret badges and these two other hidden badges…”Hyeju smiled and said, “ONE other secret badge.”Haewon facepalmed.Sohyun said, “A minute ago you CLEARLY said that this game would be the last two badges.”Xinyu held up two fingers displayed on her ridiculously long arm.Hyeju said, “That could be obtained from a game… after this game is over, there will be one final secret badge!”Jiwoo said, “I mean at this point it really wouldn’t be horrible to knock Hyeju over forget the stupid game and go to the grocery store and get more Reeses.”“Betrayed by my favorite…”Haewon said, “You are going to the grocery store like that?”  She pointed to her chest.Jiwoo hid behind Bae.Hyeju continued, “This other stack of envelopes are what I like to call ‘traps’.  The loser of each round will also get to put one of these on a particular chair.  Now we will use my wheel to determine starting spots and who gets to lay the first trap!  Nmixx, you are behind, so you get to spin the wheel first.  Who wants to go first?”Lily said, “Whoa now… you have a lot more explaining to do Miss Hyeju…”Yooyeon said, “Laminated sheet for what each number on the wheel means… NOW!”Hyeju said, “You and Seoyeon get so testy when the competition really starts flowing through your veins.  I love it!  Sorry, but I don’t have a laminated sheet.  The numbers one through eleven correspond to their numbered chair.  Number twelve, you lose your turn.  Numbers thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, you lose one item of clothing.  Number sixteen, you get to choose your spot.  So, the first person, from Nmixx will spin.  If you get a value, you stand in front of that corresponding chair.”Nakyoung said, “Shouldn’t the penalties be spread evenly around the wheel?”“Yes… but I didn’t because you don’t want number four to actually correspond to chair three with or without a laminated sheet.”“Ah, fair… Chaeyeon would be confused…”Chaeyeon said, “I’M STANDING RIGHT HERE…  And I would be confused…”Hyeju continued, “Then a girl from TripleS will spin.  IF you get a number that already has a girl at that chair, you have two options.  Defer to the end, OR let the next girl place you somewhere.”Haewon asked, “Why would I defer?”“You will have to spin again, and might get a penalty.  AND when all eleven chairs have a girl standing in front of them, there is still a twelfth girl.  That girl gets to stand wherever she chooses because there are only eleven chairs and chooses the trap.”Haewon nodded “Got it, twelfth girl important.”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon, “Is going first really an advantage?”Seoyeon answered her, “I have no fricking clue.  It is musical chairs, is the position really that important?”Xinyu said, “You three always leave me out of your important strategy discussions, but seeing as how this is a ridiculously elaborate pre-game to the actual game, IT MUST MATTER.”Bae said, “Spanked by a Chinese girl!  Love you mistress!”Xinyu smiled at Bae and gave her a thumbs up.Lily said, “One last question… orrrrmmmm if you hit a lose clothing spot, you automatically lose your turn?”“You can lose your turn and go to the back of the line, or let the next girl place you somewhere.”Sullyoon said, “No choice in where you end up, but don’t have to spin the wheel again.  Would anyone be upset if I suggested that Olivia Hye is evil?”All of the contestants shook their head, “No.”Yeojin looked at Heejin exasperated.  “How many years have I been saying?”Heejin shrugged, “Trainee for one day… she obviously sold her soul to the devil.”Yeji put her arms around Hyeju.  “Poor thing…” she purred into her ear.Sullyoon said, “HEY!  LUCY IS GONE!”Yeji let go.  “Oh, she smells of evil.  And hot black leather…”Hyeju said, “Enough attacking poor me!  Nmixx, who spins first?”TripleS made a huddle.Haewon said, “Oh stop…  Like you need to talk in secret, let’s go…”Chaeyeon, Xinyu, and Sohyun casually broke the huddle.  Seoyeon, Yooyeon, and Nakyoung kept strategizing.Bae said, “This is where we push Jiwoo forward and make her spin first.”Sullyoon said, “Yeah, but she is topless, so we need to use her to our advantage.”Haewon made eye contact with Sullyoon and they both gave Bae a huge push forward.Hyeju said, “Jinsol!  With four badges!  You get the first spot!  Or finally lose some clothing…”Bae scoffed at her.  She tried to think of a pun, or something to mime, but failed.  She just vigorously spun the wheel.It stopped on number ten.Hyeju said, “Jinsol!  Chair ten!”Bae took her spot in front of the tenth chair.Yooyeon said, “Xinyu… go spin.”Xinyu briefly considered whether to argue or complain, but decided it wasn’t worth it.  She spun as well.It stopped on number four.Hyeju said, “Xinyu!  Chair four!  Back to Nmixx…”Xinyu ran out and gave Bae a hug before standing in front of her chair.Sullyoon said to Haewon, “Jiwoo and Kyujin should go.  They don’t need to end up taking multiple spins in their irresponsible state…”Haewon said, “Go ahead Kyujin.”Kyujin stepped up to the wheel and gave it a spin.It stopped on number one.Hyeju said, “Girl only wearing underwear goes to chair one!”Kyujin ran out to chair one, giving Bae a high five on the way.Sohyun didn’t even look at the rest of her team and walked up to the wheel next.  No one yelled at her, so she went ahead and spun.It stopped on number sixteen.Hyeju said, “Another girl wearing only underwear, but this one gets to choose her spot!”Sohyun looked at Yooyeon and Seoyeon.  “Thoughts?”Nakyoung said, “You are larger than Kyujin, you should be able to push her out of a chair, go stand next to her.”Sohyun nodded and stood in front of chair two.Sullyoon looked at Haewon, “You or Jiwoo?”Haewon said, “She has pants… I’ll go.”Haewon walked up to the wheel and gave it a solid spin.It stopped on eight.Hyeju said, “Haewon also only wearing underwear to number eight!”Yooyeon said, “This is too easy so far, the back end of this is going to be a nightmare.”Seoyeon said, “Go ahead Chaeyeon.”Chaeyeon nodded and gave the wheel a meek spin.Hyeju shook her head at her puniness.  It landed on fourteen.Yooyeon facepalmed.  “This is what happens when Yooyeon is right…”Hyeju said, “Chaeyeon, I need to request your sweatpants please…”Chaeyeon untied her sweatpants, dropped them to the floor, nearly fell over trying to step out of them and threw them at Hyeju.  Her black safety shorts showed off her thighs.Haewon said, “YOU ARE HOTTER THAN SOHYUN!”Sohyun left her chair and swatted Haewon across the back of the head.Chaeyeon said, “What should I do?”Seoyeon said, “Are you okay being next to Haewon?  That is where they will put you.  Or you can wait until the end and spin again and try to get the last spot.”“Yeah… It is fine.”Jiwoo, Sullyoon, and Lily all looked at each other.  Sullyoon whispered into Jiwoo’s ear.Jiwoo stepped up to the wheel.  “Yoona told me to make Chaeyeon go to chair three.”Yooyeon said, “Lumping three of us together so we have to knock each other out.  Would be smart, except that means three of you will be lumped together also.”Sullyoon said, “Yeah… well… We will work together as a team unlike the wives and Chaeyeon.”Chaeyeon walked over to chair three, overly dramatic she said, “That hurts Yoona… I’m hurt…”Hyeju said, “Spin Jiwoo!”Jiwoo spun the wheel weekly, trying to hide her boobs with her other arm.  It landed on fourteen.Hyeju said, “Oooo!  First girl with only one clothing!”Jiwoo looked at Hyeju and sighed.  Then she took off her sweatpants and threw them at Hyeju.Jiwoo walked back to Lily and Sullyoon only wearing safety shorts.  Lily covered her eyes with her hands.  Sullyoon said, “No no, you stay up there, no way I’m letting you SPIN OR BET ANYTHING again.”Jiwoo pouted.Heejin asked Haewon, “Jiwoo’s thighs not good enough for you?”Haewon said, “They used to be… but now she’s skinny…”Jiwoo said, “Thanks?”Seoyeon, Yooyeon, and Nakyoung all looked at each other.  After a bit of silence, Nakyoung said, “Seoyeon should go.  She doesn’t have a shirt.”Seoyeon nodded.  “And what to do with Jiwoo?”Yooyeon said, “Do what I just suggested and put her between Bae and Haewon?”Seoyeon nodded and walked up to the wheel.  “Almost naked girl is going to chair nine, I hope to be able to stare at her from wherever I end up…”Jiwoo, still trying to cover her boobs with her arms, walked to chair nine.Seoyeon said, “Now I can stare at her butt too!”  She gave the wheel a spin.  It stopped on four.Hyeju said, “Four!  Xinyu is already occupying four.  Are you going to defer, or let Nmixx place you?”“I’ll defer…”Yooyeon said, “That is NOT why we wanted you to go now…”“I’ll defer…” she repeated.Hyeju said, “Nmixx!  Who is next?”Lily stepped forward to the wheel and gave it a spin.  It landed on one.“One!  Kyujin is already occupying one.  What do you want to do Lily?”Lily looked at Sullyoon who waved her back to line.  Lily went back to join Sullyoon.Nakyoung stepped forward for TripleS and gave the wheel a solid spin.  It landed on fourteen.Hyeju said, “Shirt or pants Nakyoung?”Nakyoung took off her shirt, she was wearing a blue spandex sports bra underneath.  She turned to look at Yooyeon.  “Let them place me?  Or fight for Seoyeon for number twelve?”Yooyeon motioned for her to come back to line.Sullyoon stepped forward.  “This might take a while Juju…”“That’s the plan!  You need to lose four items of clothing!”“Funny-ju.”  Sullyoon spun the wheel.  It landed on fifteen.Hyeju did a little dance and held out her hand to Sullyoon.  Sullyoon took off her hoodie, she was wearing a black sports bra, but well covered.  She went to the back of the line.Hyeju said, “Yooyeon the last girl spinning for the first time.  Go for it!”Yooyeon gave it a meek spin.  It landed on fifteen again.Seoyeon yelled, “Spin the damn thing!”Yooyeon gave Hyeju her tee shirt.  She was wearing a black sports bra, but it still showed a bit of cleavage.Yeji said, “Hyeju starting a clothing store back here…”Hyeju said, “Seoyeon!  Your turn in the 2nd spin line!”Seoyeon stepped forward and spun the wheel.  It landed on four.  “Four again!  That’s Xinyu’s spot.”Seoyeon went to the back of the line.Lily stepped up and spun again.  It landed on three.Hyeju said, “Chaeyeon’s spot!  Try again!”Lily returned to line and Nakyoung stepped up.  She spun the wheel as hard as she possible could.  After waiting quite a while, it landed on one.  “Should I just let Yoona place me?  This is getting old…”Seoyeon said, “TripleS doesn’t quit!”“It isn’t quitting… it is placing…”Yooyeon said, “Shut up.  Come here…”Nakyoung went to the back of the line.Sullyoon spun again.  It landed on eight.Hyeju said, “That’s Haewon’s spot… nice try…”Haewon shouted, “What is wrong with you girls?  Come over here already…”Sullyoon went to the back of the line.  Yooyeon stepped up and spun.  She did better getting the wheel going this time.  It landed on six.Hyeju said, “SIX!  Yooyeon found a home!”Yooyeon ran forward and stood at six.  Haewon watched her the entire way, alternating between thighs and chest. Yooyeon said, “My name ends with ‘yeon’ but your girl is over there.”  She pointed to Chaeyeon.Haewon said, “Just checking it all out…”Seoyeon stepped up next.  She spun again.  It landed on four.Hyeju said, “Popular number!  What’s it going to be Seoyeon?”Seoyeon yelled, “Yooyeon… Should I just let them place me?”Yooyeon yelled back, “We can’t now, there will be five of us in a row…”Seoyeon grumbled and got back into line.Lily spun again.  It landed on two.Hyeju said, “That’s Sohyun’s spot.  What do you want to do, Lily?”Lily turned to Sullyoon.  “I guess we don’t want five in a row either?”Sullyoon shook her head no.  “We are slaves to Hyeju’s stupid spinner.”Nakyoung stepped up again and spun.  It landed on fifteen.Hyeju said, “Uhoh!  I need some pants!”Nakyoung dropped her sweatpants revealing black safety shorts like the rest of her team.She said, “Okay, I’m going to let Sullyoon place me…”Seoyeon said, “NOOOOO.”“I AM!  DONE!”Sullyoon said, “Okay Nakyoung, go to chair number five.”Lily said, “Naurrrrr!  Wait!”“Eh?”“We put them all in a row, but that also forces us to all be in a row.”“Do you want to be between Yooyeon and Xinyu?”“No…”“Okay then…”Lily said, “Chair number five… sorry to interrupt.”Nakyoung scurried off to chair number five.Sullyoon spun the wheel.  It landed on ten.Hyeju said, “That’s Bae’s spot!”Sullyoon said, “Lily, you okay battling Seoyeon for the last spot?  Or do you want me to do it?”Lily said, “Let’s go one more round.  Two against one!”Sullyoon ran back to line.Seoyeon stepped up and spun the wheel.  It landed on ten again.Seoyeon ran back behind Sullyoon.Lily spun again.  It landed on seven.Hyeju said, “You found an open spot!  Go to chair seven!”Lily ran over and stood next to Haewon.Yooyeon said, “Why aren’t you looking her over?”Haewon said, “Been there, done that…”“I’m going to look her over then…”Haewon said, “Go for it!  Lily, stare at Yooyeon, let me know if you see anything good.”Lily shook her head ‘no’.Hyeju said, “Sullyoon and Seoyeon, fighting for number eleven and the fabled last spot!”Sullyoon spun.  It landed on eight.  She turned to Seoyeon.  “Look, this is going to take all day.  What will you give me if I let you win?”“Give you?”“Yeah, I let you win, you give me a favor.”“Favor?”“Yeah, I let you win… you… shit… nevermind…”Seoyeon stepped up and spun.  It landed on four.Sullyoon spun.  It landed on seven.Seoyeon spun.  It landed on two.Sullyoon spun.  It landed on nine.Hyeju said, “Booo!  Where are the teens?”Sullyoon turned to Seoyeon and grabbed a shoulder with each hand.  “Look… here’s how life works.  I’m going to do something nice for you.  That means maybe, just maybe, you will do something nice for me in the future.”“What if I don’t?”“Do you need a lecture about karma?”Haewon shouted, “I’LL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE.”Yooyeon moved two steps toward Lily and put her arm around Lily’s waist.Sullyoon marched off to spot number eleven, ignoring the formalities of the situation.Bae said, “You sure about this?”“You know how that girl is, she was never going to give up.”“Yeah, but she’ll end up naked…”“What about me?”“You’ll be fine…”“Also, Hyeju’s game is absurd, and by not playing it, I feel like I won.”Bae raised an eyebrow.Hyeju said, “Okay Seoyeon.  Look through the traps and pick one and place it on any chair.  Also, figure out where you want to stand.”“I will look through them.  But I’m standing next to Jiwoo, between her and Haewon.”Nakyoung said, “WE HAVE THEM ALL GROUPED TOGETHER.  And you stand in the middle?”“Lily is right… I don’t think it is going to matter.”Bae turned to Jiwoo.  “YOU FOCUS.”  She caught Haewon’s attention also.  “This girl is not making it to a chair.”Jiwoo said, “Awwww… but…”Seoyeon heard her and smiled, suspecting her plan would work.  She started looking through the traps.  “Okay Hyeju, I need some explanation over here!”Hyeju said, “It is simple.  You pick the trap you want.  You put it under a chair.  Everyone knows there is a trap there, but you are the only one that knows what it is.  The girl ends up sitting there reads it, if it triggers on her, it goes away.  If it doesn’t trigger, it stays there, but then everyone knows what it is.”Yooyeon said, “And what exactly happens if it triggers?”“The girl that was eliminated because she couldn’t find a chair is saved and the girl the trap triggers on is eliminated instead.”  The girls were mostly silent.Yeji whispered to Heejin, “One more of these rules and they might really knock her out and run to the grocery store…”Heejin said, “Yeah… I should probably put some clothes back on so we can join them.”Yeojin said, “I can’t go there looking like this…”Hyeju said, “Hush from the help!”Seoyeon said, “And if I put it on chair number eleven and it doesn’t trigger, but the chair gets removed, then what?”“Trap goes bye bye!”“Am I aware of the fact that chair eleven is the one that is removed first?”“Sure.”Seoyeon picked her trap and put it on chair eleven.  “I’m assuming I can’t tell my groupmates to avoid that?”“You cannot!”Seoyeon winked at Yooyeon in Hyeju defiance.  Yooyeon giggled at her.“Are we ready to begin?  Everyone get ready!  When the music starts, move around the circle clockwise, but staying in your current order.  Do you have the music ready, Yeji?”Yeji said, “Oh right… music!”  She ran to her phone and connected to the Bluetooth sound system.“Heejin and Yeojin, stand in the center of the circle and make sure the girls are following the rules and don’t hurt each other.”Heejin started moving to the center of the circle.  Yeojin said, “Hey… you aren’t the boss of me…”  Hyeju glared at her.  Heejin ran back and grabbed Yeojin’s wrist and pulled her along to the center of the circle.[Order from chair one:  Kyujin, Sohyun, Chaeyeon, Xinyu, Nakyoung, Yooyeon, Lily, Haewon, Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Bae, Sullyoon]Yeji started the first song, ‘Zombie’ by Purple Kiss.Bae said, “Oh, love this one!”  The giant circle of girls started moving.  They moved all through the first verse.  As the chorus started, Nmixx, particularly Bae and Kyujin, were doing the ‘Zombie’ point dance.  The TripleS girls were focused and exchanging glances, making sure they were ready for the music to stop.  Right after ‘Ya ya ya ya heh’ Yeji stopped the music.Bae was lined up perfectly with chair one and Sullyoon with chair two and both sat easily.  Kyujin was at chair number three, Sohyun used her larger frame to block Kyujin from her chair, but Chaeyeon had gone forward and sat on chair five, so Kyujin just switched places with Sohyun and took chair four.Jiwoo sat on chair eleven, trap or no trap, because Seoyeon and Haewon were fighting for chair ten.  Seoyeon had the advantage, but Haewon just pushed her and she nearly fell over, but she quickly recovered.  Haewon had already taken chair ten, but Seoyeon easily took chair nine as Lily had decided on chair eight.  She sat fast, having no interest in childish fights.That left Xinyu, Nakyoung and Yooyeon fighting for chairs six and seven.  Xinyu was in between her chair and Chaeyeon’s.  Chaeyeon put her hands up, worrying the giant would fall on her, but Xinyu fell forward and managed to twist her butt onto the chair.  Nakyoung was a bit too late and Yooyeon had already quietly sunk into her chair leaving Nakyoung chairless.Nakyoung stood there and put her arms up in the air.  Heejin and Yeojin put their arms around her in consolation.  Then Nakyoung glared at Yooyeon.  “YOU COULDN’T BEAT LILY?  It was a simple job…”Yooyeon said simply.  “I chose not to…”Sohyun said, “The problem isn’t Yooyeon, it is Chaeyeon… All she had to do was take this chair and I had Kyujin blocked, but she sat over there…”Bae, Jiwoo, and Haewon sat on their chairs and giggled in glee at TripleS complaining at each other.Sullyoon said, “Sorry you all have to play repurposed children’s games with Nmixx… we are a little good at these kinds of things.”Sohyun pointed to Kyujin and said, “She isn’t…  I had her…”Kyujin said, “She did have me…  Thanks, drunk, Horny-yeon!”Chaeyeon didn’t say anything to Kyujin or Sohyun.Hyeju said, “Well, that was interesting!  It isn’t over for you yet Nakyoung.  First, we need to check the trap.”Jiwoo leaned over and grabbed the trap from under her chair.Seoyeon giggled in glee, “Yes!”Jiwoo covered herself with the trap card as she read it.  “It says ‘YOOYEON’.  If you are ‘yoo’ or ‘yeon’ you have lost.”Yooyeon said, “Wtf?  Specifically targeting me?”Seoyeon said, “No… you aren’t actually as important as you think.  It also targets me and Yooooo-na.”Yooyeon said, “Oh…”“And now we will remove chair number eleven and it is gone.  See… I’m looking out for you Yooyeon.”“And yourself…”“And myself… and I repaid Yoona, by getting rid of it and keeping her safe.”Sullyoon said, “What if I had landed on it just now?”“What if I had landed on it just now?”“Okay… I guess… thanks then…”Bae said, “Sullyoon gives you a million and you give her back a hundred, so nice of you…”Seoyeon said, “Ambiguous values are in the eye of the beholder.  She won’t have to worry about randomly being eliminated.  That is something…”Hyeju said, “Chair eleven, and that trap are indeed eliminated.  One last thing Nakyoung, draw a loser envelope!”Nakyoung chose the third envelope and opened it.  “Tickle torture”.Hyeju said, “Choose one girl from your team and one girl from the opposing team.”“For what?”“Just choose.”“FOR WHAT?”“Do you want Heejin to pick for you?”“Yooyeon and Kyujin…  I hope THEY are the ones getting tickled…”Hyeju said, “Yooyeon, you are going to tell us the most efficient way to tickle Nakyoung.  Heejin, Yeojin and Kyujin will tickle her until you decide she has had enough.”Yooyeon laughed loudly and then stopped and covered her mouth with her hand.  She got up and walked over to Heejin.  “Standing would be best, but she is strong, we should probably hold her down on the floor.Heejin poked at Nakyoung’s bare belly until she sat on the floor and then laid down.  Yooyeon said, “I’ll hold her hands above her head.  Yeojin and Kyujin, each grab a foot and Heejin, attack her sides.”Haewon said, “Heejin tickles are no joke…”Lily said, “Indeed…”Nakyoung shouted, “Everyone shut up!”Yooyeon laughed again, but stopped herself from having too much fun.Nakyoung shouted, “You better stop quickly Yooyeon!  I’ll make you suffer tomorrow!”Seoyeon said, “This would be a good time to remind her we are supposed to work together as a team right now.”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon and tried not to burst into laughter.Heejin started tickling both of Nakyoung’s sides with her fingers.  Yeojin and Kyujin both struggled to keep her feet from flailing as she giggled and squirmed uncontrollably.  Yooyeon let her suffer for a solid minute.“Okay… that’s probably enough.”Heejin said, “Booo, I was enjoying myself!”Yooyeon let go of her and ran back to the chairs before Nakyoung could get hold of her.  Kyujin followed her.Hyeju said, “Back into the order you were sitting in.  Nakyoung, look through the traps and pick one.”Nakyoung got up and looked through the pile of traps.  “Dear lord Seoyeon, why did you get that one eliminated instead of this one?”“There are a lot that needed to be eliminated… I had to pay Yoona her hundred.”Nakyoung picked one and put it under chair one.  She proudly grabbed chair eleven and carried it to the side of the room and sat as spectator, while rubbing the ticklishness out of her own sides.[New order from chair one:  Sohyun, Kyujin, Chaeyeon, Xinyu, Yooyeon, Lily, Seoyeon, Haewon, Jiwoo, Bae, Sullyoon]Yeji quickly started the music, this time it was Dia’s ‘Mr. Potter’.  It started at the first chorus.  Sohyun said, “Classic bop!”Seoyeon said, “Chaeyeon!  It is your namesake’s song!”Chaeyeon said, “I was like ten when this came out…”After the first chorus, Huihyeon’s rap part started and the music stopped in the middle of it.On her way to plopping down in chair eight, Kyujin said, “Stopping in the middle of a rap?  How rude…”Sohyun saw that this time Chaeyeon had no hope of getting there before Kyujin and made sure she was settled in chair seven.Chaeyeon was obviously uneasy of having to fight with Xinyu, but Chaeyeon settled on chair nine and Xinyu on chair ten with no difficulty. Yooyeon and Seoyeon teamed up on Lily, keeping her from sitting, arms spread, caging her in like basketball players.  She was in trouble two on one and she said, “Heeeeeerlp”.Unfortunately, Bae accidently sat on chair six, which should have been Sullyoon’s.  Jiwoo and Haewon also got switched up.  In the confusion there was no help for Lily.  Sullyoon tried to get to her, but Seoyeon and Yooyeon both managed to sit, so she then realized it was going to be her or Lily and just sat down on chair five.Hyeju said, “Bummer Lily!  You’re out.  What happened to Nmixx being good at this game, you all were a mess, leaving Lily to tangle with the two most competitive girls on the planet.”Sullyoon said, “Thanks for making us feel bad…”Lily said, “It’s alright…  I tried my best.”Yooyeon jumped up and gave Lily a hug.  “Sorry I did that to you…”“Really!  It’s okay!”Yooyeon sat back down and grabbed the trap from under her seat.  “It says NMIXX.”Hyeju asked, “Are you in Nmixx?”“No?”“Good!  You did not trigger the trap.  It is still active on chair one.”Nakyoung giggled from her spectator spot.Haewon asked, “So if any of us sit on that, we will be out instead of the person who is out?”Hyeju said, “Yes ma’am!”Bae added, “And it is always going to be on chair one until we trigger it, because chair one never goes away...  That’s evil.”Nakyoung giggled again.Hyeju said, “Go draw a punishment, Lily!”Lily picked an envelope on the corkboard, pulled out the pin and opened it, “It says ‘Snack Tray’?”