ᏗᏒᏒᏗᏁᎶᏋᎴ ᎷᏗᏒᏒᎥᏗᎶᏋ (Jihoon x Reader x Daniel) Wanna One

Chapter 29 ♔

I looked up at Daniel and saw him frozen in shock. His eyes were glued on the screen like some sort of magnet.

A few seconds later, he snapped out of it and immediately pressed the power button, turning off the computer.

He then hesitantly turned his head towards me, "J-Jagi...h-how did you find this?"

I stared back at him with no emotion, "I just happened to find it while I was cleaning."

I purposely left out the part with Aunt Linda...I could get in serious trouble if I exposed her.

Who knows what she could do to me...especially when we're home alone together.

He gulped, "I-I see...well...just forget about this okay? Pretend you never saw it. Now c'mon, let's go downstairs. You must be hungry." he said and tried to reach out for my hand, but I pulled away.

"No Daniel. Don't touch me. And don't change the topic either. Give me a proper explanation...why did you lie to me about dating Kelly? And why would you film a video like this?"

He stayed silent and looked away.

Part of me wished he would give a legitimate excuse. Like maybe he wasn't the one in the video...maybe I'm just mistaking him for someone else

...or maybe this whole thing is just one big dream.

No...a nightmare. I wished that this was just a silly nightmare that I would wake up from.

I tried pinching myself just to make sure, and sure enough, nothing happened. I was wide awake and this was reality.

Daniel's silence didn't make me feel better either. The tense atmosphere in the room was killing me.

Suddenly, I could feel tears welling up in my eyes, "Daniel..please say something, anything. Tell me I'm mistaken...that this is just a misunderstanding! Please, just say anything!"

His eyes widened in shock as he saw me crying and ran towards me, engulfing me into a tight hug.

This time, I couldn't refuse him.

"J-Jagi..please don't cry..it's breaking my heart," he softly said as he stroked my hair.

I scoffed and grabbed his shirt, "It's breaking your heart?! How do you think I feel?! After seeing my fiancé's sextape and being lied to??!"

"Shh please calm down...let me explain," he whispered and continued stroking my hair.

I nodded and continued sobbing onto his shirt, still in his embrace.

"Unfortunately, that video is real. It is me and Kelly in that video.."

I gritted my teeth and held his shirt even tighter...I knew it.

He continued, "However, that video is very old. It was filmed almost 4 years ago...when me and Kelly were freshmen in college. She was my girlfriend back then...and we were pretty serious. I never originally wanted to film a video like this, and neither did Kelly. But we were stupid kids...we got mixed into the wrong friend group and they pressured us to film a video. They offered us $10,000 dollars each if we filmed the video...and we were broke college kids back then. We had to pay our tuition and living expenses some way. So we had no other choice but to film it...they also threatened to spread nasty rumours about my parent's company if I didn't listen to them. I didn't want others to get hurt by my decisions...so we decided to film it."

I stayed quiet for a few seconds as I processed his words.

So they were peer pressured?