"It's my job," you say truthfully. "I really don't care if I get hurt. As long as you're okay, Hongbin. Damn, that sounded better in my head. I hate cliché crap."
His chocolate brown eyes are already too much for you to bear. Mix it together with a...
You hang up the phone call and someone grabs your wrist. You accidentally drop your phone in the process and curse. He takes you to a room and pushes you against the wall. You look up to find Hongbin staring deeply into your eyes. He clenches his jaw tightly.
"Buya! (What do you want?) Didn't Hyuk tell you everything that happened yesterday? And you're still choosing to stick with that...man?" he yells.
"Why do you care? I'm only here to protect you. Where I live and who I live with shouldn't matter," you say, smirking. It made your heart flutter knowing that he cared about you. He stares intensely into your eyes, wondering what was going through your brain.
"I don't trust him," he states.
"Nor do I," you say.
"Then why are you letting him in?" he asks, tightening the grip on your wrist.
"I am not!" you exclaim.
"Why are you like this?" he says and lets go of you, running a hand through his hair.
"He may stay there, at the apartment," you say slowly and he furrows his eyebrows, trying to understand what you're getting at. "But where I stay is my personal choice."
"Don't tell me..." he says, finally placing the pieces together.
"I'm staying here," you state. Hongbin lets out a deep breath.
"Aish...you really scared me," he says.
"Hmmm? How?" you say, lifting an eyebrow.
"Hongbin-ah! It's time for dance practice!" N calls, interrupting the conversation.
"Coming!" Hongbin looks at you once more. "You can stay with me."
"Hah?" you were about to say more, but he was already gone. You roll your eyes and think about what it could possibly mean.
With him...does that mean the same dorm? Same room? Same...bed?
You gasp, covering your mouth. Instantly, you shake the dirty thoughts out of your head. Your stomach growls and you head to the kitchen to find something to eat. You wanted to head to your own apartment and get ready to move your things over, but you didn't know the password to the dorm and the boys have already left along with the manager.
"Well, I don't want to call Cody, so I guess I'll call the manager right after I've had some food," you say your plan out loud and try to find something edible. You settle down for a sandwich, quickly making it and tossing whatever looks yummy. Just before you were about to take a bite, the doorbell rings. You run towards the door and look through the peephole. You put on a disgusted face and open it. "What do you want?"
"I'm ready to move into your apartment!" Cody says and points towards a large suitcase.
"Really? Great!" you say sarcastically. "Oh, and could you please tell me the password to this dorm?"
"So you can come here on your own? No way," he says, pissed.
"It's so that I can go back and finish my sandwich after I help you," you say, taking your chances.
"Can't you have your sandwich now?" he asks. You step out of the entrance and the door shuts behind you firmly.
"Oops," you say.
"For real?" he sighs at your childish behaviour.
"Damn right. Tell me now. I've left my phone in there as well," you say, smirking.
"Fine. It's 2012. The year VIXX was formed," he says.
"Thanks!" you say and punch in the code to enter the room.
"What happened to helping me?" he says.
"The code's 2214. Help yourself. I've gotta finish my sandwich first," you say. He groans. You head back to the kitchen to finish your sandwich. As soon as you were done, you go back to the room to find your phone.
"Twenty-six missed calls? Fuck, it's from Ryder," you call him back quickly and he answers on the first ring.
"Where the hell is Cody? Where the hell are you?" he says angrily.
"I'm-," you start.
"They're at the dance studio," he replies.
"Who?" you pause. "Oh shit."
"Get your ass there right now and tell Cody to do his job," he says and hangs up.
You run to your old apartment and burst in. Cody was nowhere to be seen. You open each and every door and finally find him in your room, shirtless. You immediately close the door, but he comes after you.
"Why are you here?" he asks, still without a shirt.
"Ryder called. They're at the studio," you say and stare into his eyes, trying your best not to look down.
*Hongbin's Perspective*
"Ken! Stop doing aegyo and focus! We need to get the video done by today," Manager yells at him. I punch Ken lightly and he falls on to the floor dramatically. "Boys, stop fooling around!"
"Hyungs! Stop, seriously," N says, laughing silently at Ken's acting. Manager was about to say something, but he gets interrupted by a phone call.
"I'll be right back," he says.
"Wait, what were my lines again?" Hyuk asks.
I smile and was about to tell him to find the script on the couch, but then I notice a man I haven't seen before was already sitting. He looked up from his newspaper and looks directly at me. We share eye contact for a while and he continues to read. I was heading off to confront him when Ken places a hand on my shoulder.
"Hongbin-ah! Save me from the evil Ravi!" he exclaims.
"Hyung! We need to focus," Leo says as Ravi kicks Ken. I laugh and N runs to stop him.
"VIXX!" Manager yells, getting everyone's attention. His face was pale white and his hands were trembling. "I just received a call from the bodyguard. We are to go in immediate lockdown."
"Too late," the strange man from before says.
"Huh?" I say.
"What's going on?" Ravi asks. An alarm goes off as well as the loudspeaker.
"Attention! We are going under lockdown," it keeps repeating the same phrase five times before turning off. It becomes quiet. I notice that the man was gone. Suddenly, there was a power outage.
"No one move," Manager whispers.
"I can't believe it was this easy," a man says. His voice echoes throughout the room. He was speaking on the loudspeaker. "Where are your bodyguards now? What time did they call you? Five minutes ago? With an approximation of it taking an average person fifteen minutes to get here and combining it with the rush-hour traffic, it will most likely take them an hour to reach here. And that's a fact."
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