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4. Storm

For good minutes you just sit there by yourself reading a book, completely immersed on it. The storm still falls angrily, thunders startling you from time to time, and the temperature decreases, what makes you regret wearing this short skirt. You're wearing a turtleneck to hide the hickeys that didn't disappear yet, but that's not enough to make you feel warmer.

That's when someone sits by your side suddenly, startling you. Your face goes from shocked to a disgusted scowl in one second.

"Max? What are you doing here?"

"Why didn't you answer my messages?" He ignores your question harshly.

You narrow your eyes at him. Max's completely turned to you and there's something about his expression you don't like, not that you like anything about him at the moment. His presence here is strange. He didn't show up the entire week. You hadn't even heard of him, nor Sofia. But then he shows up like this. When you're alone.

"Because I blocked you. Or you're too stupid to realize it by yourself?!" you snap at him, anger and contempt very apparent on your voice. Just looking at his face makes your blood boil. At the same time you can't help but feel a stinging pain. You decide to hold onto anger.

Max gulps and runs a hand through his hair. You don't miss how he's shaking one of his legs impatiently. "Y/n, look, we need to talk."

"No we don't. There's nothing to talk." You're already getting up and putting your backpack on your shoulder when Max gets up too, imposing his height against you, and grabs your arm.

"We really need to talk," he insists, inching closer to you. "Things can't end this way, Y/n. Look, I know I messed up-"

"Messed up?" you cut him, staring at him with dull, incredulous eyes. "Max, a person 'mess up' when they get late for a date or forget about a birthday. Cheating on me inside a dirty lab isn't just 'mess up'."

He sighs. Why does he look so nervous? And as much as you want to deny it, as much as you want to push that annoying voice inside your head, you still feel something odd when you see him in that state. The side of you that still cares about him. You decide to hold onto anger even more.

"I-I know, okay? I fucked up. But listen, Sofia, she... she means nothing to me. I know I sound like a dick right now-"

"At least you recognize you do."

Max stops for some seconds and stares at you in silence. "I understand you're angry and you have all the rights to be. I'm not even mad at what you did to us. B-But Y/n, listen you're so important to me. This entire week, all I've been doing is regretting what I did and crying-"

"Oh, you cried?! Congratulations! I feel so touched right now!" you're yelling now. Yes, you know you're inside a library, but you don't care. "This sure shows how important I am to you. Answer me, were you wondering how important I am to you while you were between Sofia's legs?!"

Max's grip on your arm tightens a bit. "There's no need to scream, Y/n. I came here to talk, not to make another scandal-"

"I already said, Max that we have nothing to talk about! Now leave or I'll sure start another scandal right here!"

Your mind doesn't understand what happens next. In one moment, Max is still holding your arm. In the other, he's aggressively thrown to the ground.

And then there's an angry Jungkook between you two.

"She told you to leave her!" he shouts, a venous anger obvious on his voice.

Max's confused for one moment, but then he's getting up again and staring at Jungkook, his fists clenched. "Mind your business, Jeon. You have nothing to do with this!"