Following the events of Erinýes, you're invited to another party at Ryujin's house. This time, it's a pool party. Two new—and hot— faces are introduced to you.
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After that experience you told yourself that it would never be repeated, it had been something too crazy and reckless on your part as well as that of Ryujin and the other girls, you enjoyed it like a bastard, being high and fucking that trio of beautiful girls inside a luxurious mansion, but it was a resounding no for you.
That morning you had woken up several hours later, around 6 or 7 in the morning, and since there was no type of authority visible to the people inside the party, the whole house became complete and utter chaos, in true style of some kind of X Project where luckily and thank god the police or some crazy person with a flamethrower didn’t showed up, but Ryujin (and some of her close friends within the party) had had to use her own money to cover repairs.
You had to stay practically all day with them, being in charge of sending all the people home one by one in the most kind and calm way you could, some guys behaved like dicks and refused to leave, but to at noon, only you, Ryujin, Minjeong and Ning were left in the house. They asked you to stay for lunch, and so you did, but as soon as you finished your meal you went straight back to the comfort of your home.
During the rest of winter break you had a few more encounters with the three of them, especially with Minjeong, whose somewhat cold attitude softened and transformed into something much warmer and affectionate, she was still an introverted little princess and still cold towards other people, but with you or the girls she always behaved with a sweetness that slowly dragged you to want more than a friendship with her, but your mindset was not the right one at that moment to try something.
Although your relationship with Ning and Minjeong had improved considerably after that winter vacation, physical contact during school days was rather little since your head could not be anywhere else but in your studies and in your grades, you talked by text message with both of them, more with Minjeong than with Ning, but every time one of them told you to go out and have a drink you politely refused. You only went out with Minjeong to the movies once, but you couldn’t have any post-movie plans since you had to immediately go home to study. You felt very bad about it, but Minjeong understood it with a lot of maturity and empathy.
With Ryujin, however, things were much more different. You were college classmates and your schedules coincided 100% of the time, so you spent much more time together than you were used to months ago. You fucked, you fucked a lot. Normally there was no particular excuse to do it, you just did it whenever you had the chance, most of the time in your homes when it was ‘study night’, and the rest in public places which you were embarrassed to remember.
Despite all this, you somehow managed not to develop any kind of love interest in each other, everything had remained a simple friends-with-benefits relationship with which you were more than comfortable. You always opened up to each other and told each other your problems, especially on days of frustration and severe stress with university as the main culprit, but at the end of the day it all boiled down to a purely sexual attraction.
She and Minjeong were a great support to you throughout the semester, and you were looking forward to summer so you could finally spend time with them without having to worry about a damn exam next week. The first week you met Ning and Minjeong to go out to dinner, a fun night in which Ning got stupidly drunk and you had to take her to your apartment since she refused to go to hers that night, in the end Minjeong gave in to your plea to not leave you alone taking care of her, so the three of you slept together that night. You slept cuddling with Minjeong, and the tensions of the day led to a fuck in the middle of the night where you and her were still more asleep than awake. Ning never noticed.
You didn’t meet Ryujin for a few days, but you talked a lot via text message. She seemed quite excited about something, but it was still a mystery to you what, it wasn’t until the beginning of the second week of July when you found out. Another damn party at her house. Obviously it was a resounding no at first, but Ryujin had a great damn talent for sweetening your ear in such a way that any idea seemed brilliant and rational. Her pretext this time had been that there would be very few people, but you didn’t believe a single word she said.
Yet there you were, in a taxi on the way to the damned house, dressed in white shorts, a baggy navy blue shirt, a white cap, and white sneakers. Every second you spent in the back seat of that car was a second in which you kept thinking that in a few hours you were going to regret the decision you had made, you would think differently, but you were so used to Ryujin lying to you that it was already too difficult to get out of that mindset.
When the taxi left you outside the house and you stepped out onto the sidewalk, you were surprised not to hear loud music coming from inside the villa. Your first thought was that surely not enough people had arrived yet, so you didn’t get excited yet. You passed through the gate and you were also surprised to see absolutely no one at the windows or outside, when last time at that point the disaster was such that you could notice it without even entering, you thought that perhaps everyone would be gathered in the living room, so that didn’t help you either.
You reached the door and rang the bell a couple of times, waiting patiently for someone to open, finally your best friend and spicy hostess appeared under the wide wooden frame, dressed in a white baseball t-shirt that covered her jean shorts and a small white top. She looked you up and down and smiled triumphantly knowing that, once again, you signed up as an accomplice in her plans.

