Torn // exo x reader

Chapter 16; Forest 'n' friends

They leave early in the morning, bundled in layers of jackets and sweaters. Y/N's half asleep, since most of the night was spent fretting about what was going to happen. She slumps up against Yixing as she walks, and his arm winds around her shoulder, keeping her upright.
It's cold, and she can see her breath in the misty air as it comes out. She wants to lay down and nap, but it's her fault they're going so she will not back down from taking her punishment. The punishment being having to walk basically a day and a half to Xiumin and Jessica.
Joonmyun walks behind her and Yixing, talking in hushed voices with Jungsoo, the rest of Super Junior following them. EXO all seem to be in front of her and Yixing and she wonders if they're all friends.
They must be for Joonmyun and Jungsoo to be so close.
"Y/N, are you awake?"
Yixing's voice is soft, and she thinks he knows the answer to his own question with the playfulness hidden in the question.
"Y-Yeah, I'm just a bit tired."
She tries to keep up with Yixing, but she keeps tripping, and his strides are too long to match her shorter ones.
It's at this point Y/N realizes she'll have to pull out the big guns. She won't do it to Yixing, because she's heard him and Luhan talking about him having a sore waist, but that won't stop her from victimizing Baekhyun.
She whispers to Yixing she'll be back.
"B-Baekhyun-oppa!"
Baekhyun almost stops dead.
"Y-Yes?"
She walks briskly next to him, and pouts her lips and opens her eyes wide, her face mirroring that of a small child, looking up at him. Her hand daintily touches his shoulder, and she leans into him slightly as they walk.
"I-I'm so tired!"
She won't directly ask him to carry her, but that doesn't mean she won't get him to offer it.
"What time did you go to sleep?"
She puts a finger to her lips, as if trying to remember, but she knows the exact time she forced her eyes to close, to silence the mantra of all the bad things that could happen that were wracking her brain.
"I don't know, but it must've been at least three o'clock in the morning!"
She uses her tongue to make syllables shorter, and she bats her eyelashes.
"That's so sad!"
He walks ahead of her, leaving her behind.
She stops until Yixing reaches her again, and his laughter echoes across the quiet path they're walking. His laughter seems quiet, not as genuine, and he must've not gotten enough sleep.
"You're not getting him to carry you, but if you pull the same thing on Sehun, he'll brake."
She laughs, he saw right through her.
"Was it that obvious?"
Yixing mimics her previous actions, putting a finger to his lip and batting his eyelashes, and she sees how ridiculous she must have looked.
"Why would Sehun f-fall for it?"
Yixing shrugs.
"Call him oppa and he'll do practically anything."
Good to know.
"I-I mean I cou-"
She smirks, going to test if this actually works, leaving Yixing and running past Baekhyun to where Sehun trailed behind Yifan.
"Sehun-oppa!"
Sehun keeps walking, but she can see the hesitation in his steps as they slow, waiting for her.
"A-Are you nervous?"
She tries a different approach.
Sehun shrugs, and she tries again.
She touches his sweater, and feels the heat radiating from the puffy jacket he's wearing, and now she can see his sweat in the cold air.
Her lips go back to normal, and her eyes stop enlarging, and she whispers, looking ahead instead of at him.
"Y-You're sick, aren't you?"
Sehun doesn't answer. This only confirms her question.
"Sehun, you can't come with us."
His eyes enlarge, and she can hear him tense through the material of the jacket. He looks angry, and his breath is laboured in anger.
"You don't control me, Y/N."
She chokes.
"Sehun, I'm only wor-"
"Don't. I'm fine. Go away."
She stops walking, and bumps into the chest of someone behind her. This forces her to keep walking, but the person behind her keeps a hand on the small of her back, pushing her forward.
She turns to see Chanyeol and Baekhyun, but their faces soon turn blurry from tears rushing to her eyes, and she doesn't know why she's crying. Sehun's sick and therefor grumpy. He probably doesn't mean it.
"Chanyeol, did you figure out a plan?"
Chanyeol growls angrily.
"Kris wouldn't let me change it. He said Suho approved."
She wants to laugh right into this giant's chest because she can't reach his face.
"I told you, it's our best option."
She can practically hear him seething.
