"oh." i said, realizing he's the one i was threatened to date by that mystery man in the locker room the other day.
"want to dance or something?" junhoe stood in front of me and the guys.
"something."
"what?"
"you said, 'want to dance or something.' "
"then what does 'something' mean?"
"dude i don't know what you're trying to do but she's with us." changbin stepped forward.
"so? come on." junhoe pulled my hand and led me into the gym.
"so what's up? what's going on?" i asked him, looking up.
"what do you mean?"
"oh so someone threatened me in the locker room telling me to date you. they also said to be around you when i'm around chan, minho, changbin and the others.
"i don't know what you're talking about." he kept his eyes forward.
"i'm not dumb."
"you would already know if you weren't dumb."
"that's it. i don't know what's going on but i'm leaving." i pulled from his grip and walked outside the gym.
the boys weren't there. did they just leave me? what the?
(on phone to groupchat)
me: hey where did you all go?
seungmin: well me, jeongin, woojin, and jisung r here in the cafeteria eating the concessions from the hallway. changbin, hyunjin, chan, minho & felix went out to daegu.
me: daegu?
jisung: the party we were all going to later is in daegu.
me: why'd they leave already?
woojin: um i guess they just don't really like that guy you left us with.
jeongin: neither do we
me: sorry? it's not like i wanted to.
jisung: whatever just come in here
me: yeah coming
i picked up a bag of orange and black colored popcorn on the way over to the cafeteria.
"hey! there you are!" jisung stood up.
"should we get going now?" seungmin also stood.
"yeah." woojin smiled adorably like a little teddy bear.
"to the party?" i asked like a slow thinking child.
"..yeah." jeongin said.
we walked out to the parking lot outside of school when i saw him. jaemin.
i walked a little behind the four boys, so they didn't notice a thing i did.
"seoyeon? we have a class together." jaemin walked up to me.
"ye-yeah." i tried to altar my voice to make it less noticeable.
"i don't know what it is about you. but you really look like someone from my old school." he began studying my face.
"oh really? huh."
"sorry that was weird. anyways, are you going to that party out in daegu?"
"yeah, actually i was just leaving."
"oh."
"are you going?"
"yeah, just gotta go get my cousin."
"you live with your cousin? or did you just come together?"
"yeah i live with him."
"SEOYEON-A!" jeongin called out.
"YEAH, COMING!" i answered back.
"oh okay. well i'll see you later then." i said, winking before walking away.
he smiled and headed into the school.
2 hours later
we were driving around a rich residential neighborhood, passing by parties left and right.
"here it is." woojin said, pulling in a long driveway, parking near the end.
we walked up the driveway and rung the doorbell at the top.
"whose house is this?" i asked impressed.
"kang daniel. he doesn't go to school with us but he gets around in korea." jeongin said.
"what do his parents do to be this rich?" i asked looking up, to the top of the very tall mansion.
"not sure, you'd have to ask him i guess."
then the door opened, startling me causing me to jump up.
"woah, heyy! your buddies are in the pool room i think." a tall man stood in front of us.
"kang daniel, and you, miss?" he reached his hand out to me.
"choi seoyeon." i smiled and took his hand, closing up to his face.
i pushed past him and the others followed after me.
"pool room is to the left, down the hall, door to the right, and down the stairs." daniel gestured for us.
the pool room had a pool table, arcade games, darts, a bar, a bowling alley, movie theater, and even badminton and soccer courts.
people in the bar seats sat, playing that pass the paper game. another group of people in a circle played spin the bottle on the floor.
after searching through the mass crowds i found chan, changbin, minho and hyunjin playing badminton.
"where's felix though?" i asked the four by my side.
"ask them." seungmin looked at the four playing badminton.
"hey seoyeon! you guys came!" hyunjin greeted us.
"when'd you all leave?" changbin asked.
"like 10ish." jisung said.
"where's felix?" i asked.
"i don't know." chan's eyebrows joined together.
"he said he had to go to the bathroom, but now that i think of it, that was like 20 minutes ago." hyunjin said.
"shit! you don't think it's the dragons?" minho's eyes widened after he said so.
"i'm sorry, what's that supposed to mean? the dragons?" i asked confused.
"uhh, so there's this gang here in daegu. called the daegu dragons." chan said, looking down.
"and?..."
no one answered me and this only made me jump to conclusions. if a gang were to kidnap someone there was a reason for it. but then again sometimes they just take people for no known reason - me.
"seoyeon where are you going?!" hyunjin asked while i walked away from them.
i froze when i saw the person in front of me. hendery.
"seoyeon is it now?" he walked closer to me.
"and what's this? blue hair? lip piercings?" his fingers brushed through my hair.
i wanted to say something but i couldn't move.
i looked behind me and realized they all left me. what the fuck.
"why'd you go out without letting your brother know where you are? naughty girl."
"stop. don't touch them."
"oh i didn't. but the others found them."
he watched my puzzled face when he spoke. "we found you and you're new 'home.' "
"no~"
"you're not hard to find. you know if you were going to run away from us, you should've went to a country far away from here."
"wait. do you know those guys who were just in here?"
"of course. rival gang. and so are the daegu dragons who happen to be at this party you were invited to."
"you know who they are?"
"no i don't know who's who but i know they're here."
wait why am i having a conversation with hendery?
i looked around for a second, planning a runaway route. i wasn't paying attention to whatever he was doing but while he was off guard, i ran out towards the bar.
"jaemin!" i whisper-shouted from the floor, looking up at him - who was sitting on a bar stool.
