Zoey's P.O.V1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9jZ13XEj2u
Waking up this Monday 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1UvVEeliiq
morning was hectic. I didn't want to get out of bed, but in one way or 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAw8BT9LO4vs
another, I would have to. I lay awake, thinking. I didn't want to face 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA98CuQm6Qyf
off the challenges for today knowing that one of them was dealing with 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAP8txpfgmJ8
Jehan. Since I still have the teddy bear, I wasn't as free as I expected1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYIUCPRhmVw
myself to be.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtAtIUEzPhR
I couldn't stop 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyIQEAAMcgy
wondering what Seungri and TOP were doing at the mall yesterday. As much1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8IAX5e623Z
as I wanted to believe that it was a coincidence, I couldn't help but 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKCjOgv46wx
feel that something was wrong.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9ah8M8ElMv
Could they have known 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVT6elsFVJd
about Jehan? And if they did, then how? I shook my head. Maybe all that 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2rgmqHs8vW
was nothing but a coincidence and I was just being paranoid. If they 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAebkAuMG0pj
really had found out about Jehan, they would have been asking questions 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQoBPLTdF8B
about him and what he does while we were shopping. But they didn't. We 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQBR3wh4PXz
just had our usual conversation.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdtVS2GwEXV
I brushed off all those 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWFuZWuRcCQ
thoughts aside when the alarm on my phone rang telling me to get up. The1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyROAdfXVeN
last time I had ever put up an alarm was the morning of my last day of 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHN7RikjnrI
high school. Eversince I became a musician, I never put up an alarm when1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYItjxxwreu
I knew I had someone around to wake me up. Like Sam.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAW3qXqLCm9c
But now that she wasn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPUW40OuMgP
here, I had to wake up on my own. Most of the time, I would do so 1064Please respect copyright.PENANALj7oHWolAo
without her help. But when I overslept, she was always there to wake me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANApSl58ap9Ac
Anyway, right now, I was just too troubled in my sleep that I must have1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6APIKFSX22
woken up early before the alarm rang.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAV6rSzAg4B6
I sat up on my bed and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAn8f6D428Vm
switched off the alarm. I checked the empty bed beside mine and I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyroW46e2dp
couldn't help but realise how much I miss Sam. I don't know why I was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaerwIozhUz
feeling this way, but I hated the fact that I was missing her so bad. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEzpStnRCsK
Not after what happened yesterday at the mall and all over social media.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwYK461i6oe
After seeing her with 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYfZIqrNxcu
G-Dragon yesterday broke my heart further into tiny pieces. As much as I1064Please respect copyright.PENANArT7XEHMnHG
knew she was only there just to try and resolve things with G-Dragon, I1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxuerxWyixq
was filled with fury seeing the two of them together. And to make 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3yPoTB7cFL
matters worse, after I had left the mall, I went online and there were 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4LNPibV36M
pictures of the two everywhere. They were a trending topic for the whole1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOlTkNk7iHB
day. That left me devastated.1064Please respect copyright.PENANApECj68qW05
I couldn't stop looking 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkQMdiL5JpE
at pictures online even when I came back to the hotel. I read so many 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATjvC3AIqP1
comments. As much as there were so many haters around (like myself), so 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAk8qk9psEAZ
many people couldn't stop talking about how adorable the two looked 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIarIT53D49
together. I couldn't help but admit to myself that they were right. They1064Please respect copyright.PENANAb0xADQHsXS
really did make a cute couple. And that left me envious. I wished it 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuTTBlK6BMO
was G-Dragon and I. Not G-Dragon and Sam.1064Please respect copyright.PENANACipPBCsqW8
That sent me boiling to a1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlsThHitlNT
point where I almost threw my phone away. When Christine came to see me1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcQz4O0wQlx
in my room and found me in an angry fit, I told her how painful I felt 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOOGKllOBK0
seeing G-Dragon and Sam together.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWQ3j2oZziB
Christine had told me to1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmTTg9SYf0P
cool down and that I shouldn't be jealous. She told me that Sam was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuzJe6kafH0
only with G-Dragon because she was only trying to resolve things. I told1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3b7FHoy8TD
her that I already knew that. Christine quickly left me to myself when 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAx5Isv1P4d9
she realised that she couldn't calm me down. So I was alone for the rest1064Please respect copyright.PENANAR4q2kM7hyq
of the day, not speaking to anyone. I didn't even join the others for 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAI7fqYPa0fL
supper. I had ordered for my supper to be taken up to my room.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7CBZ1XqhJ0
And now, I had to face 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwBVuq0tZ01
another challenge of seeing everyone today, most especially Sam, since 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAI7pF3Jh4Ov
we have to finish up on the dance routine and start working on the music1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIJMne4qCIx
video as soon as possible. I have to put up with all this today when I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxa3XVaukQb
was still so upset.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkg5plTOnf0
I quickly got out of bed and went in the showers, hoping the cool water would cool down all the boiling anger in me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANABKGpMaBc7D
After I was done, I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANABttcv9lb4n
quickly dressed up. And carrying my purse with me, I went to meet the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcDjtlsIYpH
others at the dining table for breakfast.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAm8sRAJ4cjb
I found them already 1064Please respect copyright.PENANABoebwVDipw
settled. When I came to sit, everyone mouthed out a "good morning" to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVN9jGH4Zot
me, except Sam. And I replied back with a smile on my face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXqQSW3jBLC
I felt a little awkward 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQxVJVszmYR
when I looked at Sam who sat across the table next to Collins and hadn't1064Please respect copyright.PENANAj5bhRivpol
said a word. She was busy with her breakfast, her usual bacon, eggs and1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZQ7B5vrUlD
toast with juice. I realised she hadn't even looked up at me once and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA655O9fSjw6
that also felt weird.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAovaQeuPCs7
I know that she and I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtCBN9484xx
aren't talking to each other at the moment, but I expected her to say a 1064Please respect copyright.PENANArd7NmIVr4t
"good morning" or even look at me to acknowledge that I was around. She 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6uMNYRwYJG
was one person even if we ever had an argument, she would at least try 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0YcQYnLWQj
to say something to me. The fact that she didn't greet me, made me feel 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAw0V1cQXf64
like something was wrong.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcFV933trOH
I poured myself a cup of1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcEQiTDjNf2
coffee, trying to ignore what I was feeling at the moment. I got some 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvLmxJnh1qx
slices of toast and ate my breakfast.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7Z86mCu5dB
"Hey, Sam," said Mike, who sat right next to her. "Have you seen what people have been saying about you and G-Dragon?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOsmyCgCIAW
My heart almost skipped a1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvIubobnJ0d
beat and I almost choked on my coffee. What was Mike getting at? I know1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmFegqWStrm
he does things just to annoy me sometimes, but this time, he's gone way1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9SbXVPrzQo
too far. I was over here! Hello!1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcYJIU2Fx56
"You don't have to remind me," Sam said as she looked at her brother. "I've decided not to go online today."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzJrqYokS7Y
"For one who doesn't like attention, you might just disappear off the face of the earth," said Collins.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAeKZcDHmrrl
"I can do that," said Sam, staring up at the ceiling obviously building castles in the air.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3Hjv0jszk9
"I have no doubt about it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuLtjmiwY6c
"But I don't see why you1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5x1eqmyvhR
have to," said Daniel. "Just because people make stories about you and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlAVM44THfC
G-Dragon dating, doesn't mean that you are."1064Please respect copyright.PENANARPSNnueVf6
"One thing about fans is1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEyKxozHWEo
that they can make a story so believable, even those who don't know 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyHz9dPToGP
what's going on, might end up believing it," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAy5V4dN7o1i
"I know," said Lee. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1bnoJ3lR7o
"Right now, some k-pop news sites are already taking this to the next 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAl1jaBvt7SX
level. But they all say they couldn't be too sure about it until they 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA64iXMkIHAL
