Duality | Monsta X [√]

By myshatae

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During the day they were students of a prestigious university, but at night, something else. The seven cute b... More

Intro
Perlude
1: The English club
2: An unexpected event
3: Man with the eyebrow piercing
4: Something they are not
5: Biggest mistake
6: Danger
7: The start
8: Swirling emotions
9: The anger within
10: Issues
11: All I see
12: The craziest day
13: An interest sparks
14: Answers
15: The whale takes you
16: Let the pain out
17: Two sides
18: Getting used to
19: Late autumn afternoon
20: Answers
22: Like the movies
23: Different
24: Someone to lean on
25: Burning sensation
26: Eight of us
27: Crushing cigarettes
28: Drunk in you
29: Developing feelings
30: Christmas night
31: Shit going down
32: Forever with you
33: When the clock strikes twelve
34: A kiss in the dark
35: Everything goes
36: Eternal darkness
37: Gone
38: Until we are completed
39 (final pt 1): Everlasting memories
40 (final pt 2): The Clan club
a/n + reflection
bonus chapter : see you again

21: The fleeting moments

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By myshatae

My heart is pounding tonight
I wonder if you're too good to be true

-Sweet night, V

Inside the shooting place it was nothing extravagant, in fact, it was quite a small room with nothing but plain white walls, some rack holders of cloths and other props that could be added to the photoshoot. But it was my first ever time watching one as Hyungwon stood by my side with a chin on his hand and his other folded to his chest.

"Sunbae, is this alright?" Our model who was called Seonghwa said with a polite smile as he held up the guilty beer bottle on his hand, the pink one. He had been asking Hyungwon for advises since the start.

I did not know the tall latter was actually renowned on this side of the business.

"Yeah. Another jacket shooting with the blue bottles and I think we will be done," Hyungwon nodded affirmatively and looked towards the photographer who nodded back at him.

"Shownu and Wonho are coming to pick us up," Hyungwon then stared down at me. What about Kihyun, I almost asked but stopped myself.

After working with Kihyun on this project his little moody face was already encrypted in his mind. And I kind of missed his snarky little comments- well, whatever the hell am I thinking here.

"Bummer, the old man calling me at this odd of a time," Hyungwon sighed by my side as he looked at his ringing phone on his hand. Shutting it down he put it back on his jean's pocket.

I did not want to make a remark on this, albeit I couldn't stop myself from making one. "Your dad?"

The long haired one silently looked at me for a brief second. "Yeah. He calls me once in a month to ask for money now that I have bought all his shares."

There was no expression on his face, his eyes dead and blank. But I could hear the grim tone on his voice and I remembered what Wonho had told me once before. Almost all of them were detached from their families.

"I don't have a dad. He was never in the picture," I did not know what I was thinking when I said that. Perhaps, a part of me wanted to console him. Or perhaps I wanted to feel connected to him.

Hyungwon's eyes got a little wide before they retreated back to their old space. "I know," he said in a small voice. "And it's okay."

Okay to not to have a dad? But I always thought there was something humiliating being a bastard. When I always left a blank space for my father's name, or when people asked why I was bearing my mother's surname, I always ignored.

Because no one would understand. But it seems like he did, they did.

Sound of footsteps approached us and Hyungwon cleared his throat before concentrating on Seonghwa.

Wonho and Shownu came stood by our sides. I gave a nod of acknowledgment to them as Shownu smiled and Wonho stretched his arms. "Looks like the photoshoot is almost done," he said with a laugh and looked at me. A black beanie on top of his head, and his full attire dark.

"Hiding your hair?" I questioned and he gave me a look of awe before pouting to himself.

"Everyone stares at me. This is the brightest hair color I ever had!"

Because you look attractive- I almost rolled my eyes but did not so. "Because the pink hair looks good on you."

"You think so?" Wonho laughed giddily again. Hyungwon sighed beside me. "He's just fishing for compliments," the latter retorted.

"I'm not," with another giggle Wonho pulled off his beanie revealing his bright bubblegum hair. And the room started to look brighter than it already was.

"Daisy, do you want to go on a walk with me outside?" Shownu peered his head from Wonho's side and I did not know what he was thinking, but the little scrunch on his nose and the crinkles on his eyes with his smile made me say yes almost the very second.

"Call me when you guys have wrapped up," Shownu said to Hyungwon and Wonho, giving them both short glances.

