two players; lin yanjun

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a/n:
there is a flashback that will make you feel uncomfortable so please be careful when reading this part.
- ellie

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third person pov

Before everyone knew it, spring semester and school was starting up in the next couple days. Most of them dreaded the day of returning, but Scarlett was excited. She had missed being able to go to school and was so happy that Mr. Qui would be taking care of things for her in America. Sure, she still had work to do and would have to fly over every now and then, but it was better than the past semester.

"You sure we didn't forget anything," Scarlett asked Zhengting as she looked over at the bags they had in the back. She and him went to pick up some school supplies for the others. She was supposed to spend the day with Yanjun, but he left the house early and had to talk to his counselor about his classes since his schedule got messed up.

"Yeah, we didn't skip over anything on the list," he spoke as the two of them sat in the car. He had a list of things they needed to buy and each of them was checked off. "Unless you count Jing-ge writing down snacks, but we have enough at the house."

"We should go to the other store near the house. I think we should pick up some of his favorites so he's more...motivated. He needs these classes to finally graduate," Scarlett said when Zhengting started the car. He nodded his head in agreement knowing that the eldest absolutely needed them to get through the tough time.

"So...how are you and Yanjun," the boy asked, driving. He glanced over to her before going back to the road where his attention should've been in the first place.

"Good...well, great actually," Scarlett smiled at the thought of her lover boy. It had been a year since she met the other boys and him. The group actually celebrated it the other day by going to the movies together. Justin brought his girlfriend of course while Xukun lied and said his girlfriend was sick and couldn't tag along. Ziyi had teased him about it while everyone else pitied him. "...why?"

It was strange that Zhengting had suddenly asked that. Hell, he lived in the same house with them. He knew how they were doing yet, he asked her this.

"I'm just wondering," he shrugged his shoulders and the car ride became quiet.

Weird, Scarlett thought.

When they pulled into the shopping center near their house, Zhengting asked Scarlett to go in without him so he could make a phone call. She didn't object and went inside to find Zhangjing's snacks. When she came back to the car with a couple bags, Zhengting had just hung up.

"You're acting really weird," she pointed out, ducking into the car and shutting the door behind her. She warmed up with the heater and Zhengting started the car.

For some reason, the feeling seemed so familiar to her. It was familiar to her.

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"Kai, could you slow down a bit? We're going to get caught," Scarlett said, her eyes moving around the vehicle. Her head felt light like a feather and her movements were rather slow.

"Yeah, yeah. You're so high," the boy with brown hair and natural streaks of gold chuckled, looking over to her. Kailer Oshima was from San Jose and had moved to Los Angeles during the spring. Scarlett and him had been close friends since he arrived and been her chemistry partner. He had a huge crush on her, but she had just broken up with Eunwoo during the time he arrived. It had been a couple months later and now she was with Carson Graves, had been for more than three months. "How's it going with you and...Car?"

Scarlett looked over to him, her eyes slightly narrowed. "Okay. He's kind of an asshole, but it's his medication and he's just struggling, y'know?"

Kailer did know. He also knew how he would hit her and tell her he didn't mean it and maybe he didn't, but a small part of him did.

Kailer's eyes moved to her as he saw her pull down the hem of her skirt that kept moving up. Her head tiredly slumped to the side and her eyes fluttered shut for a moment. He swallowed. She was so vulnerable.

The two of them had just gone to their group's secret hangout to do their usual activities. Smoking, drinking, and talking about random things. Carson hadn't come along this time since Melinda told him to rest up. Scarlett had told him she would go and tell them what their plan was since they all were soon going on a road trip together. She happened to be pressured into joining the event so Kailer had Evangeline, their friend, call Melinda and tell her Scarlett would be staying at her place. However, Scarlett would be staying at his house since Evangeline was going to be with their friend Benny.

"I-I'm going to take a nap," Scarlett mumbled, adjusting her chair so she could lay back and seconds later, she fell asleep.

Kailer slightly turned the radio on to distract himself a little. However, his gaze would sometimes fall onto Scarlett when she moved in her sleep. She would pull at the skirt she wore and Kailer's breath would hitch. The third time she did so, he reached over to tug the fabric down so she'd stop messing with it, but when his skin touched hers, he couldn't stop.

A moan had slipped for Scarlett's lips sending a shiver of pleasure down his spine and Kailer soon pulled off to the side of the road.

He ran his hands through his hair as thoughts of her filled his mind. He kept trying to stop himself, but he couldn't. He wanted her. He wanted her right then and seeing how vulnerable she was, he was going to have her.

Before he knew it, he was above her with his pants down and her skirt up with her underwear pulled down. Scarlett's eyebrows scrunched feeling something on top of her and when she opened her eye, fear spread through her.

"Kailer, what are y-you doing," she stuttered, trying to move, but he moved her legs and pinned her wrist down.

"Shh..."

"K-Kailer, don't. Please, I-I don't-"

"It's okay. It's okay."

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"Scarlett? Scarlett," Zhengting shouted. Scarlett was hyperventilating beside him, her head snapped up from her lap. She was looking at him and saw his mouth moving, but couldn't hear anything.

Her body shook as she looked around. The car looked like it was closing in on her and tears began falling down her face.

She wanted to make herself smaller.

She wanted to disappear.

She wanted to become nothing.