Chapter 21: Before The Party Begins

There was a hustle and bustle when we finally arrived at the hotel and started preparing for the party. Lucky enough, a few hotel staff workers came to help us out to decorate the place. They provided helium gas for the balloons while us, the Toxins and Lee, started to decorate with the filled balloons, confetti, streamers and ribbons in the lounge.

Lee and I were standing on stools and putting up streamers on the top banister of the door entering the lounge, when Mike came in with the red piñata.

"Do you think it's okay if we put up the piñata now?" Mike asked the both of us.

"We can't put it up now," I said. "We will put it later in the middle of the party. If we do so now, who knows which guest of ours will attack it the minute they see it."

"I'm pretty sure I know who might," said Lee, who almost laughed.

"Daniel might as well do it," said Mike. "But right now, among our guests, there are a number of options running through my mind."

"That reminds me," said Lee after pinning the other end of the streamer to the wall and jumping down the stool. "Who's going to hit it?"

"What? The piñata?" I asked.

"Of course, the piñata. What else?"

"I can hit it," came Zoey as she entered the lounge with the filled red balloons, all tied with strings so that she could tie them somewhere and avoid them from flying away.

"No way, not you," said Mike.

"But why not?" Zoey asked. "We never picked the person who is going to hit the piñata, so, I'm volunteering."

"Why can't I hit the piñata?" Daniel asked, coming in with more floating balloons.

"Yes, let Daniel hit the piñata," said Mike. "He's the youngest after all."

"I agree," said Christine who was decorating on the other side of the room close to the TV stand. "Let him do it. He's the one who likes the sweet stuff more anyway."

"Please, Sam, can I hit the piñata?" Daniel pleaded, giving me the puppy dog eyes.

I rolled my eyes. "You can hit the piñata," I said. "But I had someone else in mind, though it seems the youngest will do the honour."

"Wait, who did you have in mind?" Mike asked as I came down the stool.

"G-Dragon," I bluntly answered.

"Huh?" Lee looked at me as she scratched her head. "Why G-Dragon?"

"Because, Lee, the reason why this is a red themed party, is because of him."

"True," said Christine.

"For real? But why are you doing it here instead of BigBang's apartment?"

"Well, the funny thing is, we were invited to come over at their place but then, before we left, WINNER showed up and we had to bring them along," said Daniel.

"Was G-Dragon not going to be excited about them joining you guys?"

"We knew he wasn't, so, we sent a message, but Taeyang read it a little too late," said Zoey.

"And G-Dragon was not happy about it like you said, Lee," I said.

"So, then how did you resolve things?" Lee asked.

"Sam talked to him and somehow managed to convince him that we should have a party all together because the place was too small," said Mike. "Besides, BlackPink were going to show up too."

"Okay. What I don't get, is why WINNER and BlackPink wanted to hang out with you guys today. They are the ones who caused all the confusion."

"We're just too awesome," said Christine.

"That is exactly what I wanted to say," said Mike.

"That's my greatest fear, apparently," said Lee, as she held her head.

"What? Isn't being awesome, awesome?" Zoey asked.

"I won't deny it, all your personalities combined is just phenomenal. That's why people just can't get enough of you and want to hang out with you more often. But I'm afraid when the time comes to let you go, it will be hard for them."

I didn't expect Lee to say what she said and none of the other Toxins thought so either. Leaving Korea wasn't going to be hard on them, it would be hard on us too. A sad gloomy spell fell upon us at the moment.

"Let me not spoil your mood over this," said Lee. "We're going to miss them too, so, we have to make the most of our last days, right?"

"Ya, we should," said Daniel as he rubbed his chest. "I feel a little guilty now over who should hit the piñata."

"Having second thoughts?" I asked.

"Ya, you're right, Sam. I think G-Dragon should be the one hitting it. Not me."

"Did Lee's little speech change your mind?" Christine asked.

"Ya, I guess so. We kind of ruined his little party because of our 'awesomeness' or whatever the reason why the others wanted to hang out with us, so, I think we should let him do it."

"He thought just like me on that," I said with a smile.

"Okay, you both have a point," said Christine. "G-Dragon will do it."

"Ya, and we shouldn't tell him," said Lee.

"Okay," said Zoey as she started to look around the place. "Now where to put the balloons."

"I'll go and put this away," said Mike as he left the lounge with the piñata.

"I almost forgot, we will need a bat," I said. "What are we going to hit the piñata with?"

"I'll take care of it," said Lee as she went to the one of the chairs in the lounge and got her phone. "You guys can carry on."

We went on decorating the place and within an hour, we were done. The place looked amazing and lucky us who had extra help from the hotel staff, we managed to get the place before time. That left us with an extra hour and some minutes to get ready.

The boys were heading to their room in the hall when I said to Mike:

"Mike, I hope you have your laptop with your party music. You know we need it."

"Sure, I do," he answered. "I already gave myself the responsibility of supplying the music for the party. I even have some awesome k-pop hits too."

