(✅)🌌𝑴𝒚 𝑨𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒂 - 에이티즈'𝑠 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑜𝑜𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔♥️

|4| Darkness to Love

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*After Performances*
"We have Ateez!! The first win for 'Wave'!!" Everyone was cheering and we were so happy! As we went back we raised the trophy and joy was filled in the air. "Thank you! Thank you!" We thanked our team. I turned around and saw Y/n smiling. I went over to her. "This luck was maybe cause of you. Thank you." I hugged her. "No, don't thank me. I haven't done anything." She broke the hug. "Can we talk outside?" I asked her as I walked out the door and she followed me.

"Why were you crying? I noticed you were looking at one of my friends." I looked down and back at her. "Do you know... Mingi?" I asked her as my heart was beating. It's not that I care but I was starting to like her. "Ah, Yeah. I actually do know him. We knew each other since we were kids, but he moved away." She replied as tears began to fill in her eyes slowly. I looked away. "He's more than a friend. Can't you just tell me?" I asked her hiding my jealousy. "We liked each other for a bit of time. He moved and found someone else. That's it." She said wiping her tears. I looked back at her. I maybe thought me and her would not go to the way I wanted. "It's fine, thanks for coming. If you feel tired you can go home and rest." I said as I walked past her back into the building. I can't believe we've gotten so close since the beginning as if I knew her for so long. Her feelings for Mingi is there. As long as she's happy, I'll deal with myself.

After celebrating I brought Mingi into a room with me. "Mingi-Hyung? What's up with your mood?" I asked him with a raised eyebrow. "Why do you ask? Aren't you hanging out with that one girl?" He chuckled. "You mean Y/F/N? She told me about you. It's clear she still misses you, why aren't you doing anything about it? Do you even feel the same way about her?" I asked scoffing. "Wooyoung-Ah. Don't worry about it. I'll talk to her for you. It's simple, come on let's go celebrate?" He asked as he headed for the door. "Wait." I said. "Mmh?" Mingi looked back as he stopped walking. "Why'd you leave her?" I asked him. "Ahh.. To pursue my dreams." He laughed. "And who was this other girl?" I continued asking him. "Just a good friend of mines, let's go!" He continued walking. I got up and grabbed his shoulders. "Let me go out first." I said as I walked out and shut the door behind me. "Aye, Wooyoung join us!" Yunho said excitedly. "I have a stomach ache. I'll head home early. See ya! I'm proud of us!"

I left quickly so they couldn't find me after. I ran to the house to find Y/n on the living room couch crouched up and a tissues everywhere. "Yah? Y/n-ah? I'm sorry. I should've known better." I said calmly as I approached her. "It's fine." She mumbled. "If you want to see the stars with me you can. Tell me all about it, anything. If not, just stare at the sky with me." I said grabbing the blanket and going into the yard. I laid the blanket down and laid down with my eyes focusing on the stars. It was relaxing. The door opened and y/n laid next to me. "I'm sorry, I should've told you back at the restaurant." She told me as we stayed quiet for a moment. "Are you... afraid of 'love'?" I asked her as she turned her head slowly looking at me. It was better for me to stare up and just see her from the corner of my eye. "Is it wrong to be?" She asked me. I kept quiet. "No. I'm actually afraid of the dark." I told her closing my eyes. "Whenever I close my eyes, memories come back." I suddenly opened my eyes. "What happened?" She asked me with a concern look. I soon faced her, but she suddenly stopped looking and faced the sky. I chuckled and looked back at the stars. "I was locked in the dark for days." She got up and stared at me. "Wooyoung!? I should've known." I looked at her and smiled. "I'm alright." I closed my eyes.

|9 years ago|
"Thanks for the cookies Mrs. Kim!" I smiled and rode my bike to my house as quickly as I could. The sun was already going down. I finally arrived home but my dad was waiting for me. "Wooyoung! Where were you again!? You are always disappearing! Cookies again?!! I'm getting tired of you!" My dad pulled me off the bike and I fell scrapping my knees. "Get up!" He yelled at me. "I'm sorry! I promise I'll never do it again!" He pushed me into the room with no windows. I was always afraid of it. "Learn your lesson." He shut the door and locked it. No electricity. It was so dark. I fainted. I woke up remembering what happened. I banged on the door crying and whining. "Mother, help me. I'm sorry, Father." I continued repeating. No one answered me. Days went by and I lost weight, I became so weak and all I had was the cookies with me. I broke one piece of each cookie and ate it every evening. Sooner, I heard my parents for the longest. "I miss you so much." My father said to my mom. "Where is Wooyoung?" She asked my dad as she came back from the village. "He went out to play. Look at my son, you grew so much!" My dad said to my older brother. "I'll go find Wooyoung!" My older brother went outside to look for me. I was too weak to even speak one word. My father knew what happened, he's a liar.

