The pain had increased. First it was only his right wrist, and now the pain had spread to his elbow. He hardly could move it now. He stared at Hakyeon's face so many times in these last 20 minutes, to read his reactions, to understand if there was any sign of him also feeling the pain. But he couldn't see it. All he noticed was happiness, and joy plastered on that human's face,And now Leo was feeling weird to even complain about pain. But then again he just couldn't accept how Hakyeon was occupying with this pain,it was just too much to bear.

The blisters were nothing compared to this.

Leo did not move his hand even once. Wave of thoughts were crashing inside of Leo's mind. Pain was one of the reason, and that ticket was the second.

"Leo, can you believe, I can Dance in the competition again?"

"Hm.."

Hakyeon stopped dead in his ways,shocked into silence by Leo's sudden coldness towards him.

Conscience pricked him. He asked curtly,

"For real?"

Hakyeon looked over his shoulder to see Leo.

"Are you not happy about it?"

Honestly... no...

Leo was just scared, seeing Hakyeon these days, he realized one thing.. Pain does not stop that latter. So be it a broken heart or a broken wrist, the fact was that they were going to the studio and he will dance with all his might,and Leo will have to sit in a corner, holding his screams in.

Could he actually be happy?

"Of course I am." With that Leo past by him.

Hakyeon started off as well.

"You don't seem like it though..."

Leo clenched his fist.

Yup it still hurts.

Standing in front of the door, Leo waited for Hakyeon to open it, well it was not as if he needed to open the door, he just wanted to examine Hakyeon's expression one more time, while pushing the door.

yup....

It only hurt him, as only rage and disbelief was now painted on Hakyeon's face when he swung the door open. However Leo still did not seem to be able to believe that.

"what do you think which song should I dance to??"

Hakyeon had his eyes fixed on the stereo.

He fixed the volume while Leo's eyes scanned through Hakyeon's right hand, noticing how with each of his little movement the bracelet also swayed a little back and forth, causing the reflection of lights from it to dance on the wall.

This place is a prison

And these people aren't your friends...

The music start to flow, while Hakyeon took his dance stance.

Inhaling thrills through $20 bills...

And with that Hakyeon start to move. Despite how much it hurt Leo, when Hakyeon danced, he could not stop himself from watching that man moving,every time he moved, his heart start to ache. The dancer's moves always portrayed a sad yet angry story,and today was no different. However the emotions were ever so strong,compiling with the songs lyrics , those movements sent out a strong massage, the half smooth moves with hint of sharpness made by the dancer never failed Leo to held his breath in, sometimes causing shivers to run down his spine. That is also a reason why he never told the dancer to stop until the pain felt as if it could murder him.

And I know that it's not a party if it happens every night

Pretending there's glamour and candelabra

When you're drinking by candlelight

Leo himself didn't know when his jaw dropped,the dancer was too much engrossed in his music, and the lunatic look in his eyes with the murderous smile just proved how much he was into the role. The dancer delivered the emotions fastidiously causing the observer to feel sad, and pitiful .

How can such a smiling figure deliver these emotions so..... Strongly?

It was then, Leo's eyes widened and he just laid on his left side, holding his right knee tightly with his left hand. His lips quivered in pain.

Letting out a groan, he looked up at Hakyeon, hardly able to keep his eyes open because the pain kept on increasing with each steps Hakyeon took out there.

"Hakyeon-ah .... stop..."

His quiet voice was a stark contrast to the loud music that filled the studio. And before he realized, he was all curled up on the ground, somewhat praying that Hakyeon would look over at him, would stop taking steps.
Would stop dancing...

It's not an impossible wish, right?

What does it take, how long must I wait?

Hakyeon rolled his head back, only to stop at the sight of Leo crunched up at the floor. Hakyeon stopped. Almost running to Leo, again confused about what to do next,he sat before him, putting his all weight on his knees.

"What happened, did I hurt you again?"

Hakyeon asked, with both confusion and mock in his tone.

Leo moved a little, glad that Hakyeon stopped moving,
But his sitting stance did not help Leo much, he tried to look up at him.

For what reason lord knows, Hakyeon changed his position after seeing Leo in that situation, taking off every bits of pressure away from the knees. Leo felt at ease, slightly.

Putting his whole energy on the ground Leo finally sat up, soon grabbing his knee afterwards.

"I'm sorry," Leo's words came out in a hushed tone, almost inaudible only if the music had not been stopped and, Hakyeon had not been paying attention to him,who knows if he could have heard it or not.

"What happened out there? Why did you suddenly crunched up on the floor? Do you really go through a lot of pain when I dance? should I stop dancing?" Leo felt as if Hakyeon was angry at him, however his voice sounded otherwise, it was filled with affection and wary.

Leo opened up his lips to say something, but he felt no words coming out. So he just signaled Hakyeon not to worry about him with his left hand as he fixed his eyes on the ground.

"Let's just end it here...", and saying so Hakyeon started to walk to the exit carrying his bagpack on his back, turning the lights off,taking large steps, obvious movements of an angry person. Leo slowly followed.

On the road, maybe Hakyeon understood something, that instead of walking all the way to home, he just called for a cab.

And at home Hakyeon was greeted with a smiling Ken, who happened bought a lot of groceries, with God knows where he earned the money from. Hakyeon would have loved to cook dinner , but looking at the poor state of Leo, he just decided to lay down on his bed instead, he even told Ken to make dinner for only one.

Leo was on Hakyeon's bed ,lying on his left side, placing his head on his left arm and tucking the right hand into his pocket, his back facing Hakyeon,who was now sitting on the bed behind him, legs crossed.

"ya... you are hiding something from me, aren't you?! Tell me! "

Hakyeon could no longer kept quiet, being ignorant to how Leo suddenly started acting weird.

