...
The door was closed, and inside the private room, no one spoke for a long time.
They looked at each other, both wide-eyed, trapped in an awkward silence, utterly unsure of how to break it.
"Are we still going out tonight?"
After who knows how long, someone finally asked.
This question, like a switch turned on, startled everyone present, and the silence instantly became noisy.
"My wife is urging me to go back and take care of the kids, I really have to go back."
"I'm not going either, my mom's called me twenty or thirty times already. If I don't go back, my phone will run out of power."
"Sorry, but I also have something urgent to attend to. I've got to leave right away. Let's meet again next time."
...
Initially, people were still finding reasons, but in the end, they didn't even bother to make excuses.
They hurriedly got up, grabbed their coats, and headed out.
Among the noise, there were some whispers.