get an official statement from you and G-Dragon."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmuEtiMrOjJ
"Wow, that's serious," said Sam.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwTzAv92tCT
"But right now, we have no time for interviews," said Collins. "We have a music video to work on."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAq015EacmkK
"I can work with that," said Sam, with a smile on her face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOq9CPataGw
"Alright, guys, finish your breakfast. You know the drill."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAavHBx4UYWM
"Aye, aye," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGFBW6sdjaM
"Well, you're quiet today, Zoey," said Christine as she looked at me. She sat directly across from me on the table.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAiFlCb3xGHd
"Do you have a problem with that?" I asked, eyeing Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAz3bmw1DlyK
"You're just too quiet, that's all."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGxbx56VlD4
"You should be quiet more often," said Collins as he got up from the table. "It kind of suits you."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWNE7EyKxbU
I frowned at Collins. "Thanks. I'll try doing so more often. That's if I really want to."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAq8sgokhPEC
"Now that's the Zoey I know," said Mike, raising his eyebrow at me and smiling.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIkiRiqcjrf
I stuck my tongue out at1064Please respect copyright.PENANAilCiBsiJvo
him but he continued to smile mockingly nonetheless. I noticed that the1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmwnHHvV6II
others were laughing and smiling at the whole thing, except Sam. She 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbItAhPwnDV
still wasn't looking in my direction.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVBXnAQwdBK
Soon after breakfast, we1064Please respect copyright.PENANASkkQ2nbNAX
left for YG. In the SUV, Sam sat at the back with her brothers. We were1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlRuFBV0gbq
all chatting happily in the car but she was quiet the whole way. She 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2R8bpFnuGg
was like that nowadays, always lost in thought. I wondered what she 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnZHMb5Kaof
could be thinking about. Sam was one person who never really shared what1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaU8iUEDsxy
she thought. When you asked her about it, she would usually say 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwO38WJk64f
"nothing" and say no more. But if she really wanted to share with you, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFgbP66r282
she would.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtVYtTtWfHa
We arrived at YG and we 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbaQqEzFxLv
found ourselves back at the dance studio we were practising in on 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxI3ARqwPAJ
Saturday. We found our dance instructor and all the BigBang members with1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6LXeYmg8IO
the rest of the backup dancers, waiting for us.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5M1vw5hFP1
When everyone was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANARLzJqdQt82
exchanging greetings with each other, G-Dragon didn't respond to me when1064Please respect copyright.PENANASBknFYXDPg
I said "hi" to him. Given with what happened yesterday, I bet he was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjG9ZWaElzi
still mad at me for how I behaved towards Sam. He didn't even want to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATvVODiCXvG
hang out with us soon after Sam had left.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgr0dliRp8A
He not responding to me 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2Quu1d1Xw
felt awkward and I longed for him to at least give me some attention. He1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxlf0LsvuZb
didn't say "hi" to Sam either but just nodded his head when she greeted1064Please respect copyright.PENANAd26ySl28Nn
him. At least that was acknowledging someone even if they weren't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUs6grZ7CIM
talking to each other. And he was staring at her the whole time even 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6KfrOZMgxn
when she wasn't looking. I thought of throwing a shoe at him, but I just1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9NDadKjuDD
looked away instead.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAv05SzKXzQq
We went straight to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANACklGsswVGR
practising for almost a good five hours. And those proved to be the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKtYoSAY7FG
hardest five hours of my life. Since the dance routine starts with 1064Please respect copyright.PENANApxu3SYfCnX
G-Dragon and I, it was really hard having him so close. I realised that I1064Please respect copyright.PENANAchC4mBb7Sd
still had feelings for him. At some point during practise, I almost 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0YDVKCdtBD
hugged him, but I brought myself not to. And that wasn't the worst part.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgySUuWKFlg
During pratice, I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAc8EbNvkx2M
noticed that G-Dragon still couldn't take his eyes off Sam. This was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUGQ9qPmFEZ
getting to the point where I wanted to scream at him to snap out of it. I1064Please respect copyright.PENANArwxPE0jcam
wondered what he saw in Sam and that sent me thinking.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhOeh875bAs
G-Dragon wasn't the only1064Please respect copyright.PENANATte5i2zfxP
one who liked Sam. Come to think of it, Daesung also liked her. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlVzZIKrNEk
Probably even Seungri and TOP, given that Seungri had a beautiful crown 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWVKMr876jk
made just for her and TOP flirts with her whenever he gets the chance 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAF5hIKyCB7g
to. Taeyang already had Hyo-rin and always takes Sam like a sister. What1064Please respect copyright.PENANArHJfdBIK7M
did Sam have that even most of the BigBang members like her so much?1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0nNmStv3Cx
As her best friend, I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5dQBxc3h4n
should be aware of her qualities. She was nice and friendly to whoever 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkdeiwIo6e4
approached her. She is very pretty and had a great body, though she was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfTbfu4Yg8C
never ever fully aware of her physical beauty. She always thought she 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8mE1UUAadU
was like any other ordinary girl but she was more than that.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAFJSiHwT72
She is also smart, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMCUj17Ns7z
caring and always understanding. She is a great leader and one who 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAem163VkDGS
always had our backs whenever we needed it. I don't know how many times 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkKI18WLUsn
she had always tried to get The Toxins out of trouble. I agree that even1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjpGZbaWjcX
if it looked like we don't appreciate what she does, we really do.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMibz6rcDQy
Sam has a lot of good 1064Please respect copyright.PENANApK6sMi3FVC
qualities. Maybe that's why she is liked and loved by everyone. Even her1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8urbwQuyvm
fans. She is honest, when she wanted to. She is also a pretty good 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATmmyAB0nqx
liar, only when it was necessary to do so. And she is one who wouldn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJz5zohnymt
want to hurt anyone around her.1064Please respect copyright.PENANArHNEWjbenW
Realising this made me 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhI7Ljflq6N
feel a little guilty as I looked at Sam who was dancing in front of me 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGZExhoOpOQ
with Taeyang beside her. I looked at her face and she had this smile 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4r8IpKyBzi
that reflected her innocence. I realised that I had been giving Sam a 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAv8oA11Znv9
real hard time after I found out G-Dragon likes her and not me. She is 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOPJOK8MvpI
my best friend and would do nothing to hurt me. I know she was only 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzPssLeeX1u
looking out for me like she always does, but I am just too ignorant to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAidaCQJ9DaY
realise it till now.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzMjg38LbIB
"Wait, hold on a minute guys," said the choreographer. We all stopped dancing as instructed.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAP1DBZdO6Es
"Zoey, you aren't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlaOfnBG3F2
concentrating," said the choreographer as he looked at me. "This is the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANADepodUYzUf
second time you have made the same mistake."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAopzJAQPq61
"Oh, sorry," I said, scratching the back of my head feeling embarrassed. "I'll try to be more cautious next time."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAi97Uhh86FZ
"Okay. Let's continue from where we left off."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKU15M0eWFA
It was lunch the time we1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaOSpC9J9SU
broke off for a break. The choreographer left and the others were 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4pDv72Tmbx
talking to some of the backup dancers. I noticed Sam at the corner of 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmU64jwIfni
the room with Christine and some of the backup dancers talking. It 1064Please respect copyright.PENANASN5FfO3Npz
looked like they were having one hell of a funny conversation because 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAi3N7yQqsBf
they were all laughing.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKQm37XPpG3
"Hey, why are you here all alone?" came TOP as he came to stand right next to me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEE5GBtAz1p
"Nothing," I replied, looking down at my sneakers. "I just want to be alone today."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOOJIzdLS3B
"Still not talking to Sam?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqBVMjHDw06
"Nope."1064Please respect copyright.PENANACGliy8xLkK
TOP's lips rose to a smile. "You really are stubborn."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJHzAhyNJDE
"Too bad it's in my DNA." I smirked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4wCIxxZW58
"And how long do you think you're going to put up with it?" TOP folded his arms as he looked at me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAs4TT47XIum
"Maybe till we go home." I shrugged my shoulders.1064Please respect copyright.PENANArWWXsStGXo
"I doubt it. Judging by the way you performed today, you looked really preoccupied that you made several mistakes."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA20XmNk7r5t