“Oh, congratulations!  Can you get it for her Yeojin?”Yeojin ran off to the kitchen.“You and Nakyoung get to enjoy a tray of snacks, both salty and sweet.  As girls are eliminated, they can join you in eating anything that is left.”Jiwoo shouted, “ARE THERE REESES?”Sullyoon jumped up and stood in front of Hyeju and waved her long arms, “Don’t say!  Don’t say!”  In the meantime, Bae and Haewon both wagged their fingers at Jiwoo.  “YOU FOCUS!  You do NOT need snacks!  We need to win!”Seoyeon and Yooyeon looked at each other and giggled as Yeojin brought the tray back and sat it on the floor next to Nakyoung who proudly said, “YUP!  REESES!”Jiwoo made an epic angry face.Lily said, “And carrots!”Jiwoo said, “BY THE TIME I LOSE THERE WILL ONLY BE CARROTS LEFT.   I HATE YOU ALL!”Hyeju said, “Ultimate punishment and you aren’t even the one that lost…”Seoyeon said, “You’re cute when you want snacks…”Sullyoon said, “Well, she’s always cute then…”Hyeju said, “Lily!  Before you open all of the chocolate, please set a trap!”Lily said, “Okay!” She looked through them, picked the obvious one and set it on chair two.Yooyeon said to Seoyeon, “Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what that is…”Seoyeon just shook her head.  “CHAEYEON AND XINYU.  DO NOT SIT IN CHAIR 2.”Lily shrugged, then took chair ten back to Nakyoung and sat down and opened a bag of chips.  “How’s the view over here?”Nakyoung said, “Who cares!  POPCORN!  You’re the best loser ever!”Lily gave her a high five with salty fingers.[New order from chair one:  Yooyeon, Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Haewon, Sullyoon, Bae, Sohyun, Kyujin, Chaeyeon, Xinyu]Hyeju said, “Next round!  Are you ready?”Yeji started the music, this time Dreamnote’s “Ghost”.  It started from the beginning.Haewon said, “The harmonies and dissonance in this song… such a masterpiece!”Sohyun said, “For real!  So good!”As the girls moved around the circle keeping up with the up-tempo song, Yeji stopped it on the fourth ‘howl’ in the chorus.Chaeyeon had no interest this time in figuring out what Sohyun wanted her to do or whether Xinyu was going to fall on her.  Her drunken brain had a perfect plan.  As soon as the music stopped, she bolted for the chair Haewon was going for, chair seven.  Haewon and Jiwoo had a bit of confusion again and were shocked when Chaeyeon came running over out of nowhere.  Jiwoo had already sat in chair eight and Sullyoon in chair nine.On the other side, Kyujin quickly sat on chair three and Xinyu looked around to see where Chaeyeon was, leaving her an open chair four.  Yooyeon and Seoyeon were shocked by Chaeyeon and easily sat on chairs five and six.Bae and Sohyun realized they were looking at trapped chairs one and two.  Just before they both sat, they smiled at each other, making a non-verbal agreement with their eyes and switched.  Sohyun sitting on chair one and Bae on chair two.Haewon realized her crush just screwed her.  But, was that the best plan for Chaeyeon, who was at first quite pleased with herself?  Haewon plopped right down in Chaeyeon’s lap.  Neither of them were wearing pants, their thighs skin on skin.  Haewon put her arm around Chaeyeon as well, pushing their chests together.Chaeyeon growled.Hyeju said, “That’s enough Haewon…  you got her back.”  Heejin and Yeojin ran over and pulled Haewon off of Chaeyeon.Haewon yelled, “That’s my chair!  And my crush!  I want them both!”Hyeju said, “Sohyun on chair one is NOT in Nmixx, the trap is still active.  Jinsol, read the trap on your chair.”Bae said, “It says ‘TripleS’.”Yooyeon clapped.  “We were right!  Nice job avoiding it Sohyun!”Sohyun gave her a thumbs up.  Seoyeon said, “Getting trappy around here…”Hyeju said, “Go get your punishment Haewon!”Haewon ran over to the board and grabbed an envelope.  “It says ‘YEOJIN’.”Yeojin jumped up and down.“Oh, Hornywon, it is your lucky day!” said Hyeju.Haewon said, “It is?”“You get to sit in a chair and Yeojin is going to sit in your lap for the next round.  She doesn’t really know how to sit still…”Haewon paused for a bit.  Then she shrugged and grabbed chair nine and sat it next to Lily.  “I’m going to pretend it is you Chaeyeon!”Chaeyeon shook her head ‘no’ and Yeojin waited impatiently for Haewon to sit down.Lily got up, violently smashed her bag of chips between her hands and grabbed Haewon’s wrist.  “KITCHEN, NOW!”Haewon said, “Umm, okay?”  Lily pulled her to the kitchen door and slammed it shut.Bae, Jiwoo and Kyujin all looked at each other, confused.  Sullyoon just shook her head and gave Yeji a look.  Yeji ran to the kitchen and followed them inside, closing the door behind.Lily screamed, “I’M SO UPSET WITH YOU!”Haewon said, “Calm down… what’s wrong Lilypad?”“Please stop being like this to that girl… she hates it and I hate it…”“She doesn’t hate it.  I can tell.  And you need to calm down.”“Please… I hate it…”Haewon saw Yeji come into the kitchen and pointed to her.“I don’t care!  She knows I love you.  Can you please stop!”“How many times do we have to go over this… IT DOESN’T MATTER.  Our feelings don’t matter, only Nswer.”“I didn’t care when you were effing messing around with Jisun, she probably doesn’t even like you.  But you need to leave this girl ALONE!”“If you are angry, you can curse…”“I’m NOT going to curse…”“Lily…  your feelings can’t matter.  Mine don’t matter either.”“YOU ARE OVERCOMPENSATING!”Haewon grabbed her and gave her a massive hug.“Lilypad, why this all of a sudden today?”“I don’t know… something about that girl… and I don’t know what to do about liking Yooyeon.”“I’ve known her for five minutes.  She isn’t a threat to everything you and I have.  Let it go.  Enjoy Yooyeon… please calm down… leave me alone…”Yeji said, “If you wanted to be left alone, you wouldn’t be hugging her like that.”Haewon shot back and pointed at, “Yeji…  This is all your fault…”“I know…  I feel bad.  I know you two have a special relationship and you know you can’t have anything more.  But… Half of your team is looking at each other strangely right now.  That is my biggest fear and why I’ve been riding you both so hard.”Lily said, “We should go back…”Haewon let go of Lily and held her shoulders with her hands at arm’s length “Our feelings don’t matter, only Nswer”.Lily repeated, “Our feelings don’t matter… only Nswer.”Yeji said, “Count to ten.  Nothing happened…  Just like nothing ever happens.  Right?”Lily and Haewon had one lasting longing glance at each other.  Yeji opened the door to the kitchen and all three of them exited.Kyujin said, “Lily?  What was that about?”Lily didn’t know what to say…  Haewon was an expert at covering and deflecting and she ran up to Chaeyeon.  “I’m so sorry if I’m being inappropriate.  Lily doesn’t want you to feel awkward.  That isn’t my intent.  I won’t do it again.”Chaeyeon said, “Oh, all of that was about me?”Lily weakly and only partially lying, nodded ‘yes’.Chaeyeon got up, ran to Lily and gave her a hug.  Then she walked over to Haewon.  She gave her a hug also, she whispered in her ear, “You’re fine.  We’re just having fun and releasing pent up energy.  Don’t stop being you, but back down just a touch please…”Haewon whispered back, “Of course.”Chaeyeon swatted Haewon hard on the butt.  “BEHAVE!”  Chaeyeon shook her head in disbelief and ran back to her chair.Heejin said to Yeji, “They okay?”“For now…”“Well… that happened…”“Yeah…” 
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Chapter 11:  Heejin Almost Breaks Yooyeon
Hyeju said, “Haewon!  Before you sit, you need to choose a trap.”Haewon grabbed the pile of traps and looked through them.  “Oh, this one is fun!”  She ran it over to chair three and stashed it underneath.Nakyoung said, “I totally know what she just chose.”Lily, back to her normal, calm, snack-eating self was struggling to get another bag of chips open.  “Oh?” she remarked.Yeojin was waiting impatiently for Haewon to sit in her chair.  Finally, Haewon returned and sat down.Without a word, Yeojin jumped on Haewon’s naked thighs, her French maid skirt floating up and then back down.  Haewon said, “Nice to meet you, Miss Yeojin.  Shouldn’t I buy you a drink or something first?”“Yeah yeah, shut it…” said Yeojin.  She put her arms around Haewon’s neck and pulled their heads together.  She blew in Haewon’s ear and lightly licked her neck.  She then got up and spread Haewon’s legs, and knelt on the chair between them, running her hands all over Haewon’s sides and back.Yooyeon said to Heejin.  “How is this a punishment?”Seoyeon said, “The first one gets a fun tickle, the second one gets snacks, and the third one gets molested by a hot ex-Loona girl.  When I lose, it is going to be horrible, I guarantee…”Yooyeon said, “Yup…”Nakyoung said, “Shut up…  the tickling was NOT fun!”Seoyeon shot back, “By definition tickling is fun…”Heejin said, “HEY wait a minute, I’m the only hot ex-Loona girl around here.”Chaeyeon shouted, “HYEJU!”Hyeju said, “Everyone calm down.  Tickling isn’t fun for everyone, Lily is about to have a tummy ache, and Hornywon… well… no one can take Yeojin’s attention for very long.  We better get moving with the next round.  For her own safety…”Haewon was alternating between moaning, and mumbling to herself, and giggling from occasional tickling, and then cursing.Lily said, “She’s fine… take your time…  I hope the next song is a ballad and you play the entire thing…”“Now who is overcompensating?” asked Haewon between two giggles as Yeojin tickled her sides and blew in her ear.Hyeju said, “Okay, fix the chairs, make sure there is a perfect eight-chair circle, and let’s go!”
[New order:  Sohyun, Bae, Kyujin, Xinyu, Yooyeon, Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Chaeyeon, Sullyoon]
The girls stood in front of their chairs and Yeji started the music.  This time she played ‘Scream’ by Dreamcatcher.  The music started at the second chorus.  The parade of girls quickly circled the chairs following the fast-tempo strong groove in the chorus, then the bridge hit which suddenly slows down.  Kyujin and Yooyeon slowed down to match it, but Bae and Xinyu nearly ran into the girl in front of them, respectively, and ended up pushing them along.  Toward the end of the bridge as the groove picks up again, they repeat ‘No more, no more, no more’ twice and then the music stopped.Jiwoo shouted, “DAMN YEJI!  That was epic!”Somehow, Kyujin made it back to chair three where she was last time and sat easily, forgetting there was a new trap under it.Nakyoung nearly jumped out of her chair in excitement, pretty sure she knew what Haewon put here.  Haewon was a bit… distracted… to even care what was happening.Sohyun and Bae took their number one and two chairs again, knowing they were safe.  Sullyoon was jiving on what Yeji was doing with the music, and had a pretty good idea of when it was going to stop, not to mention secretly belting ‘Scream’ in the shower even before she was a trainee.  Anyway… she anticipated it perfectly and easily sat in chair eight, causing a chain reaction of Chaeyeon, Jiwoo, and Seoyeon sitting in each consecutive chair behind her.  That left Yooyeon and Xinyu for the final chair.  Yooyeon had the slight edge in speed and pushed Xinyu as hard as she could on the hips.  Xinyu tripped forward a bit and Yooyeon took the seat.Xinyu glared at her.  She pouted and said, “That wasn’t very nice… why are my own teammates like this?”Yooyeon looked down and said quietly, “I’m sorry…”Nakyoung shouted, “Don’t worry about it!  She’ll be fine!”Seoyeon said, “First loser seems to know something.”Jiwoo looked at Bae.  “Wow… our opponents are destroying each other.”Bae raised an eyebrow and gave her a thumbs up.Sullyoon said, “Remarkable there is a group with more conflict than us.”Kyujin said, “There wouldn’t be ANY conflict if there weren’t so MANY secrets!”Seoyeon said, “Secrets are much worse than our open hostility resulting from our drive to win things…”Sullyoon said, “I should just keep my mouth shut…”Hyeju said, “Xinyu!  Looking bad for you.  But, Kyujin seems to have landed on the new trap her teammate placed there.”Haewon heard and focused for a minute to look at what was going on.  “Well shit…  Kyu, why would you sit there?”Nakyoung cheered again.Kyujin said, “I forgot… about the trap things… they are under…”Hyeju said, “Well, give it a read!”Kyujin sighed and picked up the card under her chair.  “Must be bra-less…”Bae said, “Really?  Jiwoo is the only one that can sit there?”Chaeyeon said, “Boob advantages…”Kyujin said, “Hyeju?  So, what order do effects resolve?”Hyeju said, “Eh?”Kyujin said quickly, “Boobs first trap second?  Trap first, boobs second?  Sit and talk first, trap later?  Trap always first before everything?  Trap in between talking and boobs?”Sullyoon facepalmed.  “Maybe Hyeju doesn’t play collectable card games?”Hyeju said, “Oh, I play things…  I think the only thing I need to say is:  Yes, you can take your bra off right now to avoid the trap.”Yooyeon said, “WHAT?”Before anyone even realized the implications, Kyujin had her bra off and flung it toward Hyeju.Lily covered her eyes, “Nauuurrrrrrr, again….”Nakyoung sat back down in her chair.  “Why does everything I’m sure is about to happen happen backwards.  You wives are cursed!”Sohyun said, “Don’t include me!  ‘Wheel of fortune’ group badge anyone?  HUH?  Remember?”Xinyu shrugged.  She smiled at Kyujin and winked.  Then she looked at Yooyeon…  “All she had to do to get me eliminated was take her bra off.  What do YOU have to say for yourself?”Yooyeon looked down, “Sorry…”The girls all got up and Xinyu grabbed chair eight and took it next to Haewon. Hyeju said, “Xinyu!  Grab a punishment!”Xinyu went to the board and unpinned an envelope and opened it.  “It says “Yeji”.”Yeji clapped, “Oh yay!  My turn!”“I’m excited.  I think…”Hyeju said, “Don’t be… also, pick a trap!”Xinyu grabbed the traps.  “Only two left?”“Yes, there were only six.  I didn’t want a trap on every chair at the end.”“Okay, I’ll put this one on chair four.”  She ran over to chair four and slid it underneath, not missing a good view of Kyujin’s chest on the way.Jiwoo said, “Kyu… cover yourself…”“Aww, what’s does it matter at this point.”Seoyeon jeered at Jiwoo.  “Yeah Jiwoo, who cares, stop being so shy.”Sullyoon sighed to herself, “Jiwoo shy…”Xinyu sat in her chair and looked around expectantly.Yeji grabbed Heejin’s hand and they walked together to Xinyu’s chair.Yeji said, “Xinyu… spread your legs a bit.  Keep your hands behind your back, no touching us.”  Yeji sat on one of Xinyu’s thighs.  Heejin sat on the other, the two of them facing each other.  “Okay Hyeju!  You’ll have to play the music.”Hyeju said, “Got it!  Everyone ready?”
[New order:  Sohyun, Bae, Kyujin, Yooyeon, Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Chaeyeon, Sullyoon]
The girls all stood up and got ready to move.Hyeju started the music, it was ‘Full Moon’ by Sunmi.  “CLASSIC,” shouted Bae.  The girls started moving to the slow deliberate beat.Yeji immediately grabbed Heejin’s head and started kissing her.  Xinyu looked confused.Nakyoung asked, “What is this punishment?”Lily said, “Not sure, but Yeji’s latest pastime is making out with Heejin.”“I see…”Haewon said, “Them making out to this song is really hot…”Yeji and Heejin gradually moved their mouths closer to Xinyu’s.  She tried to get her mouth in there as well, but was always denied.  She pecked on Heejin’s shoulder with her nose.  “Hey!  Hey!”  But she was ignored by both of them.Lily said, “Chinese girl wants a kiss too, but she is being denied…”Nakyoung said, “I guess that is a punishment?  At least for Xinyu…”Back at the chairs, Hyeju played the song from the beginning all the way through the first chorus.  At the end of the first chorus is the “Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh” part and Hyeju stopped it right in the middle.Jiwoo, Kyujin and Bae all perfectly anticipated when she was going to stop it.  All three of them ran in seemingly random directions across from where they were standing.  Kyujin made a bolt for chair three, Bae ran for chair seven and Jiwoo for chair five.  Sullyoon got a little lost in the music and was as confused as TripleS by the maknae’s randomness.  Chaeyeon got her butt into chair one and Sohyun into chair six.  Seoyeon was very late, but no one went anywhere near chair four because of the trap and she sat in it, taking her chances.  Sullyoon and Yooyeon both went to chair two, and pushed and shoved each other, but somehow both managed to sit on the chair side-by-side, still pushing and shoving.Yooyeon cursed, “DAMMIT!” and then “SORRY!” and then she pushed Sullyoon as hard as she could, causing her to move enough to fit on the chair.Bae said, “Hey!  Easy on my Yoona!”“Sorry.  I’m sorry…  I’m out no matter what, so I just wanted the chair as a final show of… oh nothing…”Sullyoon got up and dusted herself off.Yooyeon said, “I’m sorry, I’m really sorry.”Sullyoon gave her a hug.  “It’s okay!  I know you want to win!”“Yeah… and I suck…”Lily said, “Come hang out with me, suck girl!”Haewon said, “You essentially cursed, and someone might construe that statement as gross…”Lily glared at Haewon.  “Naurrrrr.”Hyeju said, “We have to do stuff in order!”Xinyu had enough of having her hands behind her back and started poking on Yeji’s shoulder with her index finger.  Yeji and Heejin momentarily broke their kiss.  Yeji scolded Xinyu.  “NO HANDS I SAID!”  Xinyu pouted and put her hands behind her back again.  Yeji and Heejin started kissing again, as close as they could to Xinyu’s face. Hyeju said, “Yoona.  You lost.”Sullyoon pouted.  “I got wrestled out of a chair…”“Yooyeon.  What is the trap on your chair?”“TripleS…”“Yooyeon, join Yoona in the center.”Yooyeon got up and shamefully stood next to Sullyoon.“Seoyeon!  Read the new trap.”Seoyeon grabbed the trap under chair four.  “It says ‘KY-U-JIN’.”Kyujin said, “Oh?  Me?”“And Jinsol and Nakyoung?”Hyeju said, “Aye!”“But Nakyoung is out, so it will only get Kyujin and Jinsol?  Smart move Xinyu.”Bae said, “Boooo,” but saw the situation Xinyu was in with Yeji and Heejin and decided not to rag on her at the current moment.  Instead, she turned toward Kyujin, “Why are YOU sitting on chair three?  We need one of them to sit on it, so they trigger it?”“Would you rather I got the new trap?”“No…”“Would you rather I sat in chair one?”“No… but…”“HUSH IT!  I knew it was safe.”Bae zipped her lips.Seoyeon asked, “Hyeju… what WOULD have happened if two traps triggered?”“Wouldn’t you like to know?”“That’s why I asked…”“Too bad…”Jiwoo said, “Girls getting a little testy around these chairs!”Jiwoo was no longer hiding her chest.  Seoyeon smiled at her.Hyeju said, “Yooyeon is out.  You won her chair Yoona.”Sullyoon said, “Damn straight I did…” and proudly sat down on chair two.Yooyeon put her head down and walked to the punishments.  She opened an envelope.  “Heejin…”Lily said, “Ummm, she’s busy?”Hyeju said, “Read the last trap and put it where you like.”Yooyeon looked at it and thought for a bit, pointing to each girl still in the game.  She put the trap under chair six.Seoyeon said, “She has determined it is bad for TripleS, keep that in mind.”  Chaeyeon and Sohyun gave her a thumbs up.Yooyeon grabbed chair seven and put it next to Xinyu.Hyeju shouted, “Hey naughty bunnies!  You can stop frustrating the Chinese girl now!”Yeji broke the kiss.  Heejin smiled at her.  Xinyu said, “I HATE YOU BOTH!  I want some!”They each pecked one of Xinyu’s cheeks.Yeji got up and walked back to Hyeju.  She stopped at Sullyoon along the way.  “Good thing that wasn’t you…  I might have forgotten to be frustrating.”Bae got up and swatted Yeji on the back of the head.  “Ruuuuuuuusieeeeee is gone!  Leave her alone…”Heejin motioned for Yooyeon to sit, and she did.  She asked, “Can I sit on your lap?”Yooyeon said, “I guess…”“No guess… either I can, or I can’t.  No big deal if you don’t want me to…”“Go ahead.”Yooyeon put her legs together and Heejin sat on her lap, facing her and straddling her. Xinyu said, “I don’t understand these punishments…”Lily was just finishing her second bag of chips, proving Xinyu’s point.Xinyu asked Lily, “Can I have the carrots please?”Lily handed her the bowl of carrots.  “Hyeju!  Get moving!  I want to see what is going to happen to Yooyeon!”Hyeju said, “Alright!  Girls, get ready to move!”
[New order:  Chaeyeon, Sullyoon, Kyujin, Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Sohyun, Bae]
Yeji got her phone going again and started the next song, it was ‘Zombie’ by Everglow.  She started with the first chorus “I’m a… zombie…”Kyujin said, “Who is this?”Bae said, “Everglow!”Heejin gently felt Yooyeon’s sides with her fingertips until she jerked a bit.  Heejin slowly and gently teased that spot on either of her sides with her fingertips or fingernails.Yooyeon screamed uncharacteristically loudly, “DEAR GOD”.  She put her hands on the top of her head and grabbed her own hair.Lily was watching intently.  She instantly crossed her legs and said, “Yaurrrrr.”Seoyeon, Chaeyeon, and Sohyun kept making eye contact to stay in synch, they were worried about what Nmixx was going to do next.  The chorus ends with a strong “I’m a zombie”.  Several girls thought Yeji would stop it there and backed to chairs, but when it didn’t happen, they had to rejoin the circle quickly and get the rhythm back.  The song continued “Ra-ri-ra-ri-ra” then finally on the last ‘I’m a zombie’ of the chorus, Yeji stopped the music.Not getting much notice, Chaeyeon was again on her toes and jumped toward to chair four, remembering that no TripleS member would trigger that one.  Also, the only one she didn’t have to try to remember if it was safe or not.  Sohyun decided to take the chance on the new trap and mess with Bae, she snuck behind her and sat on chair six.  Seoyeon paused, because she was at chair three, allowing Kyujin to sit there.  Seoyeon moved to chair one and Jiwoo to chair two.  Bae adjusted and took chair five.  Sullyoon realized too late that she was standing around watching girls steal chairs instead of doing something. Standing in the center without a chair, Sullyoon said, “That damn Lucy…  She distracted me…”Yeji said, “Sorry…”Bae said, “At least you didn’t get wrestled this time.”Yooyeon moaned loudly in response.Hyeju said, “Sorry Yoona.”“It’s okay, I’m getting tired… this night has been a lot…”“Is there an Nmixx number in chair one?”Seoyeon said, “No!  It’s me!  Seoyeon!”“Chair two is now untrapped.  Is the person on chair three wearing a bra?”Kyujin said, “Of course not!”“Is the person in chair four a ‘Kyu’ or ‘Jin’?”Chaeyeon said, “Only Chaeyeon, who is better at this game than YOONA and YOOYEON!  Just saying…”“Okay Sohyun, read the last trap.”Yooyeon shouted, “She’s fine!  OH MY GOD, PLEASE STOP SOON HEEJIN.”Hyeju said, “She doesn’t really want you to stop…”Just in case, Sohyun quickly flipped the card, it said ‘NO PANTS’.  Sohyun said, “I don’t happen to be wearing any pants!  How lucky!”Sullyoon asked, “So I’m officially out?”“Grab chair six and grab a punishment.”Sohyun quickly got up.  Sullyoon grabbed the chair and ran it over to Yooyeon.  “I’m going as fast as my tired butt can go…”She then ran over to the board and grabbed an envelope and tore it open.  “It says, ‘LOSER’.”Hyeju said, “YOU WON THE LOSER BADGE, CONGRATULATIONS!”Bae, Kyujin and Jiwoo ran to hug her Sullyoon.  She said, “No… boobs…”  She hugged Bae and they jumped up and down together.  Kyujin and Jiwoo shrugged and went back to their chairs.Sullyoon ran over to Yooyeon and looked at Heejin.  Heejin said, “Oh come on… this is so fun!”Yeojin said, “This one time… At least she wasn’t tied to the chair like…”Heejin jumped up and pointed at Yeojin.  “HUSH.”Yooyeon still had her hands on her head and kept repeating “Oh my god… oh my god…”Sullyoon stood in front of her chair, “You okay Yooyeon?”Yooyeon jumped up and jumped into Sullyoon’s arms.  She whispered something in Sullyoon’s ear and Sullyoon turned three shades of red.“Okay… down girl… save it for Lily…”Yooyeon sat back down in her chair, put her feet up on the edge and hugged her own legs, burying her face in her knees.Lily said, “Ohhhhhhhhr.”Sullyoon said, “Dang Heejin, you broke her…”Heejin shrugged and went back to stand next to Yeji.Hyeju said, “Well!  The badge war is NOW TIED!  Who will win the last tie-breaking badge?”Haewon said, “And the other five you still haven’t told us about…”Nakyoung said, “There is one… you already told us about that.   Then there will be a tie and yet another whole game…”Hyeju said, “Come on girls!  For real!  Only two badges left!  Focus, you are almost to those fantastic prizes.”Bae ran around the now very small ring of chairs giving each girl a high-five.  “Wake up!  Let’s play!”“Get ready for the next round!”
