Chapter 57: {The Announcement}

It's December 28th, Jugyeong and I have been putting this off for wayyyyy too long. We'll both be 18 within 3 weeks, so it's gonna be now or never to just tell our friends we're engaged. Mainly so they can put it in their schedules so they can y'know COME TO THE WEDDING.

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"Babe get ready!" Jugyeong tells me over the phone.

"I'm ready, how about you?"

"Oh. Uh. Putting on makeup for the first time in like 9 months."

It's true she doesn't wear makeup too much. Some guys really like their significant other to wear makeup all the time, others like em natural. When Jugyeong asks me, I just tell her "You're pretty either way so whatever you feel comfortable with to boost your confidence."

She's more confident without it, so I know she's nervous.

{Despite being a cringelord weeb dweeb that was as fat as Big Smexy Bartholomew Colon, you are a good boyfriend, I can't deny you on that.}

<All the references>

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"Almost ready? Remember it's the arcade." I ask her.

"Mostly Karaoke and yeah, just gotta put on lip gloss." she replies.

Dowoon told us a week ago that him and Kiara had nothing to do so they'll come and Suho and Sangah are obviously gonna come.

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We all say hi to each other at the arcade.

"We're paying for everything today." Jugyeong and I say.

"Hell yeah!" Suho yells.

Sangah just looks at us with a squint like she's both mad, but knows what we're about to do. Looks like she's kept her word in not telling everyone. Unless they know and just want us to buy them stuff, which is fair too.

"Whatchall wanna do?" Jugyeong asks.

"Karaoke." Kiara says.

"Bowling." Sangah says.

"Billiards." Dowoon says.

"Eat." Suho says.

"You're always hungry Suho! Just spin the wheel for what we'll do first." Jugyeong expresses disappointedly humored.

Kiara does it.

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Karaoke.

"We get to hear Jugyeong butcher every note again pffft! When you sing you sound like the lady in All In The Clan." Kiara says.

"She's my role model! Stop it!" Jugyeong replies sarcastically.

They've been drifting apart too so I think it's good to have them together. She needed woman fellowship and Kiara avoiding her either on purpose or unintentionally made it so Jugyeong and Suho were the only people she talked to for longer than 5 minutes (her and Sangah never hit it off.)

Sangah is kind of weird, but whatever, this entire friend group is mental disorder central. Depression, ADHD, Overeating, OCD, you have it all. There's probably more here I don't even know about.

{Oh believe me, hahaha, there DEFINITELY is pffffff}

We pay.

"So who's going first?" Jugyeong asks.

"Why not the couple that invited us?" Sangah says sarcastically. Man how pissed off did she get with us not automatically announcing our engagement?

"What to choose?"

"How about Intertwined by Moltra and H4rdw4re G33k?" Sangah suggests.

Now this song is a song about the two getting married. H4rdw4re G33k doesn't sing much, but her now husband Moltra does. This is an obvious attack. Woman I let you throw me like a ragdoll for weeks what the hell?

"OOH THAT'S A CHAD SONG, the athletic ones should sing it!" Dowoon says. He just loves the big meaty riddim drop.

"Do it! Do it! Do it!" Dowoon and Sangah chant.

"Kay." I say.

I could see the look in Jugyeong's face.

"Trust me on this, just sing the woman part that's just the hook." I say.

"Fine, but if we get kicked out it's your fault!"

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"You carried her! Pfffft!" Sangah is just dying, same with Kiara and Dowoon. Suho is practically tone deaf, so he was all like "not bad." Classic Suho.

{You almost got forced to cough it up before dinner.}

"Alright who's next? Hmm, how about Sangah?" Jugyeong says.

We chant her name.

"Fine." she agrees after a minutes of chanting.

"Hmmm."

"How about Ego Funeral? You used to rap right?" Jugyeong suggests.

"That has a drop though-"

"That didn't stop you from suggesting Intertwined."

"You dare me?"

"How about we all just suggest the next singer(s) their song to keep the chain going?" Suho says, COMPLETELY unable to read the room.

"Alright, sounds fun."

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I didn't realize she could modulate her voice to go as deep as the dude that raps it.

Sangah then suggests to Kiara just whatever thought could get her to do a vocal run.

The chain goes on until Suho. We quit after one song each.

"Let's do Billiards next." Dowoon says.

He really doesn't like to sing that well, he only agreed because of Kiara.

We go to the Billiards table.

"So do we want to make this a doubles tourney or singles?" Dowoon asks.

