Lets Not Fall in love.

I wasn’t even in the clothing store that long. The lady behind the counter looked up and smiled at me. The store was called. Codes Combined* In English she said to me, ‘’You must be the girl I was called about. Look how cute you are!’’ She walked over to me and held out my hand. ‘’I’m Su-Lin Wu. I heard you were looking for a job.’’ I nodded shyly at first. There was a folder in my bag full of new applications and manager cards. I had been promised a call back from the small café near home. Su-lin sat me down and talked to me, asking me questions. I could see the curiosity in her eyes when it came to my skin tone. I knew she wanted to ask. And it was more than okay that she didn’t.

After the small interview, she gave me some papers to fill out. ‘’I really do hope you consider us.’’ She said in Korean this time. ‘’We’d be happy to have you, have a nice night.’’ I had been able to keep up the charade that I wasn’t as nervous as I appeared at first. But as soon as I walked out of the clothing store, I let out a huge sigh of relief. Then frowned at once seeing how dark it was. But I had been keeping up with messaging my mom everyone hour almost on the dot.

I put my cell in my bag and slipped the strap of my bag over my chest out of habit. Creeps were everywhere around the world and I knew that Korea was no exception.
I kept my head down for the most part… I don’t remember being on this side of the street? Where did my bus stop go? When did I heard turned around? And how? I stood on a far side of the street next to an older looking bar and pulled out my map. ‘’Okay, Amy.’’ I told myself. ‘’Calm down. Just tell your mom the truth when you’re late because there’s no way anyone is coming to get you all the way in downtown Gwanju.’’ Yeah, telling myself that didn’t really make me feel better but it helped a bit. And that’s all I needed pretty much.
So I started walking again. Maybe I could find a directory or even another bus stop. What time did buses stop running again?

I was walking away from the shopping plaza, Y’know away from actual people, when I noticed them.

There were about three in front of me on the other side of the street. Three guys that were burning a hole in the side of my face, Theye were staring and I could hear excited whispers, well attempt at whispers. One of them called out to me, and from the corner of my eye I saw that he had chocolate brown hair. He had a deep voice. And he was speaking a little English. ‘’Hey, You there!’’ I tried to imagine that he was calling someone else. But I was the only one out here at the moment. I heard footsteps as they crossed the street over to me.

‘’I know you heard me, girlie.’’ And in Korean he turned to his buddy. ‘’This should be fun.’’ The other one laughed, and his friend with the honey blonde hair stayed quiet. I kept my head down and picked up my pace. The second one beside his friend behind me yelled in Korean: ‘’Jooheon! Don’t let that one get away.’’ I was in full panic mode when I looked up and saw two more guys in front of me. The one called Jooheon had eyes that were more cut crease, and he wore a black backwards had over his short cropped black hair. The hat had a single X on it. I stared at it for a while before backing up. But I backed up right into the arms of the honey blonde one. Okay, let’s think. I only had about 40 dollars worth cash and the rest was in a card in the bottom of my shoe. My dad had taught me to do that.

‘’Please.’’ I whispered. For a second I had forgotten how to speak another language. This caused them to laugh, and other guy beside the one called Joonheon, who had red tousled hair and wider eyes, grabbed me by the arm and dragged me into the light. ‘’Ooh.’’ He cooed grabbing my face between his thumb and forefinger, tilting my head this way and that. He spoke Korean the whole time. ‘’She’s an exotic, look.’’ He said turning my head to the guy who had called out before. ‘’What do you think, Wonho?’’ He asked, Wonho replaced the other guys hands and took my face in his large ones. ‘’KiHyun… I think we struck gold, yeah?’’ I was now clear to me that they didn’t think I understood them. I didn’t play that shit.

‘’ Kihyun, the one with the red hair smiled and moved some hair behind my ear. I slowly started to build up a loud scream. I had been in choir, I knew how to hit the high notes. I was cursing myself out though.

‘’Look,’’

I tried to muster what I could in Korean. But I was shaking. It was like I wasn’t even fluent. ‘’I don’t have a lot of money, Okay? I don’t know what you want?’’ They smiled. ‘’SO she is a little Korean mixup. Oh Honey, we don’t want your money.’’ I felt my heart jumpstart at that sentence and I quickly attempted to break free from the arms of the honey blonde and tried to sprint off. ‘’Damn it, Hyungwon!’’ snapped Jooheon. ‘’And Shownu made you his got damned Co-leader.’’ They were running after me. I searched for places to go, I let out a few screams along the way.

