I just want to protect you, I want to protect the days where your face gleamed under the sunlight, your smile full of emotion of the things you wanted to tell me.

I just want to protect you, my heart shaken by sadness, of the fact that I can never be with you.

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<AERI'S POV>

It's been two days since that night.

I looked around the house, the house which the owner haven't returned. The things were clattered, unwashed dishes sitting in the sink. I couldn't bring myself to do anything, I couldn't even eat or sleep.

I didn't want to. The dining table is so empty...the bed is larger than usual.

My eyes were cloudy and emotionless. It had been that way in order to protect myself from recalling the painful thoughts of what happened.

I should brush my teeth....

I stood up slowly, my body a little unsteady from the weakness that took over. I felt giddy as I've lied on the floor all day, thinking about flashbacks of us.

When I picked up my toothbrush, I noticed the blue one sitting next to it, which belonged to Yoongi's.

I felt my tears flow uncontrollably from my swollen eyes, and I leaned over the sink. I grabbed the edges to balance myself, as the feeling had left my knees.

"you said you loved me, but what use is it?..." my heart broken words echoed in the bathroom, mingled with the crying.

I cried, leaning over the sink for 15 minutes. My mind remembered him, when I refused to. My thoughts were filled with him, when I didn't want it to. My heart was shattering.

"Aeri, nothing will come out of crying." I stared at my disoriented self in the mirror. "you are stronger than this..."

A flicker of hope sparked in my heart as I comforted myself, trying to stand upright again. If I let it be the end, it will really be the end.

I won't give up.

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"Hello, how may I help?" the lady smiles sweetly as I went to the counter.

I bowed slightly, forcing a smile.

"I'm looking for this person called Han....Han Jaewon."

"Certaintly. You have an appointment with him?" She picks up the phone at the receptionist counter.

"I....um..." I stuttered, not knowing what to say.

"Shin Aeri....there's no need."

I turned to the voice next to me, only to recognise that man as the same man I met at the fansigning.

"I knew you'd find me." he wears a smug smirk on his face, tilting his head up arrogantly. I distanced myself  as I remained cautious.

"I need to talk to you." I said with a firm voice, trying to mask whatever nervousness that hid in my heart.

"Sure...but let's go somewhere else." a malicious glint flickered in his eyes, his smile unwavering.

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I froze as I saw the place. The neon lights almost blinded my eyes, and I could already see a queue forming, full of scandalously dressed young females.

"I'm not going in there" I glared at him, alarmed. Jaewon's face dropped at my words, and he clicked his tongue.

"Quite picky for someone who asked to talk. Get in, will you?" He pushed me roughly, causing me to stumble over.

And soon we were inside the nightclub. My head begins to spin from all the colourful lights and intense music blasting in the background mercilessly.

Jaewon pulled me along the crowd, his grip strong and hurtful. I winced a little when he squeezed even harder, handling me roughly.

"Ugh.." I did the thing my instincts told me to do, which was to send a message to Yoongi in case of trouble.

"Sit down." Jaewon instructed, and I obeyed reluctantly. He pulls me closer to him, much to my disgust.

"Stay here obediently. I'll listen to what you have to say after" he smiles with a darkened expression. It sent shivers down my back, the way he touched me roughly, it was foreign and unpleasant. It was so different from Yoongi's touch.

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<3RD PERSON POV>

Jaewon smirked to himself victoriously, as his plan was going to succeed.

"Silly girl...." he mumbled under his breath as he dumped the aphrodisiac into the drink. After stirring it with a small spoon, Jaewon places it on a tray.

"Drink, and we'll talk." He hands the drink over to Aeri, who was hesitating. She eyes the drink suspiciously.

"I said to drink it." Jaewon threatens her with his eyes. Aeri, left with no choice, dunks the drink down her throat.

And it worked almost immediately. Aeri felt herself getting dizzy, not thinking straight.

And she couldn't even process that Jaewon was holding her closely, dragging her out of the nightclub. It was as if her own body didn't listen to her.

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"Are you sure this is okay?" Jungkook observed his hyung's weakened state, his body giving out.

"Don't worry about me...when i work, I can forget temporarily." Yoongi answers with a pained expression, his eyes swollen from the amount of crying he did alone in the studio.

"Even if this love is the love I'm doing alone...It won't wither. I'll continue to love her like I did before, and always"

"but this is ridiculous! Both of you love each other, so why do you have to break apart?" Taehyung almost burst in tears at the frustration. The rest of the members shared the sorrow that Yoongi felt in the past two days.

"I don't want anything to happen to her. As long as she's safe and happy, I don't care what happens to me" Yoongi held back the tears that threatened to fall.

"But hyung," Jungkook tears up, his hand rested on Yoongi's shoulder.

"She's not happy."

"If you love her, then fight for her." Jin nodded in agreement.

Right at that moment, Yoongi's phone buzzed.

The screen flashes Aeri's name. Taehyung, who was closest to it, picks it up to read it.

"HYUNG!" he shows Yoongi the message, panick in his eyes.

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"Hot..." Aeri begins to undress impatiently as soon as Jaewon helps her out of the door.

"Not yet, when we reach the hotel" he smirks, excitement rising in his chest.

The two huddled a short distance from the entrance, before Aeri begins to push him off.

"nwot....Nwot yooonnnnngii" she points at him, stumbling slightly.

Jaewon pulls her closer yet again, and was about to hold her when a sharp pain on his cheek sent him flying to the curb.

"Aeri.....Aeri" Yoongi calls out desperately, holding the girl in his arms. He buries his face into her shoulders, overcomed with relief. He felt like pieces of his broken heart mended as Aeri responded, hugging him back.

However, Aeri's grip begin to loosen around him. She falls unconscious in his arms, breathing slowly.

Yoongi's heart broke as he noticed the dark blue marks on her skin, and on her wrists. He held her preciously, like a treasure, his arms safely secured around her.

"What did he do to you....." He wept with the girl in his arms, each of her injuries was a sharp stab to his heart.

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A/N: the next chapter will have a censored and non censored version. It will be posted in a few hours!

Thank you for loving my books. I cried.