Storm's POV"Do I have to beg?" my insides clenched at her words, the sound of her voice shaking almost eating my heart alive. Why do I always have to bring her pain? Why do I always have to be the person to hurt her? I wanted to move, forward, close to her, and pull her close in my arms. But I can't. We both know we can't. Not anymore. Yesterday, I was summoned at her office, due to me breaking something I promised I won't way back. Back when she was still a trainee. I knew when I heard my manager telling me about the meeting, right then, I knew it's game over. I can't win this battle. Not at this time. But what hurts to me the most is to see her breaking like this. She was stubborn. She found a way to make me go out of my dorm to meet her. With the help of both of our managers. Though afraid, I knew her manager was worried for her, probably why he agreed to help her. "Chu, we both know we have to stop this," I told her, "for now..." I added. I want to ask her to wait but

Storm's POVWith my right hand covering my eyes, my body rested on the couch inside our hotel room. My breathing a little unstable, something I have been suffering lately after Cali and I had broken up. And of course, I knew why. Anxiety, it's starting to succumb within me. And none of my members noticed. At least for now. This isn't new to me anyway. Ever since I am someone who had suffered from depression and anxiety and has been vocal about it. And in my whole existence, the only times I pretended I was okay were the times when she's no longer mine. The first time, I thought it broke me. I thought I lost myself. The days were suffocating. Everything felt so dull and black. If not for the boys, my family, and our fans, I'm not even sure how I was able to survive each day without breaking down. But just when I thought the first time was the hardest, the second time hit me more like a load of truck. It's a fucking slap in the face, with a fucking hammer and a surfboard. It's ki

Cali's POVTwo weeks, three? It took me that long to recover. Recover from the pain of being betrayed. I stopped spacing out, stopped crying myself to sleep. I stopped thinking that the world will stop if he wasn't with me. Relatively speaking, that was the shortest recovery span that I had with anything related to Storm. The last one took me forever. I can't say I'm finally okay but I can say that I'm at least able to pull myself together. And then fast forward, it's now more than a year after the whole fiasco inside our dorm, of us, suddenly learning that one of our members are secretly married for roughly two years, of finding out that Storm knew all that but he didn't bother telling me... Of him meeting my boss only for the end result to be bad as we both expected, of him telling me that we simply give in...Everything... I just felt like, everything just fell apart. I almost died when a car almost hit me after that time he went to our agency to talk to our boss. It took me

Cali's POV"You're not being serious, are you? You're insane," I shake my head in utter disappointment and disgust. I look at him with disdain and I wanted to turn around and leave. But I can't. As much as I hate him right now, I can't simply turn my back and leave. Not when this is basically the first time we've talked in private after all that happened. "My God, you just can't fucking keep your mouth with you," I whispered, my hand brushing my long hair in frustration. And he was just there, staring at me with his arms crossed over his chest. Not a sign of remorse can be seen on his expression. In fact, I'd say he was proud of what he's done. "I told you that you're not allowed to entertain suitors. I was specific. Too specific Chu," his voice was stern and if this was a different occasion, I would have swoon over what he has done but no. Not this time. "You almost punched him! He was just telling me to take care. What is wrong with you?" I wanted to scream. We were at our dor

Cali's POV"Why do we still have to act like these even with the guys?" I pouted. My arms crossed in front of my chest as I slowly raised an eyebrow towards his direction.He just came inside my room and the situation we are currently in is not something I like. It's been almost a year since Zanaya gave birth and we're all back in Korea. A lot had happened and we had to stay low for some time to let our management do the damage control. Seth had confirmed their marriage to the public and of course, the whole industry went nuts. The press conference happened, Seth almost left the thing but stayed for the boys - a lot. It wasn't rainbows and sunshine. Our only consolation was Baby Ashton bringing us so much joy and happiness. He's literally just a pill, a medicine that keeps us going. Storm and I, we literally act like we're not together with everyone. But there are moments that I feel like it's useless. Like that one time, Zanaya and Tokyo literally saw all the hickeys Storm left a