"No! We can't let her! Are you fucking mad, hyung?" Donghyuck screamed, glaring at Taeyong.

"They don't know her. And I'm pretty sure she can do it perfectly." Taeyong said.

"She's not a fucking object!" Donghyuck said. "Those people almost fucking killed her."

"They almost killed yo-" Kun started.

"It isn't about me, okay?" Donghyuck said. "What if she died?"

"Donghyuck, you aren't sure that the people who crashed the car into yours were them-" Mark said.

"Oh, yeah? Tell me how many blind people in this city are allowed to drive." Donghyuck spat. "I agreed to it earlier but now that I saw what they almost did, I WILL NOT LET HER HONEY TRAP ANYONE." 

He angrily stormed out of the room and Taeyong sighed. 

"Never thought he'd be this protective of her." He said.

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"You're home early?" Aera asked, as she walked out of the washroom after taking a shower and seeing Donghyuck on the bed, his arm over his injured eye.

"Hm." He hummed in response.

"Do you want something to eat?" She asked. 

"Didn't the doctor tell you to rest?" He asked, not even sparing a glance at her.

"Yeah, and I rested enough." She said, looking at him. "Does your eye hurt?"

"No." He said.

"Then why do you have your arm over your eye?" She asked.

"Can you stop asking questions?" He snapped.

"I'm just worried about you-" She said.

"Stop worrying about me then!" He raised his voice, getting up. "You're no one to worry about me!"

"Well, just because you're having a fucking bad day doesn't give you the right to take all your damn anger out on me!" She said. "Make your own dinner now."

She stormed out of the room, slamming the door. 

"Ah, fuck." He groaned, quickly getting up and walking after her. 

He saw her locking herself in the room where she usually designed outfits.

"Aera, open up." He said, knocking on the door.

"Go away, Donghyuck." She said.

"Open the door, Aera." He banged his fist on the door. "Open the goddamn door, for fuck's sake."

"I don't want to!" She yelled.

"Can you, for fucking once, stop overreacting?" He shouted. "I'm just tired, that's all!"

She opened the door, staring at him angrily. "That doesn't give you a fucking reason to shout at me."

"Hey, look, I'm sorry-" He sighed, stepping closer to her.

"Not now, Donghyuck." She said, pushing him away. She walked away to the kitchen and he sighed for the nth time that day.

He went back into the room and laid on the bed, staring up at the ceiling. A phone started ringing, and he looked up to see Aera's phone. He got up, grabbed the phone and walked to the kitchen to give her the phone.

She didn't spare a glance at him and took the phone. Hyunjin was calling her. Hyuck stood there as he cut the vegetables while she talked.

"What?" He heard her say. "You want me to put it on speaker?"

She put her phone on the speaker, and Hyunjin started speaking. For some reason, his voice seemed very shaky.

"Donghyuck...I need you to drop Aera off at the hospital...and-" Donghyuck spun around quickly as both of them heard a loud sound from Hyunjin's side.