The Day He Fell In Love

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The roar of the crowd was deafening to any human being ears, but most of the patrons were jumping up and down, their hands raised in the air, as though they were all worshipping a God, not just the DJ at this underground club where Mei Mei took them after the three of them complained of boredom at the Red Door.

This club was part of the club Ryu business's chain of nightclubs. It is located in an inconspicuous location in the busy district of Shibuya. The club was aptly named -- Shibuya Underground.

The said club was popular to the younger demographic compared to the Red Door where patrons were mostly tired, but successful people in a specific group.

The pianist at the Red Door was a giveaway that it was not their crowd, thus they requested a place where they could have some fun.

And fun it is!

Laurie bobbed like a fishing bait with her glass in the air, along with the dense crowd of the club despite it being a weekday.

She never expected Tokyo's club-goers to be so active. No wondered Ryu was raking a lot of cash! Her bank account where Ryu's accountant deposited her share of the earnings was fat enough that she could lie on the beach all year long.

However, her mother, despite repeatedly telling her that she had the means to provide for herself and she did not need a man, never wavered from her goal to see her in a white dress, pledging her life and death over a man.

"Hey, Angel."

She stared at the man who was grinding his crotch against her left thigh as the music got louder and the crowd got rowdier. She wondered if she was really in Tokyo. She never imagined Japanese clubbers as wild as this.

Over the blaring music, she shouted, "My name is not Angel. And if you don't move you will know why." She smiled at him with a warning.

The guy who doesn't look Asian grinned back at her, then closed his eyes and continued to grind his crotch against her thigh. In such close proximity, she felt a hard thing poking her hip!

She stepped sideways and she poured the remaining alcohol in her glass on the bastard's head.

She was startled when the jerk raised both his arms, shook his head like a dog after a bath, and stuck out his tongue, linking the alcohol that dripped on his face.

Feeling utterly disgusted, she pushed her way out of the crowd and searched for her friends. While she was fighting for her life to get out of the sea of sweaty people in the crowd, someone grabbed her elbow.

She twisted her body and was ready to punch the jerk who touched her when she met Andrei's eyes.

"Oh, god, thank you!" she exclaimed with sheer gratitude.

Andrei didn't answer but shoved people away from her using his buff body until they reached the edge of the dance floor and got freed from the suffocating crowd.

"Where are Bella and Mei Mei?" she pulled down his arm as she tip-toed to shout at his ear.

"They were outside!" he shouted back and pulled her to the fire exit.

When they reached the fire exit, she thought they would have a bit of privacy, but she was wrong. There were couples making out at the fire exit stairwells.

She gawked in shock. 'This is not the Tokyo I know.'

"Why are we using the fire exit?" she asked in her normal speaking voice. The blaring music from the club could still be heard from the staircase but it was already muffled that conversing normally is now possible.

Only if she does not get distracted every now and then when they couple making out as they climb up the stairs.

Laurie heaved a deep sigh when they finally stepped out of the curb. The fire exit led them to the side of the building.

It has a pocket garden, in which in her opinion a better making out place than stairwell of fire exit until, she saw a man with bulging muscles like a wrestler, standing next to the door, and understand why those people choose to make out on the stairs when there was a decent place outside of the fire exit.

Mei Mei called for them by raising her hands up in the air.

When they approached the garden bench they were sitting on, she saw that there was a paper bag of Macudonaldo on the bench next to her.

"Is that for me?"

"Yes, douzo," she opened her hand gesturing that she could eat the food.

"Arigatou!"

She opened the paper bag and pulled a black pepper bacon burger and some fries. The thick slice of bacon was so satisfying after jumping all over the club dance floor. She shoved the burger in her mouth without saying anything.

She was like someone who had been famished for a day and finally given something to eat. There is no time to speak at all! In between bites of the juicy burger, she shoved the salty french fries in her mouth.

Sipping her large coke every time she felt like she was going to choke to death with how gluttonous she was with her food.

She must have been eating too fast that Mei Mei could not help but comment on her way of eating.

"Chew your food properly, please," she said with a grimace.

"Uhmm," she nodded and chewed the food she had in her mouth. After swallowing and drinking some more coke, "Sorry, I never realized how hungry I was until my nose smelled the scent of a McDonald's burger.

"You haven't changed. You still find fast food most delicious when you are drunk."

"True. If I am not drunk, you can never make me eat this kind of food."

"Remember the time when we used to ask nii-chan to buy us McDonald's at any hour in the middle of the night whenever we get hungry from playing games."

"Hmm," she nodded.

"I think that was the time he fell in love with you."

Laurie choked on her burger with what Mei Mei said.

"W-what ---"