Zoey's P.O.V978Please respect copyright.PENANAmcv6ddFR4d
Waking up this Monday 978Please respect copyright.PENANAso3q5yVOHy
morning was hectic. I didn't want to get out of bed, but in one way or 978Please respect copyright.PENANAkAecVc0b0e
another, I would have to. I lay awake, thinking. I didn't want to face 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGapdvoOaT7
off the challenges for today knowing that one of them was dealing with 978Please respect copyright.PENANAaZ2cHsPKJ8
Jehan. Since I still have the teddy bear, I wasn't as free as I expected978Please respect copyright.PENANA1X4WocmVhE
myself to be.978Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZCxkwwKa5
I couldn't stop 978Please respect copyright.PENANAZZJIOxZ7iC
wondering what Seungri and TOP were doing at the mall yesterday. As much978Please respect copyright.PENANAEjbecAfCFL
as I wanted to believe that it was a coincidence, I couldn't help but 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGAfQKcYwk6
feel that something was wrong.978Please respect copyright.PENANAN4tqjhxplV
Could they have known 978Please respect copyright.PENANASNSWg9a2It
about Jehan? And if they did, then how? I shook my head. Maybe all that 978Please respect copyright.PENANAK8ncr5HwrP
was nothing but a coincidence and I was just being paranoid. If they 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPq4nNyjvzj
really had found out about Jehan, they would have been asking questions 978Please respect copyright.PENANAeOHJQECqYn
about him and what he does while we were shopping. But they didn't. We 978Please respect copyright.PENANATz9PG7Ckrr
just had our usual conversation.978Please respect copyright.PENANAofmlFS4iho
I brushed off all those 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6FKo8Q5L53
thoughts aside when the alarm on my phone rang telling me to get up. The978Please respect copyright.PENANASP2NIaHNYV
last time I had ever put up an alarm was the morning of my last day of 978Please respect copyright.PENANABqOZ1zEavx
high school. Eversince I became a musician, I never put up an alarm when978Please respect copyright.PENANAa14X16pGjJ
I knew I had someone around to wake me up. Like Sam.978Please respect copyright.PENANAvU5JQH8Dow
But now that she wasn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAzSi1nuNrrZ
here, I had to wake up on my own. Most of the time, I would do so 978Please respect copyright.PENANAfkI1jZ9ND3
without her help. But when I overslept, she was always there to wake me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAaN3HOsP92Q
Anyway, right now, I was just too troubled in my sleep that I must have978Please respect copyright.PENANAo3t8Byfv0b
woken up early before the alarm rang.978Please respect copyright.PENANAmhz1MieSKW
I sat up on my bed and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAYZCeyVkGW8
switched off the alarm. I checked the empty bed beside mine and I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAWfAU94l7Fu
couldn't help but realise how much I miss Sam. I don't know why I was 978Please respect copyright.PENANA5DHNsUCkjc
feeling this way, but I hated the fact that I was missing her so bad. 978Please respect copyright.PENANA7bJnuSc9M6
Not after what happened yesterday at the mall and all over social media.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuLtDJN0zLC
After seeing her with 978Please respect copyright.PENANAim3rC75fe9
G-Dragon yesterday broke my heart further into tiny pieces. As much as I978Please respect copyright.PENANAvOaFLyJVaH
knew she was only there just to try and resolve things with G-Dragon, I978Please respect copyright.PENANAga6QcKsuQw
was filled with fury seeing the two of them together. And to make 978Please respect copyright.PENANAfLsePRjKtp
matters worse, after I had left the mall, I went online and there were 978Please respect copyright.PENANAKfOJ5zHvzZ
pictures of the two everywhere. They were a trending topic for the whole978Please respect copyright.PENANAyBXdqUhCpa
day. That left me devastated.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuMuhepj8Pk
I couldn't stop looking 978Please respect copyright.PENANA57lYWaf6b6
at pictures online even when I came back to the hotel. I read so many 978Please respect copyright.PENANAd1WpjLpDI5
comments. As much as there were so many haters around (like myself), so 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhZqbAQhT2K
many people couldn't stop talking about how adorable the two looked 978Please respect copyright.PENANA7DDugcyC79
together. I couldn't help but admit to myself that they were right. They978Please respect copyright.PENANA1bBGjzO8WG
really did make a cute couple. And that left me envious. I wished it 978Please respect copyright.PENANA23MDCDqkwb
was G-Dragon and I. Not G-Dragon and Sam.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZOOxEiCVS
That sent me boiling to a978Please respect copyright.PENANArUvx7moRrW
point where I almost threw my phone away. When Christine came to see me978Please respect copyright.PENANAlJipZTDFIe
in my room and found me in an angry fit, I told her how painful I felt 978Please respect copyright.PENANA2zwcJwzA8U
seeing G-Dragon and Sam together.978Please respect copyright.PENANAp057Ul8b71
Christine had told me to978Please respect copyright.PENANA0oATEa7Xhi
cool down and that I shouldn't be jealous. She told me that Sam was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAs8iPwZNPTi
only with G-Dragon because she was only trying to resolve things. I told978Please respect copyright.PENANAkTpriSAgZi
her that I already knew that. Christine quickly left me to myself when 978Please respect copyright.PENANAQaK1MiKRz7
she realised that she couldn't calm me down. So I was alone for the rest978Please respect copyright.PENANAOBApb9mzwJ
of the day, not speaking to anyone. I didn't even join the others for 978Please respect copyright.PENANABfAZijozQ7
supper. I had ordered for my supper to be taken up to my room.978Please respect copyright.PENANAF9EBdvVUlw
And now, I had to face 978Please respect copyright.PENANA47PPeEcj6M
another challenge of seeing everyone today, most especially Sam, since 978Please respect copyright.PENANAq1qwsVpqlC
we have to finish up on the dance routine and start working on the music978Please respect copyright.PENANAniY6KNCvsM
video as soon as possible. I have to put up with all this today when I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAK7mqfozm67
was still so upset.978Please respect copyright.PENANAOVQoxfriNn
I quickly got out of bed and went in the showers, hoping the cool water would cool down all the boiling anger in me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAoEX4nmcj4S
After I was done, I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFFXujaPPP7
quickly dressed up. And carrying my purse with me, I went to meet the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAShBtyLL6Vd
others at the dining table for breakfast.978Please respect copyright.PENANAeb6kFVGtSk
I found them already 978Please respect copyright.PENANAS3rLikt6iQ
settled. When I came to sit, everyone mouthed out a "good morning" to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAl7143RiAYj
me, except Sam. And I replied back with a smile on my face.978Please respect copyright.PENANA8jVAnyXyWT
I felt a little awkward 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPWVMLlsygs
when I looked at Sam who sat across the table next to Collins and hadn't978Please respect copyright.PENANAazt11LsHIn
said a word. She was busy with her breakfast, her usual bacon, eggs and978Please respect copyright.PENANAqMHQb7SCHu
toast with juice. I realised she hadn't even looked up at me once and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAMw3qK06WEH
that also felt weird.978Please respect copyright.PENANAwIC1jE0Qpw
I know that she and I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAXQ0l5KVvHo
aren't talking to each other at the moment, but I expected her to say a 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGiju6M0IVE
"good morning" or even look at me to acknowledge that I was around. She 978Please respect copyright.PENANAscej65jKq8
was one person even if we ever had an argument, she would at least try 978Please respect copyright.PENANAw0uI2vl1Vu
to say something to me. The fact that she didn't greet me, made me feel 978Please respect copyright.PENANAtOvR0TR8xw
like something was wrong.978Please respect copyright.PENANAgI3ZrbR5tN
I poured myself a cup of978Please respect copyright.PENANAD1CTZ6G1CZ
coffee, trying to ignore what I was feeling at the moment. I got some 978Please respect copyright.PENANAUhHJEL8Hi8
slices of toast and ate my breakfast.978Please respect copyright.PENANAMMPypw4RXz
"Hey, Sam," said Mike, who sat right next to her. "Have you seen what people have been saying about you and G-Dragon?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAK94oljQDCX
My heart almost skipped a978Please respect copyright.PENANASIEWbf4iwU
beat and I almost choked on my coffee. What was Mike getting at? I know978Please respect copyright.PENANAECASbnoWec
he does things just to annoy me sometimes, but this time, he's gone way978Please respect copyright.PENANAGe2iHdODMt
too far. I was over here! Hello!978Please respect copyright.PENANAd4t3uRlDw3
"You don't have to remind me," Sam said as she looked at her brother. "I've decided not to go online today."978Please respect copyright.PENANA4D7S0bdYHE
"For one who doesn't like attention, you might just disappear off the face of the earth," said Collins.978Please respect copyright.PENANA3hV3QS3mtb
"I can do that," said Sam, staring up at the ceiling obviously building castles in the air.978Please respect copyright.PENANADwTvlr5bKo
"I have no doubt about it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAKvL6y4KSS0
"But I don't see why you978Please respect copyright.PENANAZFTQ333eCg
have to," said Daniel. "Just because people make stories about you and 978Please respect copyright.PENANA9H3BcPOjMB
G-Dragon dating, doesn't mean that you are."978Please respect copyright.PENANAtlosuKEb7X
"One thing about fans is978Please respect copyright.PENANABcWCnnCXvc
that they can make a story so believable, even those who don't know 978Please respect copyright.PENANAWzM2quDmxo
what's going on, might end up believing it," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANApUdR4hvtc4
"I know," said Lee. 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3ItTlDZCbu
"Right now, some k-pop news sites are already taking this to the next 978Please respect copyright.PENANAyiF519YUaA
level. But they all say they couldn't be too sure about it until they 978Please respect copyright.PENANAJip78QmOpG
get an official statement from you and G-Dragon."978Please respect copyright.PENANAmr1dEC8sre
"Wow, that's serious," said Sam.978Please respect copyright.PENANA6Q34hutF9L
