sehun-centric; slight!sekai/pg/college!au (pretty much yeah, kind of)
summary: sehun wonders how he got in this complicated circle of friends.
a/n: this is actually part of the journal challenge but i've decided to make this part of the challenge a fic. just to challenge myself. this particular challenge is: "Your views on drugs and alcohol."
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sehun would sometimes wonder when did he agree in this kind of hang out while watching his friends -- rather, observing them -- chug on alcohol and smoke cigarettes. he eyes the people with slurring words coming out of their mouth.
"how far would you go?" jongin whispers next to him, the smell of alcohol omitting from his mouth making sehun's nose cringe.
dear god.
sehun just hands him a can of cold beer bottle and jongin lazily grabs onto it, sipping a rather heavy amount of it.
sometimes, sehun wonders when did his life ended up being friends with people who hangs out drinking booze and smoking nicotine inside the small studio apartment of baekhyun. though, he still have fun being with them, the smell of booze and smoke does not pleasure his sense of smell; nevertheless, he's used to it by now.
when he was in high school, his friends consist of half conservative and half wild people minus the vices of alcohol and cigarette. they would hangout in his chinese friend's family house, having sleepovers, watching movies all night, and binging on food for 2-3 days in a row.
he was already exposed to alcohol at the age of 11 when his father told him to try it and told him, "man up, oh sehun!" but it does not really appeal to his sense of taste.
when he was 14, it was the first time he partied even if it was against his will. it was during the 21th birthday of his neighbor, kris wu. he pretty much drank alcohol that was given to him by his best friend, jongin, and downed every shot that was handed to him.
"you have to loosen up!" jongin shouted through the deafening beats circulating around the celebrant's house while grinding his hips awkwardly against sehun and he thinks he's enjoying too much, intoxicated with the alcohol running through his system, doing the same action like jongin's.
sehun knew he partied hard that night.
the next time he got tipsy over alcohol was when he was 17 years old, during his high school friend's birthday party. he's a loner in that party in hopes of being with jongdae since jongin was not invited in this party ("someone, please help me," sehun thought as his eyes roamed around the venue) but ended up ditching him with his other friends. what a friend.
with him being lonely in a party, he ended up with one of his acquaintances, lee taemin, and drank alcohol with him. both of them went to the mobile bar and asked for sunrise tequila (his first ever tequila), and he pretty much drank all of it in one go. sehun knows his limitation in drinking alcohol so he was fine but he's a noob and he pretty much knows that he doesn't know anything about tequila which resulted him in drinking taemin's unfinished tequila.
no effects yet. but it started to hit him when he drank his nth whatever-you-call-it shot.
he felt sleepy yet he continued to ramble things to taemin.
his mother picked him up from the party and he woke up in the car the next day; it was way past noon. he pretty smelled awful too.
sehun decided to drink less.
during the summer before entering university, that's when his high school friends started to throw parties, inviting him and he would only drink a few.
he was never exposed to drugs but when he was in high school, he heard rumors about the higher batches and the lower batches eating happy brownies inside the school premises during lunch or sometimes outside the school, in their houses with their friends. sehun thought it was stupid either way.
but now that he's a freshman college student, he has to take in all the culture shock he's been experiencing.
at first, he thought the circle of friends he entered was purely innocent yet not at the same time without any vices but when they showed him their true colors, he thought that maybe, he entered the wrong circle.
though, he never judged his circle of friends because they have their own stories.
right now, he knows that jongin is influenced by the society and the peer pressure of some of his friends who sehun does not associate himself with. baekhyun just broke up with his boyfriend, chanyeol, and right now, he's back to his vices of smoking and drinking after 7 months of not touching those by the influence of chanyeol (what a pity, though). joonmyeon, who sehun thought is someone angelic but the truth is, he's the opposite of innocence and his vices are brought about by his rebellion against his overly strict parents. jongdae is that friend who maybe a happy bubble and can be really cute but in truth, he drowns his family problems in liquor and nicotine. kyungsoo is just with him, looking out for his idiotic friends who might pass out any minute.
sehun knows that he does not have the right to judge people based on their habits, mannerisms, and vices. every action has its hidden truth and stories sometimes that someone needs an escape from it.
the thing about vices is that he has already mastered the limitations of it.
only sipping a few for the sake of his friends but aids them when they need a shoulder to cry on. he thinks that those vices are the ones making someone vulnerable and fragile so they tend to let out all the miseries that's weighing in them. there are times that those vices show someone's insecurity like jongin.
jongin is insecure about things. he is easily influenced by his peers and lets himself be indulge by the pressure given to him. and sometimes, the thing about it is that he won't let himself be downed by others.
he thinks that they are like little legos supporting each other and with one plucked out of the set, the rest will be unbalanced.
when jongin asks again, "how far would you go?"
the question might be vague but sehun answers, "as far as keeping you sane with me."
jongin thinks so too as he leans his head on sehun's shoulders.
sehun thinks that this is all right.
a/n: well what's up everyone i just made a fic that's based on true stories. *coughs* im sehun *coughs* though i dont have a best friend like jongin. my bestfriend is different HAHA i just wanted a sekai tbh but other than that yeap.