Ch 7 - Blood Moon
Waxing & Waning: Two MoonsContinued from the last chapter...
Jongin slams the door shut behind them and starts in with the questions immediately, without even registering what he’s asking or why. “What happened last summer?”
“What are you talking about?” pants the other, eyes widening, overwhelmed at Jongin’s intensity and still out of breath from being dragged briskly into the empty dressing room.
“Don’t play dumb with me – you know exactly what I’m talking about. What was that out there on stage?”
“Huh? You’re going to have to be more specific. I just went and sang a song. What, was it bad or something?”
“Did something happen between you two?” Jongin can’t hold it in any longer. He has to know, and he has to know right now, even if he’s not sure exactly what he’s going to do with the information. His eyes bore into the other’s, scrutinizing them and their reaction to this question in search of the truth. Somewhere in the process of this inquisition, he ends up backing his prey up against the door, towering above the alarmed person.
“…what?” the other whispers, gulping and stilling as the question sinks in.
“Oh my God. Something did happen.”
“NO. Why would you—“ Jongin interrupts by grabbing the speaker by the shoulders and pinning them against the door roughly.
“DO YOU LIKE HER?” Jongin practically spits the question at Kyungsoo, brows furrowing as he stares the older down. Kyungsoo is taking entirely too long to answer the question. His chest is heaving up and down, and his bottom lip is quivering, but his eyes are locked onto Jongin’s, staring straight into him as if he’s trying to decipher the dancer’s soul and mind with this one deep look.
“You’re jealous,” Kyungsoo states. It’s not a question; he says it with such clear conviction and finality that Jongin opens his mouth to retort but finds he can’t argue back. Their faces are only a few inches apart, having drawn closer to each other during the time Kyungsoo took to answer the question. ‘Wait, he didn’t answer the question, he avoided it,’ Jongin thinks, and he continues closing in on the smaller, dominance roiling off his larger frame as though he could intimidate him into getting an answer.
When there’s no more than an inch separating them, Kyungsoo finally breaks the magnetic eye contact they’d been sharing, flickering down at his feet before returning to his face and asking, with a hint of animosity and just the slightest narrowing of his eyes, “Is it because you like her?”
Jongin’s not sure what to make of this. Is Kyungsoo asking because he’s concerned about competition to win over Krystal, or because…<
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