drowning || bang chan

• nine •

Kat walked to her locker to get her sports clothes and then continued her walk to dance class.

She was in her own thoughts, not paying any attention to what was happening around her.

She ended having bumped into someone because of this, "Sorry." she said quietly and bowed apologetically without caring to see who it was that she had bumped into.

"Katerina?" she heard a familiar voice say.

"Oh, Seungmin. Hey." she replied looking up to finally see that it was Seungmin.

"Are you okay? You seem a little out of it." he asked, concerned, since she normally had her happy, go-lucky personality when she was in public, especially at school.

"Yeah, don't worry." she responded quickly and then basically ran to the girl's changing rooms to avoid further confrontation.

Seungmin stood there for a second wondering what was going on and then continued on his way to the boy's changing room. He could always ask again when they were in the lesson.

***

The boys all sat together in the corner observing Katerina as she danced intently to Love Shot by Exo.

They knew something was up since she was dancing with an expressionless look on her face, which she never normally does.

Despite the movements being flawless and flowing perfectly, showing her talent for dance, there was something off about it.

"Hey, Changbin," Chan whispered "did Kat say anything to you about anything?"

"Nothing, she hasn't really spoken. I think someone said she skipped math class too." he quietly responded.

Hearing that not even Changbin knew why Kat was acting like this, Chan decided he would be the first to take action.

He walked over to Kat and held her by the shoulders from behind. She looked into the mirror at Chan with a blank stare on her face. He smiled, and pushed her by her shoulders over to one of the benches and sat her down.

He handed her a bottle of water and then crouched down in front of her.

"Kat." he spoke calmly.

She hummed in response while she took a sip of the water.

"Please talk to me." he sighed.

"What's there to talk about?" she responded bluntly.

"Kat, don't do that."

"Do what?"

"That."

"Chan?"

"Yeah?" he said higher pitched at hearing her say his name.

"Wanna have a party?" she suddenly asked.

"What?" he was caught off guard. Why would she suddenly have a party?

"Do. You. Want. To. Have. A. Party?" she said again.

"Why do you wanna do that so suddenly? And what about your dad?" he questioned.

"It's fine. We'll have it tonight after school." she responded nonchalantly.