"Being preoccupied is Sam's thing."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFwOuXCZzFA
"I know. But you aren't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAd784WssqQH
yourself, that's for sure. The Zoey I know wouldn't be here all alone. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwTq14dwGqu
You would be chit chatting like you always do."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAX1oTYhnPhS
"What if I just want to be alone for today?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1ajByp9Cnu
"It's okay. Everyone has those kinds of days. But you make it look like being alone sometimes is a bad thing."1064Please respect copyright.PENANANrK50cVT9r
I frowned. "Why?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjp0U8ehPPv
"Because you look miserable."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcdH3M2rBuY
I didn't expect that coming from TOP. My mouth was agape as I looked at him.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMBZt2Mh9sx
"Miserable!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMaFY4ETYiD
"Ya." TOP nodded his head. "It clearly shows."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAufqrR68LfM
I thought for a moment 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPw9ZCYxPcs
and went back to looking at Sam and Christine with the backup dancers. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1aFR43w0H2
Mike, Daesung, Seungri and Daniel had also formed their own little 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnZO4GbI0lG
circle and were laughing and chatting too. Taeyang and G-Dragon were 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAO0GFrj8ecP
with some of the backup dancers, having a normal chat.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4XRm5RWxXe
Seeing all this in front1064Please respect copyright.PENANADgzUETSg2h
of me made me realise that TOP is right. I am definitely miserable. By 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwj7TGIy0Gc
now, I would be with the others, chatting. But here I was, all alone. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyBgp8TIoI1
Until TOP came to talk to me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2FgFAXelvy
"I guess you're right," I said. "I am miserable."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqUeDd1LBXM
"Don't worry about it. Aren't you going to resolve things with Sam?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbmLmfgIrcw
"I don't know," I said 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKZEIdLUEfc
as I looked at Sam who was laughing out loud. "I'm still mad at her, but1064Please respect copyright.PENANAixNypQJpxj
something in me says that I can't stay like this for long."1064Please respect copyright.PENANALAcaUxMBvN
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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYZg1yaEgMZ
"I felt so bad about it," I said, shaking my head.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAy5F29uvbau
"Then why don't you talk to her?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXSf0yqu9XY
"Pfft!" I rolled my eyes. "Why should I? Sam always does all the talking."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2ffF2jxs5D
"Really? You think Sam would do that this time around? Besides, she wasn't really at fault with all this."1064Please respect copyright.PENANArpFSFQi28H
"I know."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsZBhvyjCex
"So? Are you going to try and talk to her yourself?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwNPMjMckdf
"I'll think about it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJlwprTS8H8
"Hey, guys," came Seungri, suddenly calling out to everyone in the room. "Who wants pizza?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZKuoCNqo7c
Everyone muttered out "me!" really loud. Seungri smiled and said he would bring the pizza.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9qWXe5HEGw
"Mind if you guys can help me?" Seungri asked as he came up to TOP and I.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuLXNpElvCK
"Sure," I said. I really needed to get out of here for a while and breathe.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFg23AT6XnO
The three of us went out1064Please respect copyright.PENANACxoSFGOZUL
of the room and headed to the elevator to take us downstairs. Seungri 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyeeRcBq6rZ
already had his phone out calling the pizza parlour to take the order.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAek4wFLeE3K
As soon as we reached the ground floor, we stuck around in the lobby waiting for the pizza.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAa1jsmUWR76
"I'm so hungry," said Seungri, staring at his watch.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsyJs5swMDY
"Chill, you just ordered1064Please respect copyright.PENANANS11x3TjeY
pizza like right now," said TOP who was sitting right next to me on one1064Please respect copyright.PENANAh3ytOyYdcy
of the chairs in the waiting area of the lobby.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA13dZcyIkcL
"But I'm so hungry."1064Please respect copyright.PENANABRNq9eFyOp
"Trust me, you aren't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPvpD8Mm3Du
the only one," I said as I looked at Seungri who was still standing. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAn5d5bMX2nx
"Sit down or else you're going to drain the last remaining blood you 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA24rvQxbNvh
have."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoK8OMGKfuV
"Well, that's mean," said Seungri as he sat next to me. "What's up with you?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANACB1aYP0zi4
"Nothing," I said as I folded my arms.1064Please respect copyright.PENANADjCOR2ocDz
"She's cranky, don't mind her," said TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAls6CfVeW3Z
"I'm not cranky. Just having an awful day."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5JLSKtuXE1
"Ya, we can see that," said Seungri with a smirk on his face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIeBnkLew81
I didn't say anything as1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZXQTplrTI8
I shook my head. All of the sudden, I felt my phone vibrate against my 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkyvymLYFb5
thigh in the pocket of my sweat pants. I took out my phone. Jehan was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6jvUvhcBjZ
calling.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5qapimyDv0
"Isn't it that French guy we met yesterday at the mall?" TOP asked, looking at my phone screen.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHYFBw6pjq4
"Can you please not look!" I said as I turned the phone screen away from TOP's eyes.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYxJRRo3cTA
"Okay, well you better answer that call."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJjPAAWKrjl
I stood from the chair and answered Jehan's call when I was a few feet away from the two.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9g4Cm2uRqH
"Hello," I answered.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyiJtEtL1ky
"Hey, Zoey," said Jehan. "Are you busy today?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnSWQ1BuwPN
"Ya, I'm very busy," I answered. "Why?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANACGP2X7UHdq
"We have to meet today, ASAP."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4IyNNtHoO
"But I can't. I have a lot to do today and I don't think I'll manage to meet with you."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhnLDAqRC36
"I don't care. I need that teddy bear today. Not tomorrow, but today."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZEskSLAenx
I knew Jehan was going 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAU9EyhJp3Q4
to call and demand for the teddy bear. Luckily, I carried my purse with 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmq5J30qDoW
the teddy bear in it. I hadn't removed it from my purse since yesterday 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuHDkleDr65
and I checked to see if it was still in there this morning. The purse 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWL0KRYKFMx
was upstairs in the dance studio.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJhmrZerMHG
"Okay, what time do you want to get the teddy bear?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGkTo0GroBX
"I'm coming to YG to get it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAc5V4UfhIwF
"What!" I was horrified and equally surprised. "No way. You can't come here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUMyA5GZ3YZ
"Fine. If you have a better idea, then call me or text in the next thirty minutes. I have to get that teddy today."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcB9J5Qe2Jg
"You don't have to remind me," I snarled.1064Please respect copyright.PENANARlzmk2M8f0
He cut the call and I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtdpIqoxHxp
looked at my phone like I was ready to throw it out of the lobby through1064Please respect copyright.PENANADgyVu8EWz1
the open entrance doors. This was bad. Real bad. He wanted to come here1064Please respect copyright.PENANAL5Qf7x8qeJ
to get the teddy. That was going to be dangerous. If anyone were to see1064Please respect copyright.PENANANxjirmvSa1
him they would start to ask questions.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwCWenvM11V
"Zoey," came Seungri's voice behind me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAykftjM4uEV
I turned around and there stood Seungri and TOP staring at me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAd2t5VLqchf
"What?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3iWeQNNhNx
"Was that Jehan you were talking to?" TOP asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjuYQmGdPmD
"Um, ya. Is there a problem?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqmEwdlp7O7
"You two didn't seem to be having a normal conversation," said Seungri. "It sounded like you were arguing or something."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZdaTM5ORRx
"Arguing? Pfft. No," I gave out a small laugh trying to hide my fear. "It was just some silly misunderstanding."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQlsJYBuz5t
"Come on, Zoey," said TOP. "That was no ordinary misunderstanding and I know an argument when I see one."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7qsmACqaAn
"Guys, it's nothing. You're worrying for no reason."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvvfSxtyvHl
"Oh, ya? Then why were you talking about that teddy bear then? It's that small cute teddy he had sent you, right?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUYrFheet7F
Dang it! I was cornered 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7OTEDlbrf
now. They had heard about the teddy. I couldn't come up with a lie. If 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuc8ac52dG1
anything, I'm a terrible liar. Looks like the truth will always come to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATrY0p2FnPu
light no matter how much you try to hide it.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5uwdbSr8es
"Tell us, Zoey," said Seungri softly. "It can show on your face that something is wrong."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5AFjffqvap
I sighed as I looked down on the floor. "Fine. But don't tell anyone."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAUdiQaHW7K
"Okay. Now tell us what's going on," said TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANACTOao5Ks57
We went back to settle down on the chairs. We were at a reasonable distance away from the receptionist so I could talk quietly.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPZkLn9maoF
