Captive | NCT

Chapter 33

Jisung was training hard with Lucas, sweat dripping from his forehead. The two of them were working on his wrestling skills, and even though Jisung was pretty tall, Lucas was bigger and stronger.

Honestly, Jisung had enjoyed the past few weeks of training a lot more. Lucas just told him to fix his stance and worked with him like Ten and Yuta did in the past.

"Come on, Jisung. Come at me!" Lucas yelled. Jisung cracked his knuckles before taking his stance. He went at Lucas again, failing miserably.

"Jisung, I can see what you're going to do before you even do it which is why I can defend myself so easily.. I think you need to think less about what you're going to do and just do it. Like breathing. Do you think about breathing?" Lucas asked.

"No." Jisung quickly replied.

"Exactly! Because it's second nature. Follow me." Lucas said. Jisung raised an eyebrow, watching as Lucas closed his eyes, his feet shoulder-width apart.

"In." Lucas brought his arms up along the side of his body until they were above his head. "And out." Lucas brought his arms back down again.

Jisung snorted as he saw the face Lucas was making as he did the exercise. It was serious but the way his lips jutted out just made Jisung laugh. Lucas did the exercise again and this time, Jisung couldn't hold back and a laugh escaped his lips. He quickly covered his mouth as Lucas' eyes fluttered opened.

"Did you just laugh at me?" Lucas asked. Jisung panicked.

"Uh. No."

"Liar, you did. I heard it." Lucas said, a serious look to his face. Jisung bit his lip.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to." Jisung said, quickly apologizing.

"So you admit it."

"What."

"That you laughed. You're saying that you really laughed."

"Um. I guess so?" Jisung answered. Jisung bowed his head, expecting Lucas to scold him but the complete opposite happened.

Lucas threw his head back, punching his fists in the air with a huge smile.

"OH YEAH! I MADE PARK JISUNG LAUGH! YES FINALLY!!!" Lucas yelled, making everyone in the training area stare at them. Jisung could feel his ears turning red

"Um, hyung. People are staring." Jisung muttered but Lucas didn't hear him. Instead he was doing a little victory dance.

"I made Jisung laugh, mhmm. I made Jisung laugh, mhmm. Yah, Jisung, you're dismissed for today, because you laughed, hehe." Lucas sang.

Eventually even Mark and Jimin stopped their training to see what was going on.

"What happened?" Jimin whispered to Jisung as Mark checked to make sure was alright.

"I laughed." Jisung told her. Jimin raised an eyebrow.

"But you always laugh." Jimin pointed out.

"Yeah with you. But this is the first time laughing in front of Lucas." Jisung said.

"Weird." Jimin said as the two of them stared at Lucas and Mark.

...

"Don't look now but Nari's staring." Hendery told his friend.

Him and Yangyang were in the training area working on their knife throwing, waiting for Lucas and Yuri to finish with their mentees.

Yangyang immediately turned around, earning a smack from Hendery.