Just Enemies (KornxWai)

5. Just enemies

***Korn's POV***

I see him arriving and let out a frustrated sigh. He's visibly weak but as he is stubborn as well he couldn't stay home. I swear if anything happens to him during practice I'm going to let him suffer alone, enough with the hero syndrome. Why would I keep treasuring his life if he doesn't? 

He chooses the furthest place from me and Pat, which I'm used to. If he could practice from the other side of the field and never interact with us, I assured you he would. Pat looks at me and starts laughing about Wai's condition, and as much as I don't want to, I fake a laugh, I got to. 

I don't know how this team still exists when clearly we all hate each other, but let's just say that we are very good players. All of us, even though I don't like them at all I have to admit that if we worked as a team all the championships would be won by us. But we never do, we always end up fighting in the field and the other teams use our problems to make us lose. We're the ones to blame, but it's a lost fight that not even the coach wants to win anymore. He just does his best to don't lose his job. 

We start running and as usual Pat and Pran start running as if their life depended on that. I swear if I didn't know better I'd say they were dating or something similar, but that's clearly impossible since they don't miss an opportunity to try to kill each other. I notice Wai running alone and slow my pace to match his. 

"You should be resting. Please be careful today, you know how aggressive the practices get sometimes." I startle him without wanting. He looks at me and it almost seems like he's cursing my entire family. He has the ability to curse with his eyes which is very scary sometimes. 

He ignores me, as always. You're the one to blame Korn! Why the hell are you so worried about him? You should have your head checked cause since that fight you're clearly not yourself. I regret my sudden act and try to brush it aside by starting to run faster until I catch my friends.

I was almost finishing my second lap when I notice Wai starting to slow down and fold himself, I know he is about to faint, again, and if he hits his head, again, that won't be good. Pran is too busy racing against Pat to acknowledge the suffering in his best friend's eyes. What a shitty lover. 

Once again my acts make me believe that I'm just trying to get myself killed at this point. I change the course of my run and do my best to catch him before he falls down. He closes his eyes and I know that the sounds are confusing him and making him even dizzier. 

"Korn, what are you doing? Let him suffer." A guy from my group says. 

"Korn! Wai!" Pat and Pran shout at the same time and start to make their way toward us. 

I ignore everyone and raise Wai putting my arm around his waist and putting his arm around my neck so I can help him walk to the locker room. Everyone is puzzled by my actions, but not more than I am. It's like an inner fight between my conscience and my ego. I know Pat will give me the scold of the century and Pran will probably hate me even more. 

"I'll take him to lay a bit coach and get him water. Will be back as soon as he's better." The coach nods and all my teammates are judging me, but luckily no one makes anything to stop me. I take my cue and kinda run to the locker room.

I lay him on a bench and go back to lock the door. I know how crazy these guys are and I don't want anyone barging inside out of the blue. He's not in a good condition to deal with that kind of trouble and I'm too worried about him to care about myself. This is so stupid! I can't understand why I am always drawn to him like a magnet. Why do his safety and health concern me? It doesn't make sense because we're enemies. Just enemies.

I put a cold piece of cloth on his forehead and wait for him to have enough strength to grab it. But he slaps my hand instead and tries to open his eyes. 

"Keep your eyes closed for a while. I told you to be careful, why are you so stubborn?" 

Why is he's trying to fight me even though right now a fly would be stronger than him? He's so irritating sometimes. 

"Why are you here? Am I not fragile enough? Are you having fun?" The frustration in his voice just makes me want to beat him. 

"Just shut up, every time you speak only nonsense comes out of your mouth. Do you imagine how many people are ready to beat me outside of that door? Not only your little lover but also my friends will hate me for helping you. I don't even know why the hell I'm doing this, I'm literally playing with fire right now. I must be crazy, you drive me crazy. So no, I'm not having fun, I have my head at a price and I'm trying to help someone who clearly prefers to keep throwing shade at me."

I fight the urge to punch him, so I end up letting all my rage out by punching the wall. It will hurt tomorrow but right now with all the feelings overwhelming me, I don't feel any sort of physical pain. I feel so mad with myself, I have a whole team planning my funeral because this stupid kid somehow makes me forget to use my brain every time he is near me. And the worst is that I don't know anymore if I actually hate him, I don't know anything about me when it concerns him. 

I sit on the bench right in front of him, but when I'm about to finally relax a bit I see him struggling to get up, and once more my useless brain doesn't stop me from almost running to him to help him. I try to avoid eye contact cause I'm very confused and I'm afraid of myself and my lack of control right now. 

"Thank you. Can you please open my locker? I have there your stuff in a black bag." My stuff? Oh...don't tell me I actually left the keys and the wallet on the raincoat? Well, at least they aren't lost. I open it and take only the keys and the wallet. I'm confused about why he simply didn't ask anyone else to deliver them to me. 

Guess I'm not the only one fighting his conscience, not gonna lie I'm happy about it. I leave there the raincoat, not because it's torn but because deep down, as much as I hate to admit I want him to keep it, even though he probably just will throw it away.

"Thank you for not throwing my stuff away. You're alive, I'm glad. Drink plenty of water and maybe go home after this. You need to rest. I gotta go and find a way to get out of here alive."

I start to walk towards the door and brace myself for whatever is gonna happen as soon as I step outside. Suddenly a cold hand grabs my arm and it sends me on edge. All the feelings I've trying to ignore since ever are fighting their way out and I feel my body starting to shiver. 

Our eyes lock and for the first time I see something more than hate, I see care and worry. I fight hard the sudden urge to hug him. My heart is beating so hard that I'm afraid it will explode anytime. I can feel the surprise in his eyes from his sudden act. I know I'm not the only one totally losing control here but I'm very afraid to unveil whatever is trying to come to the surface, and I know that he is too. 

"Korn your hand is bleeding." He shakes his head and regains control over himself while I'm here completely lost and without knowing what to do or think. "Let me repay your kindness today."

He leaves me and walks to the door unlocking it. Is he trying to repay my kindness but trying to get me beaten? There goes all my hope in that boy, I should've known better, there's no way he would actually help-

"And you still talk about girls? What the hell are you all doing here looking like enraged wolves prepared to jump into each other's throats? Do it if you want next time but no one beats me or Korn today, save it for another day. Korn, let's go I don't want to waste more time than needed with you."

My jaw drops the second he opens his mouth scolding the whole team. I never thought I would live to the day when I would see the weakest guy of the architecture faculty shutting up both gangs. I'm so surprised and astonished that I just pick up both of our bags and walk behind him like he's my master. Everyone is so stunned that no one reacts. This man doesn't even acknowledge what he did but...

One thing is certain after today Pat will hate us both, and Wai will probably be more respected among his group. Hell yeah, even I will respect him much more.

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Hope you are liking the story. What will Pat do after this? Will he be at ease or cause more trouble to Wai? Will Wai discover that Pat and Pran are dating?

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