ꜰɪɢᴜʀᴇ | ᴀᴛᴇᴇᴢ ✔️

VII

You walk back up the stairs with Hendery and you see most of the boys sitting around the table. Hongjoong was sitting in the chair you were sitting in before and his eyes meet yours.

"Y/N, do you hate me?" He asks you, causing the boys to look in your direction. You frown at the sudden question.

"Uhh, why are you asking me that?"

"It's just a thought that I had. I haven't been nice to you since you got here and, really I'm not supposed to, but I wanna start." He shrugs. Seonghwa looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Huh?"

"What? I'm serious! Aside from the...incident, she hasn't really done anything bad to us. It wouldn't kill us to start being nice to the girl."

San sighs. "I'm not buying it yet...She needs to earn my trust before I can consider that."

You stare at San. "Earn your trust?" He stares back. "Yes, earn my trust, I don't think I stuttered."

"He does kinda have a point..." Wooyoung chimes in. "I'm not saying I don't trust her. I'm just saying she's gotta prove she won't pull another stunt like this again."

"I'm with that." Mingi nods, walking into the kitchen. "I already kinda trust her, but not really."

"She never did anything to me, so I'm indifferent." Jongho shrugs.

"Well, first of all, I don't hate any of you, so I don't know where the fuck that really came from. I don't really know you guys enough to hate you."

"Fair enough..." San mumbles.

"Second of all, I'm not going to do what I did last night. I admit, what I did was stupid and it might've done more bad than good if I actually went through with it." You say with an eye roll. "If anything, I should thank you-"

"There's no need..." Seonghwa says.

"No, really," You stop him. "If it wasn't for you guys keeping me here, I would've ended up dead the night you guys caught me. And that sounds a lot more fucked up out loud than it did in my head..."

Wooyoung smirks. San looks at you, his gaze softening a little. "Alright fine. I don't...hate you." He says in a low tone. "But you're on thin ice for now..."

You shrug. "I'll take it." You go to sit in between Mingi and Jongho, resting your head on the table.

You then see Yunho and Yeosang come into the kitchen, Yeosang staring down at his phone with a puzzled look on his face. "So, apparently the bodies of Shin Hoseok and Jackson Wang were found in an alley this morning." He looks at you. "Is that your doing?"

"Not necessarily..." You shake your head. San looks at him with a slight frown. "And that's important...why?"

"I dug into who these two were, and they were allegedly working for the Vietnamese," Yunho tells the group, looking down at his phone. "Hoseok was shot, and Jackson was...disemboweled?" He squints at his phone screen. "That's pretty advance..."

"I'm sorry, have you met me?" Wooyoung raises an eyebrow. "That's child's play to me. Disembowelment ain't shit-"

"Okay," You interject. "That's a little creepy...I feel like I'm the only one who's freaked out by that."

"Yeah, it's definitely just you..." Hongjoong mumbles.

"It's saying that the police are working to find the person who killed them – that might be impossible." Yunho shoves his phone in his back pocket.

"How do you know that?" Mingi asks. You think for a moment. "I may know why you think that..."

Yunho looks at you, confused. "Wait, what?"