I told them everything 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5UCvqZlgPy
from what happened in Paris till now. They listened carefully and hadn't1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4359jmysUg
said a word until I finished the whole story.1064Please respect copyright.PENANApfDhvvfwXP
"Have you told anyone about all this?" Seungri asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAN8VUlMDrh1
"Just you two," I answered.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnpCuEtEtFg
"Wow, this is serious," said TOP, trying to take it all in. "He's a diamond smuggler?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWbwd8MMJYJ
"Surprising, right?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAi7su54UT47
"He seemed so nice when we met him," said Seungri.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlc0YYYZas9
"We should involve the police," said TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdRst2gluKb
"No! We can't!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9pH07gWCBd
"Why?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3Dwx4pqSFC
"You know word goes out 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAp06NNlgjPn
fast. The next thing we know, it's going to be all over social media and1064Please respect copyright.PENANAX3iDkc98Zp
might give The Toxins a bad name. I would rather do this quietly."1064Please respect copyright.PENANARHqdjAkWr3
"And how are you so sure he isn't going to use you again?" Seungri asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANACACNkQZRma
"He assured me that this1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8VfNOfVBnD
will be the last time he will ever use me to do any of his dirty 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQJx4AIXzoI
business. I just have to give him the teddy bear and that's it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANANAqor6g193
"Give who the teddy bear?" came Christine's voice.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQEDQbyjSue
The three of us turned 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxsnYG0euGp
and we saw Christine standing a few feet away from us. We hadn't heard 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4f9B1jBzZE
the elevator doors open nor her footsteps. How did she get here unheard?1064Please respect copyright.PENANAekyGiWmK5t
"Christine, you're here?" I raised my eyebrows.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAl2uuTwcqBD
"Ya, I came to check up on you guys since some of us are really hungry," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbgUyciDJLO
"The delivery guy hasn't arrived yet," said Seungri with a smile.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAR11N36lTYC
"What's this about some guy and a teddy bear?" Christine asked as she looked at me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtIplVFwbyf
"Ummm, it's nothing, Christine," I said, waving my hand in the air. "Just talking about some random stuff."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcom1sCnreh
"Random stuff involving a1064Please respect copyright.PENANA45i8jYtCSk
teddy bear?" Christine shook her head at me as she folded her arms. "I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoVpDAjjusQ
clearly heard you talking about giving some guy a teddy bear and that 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoD2YcIRmrf
you won't have to do his dirty business anymore. I know you're hiding 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAy7iopZ97z9
something from me, Zoey. So you better start talking."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMlGBuNoMKQ
I rolled my eyes and sighed so loud in frustration. How many people was I going to tell the truth to today?1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGgtQur36SW
"Fine," I said, looking at Christine. "But please don't tell anyone about this."1064Please respect copyright.PENANALhD30o31g9
"Okay, I won't."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9N7f3qDYrn
"Sit down."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQJmvTK54Lv
Christine sat right next to TOP and she looked at me with anticipation.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqJ9co3twKp
"I got myself into trouble," I started.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZbJjxM5JG
"Great!" Christine threw her arms in the air. "What did you do now, Zoey?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtPU2lYnVnL
"I got involved with a diamond smuggler."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEXccWKuuG6
Christine's face soon 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVJdU0YkzKM
drained of colour and she looked as white as a ghost. She tried to open 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUfNBtxoVfm
her mouth to say something but she couldn't. Until....1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhXol8YezSr
"What!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5N7oFeOi3J
TOP quickly covered up 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWYEVHhmlX5
her mouth before she could shout out anything else. The receptionist 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdfLPkqmmgn
looked our way and soon went back to work. When he was sure she had 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcWyEdOpz1Y
cooled down, TOP removed his hand from Christine's mouth.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAA30vsojwt0
"Are you cool now?" TOP asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMObTYoHycX
"Cool?" asked Christine, sounding anxious. "I come here and hear about some diamond smuggler. How can I be cool?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA806GRP8TVR
"I know you're really mad at me right now, but you asked what was going on," I said, looking apologetically at her.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwvp5FvbhFk
"Of course I'm mad!" 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtAxa6EzSi0
Christine whispered angrily at me. "I know you always get in trouble, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3p9kL17D59
but this by far is the worst one of them all."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAbkiRj58BK
"At least it's not a drug dealer," I said shrugging my shoulders.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAb0AggKVnQs
"Is there a difference? Seriously, Zoey. How the heck did this happen?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3gP32Z3hLU
"It happened in Paris," I said. "Remember the guy I introduced you to at the fashion show?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgsmtxhsC4w
"Ya, I remember. What about him?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFsAzm1wFHz
"He's the diamond smuggler," said TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFTxSWnKbPK
"WHAT!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQNv9SGLL0Y
"Ssh!" TOP, Seungri and I hushed at her at the same time, putting our fingers on our lips.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXRZUvB81Tq
"Guys, I can't help it, sorry," said Christine. "Wait, that handsome guy is the diamond smuggler?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlvjeFYOP05
"And the one I met at the café," I said.1064Please respect copyright.PENANArlCC9AdA8r
"So he is the one who sent us the teddy bear?" Christine asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3P8sIPAIGb
"Yes," the three of us answered at the same time.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAU2W672UFt1
"But why does he want the teddy bear back?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAG1brvKKUbZ
"Because the teddy has diamonds in it," said Seungri.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA32r4YQNbnF
"Wow, seriously?" Christine's eyes bulged out with surprise.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIlJ4cusNxM
"Ya," I said. "I planned1064Please respect copyright.PENANAf0mDBZBRY5
on giving him the teddy bear yesterday but I couldn't because these 1064Please respect copyright.PENANACHgjFAokEs
guys showed up." I pointed at Seungri and TOP with my two thumbs.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4INSsglmdN
"So you're the one who 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZVkOJKBRfA
got the teddy from our room yesterday," said Christine. "Lee was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAo5bN1Wcxr3
searching for it and couldn't find it. She thought she must have 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQEg1GyNSeQ
misplaced it somewhere. You even went to meet him? I thought you went 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7dAGLw3IFS
out with Seungri."1064Please respect copyright.PENANApVjDrhZRU9
"I lied."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAj5utOVhSBG
Christine shook her head. "I knew something was up. You are really not good at lying."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwv8THjlSMy
"I know." I gave Christine a grim look, not feeling impressed about myself at all.1064Please respect copyright.PENANARb0E9sbc87
"Why didn't you tell us you were being threatened by this guy?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANArZ5YboXQlw
"I wasn't supposed to. And besides, it was too dangerous. He threatened me with a gun in Paris not to tell anyone."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkq46CPHOY3
"That's great. There are guns too. Blackmail would have been so much better."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAicTIXUQ82P
"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."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7YdqiCTF2Y
"Then why didn't you let him?" Christine asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUV7Ap1y62Y
"That was going to raise a lot of questions if anyone saw him," said Seungri.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJntIQMNgFi
"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."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbr8jBqAJz1
"He said I should have a location as to where we meet," I said. "And I haven't thought of anything yet."1064Please respect copyright.PENANALk0MSPwOAJ
"Why don't you meet after practice?" TOP suggested.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5T9O5TVFUU
"But where?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFJZpFFCm9f
"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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAChN4hJsy5V
"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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqJJ1tOwfKW
"Fine, but remember, don't tell anyone," I said.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHdthDvNFi0
"Got it," said TOP and Seungri at the same time. Christine nodded her head.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAs1mI03pAR3
I took my phone out and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9bEJEfcCOE
texted Jehan that we should meet at the café after practise some time in1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKssQiefzBp
the evening. He replied saying that he would be there.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwg8HCtln8s
"Okay, it's settled," I said as I put my phone back in my pocket.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaZAb1Qff5P
"Yay! The pizza is here," said Seungri as he stood up and approached the pizza delivery man coming in through the entrance.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPC1xkuTcOp
Seungri had ordered ten 1064Please respect copyright.PENANANtFqUOKtaj
large sized boxes of pizza, enough for everyone upstairs. And the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3HWrOZoE7P
flavour, mac and cheese. Sam's favourite. Well, almost everyone's 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1hCk2bFJAc
