Invisible String| WinTeam

CHAPTER-31

As he walked in the classroom already filled with most of the students, Team couldn't help but feel like the world was coming to an end. He couldn't help but feel like he was short of breath. He wasn't dying, at least not at that moment. He took a seat as he prepared himself for the lesson. Time didn't go quickly but it didn't go that slow either as he thought and thought about what just happened.

2 hours earlier:

"Hey Team." Pearl smiled at Team as he looked at the person saying his name. He had an early class and he came even earlier to have some iced americano before his class began.

"Hi." He spoke awkwardly.

"Hey, I really hope we can get along and um.... I hope you don't mind me being his.... best friend."

"I really don't mind."

"Look. I was just shocked 'cause Win is such a player you know? I mean.... he was such a player. I was mad at him for-" She waved her hand in front of her face as he gave Team a small smile.

"It's nothing."

"No, you can tell me. Whatever it is, you can tell me."

"Ah.... he slept with my sister and it's just like..... so weird 'cause she's my sister and well.... I am sure he's loyal to you."

"Oh." Although Team knew how Win was like, it was as if it finally sinked in. Team wouldn't get mad at him though, he would just feel sad for a few seconds and go on with his life.

"Wait." Team spoke again.

"Yeah?"

"When did he s-sleep with your sister?"

"Oh... it was around October or something?"

October was the month they started dating...

"Oh." Team spoke.

"I'm sorry, ugh I should not have done that."

"And..... have the two of you.......you know?" Team hoped with everything in him that at least, he didn't do it with Pearl.

"Team........"

"I think that answers my question."

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Team was in the changing room. He was deliberately late for swimming practice but now that he was there, he decided not to go outside. He sat on the same bench where Win had once fed him Pharm's desert by his own hand. He tried to move but something about the day he was having made him feel so exhausted that he just sat there without moving.

It was only inevitable that Win came into the room a minute or two later. He probably came to check why Team was late or to check if he was in the room at all. Team would've thought it was sweet a day ago but now he just felt nothing. He could feel the older approaching him but he didn't raise his head to see him.

"Hey, why are you sitting here? Is everything okay?"

"I don't know."

"Are you not feeling well?"

"You cheated on me. You really cheated on me." Team finally looked up to see him.

"What? What the hell are you talking about?" Win tried to hold his arm but Team pushed him away.

"Pearl told me about you.......and her sister. And oh, she also told me about you and her."

"I didn't cheat on you." Win spoke calmly.

"It was in october."

"Yeah it was the first week of october and we started dating in the last week of october."

"Wow. And that is supposed to make me feel okay?" Team was more angry than sad now. "If you really liked me before we started dating, you wouldn't have slept with your best friend's sister which is really weird by the way but it's you, so of course you didn't even leave your best friend's sister alone. I might not be someone who dates a lot but even I know that that is not how relationships work." Win's expression showed that he was in a lot of pain but Team honestly did not care at the moment. He was so tired of bad things happening to him and for the first time ever, he had hoped that things would be perfect but of course, they were not.

"Why are you listening to other people? Just listen to me. I love you and that's it." Win's voice grew louder as he placed a hand over his own head.

"You clearly have so many people. I don't even understand why you need me? Or maybe you just like to make a fool out of me."

"Team.... don't say that."

"I was so stupid to think that you were ever serious about us. It's all my fault-" Win suddenly grabbed Team's arm aggressively pushing the younger towards himself but Team used all his energy to pull himself away from Win.

"Don't touch me," Team said, his voice dangerously low. "Don't be at the apartment tomorrow between 10 o' clock and 12 o' clock. I'll come to pick up my stuff." Team picked up his bag as he left the room without sparing a single glance at Win.

There were still five minutes left for the swimming practice to be over. He sighed in relief as no one had interrupted them. He didn't want others to know how pathetic he had been to believe that someone like Win could ever love him.