the trainees arrived at a restaurant not too far from the company. it wasn't expensive, but it wasn't cheap either.

they all sat at a huge table and got their menus.

"you guys want some champagne?" minkyun asked. group b looked at group a, surprised.

"you guys, drink?" jooheon asked. they all nodded.

"oh my god. do not tell me you guys don't drink?" seokwan laughed. "you need to try it. the champagne is pretty good here."

"b-but i'm too young to drink." changkyun nervously said.

"come on! you, seokwan, and yoonho are the same age; they drink too!" gunhee looked at the two, who nodded in agreement. "seriously, what can go wrong?"

"holy crap, bring us one more bottle, hyung!" changkyun exclaimed, drinking his fifth cup of champagne.

"bring us one more." gunhee told the waiter, who nodded.

"how is it like being drunk?" jooheon asked. "i mean, i think i am? but like i have no idea. unless something wrong happens, i think i'm still sober. or am i wrong, or am i right?"

"yeah, he's drunk, alright." kwangji pointed to him and laughed. "you're a funny guy, you know that?"

the waiter came with the bottle of champagne gunhee ordered. he poured the drink into everyone's cup, except for shownu who was still sober. he only drank one cup just in case anything got crazy.

"did we even toast yet?" kihyun asked. "i feel like we haven't."

"no hyung, we toasted like a hundred times already." yoonho replied. "let's toast anyways for us being on this survival show crap."

everyone toasted their cups and drank. shownu just laughed at everyone's silly actions and filmed them.

"hey, what's wrong with that guy over there?" gunhee asked, pointing at minhyuk. "you've been quiet."

"i don't know, probably the champagne got to him." kihyun replied, laughing. "this is the first time he has shut up."

"say, you wanna talk about you guys and y/n?" kwangji suggested, looking at the trainees sitting across him.

"she's a friend of ours, that's all." shownu replied, trying to avoid anything else said.

"that's it?" gunhee asked. "not anyone's girlfriend or anything?"

"pfft, nah." jooheon said, laughing. "i mean, if anything we-"

"will just be friends with her." shownu interrupted to finish his sentence. "nothing more."

"sometimes, i just wanna kiss her." kwangji said. "she's hot, alright."

"really though." changkyun admitted, taking another big sip of his drink. "she's wife material. i mean, she can cook."

"yeah, she can cook alright." yoonho added on. "one time, she made us bibimbap, and we devoured that thing."

"hey, she made the same thing for us too." changkyun said. "but she didn't cook anything else for us."

"oh my god, you have to try her kimchi pancakes." kwangji suggested, snorting and rolling his eyes. "it's hot and spicy, just like her. and it's hella tasty too."

"hyung, you are listening to this, right?" jooheon asked, wrapping his arm around kihyun's shoulders and leaning him toward the table to hear kwangji. kihyun nodded, drinking the rest of his cup.

"it sounds like you like her." shownu told kwangji. "do you?"

"hell yeah i do." kwangji replied. "but things happened, and then she started to avoid me."

he then pounded the table hard, almost breaking it.

"why, what happened?" kihyun asked.

"i can't remember right now, but all i know is that she did some bad stuff to me, and that hurt me."

"it hurt him to the point that he started to not come to our practices for a while." minkyun added on. "if we were you guys, you guys shouldn't hang around her."

"but, we like her." jooheon said.

kwangji just shook his head. "whatever. but don't come crying to us once you find out her true colors; things will get messy. now, i think we should start heading out, right?"