Leo did not move, more like he didn't feel like moving,wishing only if he could sleep and wake up in the morning to see that everything was okay. All the pain was gone and he was anymore being a burden to Hakyeon.

"Why won't you speak? Ya!! What's the matter! Share it with me!!!"

Leo was annoyed at those questions. He didn't even flinch, he just laid there quietly having his back at Hakyeon,hoping he would once stop his query.

How can I answer when the words won't come out...

But Cha Hakyeon was not that easy to avoid. Of course he couldn't turn Leo to face him, but the option of walking up to the other side of the bed to face Leo, was still open. And that's what he did.

"LEO!!! YOU BETTER TELL ME THE REASON FOR ACTING THIS COLD RIGHT NOW!!"

Leo fixed his eyes on Hakyeon, crossing his arms before his chest, disappointment evident in his eyes.

Would I be quiet now if I could answer?
.
.
No Hakyeon I won't...

Leo didn't understand if Hakyeon just read his mind or not, because he suddenly touched his throat slightly, somehow caressing it for quite awhile.

"Nope, my throat is fine... YA!! WHY WON'T YOU REPLY THEN!! I'M GOING CRAZY OVER HERE. "

Hakyeon screamed those words out, loud enough to be heard from another room.

"Keep it down, do you want Ken to think that someone else is here?" Came the hoarsely whispers.

My voice... It's almost back....

"I won't. Let him hear! First tell me why you are not glad about me getting back into the competition? And WHY ARE YOU SO LESS FLEXIBLE!! You end up lying on the floor every time I dance! Do you want me to stop dancing? is that why you do so?? "

Hakyeon said those in a slight low tone than before, but still enough to hear from the other side of the door.

The tired dark orbs stared right into the chocolate ones, that were sparkling with curiosity.

Please stop....

The tired eyes seemed as if they were begging.

The tanned one heaved out a sigh, the tired eyes had casted some sorts of spell on him, that he had to let go off his stubbornness only to give rest to the other pair. His body protested the idea, as he later kept on staring at those tired dark orbs with the same equal tiredness visible in his chocolate ones, still hands folded on his chest. It was out of his character to let his stubbornness lose to someone, yet it was what he wanted to do then, and his body had no choice but to obey him, and he slowly started to move away from that side.

"Let's just talk in the morning. You better reply then!" Hakyeon placed the exaggerated emphasis on 'reply', in a tone that was almost warning,as he pulled the blanket over his body, his own back facing Leo's.

"Hakyeon-ah.." his voice hardly came out in a husky tone.

Hakyeon didn't move, and for a second there Leo forgot how he disappears when Hakyeon falls asleep, as he laid down on his back, left hand still under his head, eyes stared blankly at the ceiling. He shut his eyes, the husky whispers that came out of his mouth, became absolutely inaudible as he the words left his lips, slowly,

"It hurts..... A lot."

Taking his right hand out of the pocket he opened his eyes slightly only letting out a groan as he formed a fist.

WHY?

The whispers were so inaudible that even Hakyeon could not have made it only if he did not have absolute focus on Leo. He took Leo's word in his mind but didn't respond, and slowly closed his eyes.

It's gonna be a long night...

The worst feeling you could actually have, is when you buy a lot of groceries for your family with your first pay, but end up eating rameyun alone because your only family is suddenly not hungry. But for Ken, that theory did not work, a smile flashed upon his face as he opened the lid of the hot freshly cooked rameyun. He sat on his bed, to finally enjoy his dinner, digging in with his chopsticks.

"Mmmmh.... Late night rameyun is the best..."

Taking another mouthful in, was the time when he heard Hakyeon shouting.

Ken chuckled.

"Let's make a poem tonight, shall we?"

Ken said alone, holding the chopsticks high in the air, in a motion to write with it.

I thought it was love that had bloomed,

But in reality, it was I who was fooled.

Ken grabbed the water bottle before him, trying to open the lid.

How little that you made me feel,

With every little thing that you did....

Drinking the water from it, he put back the lid on as he again run his chopsticks through the rameyun.

But my existence was mere a game

But the realization hit me of late...

And How with every word you ignore

made me feel like disappearing even more...

Taking in the last bite of his rameyun, he fixed his gaze on Hakyeon's room's door.

It was then that I realized

How small and fragile had I became,

When I regained myself a bit

With every single attention from you that I gained...

A slow, wicked smile broadened across his lips, satisfied with the crappy poem that he wrote, if it was considered to be one.

"Maybe I'll upload it on Wattpad. "

Looking at the door with a evil puppy eye,

"Goodnight N-hyung..." he whispered

"Goodnight.., "

he let out a chuckle, as if a comedy show was going on and he tried to force a laugh at those non funny exaggerated jokes. The smile stretched as he whispered those words slowly, almost sounding like a mock...

Leo... have a nice sleep...

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A/N: okay done!!! There are no more chapters today... I honestly dunno where this story is going.... *sigh* and I even thought of discontinuing it... So THANKS TO THE READERS THAT ENCOURAGED ME TO WRITE AGAIN!!! thanks for reading my story!! I can't explain how much grateful I am to you.... [esp. thanks to banasha98, kidisn and nekokarina... You people are the best human on earth :') ] <3<3<3

Anyway I thought of discontinuing it, but Fantasy1stwin was sooooo beautiful!!! And seeing our VIXX's all teary eyes while receiving their 26th trophy , I couldn't stop myself from crying and I started writing another chapter..(WHY ARE THEY SO HUMBLE😢😢) . And then Fantasy2ndwin shocked the hell outta me... And seeing our leader choking, and ken bowing to the audience.... I ended up writing another two chapters out of happiness..

Hehe.. I'm blabbering a lot!! Anyway thanks 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 and congratulations on getting two wins!!! YAY!