chain reaction | nct

06 - Security

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My mum wasn't even home when I got in, probably at her second shift of the day. I'm glad she didn't worry about me.

As soon as I laid down a tear escaped my eye as I drifted into sleep.

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My alarm blared through my ears as I regained consciousness. I turned it off and rolled over thinking I would miss the day but then I also thought how I needed answers - and NCT would give them to me.

I looked like trash but I didn't care as I strolled into school, my mind on one thing.

Luckily, today I had the class with WinWin and he would break first so I thought getting information would be easy, one look at me and he'd tell me everything I needed to know.

I sat down, waiting for them to arrive.

When they walked through the door, Yuta went up to the teacher and muttered something as WinWin stood behind him, dodging my eye contact.

WinWin walked to the other side of the classroom and sat next to Taeil as Yuta sat next to me.

"Excuse me? This is WinWin's seat," I looked at the intimidating boy next to me.

"Not anymore," he smugly smiled at me.

I rolled my eyes and shifted away from him.

Halfway through lesson, curiosity got the better of me.

"Yuta," I whispered.

"No," he replied with annoyance in his voice. I got closer to whisper back.

"Tell me everything you know."

"No."

Gosh this boy is too much for me, he knew WinWin would crack so moved him so there must be something they don't want me to know. It makes me more curious. I had to target someone else, Yuta would never tell me, or WinWin because he won't be left alone. Johnny? No, he's too smart. Jaehyun? Definitely not, I would get flustered. Haechan? Yes!  He would tell me, he almost spilled a few days ago. I smiled in content. Yuta looked at me and frowned.

"You look crazy."

"Thanks," I chuckled as I started to form my plan.

Haechan has Biology with me today.

I've never been more excited for Biology in my life, when I got to class, I sat next to Haechan. He gulped.

"Oh, Eunji."

"Hi, Haechan, so tell me, what do you know?" I narrowed my eyes at the nervous boy in front of me.

"Nothing, absolute nothing."

"Don't lie to me, I might cry."

"No no please don't."

I start to fake cry as the rest of the students stared at us.

"Okay, fine just please stop."

I smiled at him and put my elbows on the table, ready to listen.

"All I know is that Mr Lee wants us to watch out for you, as you know we work for him. Apparently you're a valuable to a lot of people," he looked at me seriously and continued on.

"Look you can't tell anyone that I told you this but he's preparing you to be the heir of SM."

My jaw dropped.

I don't want anything to do with him or his company, that would mean being a criminal, and do I not have a say in this?

"Haechan, thanks for telling me that, but can I ask, why do you work for him?"

"We don't really have a choice, our parents work for him, so we all do aswell."

"I'm sorry you have to work for him," I cast my gaze downwards at my palms.

"It's fine Eunji, it's not that bad, besides I met NCT, they're like brothers to me," he smiled, obviously thinking about them.

"Don't worry, your secret's safe with me Haechan," I smiled at the boy as he nodded in reply. I feel bad for making him tell me but I didn't understand and now I do.

As I was walking out of school to go home, Taeyong and Mark appeared on either side of me.

"Woah woah woah, what are you doing?"

"Walking you home," Taeyong said bluntly.

"Sorry, Eunji, we have a job to do," Mark smiled as he spoke to me.

"Oh, piss off," I said as I sprinted to get away from them, I just wanted some peace and quiet. I was taking out my anger with my father on them, I felt ba-

I felt someone drag me back by my backpack but then catch me before I fell to the hard pavement.

"Don't ever do that again," Taeyong growled at me as pushed me away from him.

Mark came panting up to us both.

"Wow...you guys run...really...fast."

Me and Taeyong just stared at Mark as he caught his breath. I would have laughed if I wasn't so angry.

"Please, can you just leave me alone? I'm just walking home, no one's gonna kidnap me at 4pm."

"Ms Lee, we have orders and we follow them, if you don't like that then tough luck."

Mark looked up at the raging Taeyong and back to me, I could sense his fear so I shut up and started walking home again. I almost bumped into Yuta as I was walking.

"Hey, I heard we had trouble," he said speaking to the boys behind me.

"She's under control now," Taeyong replied bluntly.

"I'm not an animal you know."

"I couldn't care less," Taeyong said as he spat on the pavement and pulled my arm, practically dragging me home.

When I got into my house, I ran upstairs to look out of the window to watch them leave, except they didn't. Taeyong and a newly arrived Johnny were sat in a car outside my house. 24 hour security? Is this a joke?

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