Dark Good Looks // Hongjoong

12

It was 9:27am when I woke up. I decided the fastest way to get them here was to do group call with my friends and ask them all to come over to my house to discuss important things. It took them around 30 minutes to get here, some arriving sooner than others. Yoongi, as usual, was the last one to arrive.

"Ok, I have limited time to tell you everything so I'm going to talk fast. Please try and keep up" I announced to the living room before telling them everything. I hadn't told them about Mr Turnbill shooting that man so this was the first time they were hearing about it. I didn't, however, tell them about the bodyguard plan, I expected Hongjoong to tell them that part

"They are coming here at 11:00am" I finished. They went silent for a few seconds

"WHAT!!!" Felix yelled, breaking the silence with a loud shriek

"I knew we shouldn't have left you here alone, didn't I say that they were gonna come back for you" Jimin smacked a hand against his forehead and closed his eyes

"Guys, we don't have a choice. Ateez know way more about this situation than we do, it's smart to trust them" I tried reasoning with them

"Trust them!!" Hyunjin shouted and held up a hand, spreading his fingers out to start counting on them,"they broke into your house",he brought one finger down,"they were stealing your personal information",he dropped the second finger,"they brought weapons to your house the first time we met them, that man that broke into your house had a knife with him when he came here and now there's a psycho looking to kill you", he dropped his hand down to his side when all if his fingers were taken up,"how is none of this their fault?"

"Hera, please just trust us on this one. You are putting yourself in harms way by doing this" Namjoon pleaded with me

"I was in danger the second Hongjoong brought me along with him that day. I'm in it already, I can't get out of it. So we need all the help we can get to make sure Ateez and I survive this" I stood up and paced around the room

"Do you remember that time those guys broke into your house?" Seungmin suddenly said. He brought up a memory none of us wanted to remember, but was forever at the back of our minds looking for a way to move to the front and torment us whenever it could. I looked at him with sad eyes

"We were at home" he started,"We didn't know anything until you texted the group. You may have known how to fight, but you were greatly outnumbered. You needed our help and trusted us to help you in that moment. We got to your house as fast as we could" I closed my eyes to stop the tears from falling, but Seungmin continued anyway

"You were lying on the floor with a bullet hole in your side Hera. Your house had been trashed and the thieves were never caught" He reminded me

"We can't go through that trauma again" Hosoek said on the brink of tears, but he held them in

"If you don't trust Ateez then you will go through that trauma again, Ateez have done nothing to hurt me and so why would they start now. If they wanted to hurt me they would have done it last night" I said,"besides, you need the protection as well"

"No we don't" Taehyung shook his head

"Yes you do" I said,"because my dumb ass told you everything, you are also in danger now" I was trying hard not to raise my voice, I sighed and took a few deep breaths. A knock on the door sounded, breaking the tension in the room

"That would be them" I walked out of the room to open the door. They were dressed in more casual clothes than last time they came to my house and I didn't see any signs of weapons.

"Hey, come in. Close the door behind you" I instructed, before leading them to the living room to sit down

"Thanks princess" San said as he stood next to me, smiling