favourite.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIhC3pxLFis
We helped Seungri with the pizza and went to the elevator which took us back up to the floor of the dance studio.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgj4o6H2lsp
"When all of this is over, Zoey, you're going to get a scolding from me," said Christine, as we walked down the hall.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxJt2GtQa2l
"I'll be ready for 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjGWU3A87HL
that," I said as I rolled my eyes. "I just can't wait to have everything1064Please respect copyright.PENANAy0VzdHofKg
back to the way they were. Before all the threatening."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9TOOIogLmZ
"No, they won't," said Seungri. "You still have Sam to resolve things with."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0tXhz6L1zw
"And G-Dragon," TOP added.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJmKCpMGdAM
"Can we please not talk about that?" I asked. "You don't have to remind me all the time."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3TEypjosK
"Well, someone has to," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAi98J3ASvK
"Just so you know, I'll agree to resolve things on my own terms."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmGTbnNz7Vg
"Jeez," said Christine, rolling her eyes at me. "When you say that, I have to get ready for the unexpected."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAACwMmLrgYv
We found ourselves back 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkPW8L9el5p
at the studio and this time, I found Sam talking to Taeyang. G-Dragon 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAV3iShGhu0A
was still talking to some of the back up dancers and I could see him 1064Please respect copyright.PENANACoIsSIEBDQ
staring at Sam through the corner of his eye. Or was that me being 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhI1atNX4sB
paranoid?1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfjKINNJN1D
Christine snapped her fingers right in front of me and I turned to look at her.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFUDVqtVdWn
"What?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0pHJqVFNUV
"You were frowning," Christine answered.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAG9SCk0ithB
"Frowning? I wasn't frowning."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfPgAiRyzTw
"Says the person who 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8GQHQ2yJAP
couldn't stand seeing G-Dragon looking at someone else." Christine gave 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcpgADr5JEB
me a smirk and left me standing all alone by the door, while she joined 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5egEsSQjnm
the others who had soon formed a circle around Seungri and TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzoGjbEQwrY
Soon after lunch, we 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgauBohm3zT
went straight back to practising. This time, for a good six hours. We 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJxrI3Cikr2
had to do the dance routine over and over again to perfect it. This time1064Please respect copyright.PENANAN033EOFIJc
around, I made sure not to make any mistake like I had been doing 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkf2ZpRJ7kO
earlier. This time, everything was coming out perfectly and I don't know1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu23Ks5du2u
how many times we had to do the routine all over again. But despite the1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPci80f4HhL
number of times we did it again, we had a whole lot of fun.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXE4gZU0KzZ
At some point in the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUX48FVh6uf
afternoon, our two managers and Lee came over to check on us and they 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9DIhv4pR6S
were really impressed. Yang Hyun-suk thought filming the dance practise 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1q21PYzDzP
will be helpful and that they would release it after the music video. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKmFzHt0pvP
The dance practise was shot and it came out perfect, but still, we went 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAH8X2uHuGWF
back to practising until we could pratice no more.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdJEJvBbGbH
It was five and the sun 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYX4uxQyL6j
was setting when we were finally done for the day. I was so tired that I1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYBFcERNKpD
was lying on the floor. My body aching everywhere. Luckily, I wasn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu0SwxplC7n
the only one on the floor. Christine and Daniel were lying on either 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAermfGxGUYR
side of me. We were all pretty tired.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3zEBo39iLi
The choreographer had already left and the backup dancers also started to leave. G-Dragon and Taeyang left together.1064Please respect copyright.PENANABBqmdLqjUz
While I was resting and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9DU4YmAuof
gathering up any ounce of energy I had left, Seungri was standing next 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3zDijONNb0
to my head and looking down on me. I looked up at him with a puzzled 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQLeJIE9cRd
look on my face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAo96A3Bb6S2
"Get up, Zoey, we gotta go," he said.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaEOvF9kVbf
"Go? Go where?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyymxBLuMFU
Christine roughly nudged me on my side with her elbow, I looked at her with a whining look on my face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6Bm2mVFnJo
"Ouch, that hurt!" I said.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqoQOsPkQez
"Are you forgetting, Zoey?" Christine asked, raising her eyebrows. "We have to go somewhere to do something."1064Please respect copyright.PENANArurz4pB0lq
It was then that I remembered that I was supposed to meet Jehan at the café. I totally forgot.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZHexAv1HDo
"Oh, ya!" I quickly sat up on the floor and Christine followed. "We have to go."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAF0BRoFKmpc
"Go where?" Daniel asked, still lying down on the floor and looking at us.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKXiIx1dS8M
"No where," I answered quickly. "We're just planning on going around the city for a drive."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAm9O4GrxFwZ
"I want to follow too," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANASamz42KhGI
"Where did you say you were going?" came Mike who had been talking with Sam and Daesung.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUYuBMp078T
I rolled my eyes. Seriously? The last thing I want is for everyone to follow and find out what's going on.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAY3cgbJgLQN
"It's nothing really," said TOP. "We were planning to drive around the city. You don't have to follow."1064Please respect copyright.PENANARN7qvcbtRA
"But this is not fair," said Daniel, sitting up quickly. "I also want to come along."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGwVWI0bsTS
"Ya, me too," said Mike.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVESFRMfLEJ
"Why don't you want 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMvTVFViwp0
these guys to go along?" Sam asked. I noticed that she still wasn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcv924BsKFy
looking at me. "You're just going for a drive. I see no reason for them 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoS8MRqI8M8
not to follow."1064Please respect copyright.PENANALP3NhzPuYu
I wanted to protest and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAM8O4IDomKV
refuse but then I realised that I wasn't supposed to talk to Sam. And 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxE1QnPxsfH
refusing her was going to be pointless because I already know Seungri 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAm85LDsJoP2
and TOP weren't going to deny her so easily.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4WQfZevZJX
"Okay, they can come along," said Seungri.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAI7r9zLUaBX
Dang it!1064Please respect copyright.PENANAF6oURVl8Qw
"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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUmJGTXHVkB
"I can take you back to the hotel if you want," said Daesung, addressing Sam.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHuwZTP89hM
"Thanks, that's nice of 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA87yURuDQUq
you, Daesung," said Sam giving him a sweet smile. She turned to look at 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYWgRHg9lt9
the others. "Have fun you, guys."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3dvtajLN9s
Sam and Daesung left the1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcD1PQQqwbK
room together and I couldn't help but look at the door and think to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyov7jpNM2R
myself that the two also made a nice pair.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgRzzrWnm7Z
"So, where are we going?" Mike asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOvAMl8pW05
"Please, don't ask any questions," I said as I turned to face him. "It's none of your business."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYe8oKBvvjT
"Mmm, seeing the look on your face, something's up," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANACRQhHsUs1u
Christine stood up from 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhUkZqY99hW
the floor and said, "look guys, if we tell, you have to promise not to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVL9dnJvGNW
tell anyone. Not even Sam. No one."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3IbaucPrqM
I looked up at her with my eyebrow raised. "Are you seriously going to tell them?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjhtJKUOlnq
"Do I have a choice? You know how persistent these two are and they are probably going to find out anyway."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWgyeWhdo59
"Ya, Christine's right," said Seungri. "And we also couldn't refuse Sam for them to come along."1064Please respect copyright.PENANACOuoIdKgon
"You just couldn't refuse because you like her too much," I said, turning to face Seungri.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtFabz0ri6M
Seungri shrugged and smiled. "What can I say? I've to obey the lovely queen, right?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANALeJf7cNfc4
I almost snapped back at him but I controlled myself and looked away.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOtmfjMhexI
"Okay, can we focus on telling us what's going on?" Daniel asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAthXOfQm7zx
"Fine," I said. "Someone tell them. I can't keep repeating myself with all this."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5FpVjCws81
TOP told Mike and Daniel what was going on. The two brothers were shocked after what they heard.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAi6w9xL7BBq
"Oooh, you're in a lot of trouble now, Zoey," said Mike, looking at me and shaking his head.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUcFyM3NG31
"You don't have to remind me," I said rolling my eyes.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4bqeUUvWr3