"But right now, we have no time for interviews," said Collins. "We have a music video to work on."978Please respect copyright.PENANAtzzpsHRW3K
"I can work with that," said Sam, with a smile on her face.978Please respect copyright.PENANA3xFU2KYuWo
"Alright, guys, finish your breakfast. You know the drill."978Please respect copyright.PENANAiffCQK6ocA
"Aye, aye," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANADaYJz0oKn6
"Well, you're quiet today, Zoey," said Christine as she looked at me. She sat directly across from me on the table.978Please respect copyright.PENANAbWGBBbTCQT
"Do you have a problem with that?" I asked, eyeing Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAUpit4X0zup
"You're just too quiet, that's all."978Please respect copyright.PENANANnNXpAPHAs
"You should be quiet more often," said Collins as he got up from the table. "It kind of suits you."978Please respect copyright.PENANANdPM18q4c0
I frowned at Collins. "Thanks. I'll try doing so more often. That's if I really want to."978Please respect copyright.PENANANIMC21FXlT
"Now that's the Zoey I know," said Mike, raising his eyebrow at me and smiling.978Please respect copyright.PENANAysJP5JUby9
I stuck my tongue out at978Please respect copyright.PENANARedRsygGYE
him but he continued to smile mockingly nonetheless. I noticed that the978Please respect copyright.PENANAwUq88XpjQs
others were laughing and smiling at the whole thing, except Sam. She 978Please respect copyright.PENANAe6knD2xYGf
still wasn't looking in my direction.978Please respect copyright.PENANA17crdyxbtL
Soon after breakfast, we978Please respect copyright.PENANApC3NWhmaaL
left for YG. In the SUV, Sam sat at the back with her brothers. We were978Please respect copyright.PENANAQh87jB13vH
all chatting happily in the car but she was quiet the whole way. She 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPupFfuYjWc
was like that nowadays, always lost in thought. I wondered what she 978Please respect copyright.PENANAVxIsnRF6M6
could be thinking about. Sam was one person who never really shared what978Please respect copyright.PENANA7sQGKp0I7D
she thought. When you asked her about it, she would usually say 978Please respect copyright.PENANAon3U1tjJF1
"nothing" and say no more. But if she really wanted to share with you, 978Please respect copyright.PENANAZFxRro34T6
she would.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcHZS4eHJbN
We arrived at YG and we 978Please respect copyright.PENANAh4knvxaJTI
found ourselves back at the dance studio we were practising in on 978Please respect copyright.PENANAnbiWGcbg9X
Saturday. We found our dance instructor and all the BigBang members with978Please respect copyright.PENANA1P9LlTEku1
the rest of the backup dancers, waiting for us.978Please respect copyright.PENANAgVZNnFfuwo
When everyone was 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3vqYFtzjUe
exchanging greetings with each other, G-Dragon didn't respond to me when978Please respect copyright.PENANAAr80oVDHgv
I said "hi" to him. Given with what happened yesterday, I bet he was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAu7EQXtSHD0
still mad at me for how I behaved towards Sam. He didn't even want to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAv5L5XRAbin
hang out with us soon after Sam had left.978Please respect copyright.PENANAsoociR2wvu
He not responding to me 978Please respect copyright.PENANAkDVqpZV8He
felt awkward and I longed for him to at least give me some attention. He978Please respect copyright.PENANAa4K6aI4dSF
didn't say "hi" to Sam either but just nodded his head when she greeted978Please respect copyright.PENANALsD1uDE4b8
him. At least that was acknowledging someone even if they weren't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAqGAu1hIBTu
talking to each other. And he was staring at her the whole time even 978Please respect copyright.PENANAt1D4ji1KmV
when she wasn't looking. I thought of throwing a shoe at him, but I just978Please respect copyright.PENANANKI86PEXmQ
looked away instead.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXgR1hVWPSe
We went straight to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPSmfdMHyoB
practising for almost a good five hours. And those proved to be the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAoxCo9v6s71
hardest five hours of my life. Since the dance routine starts with 978Please respect copyright.PENANAg6CZwCAGiY
G-Dragon and I, it was really hard having him so close. I realised that I978Please respect copyright.PENANAfpWDTsZHSq
still had feelings for him. At some point during practise, I almost 978Please respect copyright.PENANAZG1UhLmjSv
hugged him, but I brought myself not to. And that wasn't the worst part.978Please respect copyright.PENANAtSkcLJsVfT
During pratice, I 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3GxPvqSywW
noticed that G-Dragon still couldn't take his eyes off Sam. This was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAXpQt7A1Hh6
getting to the point where I wanted to scream at him to snap out of it. I978Please respect copyright.PENANAyvoxpZ45Oe
wondered what he saw in Sam and that sent me thinking.978Please respect copyright.PENANAK04Wp483kL
G-Dragon wasn't the only978Please respect copyright.PENANAOU6zRPLWGM
one who liked Sam. Come to think of it, Daesung also liked her. 978Please respect copyright.PENANArEjmWTCUBy
Probably even Seungri and TOP, given that Seungri had a beautiful crown 978Please respect copyright.PENANARtLBrFc2nU
made just for her and TOP flirts with her whenever he gets the chance 978Please respect copyright.PENANA4axs5TykTt
to. Taeyang already had Hyo-rin and always takes Sam like a sister. What978Please respect copyright.PENANAl7eeChx2Ho
did Sam have that even most of the BigBang members like her so much?978Please respect copyright.PENANAHypQcJPlVA
As her best friend, I 978Please respect copyright.PENANA0PCx5neGO7
should be aware of her qualities. She was nice and friendly to whoever 978Please respect copyright.PENANAKPHUcopMnz
approached her. She is very pretty and had a great body, though she was 978Please respect copyright.PENANABArJkXwszV
never ever fully aware of her physical beauty. She always thought she 978Please respect copyright.PENANAVBSor37hgQ
was like any other ordinary girl but she was more than that.978Please respect copyright.PENANAwwHp69N5xK
She is also smart, 978Please respect copyright.PENANAwiHSd4Hnfo
caring and always understanding. She is a great leader and one who 978Please respect copyright.PENANAJyD0MGMppv
always had our backs whenever we needed it. I don't know how many times 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6L4OfY1sZC
she had always tried to get The Toxins out of trouble. I agree that even978Please respect copyright.PENANASykx2Wjabl
if it looked like we don't appreciate what she does, we really do.978Please respect copyright.PENANAgTSm4DRngF
Sam has a lot of good 978Please respect copyright.PENANAqIbrF85IdR
qualities. Maybe that's why she is liked and loved by everyone. Even her978Please respect copyright.PENANAswpi0iu6Rz
fans. She is honest, when she wanted to. She is also a pretty good 978Please respect copyright.PENANAlkAjreTik9
liar, only when it was necessary to do so. And she is one who wouldn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAC0Thvf6FWW
want to hurt anyone around her.978Please respect copyright.PENANA7EZaPKiXhf
Realising this made me 978Please respect copyright.PENANAeK9eVKUDie
feel a little guilty as I looked at Sam who was dancing in front of me 978Please respect copyright.PENANAkCXxjYDu1y
with Taeyang beside her. I looked at her face and she had this smile 978Please respect copyright.PENANAuwKovmn5rM
that reflected her innocence. I realised that I had been giving Sam a 978Please respect copyright.PENANAOygFQrlpUs
real hard time after I found out G-Dragon likes her and not me. She is 978Please respect copyright.PENANAA9LvN5qpyU
my best friend and would do nothing to hurt me. I know she was only 978Please respect copyright.PENANAMuZ6u0YFL1
looking out for me like she always does, but I am just too ignorant to 978Please respect copyright.PENANA23lCIKF7f3
realise it till now.978Please respect copyright.PENANAwet0IFTIrK
"Wait, hold on a minute guys," said the choreographer. We all stopped dancing as instructed.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcD4fWpVcNF
"Zoey, you aren't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAfGkyZyOG9Z
concentrating," said the choreographer as he looked at me. "This is the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAsHqJoz6wQI
second time you have made the same mistake."978Please respect copyright.PENANAOoyOufDtHO
"Oh, sorry," I said, scratching the back of my head feeling embarrassed. "I'll try to be more cautious next time."978Please respect copyright.PENANAR7noZIO1e5
"Okay. Let's continue from where we left off."978Please respect copyright.PENANAIoD55rKVzk
It was lunch the time we978Please respect copyright.PENANAkxnBOQ42oz
broke off for a break. The choreographer left and the others were 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFoMRrEkukO
talking to some of the backup dancers. I noticed Sam at the corner of 978Please respect copyright.PENANAjjgoMDyrJg
the room with Christine and some of the backup dancers talking. It 978Please respect copyright.PENANA2vDvbPeawC
looked like they were having one hell of a funny conversation because 978Please respect copyright.PENANAD6bEtDTOWk
they were all laughing.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcbDWZ5Qx0p
"Hey, why are you here all alone?" came TOP as he came to stand right next to me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAJUyS4qqN5B
"Nothing," I replied, looking down at my sneakers. "I just want to be alone today."978Please respect copyright.PENANAspELAMsjYF
"Still not talking to Sam?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAIfesZuprUe
"Nope."978Please respect copyright.PENANADCOYq9C4dn
TOP's lips rose to a smile. "You really are stubborn."978Please respect copyright.PENANAc1rpFwzL28
"Too bad it's in my DNA." I smirked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAnGLTvv75E7
"And how long do you think you're going to put up with it?" TOP folded his arms as he looked at me.978Please respect copyright.PENANADvjb2b1nmP
"Maybe till we go home." I shrugged my shoulders.978Please respect copyright.PENANAPDl8Qb5G5d
"I doubt it. Judging by the way you performed today, you looked really preoccupied that you made several mistakes."978Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZH3bQpdUT
"Being preoccupied is Sam's thing."978Please respect copyright.PENANA9GScA7QOjU
"I know. But you aren't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFjncVIX88p
