Ice Hearts || ATEEZ ✔️

nine.

Y/n's POV

That bastard.

"What?!" I hissed, venom lacing my strained voice. I turned to look at her, stepping closer as I narrowed my eyes at her. "Y/n, no. Please calm down." Yunho grabbed my wrist in an attempt to stop me in my tracks, which failed as I swung his arm away while tearing my eyes away from her to glare at him. "Calm down? You want me to calm down? You out of everyone should know how much hate I have for him and his bunch of minions. All of you know what he did to me, and now you're helping his stepsister?" At my words, the girl was shaking in her seat next to Hongjoong, tears brimming in her eyes.

She is scared of me, I could sense her fear as she avoided my piercing glare, making me scoff to myself internally. "Y/n, that's all in the past, can't you let it go already?" He stood up, acting as a shield for her. "Let it go? Do you think it's that easy? The shit I went through for three years, Hongjoong. Three freakin' years. You want me to forget that and welcome that bastard's sister into my house?! No freakin' way." I pushed him aside to reach for her arm. "Leave her alone and stop being a brat, Y/n! She went through what you did too." I scoffed in disbelief at his words.

"So now I'm the brat? Why are you so worked up? Did I trigger you by messing with your girl? She went through what I did? Was she locked up in the basement for three full years? Were her parents killed right in front of her too?" No one dared to look at me, their heads hanging low. "Fine then, side her all you want." Tired of this argument, I turned away from them, my eyes hot as I felt tears flowing down my cheeks, stomping towards the basement where my training room was, ignoring the stinging pain my tears caused on my cut from the bullet before.

Unable to contain the rush of emotions, I took it all out on my punching bag. Curses spilt out along with my tears, ignoring the bruises that were forming on my knuckles as I punched with full force. A brat huh, is it my fault that I can't forget about my past? What I went through the past years? Wtf does he think he is? Bullshit. I continued pounding on the punching bag, venting all my hidden anger, and I was so immersed in my thoughts I didn't even notice someone behind me until that person had tapped me on my shoulder.

"What is it?!" I snapped, my fist stopped barely an inch away from his face. He looked at me with sadness in his round, innocent eyes; his hand reaching up to softly hold mine, pulling it away from his face. "Noona, please don't do this, at least not to yourself." Jongho said gently while softly caressing my hands, worry evident in his eyes. I remained quiet, trying to sort out my thoughts; my mind was in a mess. I felt his cold hand on my cheek, brushing the tears that have fallen without my permission.

Snapping out of it, I roughly wiped my tears and escaped from his grip, turning back to the punching bag. "Leave me alone, Jongho. Go back to your hyungs; get some rest or whatever. Just let me be." Just as my fist was raised, he pulled me into him, wrapping his strong arms around me. "No, I'm not leaving you alone. I will never do that." His grip on me tightened when I tried struggling away from him. "Stop, please. It breaks my heart seeing you like this. Noona, please." I closed my eyes, breathing in and out trying to regulate my breathing, finally giving in to him.

"Are you better now?" He asked me, his hands coming up to my cheeks once again as I nodded slowly, finally calming down. He led me to the bench, sitting me down before rushing to grab the first-aid kit. The usually bright boy let out a small sigh as he examined my injuries. "Noona, why are you so hard on yourself? You weren't like this last time." He let his words out cautiously while applying the ointment on my knuckles. "I was weak. I've lost everything because I was weak. I don't want to be weak anymore, Jongho. I can't." Why am I so weak? Why am I crying again? But this time, I let it all out, finding comfort in Jongho's embrace once again.

So warm...I allowed myself to snuggle closer into him as I slowly drifted away, falling asleep.

The house is a mansion inclusive of 4 levels (Level 1-3 and a basement) btw.

level 1: living room, dining room. level 2 & 3: rooms, basement: Training room/hall (Gym, boxing ring etc.)

Update before baby Seonghwa's bday ends <3

~thedouble_a (19/4/20)