[New order:  Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Kyujin, Chaeyeon, Bae, Sohyun]
The girls got ready with the tiny five chair circle.  Yeji started the music, ‘Monster’ by Irene and Seulgi.  She started at the end of the first chorus ‘I’m a little monster’.  As the second verse started, Bae said, “Okay, this beat is hard to play musical chairs to.”Jiwoo said, “Red Velvet?”Kyujin said, “Just Irene and Seulgi.”“Ahh…”Yooyeon raised her head and decided to pay attention.  “How can they keep a commentary going while still focusing on the game and being good at it?”Sullyoon said, “Imagine a running commentary on EVERYTHING EVER...”“Girl… you should meet Soomin and Yeonji.  You would feel lucky with your maknaes.”The groove was really hard to walk to, or anticipate anything and Yeji stopped it quickly.Kyujin easily sat in chair two, Chaeyeon was on top of things again and went to her chair four again.  Seoyeon settled on chair one.  This time, the rest of Nmixx was a bit off of their game, but Jiwoo got chair three.  Bae and Sohyun had a face-off for chair five.  Bae used her slight size advantage and grabbed Sohyun around her waist, lifted her up and fell backwards onto chair five.  Sohyun fell into her lap.Sohyun said, “If you are going to be like that to me… you better finish the job…”Bae pecked her on the cheek.  “Maybe later, but wrong wife…”Sohyun stood up.  “Well shit…  I got out-Bae-d.  I should be used to hanging out with giants…”Hyeju said, moving forward more quickly and without the trap formalities, “No one triggered a trap, so you are indeed out Sohyun.  It is getting really difficult to avoid them now though…”Sohyun walked over to the board and grabbed an envelope.  “Kiss the girl in chair two for one minute.”Bae said, “Damn Hyeju…  Yoona, if you had chosen that last round, you would have had to kiss topless Jiwoo.”Sullyoon said, “Or run home screaming instead?”An unphased Sohyun had already walked over to Kyujin.  “Do you mind if I kiss you?”“No no!  Of course not!  I’m excited!”Sohyun gently sat down on Kyujin’s lap.Xinyu said, “SHE GETS AN ACTUAL KISS?  WHAT THE FUCK HYEJU?”Kyujin was only wearing safety shorts, and Sohyun only a revealing bra and safety shorts, there was a lot of flesh on flesh.Yeji said, “I’m timing, go ahead when you are ready.”Sohyun said, “I’m staring at your chest, I’m not going to be able to stop myself from touching it for a minute.”Kyujin shrugged.Sohyun flipped her hair behind her back and tilted her head and went in for the kiss, Kyujin responded by gently kissing her.  Sohyun’s hand was not gentle as it attacked Kyujin’s breast, her tongue following into Kyujin’s mouth.Lily and Sullyoon had their eyes covered.Bae said to Jiwoo, “Girl had no idea what was about to hit her…”Jiwoo responded, “Now she does!”They kept that position for a minute and when Yeji called time, Sohyun’s hand and mouth actually let go of Kyujin.  She stood up and innocently grabbed chair five from Bae and took it back to the others.Heejin said, “Look at you letting go.”Sohyun said, “I’m not a monster, not going to overstay my welcome on the first try…”Bae walked over to Kyujin.  “You okay?”Kyujin didn’t say anything but nodded ‘yes’ excitedly.“Sure?”She did it again.“Okay then!  Next round!”
[New order:  Seoyeon, Kyujin, Jiwoo, Chaeyeon, Bae]
Yeji started the music, ‘Karma’ by Pixy.  She started with the chorus, ‘I’ll decide your fate, let’s flip a coin’.Chaeyeon said, “PIXY KARMA!”Bae said, “Nice!  You knew one!”The started the parade around the four chairs. Lily said, “Xinyu… do you have to eat those carrots so loudly?”Xinyu said, “Yes…”Sohyun said, “Don’t poke her… she’s agitated.”Xinyu purposefully crunched a carrot as loud as she could.Toward the end of the chorus, there’s a line ‘Just toying with you’ and Yeji stopped the music with a giggle.It was no longer a game of getting to the chair nearest to you, it was a game of bolting toward the chair you wanted.  Four girls had already identified the chair they wanted and made it to them easily.  Seoyeon didn’t get the memo and that left her chair-less.  She spun around and realized she was out.  She slowly walked over to Chaeyeon on chair one.She let her have it.  “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU PICK THAT CHAIR?”Chaeyeon looked at her, confused why she was being yelled at.  “Umm… you didn’t get a chair because you were slow, not because I chose this chair.”“But if you let that chair open, one of the Nmixx girls would have had to sit there and trigger the trap.”Chaeyeon said, “Mmmhmm.”“I SAID WHAT THE FUCK?”“Seoyeon… look at the traps.  Next round I can just stand here and not even try to get a chair and one of them will be out.  Guess what… Maybe the same thing the next round.  How about you go find someone else to yell at?  I’m being good at a game.”Seoyeon looked down and walked slowly to the bulletin board.Haewon said, “Wait… she’s right… My crush is a ‘musical chairs’ genius!”Yooyeon said, “If we ever do this again?  We are getting her drunk BEFORE the games start…”Haewon gave her a thumbs up.Seoyeon opened the envelope.  “’Choose a girl still in the game with MORE clothing than you that must match your current amount of clothing.’  Well, at least I didn’t get an actual punishment.  Take off your hoodie, Jinsol…”Slightly scared of Seoyeon, Bae took off her hoodie and threw it to Hyeju.  She was wearing a sports bra as well.Xinyu stopped crunching a carrot for a second and yelled, “FINALLY MISTRESS BELLY!”Seoyeon grabbed a chair and then put it down and ran over and gave Chaeyeon a hug.  “I’m sorry kiddo, I shouldn’t have yelled at you.  This many hours of intense competition is getting to me…”Chaeyeon said, “It’s okay.  I got this!  Trust me!”Yooyeon said, “We’re so doomed… again…”Bae said, “Hyeju, Chaeyeon is right, let’s just pick which of us is out this round and move on.”Hyeju said, “No!  I took the time to pick these songs, dammit you all are going to listen to them!  Also, Chaeyeon is drunk, she might forget what she is doing and sit somewhere helpful.”Chaeyeon threw her hands into the air.  “Why can’t I do anything without getting rude comments?”“Easy target?”“Target the wives… they obviously suck more than me… AT EVERYTHING!”Hyeju said, “Let’s go!  Get ready!”
[New order:  Chaeyeon, Bae, Kyujin, Jiwoo]
Yeji started the music, ‘Ring X Ring’ by Billlie.  It started with Sua’s rap in the bridge, “It’s either yes or no…” Chaeyeon said, “Billllie!”Jiwoo said, “She is getting smarter and better at everything the drunker she is…”The next part of the song was the famous dance break which was a solid twenty seconds long.  The girls danced their way around the chairs.Seoyeon said, “Wow… two topless dancers… who would have thought…”Sohyun said, “See, the view is MUCH better from here anyway.”Lily said, “Are you okay Yoona?  You are being very quiet…”Sullyoon said, “Eh?  Oh?  Right… sorry, left the room in my mind there for a bit…  I don’t need to watch the twins dancing topless.”Bae said, “I’m glad it doesn’t much matter where we stop because I’m very into this song and there are a million places that Yeji could find it amusing…”The song stopped before the last chorus.Chaeyeon just stood still and the Nmixx girls all jumped for chairs.  Jiwoo took chair three with the ‘topless’ trap and Bae took chair two.  That left Kyujin on chair one with the Nmixx trap.She stood up and skipped all of the formalities and made her way to the bulletin board.Kyujin read the envelope.  “Remove one item of clothing.”Lily said, “Naurrrrrrr!”Haewon said, “That’s shit Kyujin, you don’t have to do that… put it back on the board and pick a different one.”Kyujin thought for a bit.  She smiled broadly.  “Have all of you not been paying attention all night?”Bae said, “I think I have been…”Seoyeon looked at Yooyeon.  The both shook their heads at each other hoping what they were thinking wasn’t correct.  Yooyeon said, “It is Hyeju… who knows…  could be totally random…  Maybe Yeojin gets to pick or something…”Yeojin jumped up, “Yeojin gets to do what?  Come sit on Yooyeon?”Yooyeon said, “NO!  I HAD ENOUGH LOONA ON MY LAP FOR ONE NIGHT!”Kyujin pulled down her safety shorts and threw them at Hyeju.  All of the Nmixx girls, even Haewon covered their eyes.Sullyoon said, “Bye!  Yoona going back to Yoona-land.  Let me know if I have to cheer because we won…”Kyujin grabbed a chair and took it back to the growing group of losers.Haewon said, “NO!  You go sit in the kitchen!”“Shut up…” Kyujin sat down, crossed her legs to cover as much as she could.Hyeju said, “Three girls, two chairs, no traps!”
[New order:  Chaeyeon, Bae, Jiwoo]
Bae and Jiwoo made eye-contact for quite a while.  Chaeyeon saw it plainly.Nakyoung said, “Should be pretty easy for them to team up and not let her get a chair.”Lily said, “Jinsol and Jiwoo teaming up… is… unpredictable…”Yeji played Itzy’s ‘Mr. Vampire’ from the beginning.Jiwoo said, “This group is overrated…”Bae said, “Yeah… Twice wannabees…”Yeji said, “Get ready for six minutes of Itzy!  Mr. Vampire without Lia and then again with Lia!”Chaeyeon was feeling a bit left out and continued with the Yeji bashing, “That Yuna girl from this group?  Obviously hottest member…”On the first “Bite me, bite you, boom boom”, Yeji stopped the music.Jiwoo and Bae ignored the chairs and tried to keep Chaeyeon between them, while aligning themselves with the two chairs so they could just back onto them at the perfect opportunity.  Chaeyeon knew exactly what they were doing.  She was facing Jiwoo and simply said, “Sorry… I really need to win…”She lunged toward Jiwoo, put her arm out to catch Jiwoo in the stomach and used her foot to kick out one of Jiwoo’s ankles from behind.  Jiwoo fell to the carpet and Chaeyeon sat on a chair.  Bae said, “Damn…”  and sat on the other chair.Hyeju said, “Wow!  Jiwoo got martial arted by Chaeyeon during musical chairs!”  She walked over and gave Jiwoo a hand.  “You okay?”Jiwoo smiled at Hyeju and let her help her up.  “I’m fine!  Nice job Chaeyeon, I wasn’t expecting that…”Nakyoung, Yooyeon and Seoyeon all looked at each other in amazement.Hyeju patted Jiwoo on the head.  “Two more punishments!  Grab one!”Jiwoo picked the next to the last envelope and read it, “‘Free pass!  No punishment necessary.’  Oh yay me!  I can just go sit down?”Hyeju said, “You sure can!”Jiwoo grabbed a chair and put it next to Kyujin.  Then she remembered Kyujin was naked and put it next to Nakyoung instead and sat down.  “ANY CANDY AT ALL?” she asked.The tray was entirely empty.Haewon said, “Sorry, you are way too late…  The Chinese bunny even ate all of the carrots…”“Good!  Gross!  I mean the carrots, not you Xinyu…”Xinyu winked at her.Bae and Chaeyeon stared at the one last chair.Bae said, “Whelp…”Chaeyeon said, “I guess this is for all the prizes and everything.  This is why I don’t typically compete in anything… Why would anyone like this much pressure?”“You can just let me win, no sweat, no more worrying.”“Oh can I?  You get your sweet-talk lessons from Haewon, don’t you…”Haewon said, “WHAT?”Lily giggled.Out of nowhere, Yeji started the music.  The introduction started with “La la la la la la la”.Nakyoung stood up, “Girls never die!”Seoyeon said, “That’s funny Yeji.  And appropriate!”Chaeyeon and Bae weren’t really sure what to do, so they awkwardly circled the lone chair.At the “la la la la la la la la” in the first chorus, Yeji stopped the music.Chaeyeon giggled because she was at the front of the chair.  She spun her butt around and plopped down.Unfortunately, Bae had pulled the chair out from under her and flipped it around.  Chaeyeon’s butt fell straight to the carpet.  Bae spun herself and sat in the chair.Hyeju said, “BAE WINS!  NMIXX WINS MUSICAL CHAIRS!”Haewon, Lily, Jiwoo and Kyujin all ran to Bae with jumping up and down and cheering.Yooyeon said to Sullyoon, “You are missing the celebration.”Sullyoon said, “Eh?  Oh?  Damn… thanks!”  She jumped up.Nakyoung said to Sullyoon as she was walking away, “Please stop Kyujin from jumping so much…”Sullyoon sighed and joined her group.Hyeju said, “Everyone, gather around!  We can summarize the current state of the game!”TripleS all got up.  Chaeyeon was still sitting on the carpet in disbelief.  Yooyeon helped her up.  “You did amazing Chaeyeon, I’m so impressed…  Moving chairs should be illegal…  In TripleS circles, you totally won!”Chaeyeon fell into her arms and started crying.  “I WANTED TO WIN… What happened to me…  I don’t want to be like you and Seoyeon… Please save me!”She let go of Yooyeon and hugged Sohyun instead, “Please make me like you and Xinyu again…”Sohyun patted her on the head.  “Sorry… I don’t think you are ready for that yet… but maybe someday…”Haewon walked over to Chaeyeon and grabbed both of her hands.  “I was just horny before.  Now I actually like you…”Chaeyeon pushed her with both hands.  Haewon nearly fell over like she did way back at the escape room challenge.  But then Chaeyeon felt bad and steadied her.  She patted Haewon on the head.  Lily pulled Haewon back to the proper side of the room.Hyeju said, “First of all, Chaeyeon needs to read the last loser envelope.”Chaeyeon grabbed the envelope, opened it, and read it.  “’Black X’… of course…”Hyeju said, “We will have one final black X competition between Yooyeon and Chaeyeon.”Seoyeon said, finger raised in the air, “And the winner gets the final ‘hidden’ badge!”Hyeju said, “Nope…  The loser gonna lose her bra, or maybe pants in Yooyeon's case.”Seoyeon sighed.“Nmixx now has ONE more badge than TripleS.”Yooyeon was ignoring the fact she had to be involved in another black X competition and said, “BUT there is the hidden badge!  We can tie it back up!”Hyeju said, “The hidden badge goes to… the first girl… to be naked.  Congrats Kyujin!  You got another hidden badge!”Kyujin jumped up and down.  ALL of the girls hid their eyes.  “I was right!  I knew it!  It had to be!  I totally predicted you Hyeju!  SEE WHO WAS PAYING ATTENTION YOONA?”Sullyoon vaguely smiled at her, eyes still closed.  Yooyeon and Seoyeon exchanged glances.  Yooyeon was about to explain that they suspected it also and chose not to believe it, but Seoyeon just shook her head at her and Yooyeon decided it wasn’t worth it.Hyeju said, “NMIXX WINS THE BADGE WAR!”All of Nmixx formed a huddle and jumped up and down and cheered.Hyeju said, “BUT!  We still have to determine the individual winners from both groups for the dinner!”Nmixx settled down.  Bae said, “Oh right!”“Jinsol and Kyujin BOTH have five badges, so we will need a tie breaker for Nmixx!  Also, everyone in TripleS except Chaeyeon has three badges, so we need a five-way tie breaker for TripleS!  We still have three more mini competitions, and then we can all relax and just have fun!”Sullyoon said, “Yay me for not having to do ANYTHING!”  She wandered back to the chairs and sat with Heejin and Yeojin.  Yeji sat on her lap.“I said, yay me for not having to do anything…”Yeji looked at her expectantly.  “You don’t want to do anything?”Haewon, Lily and Jiwoo joined her.  Haewon said, “Yeji is the kissing bandit, she just wants to kiss you to add you to her list and then she’ll go back to Heejin.”Sullyoon said, “Yeojin!  Can you bring more drinks please?” Please take the poll each week to influence the story!  This week's p oll (12/21/24-12/28/24):  https://forms.gle/DSn3AB8W6XivsaJK6
Lots of important questions this week to break the ties and plan the rest of the story!

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Chapter 12:  Karma Bites Yooyeon
Yeojin said, “Nope… I’m off duty now…  The casino is closed.”Yeji got up from Sullyoon’s lap.  “Come on…  I’ll help you in the kitchen.”  Sullyoon begrudgingly got up and followed Yeji.They pulled a few things out of the fridge and put together a tray of water and soju.Just before picking it up and going back out to the party room, Yeji stopped inches from Sullyoon.  “I’m not usually like this.  But your shy determination and confidence really turns me on.  Yeji.  Not Lucy.  Okay both…”Shy determination and confidence?  Okay fine, she thought.  “What are you going to do about it?”Yeji slowly put her hand between Sullyoon’s hair and her ear, easing it to the back of her head.  She then pulled their heads together and kissed her.  It was a slow, gentle, yet seductive kiss.As if on cue, the door opened, “Do you guys need help?”  Heejin saw what was going on.  “Oh… clearly not…”  She closed the door a little harshly.Sullyoon broke the kiss.  “Well shit…”“Don’t worry about her, we just have fun together.”“I’m a bit of an expert on passive aggressive door closings… that was one of them.”Yeji picked up the tray and the pair returned to the rest of the group.  Sullyoon grabbed a bottle of soju and stood with Haewon, Lily and Yooyeon.Yooyeon said, “Why did Heejin look like that?”Haewon asked, “Why does Yoona look like that?”Lily said, “Naurrrr.”Sullyoon said, “Yeji might have kissed me and Heejin saw…”Yooyeon giggled, “Even Sullyoon has a cloud of controversy around her.  You girls…”Sullyoon shrugged.  “No cloud!”Lily said, “What clouds?  You are seeing things…”Yooyeon shook her head at Lily.Hyeju said, “Yooyeon!  Chaeyeon!  What game do you want to play for your black X?”Yooyeon said, “Can we just flip a coin?  Even I have my competitive limits… and I’m hitting it…”Chaeyeon said, “Come on, sister… when do you and I ever get to compete at something?  Or when will we ever get to again?”“We can play a game whenever you want…  Damn, I really am rubbing off on you tonight.”“I’m drunk, I want to play NOW.”“Fine then… what do you want to play?”“Let’s play Twister.  It looked fun.”“You are going to be doing things on the mat half naked and Haewon is going to be staring at you.”Chaeyeon looked over at Haewon who winked at her and pointed a finger gun at her.“It’s okay, I’ll give her a show.”“Okay…  Your gravestone!”Hyeju said, “It is settled, let’s get twister set up again!”The girls cleared an area and yet again unfolded the Twister mat and smoothed it out as best as possible.  Hyeju grabbed the spinner.  “Since there are occasional rules controversies, what rules should we use for this match?”Yooyeon was about to say something, but Seoyeon cut her off.  “I don’t think the contestants should get to choose the rules.Yooyeon frowned and said, “That’s fine, but I don’t think Seoyeon’s should get to choose the rules either.”Hyeju said, “Xinyu, Jiwoo, and Sohyun, as previous Twister players, decide what rules they should use.”Jiwoo said, “I don’t want to get close to both wives at the same time, what if they attack me.  Clearly, I’m hotter than Jinsol.”Sohyun shrugged and said, “I think they should start right next to each other in the middle of the mat, get them all twisted up with each other right away.”Xinyu patted her wife on the head, “Nice!  And let’s use one spin and both of them have to do it right away.”Seoyeon said, “Should have let me suggest.  Heh…”Yooyeon and Chaeyeon walked onto the mat.  They faced each other, Yooyeon right foot on her yellow number three and Left foot on her blue number three.  Chaeyeon left foot on her yellow number three and right foot on her blue number three.  Standing so close to together, Chaeyeon only wearing a bra and safety shorts, and Yooyeon also only having a bra on top, they couldn’t do anything except giggle at each other. Uncharacteristically, Lily shouted, “Yooyeon, take your pants off so you two match better…”Haewon said under her breath, “Overcompensating, eh?”Hyeju spun the spinner.  “Left foot blue!”Yooyeon easily just took a step back with her left foot, from her blue three to blue two, now standing diagonal, away from Chaeyeon a bit.  Chaeyeon moved her left foot from her yellow three to blue two.  She was now facing the side of the mat, both feet on blue.Hyeju spun again.  “Right foot green!”Yooyeon moved her right foot from her yellow three to green three, spreading open her legs a bit.Lily said, “Ugh, why pants…”Sullyoon said, “Lily… calm down…”  Sullyoon handed her a soju.Chaeyeon’s right foot was on blue three and she spun ninety degrees and put her right foot on her green two.  Her legs were slightly spread with the yellow circle unoccupied under them.  Her feet were comfortably placed, but was now facing away from Yooyeon.  “Good thing I’m not battling Sohyun, would be terrifying to not see what she was up to back there…”Haewon adjusted her position to get a good look at Chaeyeon’s butt.Hyeju spun again.  “Right hand blue!”Yooyeon put her right hand onto her blue three, in front of her left foot, but her right foot was still spread over to green, making an awkward stance.  Chaeyeon put her right hand on her blue number one, in front of her left foot.  She was awkwardly stretched forward, the weight of her body on her left foot and crossed right hand.Seoyeon shouted, “Go Chaeyeon!  You’ve got her right where you want her!”Haewon moved again, back to Chaeyeon’s front to get a look down her bra.Hyeju spun again, “Right foot yellow!”Yooyeon moved her foot stretched out to her green number three to her yellow number three, where it was originally.  She squatted down comfortably. Sohyun tried to mess with Chaeyeon and said, “Attack her Yooyeon!  Nice move!”Chaeyeon wanted to turn her head around to look, but decided not to.  Moving her foot from her green two to yellow two was easy.  Her legs were no longer spread and she could squat down comfortably with her center of gravity under her.Hyeju spun again, “Right hand yellow!”Yooyeon moved her right hand from her blue three to yellow four on Chaeyeon’s side of the mat.  It was still comfortable, but opened her up a bit.  Chaeyeon moved her right hand from her blue one to yellow one, also making her squat a bit more comfortable, her right hand just in front of her right leg. Hyeju spun again, “Left hand red!”Now things were going to get interesting as the hand that was previously free had to get planted onto the mat.  Yooyeon decided to actually attack this time.  She put her right hand onto red four, on Chaeyeon’s side of the mat, but she was spread out quite awkwardly, holding up the weight of her upper body with both arms, like an awkward push up.Seoyeon said, “She can’t hold that for long…”Xinyu said, “But Chaeyeon is running out of space!”Chaeyeon comfortably put her right hand on her red one.  She peeked under her body to see Yeoyeon holding herself up and she smiled.Hyeju spun again, “Left foot red!”Yooyeon moved her left foot to her red three from blue two.  Her feet were now side-by-side (red and yellow) but spread by one blue circle and her arms were side-by-side (red and yellow) but spread by one blue circle.  She squatted a bit like an open frog.  It was more comfortable, but still awkward.Remarkably, Chaeyeon also moved her right foot from her blue two to red two.  She was in the exact same position as Yooyeon, just two circles forward, and looking away from her.Jiwoo said, “No way!  They are in exactly the same position!  I think it is better when there is a spin for each player…”Seoyeon said, “Xinyu is right though… Chaeyeon doesn’t have any room to move and Yooyeon can do whatever she likes.”Yooyeon looked at Seoyeon like she was crazy.Hyeju spun again, “Right hand green!”Both girls moved their right hand from their respective yellow circle one circle over to the green circle.  It didn’t affect their stance much.Lily said, “It is like they are dancing together!”Hyeju spun again, “Left foot red.”Yooyeon giggled.  She moved her left foot backward from her red three to red four.  It was awkward, but she knew Chaeyeon should be in trouble.Indeed, Yooyeon’s left hand blocked the circle that Chaeyeon needed to keep up the dance with Yooyeon.  Instead of putting it on red three, she tried to put it on her red four on Yooyeon’s side of the mat.  It was a little too far for her hips to put her leg backward like that and she slipped forward onto her chest.  Yooyeon then fell on top of Chaeyeon’s leg as it accidently kicked her hand.Yooyeon couldn’t stop giggling and ended up hugging Chaeyeon’s leg.Chaeyeon was less amused, “Yooyeon… what are you doing to my leg?”“Hugging it…”“Why?”“Because it’s here!”  Yooyeon let go of Chaeyeon’s leg and climbed to her feet.  She then helped Chaeyeon stand up and patted her on the head.  “Nice try!  I’m still twister queen!”Chaeyeon glared at Yeojin.  “Yeojin!  Drinks!  Now!”Yeojin was startled, but didn’t want to deny her soon to be topless new friend, so she hopped up and ran to the kitchen in a reprise of her waitress role.Nakyoung and Seoyeon congratulated Yooyeon as well, and consoled Chaeyeon.Hyeju said, “Epic and fun last black X competition!  Chaeyeon loses and Yooyeon gets the first commemorative black X not-badge to take home.”“Is there really a thing?” asked Yooyeon.“No…”“I don’t get anything?”“You get something.”“What?”“We have to decide some things and then I’ll tell you!”“I’m not going to forget that you said there is a something…”“I have no doubt…”Yeojin returned with a tray of soju and nearly tripped in the center of the room.Haewon ran over to her.  “How many of those have you been drinking in there?”  She grabbed one soju off of the tray and Yeojin struggled to sit up two others that toppled over.“Wow, thanks for all the help Hornywon…” said Yeojin sarcastically.Haewon took the soju right to Chaeyeon.  She whispered in her ear, “Don’t worry, I won’t be rude… there’s no need to be shy around us… for real…”Chaeyeon looked at Haewon like she was the devil and clearly up to something.  She turned away from her, grabbed the soju out of her hand and opened it, downing half of it.Yooyeon said, “NOOOOO, you are the perfect level of drunk right now!”Hyeju said, “Sorry Chaeyeon, I need your bra.”Chaeyeon sat her soju unsteadily on the carpet, which make Yeji lunge forward to make sure it didn’t fall over.  Chaeyeon took off her bra and threw it in the general vicinity of Hyeju.  Yeji had grabbed her soju and picked it up and handed it back to Chaeyeon.  “You are stunning and hot by the way…”Chaeyeon smiled at Yeji, trying to ignore the fact she was topless.Kyujin said, “Why aren’t her groupmates looking at her strangely?  You all are to me?”Lily said, “Nauurrrr.”Sullyoon said, “TripleS has a much more… intimate… living situation?  Guessing they have accidently seen each other topless before?”No one confirmed or denied anything from TripleS.  Chaeyeon went back to hanging on Yooyeon’s side, topless or no.Sullyoon shrugged, “What’s next Hyeju?”Hyeju said, “Jinsol and Kyujin!  How do you want to settle who the winner is?”Kyujin said, “You are going to let us decide?”“Sure, whatever you want.  I mean, within reason.  It is a pretty big deal.”Kyujin said, “EPIC GAME OF CHECKERS.  ME AND JINSOL.  LET’S GO!”Bae said, “I’ll crush you…”Hyeju said, “I’m not sure how sitting around watching you two play checkers would be much fun for the rest of us.”Kyujin said, “YOU JUST SAID WE COULD PICK.”“TripleS!  How do you want to decide the winner for your side?”Nakyoung said, “Musical chairs redemption!  Especially since Chaeyeon was best at it, and she won’t be playing.”Chaeyeon said, “Chaeyeon… exiled to hang out with the four Nmixx losers…”Sullyoon said, “We are all losers, but today only having four losers is a step in the right direction!”Yeji said, “Yoona, always so adorably positive.”Heejin put her arms around Yeji’s waist to remind her she existed.Sohyun looked at Xinyu.  “Me and the wife want to try again at poker.  You screwed us with the cards last time, we want a second chance to prove we are good at it.”Hyeju said, “Now there’s a worthy competition!”Xinyu said, “Jinsol… why don’t you and Kyujin just play with us in a big poker tournament.  Whichever of you is first out loses.  It will be more fun than checkers.”Bae looked at Kyujin before remembering she was naked and then averting her eyes.  With eyes closed she asked, “Thoughts Kyu?”Kyujin said, “Poker will be fun!  Let’s do it!  But we can’t be trading clothing in for chips, Bae has three clothing and I have none, that would not be fair.”Hyeju agreed, “Sure…  You will all start on equal footing with the same number of chips and can’t get more by any method except winning.  With two exceptions…”Yooyeon jumped up and down, “I get a bonus for getting a fake, non-existent, black X not-badge winner?”“Exactly!  And Seoyeon gets her disadvantage.”Seoyeon said, “WAIT WHAT?”“You remember, the one Yooyeon gave to you so kindly!”“Oh, I forgot about that…  Why didn’t it happen for musical chairs, there were any number of fun disadvantages you could have given me then…”“You get it now.”“What if Chaeyeon and I were reversed, and I wasn’t even playing for this.  Yooyeon’s venom and greed would be for naught.”Yooyeon shrugged.“You get it now.”“So what… I get less chips, and Yooyeon gets extra?”Yooyeon had the biggest smirk on her face.Nakyoung said, “Wow, imagine if you combined Yooyeon’s smuggest smirk with our Lee Jiwoo’s most evil.  I never thought I would witness such a thing!”Yooyeon covered her face with her hand, but didn’t stop smirking.Lily said, “WHY IS SHE SO CUTE?”Jiwoo said, “She’s okay, I guess.  I mean I have an evil smirk too…”  Jiwoo tried to evil smirk.  Sullyoon and Bae cracked up laughing.Hyeju said, “Let’s get ready for poker again, we’ll need the big table!”Sullyoon said, “No… please…  let’s just play on the carpet.”Hyeju said, “Poker… on the carpet…  I guess…”Yeji grabbed Bae’s hand.  “Lucy isn’t going to play this time…  Remember everything she taught you, my apprentice!”Jinsol bowed profusely to Yeji.The girls made a clear spot in the center of the carpet and Hyeju grabbed Yeojin’s waitress tray as a platform to shuffle cards and keep track of chips and put it next to her.  “Jinsol and Kyujin, you have the most number of badges.  Play ‘rock paper scissors’ to see who gets to choose her spot first.”Bae threw rock and Kyujin threw scissors.“Jinsol!  Which spot?”“I’ll take Lucy’s first spot!  I’m ready for it!”  Yeji cheered for her.“Kyujin?”“I’m going to go last.”“Which TripleS member is brave enough to sit next to Kyujin?”Yooyeon put her finger to her mouth, dying to say something, but not sure if she should.  She managed to break through her own shyness.  “Disadvantage girl should have to sit there…”Seoyeon said, “Dear lord…”  But otherwise she didn’t argue and sat next to Kyujin.  Kyujin channeled Hornywon and teasingly ran her finger around Seoyeon’s naked shoulder.Yooyeon giggled to herself again, “That’s great!”  She sat down next to Seoyeon to observe.  The rest of TripleS plopped down on the carpet.  Hyeju handed out chips.  Everyone got 1000 credits, Yooyeon got 1150 and Seoyeon got 850.
