PRIMAL FEAR 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘴 s.u

𝔣𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫

[ i'm so sorry for the delay of this chapter, thank you for everyone who has been reading this story and has been patient with my incompetence. i am especially thankful to those who keep on coming back even centuries later when i update and to the ones who reread my story every time and showing they enjoy. really, thank you so much my beans bc you have no idea how happy it makes me feel. but without anymore delay, here's chapter fourteen ] p.s this chapter hasn't been edited so i apologise for any grammar mistakes.

chapter fourteen | painful memories

Chaeyoung stood still in the corridor, her skin trembling as she tried to process what had just happened in front of her. Brows furrowing in slight disconcert of her denial that no ― that couldn't possibly have been Lalisa Manoban. The girl she knew from her childhood, whose beauty was unparalleled due to her foreign genes and helped Chaeyoung catch fireflies in the dead of the night after they sneaked out of her house when having sleepovers. The redhead felt her throat tighten with the sight of how skinny she had been, when she was so beautiful during their teenage years, what she gone through? Questioned Chaeyoung. And how could it be that she was there?

   Taking a tremulous step towards the living room that the other boys were in, Chaeyoung needed answers. She had been there for days, and they were the happiest she has ever lived since she got taken by Johnny's sub-group, who had Taeil as their leader. The days where she thought that she would die from all the pain, the dehumanising process she went through, and if had probably spent a day longer there until Mark had come to rescue her, then she probably would've lost her mind. 

   But before she can reach for the door, a whimper of fear leaves her when hearing just behind her, another door rage itself open and revealing another surprising presence. Huang Renjun. Who suffered alongside her and who she treated as her little brother the entire time they had spent together until he got taken away by Johnny, who she thought he would kill or sell to another wretched human being ― yet there he stood. His presence no longer of the weak boy she was so accustomed to protect, but one who stood straight with powerful anger that was present not only in his posture but also ablaze in his eyes. He looked so much healthier that it made Chaeyoung tear up at the sight of him.

"Renjun?" She called out his name, but it seemed to fall on deaf ears. He stormed past her towards the living room she was about to enter, Seulgi rushed after him to control his movements but all too late. He had already pushed the living room doors open and to reveal the group of boys that came in not long ago, who looked towards him with confused gazes but then judging ones.

   Chaeyoung caught sight of her little brother, whose hair was now its natural, dark colour. Jisung grumbled to the rest of his group, "Here comes trouble." And Renjun didn't hesitate to march in, even with Seulgi behind him ushering him to stop and leave it.

"What in the fuck happened while you were out?" He sneered towards all of them as he stood in the middle, not being scared of them at all. "Which one of you fuckers is going to tell me, huh?"

   It seemed the answer was no one. Jeno was first to react as silence settled into the room. "We have no obligation to tell you." He answered swiftly, approaching the stand of whiskeys and opening a bottle. "It's none of your business anyways ― who wants a drink?" The male turned around to offer but was met with a fist flying into his sight and landing on his nose, earning gasps and shouts of warning from around the room. At his action, all the boys stood up to hold back Renjun from causing more harm and to do the same to Jeno who was about to stand up and give back the punch ten fold.

"What the hell is up your ass?!" Shouted the male to Renjun, who still glared at him and was attempting to pull away from Haechan and Chenle. "Your sister made a deal with Mark, didn't she?! If she gets hurt by him, she gets fucking hurt!"