yourself, that's for sure. The Zoey I know wouldn't be here all alone. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhtoDkjbP5g
You would be chit chatting like you always do."978Please respect copyright.PENANAmtR3dX9U5A
"What if I just want to be alone for today?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAg5Wvisizxg
"It's okay. Everyone has those kinds of days. But you make it look like being alone sometimes is a bad thing."978Please respect copyright.PENANA6jq89Hvvqm
I frowned. "Why?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAGqFL2or5iF
"Because you look miserable."978Please respect copyright.PENANAnmhCA5N8JC
I didn't expect that coming from TOP. My mouth was agape as I looked at him.978Please respect copyright.PENANADACgNTluim
"Miserable!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2251wzFjE
"Ya." TOP nodded his head. "It clearly shows."978Please respect copyright.PENANA9EEigray80
I thought for a moment 978Please respect copyright.PENANAwAq7tceoEW
and went back to looking at Sam and Christine with the backup dancers. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAo9nxCiOcI1
Mike, Daesung, Seungri and Daniel had also formed their own little 978Please respect copyright.PENANAdpQ3JByAk5
circle and were laughing and chatting too. Taeyang and G-Dragon were 978Please respect copyright.PENANALpWF1uaVO0
with some of the backup dancers, having a normal chat.978Please respect copyright.PENANAztxJTUEpgg
Seeing all this in front978Please respect copyright.PENANAB0rifA8RLD
of me made me realise that TOP is right. I am definitely miserable. By 978Please respect copyright.PENANAUuq7OKhwiE
now, I would be with the others, chatting. But here I was, all alone. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAv7hE4jJPZR
Until TOP came to talk to me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAdCcOiK0rwX
"I guess you're right," I said. "I am miserable."978Please respect copyright.PENANA8oIt9p4dRi
"Don't worry about it. Aren't you going to resolve things with Sam?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAfh8qiLWwg6
"I don't know," I said 978Please respect copyright.PENANACWVlggc0cg
as I looked at Sam who was laughing out loud. "I'm still mad at her, but978Please respect copyright.PENANA51qrNlKAcG
something in me says that I can't stay like this for long."978Please respect copyright.PENANAqYF2Zh60fI
I told TOP what happened in the morning and how it felt weird that Sam didn't say a word to me nor even looked at me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAVMB8ptwccs
"I felt so bad about it," I said, shaking my head.978Please respect copyright.PENANAkoGeMTPR8t
"Then why don't you talk to her?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAxagQOn2e2N
"Pfft!" I rolled my eyes. "Why should I? Sam always does all the talking."978Please respect copyright.PENANAwT5jmyYYQx
"Really? You think Sam would do that this time around? Besides, she wasn't really at fault with all this."978Please respect copyright.PENANAuU7IhyfJSL
"I know."978Please respect copyright.PENANAAA4MoFm0kQ
"So? Are you going to try and talk to her yourself?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAmn8RVs3VE0
"I'll think about it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAO8cCmYCCWI
"Hey, guys," came Seungri, suddenly calling out to everyone in the room. "Who wants pizza?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAozYynw6Qo7
Everyone muttered out "me!" really loud. Seungri smiled and said he would bring the pizza.978Please respect copyright.PENANASQjulgqG4Y
"Mind if you guys can help me?" Seungri asked as he came up to TOP and I.978Please respect copyright.PENANAE70yi4MgOn
"Sure," I said. I really needed to get out of here for a while and breathe.978Please respect copyright.PENANA83SSbZshX8
The three of us went out978Please respect copyright.PENANAnfUoNNHlO2
of the room and headed to the elevator to take us downstairs. Seungri 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhVsUWhgwJe
already had his phone out calling the pizza parlour to take the order.978Please respect copyright.PENANAxd1FYJyw5I
As soon as we reached the ground floor, we stuck around in the lobby waiting for the pizza.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXKXq6UNRxi
"I'm so hungry," said Seungri, staring at his watch.978Please respect copyright.PENANA6e88oUkhEx
"Chill, you just ordered978Please respect copyright.PENANA9tTWartEGt
pizza like right now," said TOP who was sitting right next to me on one978Please respect copyright.PENANABTAFbsewD9
of the chairs in the waiting area of the lobby.978Please respect copyright.PENANA92LgRxjF2x
"But I'm so hungry."978Please respect copyright.PENANAC8NVQJMWRR
"Trust me, you aren't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAnfFQkXEN88
the only one," I said as I looked at Seungri who was still standing. 978Please respect copyright.PENANATWSiVYZNwK
"Sit down or else you're going to drain the last remaining blood you 978Please respect copyright.PENANAAyaZxl4Ede
have."978Please respect copyright.PENANAUgrr3K5WKi
"Well, that's mean," said Seungri as he sat next to me. "What's up with you?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAieUMWPigdV
"Nothing," I said as I folded my arms.978Please respect copyright.PENANAZza8RE75Ol
"She's cranky, don't mind her," said TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAPBM7vcKP7f
"I'm not cranky. Just having an awful day."978Please respect copyright.PENANA98IS0kH5x5
"Ya, we can see that," said Seungri with a smirk on his face.978Please respect copyright.PENANAO3xABPo0Q6
I didn't say anything as978Please respect copyright.PENANACmxVcYy0ld
I shook my head. All of the sudden, I felt my phone vibrate against my 978Please respect copyright.PENANAZpeml2Jbcz
thigh in the pocket of my sweat pants. I took out my phone. Jehan was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAMEE3dPLKmM
calling.978Please respect copyright.PENANAYjsPL8GIH7
"Isn't it that French guy we met yesterday at the mall?" TOP asked, looking at my phone screen.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1gt0vUhqxw
"Can you please not look!" I said as I turned the phone screen away from TOP's eyes.978Please respect copyright.PENANAEmzcE8fW7l
"Okay, well you better answer that call."978Please respect copyright.PENANAStDpyl5wEg
I stood from the chair and answered Jehan's call when I was a few feet away from the two.978Please respect copyright.PENANAC8OogT7HAA
"Hello," I answered.978Please respect copyright.PENANAzSsZfKrY2r
"Hey, Zoey," said Jehan. "Are you busy today?"978Please respect copyright.PENANATMuYcfh1qt
"Ya, I'm very busy," I answered. "Why?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAgPGMGlQorl
"We have to meet today, ASAP."978Please respect copyright.PENANAf4xPmMFzY4
"But I can't. I have a lot to do today and I don't think I'll manage to meet with you."978Please respect copyright.PENANAHsC4ZmvMRu
"I don't care. I need that teddy bear today. Not tomorrow, but today."978Please respect copyright.PENANAFpXGklV800
I knew Jehan was going 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6TwyJTwbZV
to call and demand for the teddy bear. Luckily, I carried my purse with 978Please respect copyright.PENANArytJ0ly61E
the teddy bear in it. I hadn't removed it from my purse since yesterday 978Please respect copyright.PENANADQb5i4WDHN
and I checked to see if it was still in there this morning. The purse 978Please respect copyright.PENANAX6qYBiI5Or
was upstairs in the dance studio.978Please respect copyright.PENANAEqqtAGa9vH
"Okay, what time do you want to get the teddy bear?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAi3t6iiksR0
"I'm coming to YG to get it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAMuz2lUnQKl
"What!" I was horrified and equally surprised. "No way. You can't come here."978Please respect copyright.PENANA0WjvFGw08G
"Fine. If you have a better idea, then call me or text in the next thirty minutes. I have to get that teddy today."978Please respect copyright.PENANANvUekmrTBU
"You don't have to remind me," I snarled.978Please respect copyright.PENANA2TQV4Xp7zT
He cut the call and I 978Please respect copyright.PENANA63OtERb6Vj
looked at my phone like I was ready to throw it out of the lobby through978Please respect copyright.PENANAdpPkK3v9DH
the open entrance doors. This was bad. Real bad. He wanted to come here978Please respect copyright.PENANAAJAmdFobEb
to get the teddy. That was going to be dangerous. If anyone were to see978Please respect copyright.PENANA84ItXbkfhL
him they would start to ask questions.978Please respect copyright.PENANA7uHpZrtGfk
"Zoey," came Seungri's voice behind me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAvlxwPKSy2D
I turned around and there stood Seungri and TOP staring at me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1fFUCN8bL
"What?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAvHqVxCYIpm
"Was that Jehan you were talking to?" TOP asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANALSglBYWU5w
"Um, ya. Is there a problem?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAMkhqNKSFdu
"You two didn't seem to be having a normal conversation," said Seungri. "It sounded like you were arguing or something."978Please respect copyright.PENANA2VXkyFy8rh
"Arguing? Pfft. No," I gave out a small laugh trying to hide my fear. "It was just some silly misunderstanding."978Please respect copyright.PENANAA6ug6hTHpE
"Come on, Zoey," said TOP. "That was no ordinary misunderstanding and I know an argument when I see one."978Please respect copyright.PENANAeNIfOTNh2w
"Guys, it's nothing. You're worrying for no reason."978Please respect copyright.PENANASHRP39gbKq
"Oh, ya? Then why were you talking about that teddy bear then? It's that small cute teddy he had sent you, right?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAW7s3Z3NpvJ
Dang it! I was cornered 978Please respect copyright.PENANAG0MNAyrcph
now. They had heard about the teddy. I couldn't come up with a lie. If 978Please respect copyright.PENANA8lDkvHHnOU
anything, I'm a terrible liar. Looks like the truth will always come to 978Please respect copyright.PENANALIzNyuPWqb
light no matter how much you try to hide it.978Please respect copyright.PENANAYxC9F0IC2F
"Tell us, Zoey," said Seungri softly. "It can show on your face that something is wrong."978Please respect copyright.PENANAH4Xbta5JTf
I sighed as I looked down on the floor. "Fine. But don't tell anyone."978Please respect copyright.PENANApR9z14ZjSV
"Okay. Now tell us what's going on," said TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAUbSQGPk2rp
We went back to settle down on the chairs. We were at a reasonable distance away from the receptionist so I could talk quietly.978Please respect copyright.PENANAlkRfmTjIhw
I told them everything 978Please respect copyright.PENANAS3Ur8kdjWi