“Don’t you dare say a single word, Shin Ryujin,” you said, raising your finger to walk past her and enter inside.
“I was just going to say that you look very handsome!” she laughed.
“I always do, you don’t need to remind me,” you responded, walking with your back to her towards the living room near the piano, your friendship was already at a point of trust in which you walked around that house as if it were yours.
“Fuck, how humble,” she followed you from behind, “Hey, why so serious?”
“Because you dragged me again to another party that’s going to get out of hand,” you passed through the kitchen and went up a couple steps, you could already see the piano that preceded one of the outdoor rooms.
“Uh? Why would that happen?” she was now walking beside you.
“When people start arriving you’ll see,” you finally passed the piano, passed through a small hallway with a wooden credenza on the left to finally reach your destination, getting a pleasant surprise.
“What people are you talking about?” Ryujin frowned, standing next to you while you looked at Minjeong, lying on the wide gray sofa, Ning, sitting at a small circular legless table, and a couple of girls you had never seen before.
“Where are the others?” You asked, frowning, upon hearing your voice, Ning and Minjeong (who’s eyes lit up when she saw you), turned around at the same time. The two unknown girls also turned to look at you.
“Honey, did you take your schizophrenia pills today?” Ryujin placed the back of her hand on your neck. You turned to look at her.
“Are you telling me there’s no one else here?” your disbelief made her laugh.
“Nope,” she denied with a giggle, “did you think I was lying to you again?”
“You said it, again. It wouldn’t have been the first time you do it.”
“But this time I didn’t. Look,” she turned to the girls, who were still looking at you, “you know these two sluts already,” she said, referring to Ning and Minjeong, but then took your hand to lead you towards one from the unknown girls, who was sitting in a chair in the corner, with her legs resting on a stool in front, “This is Jimin.”

“Uh… hello, my pleasure,” Jimin, whose beauty had you perplexed from the beginning, lowered her legs from the stool and slightly bowed as a cordial greeting, a small shy smile on her face. She was wearing a long beach skirt with jean shorts underneath it, a bikini top with straps to the neck and two long sleeves, the same pattern as the top.
“Pleasure is mine,” you smiled back, “nice hair,” you said, looking at her long, black, slightly curly hair.
“Oh,” she opened her mouth and made a cute shocked expression at your compliment, “thank you,” another bow, and another little smile.
“Isn’t she a sweetie?” Ryujin asked, rubbing Jimin’s chin with her fingers, “she’s a genius, she studies medicine and she kicks your butt academically.”
“Huh? No way,” you took that personally.
“What was your GPA this semester?” Jimin asked.
“3.7”
“4.0” (A+, the highest grade.)
“What?!” You yelled, “Wow, that’s impressive.”
“Well, I’m really passionate about my career,” she laughed, playing modesty.
“Yeah yeah, I’m sure you do,” Ryujin took your hand again and led you outside the room shadow, stopping next to the girl who was standing on the grass with a cigarette between her fingers. She was incredibly hot, her revealing outfit showed off a pair of long, fleshy legs, adorned with jean shorts that covered her belly, she was also wearing a cropped green cardigan, with a bikini top that left little to the imagination.
“Hey, what’s up,” the girl greeted before Ryujin introduced you. She was made of different wood, you could tell. She brought the cigarette to her mouth, took a drag, and blew the smoke to the side of her. You greeted her with a nod up.
“This is Giselle, our Japanese bad bitch,” Ryujin said. She reached over and took the cigarette from Giselle’s fingers to take a drag as well. She didn’t seem to care, she just waited for her to return it.
“Giselle? You’re not from around here, right?” you asked, as she analyzed you up and down.
“No, I wasn’t born here, and from what I see you weren’t either,” another drag on the cigarette.
“England, you?” You said that in English.
“America, where from England?” she replied back in the same language.
“Birmingham,” your thick accent made her laugh. Ryujin just looked confused.
“Oh, like Peaky Blinders?” You heard that question so often that you didn’t even care anymore.
“Yeah, just like the Peaky Blinders. Only without the part about being in a criminal organization.”
“Well, that’s a shame. I like bad boys,” she brought the cigarette between her lips and took a long drag that ended up extinguishing all the tobacco inside it. She put the cigarette butt in one of her back pockets, winked at you and returned to the shadow of the living room with the other girls.
“You know this is the first time I’ve heard you speak English, right?” Ryujin said from beside you.
“Really?” you went back to Korean.
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