"seoyeon?"
"yeah. um, come with me!"
"okay?"
i grabbed his arm, pulling him down on the floor next to me.
people around us looked at us weirdly but we carried on, crawling on the floor to the bathrooms.
the bathroom down here was like a public bathroom. a girl's room and a guy's room.
i shoved him into the girl's room door but he was pushed out by girls screaming for their privacy.
he walked into the guy's room, sneaking me behind him.
i shoved him in the tight fit stall, locking the door behind us.
"what is it? what's going on?!" his wide eyes looked into mine.
"well first there's something i have to do."
his expression went confused but i began taking the piercings out, and my color contacts.
his face lit up and he grabbed at my cheeks, smiling brightly.
"nari! it's you! i knew it!" he hugged me and stood back, returning to his confused look.
"so what's going on? are you okay??"
"no. the gang in seoul kidnapped me and my friends - jiae, eunji, mina, jieun and chaewon. i don't know what happened to them now but i escaped with my brother and sister and we laid low here. but somehow they found us and i actually just ran over to you away from hendery... who i don't have good history with. so when i was kidnapped.. i kinda kicked him... in his um- part."
"who's hendery? he doesn't go to our school?"
"he was listed as a china transfer or something- i don't know it was on jeno's watch- anyways, about you- how did you end up here?"
"so i was sorta in the gang- well i didn't want to- i already explained that- but anyways, they wanted me to hurt you and i couldn't do it so i ran away. and if they find me i don't know what- but it's not gonna be very good for me. but what do you mean about jeno?"
"he helped me escape, sorta. and he had this watch that showed everyone who works for the gang."
"damn it! i told him and mark not to join. are they still with them?"
"i don't know?" i realized he was the one yelling at the two guys in the room next to my locker at school.
"what should we do?!" i asked going back to the crisis at the moment.
"well, get out of here first!"
i felt kind of awkward walking out of a stall with him in the guys room with other dudes waiting outside. they all looked at me and i wanted to leave immediately.
we snuck to the front door, dodging past johnny and hendery.
jaemin pov
(on phone call to my cousin):
"heyyy hongieee i'm gonna take one of those ubbers to a hotel." i fake-slurred my words to sound drunk.
"ubber? you mean uber? are you drunk?"
"i don't know~ you tell me~"
"okay, just call the uber number i put in your phone and have them take you to the queenvell hotel. you can stay the night and i'll pick you up tomorrow morning since i think i'm just going to stay a little while longer and go home but i don't know i might stay overnight here if it's too late. anyways. just give me a call when you get to the hotel."
"okay~ thankssss!"
"bye and stay safe!"
i ended the call and began dialing the uber driver.
ten minutes later an uber showed up and drove us to the hotel i told him to drive us to.
nari pov (at the hotel)
"gomabseubnida." jaemin and i thanked the driver with a bow before shutting the door.
the man smiled and waved us off.
we walked together up to the check in desk.
"annyeonghaseyo! what type of room can i get you?" the young man at the front desk asked us politely.
jaemin looked in his wallet for money and sighed.
"what's the cheapest option?" he asked.
"single bed and bath with mini kitchen or one night."
"okay, we'll take that." jaemin said, putting his money down.
"here is your room card, and enjoy your stay!" he handed jaemin the room card with a bunny like smile.
we took an elevator up to our room and walked down to the end of the hall.
i opened the door, room 𝟐𝟑𝟗, with the room card.
"hey i'm gonna take a shower, so you should probably call your cousin back now." i said, setting my phone on the bedside table.
"alright." he nodded and began calling his cousin.
i shut the bathroom door behind me and started up the shower.
before hopping in, i set out a towel, a robe, and my costume i had been wearing all day.
the mirror began fogging up and i got in.
fifteen minutes later
after putting on my robe, i brushed my hair with my fingers since i had no brush.
walking out of the bathroom, i froze seeing jaemin gone.
i looked around the room to find him anywhere.
my phone was still on the table. i grabbed it and opened the room door.
someone must've been in the room because i was pushed out the room into the hallway. i fell to the floor from the force. i got to my hands to stand up when someone stepped on my back, pinning me back down to the carpeted hallway.
"get her arms."
my arms were tied together and they picked me up off the floor.
the guy who was behind me ordered the three guys doing the work what to do.
i screamed and the people next door came out in the hallway to see what was going on.
a woman, maybe in her mid fifties, in a face mask, dressed in a blue silk robe, came out, alarmed.
before she could come any closer, the man with the nice eyebrows pulled out a shiny metal gun and shot her.
her body lay still on the ground, a bullet through her skull, blood running down from the ballistic trauma wound, down her cheeks onto the light blue carpeting which would leave a pretty noticeable stain.
"god damn it, you see what happens when you scream?!" the man who shot her scolded me.
"you stupid bitch. keep your mouth shut or that's gonna happen again." the one with the piercing threatened.
"okay okay!" i was shaking and short of breath.
"take her down to the pool room." the slightly-older one ordered two of the boys. (baekhyun & kino)
i looked back and caught a quick glimpse of the other two dragging the poor lady's body back into her room.
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in the pool room, were some chairs and tables, towels, and a rectangle shape pool and that was about it.
they made me sit down in a chair and we all sat there in silence for a few minutes until the sound of footsteps entered the room.
i didn't dare turn back to look so i remained seated, eyes fixed on the pool resting calmly in front of me.
"guys let's go." the bunny lookin guy walked in, the guys dragging me along with them.
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edited: mar.09.19-mar.13.19
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