from what happened in Paris till now. They listened carefully and hadn't978Please respect copyright.PENANAGslwgRQ2O2
said a word until I finished the whole story.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQutx4cKIbh
"Have you told anyone about all this?" Seungri asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcc1daqUYS5
"Just you two," I answered.978Please respect copyright.PENANAkePQIsfg1v
"Wow, this is serious," said TOP, trying to take it all in. "He's a diamond smuggler?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA4KfTo2ipx1
"Surprising, right?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA6g7w4yQxgW
"He seemed so nice when we met him," said Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANAAEi74qIou4
"We should involve the police," said TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAR9eH1GbhOj
"No! We can't!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAjxMdwjWn3u
"Why?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAcQKmoaB7Hl
"You know word goes out 978Please respect copyright.PENANAY0opynpYQP
fast. The next thing we know, it's going to be all over social media and978Please respect copyright.PENANAb6mDdKygGN
might give The Toxins a bad name. I would rather do this quietly."978Please respect copyright.PENANAT48IykW5ff
"And how are you so sure he isn't going to use you again?" Seungri asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAMX8U13Zift
"He assured me that this978Please respect copyright.PENANAw43grm8azt
will be the last time he will ever use me to do any of his dirty 978Please respect copyright.PENANA47ibErvRj5
business. I just have to give him the teddy bear and that's it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAnZ03CTW75T
"Give who the teddy bear?" came Christine's voice.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuQT2nVteOK
The three of us turned 978Please respect copyright.PENANAs0lpRHKTrw
and we saw Christine standing a few feet away from us. We hadn't heard 978Please respect copyright.PENANAdnDTN9u0OQ
the elevator doors open nor her footsteps. How did she get here unheard?978Please respect copyright.PENANAHB0moezLtp
"Christine, you're here?" I raised my eyebrows.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQTCoMRT8XK
"Ya, I came to check up on you guys since some of us are really hungry," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAt6GQWJjJgh
"The delivery guy hasn't arrived yet," said Seungri with a smile.978Please respect copyright.PENANAlfjDDbmTJf
"What's this about some guy and a teddy bear?" Christine asked as she looked at me.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1Av3rmefNx
"Ummm, it's nothing, Christine," I said, waving my hand in the air. "Just talking about some random stuff."978Please respect copyright.PENANAsWhwr5yYbH
"Random stuff involving a978Please respect copyright.PENANAHgWpYoCLz5
teddy bear?" Christine shook her head at me as she folded her arms. "I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAVImGCbSVN4
clearly heard you talking about giving some guy a teddy bear and that 978Please respect copyright.PENANAc3EcqEQnsX
you won't have to do his dirty business anymore. I know you're hiding 978Please respect copyright.PENANAaFDDscBHKT
something from me, Zoey. So you better start talking."978Please respect copyright.PENANATBHWtpVZjz
I rolled my eyes and sighed so loud in frustration. How many people was I going to tell the truth to today?978Please respect copyright.PENANAyhqqwAM7E3
"Fine," I said, looking at Christine. "But please don't tell anyone about this."978Please respect copyright.PENANAWxplKqjtOQ
"Okay, I won't."978Please respect copyright.PENANAaaixOOhttx
"Sit down."978Please respect copyright.PENANASQ48Kah0xp
Christine sat right next to TOP and she looked at me with anticipation.978Please respect copyright.PENANAYFBcbvCEoO
"I got myself into trouble," I started.978Please respect copyright.PENANAKtfj79Kjo7
"Great!" Christine threw her arms in the air. "What did you do now, Zoey?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAYAj6VrLqfn
"I got involved with a diamond smuggler."978Please respect copyright.PENANAp6Qtbpp2UO
Christine's face soon 978Please respect copyright.PENANAUoYYQWsCHX
drained of colour and she looked as white as a ghost. She tried to open 978Please respect copyright.PENANAjes5aMxuiE
her mouth to say something but she couldn't. Until....978Please respect copyright.PENANAYztzxlyGr7
"What!"978Please respect copyright.PENANApixdUjxNPW
TOP quickly covered up 978Please respect copyright.PENANAI9aT93xpS8
her mouth before she could shout out anything else. The receptionist 978Please respect copyright.PENANArdDxMDqyiy
looked our way and soon went back to work. When he was sure she had 978Please respect copyright.PENANA9772TSOSYd
cooled down, TOP removed his hand from Christine's mouth.978Please respect copyright.PENANAVY2cF8iWm7
"Are you cool now?" TOP asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAt6XFxq8EvF
"Cool?" asked Christine, sounding anxious. "I come here and hear about some diamond smuggler. How can I be cool?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAWgjspDXDTe
"I know you're really mad at me right now, but you asked what was going on," I said, looking apologetically at her.978Please respect copyright.PENANA6CZJf7Lxgu
"Of course I'm mad!" 978Please respect copyright.PENANAVZYsCnpYFw
Christine whispered angrily at me. "I know you always get in trouble, 978Please respect copyright.PENANA4o2MpUrta7
but this by far is the worst one of them all."978Please respect copyright.PENANAy8BDnrkQxj
"At least it's not a drug dealer," I said shrugging my shoulders.978Please respect copyright.PENANAoInPpSmURv
"Is there a difference? Seriously, Zoey. How the heck did this happen?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAA1d05NXHjs
"It happened in Paris," I said. "Remember the guy I introduced you to at the fashion show?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAGOwQMCR9Mu
"Ya, I remember. What about him?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAVGKyKZs6C5
"He's the diamond smuggler," said TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAlPTfPIG8uS
"WHAT!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAJc5dlpDqtL
"Ssh!" TOP, Seungri and I hushed at her at the same time, putting our fingers on our lips.978Please respect copyright.PENANAM3A4aEFmPC
"Guys, I can't help it, sorry," said Christine. "Wait, that handsome guy is the diamond smuggler?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA1fycaLqD02
"And the one I met at the café," I said.978Please respect copyright.PENANAKzkViWZgm9
"So he is the one who sent us the teddy bear?" Christine asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANA4XMk3dp6uI
"Yes," the three of us answered at the same time.978Please respect copyright.PENANAn1YpXzCb9t
"But why does he want the teddy bear back?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAxymB1SZ71Q
"Because the teddy has diamonds in it," said Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANAAfb8tI7ZbD
"Wow, seriously?" Christine's eyes bulged out with surprise.978Please respect copyright.PENANAdjOXkiE6rH
"Ya," I said. "I planned978Please respect copyright.PENANACRn7wbTK2r
on giving him the teddy bear yesterday but I couldn't because these 978Please respect copyright.PENANA2nQlUPFOKX
guys showed up." I pointed at Seungri and TOP with my two thumbs.978Please respect copyright.PENANA2abg6yYV0Z
"So you're the one who 978Please respect copyright.PENANA5RcBZ2C9Bc
got the teddy from our room yesterday," said Christine. "Lee was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAX3jtAq2OS3
searching for it and couldn't find it. She thought she must have 978Please respect copyright.PENANA95XDL3CtDg
misplaced it somewhere. You even went to meet him? I thought you went 978Please respect copyright.PENANAqtQ5TqKTIc
out with Seungri."978Please respect copyright.PENANAedmLtRZmBp
"I lied."978Please respect copyright.PENANAXgbfOwzeRk
Christine shook her head. "I knew something was up. You are really not good at lying."978Please respect copyright.PENANAk0KosEcGrF
"I know." I gave Christine a grim look, not feeling impressed about myself at all.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcJoF0Lc9np
"Why didn't you tell us you were being threatened by this guy?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAtcl99fwxtz
"I wasn't supposed to. And besides, it was too dangerous. He threatened me with a gun in Paris not to tell anyone."978Please respect copyright.PENANAxhYJ5ofZsy
"That's great. There are guns too. Blackmail would have been so much better."978Please respect copyright.PENANAM3IkN9GVUC
"I know. Now he wants the teddy bear back today. And I don't know what to do. He wanted to come here and get the teddy himself."978Please respect copyright.PENANAL10CNe7bUV
"Then why didn't you let him?" Christine asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcDDyxvPZhS
"That was going to raise a lot of questions if anyone saw him," said Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANAqbXRPPTxAJ
"Now where is she going to meet him now? She has to take that teddy bear away or else it could land us into more trouble."978Please respect copyright.PENANAMTzwhuBjqM
"He said I should have a location as to where we meet," I said. "And I haven't thought of anything yet."978Please respect copyright.PENANAB4x4qIiVpx
"Why don't you meet after practice?" TOP suggested.978Please respect copyright.PENANAmpDCjvH5n8
"But where?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANA0V5fdhb2vh
"Tell him you will meet at the café. The one you had met him in last time. TOP and I will take you there," said Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANA5bOYhJgWu6
"I'm also coming with you," said Christine. "And don't refuse." She pointed her finger at me when I opened my mouth to object.978Please respect copyright.PENANAEROVl7sngK
"Fine, but remember, don't tell anyone," I said.978Please respect copyright.PENANAhkhMmhbuus
"Got it," said TOP and Seungri at the same time. Christine nodded her head.978Please respect copyright.PENANA2z6Ln1t4GE
I took my phone out and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAunOxlp4ZFY
texted Jehan that we should meet at the café after practise some time in978Please respect copyright.PENANA6KiXQ96SUc
the evening. He replied saying that he would be there.978Please respect copyright.PENANAUQzTpWhQRv
"Okay, it's settled," I said as I put my phone back in my pocket.978Please respect copyright.PENANAIZxac3GEBP
"Yay! The pizza is here," said Seungri as he stood up and approached the pizza delivery man coming in through the entrance.978Please respect copyright.PENANASs6znVIZFO
Seungri had ordered ten 978Please respect copyright.PENANATGP0LexTeC
