Pick me | Wanna One

1.6

While walking through the hallways to my classroom for first period someone grabbed my hand. I turned and saw that it was Ha Minho. I pulled my hand from his grip the moment I saw it was him.

"Seonmi, I just want to-"

"Minho, leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you or be around you. Don't you think it's time to leave me alone after the things you've done?" I snapped at him as I took a couple of steps back.

"I know you probably won't want to hear it but I'm-"

"You're sorry? Isn't it too late to be sorry for what you did?" I glared at him as he began walking forward towards me.

"I know it's late. I know it was bad and I'm stupid for what I did, really stupid."

"It's great that you've acknowledged that but it would be best to leave her alone, she clearly doesn't want to talk to you." I hear someone say from my left. I turned to see Woojin.

"Woojin, I doubt you even know what we're talking about. It's something between Seonmi and I, it's best if we sort the problem out ourselves." Minho said as he went to reach for my hand again. Woojin grabbed Minho's wrist before Minho could grab mine.

"I do, and you are well aware that I know what happened between you two and I know that you should leave her alone because of what happened." Woojin then grabbed my wrist gently and started pulling me away from Minho.

"You can stop pulling me now, I have to go to my classroom." I said after Minho was out of sight.

"Where's your classroom?" Woojin asks as he stops and looks at me.

"I can walk there all by myself. I'm not a little girl. You don't have to take me there. Plus, you didn't need to help with Minho. He isn't your problem and you have no reason to feel the need to protect me from him." I say as I remove my wrist from his grip and start walking towards my classroom.

"Yet I do, I feel the need to protect you from him because no one else was around to help you." He said. I stopped walking. I then turned and looked at him.

"That reminds me, you said you know what happened between Minho and I. How much do you know?" I questioned as I walk towards Woojin.

"I know enough. Maybe not everything, but I know enough to know that he shouldn't be near you. Especially when no one else who knows about you two is around. As you know, Jihoon and I are friends, Jihoon used to be friends with Minho. I was also friends with Minho at that time, but after the incident he had with you in the janitor's closet we stopped being friends with him. He told Jihoon and I about the incident at Moonha's party. He seemed to feel bad about it but Jihoon and I knew that even so, he took it too far." He said.

"You can't tell anyone about what you know. If my brother finds out he will kill Minho and then me for not telling him. I don't want my brother to get into any trouble just because of me." I say before beginning to walk to my classroom. I heard some quick footsteps and then felt an arm around my shoulder I turned to my right and looked at Woojin.

"Fine. I won't tell anyone. But I also want something from you." Woojin said as we were walking while looking forward.

"What?" I question.

"Let me protect you." I almost tripped over my own feet after hearing what he had to say.

"Why would you want to do that?" He sighs.

"I wanna know too. But I don't. I just feel like I should. However, you are so persistent of being independent." He tells me.

"Isn't that a good thing?" I question.

"Yeah, but not when you might actually need some help." He says. He stops walking and turns his body to me after removing his arm from my shoulder.

"So, it's not like I'll always try to protect you even with little things. I wanna protect you when you can't handle it entirely on your own, like with Minho." He says as he looks into my eyes as I say nothing. He grabs my face gently and looks away for a moment as he sighs. When he looks back at me he looks into my eyes and leans a little close.

"Seonmi, I'm not 100% sure. But I think...that I might like you." He says.

I saw Woojin looking at me for a moment as Jihoon and I were holding hands during lunch. He turned away as soon as I looked at him. That seems weird but it probably was nothing. I rested my head on Jihoon's shoulder and closed my eyes. I quickly opened them when I heard a chair being moved. I saw Woojin standing up.

"I'll let you two have some time alone. Don't worry about me." He then walks away.

"But I know I shouldn't, since you dated Jihoon." He says as he looks away. Then when he looked back at me, as if in a state of realization of how we must look to people passing by, he immediately removed his hands from my face. He began walking away quickly, leaving me standing alone in the hallway.

<A/N> This will be the last chapter of 2017. 2017 has been a very off year. I hope that better things can come in 2018. Well, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter! Happy New Year's Eve! <A/N>