Later I had followed him outside the building where the streets of Gangnam were bustling, evening had fallen on the city and the dark of night had started to claw it's way in, but everything only came alive with it. The strangers on the side of the streets walking briskly and talking to their partners boisterously.

The lights had started to go up, wrapping the stores alongside the road in a happy and celebratory look. Shownu stopped before one of them, a bakery before he held the door for me and motioned me to go outside with a smile.

So I obliged and immediately the fresh scent of the baked goods, the charming yet calm atmosphere, the colorful pastries and the baked loaves of bread, and the walls and the employees decorated in brown and black greeted me.

Inside there were just as many people but among all of them Shownu glowed the brightest even in his grey and dull overcoat.

His face lit up just like the lights on the streets of Gangnam as he watched the sweets under the glass tables with adoration. "If you can't tell already I have a knack for eating sweets, scratch that I have a knack for eating food in general. But I do have a sweet tooth," he turned to me.

"I actually don't like sweets that much," and I immediately regretted saying that because the passion on his face fell and got replaced with stress and sadness.

He chewed on his bottom lip thinking hard. "But I wanted to buy you a cake for your hard work, and..., this is my favourite place for cakes."

"But their pretzels look just as fine," I immediately spoke up. "And I love pretzels. I'm hungry on top of that."

In that short second his face lit up like a bulb once again, as if I had turned on a switch. "How about churros and hot chocolate? They make amazing of those too."

I nodded feigning an excitement. Which led him to buy churros, pretzels, donuts, brownies, and a two-pound cake which he said he bought for the boys.

There were not any chairs to sit but there were tables alongside the glass walls of the shop and many customers were standing there enjoying their goodies. Shownu and I did the same. While dipping his churros in the chocolate and then shoving them in his mouth he made the most expressive faces I'd ever seen on him.

I could see that he really liked his food. "Thank you for the treat," I said as I bit on mine, first it was crunchy but then the chocolate melted inside my mouth and the sweet yet a little bitter taste spread on my tastebuds.

"You've worked hard," he grinned with that, his eyes crinkling again and chocolate on his tooth. I almost laughed but focused on the hot mug on my hand instead.

"My father used to take me here when I was a kid. They made the best ever Christmas cakes so on that joyous day we knew where to get our cakes from," Shownu said to himself but I noticed that he had stopped eating. One of his churros laid inside his chocolate in neglect. A melancholy in his eyes.

"On snowy Christmas evenings I'd come here with my father to take our cake that we had ordered a few days ago. It was one of the most anticipated events of my life."

With his grim face it felt like the atmosphere around us had gotten dreary too. I could not help but feel my heart breaking while looking at the tall man.

"I'm sorry about your father... I heard from Kihyun what happened to him a year ago."

He looked up at me with nostalgia written on his eyes but he smiled again. "Things happen... But I'm still determined to find out the killer."

"Have you gotten any clue?" I asked but he shrugged in response.

"Not yet. But let's enjoy the food first," he took out the churro from his mug only to see it sag, then break in half and fall on the little ocean of chocolate again.

Shownu looked at me with the broken stick on his hand and instantly broke into a fit of giggles. I could not help too, for the first time in what it felt like years, I was laughing my heart out.

"Excuse me," in the middle of the laughter I fished out my phone from my hoodie's pocket noticing that it had been vibrating for some time. Seeing that it was from an unknown number I decided to ignore but changed my mind the last second.

When I held the phone up to my ear a concerned male voice greeted me. The furrow on my brows slowly dissolved but my hands had started shaking, I put down the food on the table before us and grabbed my phone with both my hands in despair.

The call was short but I had listened to what it was. My head went blank and there was a buzzing sound vibrating in my eardrums blocking out all the others. I did not know when I had put my phone down or when Shownu was grabbing me by the shoulders.

Seconds later I came to be to find the vibrating sound dying down and only Shownu's voice reaching to me. His eyes big and face closer to mine, his hands lightly shaking my shoulders. "Daisy, look at me. Can you hear me? What's wrong?"

"My mom... in the hospital," I could merely say.

The sky had fallen down on me and the realization had hit me, that maybe, happiness was just not meant for me. That is why I was always afraid to be happy because it's fleeting and when it's gone only sadness can come.

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A/n: this is by far my most favourite chapter I think.

I changed the title of this book to 'duality' that's what it was supposed to be when I first got the idea of the book more than a year ago.

Also I've started a new BTS story called young and free and I'd be v glad if you checked it out <3

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