Satuday (The next day)

The next morning, Jiyong woke up with a groan escaped from his mouth. He buried his face on the pillow again, didn't feel like waking up. He slept really late last night because of the hurting feeling he's feeling can't make him asleep. It really bothered him to know Dara rejected him, or didn't like what he's doing, it's just the same. Jiyong felt like he's already lost even before he starts anything yet.

Jiyong asked himself, did he treat her wrong? He thought and thought, but everything he did was right for him. He tried to appreciate Dara and her personal space, that's why he rejected her offer to stay. He treats her well, opening the door for her, comforted her, and such. Didn't she like it as well? Didn't she enjoy it?

Jiyong remembers her smile and blushes around him. Did she pretend to do it? Is she giving him a false hope? She should have just tell him directly, what should he do now that he already fall for her?\

Jiyong let a heavy sigh out from his mouth this time. He was kinda regret what he asked last night. If he didn't ask her that question then he probably could spend more time with her, maybe making her like him too? It isn't possible, Jiyong thought, what impossible is making him looks different in her eyes.  

Why is she scared? After being together for a while with him, she doesn't show anything that indicated she's scared of Jiyong. What makes her scared?

Why does she has to protect herself? What makes her has to do that? 

Jaejoong's name flashed in his mind. Jiyong couldn't help but blamed the ex boyfriend for making his life and hers hard like this. Jiyong gritted his teeth after he found another assumption, but he doesn't care whether it's the real answer or just assumption, he is sure Jaejoong has some effect on this, too!

He just hope Jaejoong could back off and will not bother Dara anymore. The abused he did was already bring so many damage to Dara and he should be thankful that Dara didn't report him to the police. Stupid! Jiyong cursed in his mind thinking why Dara didn't do that and didn't let him to do that. It could protect her. It could seriously protect her! It will ease her mind and will not make her worry about her own safety anymore. The thought of Dara that night, crying while hugging him tight really made his blood boiled. Jaejoong was too much that time, and every other time he put his hand on her.

Dara, why can't you see me differently? Take me then i'll protect you from all this ... asked Jiyong in his mind. Jiyong lazily took his phone because it was vibrating. Without seeing the name, he already picked up.

"What?"

"Eeei... You sound so grumpy in the morning. How was last night? Did you get to kiss her hyung?" an annoying voice of Seungri ruined his morning.

"Ugh. Don't even go there."

"So, what happened? Tell me!"

"If you're just going to ask me about her, i'll end the call." Jiyong warned.

"Ups. I assumed something bad happened. Remind you we have band practice in an hour."

"Can i just skip? I don't even feeling like leaving my bed." Jiyong muttered lazily. Give him just a day to be lazy, please...

"You! Should i become the lead singer instead to take your position? I'd be more than happy to do that."

"You will fail." Jiyong replied shortly.

" Huh. You underestimate me too much. I know girls' numbers more than you!"

"So what? I won't gain anything to have those useless numbers. It's not like you contact all of them." Jiyong fired and it was true so Seungri was silent then backfired him.

"I know Dara's number before you." Seungri grinned on the other line, he put the call on speaker and scrolled the contact, searching for Dara's number. "Should i call her?"

"Leave her alone." Jiyong changed his tone into serious one.

"Let me try... Let's make it as conference call, shall we?" Seungri said and Jiyong could hear he pressed the phone, Jiyong wanted to stop him but he wanted to hear her voice too.  The dial rang, and rang, and rang...and after a while it kept on ringing until Seungri ended the call.

"Hyung, hasn't she woke up yet?"

"Don't ask me."

"So, Hyung, are you coming or not?!!!" yelled Seungri then Jiyong ended the call without answering. Annoying Seungri always manage to ruin his day and night. Jiyong rolled out of bed and saw the clock. 11:39AM. He's sure Dara already woke up but she didn't pick up the call, intentionally or not.

With a sigh, he entered the bathroom to take a shower....

Meanwhile...

Dara woke up with a great dizziness hitting her head. It was pounding and she felt so light headed. She felt like she was having a hangover after a night of drinking. Then, what happened last night made all of her sense activated just in a second. Dara tried to pull herself to sit but she couldn't.

Her arms were tied up to the bed post. Her legs too to the bed pole. 

This made Dara felt so scared that her heart could even burst in a moment. She whismpered in pain as she tried to pull her arms but it was too tight that it made her skin turned red.

The door opened and Jaejoong came in.

"You're awake..."

"JAEJOONG! LET ME GO!" She pulled her arms again.

"Sssh. I'm here to take care of you.." Jaejoong pulled a chair and placed it by the bed. He sat down  and placed a glass of water which, Dara didn't notice he was carrying, on the table next to the bed. Dara was still trying to pull her arms, trying to ignore the bite of the rope to her skin.