large sized boxes of pizza, enough for everyone upstairs. And the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAnpl98WQCya
flavour, mac and cheese. Sam's favourite. Well, almost everyone's 978Please respect copyright.PENANAMnPChFAIbh
favourite.978Please respect copyright.PENANAW8bjXOrHdr
We helped Seungri with the pizza and went to the elevator which took us back up to the floor of the dance studio.978Please respect copyright.PENANAhng7oel3NB
"When all of this is over, Zoey, you're going to get a scolding from me," said Christine, as we walked down the hall.978Please respect copyright.PENANA5wIAZH36yx
"I'll be ready for 978Please respect copyright.PENANAUSJMfTQXmf
that," I said as I rolled my eyes. "I just can't wait to have everything978Please respect copyright.PENANAwF2usjCxb4
back to the way they were. Before all the threatening."978Please respect copyright.PENANA3Z4SZ8TqXB
"No, they won't," said Seungri. "You still have Sam to resolve things with."978Please respect copyright.PENANAHe4iitAhCp
"And G-Dragon," TOP added.978Please respect copyright.PENANAphS6RVGH62
"Can we please not talk about that?" I asked. "You don't have to remind me all the time."978Please respect copyright.PENANAZewmRau5HX
"Well, someone has to," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAd5uV8MWu3l
"Just so you know, I'll agree to resolve things on my own terms."978Please respect copyright.PENANAPyDI5FyThe
"Jeez," said Christine, rolling her eyes at me. "When you say that, I have to get ready for the unexpected."978Please respect copyright.PENANAGeoEbUVPgY
We found ourselves back 978Please respect copyright.PENANAEeIyLycKvi
at the studio and this time, I found Sam talking to Taeyang. G-Dragon 978Please respect copyright.PENANAtuPNjVJZFs
was still talking to some of the back up dancers and I could see him 978Please respect copyright.PENANANGqvOz5kpe
staring at Sam through the corner of his eye. Or was that me being 978Please respect copyright.PENANAJUtHyxG7uP
paranoid?978Please respect copyright.PENANAewUFmKuHQp
Christine snapped her fingers right in front of me and I turned to look at her.978Please respect copyright.PENANARj83CAVW6R
"What?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANA0mNflAwlRC
"You were frowning," Christine answered.978Please respect copyright.PENANAkVOBQjZdeT
"Frowning? I wasn't frowning."978Please respect copyright.PENANAifiUtT1pN4
"Says the person who 978Please respect copyright.PENANAW4Y6gvMe5n
couldn't stand seeing G-Dragon looking at someone else." Christine gave 978Please respect copyright.PENANA5I4YVmHWMn
me a smirk and left me standing all alone by the door, while she joined 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPSsjiJ6K5i
the others who had soon formed a circle around Seungri and TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAjqOxeVnptM
Soon after lunch, we 978Please respect copyright.PENANA14WjgWLWfU
went straight back to practising. This time, for a good six hours. We 978Please respect copyright.PENANAwbKIDWBzqr
had to do the dance routine over and over again to perfect it. This time978Please respect copyright.PENANALsUr5VgP4g
around, I made sure not to make any mistake like I had been doing 978Please respect copyright.PENANAy4sya49LRz
earlier. This time, everything was coming out perfectly and I don't know978Please respect copyright.PENANA99nIjrIsTH
how many times we had to do the routine all over again. But despite the978Please respect copyright.PENANAtHPRPL4gps
number of times we did it again, we had a whole lot of fun.978Please respect copyright.PENANAdbmeDqChXj
At some point in the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAjYliK3vh2H
afternoon, our two managers and Lee came over to check on us and they 978Please respect copyright.PENANAEd14FWhFEB
were really impressed. Yang Hyun-suk thought filming the dance practise 978Please respect copyright.PENANAWRV65Dm1KP
will be helpful and that they would release it after the music video. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFocIPiiLzr
The dance practise was shot and it came out perfect, but still, we went 978Please respect copyright.PENANAuKN3UwPlwK
back to practising until we could pratice no more.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXozRmBJESS
It was five and the sun 978Please respect copyright.PENANAf0RWApijKk
was setting when we were finally done for the day. I was so tired that I978Please respect copyright.PENANAZEkNjRI8at
was lying on the floor. My body aching everywhere. Luckily, I wasn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAleeksrYdw1
the only one on the floor. Christine and Daniel were lying on either 978Please respect copyright.PENANAj9hCP6qBEG
side of me. We were all pretty tired.978Please respect copyright.PENANARCIFgINROr
The choreographer had already left and the backup dancers also started to leave. G-Dragon and Taeyang left together.978Please respect copyright.PENANA91SmSJgSfx
While I was resting and 978Please respect copyright.PENANA0jI8sFqPzu
gathering up any ounce of energy I had left, Seungri was standing next 978Please respect copyright.PENANAP2BqxReh5V
to my head and looking down on me. I looked up at him with a puzzled 978Please respect copyright.PENANAVJnon5rtiX
look on my face.978Please respect copyright.PENANAzhGtc2fpk6
"Get up, Zoey, we gotta go," he said.978Please respect copyright.PENANARj9gdZKkZW
"Go? Go where?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXsRyEK2Hp5
Christine roughly nudged me on my side with her elbow, I looked at her with a whining look on my face.978Please respect copyright.PENANAD2vD3t34ZW
"Ouch, that hurt!" I said.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1W9lKnarVz
"Are you forgetting, Zoey?" Christine asked, raising her eyebrows. "We have to go somewhere to do something."978Please respect copyright.PENANAetSMpBtM9p
It was then that I remembered that I was supposed to meet Jehan at the café. I totally forgot.978Please respect copyright.PENANARzC5wHGYyh
"Oh, ya!" I quickly sat up on the floor and Christine followed. "We have to go."978Please respect copyright.PENANABmQ6Ha1fCB
"Go where?" Daniel asked, still lying down on the floor and looking at us.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1rqlVRUDOA
"No where," I answered quickly. "We're just planning on going around the city for a drive."978Please respect copyright.PENANAAXp72ASlTs
"I want to follow too," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANA2ixrK0vIdK
"Where did you say you were going?" came Mike who had been talking with Sam and Daesung.978Please respect copyright.PENANA6BM6NBmjcu
I rolled my eyes. Seriously? The last thing I want is for everyone to follow and find out what's going on.978Please respect copyright.PENANA8NLbfI8zBQ
"It's nothing really," said TOP. "We were planning to drive around the city. You don't have to follow."978Please respect copyright.PENANAP06njGuBBj
"But this is not fair," said Daniel, sitting up quickly. "I also want to come along."978Please respect copyright.PENANALUAoRw1EZ9
"Ya, me too," said Mike.978Please respect copyright.PENANAy5v2VeUOie
"Why don't you want 978Please respect copyright.PENANAmSw924WHyH
these guys to go along?" Sam asked. I noticed that she still wasn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAJgr4G5ntM2
looking at me. "You're just going for a drive. I see no reason for them 978Please respect copyright.PENANA1QYymUESf9
not to follow."978Please respect copyright.PENANAEQ2c8G1elV
I wanted to protest and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAthZUJsbS4D
refuse but then I realised that I wasn't supposed to talk to Sam. And 978Please respect copyright.PENANARR25IEXkq5
refusing her was going to be pointless because I already know Seungri 978Please respect copyright.PENANAos2QpPgFQA
and TOP weren't going to deny her so easily.978Please respect copyright.PENANAAPsMK6p0RF
"Okay, they can come along," said Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANA42zx65HZr4
Dang it!978Please respect copyright.PENANAmVWwSRCOFO
"Okay, you'll find me back at the hotel. I'll tell Collins that you had to go out," said Sam to the others, giving them a smile.978Please respect copyright.PENANAp1n518HO3n
"I can take you back to the hotel if you want," said Daesung, addressing Sam.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQR1XF9xhOO
"Thanks, that's nice of 978Please respect copyright.PENANAsEmYPdFUil
you, Daesung," said Sam giving him a sweet smile. She turned to look at 978Please respect copyright.PENANAtR99ElAIUl
the others. "Have fun you, guys."978Please respect copyright.PENANAAgwLGjsVKr
Sam and Daesung left the978Please respect copyright.PENANAY5LDuPFOaW
room together and I couldn't help but look at the door and think to 978Please respect copyright.PENANATLuorBfM1J
myself that the two also made a nice pair.978Please respect copyright.PENANAvVB7DOpgOq
"So, where are we going?" Mike asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANACQafrxd7qi
"Please, don't ask any questions," I said as I turned to face him. "It's none of your business."978Please respect copyright.PENANAVHafdBNHhh
"Mmm, seeing the look on your face, something's up," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANAV4MY5LZSWh
Christine stood up from 978Please respect copyright.PENANARW5i7ImZJA
the floor and said, "look guys, if we tell, you have to promise not to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAr4b4vsfWnN
tell anyone. Not even Sam. No one."978Please respect copyright.PENANAwRJGYq0XIw
I looked up at her with my eyebrow raised. "Are you seriously going to tell them?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAd9jIR87yk2
"Do I have a choice? You know how persistent these two are and they are probably going to find out anyway."978Please respect copyright.PENANAypr5Dv8f6U
"Ya, Christine's right," said Seungri. "And we also couldn't refuse Sam for them to come along."978Please respect copyright.PENANA3nBjWDI2uq
"You just couldn't refuse because you like her too much," I said, turning to face Seungri.978Please respect copyright.PENANAO4uRRAVbaU
Seungri shrugged and smiled. "What can I say? I've to obey the lovely queen, right?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAswBAD8EpJc
I almost snapped back at him but I controlled myself and looked away.978Please respect copyright.PENANAl1vxKjaj93
"Okay, can we focus on telling us what's going on?" Daniel asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAiHDgaEcFtb
"Fine," I said. "Someone tell them. I can't keep repeating myself with all this."978Please respect copyright.PENANAgQC4I5ISo4
TOP told Mike and Daniel what was going on. The two brothers were shocked after what they heard.978Please respect copyright.PENANAbRl5HMP2HX
"Oooh, you're in a lot of trouble now, Zoey," said Mike, looking at me and shaking his head.978Please respect copyright.PENANAsoBJpCjLDu
