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Mara

I wouldn't have thought my day would be like this. A random handsome guy that just so happened to show up at the right time and had me lost in his eyes. It wasn't just his eyes but everything about him seemed so...bright.

Like an angel that was sent just for me or...

No way.

It's a made up person that is just a figment of my imagination and beyond any realistic expectations. Life isn't a fairytale Mara.

Yet... I could physically feel the magnet pulling our bodies together. He held me so perfectly and it all just made me melt.

Just like in the shitty novels I used to read. You know the cliché ones where the handsome guy calls her princess and then they end up having incredible sex after they say 'I love you.'

As cringe as it sounds, I've always wanted a moment like that. I've never felt like that in so long. To have someone cherish me and whisper sweet nothings to me every night. Hold me until I get annoyed and tell him to fuck off. Touch me in only ways he can.

"I am so sorry Mara."

Hoseok's voice brings out of my daze.

I look at him and his cheeks are red from embarrassment. Not just his cheeks but his ears as well. I never got a good look of his face until now. The way his ears point out and the round shape of his cheeks. His pointed nose then his damn jawline that could literally cut through me.

Fuck, I'm so horny right now.

I smile and fold my jacket over my arms. My clothes are slightly wet. I feel the water droplets from my hair fall onto my face. I look over at his blue haired friend who's eyeing me. As if he's Hoseok's mother and doesn't approve of her son being around a girl with a giant butterfly tattoo on her arm.

I don't blame him, I just radiate bad bitch energy and not in the good way.

"I don't think your mother approves of us." I giggle and glance at his friend. Hoseok turns around and shrugs. His friend still glares at me with his arms crossed. "He'll be fine." He said turning back around. "Are you sure you don't want us to give you a ride? It's a pretty long walk back to the campus and I don't want you to...."

His words trail off as I bite my lip and walk towards him closing the gap between us. I contemplate of kissing his cheek but I think that'll only piss his friend off. My real motive was to have him forget about him giving me a ride into the neighborhood that I'm staying in.

The last thing I want to do is scare off the only decent guy that just so happened to walk into my life.

I move close to his ear and whisper, "I'll see you around stalker." I playfully bump into him before walking off the hill and disappear into the fields. I knew the walk would be long but I took it anyways.

Last thing I need is someone finding out just how shitty my life is.

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Hoseok

The car ride is silent and I know for a fact my roommate is beyond mad. But I stay silent and look out the window. I watch as the calming forest and grassland merge and turn into busy streets and high ways. My eye lids slowly come down but the car pulls off to the side of the road. Jimin stops the car but looks straight ahead.

"Who was that?" He says. I exhale and lean my head against the window.

"Just someone I met today."

"Well do you know her?" I turn to Jimin and glare at him. I'm kind of worn out right now and the fact that he's interrogating me isn't helping. When I'm tired I'm cranky and when I'm cranky I don't take things so subtle.

"No mother. I don't know her like that but I would like to get to know her. That's what normal people do. They get to know each other before judgmental people like you show up."

Jimin's eyebrow twitches and he turns in my direction. The look in his eyes is aggressive and he leans over to me.

"Firstly, she looks like trouble and dresses like it."

"Talk about being carefree." I say sarcastically and watch some cars drive by. Jimin sighs and leans back into his seat.

"Look, your mom called Jin today asking about you and it seemed serious. You were nowhere to be found and what do you think she would say if you saw you naked, in the middle of a lake with some random girl."

I paused and thought about it. As wrong as I wanted him to be he was right. My mom just got the worse yet relieving news of her life and I'm over here flirting with the most beautiful woman I just met.

I mean I wouldn't blame myself. It's a natural instinct to want something you've never had.

"Plus I know I've seen her somewhere downtown before and it wasn't the most friendly part." Jimin starts to the car and pulls off from the side of the road.

"What are you doing downtown?" I ask.

"Starting my weed business, remember?" He said with a smirk. He tilted his head to the back and I was in shock from the plants sitting back there. I scoff in disbelief that my best friend

"You really are something else."

***

In The Past

"Mommy where are we going?"

"We're just going out for ice cream buttercup. Stay here and wait for mommy okay."

Mara watched as her mom walked into an abounded building with so much fear in her eyes. Hold onto her stuffed panda, she waited. The night slowly made its way over the neighborhood and Mara was shivering. Her mother finally walked out bruised.

They walked home in silence that night. When they arrived at the brick building sparkled with graffiti she saw bright red and blue lights.

"What's going on?" Her mother rushed over to the entrance.

"Are you Paula Lockwood?"

"Yes that's me."

"Come with me please."

"Could you please tell me what's going on.

Mara watched the looks that the officer's gave her. She looked over at the giant ambulance and suddenly her world came crashing down.

"Your daughter has been shot."

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