And then it happened so fast. I didn’t even see him get out of the shiny red car. He tackled me, causing me to yell in pain because he tackled me on my side.
‘’Good job, I.M. ‘’ crooned Kihyun. The one called I.M roughly pulled me to my feet and held my arms tight, before pushing me back into the arms of the honey blonde, one.

‘’Where you goin’ Honey? Party hasn’t even started yet.’’

That’s when I screamed again. The one with the red ,hair, Kihyun, growled. "Shut up!" he growled. He looked over my head and squinted. "Don't you let your grip slip again, rookie." he hissed. I turned to look up at Hyungwon, who said nothing and looked away from me.

Jooheon looked over at me and over me. He then pulled out his phone to shine it's light on me. "Hmm." Kihyun looked over and smiled. "I mean, I've never seen one like that before. She's a freaking. Cutie." I jabbed my foot at him when he tried to touch me. Causing him to jump back and shout in excitement. "Whoo!! Look, she's got some fight in her. Passive little thing." he said "this is going to be really fun." to

Jooheon chuckled and nodded. "Don't bruise her, whatever you do, don't bruise her." He instructed. "And don't kill her. Shownu might have our heads for that. Got it?"

Oh.
Oh....
Oh.

my sudden 'fuck that' sense started to come into play. They weren't going to get what they wanted from me without getting a fight out of it first. I wouldn't go down like that. Never had I been put in a situation where I had to take on about five guys, but I had beat a bitch's ass in school once, even though I had not wanted to fight. But she had been trying it.

So, prentending to be submissive I leaned into Hyungwon's hold, I was actually preparing to bite him in the arm. Turning my face to a more fleshy place; I parted my lips.

I knew that I could get a could get a good grip and run far before they could catch up. And my positivity about them probably having guns was well over 9000.

I felt a hand on my side then. Feeling me up. It was the one called Jooheon. I brought my leg up and kicked him straight in the sternum. He stumbled backwards and it was silent for a few seconds. The force of my kick had caused Hyungwon's hold to loosen and I was on the ground.

I felt force on me as I was held down, but I pushed up and tried to get myself in a kneeling position. Because kneeling positions sometimes turned into running positions.

I was well on my way until I heard something click close to my face.
Jooheon, now breathing heavily, was holding a gun very close to my face. Smiling like the joker. Kihyun smiled a little. "Lets show her why we're named Monsta X." He suggested while looking around at the other's. I.M. smiled, And the one called Wonho laughed and went to replace Hyungwon's place behind me. He pulled my arms so tight behind my back I groaned. He held my arms with one hand and my face with the other, making me look at Jooheon. I didn't dare try to scream with a pistol pointed at my face.

with his free hand, Jooheon kept the gun pointed at my face and the other was undoing his felt at a fast pace.
Now I felt screwed. I started to shake violently. For a while, I could only hear my own sobs, but they were drowned out a second or two later by three warning shots heard overhead.

Since when had I closed my eyes?

I was now looking up at a confused Jooheon. His hand had lowered and his pants were halfway down. Wonho's hold also loosened. In the distance I heard.

"I know you mother fuckers aren't on our turff again!" growled a voice. But they sounded excited. I took this time in confusion to thrust my head back again Wonho. Causing him to groan and fall back. I scrambled to grab my bag and made a beeline for the upper sidewalk. Being in the middle of turf war in downtown Gwanju wasn't on my agenda for the weekend. And I hadn't even finished unpacking my boxes.

I didn't make it very far up the sidewalk. I felt something grabbing me from behind. I turned to face the honey blonde, Hyungwon. "I..I can't let you leave." he told me. Why did he sound so hesitant?

The shouts and yells from the opposite direction quickly snapped me back into reality. "Let.,me. Go!" I screeched at him., at first choosing to make no sudden movement because I was sure he had a gun,too.

But to my surprise. He let me go. And I turned to continue up the sidewalk. I made it to the entrance to an alleyway, on the other side I could see brighter city lights. That. That was my way to safety and I knew it.