 [The order is:  Kyujin, Seoyeon, Yooyeon, Sohyun, Xinyu, Nakyoung, Bae.  Betting order will be in reverse.]
Hyeju dealt the first hands.  “Here we go!  Jinsol!  You’re up!  Ante is 10 credits.”Everyone put in their 10 credits and Bae looked over her cards without an ounce of expression.  “I’ll bet 100.”Nakyoung said, “Oh right… she’s all acting and stuff now.  Well, I’m not acting, these cards are SHIT.  I fold.”Bae raised an eyebrow at Nakyoung.Everyone else bet 100, but Seoyeon folded.  Yooyeon was about to tease her, but this time decided not to.Hyeju said, “How many cards?”Bae said, “I only need one.”Xinyu looked over at her.  “Well, I also only need one…”Bae said, “But you are faking and I’m real.”“Oh hon… I never fake ANYTHING.”Sohyun said, “I’m probably faking, but give me two.”Yooyeon and Jiwoo both got three.Hyeju said, “New bets!”Bae said, “I’ll put in 200 more.”Xinyu said, “What?  I fold…”“Not faking, eh?”Xinyu smiled at her cutely, framing her face with her hands.  Everyone else folded.Kyujin said, “WHO INVITED JINSOL?”Hyeju said, “What if she doesn’t have anything?  You all just gave her the pot…”Bae showed her cards, “A pair of aces and a pair of threes.  TWO PAIR, some of them aces…”Bae reached over Nakyoung and grabbed Xinyu’s hand and tried to grab her cards which turned into a cat fight.Nakyoung said, “Okay, okay, innocent girl in between your mating ritual…”Hyeju said, “This is why we should be playing at a table…”Sullyoon shouted, “JINSOL!  Behave and stop making my ideas look dumb.”Yooyeon said, “It really is Lucy all over again.”
[Kyujin 890, Seoyeon 840, Yooyeon 1040, Sohyun 890, Xinyu 890, Nakyoung 990, Bae 1460]
Yeji said, “Lucy will live on forever!”Yeojin said, “I’m bored.”Heejin said, “Me too…”  Heejin jumped onto Yeji’s lap.Yeojin looked around.  She decided on Lily and hopped onto Lily’s lap.  “Have any interest in a butterfly?”Lily tried to figure out where this butterfly was and said, “I mean… I guess…”  Yeojin sat sideways over Lily’s lap, arms around her neck.Hyeju said, “Next hand!  Ante up!”  She dealt the cards.Bae said, “Well, I’m rich now!  Let’s start with 250 this hand!”Nakyoung sighed and folded.Xinyu threw in her 250.  Sohyun and Yooyeon folded.Seoyeon said, “I don’t know what to do with those two crazies down there…”Kyujin said, “Don’t mind Bae.”“Does she have good cards?”Kyujin looked down at Bae.  Bae raised an eyebrow back at her.Kyujin said, “No clue…”Seoyeon said, “Helpful…  Fine, I’ll bet 250.”Yooyeon tried to raise an eyebrow at Seoyeon, mimicking Bae.  Seoyeon cracked up laughing at her.Kyujin bet 250 also.Hyeju said, “Draw?”Bae drew three, Xinyu drew two, Seoyeon drew three, and Kyujin drew two.“Bets?”Haewon asked, “Jinsol, why you betting so much when you have a shit hand?”Bae said, “How do you know I have a shit hand?”“You asked for three.”“Even if I do have a shit hand, remember, I just have to beat Kyujin.  I’m Lucy’s apprentice… how hard will it be?”Kyujin said, “Maybe it WAS better when I wasn’t invited to anything…”Hyeju repeated, “Bets?”Bae said, “Check…”Xinyu said, “I’ll raise 400.”Seoyeon said, “What is even going on…”  Seoyeon, Kyujin and Bae all folded.Xinyu said, “Hey Jinsol, wanna see my hand?”“Not really…”“LOOK!  Two pairs, kings and jacks…”“Good for you…”“Lucy wasn’t bitter when she lost…”Yeji said, “Oh!  Lucy doesn’t lose!”
[Kyujin 630, Seoyeon 580, Yooyeon 1030, Sohyun 880, Xinyu 1700, Nakyoung 980, Bae 1200]
Hyeju said, “New leader!  Next hand… ante up!”  She dealt the next hand.Bae said, “Let’s do 250 again!”Sullyoon said, “Jinsol… if you bet too much and everyone folds every time, you can’t win their cash.  We are getting bored over here…”“Sullyoon… I’m the expert here…”Sullyoon shook her head twice at Bae using her stage name and Bae being an expert.Nakyoung folded, Xinyu bet 250, Sohyun folded, Yooyeon and Seoyeon both bet 250 and Kyujin folded.Hyeju said, “Draw?”Bae said, “Only one!”  Xinyu drew two, Seoyeon and Yooyeon drew three.Hyeju dealt their new cards, “New bets?”Jinsol looked back at Sullyoon.  “I’ll just raise 100, I’m not sure about this one.”Xinyu said, “Of course I’m in for 100.  This pot is massive…”Yooyeon folded.  Seoyeon also put in 100.Hyeju said, “Let’s see ‘em!”Bae said, “Two pair, jacks and fives.”Seoyeon threw her cards down.  “WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD?”Bae shrugged.  “Whatcha got Xinyu?”“I’ll go ahead and show you this hand.  Just a pair of sevens.”Bae clapped for herself.
[Kyujin 620, Seoyeon 320, Yooyeon 770, Sohyun 870, Xinyu 1340, Nakyoung 970, Bae 2210]
Hyeju said, “Well… Bae might win both dinners for herself…”Bae said, “I’ll eat alone twice!  I don’t hate that!  Let’s end this thing right here!”Sullyoon said, “Jinsol… don’t do something dumb…”“Thanks for helping me win more cash last hand.  Maybe you have some lessons for me but now you can shut up.”Haewon said, “Jinsol… don’t be rude to her…”“She’s just being annoying, please give her something else to complain at?”Nakyoung rubbed her hands together like a mad scientist.  “NMIXX CRACKS, mwaahahahaha.  Now Jinsol will feel bad about being rude to Yoona and be distracted!”Xinyu said, “It is easier to just show her your boobs…”“There are enough boobs around here, thanks for your input though…”Xinyu shrugged.Hyeju said, “Let’s go!  The natives are getting very restless!  Ante up!”  Hyeju dealt the next hand.Bae said, “Let’s start at 200.”Sohyun and Kyujin folded, everyone else bet 200.Chaeyeon said, “Sohyun… why aren’t you showing us how supposedly good you are at this game.”Sohyun said, “I’m letting my wife have all of the glory, because I’m nice like that.  Also THESE CARDS SUCK, YOU CAN’T EVEN BLUFF WITH THEM…”Hyeju said, “Draw?”Bae drew three, Nakyoung two, Xinyu three, Yooyeon two and Seoyeon three.Hyeju dealt their new cards, “Bets?”Bae said, “Check.”Nakyoung said, “I’ll raise 250.”Bae said, “Oh, I’m out…”Xinyu said, “I’ll pay the 250…”Yooyeon and Seoyeon folded.Xinyu put down her two aces.  “Beat that!”Nakyoung smiled broadly at Xinyu.  “THREE queens!  I did indeed beat that!”
[Kyujin 610, Seoyeon 110, Yooyeon 560, Sohyun 860, Xinyu 880, Nakyoung 2080, Bae 2000]
Xinyu and Bae both clapped for Nakyoung.  “Impressive!” said Bae.  “Would you like to be my apprentice?”Hyeju said, “Bored people in the audience!  This one might be ending soon!”Yeojin said, “Oh?  I better do something…”  She straddled Lily and grabbed her boob through all the clothing she was still wearing.Lily said, “Oohhhhr, okay.  She put a hand under Yeojin’s skirt and rubbed her thigh.”Hyeju said, “Ante up!”  She dealt their hands.Bae said, “Let’s just do 100 this hand.”All of the girls put in 100.Hyeju said, “Draw?”All of the girls took three.Bae said, “I guess we all have crappy hands…”Xinyu said, “Mine is great!”Sohyun said, “Mine is greater!”Hyeju dealt their cards.Bae looked over everyone’s chips.  “I’ll bet 500.”Everyone at the table moaned.Nakyoung bet 500.  Sohyun and Xinyu folded.  Yooyeon said, “All in, I only have 450.”Bae looked down at her, “Yooyeon said what?”Seoyeon said, “I’ll stay in, but I got nothing and no credits…”Kyujin said, “I’ll put in 500.”Bae looked down at her as well, “Eh?”Hyeju said, “Well…  Fun things happening here!  Show your cards!”Bae said, “Pair of kings!  Come get me!”Kyujin threw her cards down.  “Pair of queens.  DAMMIT, I LOST!”Hyeju said, “BAE IS THE NMIXX WINNER!”Seoyeon said, “I got nothing.”Nakyoung said, “Pair of tens, I was hoping you were bluffing.”Bae said, “Give me those chips Hyeju!”Yooyeon cleared her throat.  Yooyeon threw down a straight, ten to ace.The girls all ‘ooohed and aaaahed’.Seoyeon said, “DAMN!  I hate you!  But nice!”Bae said, “Nakyoung, you are out as apprentice.  Yooyeon!  Come be my apprentice!”
[Kyujin 0, Seoyeon 0, Yooyeon 2220, Sohyun 750, Xinyu 770, Nakyoung 1470, Bae 1390]
Hyeju said, “Two less players!  And a surprise new leader from that very rich pot!”Yooyeon said, “Big winner that just doesn’t care anymore can’t just pick us all off now.  You’re welcome!”Bae said, “Who is getting dinner with Jinsol?  This is exciting!”Hyeju said, “Let’s go with five players!  Ante up!”  She dealt their cards.Bae said, “Let’s end this, I’ll bet 700.”Nakyoung said to Yooyeon, “What were you saying about her not being able to pick us off?  Are we all in for 700?”Yooyeon said, “I’m not… I fold…”Everyone else matched the 700.Hyeju asked, “Draw?”Nakyoung drew two, Bae drew three, Xinyu two, and Sohyun three.Hyeju replaced their cards. Bae said, “Check…”Nakyoung said, “Check…”Xinyu said, “Check…”Sohyun said, “Well, I only have 50, so I’ll raise 40.”Xinyu and Bae folded.  Nakyoung put in the 40.Sohyun showed her pair of queens.  “Best hand I’ve had tonight…  no bluffing because I got no credits…”Nakyoung said, “ONE LESS WIFE!  Two pair!  Aces and sixes!”
[Yooyeon 2210, Sohyun 0, Xinyu 60, Nakyoung 2270, Bae 680]
Bae said, “The battle to be my apprentice is HOT!”Hyeju said, “We are down to four!  Ante up!”  Hyeju dealt the next hand.The girls looked at their cards.Hyeju said, “Bets?”Bae said, “Xinyu only has 50, so let’s start there.”Nakyoung threw her cards down in frustration.  “Well… it’s only 50…”Everyone bet 50.Hyeju said, “Draw?”Bae asked for one.  Nakyoung asked for one.Bae said, “I thought you had bad cards?”Nakyoung said, “Trying for the straight.”Bae said, “Should you be telling me this?”“Are you trying for the straight?”“No?”Nakyoung winked at her.Xinyu and Yooyeon both asked for three.Hyeju dealt their cards.  “New bets?”Bae said, “Hmm… well, I’m all in.”All three girls looked at her.Yooyeon said, “She messing with us?  She doesn’t care if she loses.”Xinyu said, “Probably…”Nakyoung said, “620 is fine.”Yooyeon said, “Okay… but…  I’m all in.”Nakyoung said with a giggle, “You’re what?”“I’m tired of this game, I’m the new apprentice.  I win.  I’m all in!”A frustrated Xinyu said, “I only have a pair of threes, I’m assuming I’m out.”Bae said, “Sorry!  I have three fours!”“Three of a kind?  Nice…”Yooyeon said, “THREE QUEENS!  Does the ultimate TripleS winner HAVE A REAL BADGE HYEJU?”Bae said, “Show us your straight, Nakyoung.”Nakyoung said, “I don’t have a straight.”Yooyeon said, “BADGE?  IS THERE?”Nakyoung said, “I have a full house.  Three eights and two kings.”Yooyeon was stunned, all of the blood drained from her face.  She picked up Nakyoung’s cards to make sure they were real, then threw them at Hyeju.Yooyeon laid down on the carpet right in that spot and curled up in a ball.Bae said, “New apprentice Nakyoung!  Dinner partner!  Yooyeon embarrasser!”Chaeyeon got up from her chair, knelt on the carpet and crawled over to Yooyeon.  “Hon… are you crying?”“NO I’M NOT YOU.”Chaeyeon patted her on the head.  “I’m sorry you didn’t win.  You deserved it…”Seoyeon said, “No she didn’t…  She totally screwed me…”Sohyun said, “Clearly didn’t…  She totally screwed me too… Karma Yooyeon…”Chaeyeon said, “Why you would want dinner with Bae anyway, she seems overrated as Nmixx members go…”Bae stood up, pretended to be offended and grabbed Nakyoung’s hand.  “New friend, dinner mate, and apprentice, let’s go sit somewhere friendlier…”  Nakyoung wasn’t sure, but joined her with the rest of Nmixx.Seoyeon sat with Yooyeon and Chaeyeon.  “I hate you, but I know how much you wanted to win, sorry it didn’t work out.”Yooyeon said, “Thanks…”  She sat up and straightened her hair.Yeji and Heejin walked over to Hyeju.  Yeji said, “What’s next?  You have anything else planned?”Hyeju said, “Nope!  That is it!  The winners have been crowned.”  Hyeju sat in a chair.  “That was a lot for little me… I’m as exhausted as they are.”Sohyun and Xinyu started having a conversation in Chinese, they motioned for Bae to join them.Yeji said, “Is everyone up for teaching Yooyeon, Seoyeon, Nakyoung, Chaeyeon, and Kyujin how to play ‘most inappropriate’”?Hyeju said, “I didn’t know we were going there tonight, but sure, that sounds fun.”Jiwoo and Bae and Haewon and Lily all clapped.  Sullyoon sighed and just sat down in the nearest chair.Jiwoo said, “You don’t have to play if you don’t want to Yoona…”“Oh, I want to…  Just give me a minute to recharge…”Bae grabbed Jiwoo and took her over to huddle with Sohyun and Xinyu.After a very brief conversation, Jiwoo walked over to Hyeju and sat on her lap.  “Too tired for some Jiwoo time?”“Never My-jjyu, wanna warm up for ‘most inappropriate’?”Seoyeon said, “Yooyeon, do you have any idea what they are talking about?”Yooyeon said, “No… and I have no intention of getting tickled again…  Or ‘playing’ anything really…”Chaeyeon said, “The after game of the intense games, I’m sure it will be super fun, whatever it is!”“Yoona doesn’t look like she thinks it is going to be fun.  Also, she might be asleep.”Jiwoo kissed Hyeju gently.Seoyeon said quietly to Yooyeon, “Wives are up to something, looks like there is going to be an extra little game…”Sohyun and Xinyu both snuck to Sohyun’s purse and then behind Hyeju, while she was distracted kissing Jiwoo.Bae went over to Jiwoo and Hyeju as well.  She patted Jiwoo on the head.  “Careful, you know she is going to start groping you soon…”Jiwoo broke the kiss.  “So?”“I lied… no she’s not.”Bae dropped to the carpet and grabbed Hyeju’s ankle.  Xinyu did the same with the other.  Xinyu was holding a pair of zip ties and both girls got her ankles tied to the chair.  Sohyun managed to grab both of Hyeju’s wrists and pull them behind her.  She fastened them with a zip tie as well.Hyeju said, “What is this?”Jiwoo jumped up… “Sorry love, they made me do it…”Bae said, “Everyone, look what we caught!  Who wants revenge for all of the things she made you do?”Yooyeon was the first off of the carpet and standing in front of Hyeju.  “ME!”Sullyoon looked over.  “Hey… make sure we get our prizes before you piss her off…”Yeojin and Heejin also flittered over to explore.  Heejin said, “Look what we have here… just like old times.  You wanna mess with her first Yeoyeo?”Yeojin said, “NO!” and ran off to the kitchen.Bae said, “Heejin… tell us what to do to her… what does she hate more than anything?”Hyeju said, “I can totally break out of these flimsy zip ties whenever I want…”Heejin said, “But you won’t… because you like it…”Yeji said, “She does?”Jiwoo said, “We didn’t have you around the last time we got to mess with Hyeju… tell us what she hates?”“Well, most of all, Chinese water torture… but she won’t sit still for that, so grab a cup of ice.”Hyeju growled as Yeji ran off to get some ice.Sullyoon said, “Girls… I really don’t think this is a good idea…”Chaeyeon said, “I mean, I did fall in the supermarket, and then cried after losing Jenga, got molested by Haewon, and lost my bra.”Haewon, Lily, Nakyoung and Kyujin all watched from a distance.Yeji came running back with a cup of small ice cubes.Heejin sat on Hyeju’s lap.  “Oh, the memories of those Loona Saturday nights…”  She pulled down the zipper of Hyeju’s Catwoman suit revealing a black tube top holding in her chest.  It wasn’t hard for Heejin to pop out both of her large boobs.Heejin got up.  “Okay, whoever wants to have fun with her.  Run the ice all over her chest, she hates it.”Yooyeon and Seoyeon were first to step up and show interest.  They each grabbed an ice cube and held it on either side of Hyeju’s neck, causing drops of water to slowly make their way down her chest.Hyeju said, “The two most competitive girls…  how rude…  I would have expected this from Nmixx and the wives, but not you two…”Chaeyeon pushed them both out of the way.  “You never expect anything from poor Chaeyeon though, do you?  Also, I happen to be drunk.”Haewon clapped for her crush.She sat down on Hyeju’s lap, across her legs.  Yeji handed her the cup and she carefully picked an ice cube.  She went right after Hyeju’s nipple with it.  It immediately responded.  Chaeyeon giggled. No one realized that Hyeju had already broken the zip tie that was holding her wrists.Her arms suddenly sprung around Chaeyeon and she pulled her close to her chest.  Chaeyeon’s own ample chest also got cold and wet and excited as her nipples sprung to life also.  Yooyeon and Seoyeon both jumped back in surprise.Heejin said, “Yeah… I forgot to say that you’ll have to do better than zip ties, but it was fun while it lasted…”Hyeju asked Chaeyeon, “You want more?”Chaeyeon shook her head ‘no’ and Hyeju let go of her.  Chaeyeon sprung up from the chair, but Jiwoo was right there to take her place.  Jiwoo wasn’t scared of getting her own chest cold or wet and put her arms around Hyeju and kissed her, their chests wet and mashed together.Kyujin said, “My god… who even is that…”Lily said, “Loossemble Son Hyeju…”“THE OTHER GIRL…”Haewon said, “Jiwoo seems to have many surprises…”A dejected Kyujin went to sit on Sullyoon’s lap, forgetting she was naked.Sullyoon jumped up with a startle, nearly knocking Kyujin over.  “NO!  Please…  you are naked still…  Also, someone is going to have to get Jiwoo off of her, or they will just do that for some hours.”Sohyun and Xinyu helped Bae remove Jiwoo from Hyeju’s lap.  Yeji handed Hyeju a napkin and she blotted herself off and stood up.  Then she got her chest back into her tube top and zipped up the Cat suit.Yooyeon walked over to Lily and whispered into her ear.  “Okay, that really turned me on, not to mention Heejin’s tickle tease earlier.  I’m really hot for you right now…”Lily smiled at her.  “Naurrrrr, you are ready for ‘most inappropriate’!” Please take the poll each week to influence the story!  This week's p oll (12/28/24-01/04/24):    https://forms.gle/zWAwNAVGEzqUwise8
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Chapter 13:  Bae’s Plan Backfires a Bit
Yeji said, “If you haven’t played this before, or even if you have, I suggest heading to the bathroom now while we get setup.”Kyujin asked, “Can I have a blanket or something?  It is cold out there…”“Of course, there is a big box in the corner with blankets, you can cover up to go to the bathroom.  Maybe Jiwoo will cuddle in there with you.”Jiwoo said, “HUSH HWANG!”Yeojin peeked out of the kitchen and noticed the girls all standing about.  She asked, “Who isn’t going to the bathroom?  I’m bored!”Haewon had just sat down in a random chair.  Yeojin approached her.  “Can I sit on you?”“I guess?”“I often hear you and Lily mentioned in the same sentence, are you more fun than her?”“HOP ON!”  Haewon spread her legs in anticipation of Yeojin jumping on the chair.She didn’t disappoint, straddling Haewon, legs wrapped around her thighs, butt on the chair.Lily walked over to them as well.  “Hornywon, where’s your crush?”Yeojin nuzzled and licked Haewon’s neck.“Avoiding me as usual.  Where is yours?”“Bathroom…”“Help Yeji move chairs or whatever she is doing.  I already don’t feel great about having a Yeojin on my lap without you staring…”Lily wondered off.Haewon put her hands under Yeojin’s skirt and grabbed her butt, pulling her close.***The girls made a line and waited for the bathroom.  Sohyun and Xinyu were at the back of the line.  Sohyun ran up and grabbed Kyujin and pulled her back to them.“What’s this?” asked Kyujin.“I want to show you something, when everyone else leaves the bathroom.”Kyujin looked at her warily.  “Okay… I guess.”After everyone else was finished, Kyujin, Sohyun, and Xinyu finished as well and Kyujin asked, “What do you want to show me?”Sohyun hopped up on the countertop between the sinks.  “Come sit on my lap.”Kyujin pointed to her blanket.  Xinyu helped lift her up onto Sohyun’s lap.  “Well… was nice to meet you Kyujin…  Good luck…”  She left the bathroom.Sohyun petted Kyujin’s hair.  “Don’t be nervous.  Can you take a little bit of criticism?”“Please…  JYP… maknae…  every day?”“Have you ever been kissed before?”“Yes… but not by a girl.  And not many boys either…”“I could tell… let me give you some pointers!  Or ‘most inappropriate’ might be hard for you.”Kyujin said, “Okay, sure…”Sohyun pulled her blanket down a bit and rubbed her boob before gently kissing her neck.“If you only like boys, it is fine.  But do you like what I’m doing?”“FUCK yeah!  Teach me!”Sohyun giggled and gave her a quick tutorial.***Sullyoon and Jiwoo noticed that Xinyu came back from the bathroom alone.  Sullyoon asked, “What happened to Sohyun and Kyujin?”“Hard to say.”“It seems you know something, so should be easy to say…”“You know… like the siren beckons for the helpless sailor-ess and then drowns her.  Or the dryad charms a young lass and then turns her into a tree.”“Umm.”Jiwoo said, “Should we go rescue her?”Xinyu said, “Do you want to be drowned or turned into a tree?”“I guess we’ll just wait for them…”“Where’s Jinsol?  I’m temporarily free!” asked an excited Xinyu.Yeji and Hyeju yelled to get everyone’s attention.  Yeji said, “Yeojin!  Stop giving Haewon an advantage for ‘most inappropriate’.”Hyeju said, “Should we get started?”Sullyoon said, “We are missing a mythical creature and a Kyujin wrapped in a blanket.”Yeji said, “Oh?  Interesting…  While we are waiting, how do you girls want to pick pairs?  I don’t have photocards prepared.”Yeojin jumped off of Haewon and ran to Yeji and Hyeju.Haewon yelled, “OWWW?”Yeojin jumped up and down.  “LET ME!  LET ME!  PLEASE!”Hyeju said, “Yeojin…  Everyone is going to be making out with random girls, this kind of needs to be done correctly.”“Right… I don’t know how to do anything.  You three have had all the fun at all the games and what did I get to do?  Pretend to be a stupid dumb stormtrooper and serve drinks…”Yooyeon said, “Sorry to interrupt, but stormtroopers aren’t dumb… they are clones.”Yeji said, “And actually your outfit is really hot Yeojin… you did a great job as waitress… well… when you were actually doing it…”Heejin said, “You got to hunt people in the kitchen wearing cool night vision goggles, stop whining…”Lily said, “Come on… let her make the partners however she wants… what difference does it make how it is done?”Hyeju looked at Heejin.  “Lily, you are invoking the hand of chaos…”Just then, Sohyun opened the party room door, Kyujin following close behind.Everyone stared at her.“What?” asked Sohyun.Xinyu said, “Hand of chaos, version 2.0…”Sohyun shrugged.Yeji said, “Okay Yeojin… here are the eight chairs, one girl sitting, one girl standing.  Let’s go!”Heejin said, “Wait though… We have an even number, we can’t all play because we need a judge.”Yeojin said, “No!  Miss Jiwon is probably still out there!”Hyeju said, “You convince Jiwon to come back in here and you are WELCOME to pick all of the pairs.”Yeojin grabbed her phone and ran out of the party room.The room was by far the most awkward it had been yet tonight.  Yeji, Heejin, and Sullyoon wouldn’t look at each other and none of Haewon, Lily, Chaewon, and Yooyeon would look at each other either.Heejin stood next to Seoyeon and put her arm around her.  “Hi bias!”Seoyeon looked at her strangely.  “Hi?”“Can I get something signed?  Or maybe just a kiss?”“Seems inappropriate?  Do you let fans kiss you?  Wait… don’t answer…”Bae ran up to Nakyoung.  “Are you ready to learn what you need to do to be my apprentice?  Let’s ask Yeji!”Yooyeon said, “Nakyoung would have to kill Yeji.  Each master can only have one apprentice.  Until the apprentice kills the master and takes their place, then she can have a new apprentice.”Nakyoung said, “Well, then I’ll just kill Bae and you can be my apprentice!”Bae said, “Please don’t let this girl watch Star Wars anymore…”The party door opened and Jiwon was literally pushed inside, Yeojin close behind.Jiwon said, “Dear lord, there are topless girls in here.  NO!”“Remember what I told you…”“You are going to owe me a LOT more than what was originally promised.”“I’ll pay…”“ONE round and then I’m getting the hell out of here…”Yeojin said, “JUDGE IS HERE!”Hyeju had a few words with Jiwon as well.  She seemed extremely agitated and then smiled greedily.Yooyeon saw Jiwon and couldn’t help herself.  She slowly approached her when Hyeju was finished.  “Miss Jiwon… respectfully, can I get your take on the Twister rules that you MANGLED?”Hyeju grabbed Yooyeon and pulled her away from Jiwon.  “Not helpful…”“She needs to know she was wrong…”“Write her a letter…”“I WILL!”Yeji, rolling in laughter at everything going on around her could only say, “Okay Yeojin… do your thing!”Yeojin grabbed Yeji’s hand and pulled her toward a chair, then pushed her down until she sat.  “Hwang.  First goal, piss off Heejin.  A pissy Heejin is a happy Yeojin.”She then ran and grabbed Hyeju’s hand and pulled her to a chair and then pushed her toward the chair.  “Hye-boob… Heheheeee.” She then grabbed Kyujin by the blanketed waist and pulled her toward a chair.  “You can keep the blanket so your partner isn’t TOOOO scared of you…  though probably won’t help…”She then grabbed Seoyeon and pulled her to a chair, “Wrong -yeon, but close enough…”She then grabbed Haewon and pushed her to a chair, “Right -yeon on this one!”She placed Sohyun next, “Wrong wife… oopsie!”She stood in place and panted a bit, “Nakyoung and Heejin, sit down on a chair… I’m tired…”After a brief pause, she started again.  