"Lies leave bruises that will never fade away"
Fire Dragon is an underground fight club well known for their bloody fights and almost no rules. Earth "the shadow" Pirapat is Fire Dragon's best fighter. Having grown up in the club, it would be surpri...
— some things are worth waiting your entire life for —
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They must have been fucking with him! Trying to see if he would go for it. If there was any chance that he would step so low as to join the mafia. That one thing that was making their lives a living hell for so long. Or maybe, maybe they wanted to see how much Mix was willing to do for the Fire Dragon to make up for everything he fucked up... Either way, he had no idea what to do. And what confused him even more was that Earth's father was on the side of the other people in the club. Mix just couldn't believe, that Earth's father would want something like this from him.
"What exactly do you want from me?" Mix asked. "Do you want me to say yes and put myself in possibly way higher danger than now just to help you with something you seem to have under control for years... or do you want me to tell you all to fuck off and never come to this place again? Because that's what I'm about to do if you all won't wake up! Did I fuck up? Yes! Am I sorry? Yes! If you don't want to accept my apology—fine, but you don't get to force me to join something that took both of my parents from me!
Mix could feel his heart hitting his ribcage over and over again. Slowly, he took a deep breath to calm himself down at least a little bit. Then, he turned around and looked at Earth, who was already reaching out for him, but Mix just shook his head, "I need a minute," and then he left. Why stay somewhere they didn't want him...
Watching Mix walking out of the Fire Dragon like that, Earth wanted to yell! Wanted to punch someone! But he didn't do any of that, instead, he just looked at everyone and asked, disappointed more than anything, "this is what you all wanted?" And then he turned around and ran out after Mix.
He didn't have to look for long. Thankfully, Mix was just in front of the club, it seemed that the scorching hot sun wasn't that awful anymore.
"Sweetheart," Earth carefully said, slowly reaching for Mix's hand.
Mix shook his head, laughing awkwardly, "you were right—the weather is nothing compared to that shit inside."
Earth frowned, "I didn't know that they would react like this. Mix, yes, maybe I thought that they would be a little bit mad, but this? I really didn't think—"
"Love, it's fine," Mix intertwined their fingers, pulling Earth closer, "you don't have to apologize for anything. Thinking about it, I have to return to my real work anyway. If they don't want me here, then I won't be here. But that's fine. It only sucks because I won't be able to watch the Shadow fight."
Earth shook his head, "no, you definitely will watch me fight every single time! You are my lucky charm, sweetheart. Besides... I'm the one who has the last word in this club."
"Do you?" Mix cocked his eyebrow. "I thought it was Narong."
"I hate to break it to you, Mix, but sometimes you are wrong. This is one of those cases," Earth smirked.