"You don't have to remind me," I said rolling my eyes.978Please respect copyright.PENANAxdzef55PDA
"I can't believe that guy is the diamond smuggler," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANAVamhiULdfk
"I know," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAPDZG4geVvR
"You haven't told Sam about this?" Mike asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1RV9ZjQbw4
"No. No one has to know," I said. "Not even the police."978Please respect copyright.PENANA6jEJ8WLI5O
"I think you should have told Sam," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANAxwU8jvAqLt
"So that she can judge me? No way."978Please respect copyright.PENANA5lNmStcCBz
"You know Sam can never do that," said Seungri. "She would have helped in any way possible."978Please respect copyright.PENANA6SsBoPMEyJ
"Don't try to convince 978Please respect copyright.PENANAz8iqa0SN2M
her of anything," said Christine. "She probably won't listen like she 978Please respect copyright.PENANABpzzDBKtB0
always does." I raised an eyebrow at Christine and she looked back at me978Please respect copyright.PENANABqRY0IEJiJ
like she could hit me with a hammer.978Please respect copyright.PENANA2B1iDPBFP3
"Okay, let's go," said TOP.978Please respect copyright.PENANAblvcKYG1Kl
I got up from the floor 978Please respect copyright.PENANA4ujZO3z8wv
with Daniel and I took my purse. We soon left the room and headed 978Please respect copyright.PENANAokdWvQaiIv
downstairs. Sam and Daesung had already left since there was no sign of 978Please respect copyright.PENANABPI76BSCoL
Daesung's car in the parking lot. Christine and I went with Seungri in 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFZcgiXE8Os
his car while Daniel and Mike went in TOP's car.978Please respect copyright.PENANAqXQ4nU5ebK
The cars soon left the 978Please respect copyright.PENANABgdAXRXtGh
YG premises and in the car, I couldn't help but feel nervous. What if 978Please respect copyright.PENANAScDU60QAR0
things didn't work out like it did yesterday? I hope not. Every now and 978Please respect copyright.PENANA43a4glIQf1
then, I would open and check if the teddy bear was still in my purse.978Please respect copyright.PENANA8VwqmRIgzd
"Can you you please stop978Please respect copyright.PENANAYCW3QxGMju
doing that?" Christine asked from the back seat. "You might just drop 978Please respect copyright.PENANAw24Zg5Voc5
the teddy and lose it in the car."978Please respect copyright.PENANAIJMQ0z6D0J
"Stop joking around," I said as I turned to look at Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuWfgJAhnEE
"Well, then stop getting nervous. We're all here with you so there is nothing to be worried about."978Please respect copyright.PENANAEZqSB7cmBP
I leaned back on the chair and tried to relax. "You're right," I said. "I need to relax."978Please respect copyright.PENANAwSzujgDdQC
"Don't worry, we're almost there," said Seungri as the car took a turn.978Please respect copyright.PENANAOPJjccRqYV
"I just want to get this over with."978Please respect copyright.PENANA35gQa4XPOj
We were soon packed 978Please respect copyright.PENANAHCZ0uMgj5S
right outside the café and TOP's car parked right next to us. I took a 978Please respect copyright.PENANAsIWzsj5ib8
deep breath. Christine came over and put her hand on my shoulder. I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAV82YIEIbNo
turned to look at her.978Please respect copyright.PENANArsKWA4gT6h
"Everything is going to be okay," said Christine giving me an encouraging smile. "If anything happens, we'll be here."978Please respect copyright.PENANA39sgDnNAwO
"Thanks," I said with a smile. "I'm glad you guys are all here."978Please respect copyright.PENANA2HWTKz1G7I
Seungri also turned to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAyczJsbhQph
smile at me. I don't know what I would have done without them. Their 978Please respect copyright.PENANAzTtXgQW8Hu
presence here gave me a little comfort. But I felt a small hole in my 978Please respect copyright.PENANATu1L3Xll6Y
chest and I wished Sam was here too.978Please respect copyright.PENANAVzOG8XzA2Z
I soon got out of the 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6QG5wQK5z7
car and there was a sudden chill in the air. Maybe it's because the sun 978Please respect copyright.PENANAdzd9nqNwo4
was setting that it started to get cold. I had my purse in my hand and I978Please respect copyright.PENANAnAyhGvwhBF
looked towards the café. I hope everything will go as planned.978Please respect copyright.PENANAJycz7eYDAr
Before I could find my 978Please respect copyright.PENANALzAlleIgj4
way into the café, TOP, Mike and Daniel waved at me through the windows 978Please respect copyright.PENANAk4ACD0nUwF
of TOP's car and giving me a thumbs up. I smiled a little and waved 978Please respect copyright.PENANAvfebkBL5J2
back. At least that gave me the confidence to go ahead.978Please respect copyright.PENANA4oylF2Hf53
I quickly went in the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAuo5adRJ4sO
café and when I slowly stepped in, I looked around for Jehan. I spotted 978Please respect copyright.PENANAmWMAPlK8Ma
him right next to the huge glass window where we had last sat down 978Please respect copyright.PENANADg3X2vfoI3
together. He was alone in his smart pressed black suit, as always.978Please respect copyright.PENANAisk6LNhzyY
I slowly approached the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAMpgM10Owbd
table. His eyes never left me since I walked in the café. When I got to 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6IRBcY7BU9
the table, I sat facing him. My heart was beating so fast. I don't know 978Please respect copyright.PENANAT9H5g604Br
why I was so scared that things might go wrong and Jehan wouldn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAeYiO1YrQwu
hesitate to end my life right here.978Please respect copyright.PENANAJNFbirtk16
"I'm glad you could make it," said Jehan. "I was almost about to call my driver to come pick you up."978Please respect copyright.PENANAaz4oFX1MTk
"I was practising today," I answered.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQuUw4rxLr7
"You look really tired. It could show all over your face."978Please respect copyright.PENANAn6myBdmpHE
"Thanks," I frowned at 978Please respect copyright.PENANAiykqarM04X
him. "Can we get this over with? I still have a busy day tomorrow and I 978Please respect copyright.PENANAkVsbDkal79
would like to get this teddy bear off my back."978Please respect copyright.PENANAlxcphgXL1U
Jehan smirked. "Certainly."978Please respect copyright.PENANAbYbNv4uEgj
I quickly reached out 978Please respect copyright.PENANAuxkcnG5DLP
for the purse on my lap, opened it and gave him the teddy bear. Jehan 978Please respect copyright.PENANAbuh4Qdbv6H
reached out to take it and I couldn't help but feel relieved.978Please respect copyright.PENANAm7CY5Mw0x8
"There! You have your teddy," I said. "Can I go now?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAP7GP3ZwpDa
"Wait." Jehan held up a finger when I was just about to stand up and leave. I sighed.978Please respect copyright.PENANAerogOVaBMK
"What now?" I complained.978Please respect copyright.PENANAsjl5w4ZBAV
"I need to check if all the diamonds are in here," said Jehan, shaking the teddy in his other hand.978Please respect copyright.PENANAlfu9XGlfuN
"What do you think? That978Please respect copyright.PENANAaQhdQ2yBND
I would steal from you?" I was really surprised that he didn't trust 978Please respect copyright.PENANAgLa55RVyIX
me. "You pointed a gun to my head in Paris and I have done everything 978Please respect copyright.PENANAssz0aPDJvT
you have asked until now. What makes you think I would steal your 978Please respect copyright.PENANA4aIzAs93B6
diamonds? I have a life to live, may I remind you."978Please respect copyright.PENANAvjC9xzdUbQ
Jehan raised an eyebrow 978Please respect copyright.PENANABhy45Fxz4Q
at me. "Nice one, Zoey. You almost had me convinced. But I'm still going978Please respect copyright.PENANAc8WHQGSeLE
to check. I've to make sure all the diamonds are in here before I make a978Please respect copyright.PENANA5O1yhMKIWH
fool of myself in front of my clients I'm selling these to."978Please respect copyright.PENANAG3D8lfnjdl
"Fine." I folded my arms on the table. "If you don't believe me, then check it yourself. I know I'm innocent."978Please respect copyright.PENANAkwtcgd1Ref
"I know you're." Jehan gave me a smile and I looked away facing the window. It was getting really dark outside so fast.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuVMykro7jG
I went back to looking 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGmuZudivE1
at Jehan who had laid the little teddy bear on the table and he dug into978Please respect copyright.PENANAap86bOb8IB
the pockets of his suit and removed a small pocket knife. It didn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAjQLpGDbyvr
surprise me that he carried that thing around.978Please respect copyright.PENANARNQaUAHWzs
Jehan slowly laid the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAKU2gsw8mPS
blade onto the little teddy's belly and cut through its tiny suit, 978Please respect copyright.PENANAzFtoAeo77Q
dissecting the teddy bear. This reminded me of science class back in 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6f56t1yJaI
high school when we were told to dissect a frog. Doing that was so 978Please respect copyright.PENANA4imlBxtNDP
disgusting that I ended up purking all over Sam's shoes, who was my 978Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7S0iZnGj9
science partner. This time, it was just cotton stuffing that came out of978Please respect copyright.PENANAdFI0MXA8Ex
the teddy bear.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQPqsFnJo3E
Wait. I frowned. This 978Please respect copyright.PENANAIPAOrxsrIu
isn't right. I raised an eyebrow when Jehan kept on removing cotton 978Please respect copyright.PENANAv6OJ0LhjsH
stuffings and there was no sign of the diamonds. Where were the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAquKXPmWgZM
diamonds!978Please respect copyright.PENANA4MrvSsCCMI
I stared horrified at 978Please respect copyright.PENANALb1zMjYImm
the scene on the table. There was tiny cotton stuffings everywhere and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAKhKrNjHt1u
the bear that laid stuffless on the table was a sad site to see because 978Please respect copyright.PENANA1XoRBRK74M
there was nothing in it. No diamonds.978Please respect copyright.PENANAiq0RvyKaLY
I looked up at Jehan and978Please respect copyright.PENANAGMGDEsDNnq
he was as surprised as I was. His mouth was wide open and he couldn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAck5R2k9p3L
