• CRUSH •

Chapter: 5

"Hey, you, the quiet one!" Someone yelled. I couldn't quite identify to who the voice belonged to. As I turned around I received a punch to the face, making me stumble to the floor.

I looked up to see Mark Lee and two other people standing there. As I glanced over to the two others, I noticed they were Mark's friends, Johnny and Ten.

Y'all I'm sorry, I love all three of them, I really do.

Before I could react, another punch was thrown. I groaned in pain as I held my cheek. He continuously kicked me in the stomach, I knew I was too weak to fight back, so I just let him keep going.

I glanced over at Johnny and Ten, they just stood there watching as Mark beat the living shit out of me. He pulled me up by my hair and hit me a couple more times in the face. I felt the blood drip from my nose.

He threw me back to the floor and spat in my face, "That'll teach you to mess with my cousin." I laid there on the floor, a few tears dripping down my face.

I got up and quickly wiped the tears away. I started running towards the bathroom, ignoring the immense pain I felt. Once I got there I made sure no one was in there before I started cleaning up the blood on my face.

I tried my best to clean up the dirt and blood on my hoodie, but it was no use. I opened up my backpack and grabbed some concealer.

I applied it around my eye where there was a very noticeable black eye, and also on my arms. I looked in the mirror once I was done. I took a deep breath and then went to my first class of the day, science.

Luckily enough, none of my friends were in that class. This gave me enough time to come up with a good excuse for the cut on my lip and the black eye that was still slightly visible from under the concealer. I had math with Mingi, but luckily he didn't ask me about it.

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As I sat down at the lunch table, I was surprised to see that all of them had gotten there before me. But it made sense, considering I was limping and my whole body was aching, causing me to walk slower than usual.

"So you gonna tell us what happened, or do we have to force it out of you." Yunho raised his eyebrow as he crossed his arms. "Tell you about what?" I asked with a clueless face, I knew exactly what he was talking about.

"About the black eye and the cut on your lip." Seonghwa replied. "Oh, that, you see, I fell down while I was riding my bike to school." I looked down at my lap, feeling guilty for lying to my friends.

I didn't want them to get involved in the situation or get worried about me. "But I thought you didn't like riding your bike to school?" Wooyoung questioned. "I was short on money today, so I couldn't take the bus. You guys know how my mom leaves early in the morning for work, so I had no choice but to take my bike." I said genuinely, this story was actually true.

"Ok, we believe you, just know that if anything happens, you can always tell us." Mingi smiled. "Don't worry, I will." I smiled back.

Mark would beat me up at least three times a week, and I was starting to get good at covering up my injuries. I had once again been stopped by Mark before school.

But this time I couldn't take it, I felt myself slowly start to lose consciousness. But before I did, I heard a familiar voice yelling at Mark and the others.

"Get the fuck off him, you bastard!" Yelled the voice I had recognized to be Jongho's. Mark and the other two quickly ran off.

Again, I'm so, so, sorry. I literally love nct so much, these three are literally such cuties. They were just the first people that popped into my head, I'm sorryyyyyyy 😭🤚