The life we live (ATEEZ)

Chapter 2

The crowd cheered as the more muscular guy got once again punched in the face, he stumbled backwards and almost fell in the process.

The smaller guy seemed entertained by the other's pain and even fed off it, he didn't bother giving the guy a moment to catch a breath and took a sprint to deliver the final blow, The crowd hyped him up even more making the guy more confident as he made his way to the bigger guy who was trying to catch his balance.

Everything that happened after that was in less than a second and it took everyone, including the two fighters a while to understand what had just happened. 

The bigger guy had seen how the other had charged at him, ready to deliver what would most likely be a kick and he reacted in a split second, he used the advantage of length by turning and kicking his leg in the direction of the smaller's neck, him being taller made him arrive earlier than the other could do his kick and a loud crack could be heard through the basement. 

An unresponsive body fell with a loud thud on the floor and the audience went wild screaming. Most were in dispair since they had placed a bed on the so-called 'lizard' which was a stage name for the smaller boy. He had been the continuous champion of the illegal boxing ring for a longer while now and no one had ever managed to do much harm to him with the worst he had ever gotten being a nosebleed.

Protests started rising amongst the crowd and people were screaming at the more muscular guy that he was a cheater and that it was an unfair fight.

The muscular guy was new in the industry and didn't even have a stage name yet, he just went with Jongho, which was his real name. The only reason he got into this type of moneymaking was because he and his roommate were in financial struggles.

"You did great!" 

A small smirk formed on his face when he turned to face his number one supporter and what at the moment seemed to be his only supporter aswell. He was standing a few meters away waving his hand in the air which was holding a stash of money. That would last them at least a month.

The guy was a bit smaller than him but around the same height with lovely long white hair that he kept shoving behind his ear, the hair being white was the norm around here, every Lily had it, that's why they were named Lilys too begin with since those flowers claimed to have been white, or at least most of them.

"Thanks, Woo. wanna go drink later tonight?" 

Wooyoung smiled widely and nodded before turning around to collect the remaining money they had won from the fight, it was only Jongho's third one yet but he had been doing well with 2 wins and one being interrupted by authorities.

Jongho grabbed a towel and headed to the locker that contained his belongings, not that it was much, phones were for the Roses, Jewellery was for the Roses. not even car keys because those were also for the Roses.

It didn't really matter to any of the Lilys that they didn't have those luxuries, they had been taught in the little amount of school, which was basically just hours of the Roses being praised that they were privileged and that if anything, they should be grateful that they have been gifted schools and jobs. It had been engraved into their brains ever since they had been kids. 

Red as the dawn

They had used it as some sort of inspiring quote, in reality, it was from a 60-year-old book about people with red blood and silver blood being divided and the red bloods being mistreated and how they started a revolution using Red as the dawn as some sort of signal which was ironic considering they are the silver blooded in this situation.

"The landlord isn't happy with us, he came by this morning and higher the rent again." 

Wooyoung had appeared behind him with his iconic black bag swung over his shoulder. He was leaning against another locker with a frown on his face, this was the third time in just 2 weeks that he had done that.