Drink it up | Kim Hongjoong

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The rest of the day flew by pretty quickly, we had made it to our last class already. Normally the guys came to school before lunch and stayed for the 30 minute study hall then the last class, attending those kept them enrolled. But today they all showed up before the first class and stayed the whole day which was super weird. "Everyone take your seats." The professor walked into our last class, I was about to head down to my normal seat when Wooyoung grabbed my hand, "Sit with me."

I looked at him and thought for a second before nodding, he pulled me to sit in between him and Hongjoong. I felt as if I hadn't properly talked to Hongjoong since the night at his house but now wasn't really the time. We were all in English class right now which was a requirement for me, I glanced off to the side and looked at Hongjoong, he was twirling his pencil in circles i between his fingers. This is gonna be a long class.

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The last bell rang and I packed my work up, "Your project will be do in exactly 6 months, that should be plenty enough time to get it done considering you will be working on it in class." We had to come up with a play, we were put into groups of course it was me and the guys, it had to be 3 scenes and have at least 3 characters.

"Thank god this class is so boring." San stretched making me laugh, we all stood and headed out of the room, "So what now?" I smiled, "Now I go home and do my homework." The boys groaned, "No let's go have fun!" Seonghwa threw his arm around me, "We should all go out to a club tonight!" My eyes widened, "Hwa you know I have classes tomorrow." San agreed, "She needs to focus on her work."

Yeosang chirped in, "Oh come on she can miss one day. She's already ahead in the work." I looked at him and considered his point, "I give up with you guys." San had his arm over Wooyoung as we walked, "So what do you say?" I shrugged, "I suppose one day wouldn't hurt, but that's it!" The guys cheered and I shook my head laughing, "Where should we go?" I asked and Mingi looked at Jongho with a smirk, "You'll see."

I didn't like the sound of that but I didn't want to be anymore uptight, we made it to the car and I opened the backseat. "You don't have to ride in the back." I looked at him confused, "I have to go somewhere with Wooyoung, Hongjoong is gonna take you home and he'll take you to meet us at the club." I looked at him for a moment and as he was about to walk away I spoke up, "What's with you suddenly leaving all the time?"

He stopped moving and looked back at me, everyone stopped, I don't know why I said it, I never spoke up like that before. "Euna we talked about this." I was already this deep, "No we didn't, you talked. There was no we." It felt like the world was closing in on me, his eyes drilled into mine but I wasn't going to back down now. "Euna, get in the car. We'll talk about this later." I scoffed, "No we won't, you'll hope I forget about it and then you'll gaslight me like always. I'm tired of being kept in the dark San. I'm not fucking two."

His strides were quick, my heart sped up as he closed in on me, the others stepped forward but was stopped by the motion of Hongjoong's hand. San raised his hand to point and I flinched, I didn't mean to but the memories flooded in when he got too close. San never hit me but our father did, he tried to protect me as much as he could but he wasn't always there. I dropped to the floor covering my head as tears welded up in my eyes. I could feel the air thicken, San stilled and I'm sure everyone else did too. "Euna-"

"San." Hongjoong's voice cut through over his, I could feel how sorry San felt. It wasn't his fault, I poked the bear and this is my consequence. "Euna come here." He was bent down beside me, his voice was soft in my ear but I felt like I couldn't move. I wanted to fall into his arms, "What's wrong with her?" I heard Yunho speak up, "PTSD." I was surprised to hear Seonghwa speak, "Euna listen to my voice, he isn't here." I let out a shaky breath, the feeling I lost in my arms finally came back and I was able to finally look at him as my breath hitched.