( VIOLENCE )

𝐱𝐢𝐢𝐢.

THE WOMAN WAS STILL VERY afraid of saying the wrong things, and she was left speechless by the man's words because she had no clue that he ever thought about her in that way, but it also made her feel iffy and disgusted, even if she didn't obviously show it. She didn't want him to get angry just because of the look on her face, so she just stared at him with wide eyes.

Phoenix was beginning to panic within, yet he still didn't show his emotions either. He just calmly brushed his knuckles up and down her cheek, his face moving down towards hers as he patiently waited for a respond from the other teen that didn't know what to say.

"Would you...?" He questioned once again, a little bit of desperation that went unheard by the H/C haired female that still couldn't bring herself to speak out.

She hummed underneath her breath at the sight of Phoenixes other hand being pushed up at the corner of her E/C eyes, her heart rate rising up just at the feeling of the tip of his fingers brushing all over her soft cheek.

"Hmmm..?" The man then dragged his fingers down the woman's cheeks before he then began to trace his fingers up and down each side of her jaw, causing her to stiffen up. His fingers were just as cold as him.

Soon after he repeated the same action in tracing her jaw, Phoenix wrapped his large hand around her face and cupped her cheeks before he tilted her head up, gently forcing her to look up at him, "I wanna know..."

He seemed way more seductive and lovesick, and the both of them could tell but neither of them knew what to do. He was acting all different out of nowhere, but the question still lingered in the back of Y/Ns head since she was aware of the fact that Phoenix was handsome.

She wondered if she would've went for Phoenix or at least liked him if he was ever nice to her, but all she could do was stare at him. She didn't want to be hurt by him, but she also didn't want to cause him to grow impatient.

"I wanna know, Y/N..." he tilted his head further down with a pain clear in his voice, and his eyes becoming a little more lighter just by the girl that only looked him deep in his eyes with her body relaxing a little.

He circled his thumbs around her cheeks while he flickered his blue eyes between her lips and her E/C eyes that were slowly turning away from the man that was practically touching noses with her. She just wanted to disappear in that moment but she knew Phoenix would never let her, which was also the problem with him.

Still continuing to hold and caress the girls cheeks, he did begin to get impatient at her silence, so he thought there wouldn't be a problem to push her a little further, "Y/N. I wanna know.. you can tell me... be honest with me..."

The woman so desperately wanted to shout the word no in his face and jump out the window, and it was too bad that she couldn't. She needed to think of something to say and she needed to think of something now. Her mind went spiraling and she felt like she'd just disconnected with everything around her for a quick second.

The loving glint in Phoenixes eyes was slowly disappearing with every passing second between the two, and he could've sworn that his heart was crumbling into a ball of nothing. His hands were beginning to slip away from the woman's cheeks, and that resulted in her eyes snapping back to Phoenixes because she really didn't want her silence to be the reason she'd get beat.

"Wait!! I..." his hands went right back up to the sides of her faces and his eyes grew lighter, a small smirk growing on his lips like just before, "I don't... know..."

The smirk immediately fell from his mouth and his eyebrows knitted just at the sound of unsureness in Y/Ns voice. One side of him was glad that he didn't get a straight up no, but another was fuming simply because he didn't hear what he wanted from her.

There were warning signs showing all through his eyes and that caused the woman to start to panic before she allowed a squeak to leave her lips, just giving into what it was he wanted, "O-Okay! I.. would!"

His deep eyes lit up once more and he snapped her face up to him just like before, a drunk expression growing over his beautiful features, "You.. you would...?"

"Yes! Yes..!! If you.. stop hurting me! I would..." she gulped, the feeling of the man's right hand trailing down the side of her neck as she just hoped nothing bad would happen to her during his soft touches.

"Oh really...?" Phoenix secretly didn't like that idea at all, because he knew that he always had a thing for people in pain, and Y/N always seemed like an easy target in his eyes.

From a young age, the man never had any crushes on any of the woman that would pin and chase after him. He always fell for the weak ones that would do whatever he wanted, and he always got his way.

He would always go to extreme lengths just for himself, and he thought that was great, but since he was so used to it, he wanted to switch things up a little and when he actually started paying attention to women, he knew what he wanted to do.

Phoenix hoped that he wouldn't stop hurting Y/N, and he knew that he probably wouldn't stop anytime soon but he had to act like he would ever take it into consideration, "I can stop for you, Y/N..."

"Really...?" Even though the female liked the sound of that, she still didn't want anything to do with the dark haired teen even after he'd finally quit with torturing her, but this was still a great start for her.

"Yeah..." Phoenix pushed his face closer to the woman that only shut her eyes and held her breath.

The male didn't even mention the look on her face, instead he just twisted his head to the side before he pressed his shockingly soft lips against her cheek, causing her to tense up because she thought he'd immediately go for the lips.

He fluttered his eyes shut as he exhaled out of his nose, the sigh being felt all over Y/Ns cheek as she just stood there, blown out of her mind by what he'd just done.