stop looking at the dissected teddy. If he kept on looking at it like 978Please respect copyright.PENANAbpUnrk7Ahv
that, he was going to end up traumatised.978Please respect copyright.PENANA22dlEsncVQ
"Je-Jehan," I said 978Please respect copyright.PENANAdKSyUwj1uQ
softly. Hoping he wouldn't bite at me like a dog with rabies. "Jehan. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAqbCT7tTvuJ
I...I have no idea what has just happened, but, there are no diamonds in978Please respect copyright.PENANAjQYJuVuQ2O
there."978Please respect copyright.PENANAcIJXqjWe7t
Jean neither moved nor 978Please respect copyright.PENANAEMxdKjhRFM
said a word. I was getting worried. Should I move him to try and snap 978Please respect copyright.PENANA81JtnHYRLt
him out of it? I didn't know what to do.978Please respect copyright.PENANAYrfGXq3ORq
But how could this be? 978Please respect copyright.PENANASJigUaaaNQ
Where did the diamonds go? It's not like the teddy bear could just poop 978Please respect copyright.PENANA2weernADHh
out diamonds since it wasn't alive or anything. Something weird was 978Please respect copyright.PENANABTXofM5x5Y
going on. And I wasn't like liking it at all.978Please respect copyright.PENANA8G7diJkV0q
"Where are my diamonds?" Jehan muttered silently, still looking at the scene before him.978Please respect copyright.PENANAfoFatuTScx
"I...I don't know," I said shaking my head. I was scared of his reaction and I prepared myself for it.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQz0fS4rTaY
He banged his fists on 978Please respect copyright.PENANA1VDW8hv7Hi
the table so loudly that he startled not only me, but everyone else in 978Please respect copyright.PENANAthxRd9WXGU
the café. Everyone turned to look at us and I looked around then back at978Please respect copyright.PENANACYefRExmJi
Jehan, whose eyes were as red as a bull's, staring at me.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXHwpr15EHo
"Jehan, chill," I said, putting my hands up to calm him down. "Let's not try to get angry here."978Please respect copyright.PENANA28plPl1rEf
"Where are my diamonds, Zoey?" This time he didn't shout but the anger in his voice got me shivering.978Please respect copyright.PENANA7KXnRBP9l2
"I don't know. I don't 978Please respect copyright.PENANAOdEsd7P9Al
know what's going on right now. This is the same teddy bear you sent us.978Please respect copyright.PENANAhU9T8nokHi
I don't know why it doesn't have diamonds in it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAGyjPpu4Ugy
"How did the diamonds go missing?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA7SmyrHsMYS
"How am I supposed to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAiZg58aPg7B
know? I just kept the teddy for you. Maybe you sent me the teddy without978Please respect copyright.PENANApW7LMWhHHO
diamonds in it and you probably never noticed."978Please respect copyright.PENANAJjnZfxZ96f
"Don't doubt what I do, Zoey! I made sure I made no mistake."978Please respect copyright.PENANAhwdX4Khbmq
"Okay, chill, I believe you. Look, why don't we try to sort this out calmly? Getting upset won't do us any good."978Please respect copyright.PENANACgpVmA8pTI
Jehan rubbed his 978Please respect copyright.PENANAUdkyRHs7Nq
forehead and sighed as he leaned back further into his seat. He seemed 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFnmEidJvXc
to have calmed down when he looked at the teddy bear again.978Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5n5P9GjXH
"I need my diamonds back, Zoey."978Please respect copyright.PENANArXlTwB2LxY
"I know. You've said that like almost a hundred times now."978Please respect copyright.PENANA8brNH82Svx
"Let's not joke around here. What happened? Why does this bear have no diamonds in it?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA1NhtF8nv1z
"I didn't do anything. I swear. That teddy was just the way it was eversince you sent it."978Please respect copyright.PENANAQvy53OagCX
"Then why doesn't it have diamonds in it?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA7sHZjkBgUH
"I don't know."978Please respect copyright.PENANAiTYLvrZgLF
Jehan looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "Who else had this teddy apart from you?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA12H5gwzyds
"Ummm," I looked down 978Please respect copyright.PENANAuJjX5qHiyj
and played around with my fingers. "Uh....I wasn't the one who had been 978Please respect copyright.PENANAo8NKXC5uXh
taking care of the teddy bear this whole time."978Please respect copyright.PENANAcqGvWGhq3u
"What?" Jehan sounded surprised. "What do you mean?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4bcfaEYzE
"I didn't have the teddy bear with me at the hotel the whole time," I said, looking at him fully in the eyes now.978Please respect copyright.PENANATh0jGJsYTj
"Who had the teddy bear?" Jehan leaned closer, his eyes not leaving mine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAYsW8SZMprB
"Lee had it before I took it from her yesterday."978Please respect copyright.PENANAr53DrMufXs
"Oh, my gosh!" Jehan 978Please respect copyright.PENANAul6YIgGtmt
covered his face with his hands and I could see this wasn't going too 978Please respect copyright.PENANAzjUoEFtXhQ
well for him. "Could she have the diamonds?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAmsDcbN24qz
"I don't think so. Lee 978Please respect copyright.PENANAwS4AbcRHeq
is an honest person. If she did notice there were diamonds in the teddy,978Please respect copyright.PENANAkYdrgseJNJ
she would've said something. No way. She can't have the diamonds."978Please respect copyright.PENANANOhfVgUcTF
"Then how do we explain all this! She was the last person to have the teddy, correct?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA4m13kNQVps
"You're right. But if she did find out about us and all this diamond business, she wouldn't keep that to herself. I know Lee."978Please respect copyright.PENANAH3CHN6Cjsq
"Maybe you don't know Lee well enough. If this is the same teddy I had sent, where could the diamonds be?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA9cPdLWRhHD
"Maybe this is just another teddy bear and the actual one with the diamonds is still at the hotel."978Please respect copyright.PENANAPRnzs7Ztbj
After I said that, Jehan978Please respect copyright.PENANAOmcaMofIEx
quickly took the dissected teddy bear in his hands and looked at it 978Please respect copyright.PENANA5wFYmqFTwP
carefully. He turned the teddy, looking at its back side and tearing the978Please respect copyright.PENANAopsESO42vc
suit away. I wondered what he was looking for because he had a serious 978Please respect copyright.PENANAvETXd2PTYd
look on his face.978Please respect copyright.PENANAkrJSJ7RLzf
"You're right," said Jehan. "This is definitely another teddy bear and not the one I sent you."978Please respect copyright.PENANADCTNTSA0J0
"Wait, how do you know?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAniNrDNRqN2
"I remember one of my 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3dsHFctt13
men who sewed the teddy bear after putting diamonds in it at the back. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAjjrzcce7Ba
There should have been some stitching here but this one doesn't."978Please respect copyright.PENANAp9ujMrIamO
"Ha!" I snapped my fingers. "I knew I was right!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAJTxBB0Ibjx
"Don't snap your fingers and be all happy about this," said Jehan, back to giving me that angry look. "I need that teddy, now!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAtw6w5ZGEJm
"Huh? I can't start 978Please respect copyright.PENANAZrSfuZPsCl
searching for it now. It would look suspicious. And I can't start asking978Please respect copyright.PENANApcf1Vjk5PP
Lee if she bought another teddy just like this one. She already knows 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGE1t20CkCo
that the bear is missing."978Please respect copyright.PENANAVfxSQF2lBH
"Then maybe, Lee isn't the only person you should be asking."978Please respect copyright.PENANAPSsIarI83i
"What do you mean?"978Please respect copyright.PENANATym3epa47z
"Someone else must know where the other teddy bear is. Your group members perhaps."978Please respect copyright.PENANAK6CJ12jlB0
"No. I highly doubt it. Lee must have bought another teddy and we just didn't know about it."978Please respect copyright.PENANA0f0EJv3nGW
"Now that, makes no 978Please respect copyright.PENANAxInsLgOc8m
sense. If I were you, I would go back and find out what happened to that978Please respect copyright.PENANAlPeca1tUGK
teddy and ask around for it. I'll need that teddy tomorrow."978Please respect copyright.PENANAfS0EC1UYP3
"Tomorrow! Are you nuts!"978Please respect copyright.PENANAxoAd2sLQGw
"Maybe I am because I'm desperate to have those diamonds back."978Please respect copyright.PENANABczeRH9shJ
"I might not be around tomorrow. I have a music video to shoot."978Please respect copyright.PENANAfdzTkVzbCF
"Find those diamonds and you will be scott free, Zoey. Or do you want everyone to mourn over you when they find you dead?"978Please respect copyright.PENANALO4NVPgfGL
I completely forgot that978Please respect copyright.PENANATccVbGroW5
I was being threatened by this guy. Though his threats didn't scare me 978Please respect copyright.PENANANsYWC9AGmN
anymore, I just had to abide to everything. Who knows, he might not have978Please respect copyright.PENANAHp5tSW6x4R
me killed, but he could hurt the others and it would be all my fault.978Please respect copyright.PENANAlCzgrm67Sq
"Okay. I'll see what I can do."978Please respect copyright.PENANAeH0MAqfyTa
Jehan gave me a smile. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAJb78Yfdphu
"That's more I like it. I would start working on this soon if I were 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhDcySPdpDI
you. Try your best to find the bear by tomorrow, will you?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAGJPhdi7qSp
I nodded my head and 978Please respect copyright.PENANAq3ierY0yPR
that made him smile even more. He soon stood up from his seat and looked978Please respect copyright.PENANA8X76quQ9kE
down at me. I looked back at him without a saying a word.978Please respect copyright.PENANAWAoeYJ8z3L
"See you tomorrow," said Jehan and he quickly walked out of the café.978Please respect copyright.PENANAuK8n7OH60V
I sat there as I buried 978Please respect copyright.PENANAri3OaPg7Lc
my face in my hands, thinking of what to do. Again, everything was 978Please respect copyright.PENANARRSLTlgEjE
ruined. First, the interruption from TOP and Seungri yesterday. Now, the978Please respect copyright.PENANAYBxTmSbieA
teddy bear had been swapped with another. My life couldn't get any 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFMQ4yjlZhX
