Ice: Thaw the Frozen Heart [EDITING]

Chapter 27

3 Years Ago (October 11, 2011)

Yeojin grumbled as she walked home alone. Baekhyun promised to have dinner with her after school at the usual street vendor they hangout at. She even refused her friends' invitation to eat together after her track & field extracurricular class for him. But after hours of waiting, he belatedly called her to cancel the date.

It was bad enough that nobody, not even her family, remembered her birthday. And now, her boyfriend just had to cancel the date. She thought at least he remembered, but it seemed like she thought wrong.

Honestly, she wasn't really sure if they were even actually dating. Ever since they met at the book store, they regularly met to borrow the book and CD. His presence distracted her from the sudden strain in her friendship with Yifan. Few months later, Baekhyun confessed that he likes her. She didn't accept him right away because she wasn't sure of her own feeling. But feeling how he always cheered her up whenever she was down because of Yifan, she started having budding feelings for him. She told Baekhyun she likes him too and just like that, they went out together more often after school. But they never officially called the start of their relationship, and they had been like this for a year. Her parents knew of their feelings for each other and they even liked Baekhyun. However, they never really took the kids' relationship seriously and just saw it as a friendship because they were still in junior high. Thus, frankly speaking, they were still too young to know what love is.

Yeojin too wasn't sure whether she loved Baekhyun or just really really liked him. One thing for sure, she was now very pissed with him for suddenly cancelling the date.

She was still grumbling when she turned at a corner and suddenly stopped in her steps. A group of four guys suddenly appeared and blocked her way. She looked up and around at them and recognized them as the guys who usually lingered around here smoking and laughing at each other. She cursed herself for forgetting that fact.

Her house was just two blocks away, and the street was already pretty dark at this hour with only a few lamp posts lighting up the road. And unfortunately, no one was really around except for these guys.

"Hey, hottie!" One of them smirked.

Yeojin tried to ignore them and was going to walk around them- and possibly ran away from them- but the guys blocked her way again and started surrounding her.

"Where's your dad? And why are you coming home this late?" The guy who spoke earlier spoke again with a feigned concern as they kept on approaching her, causing her to instinctively walked backward.

"I don't know you," she snapped at them. "Now please go away." She curled her hands into fists to stop them from trembling. Her heart was pounding hard against her chest, and though she was sweating, she felt the temperature plunging down sending chills down her spine.

The guys just laughed and cornered her to a wall. Yeojin's back touched the wall, but she glared at them. One of them reached a hand to caress her face, but she slapped it away. They only laughed at it again.

"Ooh. We got a feisty one here, guys!" He chortled.

"What do you want?!" Yeojin gritted her teeth.

"What do I want?" The guy she assumed to be the leader asked with a raised eyebrow. His eyes then scanned her down and back up again.

Yeojin hated feeling self-concious at his gaze as if his eyes were undressing her. His eyes then landed on the necklace hung around her neck.

"Not much." He shrugged. "Just this." He touched the pendant with a finger before the finger slowly slid down her chest. "And maybe a little fun with you," he whispered to her ear while Yeojin slapped his hand away. He chuckled again making her want to throw up. "But I'll make it easy for you. Just give me the necklace." He opened up his palm and the others prod her to just give it.