"Lucas please! Let's stop tonight! I'm so tired!" I complained to Lucas, trying to catch my breath as I lay down inside the ring.
"Okay fine! Let's continue tomorrow then." Lucas said, wiping his sweat.
"No, not with you! I want Jungwoo!" I stick my tongue out at him. I walked out of the ring and went towards Chenle and Jisung. We rested inside the room for awhile before going upstairs to the kitchen. Jaewook and Johnny were there eating. The three of us sat and started to eat too. I can feel someone staring at me while I was eating.
"You like what you're seeing Johnny?" I stopped eating and looked at him. I raised my brow at him and he cleared his throat.
"I was just wondering why you're not being bitchy about the distance thing you always mention." He commented. I rolled my eyes and continued to eat.
"Well, that's a long time ago. I still hold a grudge on you but the condition is kind of useless now don't you think?" I chuckled. He smirked, I gave Chenle my plate since he volunteered to do the dishes. I waited for Jisung and Chenle to finish then part ways. I showered and didn't bother to dry my hair before sleeping since I was too tired.
Minutes turned into hours and I still can't sleep. I groaned and rolled off the bed. I went out of my room and headed downstairs to the kitchen. I opened the cabinet to see if there's any milk I can warm up. I found two jugs of milk and went on to pour myself one before warming it up. While waiting for the milk, Lucas suddenly appeared in my view. I shrieked and he did too.
"Can't you turn on the lights?!" Lucas harshly whispered while taking out food from the cabinet.
I shrugged, "I thought everyone was asleep that's why I didn't bother." Lucas sat on the high stool and ate whatever he was having. He ate in silence as I wait for the milk. The microwave let out a 'ding' and I grabbed the mug then pulled out the plug.
Lucas decided to break the silence, "You can't sleep?" I nodded in reply.
"What about you?"
"I normally sleep at two or three in the morning." He said, I gaped at him.
"Really? How come your skin is still flawless? That's just unfair." I drank my milk and wiped my upper lip.
Lucas chuckled and teased, "It's a gift. A gift you won't ever have."
"Ouch. I won't even dream of having a gift like that. Sometimes I think it's troublesome."
"Yeah... it is." He looked down at his food and picked on it.
I pursed my lips, "Did I... somehow triggered a bad memory?"
"You want to know? If I say something about it then you have to share something too." I smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up.
"Okay. I'll start... When I was 10, my parents died. My aunt took me in, she wasn't exactly welcoming but figured I could be of use because of how I look. She... used me to earn money and to put food on our table. I was used every weekend after school, they would come to the house looking like my aunt's friends and would do things to me." I stayed silent while drinking the milk.
He continued talking, looking straight at me. "I was being 'disobedient' to one of them one night so she scratched my face. My aunt kicked her out but it didn't heal throughout the weekend so it was visible when I went to school. My teacher saw this and immediately asked me and I, of course, lied to her but she was persistent and called the police to question my aunt. A neighbor of us decided to testify against her since he was suspicious about the people visiting the house every weekend. My aunt went to prison, I went to live with our neighbor because he decided to adopt me, and it was the best five years of my life. My aunt served only five years and decided to go on a killing spree at the school I'm in. Dad- no, Mr. Wong was a teacher there and he was killed right in front of my eyes along with my friends. The bitch had the nerve to laugh then killed herself in front of me before telling me that I deserve to be alone in this world. I stayed there until the officers arrived, my life went downhill from there on. If it wasn't for Kun then I would've been dead a long tine ago. It's a cheesy thing to say but, Kun saved me."
I smiled at him and finished the milk. "I'm glad he saved you."
He smiled in return and pointed his finger at me, "Hey, it's your turn now."
I rolled my eyes at his remark, "I know. Well, you know parents died and my brother, who I thought was dead, was actually alive but now dead. I was given to a good couple, the Song's were the parents you wished for. They were loving, caring and all that stuff but I decided to run away from them. Why? Because I thought I don't deserve them. When I was in 5th grade, I got into trouble because some of my classmates thought it was a good idea to make fun of someone who can't bear a child. It didn't exactly matter to me if they bully me because I was adopted, I simply don't care. But, when they involved my adoptive parents, I snapped. Every single one of my classmates who insulted my adoptive mom were injured. That's where this 'delinquent' side of me came to life. A year and a half after the incident, I ran away from them, from a life everyone would've wanted."
"Is that why you said it's not a good thing when the news probably assumed you were dead, right?" I nodded.
"They wanted to visit and talk to me in the detention facility but I refused every time. I was too ashamed to face them."
Silence filled the kitchen. The both of us were stayed still, reminiscing over the good memories.
"Have you... have you ever thought of starting a new life? You know, new identity in some other country." I asked him. He stared at me and I chuckled.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Did my question surprised you?" I put my chin over my hand. We were having a staring contest.
"No, I'm surprised we thought the same thing. For me, it's hard to do that. I'm not being arrogant, but I can't start a new life with this face. For you though, it's not too late."
The two of us stared at each other again. I sighed and turned my back to him to wash the mug. I remembered that we were going to Key's tomorrow.
"Lucas, are you coming with us tomorrow?" Lucas was beside me, washing his own dish. He shook his head.
"Taeyong talked to Jungwoo and I because of that but we declined. We didn't want the mood to become sour since Key doesn't know us. It would just be you, Jaewook, Taeyong, Jaehyun and Doyoung on the trip. Everyone else isn't allowed to go out of the house tomorrow." He explained and we dried our hands with the tissue.
We went back to our rooms after cleaning up. We bid each other 'goodnight'.
"It's not too late huh."
YO ITS ME. OMGEE DAYS AGO THE STORY JUST HAD LIKE 800 READS AND NOW ITS MORE THAN 1.2K READS!!! I'M MORE SURPRISED PEOPLE READ MY STORY
ANYWAY, its somehow a short chapter. I'll try to update on jaehyun's birthday since i got no date on that day #single
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