I stopped to catch my breath, looking over my shoulder a few times in paranoia.

Then, I haunched over to let the warm salty tears slide down my face. I hated feeling weak., but I was still scared. So I continued down the alley to safety.

Wrong.

As I neared the exit, I heard a loud clear engine and before I knew it I was cut off by a large dark blue Chevy suburban. The door burst open and I was grabbed by a man who sported Mohawk And a few tattoos. I screamed and he roughly pushed me into the truck into the arms of another man I couldn't see.

"Haaa! Bitch, you thought!! That you thought you got away huh?! The fuck you thought this was?" said a voice in the front seat.

I couldn't hold it anymore, I was in full swing of panic mode. So I just bursted I started screaming sobbing and shaking all the same time.

"LET. ME. GO!!" I screamed making sure was a loud one, if I knew one thing that annoys my brother and my dad or got to the most, it was when I would yell and scream like a toddler, I had a scream to make anybody believe that I was being tortured somewhere. One time an argument has gotten so bad with my brother juniper, the neighbors called the cops because I thought I was being hit. But this didn't faze the guys.

The one who was holding me, the one with the Mohawk laughed. "Hey, GD. pull over real fast." The one he called Gd, who was in the front seat, the one who had addressed me. gave a simple grunt of knowledgement before accelerating to a spot unknown. Once arrived in what looked like the middle of nowhere with a few houses down the strip and a Clear field on the other side, he pulled over.

The one with the Mohawk reached up in front of me to turn on the light of the car. And then three pairs of eyes were looking down on me. The guy beside me, the one the guy with the Mohawk threw me to had medium- length tousled brown hair and the fullest lips I've ever seen aside from the ones on my brothers juniper. Cocked his head curiously to the side at me.

The one called GD was smiling at me. He had faded orange and pink coloured hair, not an ugly faded but more of a purposely faded. And had a baby face not like the one with full lips beside me. But it was still somewhat of a baby face he also cut his head in curiosity. And then he made a sort of 'huh' sound in the back of his throat. "Well I'll be damned." said baby face. "Look at this cutie!" he was speaking Korean. Oh yeah, because I had shouted to them in English that's probably always thought I knew. Or maybe not maybe they just liked to express that they knew English too.

GD unbuckled his seatbelt and turned around completely to face us. He was appraising me with his eyes obviously. Looking me over not like I was something to eat, but like he was curious about what I was doing in downtown Gwanju.

"So what do we have here?" He asked me. He was still speaking English and I had to admit that it was pretty perfect it was pretty articulate. I could barely tell there was an accent in there somewhere.

The one with the Mohawk spoke up next,"did you not get their money in time,little worker?"

I started crying all over again. And not because I was scared this time because I had just been greatly fucking offended. Tears spilled over from my eyes onto my cheeks and anger spilled out from every pore and radiated all over my body. I hardly turned to the guy with the Mohawk and yelled, "fuck you! I'm not a whore and I don't know those guys! Monster mash or Monsta X. What ever they called themselves. So just let me the fuck out of this creepy stalker van and we'll call it a night!!"

Mohawk stared at me for a long time, and his left eye I kind of started to twitch. And then he grabbed my throat and both of his hands and bent real close to me. "Who in the living fuck do you think you are talking to little girl?!" It was like something within him snapped because as soon as he squeeze down on my neck he let go really fast and took a breather like he was catching himself. He did a movement with his hand and quietly recited a mantra I couldn't understand.

In the front seat, GD laughed. It wasn't mocking laugh, I could tell it was genuine. He threw his head back and chortled a few times before taking a deep breath and turning back to look at us. "I like her." He said with a grin. Then he revved up the car again.

"Let's take her to the big boss." He said at last. His eyes looked off towards the field from the 10 to Windows. But soon he started to drive again. I cursed myself again. Not only Was I in crapload of danger, stuck in a very large car with three probably very dangerous men, but I was way past curfew. And I'm pretty sure the big boss was scarier than 3 of these men combined. And I really, really wasn't looking forward to it.

Notes

Codes Combine is a real store in Korea. Though I'm not sure if there is one in Gwanju. Anyways. Next chapter should be longer and our two fated characters actually meet ;3