Acceleration [Book 1]

31: Heart Talk

⊱⋅ ─ 31: HEART TALK

Someone knocked at the door, and they clicked it open, a glass of water in one hand.

"Hey, Jakob?" They heard Jeongin as they saw him come in, "Minho asked me to bring a glass of water for Alpha Wolf and-" Jeongin halted in a trance, seeing Chan and Jakob in that same position, "Did I come at a wrong time?" He nearly stuttered as he took a few steps back.

Chan discarded himself from Jakob and stood up, then he approached Jeongin and replied a groggy, "No," then he drank the water in one go, "thanks for the water, Baby Fox." The older male said as he patted Jeongin's head.

"Aren't you going to welcome Felix?" Jeongin shakily asked, eyes casted down to the floor, "You've been avoiding him ever since he came back." Jeongin took the glass and didn't wait for Chan to answer, he knew then that Chan would decline the suggestion, so why would he even bother to wait for Chan's answer?

As Jeongin left the room, Jakob turned to Chan with a sheepish chuckle, "That was kind of rude," he commented as he scratched the back of his head.

"No, he has the right to be mad with me," Chan said, unbuckling his belt, catching Jakob off guard. "I'm just gonna take a bath, sober up a little," he said as he took a towel from the drawer by the entrance of the bathroom, "How about you go and join the others?" Chan suggested as he peered over at Jakob.

"I'll stay here," answered Jakob, the man looking through the window in Chan's room, seeing everyone dancing and cheering, Felix in the center of it all with Baekhyun.

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With a final cheer from his friends, while others raised their cups filled with alcohol, Felix bowed and thanked everyone who cheered him on during the dance, he went to a log that was vacant and sat there, Baekhyun followed and the two of them exhaled from all the excitement they felt during and after the dance.

"Well, for sure, you could've been picked up from the streets and be a performer," Baekhyun humored to which Felix laughed, shaking his head at the thought of dancing at a dance bar for men and women, probably getting money not even just from the audience but also from his boss, but the possibilities were too small anyway, so it's a funny thought.

Baekhyun stood up to get them more drinks and something to eat. While Felix was watching the others dance, he felt a sudden urge to turn his attention to something else, but it was the entrance of the villa, and lo and behold, he saw Jeongin getting out, rather in an angered rush. He saw Jeongin walk to Seungmin with heavy steps and his hands clenched, this worried Felix, especially when Jeongin clung to Seungmin and rested his head on the spectacled male's shoulder.

He couldn't help, but stare worriedly, even when there were people blocking his view, not even when the music was getting louder, and not even when Baekhyun had brought drinks and food to their place.

"You okay?" Baekhyun asked as he slightly shook Felix's shoulder, hauling Felix out of his trance.

Nodding his head slowly, he replied, "Yeah, I'm okay."

For the first time at that moment, Jeongin and Felix's eyes met, they stared for a few seconds as if they were both talking to each other without any words exchanged, then the first to look away was Jeongin, and something in Felix told him that he needed to talk to him.

"Hey, eat up," Baekhyun said as he handed a plate of roast pork to Felix, Felix turned to Baekhyun and started to eat up. "So, about the Fakes," Baekhyun began after downing half of his beer, "they seem human, they have a couple layers of flesh, then under are those crazy machinery, engines, cameras, trackers and every other stuff I still couldn't understand," he explained and took a big slice of pork, "turns out we need another sample since our first sample was confiscated."