|Wooyoung's older brother's POV|
I ran to the playground after returning home. "Wooyoung!! Where are you!??" I continued shouting and his friends heard me. "Wooyoung?" They confusingly asked me. "Yes! Have you seen him? I returned home. He's my younger brother. Have you seen him?" I asked them as they gave me a worried look. "No. We really miss him. We haven't seen him for days." They frowned. "Days? My dad said he went out to play. You didn't see him earlier either??" I asked again with my heart in pain. "No. It's like he disappeared." One of the other friends told me. I ran back home and cried. "Mom! Wooyoung is missing!!" I ran crying to my mom. His friends followed behind me at the door. "Honey! Where is Wooyoung?!!" My mom shouted at my dad. He kept quiet. My mom looked around the house and found one of the doors locked. "Open this door now honey! My son is in there I know it!" She banged on the door.

|Wooyoung's POV|
"Mom.." I said softly trying to get up. "Wooyoung?! Baby! Mommy is here!" Soon the door bust open. I was there lying on the floor. I didn't have meat but all you've seen is bones. "My baby! You're starving. What happened!?!" She hugged me and I couldn't do the same but to feel her embrace. "He's been coming home late, who known what he was doing. He's buying cookies, not valuing this hard working money." My father stepped in the room. "I know my son, he apologized. You couldn't understand him!? This is your son! This is my son. He could've died. You didn't care??!" My mom cried as she picked me up and I saw my brother and friends. I tried to smile but I've been so weak, I couldn't even feel a thing. "Wooyoung!" My brother's voice echoed. I pasted out there.

|Present|
"As for of today, he's being punished. I woke up that day and saw my mom and brother there waiting for me to wake up at the hospital. I was fine, I could speak. It was a terrifying moment. I never want to go through it again. Do you know?" I told Y/n and she hugged me. "I'm really sorry for the long journey you've been through." She suddenly broke the hug. "Mingi, he's the one I used to love." She looked at the sky. "I saw a picture of him with another lady and he looked happier than every moment we were together. I thought maybe it was the right decision to let him go because I wasn't worth anything. Luckily, I got to meet him again even though it was painful. I don't want to feel it again but it was nice to see him doing well." Y/n smiled with a frown after. I looked at her and stared in her eyes. "Maybe a truth would feel better than a lie. I didn't deserve him anyways." A tear fell out of her eyes. "I'm scared, scared of this love. I don't believe in it, even if others do, how can they even explain it and how do you even know how it's being shown? Everything is an act. That's why pain comes after a smile, even if it takes time for it to heal it'll be a scar." She closes her eyes. "Don't be afraid of the dark. I'll be there when it's dark, I don't want you to suffer like me. Either in the same or different situation. I want to help you." Y/n told me as I smiled. My heart fluttered and but I know she doesn't feel the same. "No, it's you who has to help yourself. Mingi and you have a past that will be recalled, a past to be fixed and and future to be planned. I know that you still love him. Even if it's just for now, there's always time to keep the feelings ongoing. I'll just stay here with my Aurora." I closed my eyes and smiled. "We should just help ourselves. That's what matters most, now." A tear escaped my eye. "Even though I don't understand you much and don't know you well. I feel like I've known you forever. The pain everyone suffered and the pain we both suffered. We should love ourselves and the ones we truly care for." I opened my eyes looking into the galaxy. "I hope you understand." I told her.

|Y/n's POV|
He's right. I don't deserve anyone at this point. Mingi will be fine, then I'll be fine. Wooyoung will be fine, then I'll be fine. My heart fluttered but went into pain as if I didn't understand what he's trying to say. I tried to think but I couldn't. I opened my eyes. "Mmh. I hope you will understand too." I wished looking at the stars. 'Please let me have my worth. Please let Wooyoung have his worth as well.'

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