𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 | 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧

#12 Following But Hidden

Jeongyeon's POV:

"Hey, Yoo Jeongyeon!" Going out of the van, I was stopped by Jeonghan. It's clearly night time when we finished our small session about the training.

"What is it?" If I will take few more steps, I could probably enter inside our gate now. If, this guy will just cut off his hands on my wrist.

"Stay safe." Staring at his features, it looks so sincere. I was about to go soft and do the same, but I realized that this guy would never be serious. Luckily, my senses woke me up and build its limits. It created boundary, which is actually needed when I'm facing Yoon Jeonghan.

"Tsk." I rolled my eyes, going out of the van and into our gate. I left him without any words, but it didn't affect me at all.

When the van made a sound, presuming that it already went away, my eyes searched for the girls as they are making their way into our house. Trying to catch up, my feet suddenly stopped from its tracks. I immediately turned my back in an instant as I scanned the whole place.

That was weird. I just felt that someone is looking at me. I tried my best not feel scared, but I reacted the opposite. I can feel shivers down to my spine and gained a major goosebumps.

"Jeongyeon, get inside!" Fortunately because of Nayeon, I got the chance to cease what I'm feeling and to hope that it's nothing serious.

"So you're not in for training?"

"Of course no. There are still a lot projects to finish. It's getting dark and I believe that I can't make it to the training." I lay on the library table, massaging my hair out of frustration.

"If you say so." Jihyo ended the line and I closed my eyes afterwards.

My lazy self keeps preventing me from standing up but my mind says not to. Procrastinating is what I always do, but I can't do it now because of the our terror teacher.

Standing up with full of inactivity, I tried to keep my eyes open in the dark. Searching for books inside the library alone can be my type of mood, but there's something off. I usually feel tranquil, yet I keep getting goosebumps.

"Shoot. I should get out of here." I immediately ran back towards my table and got all of my belongings in a split second.

"Locker room." I swear, why does the school turn off the lights when it's dark? Are they out of their minds?!

The rusty sound of my locker echoed through the unlighted hallway. As I closed my locker, I immediately turned back my head. Curious, I want to see if there's someone following me.

"Calm down Jeongyeon." My grip tightened on the straps of my bag. There may be nothing behind me, but I can clearly hear footsteps coming towards me.

"Should I fasten my pace?" I thought.

I walked, faster than the usual, and that's when I conclude; someone is following me!

I ran, I ran for my life. My heart keeps beating so fast, that I'm having a hard time catching my breath.

"No!" Terrified, I cried.

"Aaah—" When I turned right, someone immediately grabbed me. The person covered my mouth and I froze at an instant. Freaking hell! I was literally dying out of nervousness.

"Keep quiet if you want to stay alive." Jeonghan whispered.

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Jun's POV:

"Go!" I said.

"Is running in circles really a training?!" I chuckled upon seeing Sana's reaction. Her hair was such a mess. Her face looked so tired and I can feel her suffering inside. It was obvious that she's not really athletic. Scratch that, I think most of them aren't.

"First day of training, complete." Seungcheol hyung stated. We went back to the Group Room and all of them slammed their bodies on the couch.

"I'm so not into this. We're not athletic okay? We're not physically trained for this. I shouldn't have said yes to this deal!" Chaeyoung, as she is, irritatingly covered herself with pillows.

"Bro, that's not even half of our training." Chan responded while rolling his eyes. I averted my gaze away from them because I know what will happen next.

"I'm hungry." Pursing her lips, she looked at me with puppy eyes. Her hands was resting on her stomach, a sign that she needs to fill in something in her tummy.

"There's not enough food here. Do you want to go out?" I smiled, more of a smirk. Well, a guy like me always believe that there's no such thing as rules.

"No one is allowed to go out." With a stern voice, Seungcheol hyung glared at me.

Okay, I take that back. There are rules!

But, wait. It doesn't mean that I still can't do it. We can still do it secretly. Right?

"Come here." I grabbed Sana's wrist as we went out of the room.

"Wait! We aren't allowed to go out right?" The latter's face was absorbed with fear and worries. For her to trust me, I should squeeze all out of it.

"Don't worry, we won't get caught."

"Oooh~ gummies!" We successfully hatched the plan, leading us to a shop just near our hideout place.

"Get all you want. Let's just make it quick. I don't want them to notice that we're gone."

"Copy that Mr. Wen." She giggled and continued to search for food. Observing my surroundings, the bell rang and I immediately saw the person who entered.

All black. Kind of suspicious.

After a short while the owner went out. The guy in black went to the counter, replacing the man before.

I sighed. God, I shouldn't keep minding about this situation because I will also get caught. Even so, I keep looking at him from afar. The mirror above helped me to catch what he's doing, without him seeing me. Everything is tempting and it feels so wrong.

"Sana, we should head out." Cutting off what she's doing, she looked confused.

"But we—" I immediately put my arms around her shoulders as I leaned closer to her face. She froze from her spot.

"J-jun what are y—"

"Shhh. Keep quiet." I smiled. Despite of this sparkling situation, there's a distraction behind us. Of course, I need to act. Eyeing the guy from my perepheral view, I ran towards the counter when he left.

"Jun what's happening?" She followed me to the counter.

"5 seconds?!" I grabbed her wrist once again as we dash out of the store. I pulled her away from the store, away from the bomb. My heart rapidly beats, that it wants to get out from my chest.

"Jun please ex—"

*Boom!*

The loud explosion caused the both of us to lay flat on the floor. The only thing that I can hear is a loud static sound, which is deafening. Anything else, all of them are blurry.

"Holy—"

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Author's note 📜:
I know that you guys lost interest about this book. To those who keeps reading, thank you :(

-sebongssi