Twice The Love: Jaehyun

Pg. Twenty Two

"I just-" He stopped.

I nodded my head before letting him. "Mark what's going on?" I asked him, not even bothering to care about the mess my apartment was in. I sat on my couch as he followed. "Do I seem different?" He asked.

I shook my head. "Different?"

"Like, you know like, how Lana-"

"Mercedes." I corrected.

"Right. Mercedes. It's like, it's like every since we like got together, things have been like different. But not the different I use to dream about, you know?"

I nodded. "Yeah...I know exactly what you mean."

"But like, after being with her for like 2 weeks, I realized that she isn't exactly who or what I want or like who I thought she was. She's all about boobs, hair and makeup and if the dress makes my butt look big. For her not me though. " He chuckled.

I nodded before letting out a chuckle. "Thanks for clarifying that." I said.

He suddenly touched my hand with the tip of his finger.

I gave him an odd look. "Mark?"

"What if like, I was suppose to like be with you?" He said, caressing my hand.

I gasped. "Mark you don't know what you're saying..." I let out a sigh, knowing that the me I was a couple of days ago would've died by now, but now, my heart couldn't even feel the connection I had towards him anymore. "I just think you're confused. I was the exact same way a couple of days ago when I was SO in love with this idiot who worked in this comic book store." I smirked, nudging his shoulder. He chuckled. "Yeah. Sorry about that. I was a jerk." He admitted. I nodded. "Yeaaaah." I agreed. We both laughed. "But it's never too late to be friends, we gotta start somewhere, right?" I told him, holding my fist up. He looked down at my hand before bumping his fist with mines. "True." He chuckled. "I should probably get going though." He said before standing up. I nodded. We both walked to my door as I opened it, he turned around one last time. "It was nice talking to you. See you around." He said nervously before leaving. "See ya." I told him as I slowly closed my door.

What is even life anymore?

I could've sworn my body always freaked out when he even got 2 inches close to me but something was extremely off.

I know me and my next door neighbor had sex blah blah blah, but I promised myself that even if I moved on from Mark, I would still love him and have a huge crush on him...but...I just don't.

Or maybe I do...

I looked over to see Lisa slowly pacing through the crowd of people as she kept her head down. I walked towards her, prepared to talk to her until a hand grabbed my arm. My eyes grew wide once I realized it was Mercedes. I quickly yanked my arm away from her, trying to get away from her as hard as I possibly could but then another arm grabbed me, pulling me into the girl's restroom. Once I entered, I saw a group of girls all standing there, popping their necks and knuckles. "I know it was you." Mercedes said, pushing me into the wall harder. "Ouch! What the hell are you talking about? What was me?!" I asked her. "You were the one who sent my nudes to everyone and now I might lose my contract because of you!" She said, slapping me across the face.

My head automatically turned as I stood there, holding my face. "What?" I said, glaring at her. "You think I would do something like that? Honestly if I even cared about you, I still wouldn't. But as of right now-"

"Get her!" A girl yelled as they all started attacking me.

I balled myself up on the floor, feeling my hair being pulled, my arm being bitten and my face being scratched. I didn't scream. I didn't whimper. I just lied there and took it. Maybe I deserved it. Maybe I was too numb to even move since my mind has only been focused on my mom and how she couldn't come visit...

Or maybe it was my lack of sleep, leaving me to have no energy.

Then they stopped.

Mercedes fixed her hair while trying to catch her breath. "Why aren't you fighting back neighbor fucker!" She yelled before kicking me in my abdomen. I let out a grunt, holding my stomach afterwards. "This is pointless. She's weak." Her friend said. They all finally walked out, but she stayed behind as she looked down at me before a smirk appeared on her face.

Then she left as I continued to lay on the floor.

Jaehyun's pov

I walked inside of the comic book store, looking around at the broken pieces that were cleaned up and the shelves full of missing comic books.

"What are you doing here?" I heard. I turned around to see that strange kid again, YangYang. "Hey, I heard about what happened and-"

"And what? You came to play the hero of the day so Maria can throw herself at you some more? Ha, good one." He said as he walked towards the empty shelves to fill the empty spaces up with books.

I nodded before walking towards him. "I can help if you want me to."

"No thanks. You and your girlfriend touched enough stuff."

"My girlfriend?"

"Oh right, what's her name again, Lisa? The one who was all smiley and cute the night of Mercedes party, acting all innocent. Who would've thought she'd be a thief."

"Okay, I get that you're upset. But Lisa is no thief. That was her-"

"Do you even like Maria? Or are you just using her for your own sexual needs?"

That's it.

My hand suddenly grabbed his neck as I pinned him to the shelf behind him. He started panicking, trying to remove my hand from his throat as I squeezed tighter. "Let me inform you of something. I am not a user. I don't use women for my own sexual pleasures, and I definitely would never use Maria, so before you try to go off and make any assumptions about me to her, just to make me look bad, I suggest you get your facts correct." I told him before finally letting him go. He dropped to the floor, trying to catch his breath.

And with that being said, I left...