Lili woke up. Well, at least she thought she woke up. Maybe she was in the middle of dying. Yet when her hazy brain suggested the thought of being hungover, Lili immediately knew it was true.
"Holy fuck," she swore when she started remembering bits by bits what had happened. That was her curse, she always remembered, and now… well. She hated to remember.
Her bladder was urging her to go to the toilet, but Lili didn't want to get up at all. The position she was in was aching and weird, but she knew that the moment she would move, her head would split and her stomach make somersaults.
Slowly, Lili looked around and even the eyeball movement made her dizzy. But she noticed a big bowl that was next to her, so she proceeded to grab it and tightly hug it, holding it in her shaky hands as she slowly got up.
"Fuck me. I'm never drinking again," Lili said as usual when she was hungover. She sat up, her body shaking, her head spinning and stomach trying to escape her body through her throat.
Lili mentally reminded herself to be strong and not to puke all over the room. As she was sitting, she recognized one of the rooms in the HQ, but it wasn't their apartment room. Thankfully, they all had similar floor plans, so she knew where to find her throne.
Well, as soon as she did what she needed and flushed, Lili sat on the ground beside the toilet and leaned back to the wall.
"I think I'm sleeping her the entire day," she mumbled to herself and gagged again when her stomach showed its hatred towards her drinking.
The door opened and her handsome soon-to-be husband came in looking all fresh and smiley.
"Don't say anything. I'm at my lowest," she said, her voice flat, but it only made Lei laugh.
"Here you go. Yumi brought a big bunch of these from Korea. Apparently, she knew you would all end up like this," he said and gave her two small bottles.
"Oh, Seojun." Lili smiled at the bottle and hoped it was a hangover cure, as they were popular in Korea. She slowly drank sip by sip and waited for it to start calming her stomach.
"Does it work?" Lei asked and sat next to her, caressing her back. Lili opened her mouth and burped pretty loudly.
"Pardon. Yes, it's working." She wasn't shy about it, as it was a normal body reaction.
"Why are you okay?" she asked, confused. He wasn't lightweight, but his hangovers were sometimes worse than hers.
"Well, because the season is on, almost nobody can drink. Hyun is apparently lightweight and Dylan can't drink on meds. So the only one that was left was Yuji, but then the call from Jiaer came in together with a video of you in a bar, and… let's say we had enough laughs watching you all. Then we came to rescue." Lei laughed once more, remembering the video. And then the real situation.
"Do we have a problem?" Lili asked, unsure because some parts of her memory were hazy or plainly blurry.
"Yuji is delighted because when he approached Mimi she made a ruckus yelling at him she has a boyfriend that is the best in the world and he should leave her alone…" Lili chuckled. Yup, that sounded about right.
"The building security is a bit pissed when you were 'stranded' in the elevator, calling and banging for help… Yet you forgot to press the floor number button. So they 'rescued' you and escorted you all to one empty floor so you wouldn't disturb anyone else. But I gave them a bonus, so it should be okay." Lili facepalmed herself.
Yep, she faintly remembered something like that happening. What did Lucy order as the drinks, because usually, Lili was pretty tame when drinking. And she had stamina in drinking…
"Did I do something?" she asked, unsure.
"Nah, I found you having a conversation with the mirror. You apparently bumped into it on the way to the bathroom and kept apologizing to it. Then you got super pissed that the 'person' isn't getting out of the way…" Lili hid her face in her arms, laughing, pretty embarrassed.
"I remember Yumi put her phone in airplane mode and threw it from the VIP balcony. Did you find it?" Lei nodded. Can you move? They are all dying together in the common room. Lili slowly nodded and proceeded to hug the bowl again while getting up.
"I'll take this with me, just to be sure." Lei chuckled but nodded, helping her up and keeping her steady as she walked to the elevator. What she saw when the door opened in the common room made her laugh.
Aoi was as blue as the shirt she had on. Yumi was dying, laying on Mimi's legs who was leaning on Yuji. Nikol, Mei, and Sara were lying on the floor, watching or more like listening to the TV, and Junfeng, Mei, and Silva were just sleeping tangled together on the sofa's right side and ignored Lili's entrance.
"I'm gonna kill you." That was the first thing Lili said to Lucy, who only raised her hand and moved it up and down. The universal sign of ironic yeah, yeah.
Yixing and Huobai came out of the elevator just a few minutes after Lili and handed Yumi her phone.
"I was told he had never seen such wild shit as you all were… And that you made some problems but in the end, they all laughed about it. But he says that next time you should drink less. Now, can you tell me why is downstairs a shit load of boxes named rubber ducks addressed to Lili?" Yixing sighed and Huobai actually chuckled.
"Rubber ducks? Didn't we order roasted Beijing ducks?" Lucy looked confused and took out her phone. Then gave it to Lili because the scrolling made her dizzy. Not that Lili was better, but she had a bowl.
"Holy fuck. Why did we order 1200 rubber ducks? Who paid for it?" She was dying to find out it was her credit card there. Fuck, now she was completely broke.
"Holy fuck, Lucy… You should see this." Lil passed her the phone and tried to hold her laughter in. Lucy opened her eyes wide at the phone and tried to hold back her laughter.
"I will be killed once I'm back…" Lucy wanted to see whether Hwa called her or not, but she found out her contacts were totally wrong.
"Who is the Magical Sirius star? Rainbow fart unicorn?" Lucy looked at Lili, confused. At a command, everyone who was awake looked at their connect list, and horrified, noticed all of them had changed the names of their contacts.
"What is my name?" Lei asked, looking over Lili's shoulder.
"Big cuddly bear…" Lili said almost voicelessly. Lei laughed and hugged her from behind.
"It's still okay. Nicol apparently slept with someone and can't remember who it was. Silva slept in the bathtub. And Yumi signed herself up for a singing competition." Mimi was translated the entire English conversation by Yuji but spoke in Japanese.
"Aoi was the only one okay?" Lili gagged again quickly, moving her bowl before her face. Mimi shook her head and chuckled.
"She called her crush and wrote him an elaborate message about her love. I've read it. He hadn't seen it yet, but it was a normal message so she can't delete it." Lili groaned and placed herself carefully on the carpet, leaning back at the couch.
"I think we will take it really slow today and hope I will not die tomorrow…" Every woman agreed with her, while all the males there laughed at them. Completely okay.
She said it. She told them it would end badly. Lili knew it.