worse than this. What was going on? Who was putting me into so much 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhCnGaGEOfI
drama that might just ruin my life?978Please respect copyright.PENANA4SjbFagLDT
I hadn't noticed the bell of the café ringing because I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I looked up, there stood Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANALTtt6Fkcuq
"Zoey, what happened?" Christine asked, as she turned to look on what was on the table.978Please respect copyright.PENANAdPL6l5bEQE
I could hear footsteps 978Please respect copyright.PENANAF37AxmPU5L
behind me. The others had come in the café too. They all looked worried 978Please respect copyright.PENANAzIwKKibIf7
when they saw the look on my face.978Please respect copyright.PENANASNcrbXrADw
Christine sat where Jehan had been a few minutes ago and looked at the tattered teddy bear on the table.978Please respect copyright.PENANA75aJhJjYod
"What's going on?" Daniel asked. "And what happened to Mr Teddy?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA6svBxMy7b5
"Jehan didn't look happy when he left the café," said TOP. "Didn't he get his diamonds?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAqolhv9vJpT
"No," I answered. "He didn't."978Please respect copyright.PENANAGVux4b7nQo
"What?" Seungri sounded surprised. "What do you mean he didn't get his diamonds?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAFuepJOm5bq
"This teddy isn't the teddy he had sent us," I answered. "Someone swapped the teddy with another."978Please respect copyright.PENANAQib6RYXYcn
Mike shook his head. "But who? We didn't know what that teddy bear had until now, so, it couldn't be anyone of us."978Please respect copyright.PENANARNnzBMz0Au
"And what about Lee?" 978Please respect copyright.PENANA5HbFUo1wnp
Christine asked. "She was the one who last had the teddy before Zoey 978Please respect copyright.PENANAHm7sMdu9ev
took it. But what doesn't make any sense is why she would want to get 978Please respect copyright.PENANAhebHUptsB0
another teddy when she had asked me last night where Mr Teddy had gone 978Please respect copyright.PENANAWkC9aeOwLi
to."978Please respect copyright.PENANAHRhbbFELa4
"This is bad," I said, 978Please respect copyright.PENANAI0DydCvrxN
leaning my elbows on the table and holding my head. "Whoever has the 978Please respect copyright.PENANA9bLSV5NT8J
teddy, knew what must have been going on this whole time."978Please respect copyright.PENANAm02km6LkLO
"Ya, but who could have known?" Seungri asked. "It couldn't be Lee because all she knows is that the teddy has gone missing."978Please respect copyright.PENANAlDo4fqTR4q
"Maybe Sam has it," said Mike.978Please respect copyright.PENANA8b8nCYysla
We all turned to look at Mike with grim looks on our faces.978Please respect copyright.PENANAiOuzQNVh1U
"Sam?" I wondered for a 978Please respect copyright.PENANAXS2lxEXcwr
little while. "Why would Sam have the teddy? And if she did, how could 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3kORj3xMzW
she have swapped it with the other one?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAtyk5reki4a
"Okay, wait," said TOP. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAIxkgc7mjPh
"This is all too confusing. Does Sam even have any idea or clue as to 978Please respect copyright.PENANAo8NXdLMFfg
what's really going on in the first place?"978Please respect copyright.PENANA2quLDsRzJQ
"I doubt it," I said 978Please respect copyright.PENANA6jQFusrMbI
shaking my head. "If she knew what was going on she would have 978Please respect copyright.PENANAoiMXe42n9j
confronted me. And besides, she was also at the mall yesterday and would978Please respect copyright.PENANAZWS9yoDQ6R
have probably seen Jehan and I together. But she didn't."978Please respect copyright.PENANATiKAWez9GN
TOP and Seungri looked 978Please respect copyright.PENANAFgiAnVL2vm
at each other after I said that. What was up with them? The look they 978Please respect copyright.PENANAnj0mZHP9xB
gave each other made me feel that something was up but I quickly brushed978Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZtIckvQ5J
it away.978Please respect copyright.PENANAqidKTplDLY
"I highly doubt it too,"978Please respect copyright.PENANAuKOuREJuLB
said Daniel. "If she knew Zoey was into some kind of serious trouble, 978Please respect copyright.PENANA9m3cA22cUt
she would have asked us about it."978Please respect copyright.PENANArztahYU7r1
"That's true," said 978Please respect copyright.PENANALUqmK0vTIU
Mike. "Come to think of it, I don't think Sam has it. For her to swap 978Please respect copyright.PENANAIi3l0hTFik
the teddy, she would have bought it from somewhere."978Please respect copyright.PENANAWp3xXQju77
"And I checked out the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAC7c66ihVDL
shopping bags, Lee came with yesterday when she went shopping with Sam. 978Please respect copyright.PENANAvXJqLU5R8X
There was no sign of a small teddy in any of them," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAGxwPDSUbDx
"She must have bought it when she was with G-Dragon," I said.978Please respect copyright.PENANAe0uVZSBNgw
"No, I highly doubt it,"978Please respect copyright.PENANAcqeCYH4UeM
said TOP. "There are some dedicated fans who followed those two 978Please respect copyright.PENANAIvtU4yzLIE
yesterday, describing which store they went to and taking pictures. They978Please respect copyright.PENANA3SnGC3UCVv
said nothing about them entering a toy store."978Please respect copyright.PENANAA9SDM17GWf
"Now that's what I call a dead end," said Daniel.978Please respect copyright.PENANAjVjjk4c3Of
"Fine, so Lee and Sam have been cancelled on the list," said Seungri. "Who else could have swapped the teddies?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAEeL8X0wS25
"Collins?" Mike asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAOkWfI0vMhb
"Ha! No way," I said, almost laughing in a such a serious situation. "How could he have known about Jehan and the diamonds?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAB2mLdUYx3q
"Mmmm, good point," said Seungri. "He's been really busy these past few days."978Please respect copyright.PENANAM1007jq794
"But who knows? Maybe he978Please respect copyright.PENANAiCZleRDZPT
has been spying on me this whole time and I haven't noticed. He 978Please respect copyright.PENANA9LRWN01SVE
considers me the black sheep that has to be kept an eye on at all 978Please respect copyright.PENANAd86sB4Zmlh
times."978Please respect copyright.PENANAYf9XzHDXkJ
"You're definitely the black sheep, Zoey," said Mike.978Please respect copyright.PENANA1sEQ1LpAUb
"Hey! May I remind you, I'm not the only one here who gets into trouble here."978Please respect copyright.PENANAibDL2G91Pu
"Okay, guys, focus," said TOP. "What makes you think Collins might have been the one who swapped the teddies?"978Please respect copyright.PENANAEDZhWOeLwM
Daniel suddenly snapped his fingers. "I remember now. Yesterday when he came back with Sam, something happened."978Please respect copyright.PENANALUdI214ic8
"Wait. Collins was with Sam?" I asked.978Please respect copyright.PENANAI2KNydmwMf
"He was the one who went978Please respect copyright.PENANAn0XbXG3NSW
to pick her up from the mall," Daniel answered. "Back to what I was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAgMvOWxCgiA
saying, Collins had something delivered to him at the hotel. He even 978Please respect copyright.PENANAmVi8Mcz2zY
went to get it himself from the delivery man who was coming up the 978Please respect copyright.PENANAY1L1amROtx
elevator."978Please respect copyright.PENANAYZ5MkgY3uP
"What was it?" We all asked Daniel, looking at him anxiously.978Please respect copyright.PENANAh1aiu1hJYF
"It was a small box. And if you ask me, it was kind of like the one Jehan had sent that teddy bear in."978Please respect copyright.PENANATtbAWqfbqQ
"Gosh, it's been Collins this whole time," said Christine.978Please respect copyright.PENANAMP1MXWcEzJ
"I couldn't be too sure," I said. "But after what Daniel has said, I don't know what to believe."978Please respect copyright.PENANAKh0hrSFMsE
"We really have to go," said Seungri. "We can't stay here."978Please respect copyright.PENANA3y2QxQWrCT
"You're right," I said 978Please respect copyright.PENANA2wVHmXZ3TX
as I stood up from the seat taking my purse. "I've to search for that 978Please respect copyright.PENANAGus8GzU8tc
teddy if I want to make it out alive tomorrow."978Please respect copyright.PENANAgcnA1gJCSL
"Wait, we can't leave all this here," said Christine, taking what was left of the teddy bear in her hands.978Please respect copyright.PENANAXXBu1e2CCB
We all walked out of the978Please respect copyright.PENANAoo7lxi2OfI
café, hopping no one had heard our conversation. There were a few 978Please respect copyright.PENANAoBPVNbIR2w
people in the café and I highly doubt if they really heard anything.978Please respect copyright.PENANAPWd9S4vHJh
While I was in the car 978Please respect copyright.PENANApBRmWtVyJg
with Seungri driving and the others in the other car behind us, I was so978Please respect copyright.PENANA9ttpBkMjzC
troubled about the missing teddy. I couldn't help thinking that Collins978Please respect copyright.PENANAkqPcSlxDmE
is involved. But that didn't make any sense. As much as I wanted to 978Please respect copyright.PENANA3xlEJAz01G
believe that Collins could have swapped the teddies, I shook my head at 978Please respect copyright.PENANAPz6GNKWADT
the thought of it. Maybe it really wasn't Collins.978Please respect copyright.PENANAGQ12YZx69w
If it isn't him, then 978Please respect copyright.PENANABVADQuDG0o
who? It couldn't be Lee because she had the teddy with her the whole 978Please respect copyright.PENANAyCpWVINpAJ
time and she couldn't buy another teddy for no reason. And I couldn't 978Please respect copyright.PENANALVDyBS5oRP
picture Sam doing anything like that either because I had never seen her978Please respect copyright.PENANAY1jjh8N6eS
near that teddy after Jehan sent it to us that day.978Please respect copyright.PENANArQ24jcW9cz
What if I had the wrong 978Please respect copyright.PENANAvbueCgV4SH
teddy the whole time and I had never known till now? All this was too 978Please respect copyright.PENANAv2hXdcM026
confusing. Who swapped the teddies? And when did the swapping ever take 978Please respect copyright.PENANAICpbafBa8P
place without any of us noticing in the first place?978Please respect copyright.PENANA5e69tM9oW7
I hope I could be able 978Please respect copyright.PENANASZGyJnjjTR
to find the teddy soon. Jehan might threaten to kill me, but I was 978Please respect copyright.PENANAWtY72ba1Ki
pretty sure he would try to hurt the others too. And I wouldn't let that978Please respect copyright.PENANAF2HEuwVfAW
happen.