Written By : RedBuggy
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Requester: Patricia Hernandez
Characters:
- Hae Won (OC)
- Jung Yunho
- Choi Seunghyun
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The streetlamp flickered weakly in the dark empty street, intensity clung in the atmosphere as five guys emerged one by one and encircled a guy who was down on the cold pavement.
Yunho wiped his bleeding lips with the back of his hand, annoyed that the punch had caught him unaware. He looked down as he slowly stood up on his feet. Glancing around without trying to look up, he counted. It’s one against five. Easy peasy, he smirked.
“Pl-please let me go,” Yunho pretended to stifle a sob. The leader, from the looks of it, stepped closer to Yunho.
“Lookie what we have here guys. Not only a weakling but a cry baby as well” he laughed and his companions followed.
That was luck on your behalf, Yunho’s eye twitched. He looked up to meet the guy’s eyes, his facade still on. The guy in front of him was a few inches shorter that he had to look up almost 90ﾟto Yunho, his henchmen were no different either.
Yunho tried to hold in his laughter, mentally snickering at the pathetic situation.
They close in on him, still laughing. The leader reached up and patted his cheeks as Yunho feigned fear in his eyes.
Let’s end all this boring drama, shall we? Yunho smirked at him, fists clenched swung high up, ready to connect it to his jaw when suddenly he flew to the side. His henchmen clustered around their leader. Surprised, Yunho turned to see who had ruined his fun. What the...
=======It was just like any other night, Hae Won was wandering aimlessly. She was on the phone with TOP on the other line. TOP, formally known as Choi Seunghyun, was one of her gang members. Don’t get her wrong, Hae Won’s gang isn’t those that cause trouble but instead they beat up those who caused trouble. Technically they are a good gang.
Hae Won caught sight of a group of bully ganging up on some poor guy as she was arguing with TOP on the phone.
“Hold on. I need to exercise,” she simply told TOP and slipped her phone into the pocket of her jeans, line still engaged. TOP rolled his eyes; he knew what kind of ‘exercise’ Hae Won meant.
Hae Won dusted herself as if her clothes were really dirty as the four guys scrambled to their feet and ran away, dragging their unconscious leader from her first punch.
“Wimpy assholes,” she muttered under her breath. She turned and looked up at a stunned looking Yunho.
Cute, the thought fleeted across her mind.
Snapped out of his trance, Yunho wiped away his fake tears, too stunned to register that a girl, yes a GIRL, ‘saved’ him. How embarrassing!
He was about to explain himself when she turned and took out her phone.
Why would he bother to explain himself to this stranger, he wondered for a moment.
Hae Won walked away from him but he managed to catch the words she said to the person on the phone.
“What a sissy.”
Mworago?!
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“Unnie... can’t we go out or something?” a bored looking Minja whined from the sideline. She was sitting down on the floor, hugging her knees.
Hae Won threw the basketball at TOP as Seungri tried to steal it from her. TOP caught it cleanly and swerved Yoochun’s attack. Back arched and arms raised, TOP jumped and shoot a three-pointer.
“Score!” Hae Won cheered and high-fived TOP and Taemi.
“Why don’t you join us?” Taemi looked at her non-identical twin. Minja glared at her which only replied by sniggers. Unlike Taemi the sporty one, Minja is the klutz especially in sports.
“Don’t ask her to join us, you know she’s a hazard to the people around her when she play,” Yoochun teased his girlfriend as he sat down beside her followed by Seungri.
“Oppa!” Minja punched him angrily. He winced in pain because, well as small as his girlfriend seems she pack a strong punch in that little fist of hers. Hae Won laughed at their antics.
“Don’t worry. You fight like a man,” TOP smirked. Minja pouted cutely at him which earned a laugh from him.
“Yah... are you trying to steal my girlfriend right under my nose?”
“Woah, easy there. You know I wouldn’t,” TOP raised his hands in defence.