Dara was still trying to move around and it irks Jaejoong. He held down her arms to the bed, tighten his touch until there was red marks over her skin when he let go. "Calm down!!!"

Dara was so shock that she didn't dare to make another move. She was staring deep at Jaejoong and wondered who was the guy in front of her? Jaejoong she knew isn't like this... He wouldn't take a step too far like this. The sight of Jaejoong blurred with her tears.

Seeing her crying made Jaejoong wiped his face with his palm and he quickly moved closer to her, "Please don't be scared... I'm here.. I won't hurt you. " Jaejoong Dara's hair but she shook her head, dismissing his touch.

"You are here because you don't listen to me, you know that?!" Jaejoong growled because Dara refused to be touch. She started to sob and beg him, "Please.. Let me go.. I swear i'll pretend this isn't happening..."

"This isn't happening?! This IS real! Look at me!" He grabbed her jaw and forced her to look at his face. 

"Why... don't do this, Jae.." whimpered Dara.

Jaejoong stood up, feeling so angry at her question, he walked some steps away before turned around and answered her, "I'm doing this because of you! You ruined me! You left me! I don't know what should i do!"

"Let me go, please..." Dara begged once more, but Jaejoong didn't hear, he just walked away and slammed the door.

"Jaeee!!!" Dara cried out with her tears flooding her face.

"Jiyong hyung!" Daesung waved to get his attention, then he approached Ji. "TOP hyung just got the schedule. We got around 7-10 minutes to perform for school graduation event, and we have to practice five songs so we can see which one is good," He showed the paper and pointed at it, but Jiyong just walked pass by him. 

"Arasso..." he answered and put his bag on the floor. He threw himself onto the couch and covered his eyes. 

Seungri, TOP and Youngbae just entered the room and Seungri rushed to Jiyong as soon as he laid his eyes on his hyung. 

"I called Dara and we just finished talking." He lied with a singsang tone, making Jiyong annoyed more. He pushed Seungri aside.

"So the one you called earlier was her? She didn't even pick up Ji." Youngbae comforted, making Seungri rolled his eyes.

"Ya! He was going to fall for it, hyung!"

"I wasn't." Jiyong coldly replied, and Youngbae already sensed something bad happened to Ji.

"What's wrong, bro?"

"Girls probleem~" Seungri teased again, then he asked, "Yo, Ji hyung. How long have you known her?"

Jiyong took a deep breath, he already annoyed him by call, then Seungri couldn't just dropped the Dara topic, could he? 

"You're just new to our school, so... i guess two weeks? or three?" guessed Daesung.

"Yeah. Around that." muttered Ji.

"So you do know that she has a boyfriend, right?" TOP  asked this time, "Jaejoong is my friend..."

"He is a bast*rd. He is such a to Dara." Commented Jiyong loudly then he sat down, ignoring the look from the other four. "Can we practice now?"

"Why do you say that?" Youngbae started with his interrogating tone.

"It's not my story to tell, but i can assure you he's such a to Dara. Practice, NOW?!"

It was already night, and Jiyong with his bandmates already finished practicing. Each of them chose their own song to sing and practiced the instrument. Youngbae plays keyboard, Seungri is the bassist, Daesung plays the guitar, while TOP raps, and Jiyong as the main singer. Sometimes, they also sing the second voice to make the song's harmonization better.

Jiyong felt much better, he sang his heart out and it calmed him down a little bit. He just felt like he was so disappointed that he kept blaming everyone but him. He just realized he took some part of this problem too, he was at wrong too at some point. He just knew her for weeks! and this is where his problem lies! The period of knowing each other! When he sang  a song earlier, suddenly he remembered about how his sister, Dami, complained about her crush to him.

Dami has known this guy from her office for months, and they just got close during a dinner meeting, and after that Dami and this guy talk and go together a lot. Jiyong still remembered he had to stay awake to open the door for Dami because she just went for a date with him, and that night, she came home unhappily, not like the other night and she immediately locked herself inside her room.

Jiyong tried to give her some personal time even though Jiyong was curious of what happened. Did the guy hurt her? It was the question that lingered in his mind, but the next morning when Jiyong asked her,  Dami just started blabbered about how disrespect the guy was because he was trying to hug his sister. She even confessed she almost slapped the guy... Uh oh.

Jiyong couldn't understand why, the guy clearly wanted to show his affection to her but what Dami said was confusing even more. I like him but we're not in a relationship! I can't just let him do whatever he wants before he tied into a commitment with me! i have to know he wants me too before this happened.

And now Jiyong understands what it means, and he plans to apologize to her on Monday when they will meet at school, giving her another day for her space, and another day for him to assure himself to get things slow with Dara. No need to rush things or else Dara will be like Dami, who took the guy she used to have crush on as a friend only because of that small thing. But if Dara's still doesn't show any interest in him, then he planned to back off....But, he's not a type to give up things he has set his eyes into. *Sigh*

Girls are just confusing.

