The next morning, when Luna woke up in Haemin's bed, he himself wasn't there
She looked at the clock, it was eleven in the morning,
Wow, when was the last time I slept in this late?
She waited for a few minutes and then went downstairs for breakfast hoping everyone else would be there too.
"Luna, you're just in time," Yerim, one of the senior members, said as Luna sat down at the table next to Joy who as usual was on her phone.
"Where's Haemin?" Luna asked.
"I forced him to go to the hospital with Jihoon."
"What?!"
"He was running a high fever, the cold must've gotten to him yesterday."
That's why he was so warm last night, Luna thought, she figured she was just hot from the bath.
"Oh and when I came in this morning to wake you guys up for the shoot, I noticed you two were sharing a bed." Joy said, trying and failing hard to keep the grin off her lips.
Luna blushed, " Uhh yeah.. it sort of happened that way."
"SORT OF HAPPENED THAT WAY?!" Joy bellowed and Luna cringed at how everyone else was alarmed as well, "TELL ME EVERYTHING!"
Luna cleared her throat, a small smile persistent on her lips, "He kissed me." She whispered.
Joy slapped her hands on the table, once again almost breaking her phone, making Luna wonder about how much the phone went through.
"YES yes yes yes!"
Luna giggled, "I mean it was just a kiss and nothing happened after that, he fell asleep rather quickly."
"It was the night gown wasn't it? He just couldn't resist after seeing you in such sultry attire."
Before Luna could reply, she caught sight of Jihoon coming in with a red faced, weary-looking Haemin trailing behind him slowly.
She gasped,
"Turns out the fever wouldn't go down with the medicine, so they insisted that he be kept overnight, but Mr. Lee here refused."
"I feel fine, the fever will go down eventually." Haemin offered a weak smile, he hadn't looked at Luna even once yet.
"What do you mean you're fine?!" Joy raged, "Look at yourself! You're going back to the hospital."
"Nu uh." Haemin mumbled and sat down at the table ignoring Joy's glare.
Although Luna was worried sick about him, he still looked absolutely adorable with his rosy cheeks and stubborn attitude.
"Then we're going back to Seoul right now. Aunt Seyoung will deal with you." Joy finalised.
She settled that the pictures they had taken the previous day had been enough and an hour later they left for home.
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In the plane, Haemin sat in first class so that he could rest on the reclining seats.
Earlier all of them had flown economy, because the club's budget was used and Luna, Haemin and Joy didnt want to come off as snobs.
When Jihoon and Luna reached home, she went straight to her room. There was much to think about.
If she racked her brain, Haemin probably had a fever the previous night as well,
And quite possibly, he was over sensitive because of his condition, and may have even kissed her in just a haze.
Like when you're drunk...
Luna pulled at her hair,
He probably doesn't even remember it,
Didn't even mean it!
She deflated onto her quilt and frowned the deepest frown she could muster.
But,
She perked up,
Was what he said true? About Ella.
If fever loopiness was perceived the same as intoxication, then he was probably telling the truth. She thought.
Her phone pinged and it was Hyun. She smiled, she could use a distraction.
He had sent a link and when she clicked on it, she saw that it was an article about René Piérce and how she had left the Piérce lineage and legally changed her name to René Wildfire.
A smile crept on her face despite her shock,
Wildfire was the name of René's childhood ultimate OC. She drew her everywhere.
Wildfire had black beady eyes like René, also she had crazy curly hair like René, except instead of curls there were random red and orange doodles.
Once when René was in a good mood after winning a drawing competition, she had explained that the doodles were actually the millions of ideas in her mind spreading like wildfire, sparked by anything and everything, her imagination running rampant.
She did it, Luna thought, something I could've never been able to do. Although if there ever was a person brave enough to take such a step, it was her. She visibly never fit in, or maybe she was never given the chance to.
A knock on the door made her look up from the exaggerated article,
"Come in."
The maid walked in with a sleeping Leo in her arms,
Luna awed and took him, " I cant believe they trained him well enough to have him be this comfortable in such a short time."
"Actually no miss, he's been given a mild tranquilliser. Mr. Leo was very hard for the hotel staff to manage. He fought, scratched, attacked other animals and staff, they barely managed to cut his nails." Luna looked at him with worry.
"They said he is a grown up cat, impossible to domesticate."
After the maid left, she laid him in his bed and laid on the floor next to him, petting him.
"I'll let you do whatever you want, I wont force you to stay."