“Hahaha... we all know you wouldn’t since you already liked someone since the beginning of mankind...” Seungri’s voice trailed and he have this faraway expression, being overly dramatic. TOP glared at him.
“Ehh?! TOP liked someone?! Since when? Who?” Hae Won asked in surprise. Seungri and his big mouth.
All five of her friends stared at her with a speechless expression (=.=”) Everyone knew, except the person herself apparently.
“How dense can you be?” Yoochun squint his eyes at her.
“What? What?” she looked at each of her friend’s faces.
“We were just kidding unnie,” Minja laughed nervously, trying to end the discussion or else they would end up six feet underground from the glare TOP was giving them. Seriously you can see apocalypse coming.
“I thought so. You wouldn’t leave me for any other girl right chingu?” she linked her arms with TOP like a little kid and beamed at him. TOP just nodded, a tiny sad smile formed on his lips when he heard the word ‘chingu’.
“You look happy nowadays unnie. Any reason for it?” Taemi raised her eyebrows. They packed their belongings and cleaned up their mess they made in the basketball gym.
“Ahh... chincha?” Hae Won was in deep thought. A face appeared in her mind. Aishh, why did his face popped out? She shook her head. “Hmmm, maybe it’s because Seungri’s gonna buy us dinner!”
“Boh?!”
“Oh yays! Kaja kaja kaja~” Taemi dragged Minja on her right and TOP on her left towards the exit. Seungri gaped after them; words of protest have failed him. I patted his back in sympathy for he had become her victim and dragged his lifeless body along.
[ flashback ]
“Sheeet!” TOP cursed as one of the robbers slipped past him. He gave chase after him, seeing that his partner has been ‘securely’ caught under Minja and Yoochun’s control.
Hae Won saw TOP ran at the corner of her eye and turned to look. She gestured her remaining members, Taemi and Seungri, to follow after him. Hot on his tail, they ran through the district and after a few twists and turns, they cornered him at one dead end alley. The sun was still high but because of the solemn look the place has it was a bit dark.
Without them noticing, a stranger had followed after their chase too and stood watching from afar.
PANG!
All of them ducked. The robber, tensed by the four-walled prison fired his gun. All of a sudden he laughed maniacally. He must have snapped a nerve. Hae Won calculated their chances. Surely they have the upperhand since it was four against one. One with a crazed look and a gun in his hands. Beads of perspiration coursed their way down as all of the locked looks and seconds ticked by slowly.
There were junks around them but they do not offer much protection against the deadly bullets. Out from the shadows and into the light, two of the robber’s comrades emerged, each had either a baseball bat in hand or a long metal pipe.
“Not so cocky now are we” the maniac smirked when he sensed that he have the upperhand now.
“On the count to three, fight and find a way to escape. I don’t want you guys to get hurt” Hae Won muttered under her breathe. Seungri and Taemi nodded while TOP looked at her worriedly.
“One.. Two.. three!”
Gunshots were released and battle cries echoed through the dark alley. From the minute they got their opportunity, Seungri grabbed Taemi’s hand and ran through one of the abandoned building back door while Yoochun and Minja through another dark alley.
TOP searched for Hae Won’s face, silently praying that she had escaped in the middle of the chaos but he found her sprawled near the wall. One of the comrades had knocked her against the wall in the middle of chaos.
“I got you where I want you” the robber cackled, madness in his eyes as he pointed his gun at Hae Won. She tried to stand up but her side was hurting badly.
The scene was as if taken from a movie and put into slow motion as the guy pulled the trigger and TOP ran with all his might to knock him over while Hae Won closed her eyes in fear, waiting for the bullet to penetrate her.
BANG!
The shot missed Hae Won as someone had pulled her away from her spot. TOP immediately kicked the gun from the maniac’s hand and punched the lights out from him. Knowing that Hae Won was out of death’s hand, he unleashed his fury and ran after her.
Hae Won find herself running, more like pulled forcefully so that she’d run by someone. It can’t be TOP because he was far from her just now. She opened her still shut eyes.
“Y-yah... Stop” she said between her short breaths.