She grabbed Sullyoon’s hand, patted it, and kissed it.  “You’re welcome!”  She took her to Yeji’s chair.She then grabbed Chaeyeon’s hand, patted it, and kissed it.  “You’re welcome!”  She took her Haewon’s chair.Chaeyeon said, “NO!  I’m not sitting on her.  What even is this game?  Is someone going to explain?”Yeojin said, “Just stand there, stop bitching…  You like her…  I’ll explain in a minute…”Haewon batted her eyelashes at Chaeyeon.Yeojin grabbed Yooyeon’s hand and pulled her to Nakyoung.  “You two clearly have some chemistry…”Yooyeon said, “For what?”She grabbed Lily and took her to Seoyeon’s chair.  “Something -yeon, best I could do…”Lily said, “Ohhhhr, alright…”She grabbed Xinyu’s hand and pulled her toward Sohyun, then stopped suddenly.  “What, you think I’m stupid?”  She took her to Hyeju instead.“Jinsol, you are stuck with Sohyun for now…”Bae walked herself to Sohyun.  “I mean, she isn’t horrible…”Jiwoo walked to Heejin.  “Guess I’m with you.”Yeojin grabbed her.  “NO!  No walking on your own, I’m doing a thing here…”  Yeojin pushed her to Kyujin.Jiwoo said, “NO!”“Come on… the twins need some… affection…”“NO!”“She’s wearing a blanket…  It will be fine…”“DEAR LORD!  GIVE ME HEEJIN!”Yeojin ran over and jumped on Heejin’s lap.  “MINE!”Kyujin saw what Haewon did to Chaeyeon with her eyes and did the same to Jiwoo.“NO MORE REESE’S AND NOW THIS… FML.”Jiwoo was sure that Chaeyeon was her only hope.  She begged, “Please switch.”Lily said, “You would rather make out with Haewon?”Jiwoo pouted, “NAURRRRRRR.   But...”Chaeyeon looked at Haewon, and then looked at Kyujin in a blanket.Jiwoo said, “Quick, let’s switch, the little butterfly won’t even notice.  Distract her Heejin!”Yeojin shouted, “NO SWITCHING!”Chaeyeon just gave in and put her hand on Haewon’s shoulder.  “Staying with my crush…”Jiwoo pouted and sat on the very end of Kyujin’s knee and covered her face with her hands.Sullyoon wanted to yell something funny at her, but even just standing next to Yeji, Lucy’s fingers were already walking up her thigh, and she was a bit distracted.Hyeju said, “For those that haven’t played before, it is very simple.  Jiwon, or whoever the next ‘judge’ is, will turn off the lights.  You can your partner can do whatever you like during that time.  Whenever the ‘judge’ chooses, she turns the lights back on.  It might be seconds, or minutes.  Who knows…  When the lights come on, everyone freezes.  The judge then walks around and picks the pair that is being ‘MOST inappropriate’.  They are then winners of that round and don’t have to play anymore.  We switch partners and play again.  We keep going until two people are left who then get a punishment.”Sullyoon said, “Which is?”Hyeju said, “Something from the depths of Yeojin’s horrible mind.”Yeojin said, “It isn’t horrible… this one time, I…”Hyeju yelled, “PUNISHMENT?”“Did I see sleeping bags over there?”Yeji said, “Yes, a few…”“The losers have to nest together in a sleeping bag, however dressed they are, and whether they like each other or not…”Hyeju said, “But what if they DO like each other?”“Oh, I forgot because I wasn’t allowed to finish my story… but I’ll be in there with them…”“You are going to be in the sleeping bag, with the losing pair… all night…”“SOUNDS FUN!”The girls all grumbled.Yooyeon said, “Can we discuss with our partner what we are going to do?”“Nope, non-verbal only.  The judge will be listening for stuff other than moans.”Jiwon said, “I’M SOOOO GOING TO HELL.”Hyeju said, “You will be rewarded handsomely, like Yeojin and I told you…”Heejin said, “What is this?”Hyeju said, “Flip the lights whenever you are ready Jiwon!”Jiwon simultaneously flipped the lights and covered her ears, not wanting to hear anything she shouldn’t.  While she missed Heejin making a lot of noise and Chaeyeon shouting ‘no’, that was really about it.  She left the lights off for about a minute.Immediately after the lights went out, Seoyeon said, “Damn, it is still REALLY dark in here…”Yooyeon chimed in, “Yeah it is…”If Jiwon were wearing Yeojin’s night vision googles, which she purposefully chose not to wear, she would have seen this:1) Bae quickly and wordlessly straddled Sohyun’s lap, felt for her mouth with her own and then kissed her with some added tongue.  Sohyun put both hands under the waistband of Bae’s pants and grabbed her butt to pull her close.  Bae flipped up Sohyun’s bra, easily letting out her boobs and played with one, her other hand in Sohyun’s hair.2) Xinyu similarly straddled Hyeju.  Xinyu was still fully dressed and with a giant Chinese girl sitting on her, Hyeju didn’t even try to get any clothing off of her.  Xinyu, however, was paying attention when Hyeju was zip tied to a chair for a few brief moments.  Before even kissing her, she felt around for the zipper on the cat suit and pulled it down to Hyeju’s belly.  She then popped one of Hyeju’s breasts out of her tube top and while feeling it, dove in for the kiss.  Hyeju put her hands on Xinyu’s sides, under her tee shirt to steady her long torso.3) Sullyoon sat across Yeji’s legs.  Yeji said quietly, “We have too many clothes on to do anything this round.”Sullyoon said, “Can I just kiss you quietly, without an audience or judgement?”“Yes, Ma’am…”Sullyoon felt for Yeji’s face and with a few giggles from Yeji got their mouths together.  They kissed for about twenty seconds when Sullyoon got a kick of hormones and realized kissing wasn’t feeding her need.  She analyzed Yeji’s top in her mind and realized she had no clue how that thing might have opened, with the long things on her arms attached to the sides and the furry thing and the strap around the back of her neck.  She felt down the back and hit the skirt and found a zipper, which she zipped down.  She then felt Yeji’s thigh with both hands.She broke the kiss and said, “I love the feel of nylons on my hands.”Yeji worked some magic and spun Sullyoon forward a bit, got one leg out, spun her back to the side and put the free leg on top of Sullyoon’s legs.  This gave Sullyoon’s hands access to all of Yeji’s thigh and butt.  They kissed again and Sullyoon felt that leg thoroughly.4) Lily sat down across Seoyeon’s legs.  Seoyeon whispered to her, “Now what are we supposed to do?”Lily said, “Make out…”“I don’t even know you…”“You are supposed to want to win.”“I do…”“Then shut up and kiss me…” said Lily emphatically.“I guess…”“WAIT.”“Huh?”“I still have all of my clothes on, take off my hoodie so we are even.”“I can’t even see…”“Ohhhhrrrr you…”  Lily stood up and took her hoodie off.  It was actually a bit more difficult than she expected in the total darkness, but she threw it away off of the carpet.She sat back on Seoyeon’s legs.  “For the next girl, you need to help her take off her clothing...”“I guess…”“Kiss me…”It took them about ten seconds to awkwardly find each other’s face.  Seoyeon was very tentative, so Lily did her best to hold Seoyeon’s head and kiss her mouth.Lily broke the awkward kiss for a moment.  “Give me your hand…”  Lily found Seoyeon’s naked shoulder and ran her hand down her arm to her hand.  She grabbed her wrist and put Seoyeon’s hand on her boob.“What is that?”“Squeeze…”Seoyeon squeezed her boob.  “Oh, got it.”Lily went back to finding her mouth, but it took another ten seconds to get another kiss going.5) Chaeyeon said, “What are we supposed to do?”“For one… talking is not legal, so shut up… for two… make out…”“I’m not making out with you.”“Well, sit down on my lap at least.”Chaeyeon sat across Haewon’s legs.  Chaeyeon was only wearing safety shorts and Haewon her cotton Calvins.  Chaeyeon realized their bare legs were touching and stood back up.“Chaeyeon… come on…”Chaeyeon sat back down and Haewon grabbed her boob.Chaeyeon batted Haewon’s hand away and shouted, “NO!”“Kiss me…”“NO!”“Come on…  you don’t want to lose…”“NO!  It’s embarrassing…”“Fuck my life…” said Haewon.Chaeyeon giggled as she had an evil idea.  She sat back down.  “Fine, grab both of my boobs.”Haewon, of course, did just that.  Chaeyeon was ready and grabbed both of Haewon’s wrists.  She quickly stood up and pulled Haewon up out of the chair also.  She then pretended like she was going to hug Haewon, her bare breasts brushing Haewon’s bra, but then grabbed Haewon’s underwear and pulled it to the ground.6) Yooyeon put her hand on Nakyoung’s bare shoulder, but stood there.  “What are we supposed to do?” Yooyeon asked.“I hear people talking, but I don’t think we are supposed to.”“I think we are supposed to kiss.”“Do you want to kiss?”“There are other people that I would rather kiss, but it is dark, so I will just pretend.”“Gee thanks…” said Nakyoung.“I also hear Chaeyeon yelling and likely being violent.”“Should we do that instead?”“No, kiss please…”“How are we going to find our faces?”“One second.”Yooyeon knelt next to Nakyoung’s chair and then found her bare shoulder again.  She moved her hand from Nakyoung’s shoulder to her neck and then to her ear.  She managed to turn her head and meet lips just as the lights went on.7) From her chair, Kyujin said, “My-jjyu!  Sit with me!”“I’m not sitting on you, you are naked.”“I’ve got this blanket!  It is cozy!  Sit with me!”Jiwoo sat down across Kyujin’s legs, blanket between them.  When Jiwoo sat on the blanket, it was pulled down from her lap and fell off of Kyujin’s shoulders.  Both of their naked chests touched for a moment.Jiwoo shuddered, “Noooooo.”Kyujin said, “What are we supposed to do?”“Make out…”“Okay, Sohyun taught me how… Let’s try…”“What?  Ummm no?”“Did you make out with Jinsol or Yoona?”“NO!” She had to think for a few seconds.  “I don’t think so… Yoona was very drunk and I was probably drunk, I don’t remember…”“Come on… I want to practice on someone who won’t judge!”“Oh, I’ll judge…”“Come on…”  Kyujin started feeling around for Jiwoo’s head which turned into a bra-less, shirt-less cat fight between them while sitting on a blanket.8) Yeojin flopped down on Heejin’s lap, spreading her legs and putting her legs around Heejin.  She quickly pulled Heejin’s tube top off and threw it to the side.  Yeojin kissed Heejin and rubbed both breasts to get her going a bit.  Knowing she was probably short on time she put one hand on Heejin’s belly and slipped her fingers under Heejin’s safety shorts until her index finger found its mark.  She knew exactly when it was because Heejin’s tongue darted into Yeojin’s mouth.  Yeojin then pulled her head away, which frustrated Heejin, but she keep moving her index finger, which made Heejin moan.  She then kissed Heejin’s neck, at a spot that always made Heejin purr and kept going with her finger, relishing the sound of Heejin moaning for her.Jiwon held her breath, took her hands away from her ears, and turned on the light switch.  She hesitantly walked over to the circle of chairs and looked around.  She had no need to look carefully, so she hurriedly did what she was instructed to do.“Sohyun and Jinsol:  Sohyun both hands on Jinsol’s butt, both boobs exposed.  Jinsol hand on one boob, kiss with tongue.”Bae broke the kiss.  “I mean that sums it up, but it was a lot more than that…”Jiwon ignored her and moved on to the next chair.  “Hyeju and Xinyu:  Hyeju one boob out, hands on Xinyu’s side.  Xinyu one hand on Hyeju’s boob.  Also kiss with tongue.  Very close, but Sohyun and Jinsol slight edge.”Xinyu said, “What?  Hey Mistress, stop fondling my wife…”Jiwon moved to the next chair.  “Yeji and Sullyoon:  Yeji’s skirt mostly off, leg in a remarkable position in the dark so Sullyoon could feel every bit of it.  Sullyoon feeling the entire leg.  Kiss with tongue.  Thank you both for being mostly respectful.”Sullyoon looked up at her.  “You can call me Yoona…”Jiwon ignored her and moved to the next chair.  “Seoyeon and Lily.  I think they are kissing?  But not entirely sure.  Seoyeon’s hand on Lily’s boob over her bra.  Lily seems to be missing her hoodie which she had earlier?  Nothing else seems to be happening.  More losers…”Lily said, “Naurrrrr.”“Sigh…  Haewon and Chaeyeon:  I heard Chaeyeon shouting even with my hands over my ears.  I was worried that Haewon was injured, but no, she just has her underwear at her ankles and they are both standing.”Lily said, “Underwear is what?”Sullyoon looked without thinking.  “And… I saw Haewon’s naked crotch…”Haewon said, “Yeah, I’m pants-less.  My crush took off my pants.  She must really want me bad…”Chaeyeon said, “I… HATE… YOU…” and wandered off to the side of the room.Lily shook her head at Haewon.Jiwon moved on to the next chair.  “Nakyoung and Yooyeon:  Yooyeon, you are supposed to sit on your partner’s lap, not kneel on the floor.”“I didn’t know…”“Did you at least kiss like that?”“I think so…”Lily shook her head at Yooyeon.  She said, “Yooyeon, look!  I took off my hoodie for when we are partners!”“SOON PLEASE!”Jiwon said, “More losers…”  She moved on to the next chair.  Kyujin and Jiwoo were paused in mid cat fight.  “I don’t even know… next…”Sullyoon said, “Nice job with that blanket Kyu…”“Shut up… Jiwoo wouldn’t make out with me…”Sullyoon looked at Lily and they both were too speechless to speak.Jiwon said, “Dear Lord save me…  Heejin lost her tube top, she has a Yeojin feeling one boob and kissing her neck.  Heejin’s hands are holding up the tiny parasite.  Yeojin’s other hand is missing.”Yeojin said, “No it’s not.  We obviously win.”Bae and Xinyu both got up and looked over Heejin and Yeojin.  Bae said, “Where’s your hand Yeojin.”Yeojin said, “This one time… I did a magic trick like this… I wiggle my finger…”Heejin moaned loudly.  Yeojin pulled her hand out of Heejin’s panties and licked her finger.Jiwon covered her face with her hands.  “Yeojin and Heejin win…”Yooyeon went to investigate.  “We were supposed to do THAT?  Also, Heejin’s chest is cute…”Seoyeon and Nakyoung also got up to look, also catching Sohyun as she was putting her breasts back in her bra and Hyeju as she was putting her boob back in her tube top and zipping up her cat suit.Seoyeon said, “Maybe a more thorough explanation of this game would have been useful?”Lily said, “I told you what to do…”Hyeju said, “If you are on a chair, don’t move… that is your chair for now…”Seoyeon and Nakyoung sat back down.Jiwon said, “I need to get the hell out of here.  I’m sorry Heejin, but she is paying me REALLY well…”Heejin said, “You don’t have to be sorry… I won round one!”Jiwon bent over and quickly put a zip tie around Heejin’s ankle and the chair leg.  Yeojin stayed on Heejin’s lap, using her legs around the chair and her waist to hold her down.  Jiwon put another zip tie around her other ankle, and then her wrists.  She then put three more zip ties forming loops between the one around her hands, down to the bar across the back of the chair.Heejin said, “Noooooo…”Hyeju stood up triumphantly and said, “Oh yes…”Kyujin said, “Juju, you said to stay seated!”“I meant Heejin.  She can’t really move now… can she?”Yeji, who was totally lost in Sullyoon for a few minutes, said, “Heejin is what?”  Sullyoon stood up and helped Yeji get up.  Yeji tossed the skirt to the side.Hyeju went to her purse and grabbed a small bullet vibrator.  She pulled Yeojin off of Heejin and took her place on her lap, across her legs.  “You tell them to use ice on me…  I have your favorite…”Hyeju turned on the vibrator and touched Heejin’s nipple which quickly responded.  She kept touching it and then letting go.  Back and forth from side to side.Heejin screamed bloody murder.  “I HATE YOU!”The girls all watched.  Yeji walked up to Hyeju.  “What do we have here?”“You want to play too Lucy?”Yeji said, “Nah, but I’ll help.  Heejin, you need to stay quiet or she’s just going to keep making you scream.”  Yeji stood in front of the chair and leaned over and kissed Heejin, doing her best to keep her quiet as Hyeju buzzed her repeatedly.Bae said, “Sorry Yoona… your girl is fascinated with the ex-Loona girl being tortured…”“And I almost had her in my grasp…”“So sad…”Sohyun put her arm around Xinyu’s waist.  “We have a LOT of work to do if we are going to live up to the tradition these Loona girls have set over the years…”  Xinyu nodded emphatically.Jiwoo said, “What the fuck happened to those girls when they were in Loona…”Kyujin shrugged, exposing both boobs.Jiwoo got up, pulled the blanket up and put it back over Kyujin’s shoulders, then sat back down again on her lap.“Come on… kiss me… I want to try…” Kyujin begged.Haewon said, “Wait until next round…  You’ll get plenty of practice…”“My leader’s privates are staring at me, how can I take you seriously…”“YOU EARLIER JUMPING AROUND?”“Oh, right…”Lily said, “That gift package we won better be damn worth it…”Yooyeon said, “I didn’t win shit…”Lily put her arm around Yooyeon, “Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to you soon.”Yeojin was bouncing around.  “Where did Jiwon go?”Seoyeon said, “Where DID Jiwon go?  I didn’t even see her leave…”Nakyoung said, “So embarrassed she teleported without knowing it…”Hyeju got up from Heejin.  “Okay Yeji, let her out.  She can’t break out like I can…  but she’s had enough.”Yeji broke the kiss and shrugged, “How exactly?”.“Get a knife from the kitchen?” asked Hyeju.As Yeji retrieved a knife to free Heejin.  Hyeju said, “Alright everyone, back to your previous seat for real.  The standing girls will just rotate.”Yeojin shouted, “NO!  MORE YEOJIN!”Yeji let Heejin go.  Heejin whispered in Yeji’s ear, “I am so fucking hot right now…”“Are you still angry with me?”“Yes… but you lessened Hyeju’s torture a bit, so I have to thank you for that.”“Yoona is this irresistible thing, I don’t know what it is about her.”“I see that… go play with her if you want, I’ll mess around with someone else.”“We’ll see.  Horny Heejin always is always high up on my list also.”Heejin slapped Yeji’s skirtless butt.Yeojin jumped around, removing Heejin’s chair and making sure the correct sitting girls were back in their first chairs.  “Me and Heejin can judge now!  But first…”Yeojin grabbed Yooyeon and took her to Hyeju’s chair.  “Cat Woman will show you how to play this game.”  Yooyeon blushed as she was being pulled to the evil supervillain.Yeojin grabbed Bae and took her to Nakyoung’s chair, “Here, you show Nakyoung how to play.”She similarly took Jiwoo to Seoyeon’s chair, “You too…  What’s left… what fun… what chaos?”She saw Chaeyeon sitting alone on a couch.  She grabbed her hand and pulled her back to the chairs.  “Don’t worry Chaeyeon, I have the perfect partner for you.  She dropped her off at Yeji.”Yeji smiled at her, “You okay?  Don’t worry, I won’t traumatize you.”“No Lucy?”“Not now.”“You sure?  I saw you with Yoona, and then Heejin.”“Trust me…  I’ve also done this a lot, I don’t mind teaching you, or just moving on to the next round.  Whatever you want.”Chaeyeon smiled softly at her new partner.Yeojin grabbed Xinyu and dropped her off at Kyujin, “Something was up with you and the one wife, now you try this one…”She then put Sullyoon at Sohyun.  “Out of the frying pan and into the fire!” Sullyoon blushed.“Who does that leave?”Lily raised her hand.“Oh right.”  Yeojin grabbed her hand and led her to Haewon, giggling and snickering the entire way.Sullyoon said, “Did anyone even think Yeojin was paying attention to what was going on A SINGLE time tonight?”Everyone was quiet.“This one time… I was underestimated… and then I told a story and it was over that fast…”Bae said, “Damn…”Jiwoo said, “WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE LOONA GIRLS?  I NEED TO KNOW!”Heejin was standing at the light switch waiting for the word.  Yeojin blinked at her and suddenly everything was dark.Lily said, “Naurrrr.”Sullyoon said, “I wasn’t ready!”Bae said, “Totally going to be short also…”Bae was wrong, Heejin left the lights off for almost two minutes, rubbing her own still sensitive nipples the entire time.1) Yooyeon whispered into Hyeju’s ear.  “What am I doing?”“Do you want to make out with me?”“I’m so hot right now… anything you want…”“Oh, damn…  Well sit on my lap already…”Yooyeon sat across Hyeju’s black leather legs.  Hyeju said, “I’m just going to flip you out, if it doesn’t fall off or get thrown aside, you can just put it back on after.”“Wait!”Yooyeon stood up and wriggled out of her sweatpants and then sat back down.  “I want to feel that leather on my skin.”Hyeju felt Yooyeon’s thighs a bit.  “Hot…  Anyway, back to what I was doing…”  Hyeju flipped Yooyeon’s boobs out of her sports bra from underneath.  “Kiss me!”Yooyeon attacked Hyeju’s mouth, doing a good job of finding it.  She put both hands on Hyeju’s sides, enjoying the feel of the shiny black leather.  Hyeju grabbed one of Yooyeon’s boobs and continued feeling her thighs with the other hand.  They continued this for quite a while.2) Chaeyeon stood over Yeji.  Yeji said, “Sit on me, however you want.”Chaeyeon sat across her legs.  “The nylons feel so good.”“Everyone loves my nylons…”She also rubbed her hands through the faux fur on Yeji’s upper chest.“Do you want to kiss me?”“Okay…”Yeji used her patented move, grabbing the back of Chaeyeon’s head and moving Chaeyeon’s head to her own and holding them tightly together.  Chaeyeon quickly fell into Yeji’s kiss and Yeji’s other arm went around Chaeyeon’s body, around her back, and pulled her close.  That pulled her boobs through Yeji’s faux fur which caused a massive reaction in Chaeyeon’s entire body and her tongue darted into Yeji’s mouth and hands started feeling Yeji’s butt and thighs.3) Sullyoon sat across Sohyun’s lap and leaned in to kiss her the second the lights went out.  Sohyun said, “You wait Missy…  You are unacceptably clothed…”“Come on, I want your mouth right now…”“Clothes!”Sullyoon stood up and wriggled out of her sweatpants.  She tried to kick them away and they got stuck on her ankle and if anyone was watching, it would have been quite comical with her struggling until she finally got rid of them.She settled back down on Sohyun, enjoying the feel of her bare legs on Sohyun’s.  She then dove back in for the kiss.  They kissed passionately, hands running all over each other’s thighs and butts.4) Xinyu sat across Kyujin’s blanketed lap.  Kyujin said, “I don’t know what I’m doing, Sohyun gave me some lessons, but please, just do what you like.”Xinyu shrugged.  “My lessons will be better…”  She flipped a long leg over Kyujin’s head to the other side, now straddling her.  She pulled the blanket off of Kyujin’s shoulders, grabbing each of her boobs with a hand.  She then homed in on Kyujin’s mouth and kissed her.  Kyujin was tense, but quickly relaxed at Xinyu handling her and the two minutes went by quickly.5) Jiwoo aggressively sat on Seoyeon’s lap, straddling her.  Seoyeon couldn’t stop giggling.Jiwoo said, “Come on, you’ve wanted to see them up close all night…”“Yeah… when I didn’t know they would literally be right there…”“Go on… feel them…”“Do I have to?”“Do you want to win?”“I don’t know…”“Can I kiss you?”“I guess.”“I’m not Haewon…”Seoyeon put her hands on Jiwoo’s sides, which made Jiwoo giggle as she hit her ticklish spot.  Then she quickly let go.“Dear lord girl…  fucking touch me somewhere.”Seoyeon put her hands back on Jiwoo’s sides, a little higher this time.  Then Jiwoo struck.  She grabbed one of Seoyeon’s wrists and slowly moved it up her side to her boob.  Seoyeon let go with the other hand, but continued feeling the side of Jiwoo’s boob.  Jiwoo put her other hand into Seoyeon’s hair and attacked her mouth, accidently hitting her nose first.  While kissing, she made sure Seoyeon’s hand was solidly on her boob and wasn’t going anywhere with her own hand.6) Lily flopped across Haewon’s naked legs and crotch.  Haewon started to talk, “You rub me…”Lily said, “You are going to SHUT UP and pretend like you love me…  Because whether you do or don’t, you don’t.  You don’t…  But you can pretend for right now.”Haewon put her arms around Lily’s neck and kissed her gently and lovingly.  Lily did the same.  They continued this for two minutes.7)  Bae didn’t ask permission and straddled Nakyoung.  “Okay apprentice… let’s win this…”“Okay… please get me out of this game…”“I will, but you have to do exactly what I say, no matter what.  If you do, I promise we’ll win this early in the game.”“Okay, I trust you…”Bae stood up and wriggled out of her sweatpants.  She was much more efficient at it than Sullyoon.  She then pulled her safety shorts down to her lower thighs.  Her legs difficult to move like that, she pushed Nakyoung’s knees apart and sat down between them, facing away from her.Bae reached back and put both of her hands on Nakyoung’s bare thighs.  “Kiss my neck from behind.”Nakyoung did her best to move Bae’s hair out of the way with her hands and then licked and kissed her neck.