"Good," said Zoey as she came up right behind me. "I seriously can't wait to get my groove on."

"I was wondering if we could have games at the party," Christine suggested as she came to join us in the hall from the lounge.

"Let me take care of it," said Lee who had been standing by the elevator talking to two of the hotel staff who had soon gone up the elevator. "That's why you have me around."

"Yes and we are grateful," I said. "Wait, how far is the arrival of the food and cake going to take?"

"I got a call from the caterer ten minutes ago. They will be here in thirty minutes."

"You're simply the best, Lee," said Daniel, giving her a smile.

"I know," Lee smiled. "We all better get ready. You have enough time before the guests arrive."

We all went in our rooms. When Zoey and I went in ours, Zoey rushed past me and went straight to the bathroom. I was lucky enough not to try and rush for the shower myself. She and I would have been fighting to pass through that door.

"You better hurry up, Zoey," I said.

"If you say that, I might just take my time," she said as I heard her turn the tap.

I didn't say anything as I went over to my bed and looked at my red prom dress laying there. I picked it up from the hanger. It was really pretty and it was going to match with my red wedges.

I decided to look for any jewellery like a necklace or bracelet that might go with my dress as I waited for Zoey to get done in the shower.

I went to the closet, opened and removed my suitcase at the top of the closet. I kept a lot of my jewellery in there. I bet I had something that could go with the dress.

I put the suitcase on the bed, zipped it open and started to look among my things for a purple jewellery box. When I finally found it, I started to rummage through it.

I soon came out with a few jewellery options I could wear with the dress for the party. I had found a necklace with a silver neck chain and a glittering red heart on it, a silver bracelet with bits of red and silver charms on it. I even found red studs for my ears. They weren't big, but they were cute. I decided to go for the red hearted necklace, the bracelet and the studs.

As soon as I laid the jewellery on the bed and had packed the suitcase back in its place, Zoey came out of the shower in a white bath robe.

"Ooooh! You found some jewellery," said Zoey, her eyes lit up as she looked at the jewellery on the bed as though she had just found golden treasure.

"Ya, and you're going to find yours in your jewellery box," I said to her as I took them out of her sight and into the wardrobe.

"Awww, you know how I hate looking for stuff," said Zoey as she dried her wet hair with a towel.

"I better hit the shower," I said as I sat on my bed and removed my shoes.

"Once you're done, can you help me with finding what jewellery to wear?"

"Maybe. As long as it's coming from your jewellery box."

"Fine," she growled.

I smiled. I knew how much she liked going through my jewellery. I never knew the reason why, but I always thought she had way better jewellery than I did.

There soon came a knock at the door.

"Come in," said Zoey.

Christine came in, also in a bath robe. Looked like she just came from hitting the shower as well.

"Girls, I think we have a problem," said Christine as she came into the room.

"What's up? No one is coming for the party?" Zoey asked.

"No. You really think too much of the negatives, Zoey."

"What's up, Christine? Is something wrong?" I asked.

"Kind of. It has something to do with the party."

"Okay...what about it if the guests are going to show?"

"Apparently, there is a hash tag trending on Twitter about our party."

Zoey and I looked at Christine, not believing a word she said.

"How come?" I asked. "I never posted anything concerning the party."

"And as a Twitter freak, I swear, I didn't even post anything today because I was so busy," said Zoey.

"Could the boys have done so?" Christine asked. "Lee saw this first on Twitter and told me immediately I came out of the shower."

"We better ask, but I doubt if one of them did," I said.

"SAMMM!" came a call from down the hall. Seconds later, Mike and Daniel came in the room.

"I'm taking you saw the hash tag trending on Twitter," said Christine.

"We did," said Daniel. "Did any of you guys post anything?"

"No, we didn't," I said. "I'm guessing a guest of ours did."

"But who?" Zoey asked.

"Does it even matter?" Mike asked. "What's done is done. Besides, we all didn't agree here that we should make this party thing private."

"True, but I bet someone would have wanted it that way," I said.

"G-Dragon," we all answered at the same time.

"Now what are we going to do?" Christine asked. "I bet our managers didn't want to make this too public either. Now that it is, we have to worry about the paparazzi."

"I will make sure to tell the hotel staff that we will be having company," I said as I stood up from the bed.

"Ya, you do that," said Daniel.

Just as I was about to leave the room, my phone started to ring on my bed. I went over to answer it. But as soon as I saw the caller ID, I froze.

"Are you going to get that, Sam?" Zoey asked.

"You will not believe who's calling," I said.

"I hope it's one of our party guests saying that they were the ones who announced to the whole world about our party," said Mike.

I slowly picked up the phone and said, "sadly, it isn't one of them."

"Who is it then?" Christine asked.

I showed my phone to everyone in the room. They all had surprised looks on their faces.

"Are you going to answer him?" Mike asked.

"He's obviously calling about the party," I said. "Let me see what he has to say."

I quickly slid the green button to answer the call.

"Jungkook, hi," I said. "What pleasure do I have of receiving a call from you today?"