"I can't believe that guy is the diamond smuggler," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8P5Q6fQq5S
"I know," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAp2sJUkNJsN
"You haven't told Sam about this?" Mike asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4OuF0Sn6ka
"No. No one has to know," I said. "Not even the police."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7CBWs3V8aq
"I think you should have told Sam," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANARv7jXLoz1A
"So that she can judge me? No way."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXbgcfvaWeV
"You know Sam can never do that," said Seungri. "She would have helped in any way possible."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAr9n3knxivv
"Don't try to convince 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5gojIxVMTl
her of anything," said Christine. "She probably won't listen like she 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkWSV8QldEa
always does." I raised an eyebrow at Christine and she looked back at me1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjEwWYIMmzS
like she could hit me with a hammer.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu029H8d3li
"Okay, let's go," said TOP.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAicwFiifGFm
I got up from the floor 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlNbIE59FCY
with Daniel and I took my purse. We soon left the room and headed 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3khvE7F8Uh
downstairs. Sam and Daesung had already left since there was no sign of 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOJ91L5xxVm
Daesung's car in the parking lot. Christine and I went with Seungri in 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuIv39e0HuP
his car while Daniel and Mike went in TOP's car.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqVvePv1Oc6
The cars soon left the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAv3pUcRuHuD
YG premises and in the car, I couldn't help but feel nervous. What if 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATMvTgZN8wL
things didn't work out like it did yesterday? I hope not. Every now and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHOK21Pqo8f
then, I would open and check if the teddy bear was still in my purse.1064Please respect copyright.PENANARjjQEr71uw
"Can you you please stop1064Please respect copyright.PENANAE3q0HX90CX
doing that?" Christine asked from the back seat. "You might just drop 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMkjDDTWiOv
the teddy and lose it in the car."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAB8FZsDFZMC
"Stop joking around," I said as I turned to look at Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJQw73pG4Hy
"Well, then stop getting nervous. We're all here with you so there is nothing to be worried about."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUga0sOig0N
I leaned back on the chair and tried to relax. "You're right," I said. "I need to relax."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVLkMW3L5cq
"Don't worry, we're almost there," said Seungri as the car took a turn.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKnxXMYNEbc
"I just want to get this over with."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGE0whQhhtS
We were soon packed 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUTWvGFeIE8
right outside the café and TOP's car parked right next to us. I took a 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8yzklgjQS5
deep breath. Christine came over and put her hand on my shoulder. I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdpNn9VAvi4
turned to look at her.1064Please respect copyright.PENANArFsZ4ezQAH
"Everything is going to be okay," said Christine giving me an encouraging smile. "If anything happens, we'll be here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAxzQVute3e
"Thanks," I said with a smile. "I'm glad you guys are all here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2LHVO2bT8G
Seungri also turned to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvWwzsX2Z4y
smile at me. I don't know what I would have done without them. Their 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6RJwWh6xDp
presence here gave me a little comfort. But I felt a small hole in my 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAg8Gd8lZdrR
chest and I wished Sam was here too.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxVcG1m9uvZ
I soon got out of the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwwan0vZpLx
car and there was a sudden chill in the air. Maybe it's because the sun 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAO6mIdofi6M
was setting that it started to get cold. I had my purse in my hand and I1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVeseplWL3D
looked towards the café. I hope everything will go as planned.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAE0VwqxTgDe
Before I could find my 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWt8T3argRX
way into the café, TOP, Mike and Daniel waved at me through the windows 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkU2NmwZwJH
of TOP's car and giving me a thumbs up. I smiled a little and waved 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHDvHu5HNib
back. At least that gave me the confidence to go ahead.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhgiLN3nymf
I quickly went in the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA77BVcuDfer
café and when I slowly stepped in, I looked around for Jehan. I spotted 1064Please respect copyright.PENANApRe4xtiSCD
him right next to the huge glass window where we had last sat down 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA928LEd5LVZ
together. He was alone in his smart pressed black suit, as always.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4jpEvxkzYy
I slowly approached the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA318qH8zL8J
table. His eyes never left me since I walked in the café. When I got to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAH3oiAZZlnB
the table, I sat facing him. My heart was beating so fast. I don't know 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQPx3UA6olE
why I was so scared that things might go wrong and Jehan wouldn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANANEzDiUP1l4
hesitate to end my life right here.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAe3fLvxTjPs
"I'm glad you could make it," said Jehan. "I was almost about to call my driver to come pick you up."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAn2zL4fVWcg
"I was practising today," I answered.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUN1l0u9a3n
"You look really tired. It could show all over your face."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGW3OsvmZgw
"Thanks," I frowned at 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGss3ih6gF8
him. "Can we get this over with? I still have a busy day tomorrow and I 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsdHsDq61Pj
would like to get this teddy bear off my back."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAa5Q25OHfBX
Jehan smirked. "Certainly."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVIinzvFhfL
I quickly reached out 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAofK4OhJO8K
for the purse on my lap, opened it and gave him the teddy bear. Jehan 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2NO1QNrR90
reached out to take it and I couldn't help but feel relieved.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGKCSahJcEF
"There! You have your teddy," I said. "Can I go now?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2jTEejw5gf
"Wait." Jehan held up a finger when I was just about to stand up and leave. I sighed.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAP4VP5XUecz
"What now?" I complained.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZD1r2l2Xwf
"I need to check if all the diamonds are in here," said Jehan, shaking the teddy in his other hand.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZ67mX0dIpM
"What do you think? That1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOMDC1lWhIx
I would steal from you?" I was really surprised that he didn't trust 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZPd9Gby83C
me. "You pointed a gun to my head in Paris and I have done everything 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfv7moRuCmM
you have asked until now. What makes you think I would steal your 1064Please respect copyright.PENANApvIGL04tiP
diamonds? I have a life to live, may I remind you."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2sNLQhPI0g
Jehan raised an eyebrow 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA35pOouQTzL
at me. "Nice one, Zoey. You almost had me convinced. But I'm still going1064Please respect copyright.PENANATE5jiMYGmh
to check. I've to make sure all the diamonds are in here before I make a1064Please respect copyright.PENANAE8zDpGW8O1
fool of myself in front of my clients I'm selling these to."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAANbrho294g
"Fine." I folded my arms on the table. "If you don't believe me, then check it yourself. I know I'm innocent."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjbuQnVfUu8
"I know you're." Jehan gave me a smile and I looked away facing the window. It was getting really dark outside so fast.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZrwbJD0M9A
I went back to looking 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbZOdiye2pC
at Jehan who had laid the little teddy bear on the table and he dug into1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKbh0E2ThQZ
the pockets of his suit and removed a small pocket knife. It didn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwfALxGaOPR
surprise me that he carried that thing around.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAI9lwmmMeSZ
Jehan slowly laid the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMXu38OnS7m
blade onto the little teddy's belly and cut through its tiny suit, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXtUSFcDvYT
dissecting the teddy bear. This reminded me of science class back in 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXMenFfXz9J
high school when we were told to dissect a frog. Doing that was so 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnL1GrvtMfY
disgusting that I ended up purking all over Sam's shoes, who was my 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8RMlAFRg8K
science partner. This time, it was just cotton stuffing that came out of1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaMhUnyP2al
the teddy bear.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWkY0gyUJ6F
Wait. I frowned. This 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAo7I3WJdsYN
isn't right. I raised an eyebrow when Jehan kept on removing cotton 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoALDJdr2Pt
stuffings and there was no sign of the diamonds. Where were the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2CkNg3IKQx
diamonds!1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdpemHgomyv
I stared horrified at 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKWKimtNntX
the scene on the table. There was tiny cotton stuffings everywhere and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3g0qdL1wTB
the bear that laid stuffless on the table was a sad site to see because 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhGJ6sRgrNM
there was nothing in it. No diamonds.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAk4tnmcH0II
I looked up at Jehan and1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFUnzC9LuhV
