A Drunk Kiss on His Cheek

For game losers, a boy should drink one whole glass of whisky, and a girl only needed to drink one third of the glass. For Ava who never drunk, a glass bottom of whisky was enough for burn her face.

"A girl like Ava even drinks as she shall. Blake, don't take driving as an excuse of not drinking again, otherwise I really despise you!" Alex sneered.

Evan didn't know about the displeasure that happened between them, so he got up and wanted to pour whisky in Blake's glass: "That's right, Blake, take it. I'll call a driver for you later, and you can drink it!"

Blake hesitated for a second, before a shaking hand holding a glass appear before everyone.

"I.. I'll drink for him." Ava said this, and all the people present were stunned.

During high school, Blake was a top student as well as a handsome teenager. Quite a lot of girls adored him. Ava was one of them. Today, Vivian was most eye-catching so that everyone focused on her and forgot that there was a secret admirer of Blake. No, accurately speaking she was an open admirer. Due to her wishful and impossible affection, Ava was teased a lot.

"Yo!" Someone began to jeer, "Someone is distressed."

Emma secretly sighed, silently drank a mouthful of wine, not going to meddle in this matter.

Evan was about to pour the whisky in Ava's glass instead, when his arm was grasped by a hand outstretched from Blake beside. The hand joints were clear, five fingers were slender, but easily pull Evan's hand apart a little bit.

"You don't have to do it for me. I'll take the big adventure instead." When Blake finished, he glanced at Ava as if to blame her for having a finger in the pie.

Ava lowered her eyes, withdrew her hand, and went back to the dark corner.

She understood, if Alex did the same thing for Vivian, very possibly Vivian also reacted like Blake. For the one you love, drinking alcohol for you was an ambiguous happiness; but for the annoying person you dislike, this would be a suffocating burden.

The crowd sent out a burst of boos, only Vivian spoke for Blake: "Drinking too much alcohol is bad for health. Less drink and more play, make things happy."

"Oh Blake, you are such a fool of no amorous feelings!" Evan said, but in the end did not embarrass Blake any further. Under his suggestion, the punishment for Blake was settled-twenty push-ups.

Blake took off the suit top, rolled up his shirt sleeves, walked neatly to the open area in the room and finished twenty push-ups from beginning to end in a standard posture without any hesitation.

After this punishment, the game continued. But this time, for everyone's fairness, Ava was asked to be the last to bet.

Whichever side Blake bet on, she chose the other side. Over time, everyone finds out this rule and followed Blake. Like some mysterious power controlled, In the concessive three rounds, Ava was the loser.

She drank one glass after another, keeping obedient of the game rules, and never once begged for mercy.

"It's boring play this game now." In the fifth round, seeing that there were only two chips left in Ava's hand, Blake said so.

"Yes, It's not interesting. Let's play something else." Vivian and some other girls agreed as well.

When the winner and loser could be easily foreseen, there was no interest.

Alex threw away his chips and picked up the bottle of whiskey on the table and shook it. "What else is to play? I'm sure Ava will be the loser as well in other games. There's still this much left. Why don't you just drink it all?" He handed the bottle to Ava.

"Oh, well." Ava did not question his suggestion at all. She stood up unsteadily and went around to the other side of the table to reach to the bottle in Alex's hand.

"Then... I'll drink it all". She stood by the table, took a sip of the bottle, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and finally poured the whisky down her mouth.

Someone in the sing room was singing the song "Off My Face" totally out of tune. "I'm out my head, so into you and I don't know how you do it..." Under this background sound, Ava tried hard to drink the whisky, with her tongues burned numb by the strong liquor.

It was too much for her stomach, she felt about to vomit before finishing drinking it.

For people who dislike alcohol, it is like a poison that penetrates the stomach and intestines. It's okay to swallow it, but when the taste spread on the taste buds, it's really a torment every minute.

When Ava felt about to vomit again, the bottle was suddenly taken away. The whisky splashed out and slid down Ava's chin.

She looked at the empty palm at a loss, then looked the way of the taken bottle, and saw a handsome but cold face.

Blake put the bottle back on the table and said lightly, "Don't go too far. The alcohol level is not low."

When everyone saw him stand up, thy thought he was going to order a song or go to the washroom, but no one expected him to stop Ava's drinking. His words seems to disapprove their playing across the line and bullying Ava?

For a moment, everyone was a little embarrassed.

"Then… How about taking a big adventure?" After a short silence, Evan suggested to ease the atmosphere.

"Who are you pretending to be? Spoilsport." Alex raised his glass to the lips and said coldly in a well heard voice.

The person next to him slightly elbowed into him to remind him to be restraint, but this only stimulated him even more.

He points to Blake and said to Ava: "Ava, if you dare to kiss Blake, I respect you to be a Heroine" He postured his thumb up.

