Running Towards You (An EXO Fanfic)

Chapter 8 - Heartbeat

D.O's P.O.V

"Kai, Bai, BO!" Suho shouted. I threw out paper and I looked over to see that Suho had thrown out rock. I-I won? I stood there shocked as usually I am not very good at games, but the one I really wanted to win, I did. So it will just be me and Y/N? I looked over at her and realized that she was looking right at me. Extremely embarrassed, I turned away. I could feel my heart uncontrollably beating. I put my hand on my chest, trying to calm down. W-why do I feel like this? Do I l-like her? I sat there and pondered. I shifted a little to get another quick glance at her and as I saw her, smiling and laughing, my heart started to quicken. I steadily, turned away from her once more and tried to calm down. H-how did it come to this? I-it must have happened early on, considering what had happened at lunch.

Flashback

Excited and exhausted after the first game, it was now lunch time. Kai, Lay, Xiumin, and I were able to find some empty seats at a nearby producers table. We went and sat down.

"Man, I am tired," Xiumin stated. All of us started nodding in agreement. We suddenly all heard laughs coming from a nearby table. The four of us turned to see three girls siting by themselves. One of them, I think was Y/N? I did not know who the other two were. I noticed that they were by themselves, but that did not seem to stop them from enjoying their time.

"Wow, look at her," I heard Kai state. I looked over at him to find out that he was also staring at Y/N. He was giving her this look, one that was not making me comfortable. "Maybe I should break up with my girlfriend, and take a shot at that," he said, biting his lip. The three of us turned to look at him, shocked. How could he say that? He loves Vinny. I mean I know that they just had a huge fight, but he wouldn't break up with her, would he?

"Kai," I said. "Stop." I could start to feel myself getting frustrated at him.

"Why should I? I mean she probably would enjoy it as much as I would," He said giving that smirk, the one that confirms he was up to no good. I got up abruptly and grabbed Kai by his collar, causing the other people at our table to look at us and some of our food to fall over.

"Kai, don't touch her," I asserted. "You will just be taking out your frustrations on her. Vinny and her do not deserve that," I said. He pushed me off of him. He gave me this look showing that he was looking to fight. This is not like him. The fight must have been worse than I thought. He walked towards me his face in front of me, only inches from mine.

"Make me," he said. It took everything I had not to punch him right then and there. Instead of hitting him, I just stood there looking at him, in the eyes, hoping that he would realize what he is doing. Before things got even more heated, Lay and Xiumin jumped into the situation and started to hold us back. I let Lay hold me back to prevent me from doing anything that I would regret and Kai was just itching to break free, wanting this to become a fight. Kai then suddenly broke from Xiumin's grasp and picked up the soup he had been eating on the table and tried to throw it at me. I dodged it to only see that it was aiming for Y/N as she was in it's path.

"WATCH OUT!" Chanyeol screamed. I saw him run over and stand in front of her, the soup hitting his back. We all stood there in shock. I looked back over at Kai to see that he immediately regretted what he had just done. I glanced back over to see that Y/N was in Chanyeol's arms and I felt both pain and happiness in this situation. Happy that she wasn't hurt and pain because she could have been hurt by Kai. I looked at her and saw that she started to turn red in Chanyeol's arms. That is when I felt it. This feeling that was taking over. My heart started beating, despite what my mind was telling me. This feeling that would be up to no good.