Winter Hearts

Temptress

Siana was planking, her body parallel to the ground as she rested only on her elbows and forearms, and on the tips of her toes. She was breaking a sweat, even though she had only planked for about four minutes. She had turned on the heating so that they could rehearse in comfort and keep their bodies warm, but she realised that it could make the room stuffier than she had expected.

She was trying to make ten minutes while planking, but her focus was being diverted by the two tall men who were going through their warm ups. They were both wearing leggings under shorts, and after a few hard stretches, N stripped off to reveal a loose tank top.

She was trying hard not to stare at his bare arms and the hint of pectorals at the arm holes. When she averted her eyes away from his arms, she found herself looking at the base of his neck, where she could see the muscles of his chest meet in a taut centre line that dipped below the neckline of his shirt.

She realised, she had never seen that much of N's skin anywhere on her social media feeds.

She looked down at the spot between her forearms on the floor, using her breathing to help her control her energy. She closed her eyes, gritting her teeth. Then she heard N get on the ground as well, and his voice which sounded very close by her.

"You're up early."

She opened her eyes to find N was lying on his side facing her, his head propped up on one hand. She almost lost her concentration, but dropped her eyes back to their focus point on the ground before her in an effort to keep going.

"Everything okay?"

She nodded, a bead of sweat forming on her forehead and sliding slowly, irritatingly, down the side of her nose. She waited for it to fall onto the ground, but it didn't - which irritated her more.

"You disappeared last night. First I was watching you grinding to the music with your eyes closed. Very nice," he nodded, a slight smile on his lips.

"Then I turned away for a moment, and when I looked back, you were gone."

She knew N was watching her closely, so she looked up briefly, her expression a shrug. His was smiling, though his eyes were expressionless. For a moment, she felt as if he was looking at her threateningly, and she wondered if he knew she had left with Leo.

"Grinding? Nothing you haven't seen or done before, right?" She said, her voice a little strained from the effort of trying to keep her back from bowing to the ground.

His mouth made an O as the smile reached his eyes and then they turned naughty and conspirational.

"The more you talk the more I like you, Siana-ssi."

Siana rolled her eyes at him and dropped her head down slightly, to ease the tension she had in her neck from looking at him. She spoke in a sugar-saccharine sweet voice, mocking him.

"Oppa talks a lot but that doesn't make me like him more," she said, beginning to lose control of her plank position.

N gasped dramatically as Ravi burst into laughter in his corner. He literally fell about laughing. N reached out and grabbed her nearest arm and yanked it out from under her, causing her to flop unceremoniously onto her belly.

"Hey! It's in my contract, I have to talk whether I want to or not!" He glared at her with comical eyes.

"That's a diss. You've been dissed, hyung!" Ravi chortled.

Siana smiled into the floor, her face smooshed onto her other arm. She sat up crosslegged, her body warm, and pulled her sweater over her head, which made her hair come loose. She flung the sweater to the edge of the room and picked up her hair elastic which had fallen on the floor. Noting that the long-sleeved leotard she had worn underneath was already stained with sweat, she began pulling her hair into a high ponytail. She smiled to herself, enjoying the fact that she had made them laugh with her polite insult to N.