What a ridiculous suggestion for big adventure! Is this a punishment for Ava or Blake?

Emma felt that Alex had been too drunk and was about to use the authority of a class monitor and organizer to stop him. But before she spoke out, she heard the shocked sounds in the crowd.

She hurried to look at Ava, and saw Ava standing on the toes, with slender fingers sticking out of the cotton-padded clothes and grabbing Blake's sleeve, leaning over her body and kissing Blake on his cheek.

Blake stared at Alex sullenly, considering to what extent shall be mad at Alex. But suddenly his cheek was touched by something soft and cool.

It took him only a few seconds from confusion to awareness of what was happening.

He turned his head in shock and met Ava's exceptionally dark eyes in the dim light. Ava's eyes trembled, first seemed confused, then a little awake under his gaze, and lastly showed a even more shocked loo than his. She could not believe that she would do such a stupid thing.

Ava was totally shocked by herself. She slowly lowered her body and said dully, "What I.."

"Ha ha ha ha!" Alex loved to watch this ridiculous scene, "I said you kiss him, but did not say kiss on the face, why didn't you kiss his hand?" "Handsome Blake, you have suffered a great loss."

Ava felt two streams in her body, one as hot as fire, the other as cold as ice, they took turns to influence her, making her head and face extremely hot but hands and feet cold as frozen.

In her mind, several thoughts circled back and forth, one emerged as "I'm done, I did something wrong", another came up as "alcohol is so evil, driving my head dizzy", and one more popped out "Blake's body is fragrant, what a good smell".

"Is it funny?" Blake looked at Alex with colder eyes.

Alex didn't care: "You can't afford to have fun."

Ava's behavior helped Blake to decide, he stopped behaving kind to Alex and exploded directly.

"A joke is a joke only when the person concerned thinks it is funny. A not funny joke not is violence to people involved. Alex, you really haven't changed at all. If I were Vivian I would also think your affection lowered my taste."

Although laud music was still on, Blake's sarcastic words still reached to everyone's ears clearly.

Alex immediately got furious: "What did you say?"

"I have to work in the construction site tomorrow, sorry I have to go first." Blake treated Alex as empty air. Without waiting for the crowd to say something, he took the coat on the hanger, pulled the door open, and went out.

But after a second, he pushed the door open and came back. "Why don't you go?" He dropped a sentence to Ava in a bad tone and left again. Ava looked at the door gradually closed, as if waking up from a dream. Then she hurriedly followed to leave, even forgetting to say goodbye to the crowd.

"Blake? Behind him came the cry of Vivian, but it was soon blocked by the completely closed door.

Ava was slow and lost her way during the leaving. When she came out of the KTV, Blake had already leaned against the car and smoke cigarette.

Ava walked towards him, stopped at one meter distance from him, and observed his expression. She felt that he was angry at first, and then felt that he did not. "I'm sorry for what happened just now."

She made many excuses for herself, such as "I was too drunk, I didn't mean to", "we are grown-ups, just a game punishment, please don't take it seriously", and "I can do nothing if you insist on thinking that way"…

"How do you go home?" asked Blake.

"I was too drunk, and I couldn't help it…" Ava was still reading the prepared answer then suddenly stopped when realizing what Blake asked. She hurriedly changed her words, "Oh, I will call a taxi."

At this time, there were no bus nor subways, her only choice was to take a taxi. She took out her cellphone in her cotton-padded clothes and preparing to call a taxi.

Blake bit the cigarette, pulled open the car door beside her, and lifted his chin: "I'll drive you home. Is your home in the old place as high school?"

Ava was stunned and did not react for a long time.

Blake sat in the driver's seat, saw her standing foolishly. He lowered the window with running out patience.

"Come on, can't you understand human being's language?"

Ava trotted into the car from the other side as if he had been whipped behind her back.

After she sat in the car, she kept peeking at Blake from the corner of her eye.

He was so nice, as a good person as he was seven years ago. After such thing happened, he didn't scold her. Just when she thought in her mind, Blake's cold voice came.

"Why did you go to the singing room with them? Do you drink any liquor before? You just drunk as they asked. Didn't you understanding they were expecting you to make a fool?"

Ava pinched her seat belt and said, "Yes, I did understand. I did not want to spoil your fun."

Blake unconsciously stepped down the accelerator pedal even harder. He did not feel the comfort of speaking out frank, but had more anxiety in his mind. He felt like he punched into a Slime, the Slime did not get any damage, but he lost an arm.

"You have a strong sense of union, ha?" Blake couldn't help but to satire her again. But nxet second, he realized, meeting her again tonight was just because of a classmates' union, after sending her back home, they wouldn't see each other any longer. Her matter was none of his business. Why did waste emotion on it?

"Forget it, it's none of my business." He got angry.

Ava clenched her hands. Huge regret lingered in her mind again and again, making her sad and gloomy, like a resentful spirit.