“Now put one of your hands on one of mine.”Nakyoung put her hand on top of one of Bae’s on her thigh.  Bae grabbed her wrist with that hand and put it on her own thigh.  She then put her own hand back on Nakyoung’s thigh.  “Do you understand where your hand is?”Nakyoung was getting into kissing Bae’s neck and having Bae’s hands lightly touching her thighs.  “Yes…”“You can keep it there, but the closer you get to my crotch, the more likely we are to win.  Anything is fine…”Nakyoung moved her hand around feeling Bae’s thigh and then belly, realizing that Bae was no longer wearing underwear.  She got startled and stopped the kiss.“Nono!  Time is short!  Kiss and feel!”Nakyoung went back to kissing her neck, and sucking on it.  Her hand was tentatively on Bae’s belly, but she got the courage to slowly move it down which made Bae whimper.“My apprentice is a damn tease…”And the lights came on…Heejin and Yeojin wandered around looking at everyone.  Heejin said, “Clear winner, not as good as us, but pretty good.”Yeojin said, “That’s better than us.”“No, it’s not…”“Yes, it is.”“No, it’s not!”“It is!”Nakyoung moved her finger one more centimeter and Bae moaned loudly.Heejin said, “Okay, now it is…”“I TOLD YOU!”“It wasn’t before…”Bae screamed, “WE AREN’T BETTER, CAN WE GET ON WITH IT?  THIS IS HARD TO FREEZE!”Yeojin said, “Sorry…”  She went to Haewon and Lily.  “These two only love each other.  Get the heck out of here, you lost.”Lily broke the kiss.  “Ohhhrrr, okay…”Haewon grabbed her head and pulled her back for a kiss.  Lily kissed her back, then grabbed her hand and forced her to let go.Yeojin said, “This is why Hornywon exists, Lily is clearly boss of this relationship.”Lily said loudly, “There is no relationship.  She is leader.  And Hornywon... And annoying…  And a lot of other things too but I don’t curse…”  Lily went and stood by a couch.Heejin said, “Yoona and Sohyun, very disappointing.  Kissing like you two are also in love, some hands on thighs and butts.  Improve for next time.”Sullyoon said, “Hey!  I threw my pants over there…”“Fine… no pants.  Your legs are hot… you still lost…”Sullyoon wanted to call her jealous but decided better not to.  She stood up and peeked at Bae.  “JINSOL!  Your mother is going to be so embarrassed!”  She ran over to stand with Lily.  Lily put her arm around her.Yeojin said, “Xinyu… let go of the naked maknae please.”Xinyu broke the kiss and let go of Kyujin’s chest.  Kyujin said, “What?  What happened?”Xinyu said, “Did you enjoy?”“YES!  Did you!”“Yes, you have definite potential.  Maybe new mistress…”Kyujin pulled the blanket back up and clapped for herself.Xinyu said, “Did you count both hands on boobs?”  Then she saw Bae.  “Sorry Kyujin… My old mistress is fucking hot, I guess want to keep her…”Xinyu ran over to stand with Lily and Sullyoon.  Lily slapped her on the face gently.  “Groping my maknae.”Sullyoon spanked her on the butt.  “Yeah… what she said…”Heejin said, “Chaeyeon!  Nice improvement!”Chaeyeon stopped kissing Yeji and stood up, chest obviously quite excited still.  She pointed at Yeji.  “That girl is DAMN MAGIC!  Wow…”Haewon said, “I could have done that…”“KEEP DREAMING!”Yeji giggled.  “Faux fur for the win…”Chaeyeon said, “Why didn’t we win?”Heejin pointed at Bae.Nakyoung moved her fingertip just barely.  Bae whimpered loudly.  Chaeyeon took a peek.  “EWWW, WHY HAVE I SEEN ALL OF NMIXX NAKED?”  She ran over and hid behind Xinyu.Yeojin said, “My-jjyu!  Did you have any luck with this one?”Jiwoo said, “I had to trick her, but she finally touched my boob and kissed me.  Guessing one hand on boob isn’t good enough?”Suddenly Seoyeon’s hand darted forward and grabbed Jiwoo’s boob again.“Really?  Now?  Really?  You let Jinsol win… Jinsol…”Seoyeon giggled and shrugged.Jiwoo slowly walked over to the other losers.Heejin said, “Yooyeon?  You in there?  Or did cat woman steal your soul?”  Yooyeon looked up and moved back from Hyeju.  Her boobs suddenly fell free.“Oh hi Yooyeon’s chest!”Lily ran forward, “Yooyeon’s chest?”Yooyeon shook her finger at Lily and she got herself put back into her bra.Hyeju asked, “Was it fun?”“NO!  I was hot and you MADE IT WORSE!”“So, it was fun.”“NO!”“You had a bad feeling about it…”“OH MY GOD…”Yooyeon ran over to Xinyu and Chaeyeon, then remembered she might need to see something and took a quick peak at Seoyeon.“What?”“Just checking…”Seoyeon said, “I grabbed Jiwoo’s boob.”“Good for you… Hyeju grabbed my boob.”“What even is this conversation?”Yooyeon shrugged, then accidently saw Nakyoung move her finger and Bae moaned.  She couldn’t do anything but stare.  Lily grabbed her and pulled her back to the other girls.  “You don’t need to see Bae’s privates.”“TOO LATE!  AND I’M SO FUCKING HOT.  You’re hot, Bae is hot, Heejin is hot, EVERYONE IS HOT.”Lily put her arm around Yooyeon.Yooyeon said, “DON’T TOUCH ME!” and ran to a different couch.Sullyoon said, “Calm down everyone, normal reactions to this game!  Everything is normal!  Wait, wtf is my life if this is normal…”Heejin said, “Okay Jinsol, you can get up.  Even as Bae was about to get up, Nakyoung moved her finger.   Bae said, “Oh my god… were you doing that on purpose?”“What?”“THAT!”“What?”“YOU WERE?”“We won…  Like you said…”Bae realized she was standing there with safety shorts at her thighs and slightly wet.  She quickly pulled up her safety shorts.She helped Nakyoung get up and gave her a hug.  “Yay!  We won!”  She ran over to Sullyoon and Lily.Sullyoon said, “Was she good?”“My apprentice is a damn tease… now she is going to be stuck in my head…”Xinyu hugged Bae tightly and picked her up.  “MINE!”“You are too aggressive to be that good.  That girl could be dangerous…”Hyeju said, “Round Three!  Let’s go!” 
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Chapter 14:  Haewon Gets Confused
 Yeojin cackled in glee.  “LOOK how I saved the best for last!  Mwahahahha.  After this round we’ll be out of combinations, so we’ll switch it up!  But until then…”Yeojin grabbed Xinyu and took her to Yeji.  “Ever have a giant on your lap?”Yeji said, “I mean…  Yuna is as tall as her.  Also, I’m not exactly short myself…”“Don’t steal my thunder, I’ll get angry.”“A giant?  Oh no… I wonder what it will be like…”  Yeji said mockingly.“Now you’re just mocking me…”Hyeju said, “Yeojin… focus…”Yeojin grabbed Jiwoo and dropped her off at Sohyun.  “You’re welcome…”Jiwoo did a little clap for herself.  “Not Hyeju… but it will work…”“It?” asked Sohyun.  “Girl… I’m going to ‘it’ all over you…”Jiwoo put her hands on her face and feigned surprise.Yeojin said, “The three-yeon problem.  Three-TripleS -yeons is two -yeons too many -yeons.”  She grabbed Chaeyeon and dropped her off at Hyeju.  “This -yeon will get molested by Hyeju, hopefully it will result in Hyeju getting smacked and knocked over like poor Haewon.”Chaeyeon glared at Yeojin.  “Thank you for putting me here, but HAEWON IS NOT POOR!”Haewon rubbed fake tears from her eyes.Yeojin grabbed Yooyeon.  “-Yeon plus -yeon equals epic fun!”  She dropped her off at Seoyeon.Yooyeon said, “I don’t want to.”“LIES!” said Yeojin.Seoyeon coyly batted her eyelashes at Yooyeon.  Yooyeon covered her face with her hands.Yeojin said, “Uhoh, I’m left with four ‘Dash’ers…  And Lily and Haewon just pretended they were in love last round.  Lame…”She grabbed Lily and dropped her off at Kyujin and grabbed Sullyoon and pushed her to Haewon.  Sullyoon nearly fell on top of Haewon who managed to protect herself from a falling Sullyoon by putting her arms out and ended up with Sullyoon kneeling in front of her.“NO STARTING EARLY!”Sullyoon shouted back, “NO PUSHING, I’m tired…”  She slowly got back on her feet.Heejin said, “This looks great Yeojin!  Now that everyone knows how to play this game for sure, NO TALKING this round.  If we hear any talking, you automatically lose the round.”Haewon said, “Quick Yoona, what should we do?”“I don’t know… pretend I’m Lily?”Heejin said, “STARTING NOW!”Lily said to Kyujin, “I’m not touching you…”Kyujin responded, “Can I touch you?”“NO!”“But I need practice!”Heejin said, “QUIET!  I’ll take that blanket from you!”Bae said, “Heejin, do you need help judging?  What should me and my apprentice do?  It is obviously difficult for anyone to take you seriously with your boobies staring at us.”“Sit there and watch.  We got this…”“We can’t watch, it will be dark…”“Listen?”“You just said they can’t talk…”“Dear lord, Jinsol…  make out then… you seemed to like each other a minute ago…”Bae looked at Nakyoung who turned red and looked away.  They sat down together on the floor at the edge of the carpet.With Heejin busy battling various girls talking when they weren’t supposed to be, Yeojin ran to the light switch and flicked it off.  She only left it off for just under one minute.Bae instantly grabbed Nakyoung’s hand.  “We can talk.”“No, we shouldn’t…”“What is that meanie-boob Heejin going to do, we can’t lose, we already won…”“But…”Bae immediately spun over onto her partner’s lap, knocking her backwards, but protecting her head with her hand so she didn’t hit it on the floor.  Bae settled in on top of Nakyoung, slipped her knees between Nakyoung’s thighs.  Bae kept her hand on top of Nakyoung’s safety shorts, teasing her inner thighs and occasionally moving her fingers over her crotch.  Unfortunately, the lights came on before she could really get her going.1) Jiwoo hesitantly sat down across Sohyun’s legs, much more because it was dark and she didn’t want to fall than because she was shy.  Sohyun immediately grabbed at Jiwoo’s right boob with one hand, felt for her butt with the other hand, slapped it as hard as she could in the dark and then pushed Jiwoo off of her lap by standing up.  Jiwoo mumbled, “Eh?”  Sohyun, hand still on Jiwoo’s butt grabbed the waistband of Jiwoo’s sweatpants and pulled it down slightly.  Jiwoo said, “Oh…”  Jiwoo wriggled out of her sweatpants, Sohyun sat back down and Jiwoo settled comfortably on top of her.  Jiwoo kissed Sohyun and was just about to go after her bra when Yeojin turned the lights back on.2) Lily sat on Kyujin’s lap, but saw how precariously the blanket barely hung on her shoulders earlier and grabbed it first to make sure it didn’t fall as she sat.  Kyujin tried to kiss Lily twice, but she managed to dodge the first time and redirected Kyujin’s face with her hand the second time.  She put her hand through Kyujin’s hair and massaged her scalp, which she knew Kyujin loved, hoping it would keep her from trying anything else.  Kyujin did manage to grab Lily’s sides with her hands, but Lily was remarkably still fully clothed, so Kyujin couldn’t do much other than feel around her hoodie until the lights came on.3) Yeji didn’t realize, but Xinyu was carefully scouting her while Heejin was complaining at the other girls.  The second the lights went off, Xinyu moved behind Yeji and the entire chair, found Yeji’s shoulders, one with each hand.  She followed them to Yeji’s hands and pulled them above her head.  With a deft hand she found some buttons and a hidden zipper, grabbed the long arms of Yeji’s top and pulled the entire thing off of her.  Like a ballerina, that unfortunately no one could see, she spun around the chair, flopped down gracefully onto Yeji’s lap and was just about to kiss her when the lights came on.4) Yooyeon’s hormones were still on overdrive and her first instinct was to make Seoyeon feel it, but she knew she had to hold back or she would get even hotter.  Still, she knew what she had to do to win and decided she better practice.  She hopped onto Seoyeon’s lap and straddled her, Seoyeon instantly started giggling.  Yooyeon sighed at her and then tried to kiss her, but Seoyeon dodged, suddenly giggling more.  Yooyeon grabbed Seoyeon’s head with both hands and just managed to get their lips together as the lights came on. 5) Chaeyeon was watching what was going on at the results of the previous rounds and was easily drunk enough to not care about modesty.  She quickly sat on Hyeju’s lap, straddling her.  Chaeyeon poked at one of Hyeju’s boobs, well protected by her leather cat suit.  Hyeju knew exactly what Chaeyeon wanted and was impressed as Chaeyeon put both of her hands above her head to give Hyeju easy access to remove her bra, which she did deftly and threw it to the side.  Hyeju aggressively put her hand down the back of Chaeyeon’s safety shorts and managed to get her finger all the way around to the ‘front’ which instantly made Chaeyeon curse and then moan loudly.6) Sullyoon’s plan was to avoid Haewon’s naked crotch the best she could, then ‘play Lily’.  She moved to the front of Haewon, felt for her thighs and made sure the were pushed together tightly, she then climbed on, straddling Haewon with her long bare legs.  Sullyoon was hot and Haewon wasn’t immune to it.  Haewon got a jolt of hormones, but did her best to ignore them.  Sullyoon easily found Haewon’s lips with her own, put her arms around Haewon’s neck.  Haewon put her arms around Sullyoon’s waist and they kissed.  When Chaeyeon moaned, Haewon broke the kiss and turned her head to look, even though she knew she couldn’t see anything.  Sullyoon sighed and pulled Haewon’s face back to hers with her hand on Haewon’s chin as the lights came on. Heejin and Yeojin walked around the chairs observing.  The only sound was Chaeyeon still whimpering a bit.  Bae said, “Tiny butterfly… why so fast… I was doing a thing here…”Yeojin said, “FUN!  CHAOS!”Heejin said, “You won, no one cares about your thing.”Nakyoung muttered, Bae’s hand still tickling around her inner thigh, “I… care…”“Get off of her and behave, Jinsol…”“Next time you get tied to a chair, I just might have to participate.”Bae was just about to flip over to get up, but Nakyoung grabbed her hand and put it back on her thigh.  “Hey…”Bae said, “Oh, okay…” and settled back down on top of her.Heejin started at Lily and Kyujin.  “Lily… what are you doing exactly?”“Massaging Kyujin’s scalp.  She loves that and it prevented her from trying to kiss me…”“Kyujin, were you trying to kiss Lily?”“Of course, that is the point of this game, no?  Why won’t anyone let me practice?”Lily stood up, making sure the blanket didn’t move.“Lily…  at least keep massaging my scalp…”“Naur! Done!”Lily walked over to a couch and sat down.Yeojin stopped at Jiwoo and Sohyun.  “This is disappointing.  You two have made out before and this is all you did?”Jiwoo shouted back at Yeojin, “TOO SHORT!”“Sowwy…”“But hey, my sweatpants are over there, I’m only wearing safety shorts now…”“Lost some pants and barely a kiss...  Does not win ‘most inappropriate’…”Jiwoo got up and stormed off to Lily.  She sat down on the couch next to Lily and Lily moved as far to the other end of the couch as possible to avoid her mostly naked groupmate.Heejin said, “Look at my Hwang!  Xinyu figured out how to get that thing off of you and weren’t wearing anything underneath?”Yeji said, “Nope, comes with its own support.”From the couch Jiwoo said, “Wait, Yeji is topless?”  She ran over to observe.Bae said, “Yeah yeah… Yeji is so hot…  Sullyoon is so hot…  blah blah…”Jiwoo took a peak and said, “Damn Yeji… so hot…  Yoona!  Come look!”Sullyoon was concentrating on freezing her pose and ignored everyone.Heejin said, “Nonetheless, still disappointed, why didn’t you attack that Xinyu?”Xinyu looked over at Yeojin, “TOO FAST!  Also, I deserve three or four boobs worth of getting that thing off of her…”Yeji asked, “How did you figure it out?  Even in the dark?”“I’ve worn something similar, I was watching closely while the Loona girls were battling with everyone.”Bae said, “MY MISTRESS!  Smart and paying attention!  Always underestimated!”Heejin said, “Still no points…”Xinyu got up from Yeji’s lap and sat on Sohyun’s lap.Yeojin said, “Yoona… why are you staring at Haewon like that?”“Because I was pretending I was Lily, and she kissed me, a bit intensely and I might have liked it, because I was pretending I was Lily, no other reason.  But then she heard Chaeyeon make a noise and STOPPED kissing ME to turn to look.  How rude… can you even believe it?  So I turned her head by grabbing her chin and was about to kiss her again and gave her this mean look first that she wasn’t supposed to be able to see, but then the lights came on and now I’m having trouble making the mean look again without giggling…”Yeojin said, “Haewon, do you have anything to say for yourself?”“Why is Chaeyeon moaning?”“NO POINTS!  Get up…”Sullyoon quickly stood up.  She saw Yeji’s lap open and conveniently and quickly sat on it.Bae saw it and said, “Haha, look at that Heejin.  Innocent, kind, Yoona is stealing your girl.”Sullyoon and Heejin at the exact same time said, “SHUT UP JINSOL”.Sullyoon could only stare at Yeji’s chest.Yeji asked, “Whatcha looking at Yoona?”“I um… couldn’t figure out even how to begin to get it off… so now I’m investigating the garment…”“Which is way over there…”“And what was under it…”Jiwoo said, “Did Yeojin’s spirit possess Yoona?  She is very chatty all of a sudden.”Sullyoon pointed to Yeji’s chest.Yooyeon said, “Hey!  I want to see Yeji’s chest instead of kissing this girl that keeps giggling at me…”Seoyeon said, “Sorry… it is like being tickled and you don’t want to giggle, but you can’t stop…”Heejin said, “Like when a groupmate that is supposed to be your friend sits on your lap and gets frisky?”“Yes!”“I wouldn’t know… NO POINTS!”Yooyeon climbed off of Seoyeon, took a long peek at Yeji’s chest and then noticed Lily sitting all by herself and ran over and sat with her.  “Lily… why do you have so many clothes on… it is really going to slow things down when it is you and I…”“I don’rtttt knowwwwr, I’m soooooor bad at this game…”Yooyeon put her arm around Lily’s waist.Heejin and Yeojin both stood over Hyeju and Chaeyeon.  Hyeju had an enormous grin on her face.  Her hand still under Chaeyeon’s safety shorts reaching all the way around her butt.Heejin said, “Catwoman… are you petting Chaeyeon’s pussy?”Chaeyeon moaned.Haewon looked over and glared at Hyeju who just smiled back brightly.Chaeyeon said, “I also… don’t… have… bra…”Yeojin said, “Yes!  I see your pretty and large boobies!  Yeojin likes them!”Chaeyeon said, “Thanks?”Hyeju slowly worked her hand back out of Chaeyeon’s pants and Chaeyeon stood up.Haewon looked over at Chaeyeon and was perfectly quiet.  Chaeyeon looked over at her.  “No rude comment?”Haewon’s eyes glazed over at the sight of Chaeyeon’s naked chest.Sullyoon got up off of Yeji’s knee and sat back down on Haewon’s knee.  “Yo!  You alive?”She slowly shook her head no.“I think Hornywon might have blown up inside her head seeing you like that and you broke her.”Chaeyeon said, “Great!  I won!”  She walked over to an unoccupied couch.Yooyeon said, “Not really that big of a surprise that Chaeyeon is the most naked of TripleS…”Lily asked, “You have seen it all before?”“Girl is not shy in the shower…”Heejin said to Hyeju, “It is fairly impressive to win while still fully wearing a catsuit.”Hyeju said, “I know… purrrrrrrr…  I might never take it off.”Yeojin said, “Oh no… yet another Hyeju personality… F… M… L…”Heejin said, “Hyeju, do you want to help judge?”“No… I’m done running things…  I kind of just want to sit there and see what Jinsol and Nakyoung are up to.”“Okay, go for it!”Bae said, “Come on over!”Yeojin started bouncing around from chair to chair, making all of the sitting girls get up.  Heejin removed the extra chair.Yeojin said, “Yeojin’s goal!  No repeat customers!  I can see it in my mind!”She grabbed Yeji, “You still sit…”  She grabbed Sohyun, “You still sit…”  She grabbed Haewon, “Bare crotch girl, still sit…”Heejin said, “Are you sure?  This is almost the same?”Yeojin said, “Never doubt my mind…”“Right…”Yeojin said, “Need more Nmixxers!  Lily and Yoona, come sit!”Lily said, “Ohhhr, alright.  I need to leave you now Yooyeon.”Yooyeon said lovingly trying to mimic Lily’s accented English, “Naurrrrrr.”Yeojin said, “Yes!  This is genius!”She grabbed Jiwoo.  “You were the first to be curious about Yeji’s chest.  Have a closeup!”  She pushed Jiwoo to Yeji’s chair.Sullyoon said, “WHY DID I GET YEJI SO EARLY?”Yeojin said, “FUN!” Yeojin grabbed Kyujin, “You have been having hard luck.  I know this one won’t be shy of you…”  She pulled her to Sohyun.  Sohyun giggled in glee.Next, she dropped Seoyeon off at Sullyoon and Haewon off and Xinyu.Yooyeon jumped up and down.  “LILY?  I GET LILY?”Yeojin nodded.  “Good luck, she’s fully clothed, not sure what you are going to do with that…”As Yooyeon walked over to Lily, Heejin sneakily made her way to the light switch.  Bae yelled, “SNEAKY HEEJIN, LIGHTS…”Heejin quickly threw the switch.  Bae said, “…out…”Hyeju was sitting next to Nakyoung, who was still awkwardly laying on the floor under Bae.  Hyeju grabbed Nakyoung’s shoulders and pulled her torso onto her lap.  Bae spread Nakyoung’s legs and went back to what she was doing.  Hyeju supported Nakyoung and also teased her chest with her other hand.  Nakyoung whimpered at first and then fell into complete silence except for heavy breathing while three hands teased her.1) Xinyu wasn’t sure what to do with Haewon.  She really wanted to just dive right into her, but she didn’t know her at all and had barely interacted with her tonight.  She sat across Haewon’s lap.  Haewon was equally awkward around Bae’s mistress.  Haewon started feeling around and then snapped back to reality a bit and remembered Xinyu was fully clothed.  She pushed Xinyu off of herself and then stood up.  She grabbed Xinyu’s tee shirt, pulling on it.  Xinyu caught on and put her arms above her head, but Haewon was too short to help her really get it off, so she had to do it herself.  Determined to help more, Haewon grabbed Xinyu’s sweatpants and pulled down, but they were well tied with the string and couldn’t be pulled down without pulling the knot, not trivial in the dark.  She just managed to get them off when the lights came on.2) Seoyeon sat on Sullyoon’s lap, but was equally awkward.  At least she wasn’t giggling this time.  Sullyoon felt around and happened to run into Seoyeon’s hand.  She grabbed it and put it on her own boob, hoping Seoyeon would catch on, then the giggling started again.  Ignoring the rules, Sullyoon said, “Are you sixteen or something?”  She then found Seoyeon’s face with both of her hands and held it still.  She then pulled it toward her and kissed it.  Every time Seoyeon wanted to giggle, Sullyoon kissed her harder, or gave her tongue until the lights came on.3) All that Yooyeon wanted was Lily’s face, and since she was still fully clothed, she decided not to even bother with clothes.  Yooyeon sat across Lily’s legs and they immediately found each other’s face and fell into an amazing kiss.  Yooyeon knew that this was also a game that needed to be won, however.  Yooyeon felt Lily’s hands resting on her knee and maintaining the kiss, she grabbed Lily’s hands and put them on the sides of her bra.  Lily caught on instantly and popped the back of Yooyeon’s bra, pulling it off of her arms and throwing it aside.  She grabbed a boob with one hand and put the other around Yooyeon’s neck.  Yooyeon’s arms went around Lily pulling them as close together as possible.4) Kyujin immediately dropped the blanket from her top half as she sat across Sohyun’s legs.  They quickly kissed, Sohyun proud of her student’s ferocity.  Sohyun wasn’t about to let another teaching moment be wasted.  She felt Kyujin’s chest with her hand, but sensed Kyujin had no idea what to do with her own hands.  Still feeling a boob with one hand, she took her other hand and put it on Kyujin’s shoulder, ran it down Kyujin’s arm, and grabbed her hand in her own.  She then put it on the clasp on the back of her bra.  She could feel Kyujin zoning out of the kiss a bit as her hand tried to get the bra open, so she stuck her tongue into Kyujin’s mouth to keep her present.  Kyujin finally mastered keeping focus on the kiss while getting the bra open.  She did break the kiss to cackle in glee as she finally pulled the bra off of Sohyun.  Sohyun grabbed her head with both hands and stuffed her mouth full of tongue again, their bare chests mashed together in a tight embrace.5)  Right before the lights went out, Yeji used her fingers to flash some numbers to Jiwoo.  Four, then five, then six.  Jiwoo had never made out with Yeji before, but she assumed Yeji was telling her to forget the passion and get points, the move that she used to win with mostly-straight Nayeon nearly a year ago. But wait, how the heck could you get six with four hands?  Jiwoo thought for a minute, she then got up, flipped around and spread Yeji’s legs a bit.  She then straddled on one of Yeji’s knees, facing away from her.  Yeji steadied her with both arms.  