Stains Of The Past (Ateez, Woosan)

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The teams lined up on the back of the walls and the tense air was thick and heavy, San was looking at  Woo and the balls, He wasn't going to hit him so quickly in the game but he was planning to take Woo out as the last person, which he told everyone of ahead of time so they all know not to aim for Woo at the moment. 

San was the first one to the balls when the whistle was blown, he threw the ball at different people around Woo to make it look like he was aiming for him, but he was just fucking around sometimes letting Woo pass him. But after it was down to just four people. San, Woo, and some other boys that were a grade below them. San quickly got those two out. 

It was San and Woo. Woo's heart was racing faster than any time in the past, face to face with San at a game that he could never win against the boy on the other side who takes the game seriously and will hurt anyone in the game, Woo could see the sick smirk on San's face it was more devilish then the one he had in the closet. 

Woo started to shake in his place, another rush of anxiety, the walls were closing him in. the sound of the echoes of the other kids screaming and laughing. It felt like he was being eaten alive, the air was being taken away from his lungs, Woo fell to the ground bring his knees to his face. 

San just laughed quietly seeing Woo in the state he was in, "He's so pathetic, can't even play a simple game of dodgeball without crying" San said out loud to the rest of the class causing them to laugh and point at the Woo. 

Woo felt someone's hands on him causing him to scream and run out of the room that was swallowing him whole, he ran and ran into his legs could carry his body anymore. 

Woo was at a body of grass, the green cool grass cooled down Woo a bit. But the voices in his head were screaming at him from the pits of hell, making the boy broke down crying his eyes out, wanting it to stop but they just kept yelling and screaming at the boy. 

Back at the school, everyone was just quit after what they just witness a moment ago, San didn't know why but he felt like he needed to go check on Woo, he hated this feeling in his chest, it just like back when they were thirteen. 

San grounded and walked out to look for Woo. He searched everywhere that Woo likes, the library, rooftop, the abandoned classroom that he always runs to. San was about to give up on finding Woo, into he heard some faint crying, he looked in a classroom but he wasn't there. 

"Why does everyone hate me? M-mom...dad...San...myself..." San looked out a window and saw that Woo was under a tree laying down on the grass, just crying his eyes out, It sounded like he was just letting everything out of his system.

San just sat there looking out the window trying to figure what he was feeling, his heartfelt a sharp pain, his chest was tightening at the scene he is watching. It was like when they were little kids and when Woo would get in trouble or hurt, his heart would always feel a sharp pain. But now this one hurts the most.

San didn't notice that he was walking out of the classroom nor to the school heading towards the crying boy "I-I'm so tired of this... everything... the dark days... struggling... crying... breathing.." San stops in his tracks once he heard Woo admitted that to the world. For once he felt something but he forgot what it was, he was mad but sad at what Woo said but also sad at his words.

Woo looked up feeling another presence around him. His eyes widen when he saw San standing there just watching him crying his heart out. Woo couldn't stan seeing San's face anymore he felt all the emotions over the years rush over him.

Anger, disgust, sadness, happiness, and so much more emotions rushed over him while San justs stood there not knowing what to do or why his body took out here, "W-What do you want S-San!? I-isnt seeing me struggling to survive enough entertainment for you!" Woo yelled not caring what could happen next.

San just stood in place his mind was blank, nothing came into his mind, besides one thing... Hug him. San was never going to hug him or at least he thought he wouldn't hug him. San's body and mind were at war in that single moment his body said hug him and his mind said no make him suffer.

"Are you here to fuck with me more than you already have today! Unless your here to mess with me, leave me alone San! Do you what you are good at, making people's life a living hell" Woo snapped with his voice breaking at the end. After that San quickly without thinking hugged Woo tightly causing Woo to be in a state of shock but his body quickly hugged him back missing the way his arms wrapped around his waist pulling him close like it was when they were little kids.

San felt Woo's arms around him and that's when he realized that he hugged Woo, he quickly pushed Woo off of him and run off not knowing where or not knowing why his heart was beating fast.

Woo was on the ground not knowing what just happened, but he does know that his old feelings never left for San.