The stranger stopped and turned to her. Hae Won’s face scrunched up trying to recognise his unfamiliar yet familiar face.
“Ah.. sissy guy” she blurt out and covered her mouth.
“Boh? Again? Aishhh...” Yunho scratched his head in annoyance and walked away, just like what Hae Won did the other day.
“yah!” Hae Won called after him. Yunho waved farewell without looking back.
“Hae Won-ah! Gwaenchana?” TOP turned her around and examined her, worry evident on his face. Hae Won turned to see Yunho disappeared round a corner, a smile formed on her lips.
[ end flashback ]
Hae Won went into her favourite cafe despite the crowd inside the little beige coloured shop. She was desperately hungry and at that moment she craved for a cup of hot vanilla cappuccino
She scanned around the cafe for an empty table but unfortunately all of them are occupied. Nevermind, I can always order a take out and enjoy it with a nice scenery at the park, she thought in determination.
Hae Won made her way to the counter when a big burly guy bumped into her. She almost fell onto the hard unforgiving floor if she didn’t grip on the table nearest to her.
“Yah! Aishh…” the occupant of the table cursed as his latte spilled half of its content onto the table.
Looking up, she expected an apology from him but the guy just stared at her as if she was a piece of junk.
“Wutcha looking at girly?”
“You should apologise for bumping me” Hae Won slammed her fist onto the table, her temper rising.
“Woah.. okay. I’m sorry” the burly guy shook his head and walked away.
Yunh stabled his latte while the other hand wiped the spilled liquid. Hae Won finally realised the little mishap she had caused him and began to apologise profusely, bowing her head almost 90 degree.
“Gwaechana.. gwaenchana” he tried to wave her off as people inside the café started to stare their way. When Hae Won stopped and stared at the guy before her, her eyes went as wide as a saucepan.
“Sissy guy!” she exclaimed loudly. Whispers rose from the people around them. Yunho looked around him and hid his face in embarrassment.
“Yah.. we meet again. There must be fate right?” she sat down opposite of Yunho without waiting for his approval, her chatterbox mouth unlocked.
Yunho stared at her in dismay, thinking of whatever form of embarrassment she would give him. Resentment towards the girl formed since the day she ‘saved’ him and grew after she called him sissy again when he saved her.
“I’m sorry. The place is packed, you wouldn’t mind would you?” she looked at him with round almond eyes, her hands swept her bangs from her eyes.
“A-ah... no” Yunho stuttered, his thoughts dissipated into thin air as he blinked his eyes repeatedly.
“Don’t worry, as soon as I get my coffee I’m going to head off to the park” Hae Won assured him after placing her order with a waitress, her cheeks glowing at the thought of the warm drink.
After getting her beverage, she stood up and left the cozy little place. She noticed that footsteps followed her and stopped causing the person behind her to bump into her. She turned around to face her stalker only to have her view blocked by the person’s broad chest. Hae Won raised her head to see Yunho smiling at her.
“May I join you?” he gestured with a new cup of coffee since his initial one was spilled by Hae Won. Realising this Hae Won just nodded, questions formed in her mind.
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“So why do you fight again?” Yunho sipped his coffee as both of them stared across the lake.
“Just so...” her voice trailed as she traced the rim of her cup, eyes blurred as painful memory clawed its way into her mind.
“Just so...” Yunho repeated and silence dawned upon them.
“My oppa died because of bullying,” Hae Won started to unknot her past. Yunho looked at her, curious and yet not uttering a word, encouraging her to continue. She took a deep breathe.
“He kept quiet about it. Not telling us or anyone, kept it bottled inside until her couldn’t take it anymore. He cut himself...” tears threaten to fall but Hae Won held them in.
“If only... If only someone helped him that time...”
Yunho raised his arm and was about to wrap her in a comfort hug when she continued.
“Then I realised. There’s no one who could protect you from this world’s cruelty. You have to survive on your own. Thats why I wanted to become stronger and help others. I want to fend myself...”