Once settled, she slipped one hand down the front, under Jiwoo’s safety shorts and grabbed a boob with the other.  She then kissed Jiwoo’s neck from behind.  All of that made Jiwoo want to flip around and attack Yeji’s face, but she maintained her cool.  She felt behind her for Yeji’s stomach and managed to get her own hand under Yeji’s nylons and normal panties, much easier than safety shorts.  She still had a free hand so she grabbed her own boob.  That should count, right?When the lights came on, Bae immediately hopped up.  “I’ll be back apprentice, I want to see how Jiwoo did.”Jiwoo and Yeji were both in a bit of a trance of wanting to moan but not wanting everyone to hear them both moan.  “Damn Jiwoo!  Nice!” said Bae.  “Kyujin all in Sohyun’s boobs, also very nice.”  She clapped for the twins.Xinyu said, “You aren’t going to clap for me getting naked?”Bae clapped loudly, “FINALLY!  THANK YOU HAEWON!”Heejin grabbed Bae and pulled her out of the ring of chairs.  “Important judges in here only…”Bae stuck her tongue out at Heejin and went back to teasing Nakyoung.Yeojin walked over to Haewon and Xinyu.  “You are supposed to play this game using the chairs…  Why are you both standing?”Haewon said, “Let’s see you try to get clothes off of a giant.”“You should have practiced on Jinsol.”“Maybe I should have… but I didn’t…”“Jinsol!  Let your leader practice undressing you sometime!”Bae said, “Right… except I’m not ex-Loona… that is not ordinary activity with us…”Kyujin said under her breath, “Only if it is Lily I guess…”Haewon ignored them all and gathered up the two bits of Xinyu’s clothing.  “Two clothing points!”Haewon, naked from the chest down, holding Xinyu’s sweatpants and tee shirt for Yeojin to see was a slightly comical sight.  Haewon sat back down and Xinyu wandered off to a couch.Heejin went to Seoyeon and Sullyoon.  “Yoona sucking face is always fun, not much else going on.  Do you have something cute or smart-assed to say Yoona?”She pulled her tongue out of Seoyeon’s mouth and pushed her face away with both of her hands that she was holding it with.  Seoyeon immediately went back to giggling.  “She’s a giggle machine…  it took all of my strength to hold her head still and stuff my tongue down her throat to shut her up.”Heejin asked, “Did you at least enjoy Yoona’s tongue Seoyeon?”Seoyeon, still giggling with a half-naked Sullyoon on her lap shook her head ‘yes’.  Sullyoon kicked Seoyeon off of her chair.  Seoyeon wandered to the couch with Xinyu, staring at her long legs and torso.Xinyu said, “What?  I’m hot…”Yeojin and Heejin met at Kyujin and Sohyun’s chair.  Heejin said, “These three might actually be close for a change!  We should actually count points.”   Yeojin gave her a thumbs up.Yeojin said, “Kyujin and Sohyun:  Sohyun lost a bra, that’s a point.  Kiss with tongue, that’s two points.  Lots of boobies mixed together, let’s call that a point.  Hands mostly disappointing…  four total points!”Kyujin stood up, made sure the blanket was covering herself well and went to sit between Xinyu and Seoyeon.Xinyu said, “Isn’t my wife’s chest freaking hot?”Kyujin said, “Sure… but everything about her is freaking hot…”“You aren’t wrong.”Seoyeon stopped giggling long enough to be curious, evidenced by the look on her face.  She then ran over to Sohyun to get a good look, then ran back to the couch.Kyujin asked her, “You agree with us?”Seoyeon shook her head ‘yes’ emphatically.Heejin said, “Lily and Yooyeon, finally allowed to go crazy.  How did they do?  Yooyeon lost a bra, that’s a point.  Kiss with tongue, that’s two points.  Lily’s hand on a boob, that’s a point.  Otherwise, arms wrapped around, not much point-worthy.  A bit of a tie here I think…”Lily and Yooyeon were ignoring everything going on around themselves, still kissing passionately and Lily kneading Yooyeon’s boob.  Heejin said, “Guess we are going to have to intervene in this one, Yeoyeo…”Yeojin poked Lily hard in the shoulder.  “Hey.  Hey…” to no effect.Heejin put her arms around Yooyeon and pulled her off.  Yooyeon started shouting, “No!  No!”  Arms and legs flailing.  Heejin’s managed to flip her around and her own bare chest confronted the angry Yooyeon.Yooyeon said, “Oh hi…”Heejin said, “Wow girl… your hormones get going and you suddenly get a determined ferocity to achieve your goals…”Yooyeon looked at her, very disappointed.  “NO!  I’m always like that you dummy…”Heejin giggled and pushed Yooyeon toward the couch, her naked chest finally flowing free.Kyujin said, “You can sit with me TripleS hottie… you don’t have to waste your time with Lily.”Xinyu said, “Or me!” and winked at Yooyeon.Yooyeon closed her eyes and pretended Xinyu wasn’t there, sitting on Seoyeon’s knee.  Seoyeon stared at her chest, giggling.Yooyeon said, “You’ve seen it before…”Seoyeon blushed.Heejin and Yeojin gathered at Yeji and Jiwoo.  Heejin said, “This is a lot, but will they get more than four?”Yeojin said, “Hwang has one hand on Jiwoo’s boob and one hand on Jiwoo’s crotch.  You do, right?”Jiwoo twitched a bit as Yeji wiggled it.“Thought so…”Heejin said, “She’s also kissing Jiwoo’s neck, that’s one kiss point, one boob point, two crotch points, already at four.”Yeojin said, “Jiwoo is your hand on Yeji’s pussy?”Jiwoo wiggled her finger, but Yeji didn’t react.  “Meh…” Jiwoo felt around and wiggled her finger again.  This time Yeji moaned.  Jiwoo smiled from ear to ear.“Okay, grabbing your own boob is fun, but I’m not going to give you points for that, the hand in the right spot gets you two more points though, so you get six and you two win the round!”Jiwoo hopped up and jumped up and down a bit, giving Yeji two high-fives.  “WE GOT SIX!”Sullyoon said, “I didn’t even hear any moaning from you two… were you even trying?”Jiwoo said, “POINTS!”Haewon said, “Yeji… did you just do that thing where you just position everything to get points?”Yeji shrugged.Jiwoo, all smiles, looked around the room a bit.  “YAY!  FINALLY some TripleS boobies!  I’ve been setting an example here for some hours, thanks for finally catching on…”  She pointed to her own chest.Sohyun clapped.  “Sorry I was late…”Heejin grabbed Yeji’s hand and pulled her up from her chair and gave her a hug.  Without warning she pushed Yeji back into the chair and Yeojin grabbed her waist from behind to make sure she couldn’t get back up.Bae said, “Oh no… not this again…  Hyeju…”Hyeju said, “Catwoman has retired, I have no clue what is going on…”Heejin said, “Someone come here and help us… Yeji cheated, she needs to be taught how she is supposed to play this game.”Haewon said, “Well, that means Jiwoo cheated too…  Can we tie her to a chair?”“Jiwoo… who’s idea was it to win the round by mounting up points without even enjoying each other?”Jiwoo thought for a minute, looked at the crazy ex-Loona girls and shyly said, “Yeji…”Heejin said, “We aren’t going to tie her to the chair, but Jiwoo, since you are partially responsible, come make sure she doesn’t kick anyone with her legs.”“Alright…  I still won the game and don’t have to play anymore, right?”“Yes, of course…”“Alright…”  Jiwoo sat on the carpet in front of Yeji’s chair, sitting on one of Yeji’s feet and holding the other ankle with her wrists.“Yoona!  Do you want to come help?”Sullyoon grabbed her chair with her hands and shook her head ‘no’ violently.Heejin ran and grabbed the bullet vibrator that was used on her nipples.  She said to Yeji, “You are going to enjoy this, like you should have been enjoying Jiwoo’s finger…”Yeji snarled at Heejin playfully.“Hold her to that chair, Yeojin.”“I AM ALREADY… get on with it…”Heejin took the bullet in her hand and put it under Yeji’s nylons and panties, sitting it right on the best spot.  “Any last words?”“I’ll be thinking of YOONA!”Haewon, Jiwoo, Bae, and Yeojin all went, “Oh!”, simultaneously with Lily’s “Naurrrr.”Heejin turned on the bullet and Yeji moaned loudly and by reflex tried to kick Jiwoo in the face.  Jiwoo readjusted to get a good hold on Yeji’s calf and Heejin sat on Yeji’s other foot.  Yeji squirmed violently at the intense stimulation with frequent moaning.Heejin said, “Come on Yoona, come shut her up…”Sullyoon grabbed her chair tighter and shook her head ‘no’ more violently.Jiwoo said, “I mean… I’m good at stuff, but my finger would not have made her do that…”Heejin said, “A few more minutes, she’ll be fine…  She can literally do this all night…”Sullyoon shook her head violently ‘no’ yet again.Haewon said, “I’m all for making Yeji a heap of moans, but you are making Yoona suffer too.  Get it over with…”Sohyun got up from her chair and sat on Yoona’s lap, and kissed her gently to get her mind onto something else, probably.Yeojin let go of Yeji’s waist, and she squirmed even more, trying to push against the vibrator.  “My arms are tired, that girl has abs of steel.  Also, time to crown more inappropriate girls!”Heejin said, “Fine…” and turned off the bullet.  Yeji settled back in her seat, a bead of sweat running down her face.  Heejin pulled the vibrator out of her panties.  “Did you adequately have fun yet?”Yeji nodded.  “Yes, Ma’am!”“Get out of here, we need your seat.”Sohyun got up off of Sullyoon.  Sullyoon said to her with a mean look, “NOT HELPFUL!”“Girl… I’m always helpful…”Haewon, Lily, Sullyoon, and Sohyun were the four left in their chairs.Yeojin said, “Other losers… come over here!  I’m too tired to run over there and grab you all…”The four of them got up and walked slowly to the chairs.  Yeji and Jiwoo settled with Hyeju, Bae, and Nakyoung.Haewon said, “Where’s Chaeyeon?”Yooyeon ran over to the couch with a Chaeyeon sleeping on it.  “She’s asleep…”Chaeyeon heard Yooyeon and stirred.  “I’m awake!  Did you win yet?  Dear lord, I can see your boobs…”“You fell asleep when Yeji was over here moaning because Heejin dropped a vibrator down her pants…”Chaeyeon curled back up on the couch.  “I think I just need to stay here and sleep.  It’s all too much.”“Seoyeon is still wearing a bra!  She giggles when anyone tries to kiss her, it is a bit amusing.  Come watch…”Yooyeon pulled Chaeyeon off of the couch, walked to the other girls and she plopped down next to Yeji and Jiwoo.Haewon said, “You can come sleep on me!  As soon as I win…”Chaeyeon said, “Looks like that is one thing I don’t really have to worry about…”“I deserved that one… I did…”Yeojin said, “I hate to be the bearer of a black cloud over Haewon, but Kyujin!  Meet your new partner!”Kyujin happily sat on Haewon’s lap.  Haewon said, “Oh, come on…”“NO REPEATS!  Also, everyone behold the stars of this round.  We all are certain the whole wife thing is just a sham and they can barely stand each other.  Xinyu!  Go sit on your wife!”Xinyu looked at Sohyun with disdain, totally playing the part Yeojin set up for her.  She stood as far away from Sohyun’s chair as she could while still being considered standing next to it.Yeojin said, “Yooyeon, you sit on Yoona.”Yooyeon said, “I apologize if I go overboard, Lily made me really hot and then these RUDE Loona girls keep turning on the lights.”Sullyoon said, “It is okay, listening to Yeji moan did the same to me, and then Sohyun putting her boobs in my face… Also, we’ll have to try hard to beat the wives.”Xinyu said, “HEY, NO TALKING!”Seoyeon said, “What were you saying about no repeats?  I’ve already been with Lily…”Yeojin said, “Well, it isn’t my fault the loser’s bracket is pathetic.  It was round one and what you two did that time BARELY counts as ‘been’.Seoyeon stood next to Lily.Haewon said, “I haven’t had Seoyeon, come over here, I’ll make you giggle A LOT!”Lily said, “You be quiet!  No one wants Kyujin!  You suffer through it!”Kyujin pretended she was crying.  Heejin turned off the lights.  She let them go for several minutes this time, by far the longest yet.The winners were considerably more well-behaved this round.  They sat close to each other, occasionally feeling each other legs or backs, but nothing crazy going on.  They carefully listened, curious what the wives would do.Hyeju whispered, “It is so quiet.  Are they even doing anything?”Bae whispered back, “Well-oiled machine those two…”Chaeyeon said, “I think Yeojin is right… they are entirely fake for Wavs…”  Chaeyeon got hit in the face with a bra.  “The fuck?”She handed it to Bae who said, “I think it’s Lily’s?”Nakyoung said, “I found this one…”  She handed it to Bae also.Yeji said, “Why are you all giving them to the one girl still wearing one.”Bae said, “Shut up Hwang… I won easily…  I didn’t even have to cheat…  This is Yoona’s!”Yeji said a little too loudly, “YES!”Bae said, “There… Now that’s a Chinese girl whimpering.”1) Kyujin quickly jumped onto Haewon’s lap, letting the blanket fall from her shoulders.  From what she learned from watching everyone up to this point, if she did the right thing to Haewon, she would quickly forget that her maknae was on her lap.  She awkwardly felt around until she found Haewon’s sides and then ran her fingers down to Haewon’s thighs and the sides of her butt.  She teased Haewon like that until Kyujin felt Haewon put her hands on her sides as well and then went for the kiss.  The kiss wasn’t anything special, but Kyujin kept it going while keeping her fingers going on Haewon’s sides.2)  Seoyeon remembered what Lily told her in round one, but she had been too busy giggling at horny girls to do it.  She pulled Lily out of her chair and felt around for the tie on Lily’s sweatpants.  She fairly easily pulled it and then pulled down Lily’s pants.  Lily did the same to Seoyeon.  Seoyeon was feeling good about actually knowing what to do and went after Lily’s bra next, and Lily helped Seoyeon take hers off as well.  Seoyeon quickly sat back down in the chair, and Lily sat on top of her straddling her.  Lily put her hands through Seoyeon’s hair and kissed her quite intensely, their chests intermingled in a quite erotic dance.  Seoyeon put her hands on Lily’s back, feeling around and gripping her shoulder blades from underneath when necessary.3)  Yooyeon and Sullyoon literally collided with a crash of hormones, but unfortunately the hormones overrode the urge to concentrate on the game and win.  Yooyeon straddled Sullyoon and was instantly offended by her bra and got rid of it quickly.  Two new toys, Yooyeon grabbed them both and then kissed Sullyoon, by far the most passionate and intense kiss she had until that point.  Sullyoon with the strong chest and mouth stimulation was honestly stunned for almost a solid minute.  She did finally break through and remember to do something with her hands, putting them on Yooyeon’s butt, under her safety shorts.4)  We all know the wives are indeed no joke…  Xinyu sat on Sohyun, facing away from her.  They intended to show they are wives AND win.  Sohyun had easy access to Xinyu’s bra and freed it from her chest, silently dropping it straight down after hearing what the crowd was saying.  Sohyun used her right hand to grab Xinyu’s right breast and also used it to force Xinyu to twist to her left so she could kiss her.  Sohyun grabbed Xinyu’s left thigh with her left hand to spread her legs and then stuck her hand under the front of Xinyu’s safety shorts causing her to purr and whimper.  Xinyu put both of her hands on Sohyun’s thighs to steady herself and rock against Sohyun’s hand as necessary.When the lights came on, Kyujin stopped what she was doing, but the other three pairs barely noticed.Yeji said, “Now we’re cooking!”Chaeyeon said, “Except for Loser-won… Giggle giggle.”Yeojin said, “Poor Kyujin…  Where are your fingers?”Kyujin said, “Tickling the side of Haewon’s thighs.”Haewon said, “Actually Kyu, that felt really good, I liked it, but when my hands on your side react because your hands did something, you should stick to that thing for a while.”Kyujin said, “OOOO, so I could tell when I did something good based on your reaction?”“Yeah, there is that one spot on the side of my butt that is ticklish, you could have honed in on that…”“I see!  I see!”Yeojin said, “Awww, leader always teaching…  Where are your hands Haewon?”“Just on her sides, to keep her steady.”Yeojin said, “Okay, one point Kyujin hands, one point Haewon hands, one point lame kiss.  I guess not bad considering no one in Nmixx wants to touch poor Kyujin.”Kyujin clapped for herself.Heejin said, “Lily and Seoyeon, you guys got four points, that kiss is no joke, but hands aren’t doing much.”Lily and Seoyeon ignored them and kept kissing.“Yeojin… I need help with an extraction…”Yeojin grabbed Seoyeon and with Heejin’s help pulled her off of Lily.Heejin said, “Oh, surprise!  Neither of them have bras or pants anymore!”Seoyeon said, “What the fuck?  I was doing a thing!”Chaeyeon said, “Why aren’t you giggling at Lily?  Did she giggle at all?”Lily said, “Oh no… only wow…  Not giggle…”Seoyeon said, “Making out with Lily isn’t funny… it is… unfunny…”Lily ironically giggled instead.Heejin said, “I guess you guys get seven points with the three clothing then…”Yooyeon sighed and broke her kiss with Sullyoon.  Yooyeon said, “And we only got six…”Yeojin said, “Technically five because hands on boobs gets you two points instead of just one, not two points instead of zero.  Or you could…”“… fuck you…”  Yooyeon dove back into Sullyoon’s mouth.Yeojin pointed to Yooyeon and Heejin helped to pull her off of Sullyoon.  Yooyeon gave up and stood in front of Sullyoon shaking her head.  “Yoona… you are DAMN good at kissing.”“Thanks…” said Sullyoon.“Getting you out of my head is going to be difficult…”Lily said, “Naurrrr.”Yooyeon sat on Lily’s knee and poked around at her now exposed chest.  “Don’t worry… I have room in my head for two Nmixx…”Heejin said, “Well…  Xinyu lost her bra, point.  Hot kiss, two points.  Sohyun’s hands, boob point, whole hand making Xinyu moan, three points.  Xinyu’s fingernails digging into Sohyun’s thighs, lots of points.  WIVES WIN!”Sohyun pulled out her hand and Xinyu hopped up.  Sohyun pointed at Yeojin.  “NEVER DOUBT US!”Xinyu said, “Stupid ex-Loona girls seem to mess around a lot, but clearly don’t understand true love.”“For real…”Bae said, “Mistress!  Bring your free boobies to me!”Xinyu ran over and sat on Bae’s lap.Sullyoon laughed, “Wife love… sigh…”Sohyun shrugged.Sohyun got up, helped remove the extra chair, and then sat down next to Chaeyeon.  Tired Chaeyeon put her head on Sohyun’s shoulder.  “My usual head rests are still losers.”“No worries girlfriend!” said Sohyun excitedly.  She ran her hand through Chaeyeon’s hair.Yeojin said, “We have three pairs that haven’t encountered each other yet!”Hyeju said, “You really figured all of this out in your head?”Yeojin said, “Yes?”“Are you sure?”“Yes?”Bae said, “’Most inappropriate’ whisperer…”Nakyoung said, “Everyone has at least one talent…”Yeojin said, “On the chairs!  Haewon, Seoyeon, and Lily!”The three girls took their spots.“Haewon, your partner is Yooyeon!  Lily, your partner is Sullyoon!  And Seoyeon, your partner is Kyujin!”The three girls stood by their assigned chair.Yooyeon said, “Haewon, you gonna get stuck in my head also?”Haewon said, “Haven’t found anything yet that I wasn’t better than Yoona at!”Sullyoon made a farting sound with her mouth and a massive thumbs down, then the lights went off.  They only stayed off for about a minute.The crowd of winners sat at attention, listening intently.  Toward the end of the minute Sohyun started laughing hysterically and pinched Chaeyeon’s cheek.  “Oh my god… Haewon totally called out the wrong name…”1) Sullyoon was quite over-heated, but she wasn’t going to attack Lily.  She sat across her legs and kissed her.  They ran their hands through each other’s hair and enjoyed an intimate, but unfortunately not winning minute.2) Kyujin flopped onto Seoyeon’s lap and her blanket fell off of her shoulders again invoking the giggle bug.  Kyujin’s hands feeling around Seoyeon’s sides and thighs did not make it any better as she began to giggle even more.  Kyujin did manage to kiss her briefly, but had to stop touching her to keep her from giggling.3) As with last round with Sullyoon, Yooyeon was not messing around.  She took in what Xinyu did last round and tried the same thing.  She pushed Haewon’s legs apart and straddled her right thigh, facing away from her.  She put her arms up as if to say, ‘let’s go…’ and Haewon took the bait.  She grabbed a boob and slipped her other hand down Yooyeon’s safety shorts, using the combination of her finger and moving her leg under Yooyeon to stimulate her.  As Yooyeon whimpered, she reached back with her left hand, which also happened to be her dominant hand, randomly catching Haewon’s navel.  As Haewon wasn’t wearing any pants, it was trivial for her fingers to slide down to Haewon’s sensitive spot.  As Haewon was being attacked with three fingers, she screamed, “CHAEYEON…”As if on cue, the lights came on.Heejin and Yeojin were giggling more than Seoyeon.  Heejin said, “Yoona, your calm kissing and Seoyeon, your giggling are getting you two NOWHERE!  Get up…”Climbing off of Lily, Sullyoon said, “That’s not true!  It is getting me somewhere for REAL!”Kyujin said, “I tried the thing that I did to Haewon, but it just makes her giggle.”Sullyoon said, “Lily is the only person that can make her not giggle.  Although Jiwoo didn’t get a chance.”Heejin said, “Yooyeon, get up.  You finally won!”Yooyeon was a bit embarrassed this time, but you got to do what you got to do to win…  She said, “That was embarrassing, but I BEAT SEOYEON!  GREAT SUCCESS!”Seoyeon scoffed at her.Yooyeon turned to Haewon, she poked her in the center of the chest.  “I’m Yooyeon.”“You’re hot, I like you.”“YOOYEON is MY name.”“Yeah yeah, sue me…”Lily shouted, “AND I’M LILY!”Haewon facepalmed.Yeojin said, “Last pairs!  Kyujin has never been with Yoona and that leaves Seoyeon back with Lily.”Sullyoon said, “Are you fucking kidding me…”  
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Chapter 15:  Everything Is Normal
