The gambling man : Exo mafia fanfiction

Chapter 3: Bloody knuckles

Mia was jostled awake by the loud and beaming red-haired man by the name of Chanyeol. The tall man shook her shoulders violently pulling Mia from her peaceful slumber.

"Wake up"! Chanyeol yelled the girls heart pounded from the urgency in his tone. Mia snapped her eyes open as she sat up quickly nearly jumping out of bed. Roughly being startled to full consciousness by the tall man before her.

"What's going on!" She exclaimed looking up to him while latching onto his wrists. Chanyeol removed his hands from her shoulders and whipped her comforter off her body. Hurrying to pull her up from bed and shoving her in the direction of the bathroom.

"Go, get ready ". He spoke ignoring her question, Mia's eyes flashed to the Digital clock on her bed side table '4:32' it read she stopped in her tracks and looked to the eager man behind her.

"It's 4am"? Mia replied her groggy voice laced with confusion, the man nodded.

"Yes I'm aware, now it's time to do some training. Unless you're fine going dressed like that." He questioned with a smug smile, the girls face grew red as she looked down to herself. She wore only a pair of boy shorts and a loose black long sleeve shirt. Mia crossed her arms over her chest and walked into the bathroom suddenly self conscious of her appearance.

Mia sighed and ran a hand through her messy brown hair, she looked through the drawers of the bathroom grabbing a tooth brush, toothpaste and a hair brush.

She brushed her hair out first, before adding some product to it, smoothing it down the stray hairs with her palms before she began to brush her teeth.

Mia splashed her face with cold water then rinsed her mouth spitting the water down the drain. The girl looked at her reflection for a moment, her coffee coloured eyes looked dead and the dark purple bags under them weren't helping. Mia sighed and rubbed her eyes before opening the bathroom door, only to see Chanyeol laying lazily on her bed.

He smiled to her momentarily before Mia turned away and walked to her closet. Flicking on the light Mia grabbed a sports bra, a pair of leggings and a black long sleeve shirt.

Closing the closet door quietly, the girl quickly pulled every article of clothing on. Once finished she grabbed a hair tie off her wrist and began pulling her hair up into a low pony tail. She had no clue what was expected of her today, her heartbeat was loud in her chest like a drum. The girl wanted to remain stoic, to appear calm and collected. One with a keen eye however would easily notice her shaking hands and jagged breathing.

Mia smoothed out her clothing, taking a moment to let out a deep breath she was suppressing in hopes it would calm her. Her hand hesitated in the door knob before she opened the closet door and faced Chanyeol.

"I'm ready". She announced somewhat bitterly, as Chanyeol stood up from her warm bed, she had momentarily occupied. The man chuckled softly as he strut over to her door and pulled it open.

"After you". He spoke with a glint in his onyx eyes, Mia suppressed her annoyance with his chipper attitude, and walked out of the door way down towards the basement.

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Mia stood in front of Chanyeol stiffly, he eyed her stance, dissecting it with a sharp gaze.

"If you got hit right now you would be sent straight to the ground, you're too stiff". He spoke Mia listened, but did not move unsure what to do with her body, she just glanced to him waiting for the man to continue. Chanyeol, noticing she wasn't changing her stance in the slightest sighed and began to explain.

"Feet shoulder width apart, slight bend to the knees, you need to be ready to move. And hold your fists up in front of your face like this". He began while bringing his hands up in front of his face, the bridge of his nose barely visible. The only facial feature appearing behind his hands being his dark eyes.