EMBERS • HAECHAN (Not Finished Yet)

Chapter 48

A second time this day I buried my face in my own skared hands and cried out loud. I could already feel the warmth rise up in my cheeks at the mere thought, meanwhile hoping the colour would disappear as quickly as possible.

Hesitantly, I put my hand on the door handle and pushed it down before I set foot in the big hall shortly after. Automatically, my eyes wandered around the area until they caught onto my three pretty friends who were once again sitting at a table with the seven boys.
I guess I should get used to it...

"Oh, you're joining us today?" I heard Jaemin's cocky voice and I would have loved to just turn around and leave right there. These few words alone caused an unpleasant shiver to run down my spine and I couldn't prevent an annoyed snort to leave my lips.

Although the voice of the pink haired student didn't sound any different than the other day, he himself looked less distant and sinister than he did a few weeks ago. If I was honest, none of them made an intimidating impression anymore and rather looked like the average high school student.

There wasn't that much time that had passed so what the hell happened? Even Soyeon seemed to be quite calm and relaxed, even though the girl hated the seven of them just as much as I did.

I was about to answer Jaemin that I had only come because of Donghyuck, but I immediately held myself back from saying any ot that. Surely someone would ask the question why I was searching for him, Soyeon probably ending up suspecting me of something that was probably right. 

I sighed inwardly instead and took the empty space between Chenle and Mark, trying not to pout in frustration.

My heart automatically started to beat faster when I found myself in the middle of their small group, but since it was not as intense as it felt towards Wonwoo, I barely even noticed it.

It was as if my inner iceberg, formed by hatred and anger, was gradually beginning to melt, slowly but surely disappearing with each moment that it remained exposed to the sun.
I was well aware of everything going on inside me, but I still didn't want it to happen. Instead, I tried to keep the iceberg in the shade as best I could, hoping that I could somehow prevent the process from continuing.

"Where were we?" Renjun ignored my moody aura and turned to Momo who was sitting right next to him.

Only now did I notice that the girls were quite scattered within the group instead of sitting together. Had they already become friends while I wasn't there? Did they really forget who exactly they were dealing with?

"The party", the black-haired girl tore me out of my question filled mind, whereupon Renjun nodded with a small smile on his face.

"Right, I'll just send you the address. The whole thing is probably going start aroud 7 or 8 pm, but he is going to give us more details later on."

I quickly interrupted their little conversation and raised one eyebrow, not knowing what the two of them were talking about. "Party?"

"Chenle's friend Felix is throwing a Halloween party at his place and he said we should invite a few people. It's in about two weeks."

Silently I nodded my head, my only thought that the idea of it was absolutely ridiculous. A Halloween party where people would most likely drink themselves into a coma, do stupid and dangerous shit, not to mention that the seven NCT members will be there.
It literally screamed for chaos and trouble.

"You're coming," it suddenly came from the person in front of me, gaining my attention with his monotonous and cold voice that seemed to appear every time he was in public.
The brunette had once again put on his emotionless facade, poking around in his food without even looking at me for a second.

I immediately frowned,wondered if I had misheard him. "Excuse me?"

Clearly annoyed, although I wasn't sure where his sudden moody attitude came frome, Donghyuck sighed deeply, dropped his fork on his plate before crossing his arms in front of his chest and leaning back in his chair.
His dark chocolate eyes locked directly onto mine, nearly piercing their way through the back of my head

"You are coming," he repeated his words, still staring at me sinisterly as if I was the reason for his weird mood swing. However, I skilfully ignored the dirty look he gave me, laughing ironically instead before I crossing my arms as well.

"I'm sorry, but if you want me to come, I certainly won't."

"We'll see."

I hissed quietly and shook my head, still narrowing my eyes at the older. The boy really couldn't leave me alone for even a second. If it wasn't for my damn phone, I wouldn't be here in the first place.

"Last time I was only joking", Renjun interrupted our little chit chat, trying to surpress the amused grin that was slowly creeping up on his face, "but now I'm pretty sure there's something going on between you two."

Still trying to prevent himself from laughing, his look reflected exactly the opposite emotion that Soyeon was immediately showing towards me.
The girl shot her head in my direction in the same second and raised her eyebrows critisizin before she tried to end my life with a dire killer look.

"Shut the fuck up," I looked over at the boy, a wave of rage shooting through my own body, making my innumerable nerves tingle. "Him and me? I'd rather run into a burning building than let this happen."

"Ouch," it now came from Jisung, who laughingly scrunched his small nose and patted the older on his back to give him moral support. "That's rough buddy."

"Again", Donghyuck kept his dark eyes on me, slightly tilting his head to the side, "we'll see about that."

Ooofff... I really don't know what happened in this chapter💀 I'm so sorry

Anyways, StrayKids dropped the video to tree of their tracks and I lowkey stopped breathing as I watched it😂😔✊🏼
I already know that I will listen to 'We Go' nonstop🔥

Have a great day everyone💚💚