Kyujin said, “Come on Yoona, we need to win.  Don’t we?”“I’m just glad it is almost over.”“Yoona…”Seoyeon did her best to mimic Kyujin.  “Lily!  We need to win!”“Do we?”“Lily… I have no interest in the word punishment, as said by Ex-Loona girls who tie each other to chairs for fun…  Not for punishment… for fun…”Yeojin said, “We do it for punishment too… sheesh…”The section of onlookers was now quite large, but they still sat at attention as the lone two chairs were repositioned in the center of the carpet. Sullyoon said, “Who sits, who stands?”Yeojin said, “Couldn’t care less, whatever you guys want!”Lily said, “Sure, let the losers decide their own fates.”“Yes!  What you just said!”Seoyeon said, “A minute ago, you were sitting, but then we switched and I was sitting.  Let’s start with me sitting, I was getting comfortable with it.”Kyujin said, “Come on Yoona… they have an advantage…”“Yeah, they do…”“Do you want to sit, or me?”“I’ll sit…  I’m bigger.”“I want to sit!”“THEN WHY DID YOU JUST ASK ME WHAT I WANTED?”“Ignore Yoona everybody, she gets testy when it is past her bedtime.”“And I’m not playing Minecraft…”“And she’s not playing Minecraft…”“SIT ALREADY!”Kyujin dropped the blanket to the floor and then sat in the chair.Lily sat and pointed to Seoyeon, “Youuuuuur, no giggling and we got this…”Seoyeon said, “Yes ma’am.”Bae said, “I feel like someone should give a speech or something as the night is coming to an end…”Chaeyeon’s own snore woke her up from having her head on Sohyun’s shoulder.  “What’s going on?”“We are about to see if Seoyeon can pull out a last-minute victory.  Nail biting!”“Oh okay…  I guess I’ll try to wake up…”The lights went out.  Chaeyeon added, “Or not…”  Heejin turned them off for three long minutes!1)  Lily jumped onto Seoyeon, straddling her, immediately picking up from where they left off, kiss and all.  It doesn’t happen often, but Lily suddenly got a spark of competitiveness from Seoyeon.  Also, kissing these TripleS girls isn’t a horrible pastime, and she did her best to feed off of Yooyeon and Seoyeon’s hormones.  Her hands were no joke and she was about to use them, but first she had to make sure Seoyeon was doing something meaningful.  She grabbed both of Seoyeon’s hands, currently on her back and put them on her sides.  She moved her hips gently against Seoyeon’s belly.  Seoyeon felt the motion and moved her hands down to Lily’s butt right on cue, helping her move her hips.  It was mostly for show, but it was a good show anyway.  Then with her own hands, she grabbed one of Seoyeon’s boobs and slipped the other down the front of Seoyeon’s safety shorts and her fingers went to work.  Seoyeon immediately cursed loudly and started to moan.  Lily would often interrupt it with kisses so she wasn’t too loud, but letting the judges, and maybe Yooyeon, hear what she was doing was likely to be beneficial to her cause.No one could see Yooyeon, but she turned three shades of purple and her own hand went to her own pussy before she could realize what she was about to do and pulled it out and slapped her own hand loudly.  Nakyoung was already blushing for Seoyeon and put her arms around Yooyeon from behind.  Yooyeon grabbed Nakyoung’s hands and squeezed them tight enough for Nakyoung to need to wince.Yeji said, “Lily’s hands are no joke when she focuses on using them.  Isn’t that right Haewon?”Haewon sat quietly, actually inching away from the crowd a bit.2)  The second Sullyoon tentatively sat down across Kyujin’s lap, Kyujin struck.  She grabbed the waist band of Sullyoon’s safety shorts with both hands and used her knees and shoulders to force her to stand up again.  She then violently pulled down her safety shorts.“WHAT are you doing?”“Getting you back for being a rude bitch.”“I’m so going to strangle you later…”“That’s fine, but right NOW you are going to make out with me.”Heejin shouted, “ONE more word and you two are DONE.”Kyujin then, of course, agreed with Sullyoon from earlier.  Of course she is bigger and should be seated on the chair.  She pushed Sullyoon toward the chair and waited for her to sit.  Kyujin then climbed on, straddling Yoona and copied what Sohyun taught her and what Xinyu did to her.  She grabbed both of Sullyoon’s breasts with her hands and diving toward her mouth.  Sullyoon was forced to react by grabbing Kyujin’s shoulders.  As Kyujin’s tongue entered her mouth, she tried to relax and pretend it was Yeji.  It wasn’t… but she just went with it.Jiwoo said, “I don’t hear anything from Sull-jin…”Bae said, “Maybe they are actually kissing?”“Kissing not gonna win…”“Not with sex-Lily activated… who knew…”“Why did she wait until now?”“You know… last minute victory for her fans… last minute ad libs save the song, why does Lily do anything Lily does?”Haewon said, “Can you two shut up?”With everything going on in the room, Heejin decided it was time to end the last game for good.  She flipped on the lights.She met Yeojin standing over Sullyoon and Kyujin.  “Yeojin!  Sohyun!  Your protégé is doing well at groping Yoona and using tongue in the kiss!”Kyujin let go of her groupmate. Heejin asked, “Is anyone’s hand in anyone’s pants?”Sullyoon said, “NO!”Anticipating that the Loona girls would walk over soon, Lily broke the kiss with Seoyeon, figuring that the final moan was worth more.  She did a thing with three fingers and Seoyeon shouted an entire volley of curse words.  She then pulled her hand out and slowly got up off of Seoyeon.Yeojin said, “THE LAST WINNER!  LILY AND SEOYEON!  It is time for Yeojin to get caffeinated!”  She ran off to the kitchen, followed closely behind by Heejin.The girls stood around, not really sure what to do as all of the sudden the driving forces for everything that was going on all night simply disappeared.  Nakyoung said, “Now what?”Bae shrugged.  “I guess we go to sleep?”Nakyoung asked Seoyeon.  “What do competitive girls do after the competition is over?”Seoyeon raised a finger to the air proudly.  “PLAY A GAME!”Sullyoon, Chaeyeon, Xinyu, Lily and Jiwoo all grumbled simultaneously.Seoyeon said, “Yooyeon!  Do you want to play cards or something?”Yooyeon simply said, “No.”Seoyeon looked at her strangely, wondering what was wrong with her.Seoyeon said to Sohyun and Nakyoung, “Wanna play cards?”They both agreed.  Yeji asked if she could join as well.  They all sat down in the center of the carpet and Hyeju gave them the cards.Hyeju said to Jiwoo, “My-jjyu!  Do you want to nest?”Jiwoo said, “Yes!  Let’s grab a sleeping bag and get set up.  I’m so tired from lack of Reeses…”Hyeju said, “I’m going to go to the kitchen and try to get out of this black leather.  You don’t want to try to snuggle with it.”Jiwoo said, “Well, I’m not going to say no to that…”Yooyeon inched her way over to Lily, who was still standing around in a bit of a daze.  Without touching her, Yooyeon simply put her head on Lily’s shoulder.  Yooyeon whispered into her ear, “Help…”Yeji was watching the entire thing, she said to the girls about to play cards, “You guys decide what we are playing, I’ll be right back.”  She walked over to Lily and Yooyeon.In the meantime, Xinyu saw Jiwoo getting a sleeping bag and asked Bae, “Hey Mistress!  I’m too tired for cards, do you want to nest?”Bae said, “Sure!”Bae and Xinyu grabbed a sleeping bag as well.Yeji said, “Lily… Yooyeon needs chicken…  She is ignoring the chance to reinvigorate her competitive self to put her head on your shoulder and mumble things at you.”Lily said, “I don’t have any chicken?”Yeji giggled.  “Oh right… you don’t know that one…”Yooyeon picked up her head and looked at Yeji quizzically.  “Explain!”“At mine and Jinsol’s party last Valentine’s Day, some girls got a little too… excited… and so went off to the bathroom to fix that…”Yooyeon nodded, following along with Yeji’s line of thought perfectly.  Lily was still clueless.  She asked, “To fix being excited?  I don’t get it…”Yeji was happy that Yooyeon was following along, at least, and went on with it.  “When they came back from the bathroom with the glazed over, no longer excited, just want to sleep look on their face, one of the more naïve girls, like our Lily here, was like, ‘What the heck is going on in the bathroom?’  Someone, I don’t even remember who, said, there is a stash of chicken in there and they got chicken and now they are full.”Yooyeon giggled a bit.  She whispered to Lily, “Lily… please give me chicken in the bathroom…”“I don’t… I don’t get it… I don’t have chicken…”Yeji said, “LILY!  Go do that thing to her that you did to Seoyeon so she can relax and cuddle with you for the rest of the night.”Lily said, “Ohhhhr?  What’s with all the secret words, we all got off with vibrators together at the last party…  We should be over secret words…”Yooyeon clenched her legs together at the mention of vibrators, “Lily… please…”  She grabbed Lily’s wrist and pulled her off to the party room door.  Lily looked around for Haewon, but she had already gone off to a couch alone and laid down.  Then she had a bit of guilt that Haewon was lying there alone.  Then she got over it and smiled at Yooyeon and let her pull her to the bathroom.Yeji shook her head.  Curiously, Chaeyeon had also wordlessly gone off to a couch alone, all the way on the other side of the room from Haewon.  Yeji went back to get ready to play cards and sat with the other girls.Heejin came back from the kitchen, giggling a bit.  She stood over Yeji.  “You guys going to play cards?”Yeji looked up at her and nodded ‘yes’.“Can I play?  I know it will be five… but…”Seoyeon and Nakyoung motioned for her to join them.Hyeju was next out of the kitchen.  She got the Catwoman suit off and was only wearing her black tube top and black panties.  Jiwoo clapped for her and they climbed into a sleeping back with a single pillow in the corner of the room.Bae and Xinyu were also getting settled in a sleeping bag, a bit more difficult for two very tall girls, they didn’t really fit…Finally, Yeojin came back as well.  “KYUJIN!  YOONA!  WHO IS READY?” she shouted.Sullyoon, half asleep, looked at Kyujin.  Yeojin helped them get a sleeping bag ready and got both naked girls into the bag and zipped it up.  Sullyoon said, “I’m not going to be very much fun, I’m totally going to fall asleep very quickly.”Yeojin shouted, “NO YOU AREN’T!”  She stripped out of the bodice of her French maid’s costume and took off the white nylons and then her panties. Heejin shouted, “Yeojin… please…”“They are both naked, obviously I need to be…”  To the disdain of Sullyoon and Kyujin, Yeojin also climbed into the sleeping bag.  Although she was tiny, it was quite the tight fit.  She also had the vibrator in her hand.  “You sleep!  You get buzzed!  Now which one of you is making out with me first?”Sullyoon quickly nominated Kyujin and Yeojin attacked her face, but keeping one hand running all over Sullyoon’s body as well.  Clearly, neither of them were getting any sleep anytime soon.  Whenever Sullyoon got close to dozing off, a vibrator would attack her nipple and hand would go slipping down her belly and make her give a little whimper.  Then Kyujin would get frustrated at Yeojin for stopping paying attention to her, then Yeojin would hit Kyujin’s pussy with the vibrator and make her moan before kissing her to not make too much noise.  This repeated itself over and over for about an hour.***Bae and Xinyu were cuddling.  Xinyu asked her, “Hey, do you want to make out?”“If you want… whatever you want…”“I just want to hang out with you like this, I don’t care what we do.”“Good… me either.”“I really love you and Jiwoo and Yoona…  and Haewon and Lily seem very fun also.  I feel like I have brand new sisters and I love you all…”“Awww, I’m glad.  Twenty-two sisters and a wife isn’t enough for you?”“It is different.  You know…”“Of course, I know…”Bae kissed her and they made out until they fell asleep.***Other than the buzz of the vibrator and an occasional shout or curse or moan coming from Yeojin, Sullyoon, and Kyujin, or the occasional cheer from the girls playing poker, the corner of the room where Jiwoo and Hyeju were making out was quite quiet.  Still Hyeju whispered… “Can we talk serious for just a minute?  Before you fall asleep?”“Of course, Hon, what’s up?” asked Jiwoo.“I put on a bit of a show tonight, but I’m not doing well.  You’ll be able to tell in my kiss, I didn’t want you to think it was you or something…”“Tell Auntie Pupperwoo what is bothering you, before Auntie Pupperwoo sucks your face…”“Our company is out of money.  I think Loossemble is about to no longer be a thing at the end of the year…”“Oh no…  Not again, Hyeju… I’m so sorry.”“Yeojin over there living it up…  I worry about her so much…”“What about Jaden?  Is there any chance he can bring you all together again?”“Maybe… but do I want that?”“I don’t know, do you?”“This situation was so good.  We were intimately involved in all of the music choices, and touring was so much fun.  But we knew they had financial limitations from the beginning.”“So, it was good while it lasted?”“It was amazing… no regrets!”“I’m sorry…  What can I do for you?”“Suck my face…”Jiwoo did just that.***Yeji started cracking up laughing as Lily and Yooyeon came back from the bathroom.  Lily was nearly carrying Yooyeon, she was so spent.  Yeji smiled and mouthed, “Good chicken?”  Yooyeon shook her head vigorously ‘yes’.Lily dropped her off at a couch and then ran to get pillows and a blanket for them.  They then settled in and they weren’t lying there for more than five minutes when Yooyeon was asleep on Lily.Yeji walked over to check on them.  She whispered to Lily, “Are you okay?  Do you want to move her?”“I’m good.  I’ll be fine…”“Did you get chicken too?”“Naur, I just didn’t want to…  But I gave her a really good time!”Yeji petted Lily on the head.  “You’ll be okay…”Lily smiled back at her and then moved Yooyeon’s hair and nuzzled up to her neck.  She fell asleep shortly after.***Yeji went back to playing cards, when at a lull in their game she heard some loud meek whispers, “Help!”Heejin said, “Finally…  Let’s go rescue them…”Yeji said, “Eh?”“Yeojin fell asleep.”“Oh!”Heejin unzipped the bag holding the trio and Yeji did her best to carefully extract Sullyoon.  Heejin then got ready to move Yeojin to help Kyujin get up as well.Kyujin said, “Nah… let her sleep.  I’ll stay here with her.”Heejin smiled, “You happy with the annoying butterfly?”“I am…”“Okay!  She is sound asleep and probably won’t stir until morning, so if you need to move her off of you, or flip around, just do it…”Kyujin smiled and nodded.Yeji whispered, “You knew she would eventually fall asleep?”“You saw when we went to the kitchen for her to get coffee so she could stay awake all night for this?  I convinced her she needed Kahlua in her coffee and might have accidently added some vodka also…  Punishment or not, no one should have to deal with that… I know you are tired and have things to do tomorrow, Yoona.”Sullyoon gave Heejin a massive hug, forgetting she was naked.  “You didn’t have to do that for me…  But thank you…”Yeji grabbed Sullyoon’s hand.  “Can I talk to you for a minute in the kitchen?”Sohyun saw it and wondered what was going on.  “Yoona?  Do you want to nest with me?  Seoyeon is back to winning everything and I’m over it…”Sullyoon nodded tiredly to Yeji and then Sohyun and followed Yeji to the kitchen.Yeji said, “I have a massive crush on you tonight.  Do you want to go to the bathroom, I’ll help you… finish…”Sullyoon shyly shook her head, ‘no’.“You would rather nest with Sohyun?”She shyly shook her head, ‘yes’.Yeji looked down, a bit embarrassed.Sullyoon grabbed Yeji’s chin and raised her face, and kissed Yeji passionately.  When she broke the kiss, she said, “Look… there is something about you… something about us…  I can’t handle it…  I would love nothing more than messing around in the bathroom for the rest of the night with you…”Yeji said, “I get it… too dangerous?”“Haha, Sohyun is dangerous.  But we mess around in that sleeping bag naked and fall asleep together, and wake up in the morning and nothing is different in any of our lives.  You…  I don’t want to end up like Lily…  You are…  I don’t want to end up like Lily…”Without a word, Yeji grabbed Sullyoon’s hand and they walked out of the kitchen together.  Yeji dropped her off with Sohyun.  “Your sleeping partner has requested your presence.”Sohyun clapped for herself.Yeji said, “Miss Heejin, would you like to mess around in a sleeping back for the rest of the night?”Heejin said, “Not too often I’m only second choice, but you are after all, Hwang Yeji…  Of course…”Seoyeon said, “Well, I guess I’m stuck with a Nakyoung.”Nakyoung said, “You love me…”“You’re a loser…”“Jinsol is going to make me a winner!”Seoyeon and Nakyoung settled on a couch together, and Sullyoon and Sohyun nested together on the floor in a ring of pillows and blankets.***Chaeyeon did doze occasionally, but for the most part she managed to stay awake and bide her time.  Finally, almost everyone was asleep other than the occasional giggle or moan from Heejin and Yeji’s sleeping bag.She got up from her couch and slowly and quietly walked across the room to Haewon and poked her on the shoulder.Haewon woke, started, but then smiled when she saw Chaeyeon standing over her.  “Going to kill me in my sleep?”“Why would I have woken you then?”“I don’t claim to understand you…”“Come with me to the bathroom?”“Oh?  Okay…  You are going to kill me in the bathroom?”“I’m going to regret all of my choices and go back to sleep on that couch I just came from if you don’t shut up.”Haewon zipped her lips and followed Chaeyeon to the bathroom.When they got there, Haewon looked carefully at Chaeyeon’s bare chest as Hornywon also woke up.Chaeyeon stared at Haewon’s crotch in retaliation.  “Look… you are going to answer my question truthfully, because you respect me as a person, friend, and someone you are interested in.”Haewon raised her eyebrows in surprise, and then just nodded, ‘yes’.“I need to know… when did you decide… when did you realize you had ‘incorrect’ feelings for Lily.”Haewon nearly started with a joke about all of her feelings being ‘incorrect’ but decided maybe she should just answer the question.  She thought about it a second, she knew the answer, but had to work out in her mind exactly how to tell the story.Chaeyeon waited for her.“When Coco died… my dog I grew up with, died this summer.  I couldn’t be with my parents.  Lily held me for almost 36 straight hours.  She never said anything, she never made me say anything, she held me, and wiped my tears, and fed me, and was the best friend I have ever had in my life.  I knew then that I loved her with my entire being.”  Haewon looked down, trying not to cry at how much she missed Coco.Chaeyeon said, “Aww…  but…  I would have done the same thing.”With a startled look, Haewon looked up at her.  “It’s not about the doing… it’s about knowing exactly what I needed that day and providing it flawlessly.  Something that only someone that knew me intimately and loved me, would be able to do.”“I’m not trying to detract from your relationship.  But… maybe anyone who cared about you and had been through a similar situation could have done that.  I would have done the same thing,” she repeatedHaewon didn’t realize who Hornywon was messing with, too late to regret it now…  “Prove it.  What do I need right now?”Chaeyeon pulled down her safety shorts to the floor.  She took two steps forward to Haewon and pulled off Haewon’s sports bra over her head.  Haewon kind of expected to get pushed down or left alone by the sink.  But instead Chaeyeon put one hand through Haewon’s hair and with the other wiped the tear that the thoughts of Coco brought dripping down her cheek.They kissed gently, for a long time, almost ten minutes.  Then neither of them could control the slow simmer.  Haewon lifted Chaeyeon onto the countertop, spread her legs and went down on her.  Chaeyeon is not quiet when being pleasured.  After Chaeyeon climaxed, she grabbed one of the nice towels hanging by the sink and threw it to the floor.  She pushed Haewon to the bathroom floor, on the towel, climbed on top of her and went to town with her hand.  It didn’t take long for Hornywon to pop.Chaeyeon said, “This bathroom is remarkably clean, but this is still slightly gross…”Haewon got up and they cleaned up a bit and then quietly made their way back to the party room.  They found the last sleeping back and fell asleep together.***As dawn approached, Bae and Xinyu were the first to wake.  They got up and found their clothes and nicely put up their sleeping bag.  Yeji and Heejin were occasionally still giggling and moaning in theirs.Bae tapped Sullyoon, who it turned out was already awake as well.  She climbed off of Sohyun, they both found their clothes as well.  Bae whispered to her, “Yeji and Heejin are still going at it.  That could be you in there…”A still half-naked Sohyun grabbed Sullyoon from behind.  “To think… I am a downgrade…”Sullyoon spun around and hugged her properly and kissed her.  “Hush.  You were my first choice…”“Oh really?”Xinyu ran to her wife and hugged both her and Sullyoon.  “Did wifey have a good night?”Sohyun said, “Our mistresses are really something!”“For real!”Sullyoon giggled, “I’m a mistress!”Bae said, “Does someone want to tell Yeji to knock it off and get up?”Nakyoung and Seoyeon also woke and wandered around looking for clothing.  Seoyeon said, “Knock what off?”“Oh, a volunteer!”Seoyeon looked at her quizzically.“I dare you to go to that sleeping bag and explore what Heejin and Yeji are doing…”Nakyoung said, “I’ll do it!”Nakyoung slowly approached the sleeping bag, Seoyeon followed her closely behind.Yeji said, “Oh no… lame girls are awake…”“I’ve been sent to ‘explore’ what you two are doing…”Heejin said loudly, “Yeji was just about to blow for the…”Yeji put her hand over Heejin’s mouth.Seoyeon looked around Nakyoung and asked,  “Have you two not slept at all?”Heejin said, “Who needs sleep when you are in a sleeping bag with ‘endless Hwang’?”Nakyoung said, “I feel as though we were baited into coming over here so that we would end up emotionally scarred…”  She looked at Seoyeon, “Are you emotionally scarred?”“After what I did with Lily?  These two can’t do any more harm…”Heejin said, “Oh, wait until I show you this!”  She was just about to attack Yeji who fought her off and climbed out of the sleeping bag. Jiwoo and Hyeju also woke in all of the commotion.Jiwoo said, “Why is everyone so loud?  Now I need breakfast badly!”Hyeju said, “Eat some Hyeju for breakfast!”Seoyeon said, “Okay, maybe I CAN be a bit more scarred.”Nakyoung said, “Speaking of Lily.  Where is Yooyeon?”Seoyeon and Nakyoung cautiously approached Yooyeon and Lily’s couch.  Lily looked at them, wide awake.  “Heyyyyr, I need some help…  She sleeps very heavily.  I can’t feel my arm and would like to get up now…”Seoyeon and Nakyoung snickered at each other.  Seoyeon attempted to force herself to get a straight face, like an actress about to go on stage, and said loudly in a gruff male-ish voice, “Kim Yooyeon!  You get up this instant!”Yooyeon immediately startled back to consciousness, kicking Lily in the process.Lily said, “Owwwwwwwrr.”Yooyeon said, “Oh sorry love…”  She hugged Lily and gave her a kiss.  She then glared at Seoyeon, “NOT FUNNY!”Seoyeon said, “Your poor Lily, ‘love’, was suffering under your drooling and snoring.  I saved her…”Nakyoung explained, “She pretended she was our manager.  Yooyeon has been woken by that voice many times…”Yooyeon sighed.  She then carefully extracted herself from Lily.Seoyeon asked with a smile, “Did you two love birds have fun?”Lily said, “Yooyeon?  Did you have fun?”“I don’t kiss and tell, but HOLY SHIT FUCK.  Also, Lily won’t curse, so I have to do it for her.  SHE IS THE BEST EVER…”Lily said, “Awwwr, thank you.  I’m glad you enjoyed your night.”“I slept so well on you.  Please come be my permanent pillow.  But… I had a strange dream.  I was laying on a couch with Lily, but the only sound that I could hear was Chaeyeon, screaming in pleasure.  At least I think it was in pleasure…”Seoyeon said, “Wait, where is Chaeyeon?  Last I saw she was asleep on that couch over there.  Is she okay?”Bae and Sullyoon had wandered over to them as well, after waking Kyujin and Yeojin.  Bae said, “Wait… where’s Haewon?”Sullyoon said, “No?  You don’t think?”Yooyeon said, “Don’t be shocked at what you are about to find…”Bae wandered around looking for something out of place.  In the very corner was another sleeping bag, she kicked it and there was definitely a body inside.Chaeyeon turned over and said, “Owww… no kicks…”“What did you do with Haewon?  Knock her out and dump her in the Han river?”A forehead appeared and two eyes peeked out of the sleeping bag.Bae said, “NOOOOO!”  She grabbed the zipper and pulled it down to reveal a doubly naked pair.Yooyeon said, “Told you…”Haewon turned over onto Chaeyeon and said, “I guess this is my goodbye.  I have less than five seconds before the taunting begins.”Chaeyeon gave Bae the finger.  “Fuck them…”Haewon spread Chaeyeon’s legs with her knee, not shy about where she was putting it and kissed her.  Then she hopped up and searched around for her clothing as though nothing ever happened.***The girls all gathered up their belongings and sat on the carpet one final time.Yeji asked, “Did everyone have fun?”Everyone interjected their ‘yeah’ and ‘definitely’.  Except Seoyeon who said, “NO!”Yeji said, “Awww, why not?”“I DIDN’T WIN!”Hyeju said, “Yooyeon didn’t win either, she doesn’t seem to be complaining.”Yooyeon winked at Lily, who looked away shyly.  “Oh, I totally won…”Nakyoung asked, “Are we going to do it again sometime?”Bae said, “We totally should, and will!”Haewon said, “Maybe Nmixx can take over Yeji and Heejin and Hyeju and Yeojin’s jobs, if they don’t want to do it again, but I think next time TripleS – I mean LOSER-S – should battle a different team!”Sohyun said, “Chaeyeon, you should have dumped her in the river…”Chaeyeon agreed, “Obviously…”Seoyeon said, “She is right though… maybe we should battle a new team if we do it again!”Hyeju said, “The prizes are expensive, so we can’t do it often, but if someone helps with that, I would love to do it again.”The girls exchanged hugs.  Chaeyeon played a little game, making sure that she hugged Haewon last.  Haewon made sure that it was a quick and innocent hug in front of everyone.  Though Chaeyeon whispered in her ear, “I hope you are never upset enough for a long time, but the next time you need someone to hold you for 36 hours.  Don’t forget me…  I’m less complicated.”Yooyeon clearly overheard, because she snorted a little at ‘less complicated’.Haewon smiled at Chaeyeon, but didn’t say anything.TripleS left the party room and piled into their van along with Heejin.  Manager Jiwon drove Yeojin and Hyeju back to their respective apartments as well.Yeji stayed behind with Nmixx and made sure the room was exactly the way they left it, a lot had happened there in the last 24 hours.Jiwoo said to Sullyoon, “Okay, you and Yeji are freaking me OUT!  You are MUCH worse than Haewon and Lily…  Now that I know about such things and wish I didn’t.  But anyway, GO MAKE OUT OR SOMETHING with the crazy energy.  I’m OVER it!”Sullyoon pretended she was Lily and said in English.  “Naurrrrr.  It is all in your head…  There’s no energy…  Everything is normal…”Bae said, “I’ve learned a lot about Yeji recently.  The way she is staring at you is NOT normal.”Yeji said, “I’ll finish cleaning up, you guys can head back to the dorm.”They each hugged Yeji and made their way out of the JYP building.  Sullyoon didn’t show any emotion during the hug.  Obviously, everything is normal… 
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