His arm dropped.
“That why a man is born, to protect the girl..” Yunho stopped. What is he thinking trying to finish that sentence?
“Jaja.. mianhe for the sudden depressing atmosphere,” she hit him on the shoulders, giggled care freely like an innocent child.
‘To protect the girl he like’ Yunho finished in his thought as he realised that he wanted to keep that sweet smile on Hae Won’s face.
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The day grew dark as the sun set down the horizon. Hae Won quickened her pace as the cold crept into her bones, making her shiver once in a while as she forgot to bring her jacket.
She walked through the abandoned park. It was quiet, eerily quiet. All of a sudden, the silence was broken by the loud music of her ringtone.
“Kyaa! Oh sheettt... Yoboseyo?” she answered her phone as she tried to calm her surprised heart. Hae Won’s heart jumped to her throat when she heard Yunho’s voice on the other line.
“Hae Won-sshi, where are you now? You were supposed to meet me an hour ago” his voice hinted that he was a tad bit annoyed and sulking.
“Jaja... Mianhe, cheongmal mianhe. I’ll be there as soon as I can. I’m just at the nearby abandoned park” Hae Won apologised.
“Hmph~ You owe me an ice-cream later” still sulking Yunho replied.
“Deh.. deh.. I- mmpphh!” she was cut off when someone covered her mouth and nose with a chloroform cloth.
“Hae Won-ah! Hae Won-ah!” Yunho shouted frantically into his handphone. The line was cut off suddenly and he stared at his phone in confusion and worry.
“Aishh!”
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“Hyung-nim, where are we taking her?”
“We’re gonna get rid of her. She’s been a nuisance. And her gang”
“So we’re starting with her?” one of her kidnappers smirked. The two of them dragged the unconscious Hae Won with both on either side, guiding her up by the arms. Hae Won stirred back to consciousness.
“Shit! Was it not strong enough?” the older of the two cursed.
‘My head hurts. My body feels like jelly’ Hae Won thought as she grudgingly opened her eyes and realised that she was being held captive.
She twisted her way free from the two guys and managed to kick one of them. Hae Won stood facing them a few feet apart, wobbled a little since the drug is not completely out of her syste,.
“Hah! She’s still weak. Let’s finish her off now” he decided as he glanced around the empty place.
They charged at her and she dodged their attacks, beads of perspiration formed as Hae Won tried her best to focus.
The younger of the set came at her again. Hae Won fell to the ground and could taste blood on her lips, her head ringing from the hit. No, she cannot lose to these low life bastards.
She gathered her strength and rose to her feet shakily and returned a few punches. Frustrated with the turns of event, the older guy took out a short blade and ran towards her, ready to draw out more blood.
ARGGH!!
The knife flew out of his broken hand as he turned to look at his attacker.
“Don’t mess with my girl” Yunho appeared, hair drenched with sweat and eyebrow furrowed fiercely, a baseball bat in his hands rested on his shoulder.
After that, hell’s hound has been released.
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“Gwaenchanayo?” Yunho helped her up, studying every wound she had. Hae Won nodded as he lead her somewhere to sit.
Yunho took out a clean handkerchief and started to wipe away the blood on her lips. She flinched a little.
“Mian” he mouthed.
“What did you mean ‘my girl’?” Hae Won flicked his forehead.
“Ouch! Yah! That hurts” Yunho pouted. Hae Won just gave him a stern glare.
He continued to clean her wounds in silence before he finally spoke up.
“I want you to be my girl”
“Deh? Pardon?” Hae Won stared at him wide eyed, flabbergasted.
“Be my girlfriend”
Hae Won stared at him still, blushing.
“One. Two. Three. You didn’t say anything that means you agree” Yunho laughed. When Hae Won didn’t say anything he became quiet and turned serious.
“Let me be the man who will protect the girl he likes, Hae Won-ah” he rested his forehead on hers, his tone soft. Yunho could feel her lips curved into a smile as she blushed. He grinned and gave her an Eskimo kiss.
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