"Dude, Chanyeol your plan was to dress up like her an-"
"It was not!"
She laughs so hard she trips over her own feet, falling and landing on top of Jongin, who was walking with a very grumpy Sehun.
"Aargh!"
This causes Chanyeol and Baekhyun to burst into laughter, and everybody else seemed to laugh just because there was laughter filling the air. Even grumpy and sick Sehun was smiling and laughing slightly.  
"Jongin! S-Sorry!"
Jongin is laughing under her, and she scrambles to get up, laughing again.
She helps him up, and soon after, they continue walking, and it must be at least noon by now because she's starving, but she won't ask for food because who does she think she is?
"Damn it, I'm hungry." Someone moans from behind Jungsoo and Suho, but it's nobody from Super Junior.
Someone screams, and she's pulled behind Baekhyun before she can even catch a glimpse of whoever they are.
"Dammit, Yunho. You scared them."
There's somebody else there too, but she doesn't recognize either of their voices from behind Baekhyun's back.
"Yunho, Changmin?"
Somebody else comes through the trees, and joins them, but she can't hear anything.
"Baekhyun, Chanyeol, keep walking, take her with you." Joonmyun doesn't turn.
They usher her along, but she senses a fight, and needs to stay.
"Baekhyun, Chanyeol, let me go!"
She fights them, but they don't let her go.
"I-I can fight! I'll rough 'em up!"
She hears Baekhyun laugh, and he stops fighting her, and she runs up getting ready to brandish fists when she sees someone embracing Suho, so she skids to a halt.
One of the males sniffs the air, before turning to look at her.
"You're the one they're looking for."
She assumes she knows what he is talking about.
"Well, hello. I'm Yunho, and this is Changmin and Boa, and we're here to help."
She looks at his outstretched hand, and looks behind her to Yixing, and he nods, so she grasps it firmly.
"No fair! Yunho, you're clearly hogging her!"
The girl—presumably Boa—declares even though they've been shaking hands and talking for not even a minute before she said that.
She lets go of Yunho's hand, and gets clamoured by Boa, almost falling backwards at the force against her.
"Anyways, now that I've met the beauty half of SM is fighting for, let's get to kick some ass!" Boa yells, grasping Y/N's hand and dragging her forwards to walk ahead of Yifan, talking animatedly about basically everything.
Boa never seems to get tired of talking, and she asks too many questions and Y/N wishes she had the energy to talk with Boa but she barely could on a normal day let alone with how tired she is now.
When they get closer to where Minseok is being held, Boa gets quieter and quieter, and at some point, she stops talking all together.
She doesn't know why the presence of the large building is quieting the loudest person in their group—which is saying a lot, since Baekhyun is part of it—but then she remembers all the things she saw and heard about here that she remembers why there's a deafening silence hanging over their heads.
"Now, who's going with Y/N?" Kris yells to the crowd of people from the front. She's ready to force people to come.
Hands shoot up, but no two as fast as Baekhyun and Chanyeol. In the end, it turns out  Baekhyun, Chanyeol, Sungmin, Heechul and Yifan are coming with her. She says goodbye to everyone else, hoping that this won't be that last time she'll see everyone.
She wishes Boa could come, but they don't want to SM to know they have wringers like them. Apparently Boa says her, Yunho and Changmin are exceptional fighters.
Before they can even continue going, she's walking and she gets embraced by someone from behind.
She turns around in the loose embrace to see it's Jongdae.
"Don't mess up."
She smiles, hugging him back, shaking her head.
Tears threaten to fall, but she doesn't want to cry now. If this is the last time she sees these people, she wants them to view her smiling.
She turns to look at everyone, and before leaving to what may possibly be her doom, Y/N blows a kiss.

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Hey! I finished this early so why not post again today! I think I'm going to host a contest on my snapchat (@/yixinf) to maybe create a new character or two! I'll let you guys know if I do decide and what the stuff is and all that! Thank yYou u all for your support, and I'm sad to say the story is ending soon.
About 14 chapters to go!
Love,
Sierra <33
Maybe this would turn out okay.