he was as surprised as I was. His mouth was wide open and he couldn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnR9FIbvepZ
stop looking at the dissected teddy. If he kept on looking at it like 1064Please respect copyright.PENANANv6WSiWyLk
that, he was going to end up traumatised.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6SaIg4Ty3n
"Je-Jehan," I said 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuXxoQWkxLh
softly. Hoping he wouldn't bite at me like a dog with rabies. "Jehan. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAd01FdaQ7Rw
I...I have no idea what has just happened, but, there are no diamonds in1064Please respect copyright.PENANAS68qJl88QB
there."1064Please respect copyright.PENANALJ7SUctn84
Jean neither moved nor 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuQBbwdWQVH
said a word. I was getting worried. Should I move him to try and snap 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPUtOCmDiXZ
him out of it? I didn't know what to do.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVRlzMAb9K2
But how could this be? 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAC5pUI6uihi
Where did the diamonds go? It's not like the teddy bear could just poop 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmQ4jYSPov0
out diamonds since it wasn't alive or anything. Something weird was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzIgi56rOsL
going on. And I wasn't like liking it at all.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0XNIWNXZE2
"Where are my diamonds?" Jehan muttered silently, still looking at the scene before him.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA368Qe2OHVR
"I...I don't know," I said shaking my head. I was scared of his reaction and I prepared myself for it.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIVHSpg89Va
He banged his fists on 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKt5Fagm3co
the table so loudly that he startled not only me, but everyone else in 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAr9OLNUKL8R
the café. Everyone turned to look at us and I looked around then back at1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVg3cjEJxUG
Jehan, whose eyes were as red as a bull's, staring at me.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2VtDB1idGe
"Jehan, chill," I said, putting my hands up to calm him down. "Let's not try to get angry here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvpedp4A9nJ
"Where are my diamonds, Zoey?" This time he didn't shout but the anger in his voice got me shivering.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtk6TZiTA2o
"I don't know. I don't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYexXT1yS0h
know what's going on right now. This is the same teddy bear you sent us.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAB0NSwbxZM2
I don't know why it doesn't have diamonds in it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAI7OMicL04Z
"How did the diamonds go missing?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyNW0bmsWeL
"How am I supposed to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAeByvy0l7X4
know? I just kept the teddy for you. Maybe you sent me the teddy without1064Please respect copyright.PENANAeeJK0iVtlG
diamonds in it and you probably never noticed."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmFT7V73llt
"Don't doubt what I do, Zoey! I made sure I made no mistake."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2UoWMXPJL0
"Okay, chill, I believe you. Look, why don't we try to sort this out calmly? Getting upset won't do us any good."1064Please respect copyright.PENANADfUTwdUHLU
Jehan rubbed his 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAk4o4x76G4c
forehead and sighed as he leaned back further into his seat. He seemed 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAUP6yNef7r8
to have calmed down when he looked at the teddy bear again.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9dUtW2LIQu
"I need my diamonds back, Zoey."1064Please respect copyright.PENANARlyI9SyQ2q
"I know. You've said that like almost a hundred times now."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAocrmpqJp5Z
"Let's not joke around here. What happened? Why does this bear have no diamonds in it?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMCOKvPPOpp
"I didn't do anything. I swear. That teddy was just the way it was eversince you sent it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjxTwP7DuNp
"Then why doesn't it have diamonds in it?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9Cc2Ajfv7A
"I don't know."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAPQCyk4xKd5
Jehan looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "Who else had this teddy apart from you?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1JFNys49Ys
"Ummm," I looked down 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA95654cRvhB
and played around with my fingers. "Uh....I wasn't the one who had been 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA0h3h1m6Qde
taking care of the teddy bear this whole time."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAx1F33t78r3
"What?" Jehan sounded surprised. "What do you mean?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwOS0OUQ8DQ
"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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA12BEGZsOIr
"Who had the teddy bear?" Jehan leaned closer, his eyes not leaving mine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlnRoVFcbiB
"Lee had it before I took it from her yesterday."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAiuMX7nQu4J
"Oh, my gosh!" Jehan 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAzn0xq5hlRo
covered his face with his hands and I could see this wasn't going too 1064Please respect copyright.PENANApA5sUHvXLT
well for him. "Could she have the diamonds?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlwisolUh0I
"I don't think so. Lee 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAs3jPQz0K9s
is an honest person. If she did notice there were diamonds in the teddy,1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5RjjZAXnzO
she would've said something. No way. She can't have the diamonds."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgOQPV2UPMA
"Then how do we explain all this! She was the last person to have the teddy, correct?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANARlLqCdttj9
"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."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsYAliK56aQ
"Maybe you don't know Lee well enough. If this is the same teddy I had sent, where could the diamonds be?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAefJ3OiKoZN
"Maybe this is just another teddy bear and the actual one with the diamonds is still at the hotel."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEgb79QMIOB
After I said that, Jehan1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWLRt9kbcmB
quickly took the dissected teddy bear in his hands and looked at it 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAA8jOTHSVaH
carefully. He turned the teddy, looking at its back side and tearing the1064Please respect copyright.PENANAaQpWf69nUa
suit away. I wondered what he was looking for because he had a serious 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwU7bWjHzJn
look on his face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAiEfHQGvu1r
"You're right," said Jehan. "This is definitely another teddy bear and not the one I sent you."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcyC5c1XJBu
"Wait, how do you know?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfPw5DmbBjZ
"I remember one of my 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkmZM31YpqJ
men who sewed the teddy bear after putting diamonds in it at the back. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuChVBp1LVw
There should have been some stitching here but this one doesn't."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXtklbSbpX8
"Ha!" I snapped my fingers. "I knew I was right!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAiWNoTotIY4
"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!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHtIlpBmTjj
"Huh? I can't start 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8Nwi1JUQbx
searching for it now. It would look suspicious. And I can't start asking1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuYt2r2o3Ak
Lee if she bought another teddy just like this one. She already knows 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhWcMUWw4eG
that the bear is missing."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9NFzvecN6u
"Then maybe, Lee isn't the only person you should be asking."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyOiZb9Ekbj
"What do you mean?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoS3cmAFtwN
"Someone else must know where the other teddy bear is. Your group members perhaps."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAspyQ0bv6Hp
"No. I highly doubt it. Lee must have bought another teddy and we just didn't know about it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvxXeDZB4RB
"Now that, makes no 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnb2UssfzhC
sense. If I were you, I would go back and find out what happened to that1064Please respect copyright.PENANAm2bGsFrfQu
teddy and ask around for it. I'll need that teddy tomorrow."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9ngoo38LdB
"Tomorrow! Are you nuts!"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA8s4kvJXJv8
"Maybe I am because I'm desperate to have those diamonds back."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFVyaL1hKIX
"I might not be around tomorrow. I have a music video to shoot."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtqZAWMfkAn
"Find those diamonds and you will be scott free, Zoey. Or do you want everyone to mourn over you when they find you dead?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA456vdwP91f
I completely forgot that1064Please respect copyright.PENANAX9Mp06qbQ6
I was being threatened by this guy. Though his threats didn't scare me 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1QGdcFGV35
anymore, I just had to abide to everything. Who knows, he might not have1064Please respect copyright.PENANApvMaHILVGV
me killed, but he could hurt the others and it would be all my fault.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3A5K9I7iTH
"Okay. I'll see what I can do."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAinV8CVKGKv
Jehan gave me a smile. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAToRqFyHogD
"That's more I like it. I would start working on this soon if I were 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmwGfYReyXF
you. Try your best to find the bear by tomorrow, will you?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7Rfp89pF5I
I nodded my head and 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA5YH4b7NAhI
that made him smile even more. He soon stood up from his seat and looked1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIPUP2IcAeg
down at me. I looked back at him without a saying a word.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3er9bdGSFJ
"See you tomorrow," said Jehan and he quickly walked out of the café.1064Please respect copyright.PENANANVRY1ngBG2
I sat there as I buried 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcMuwqXkIEN
my face in my hands, thinking of what to do. Again, everything was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvrnmWkYgRz
ruined. First, the interruption from TOP and Seungri yesterday. Now, the1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3q5PgvQnTz
teddy bear had been swapped with another. My life couldn't get any 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu8QvOUZuYj
