Love Is Dangerous

C17

"What is love?"

Mark and Jinyoung both stop what they were doing to stare at me in complete confusion. I stared back at them as I was equally confused because I didn't mean for that to slip out of my mouth.

"What?" Mark asks as he was staring at me.

"Where the hell did that come from?" Jinyoung asks as he was staring at me like I was a complete idiot.

I shrug. "I don't know." I throw the ball into the basket and watched as Jinyoung ran to get it. Mark stood there staring at me as I stared back. "What?"

"What's going on, T?" He asks.

I shrug. "I don't know what you mean." I said as I started walking away, but Mark soon grabbed my arm to turn me around. "What?" I whined.

"You're not going anywhere until you tell me why you asked that." He stared at me as I knew that there was no way out.

I sigh. "I don't know, I just blurted it out. I didn't mean to."

He chuckles. "Of course you meant to say it or you wouldn't have said it."

"It was an accident." I stated.

He continued to stare at me as I knew he wasn't buying this bullshit. Hell, I wasn't even buying it.

He looked over at Jinyoung for a moment until he grabbed my arm and pulled me away. When we were further away from Jinyoung, he looked at me. "Ok, so what's going on? Don't lie to me either, T. I know that wasn't an accident on what you said." I shrug as I watched him sigh. "I thought you trusted me."

"I do trust you, Mark. But..." I trailed off as I looked somewhere else for a moment. "I don't know what's going on inside my head anymore. It's like, I can't function properly or anything and it's driving me crazy." I rubbed my eyes as this whole situation was frustrating.

Mark kept staring at me as we were standing there, and I knew he was trying to figure it out. "How long have you been feeling like this? And do you know the cause of it, or what it might be?"

"I don't know." I lied. I do know the cause of it, but I don't think I'm ready to tell him yet. "It's just been crazy as hell these last few days, or week, or.." I shrug. "whatever."

I stood there for a moment until I looked at him and saw that he was staring at me. He slowly starts nodding after a moment. "Ok, that makes sense now."

"What?" I question.

He stares at me. "I remember you telling me about that encounter with that woman you hooked up with and she happened to be your principal." He nods again, and I'm standing there confused as hell. "I think I figured it all out."

"What did you figure out?"

"That woman has to be the cause of this," He motions towards me. "because nothing else is adding up, but that sure as hell is." He tilts his head to the side. "Dontcha think?"

"I think you're full of shit." I tilt my head to the side to mock him. "You're fucking crazy if you think she's the reason. That woman drives me crazy-"

He quickly cuts me off. "You just proved your own point." He smiles and I mentally slap myself.

I shake my head. "No, dude. She's not the fucking cause of anything!"