Dara stared at the ceiling for so long that she didn't even know how many hours has passed. She was hungry and thirsty. Jaejoong didn't come back after he left. She skipped breakfast, and lunch, and now her stomach is growling. She was already frustated because there was a glass of water that she needed so much just beside her bed, but she couldn't reach it! Screw the rope! She couldn't even pull her arms anymore because of the cuts...

The room turned dark because Jaejoong didn't turn on the lamp and the sun already set hours ago. Dara her dry lips and cleared her voice, she already lost her voice due to screaming earlier. She just needs water. She waited again, and thinking a way to escape. She is sure she's in Jaejoong's house because of the house decoration and interior, but she wasn't sure which room she was in. Is she in the second floor? Jaejoong's house is huge and high, and if she jumped off the second floor then she'd probably broke her bones, or the worst, died.

The door creaked opened and Jaejoong brought a bowl with delicious smell. He didn't turn the lamp on. Dara's stomach just betrayed her, letting a loud growl. Jaejoong chuckled and sat at his previous seat. He placed the bowl on the table and picked up the glass, with a soup spoon, he scooped it and brought it to Dara's lips after turned the side lamp on, Dara had to shut her eyes to adjust with the light.

"Come, drink. I don't want you to get dehydrated." Dara couldn't help but opened her lips a bit, letting the cold liquid freshed . She was so thirsty that she felt like snatching the glass from him and gulped the water down fast.

Jaejoong scooped another and fed her again, until he stopped, and was about to place the glass back to the table.

"Again. Water, i want it more." she whispered, looking at Jae with begging eyes.

"You should have told me." Jaejoong smirked and fed Dara the water again, he looked at her with so much love. His eyes were twinkling and his lips turned up into a soft smile. "Had enough?"

Dara nodded.

He then took the bowl, "I tried to cook for you, but i burnt it. I ordered some chinese porridge for you." 

Jaejoong softly blew on the porridge, then fed her but Dara shook her head.

What if he put poison on it?

"Why? It's not hot anymore.." Jaejoong said, using the same tone he used to speak with. His gentle tone.

"You try it first."

Jae frowned but he still ate it anyway, "I didn't put anything into your food and it tastes good. I'm hurt of how low you think of me.." he chuckled bitterly then scooped another spoon, blew it, then fed Dara.

Dara opened this time and ate silently. Jae was right. The porridge tastes so good that it jumped immediately on her favourite food list. Blame the hunger...

Jaejoong wiped the porridge on Dara's lips, and his thumb, then he grinned. "You still eat like a kid."

Dara kept being fed by him until she finished the food and was already feeling full. Jaejoong placed the bowl back and fed her water again, after he's done, he noticed the cuts on Dara's arms. She flinched when Jaejoong touched it.

He stood up without any words and left the room, then after a while he came back with a first aid box. Dara just watching him silently, she felt confused of his action and she's also afraid of talking too. She never know when Jaejoong gone mad. Just a small mistake could make him upset...

"Why do you do this to yourself? Don't hurt yourself.... See? I have to take care of you." Jae murmured while his eyes focusing on her wound.

"I don't need your help." she hissed, and Jae lifted his head to look at her dangerously.

"Don't even start with that, okay? I'm already changed for you. I'm not going to hurt you anymore. I was at wrong, i know, and i'm sorry." she was taken aback with his apologize, but his statement that he already changed made Dara shook her head. He isn't changed. He is gone worst!

"What happened to us, baby?" Jaejoong was already done with her wound and he caressed her cheek, Dara quickly turned away but he grabbed Dara's jaw and positioned it to look at him again, and he continued carressing.

"What happened to you?" Dara asked with creacked voice.

Jaejoong stood up then climbed the bed, laid down next to Dara. He wrapped his arm around her waist, "I just don't want to lose you. I don't want to be left alone. You are the only one that i have. The only one that i love and loves me back."

Dara gulped down her tears, she felt disgusted but she felt pity more. She knew Jaejoong is a lonely man, his parents didn't really care about him and he spent his time with her only, and sometimes with his friends. But Dara could feel she was the centre of his world back then, but why does he have to do this?

"My parents divorced already a month ago. My mom cheated.. She ruins  the family, Dara.. She is an ungrateful ! If i were Daddy, i would kill her for seriously. Dad was stupid to let her go with another man, Dara... He is miserable now.. I can't let that happen to you, or to me. It kills me to see you with another man... I want to kill every men that approach you, but i can't.. i know you won't be happy with living with a murder, Dara. I can't be left alone, Dara, and i love you...that's all matters..."

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