worse than this. What was going on? Who was putting me into so much 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOMuOfFRWiJ
drama that might just ruin my life?1064Please respect copyright.PENANAB1JFtwfxaa
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.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAdvggmLgI3r
"Zoey, what happened?" Christine asked, as she turned to look on what was on the table.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAON29ce6F5T
I could hear footsteps 1064Please respect copyright.PENANABMG7LoDY3d
behind me. The others had come in the café too. They all looked worried 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6lTW5XXJuK
when they saw the look on my face.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuIj2sZlIMF
Christine sat where Jehan had been a few minutes ago and looked at the tattered teddy bear on the table.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAoesJ11u7sD
"What's going on?" Daniel asked. "And what happened to Mr Teddy?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4Og2qz6LmD
"Jehan didn't look happy when he left the café," said TOP. "Didn't he get his diamonds?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAl67Iz5Ie3i
"No," I answered. "He didn't."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3vjAYpLwb1
"What?" Seungri sounded surprised. "What do you mean he didn't get his diamonds?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAXfr7hhOjmx
"This teddy isn't the teddy he had sent us," I answered. "Someone swapped the teddy with another."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAgKeYw1uYiF
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."1064Please respect copyright.PENANATMbFRF7dao
"And what about Lee?" 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAITszYaOCCa
Christine asked. "She was the one who last had the teddy before Zoey 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtdekTLOmjJ
took it. But what doesn't make any sense is why she would want to get 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATcdZe3xj0B
another teddy when she had asked me last night where Mr Teddy had gone 1064Please respect copyright.PENANARrVlKkLuqM
to."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOUV0Br9bj9
"This is bad," I said, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAmlmE52BnFt
leaning my elbows on the table and holding my head. "Whoever has the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA4l3CEbtqs9
teddy, knew what must have been going on this whole time."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVX0cschRy6
"Ya, but who could have known?" Seungri asked. "It couldn't be Lee because all she knows is that the teddy has gone missing."1064Please respect copyright.PENANATwyqI4gWas
"Maybe Sam has it," said Mike.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAJFuuxO2G42
We all turned to look at Mike with grim looks on our faces.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu0iPqJTjlB
"Sam?" I wondered for a 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEeon7S1Kj3
little while. "Why would Sam have the teddy? And if she did, how could 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAMLcJ1A372J
she have swapped it with the other one?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6hu7brbCYA
"Okay, wait," said TOP. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANABkPXFhoHRG
"This is all too confusing. Does Sam even have any idea or clue as to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEK08pYhsuq
what's really going on in the first place?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANA7BdIhH6Ze9
"I doubt it," I said 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAISKOnK3wIG
shaking my head. "If she knew what was going on she would have 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAC6X7xN6sDr
confronted me. And besides, she was also at the mall yesterday and would1064Please respect copyright.PENANAffJTdPYE4U
have probably seen Jehan and I together. But she didn't."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA9v4oHuI861
TOP and Seungri looked 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAZrLFxJmhyI
at each other after I said that. What was up with them? The look they 1064Please respect copyright.PENANACQxbWQGX68
gave each other made me feel that something was up but I quickly brushed1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQhqHQggVg1
it away.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAGVkCDaH8D5
"I highly doubt it too,"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAV7LXzzjzrn
said Daniel. "If she knew Zoey was into some kind of serious trouble, 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjYjzDUWsz0
she would have asked us about it."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAqQKkNJTDmV
"That's true," said 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuHDdq4FEdJ
Mike. "Come to think of it, I don't think Sam has it. For her to swap 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAHId0JMQgAh
the teddy, she would have bought it from somewhere."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAj7EMb2MBD1
"And I checked out the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVxRGyIfKip
shopping bags, Lee came with yesterday when she went shopping with Sam. 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA65z3epxbh9
There was no sign of a small teddy in any of them," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbLSlWOuBLq
"She must have bought it when she was with G-Dragon," I said.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA2uZGkV1tZw
"No, I highly doubt it,"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAawo4P7thU
said TOP. "There are some dedicated fans who followed those two 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAcUz30Ytcwa
yesterday, describing which store they went to and taking pictures. They1064Please respect copyright.PENANAG4P9aqljbg
said nothing about them entering a toy store."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAlxybUAszNL
"Now that's what I call a dead end," said Daniel.1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6IiiZDmGLs
"Fine, so Lee and Sam have been cancelled on the list," said Seungri. "Who else could have swapped the teddies?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAi5XgJh8jVQ
"Collins?" Mike asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANABQiJ0U8ewE
"Ha! No way," I said, almost laughing in a such a serious situation. "How could he have known about Jehan and the diamonds?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsd8xblELKD
"Mmmm, good point," said Seungri. "He's been really busy these past few days."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAEKRLU9Ea6S
"But who knows? Maybe he1064Please respect copyright.PENANAAbW4CtMLVD
has been spying on me this whole time and I haven't noticed. He 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAa8JMv3LgAr
considers me the black sheep that has to be kept an eye on at all 1064Please respect copyright.PENANACUeJPe9WEj
times."1064Please respect copyright.PENANA1mwpGS0S5I
"You're definitely the black sheep, Zoey," said Mike.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAFCuIcKhi8Y
"Hey! May I remind you, I'm not the only one here who gets into trouble here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAslFEgv2LLu
"Okay, guys, focus," said TOP. "What makes you think Collins might have been the one who swapped the teddies?"1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuv9b7Twbkk
Daniel suddenly snapped his fingers. "I remember now. Yesterday when he came back with Sam, something happened."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAyVGykswSmX
"Wait. Collins was with Sam?" I asked.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAbXEB0ialCO
"He was the one who went1064Please respect copyright.PENANAu2bHCQqX9S
to pick her up from the mall," Daniel answered. "Back to what I was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAxsH1gSDUtH
saying, Collins had something delivered to him at the hotel. He even 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQP2ng4WCIk
went to get it himself from the delivery man who was coming up the 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAreQKJ5gpUU
elevator."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAG7V3NzWMC6
"What was it?" We all asked Daniel, looking at him anxiously.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAM3g0sp2Z0Y
"It was a small box. And if you ask me, it was kind of like the one Jehan had sent that teddy bear in."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAKwFStwxvyj
"Gosh, it's been Collins this whole time," said Christine.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAQghAp6F0M9
"I couldn't be too sure," I said. "But after what Daniel has said, I don't know what to believe."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAjnUdSfzgME
"We really have to go," said Seungri. "We can't stay here."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAm5R8QniukW
"You're right," I said 1064Please respect copyright.PENANASTHhRDrLIM
as I stood up from the seat taking my purse. "I've to search for that 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6i7un0H2E9
teddy if I want to make it out alive tomorrow."1064Please respect copyright.PENANAsQAypQNHZu
"Wait, we can't leave all this here," said Christine, taking what was left of the teddy bear in her hands.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAWklPswofaT
We all walked out of the1064Please respect copyright.PENANAVJXIlsP5lI
café, hopping no one had heard our conversation. There were a few 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAnaaL38cggc
people in the café and I highly doubt if they really heard anything.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAvnHLEqNVmu
While I was in the car 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAfTCmLd4UGC
with Seungri driving and the others in the other car behind us, I was so1064Please respect copyright.PENANAYADEZw4rd2
troubled about the missing teddy. I couldn't help thinking that Collins1064Please respect copyright.PENANAV8DHnrKrbq
is involved. But that didn't make any sense. As much as I wanted to 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAuyaUJZhuX9
believe that Collins could have swapped the teddies, I shook my head at 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA6FjbztBsFa
the thought of it. Maybe it really wasn't Collins.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtJzQjTYhxJ
If it isn't him, then 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAIrDluCKkgH
who? It couldn't be Lee because she had the teddy with her the whole 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAkNU3hyscUO
time and she couldn't buy another teddy for no reason. And I couldn't 1064Please respect copyright.PENANALWqAv1aa2s
picture Sam doing anything like that either because I had never seen her1064Please respect copyright.PENANADnArBKk9fB
near that teddy after Jehan sent it to us that day.1064Please respect copyright.PENANAtnSqFMLoSX
What if I had the wrong 1064Please respect copyright.PENANA3DfU3YC3B2
teddy the whole time and I had never known till now? All this was too 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAOV5rHfDhXN
confusing. Who swapped the teddies? And when did the swapping ever take 1064Please respect copyright.PENANAhmT7WPYF1x
place without any of us noticing in the first place?1064Please respect copyright.PENANAwjGGdZSvV7
I hope I could be able 1064Please respect copyright.PENANADVgSJutQIL
to find the teddy soon. Jehan might threaten to kill me, but I was 1064Please respect copyright.PENANATpfjTmtSJg
pretty sure he would try to hurt the others too. And I wouldn't let that1064Please respect copyright.PENANA61j2IMYWec
happen.