Perfect Strangers || EXO ff

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I sat next to him on the sofa.

He gazed at the cut on my left cheek and I fixed my gaze ahead at the fireplace watching the flames dance.

I seemed to freeze in time.

I felt an electric jolt and unfeezed as Jack's hand stroked my cheek.

"Why hasn't you cut healed?"

"I like it like this. I'll turn it into a scar before I go to sleep."

He nodded.

I gazed at his face in the  light of the fire.

I carefully picked out his features and sketched it all out in my mind.

His bright blue eyes, his perfect nose, his plump, pink lips, his cute Scar on his lower lip, his angular and clear jawline, his slender neck and strong shoulders, his cute boyish features, his scruffy hair just begging to be ruffled, his crooked teeth that matched his smile and made him look so cute. Every last detail.

"Checking me out?"
Jack smirked.

I stopped staring and blushed.
"Ani."

"What?"

"Oh. I mean no."

"Yes you were. Admit it."

"No I wasn't."

I turned my head away and hugged my legs closer me, resting my head on my knees and turing away.

I heard Jack sigh.
"Why are you like this?"

"Like what?"

"One minute your fine and let yourself have physical contact and other times you'll push us away and turn cold."

"That's just how I am. And sometimes I never mean to get so close to people and trust them so much and when I realise I'll start pushing them away."

His hand rested on my shoulder.
"What's wrong with trusting others and getting close to them?"

"I mark my friends for a reason. So we are bound together. That Mark on your lip is a sign that I can trust you and that we are real friends. I'm doing this to protect myself Jack. I don't want to get hurt like last time."

"What happened?"

"I trusted someone. Someone who didn't have a mark. I told him my secrets and my fears. I eventually began liking him. As in crushing on him. One day I plucked up the courage and went to confess. He was in an empty classroom with his mates and I was about to knock on the door when I heard the guys laughing as he told his friends my secrets. I stormed in and we blew off a huge argument. In the end I punched him. Hard. His mates didn't do anything. I'm pretty scary when I'm mad. Well, that's what Mei says. He was left with a huge Scar on his ribs after I broke them. That was the first time I marked anybody. But I marked him to remind him of what he had done. He was actually guilty and tried to get me back but I left him. I don't want the same thing to happen again."

Tears were slowly falling down my face.

He wrapped his arm around me and pulled me into his chest.

"Just cry it all out."

I wrapped my arms around his waist and cried into his chest.

After a bit, I pulled away and wiped my eyes.

"Thanks."

"No prob."

I rested my head on Jack's shoulder, inhaling his cologne.

He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and laid his head on top of mine.

"Jack?"

"Mmm."