❝ Manidhan Manidhan oh, yudha satham
Idhil engae ketkum kuyilin satham? ❞

vii. solitary: dripping vengeance

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Her hands started to cramp with the pain she was receiving, her bloodshot eyes desired for nothing but only vengeance. Glasses were shattered on the floor plastered with cold blood, furniture corners were out molded from their shape, the leather chairs were rolling on the floor in solitary.

"Calm the fuck down Chaeyoung, what's gotten into you?" Jisoo yelled with her arms and eyebrows crossed. The whole place was the abbreviation of a mess, Chaeyoung resembled a psycho who escaped a mental asylum. This clutter reminded her of a room filled with suffocating fire and the ashes strangling the last breath, Chaeyoung's eyes were blinded by pure hatred and her lips were spitting profanities.

"I have never seen Chae this mad, Jisoo. Her ears are taped with vexation and none of our words will go inside. She's tasting fire in the worst way possible," Lisa sighed nodding her head in total disapproval of Chaeyoung's current state. "Look at you playing with big words," Jisoo chuckled nudging Lisa playfully and got a snort in return.

"I heard the news, it is truly spreading like wildfire. Chaeyoung's reputation is falling down like the London bridge," Hoseok joined the conversation abruptly furrowing his eyebrows while looking at the raging Chaeyoung. "what news?" Jisoo questioned diverting her attention towards Hoseok.

"Chaeyoung losing to the new transferee? you don't know about that grandma?" Hoseok rested his elbow on Jisoo's shoulder and balanced his weight. "don't call me a grandma you old hag, and did you just say Chae lost to the new transferee?" Jisoo exclaimed shoving Hoseok off from her shoulders.

"I'm gonna make that girl pay for what she did. Who does she think she is? She is nothing but a speck of dust that got stuck onto my shoe, I'll show her what is the consequence of messing with an elite. Doesn't she understand that insanity and hatred have no limits?" Chaeyoung shouted her throats out pushing the files on the table to the ground. She couldn't tolerate her defeat.

"She is playing with fire and it's gonna burn her alive," Chaeyoung bit her lips harshly until the metallic crimson liquid blended through the pain. "You don't understand it yet Chaeyoung, she is the fire," another voice broke through their conversation and everybody fixated their consciousness on the intruder.

"Am I the only one who noticed that Namjoon's has gathered a way lot of information about this new girl?" Lisa raised her eyebrows while unwrapping the shiny covering of her candy with an unreadable smile on her lips. "And does that concern you, Lisa?" Namjoon snickered dragging a chair to the center table. He knows Lisa is the poison herself.

"This matter not only brings her reputation down but, also everyone in this panel. I want you all to keep that in your mind and the fear we used to manipulate everyone might be erased. I warned you from the start, don't take Blaze lightly. Cunning, perceptive, and virtuous are all that I can say about this woman. Beware, she can't be all the three at once too." Namjoon's laugh came out as the most barbarous one they have heard from this man of words.

"Are you hiding something from us, brother?" Jisoo scowled as her palms enveloped Namjoon's shoulder as she bent forward to reach his ears. "Secrets can't be helped, can they? Ignorance is bliss sister," Namjoon's lips twitched as words barreled from his tongue. "Siblings romance aside, what are we gonna do about this girl?" Lisa popped in tracing her fingertips on the desk's corners and devouring the candy.

"Make her regret her whole life, what else?" Jisoo smirked in a smug way. "Now we're talking. Got any plans?" Her words were the extract of the venom in her heart. Lisa is known through the whole school for her intoxicating mind and a bane soul, she is someone you should keep your distance from.

"I haven't seen Jimin for ages, where is that guy?" Jisoo questioned flipping her black hair swiftly and taking a quick glimpse of Chaeyoung. "He is your brother isn't he, Chae? Where is he?" Lisa giggled mockingly while taking a seat near Namjoon.

"Shut up Lisa," Chaeyoung glared while plopping herself on the seat. "You're rubbing salt in her wound lili, better keep your mouth shut if you don't wanna wake up with a poker card stabbed on your chest," Jisoo tittered. "I'm calling service to clean this mess up, everyone be back after the call," she continued dialing a number on her phone and leaving the place quickly and the others did too without bidding any goodbye.

On the other hand, Grayson was panicking and walking restlessly in the classroom while pulling his hair. "What did you do!" he called Blaze out and the brunette blinked her eyes innocently pulling a smile on her face. "Put Chaeyoung back at the place she deserves, that's all," Blaze's expressions were like a toddler with no worries.

"You won the freaking match goddamnit, you're gonna die, I'm gonna die!" He yelled once again for the nth time thinking of his death wish. Blaze chuckled for a response and giggled childishly, "death isn't anywhere near us, what are you terrified of?" she questioned as if nothing had ever happened that might put a full stop in her life history.

"you got to be kidding me, Blaze. Chaeyoung and the elites are not jokes, the only punishment anyone can receive from them is death. Trust me, it isn't pretty," He started to bite his nails in anxiousness. "I guarantee it, no one will dare to lay a finger on us. I ain't a joke either," Blaze smiled grabbing his hands as the boy blushed at the proximity.

"I'm gonna grab some coffee in the cafeteria, come with me," She dragged him along with her to the required destination as the boy's cheeks started to heat up. There was some talent in blaze, she can flatter and piss off anyone she desires. This girl, she is something else. A mystery with secrets in a treasure.

"You're not going anywhere," a voice as deep as the Atlantic ocean made the both of them halt in their places.

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❝ And the war cries of man against man
drowning out the call of the solitary songbird❞