"But since there's so many of us, we will do it table-wise as there are three tables. Each table will obviously get their turn one after the other. Let's start with the middle table or this one," Jason, Shawn, Viktor, Tiana, Talia, and a fresher girl named Nancy were sitting in the middle table, and he spun the empty bottle on the table, starting the game.
Viktor narrowed his eyes and saw that the bottle stopped spinning after a few seconds before pointing in the direction of Jason.
"Jason, you are the king!" Nancy giggled while batting his eyes at him. She was quite excited to sit near the man she idolized and playing a game with him was not something she expected to experience today.
Jason chuckled, "I guess I will go first then. Shawn will be the King's General, which means he will be the one handing out the paper bits to us which will contain the tasks we have to do, though he can't open and read what's contained in them before picking them. Cool, right?"
Viktor felt it was fishy, but everyone around him nodded, finding it normal.
"Okay, Shawn. Pick one for me," Jason said as he filled his 300 ml cup with the rum.
Shawn showed a thumbs up as he randomly picked a paper bit from the box and gave it to Jason without opening it.
"Here goes…I hope it isn't something ridiculous," Jason slightly laughed as he opened it and showed it to Nancy, "Nancy, you can be the King's announcer who will announce what's written in the list. Go on. Read aloud what is written on mine."
Nancy was elated that Jason gave her such an honor and eagerly looked at his bit of paper as she read aloud, "Hug the person sitting beside you. If there is a boy and a girl. Hug the girl. Oh my god…" Nancy felt as if she was on cloud nine since she was the only girl sitting right next to Jason as the rest three girls were sitting on the opposite side.
"Wow. Somebody was definitely trying to set someone up, haha. Well, Nancy, I will give you a hug as a senior officially welcoming you to our beautiful college," Jason spoke in the tone of a friendly senior as he opened his arms wide, welcoming for a hug and Nancy, like a cat attracted to fish, immediately hugged him.
Jason smiled, but as he hugged Nancy, his hand copped a feel of one of her breasts but briefly and quickly, startling Nancy, who immediately withdrew and looked at him with a strange expression only to see Jason still smiling at her with a friendly look.
She awkwardly smiled back as well, but inwardly she wondered if it was her imagination if he groped her or an accident. Still, she just couldn't shake away that uncomfortable feeling. She looked up to Jason but just didn't want to get sexual with him like that.
Even though others didn't seem to notice anything, Viktor saw everything clearly and inwardly scoffed, though he was not surprised.
The box and the bottle were passed to the other two tables where the table where Butkus and his friends were sitting had a daring task come up with Kiera as the king where she was supposed to kiss the guy sitting opposite to her.
Skinny Jim got pretty excited since he was sitting opposite her but became sad when he saw Kiera chugging down the entire cup without any hesitation.
Butkus patted his back, offering his sympathies though inwardly even he didn't expect such daring things to be included in the list. Hanging out with seniors was indeed on another level!
Sayana felt nervous seeing that such kinds of tasks were included, and she didn't like to drink alcohol. But how was she going to refuse while sitting among all these people? Would she make them feel like pouring water over their heads?
Sayana wouldn't have come if it was not for Dorian, but still, she didn't regret coming since he was there with her.
The third table's king didn't have much trouble following a normal task, and soon the box again reached back to Jason's table as he spun the bottle.
This time the bottle stopped as it pointed towards Sayana, who placed her hand on her chest in anxiety.
Shawn smiled with a strange glint in his eyes as he picked up a certain paper bit from the box and handed it over to Nancy, who read it out aloud, "Kiss the boy sitting opposite to you."
"W-What?" Sayana was startled like a kitten and unconsciously looked towards Dorian, who immediately grabbed the cup of rum before her and gulped it all down.
"Dorian!"
"Yo, what the hell?" Shawn asked with a nasty expression since he was the boy sitting opposite Sayana, and this goofy asshole just ruined his chance to kiss her.
"Hmmm…" Jason narrowed his eyes, seeing Dorian gulping down such a strong drink without any hesitation, and felt that maybe he underestimated this guy a bit.
"Haa…that was…strange…It tastes bad…" Viktor placed down the cup with a grimace while Tiana had a blinking expression seeing an innocent guy like him chug it down like a boss. It was not as easy as it looked and the fact that he didn't seem drunk only made her feel even more awe.
Sayana, however, was feeling quite bad and guilty that she indirectly made someone who probably never touched alcohol before, drink it for her. She knew he did it since she seemed uncomfortable with either following through the task or drinking the rum.
"Dorian, I am sorry. Please don't do that again. I will drink it. You don't have—-"
"Eyy, no problemo. I always drank ale back in my village, thanks to my nice aunty," Viktor said casually with a pure smile, making Sayana feel a bit relieved but still felt as if she did something wrong here.
Talia parted her lips into an 'O' shape as she heard his words.
"Goodboi, you really are a man with surprises. We should have a drinking contest sometime, hehe," Tiana giggled, not expecting to find a drinking buddy in Dorian.
Jason frowned slightly, hearing this while Shawn got even angrier seeing how Dorian was ignoring his senior, "Hey, you! I asked you a question. Who said you can drink her cup?"
Viktor shrugged and said artlessly, "Well, I am the King's Friend. So I drank it."
Shawn bit down on his teeth, hearing this while Tiana asked in a surprised tone, "Wow, how did you know about that?"
Viktor whispered in her ears in an oblivious tone, "I don't know. I just made it up."
"Goodboi, you are really funny. Haha!" Tiana patted Dorian's arm as she laughed, seeing how Dorian fooled these guys so naturally. However, she felt a bit strange feeling his hot breath over her ears before and couldn't describe what that feeling was.
Sayana was moved that Dorian, like a true friend, saved her from drinking what she didn't like.
This continued on for many rounds where whenever Sayana got her turn, Viktor would chug it down for her despite her protests, while Tiana would simply drink it herself and still didn't get drunk after chugging down five cups after getting her turn five times.
Jason was disappointed seeing that Tiana refused to do the tasks on the list that could help him get closer to her, and she wasn't even getting drunk despite the rum being so strong. Even he could barely handle two cups without feeling drunk. Still, he was excited since Tiana used up all five of her lives, while Shawn was excited as well that Sayana's five lives were over thanks to Dorian.
Surprisingly, the only one who didn't get a chance at Jason's table was Talia, and she was still sitting there like she was invisible, watching them all with a cute smile on her face.
Viktor briefly looked at Talia, and at the exact moment, she also looked at him, their gazes focusing on each other before Talia gave him a pure radiant smile as she waved him a 'hi'.
Viktor's brows pulled together slightly before relaxing as he also waved back a 'hi' to her before leaning back while Sayana, who noticed this brief exchange between them, wondered what was going on.