"I'm sitting this out." Kiara and Suho say simultaneously. I don't know about Kiara, but Suho SUCKS at billiards.

"Let's just do a tourney." Sangah and Jugyeong suggest at the same time.

"That works."

The first game is Sangah and I.

We play Bloody Knuckles for the first shot.

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Sangah beats me.

"You seriously forgot about my knuckle replacement? It was obvious I was gonna win." Sangah asks.

"Nope, never knew." I reply.

"Remember when he got the Rona? Jugyeong probably forgot to tell him." Suho says defending me, but unintentionally attacking Jugyeong.

"Oh yeah." Sangah says.

{Last time I've seen her this switchy is when you first met her.}

Honestly.

{You think bipolar or mania?}

Nah there's more to those diseases than that.

Sangah breaks the ball

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Well I'm stripes.

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And she sweeps me.

If I had a Benji for every time that's happened to me, I'd have two, which isn't a lot, but it's weirdly happened twice.

After that it's Dowoon and Jugyeong.

They decide with an arm wrestle.

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Now if this were a fight, Jugyeong wins just because Dowoon has no athleticism in his body. But in just arm strength, he does have the upper hand.

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As expected, Dowoon wins.

Jugyeong is solids.

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It was a very close game, but Jugyeong won in the end with a jump ball to the eight bal over Dowoon's last orange he needed.

Of course, this means the last matchup would be Jugyeong and Sangah.

They do a thumb wrestle for the break.

Jugyeong wins, she breaks and gets a ball in.

She gets a couple more in before it's Sangah's turn. Sangah's solids.

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This game was actually kinda long. Going at each other like they're pissed at each other.

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They are both down to the 8 ball.

Sangah launches it and it misses the hole.

Jugyeong does the same.

It's an epic battle of who makes the least bad shot first.

Ball after ball. Bad shot after bad shot. They keep choking.

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Eventually Sangah sinks it in.

"Okay what's next?" I ask.

"FOOD!" Suho said.

"Alright. Where d'yall wanna go?" Jugyeong asks.

"Ferrari's." Suho says.

"Ramen." Sangah says.

"Tacos." Kiara says.

"Anywhere that won't require me to sanitize my hands after touching the silverware." Dowoon said.

"Tacos then?" Jugyeong asks.

"Would rather eat at Ferrari's then do 15 minute drive to the beach to eat tacos." everyone but Kiara said.

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"Ferrari's it is." Jugyeong says.

GREAT. I'm announcing my engagement at the one place I didn't want to.

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We all just order pizza.

I look at Jugyeong, her beauty highlighted under the lamp, she looks back and nods.

"Okay everyone, I think it's pretty obvious that there was a reason why we invited y'all today." I said.

"Yeah." Dowoon and Sangah both said sarcastically.

"We're engaged. That's it. Wedding's gonna be in a month." Jugyeong said.

"WHAT?????!!!!!!!!" Everyone but Sangah was surprised.

"Didn't surprise me. Y'all been acting different lately." Sangah said.

"So where will it be?" Suho asked.

"Just at the government building. Then we're gonna hold a lunch somewhere. Not here though." I said.

"In exactly one month?" Dowoon asked.

"Yeah, a Sunday morning so we're all available." Jugyeong said.

"Good." Kiara said.

"So who's gonna be the best man/lady and who's the Maid/Man of Honor?" Sangah asked.

"Haven't decided to be honest. Suho if you're up to it?" Jugyeong says.

"What?" he says.

"It's only fair."

"Just do it. It's not like you're gonna wear a dress." Sangah said.

"Dowoon, wanna be my best man?" I ask him.

"You sure you don't want your cousin to do it?" he replies.

"Nope."

"Fine. I'm not holding hands with Suho though."

"That's fine just walk with him."

"So it's just gonna be a one and done? Nothing crazy?" Sangah asks.

"Yeah." I say.

She looks at us weird and then picks up two pieces of pizza.

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"Well that was awkward." Jugyeong says on the way home.

"Yeah." I reply.

"Well we got that off of our chests."

"Indeed we did. Surprised Dowoon said yes."

"Me too. Kiara seemed relieved that I didn't ask her to be my Maid of Honor pfff!"

"I saw! Can't wait to do not a lot this week."

"Thursday you have your last Dae Zhae Kuaun class."

"OH YEAH."

"Have fun~"

"Yeah right. You think I'll finally be able to learn the Reverse Spider?"

"I still don't think you can do that."

"I just wanna try it."

"You'll fall! And have a black eye in our wedding hmph!"

"It'd be funny though."

"It really would."