Tiara opened the door a little and peeked outside, the coast seemed to be clear again but still, there were around 3 zombies a little far. She could see everything properly and then it hit her. 'Wait, Who turned on the lights?'
She closed the door quickly and looked at the others. "The lights are on… but how?" She doubted if there is someone else out there. "The lights are automatic." K.R. erased her doubt. "Aah, Cool." She opened the door a little again to peek and said. "Okay, Let's go." She opened the door and went outside. She waited near the door until everyone else came outside of the room and closed the door.
Everyone slowly moved toward the other end of the corridor trying not to make any noise from their feet, there were zombies but they were a little far from everyone. Joy was walking with Tiara because she was behind everyone else and he wanted to record everything and everyone while J.J. was walking before them.
"You know you are under my protection, right?" Tiara whispered. "Hmm." Joy hmmed in a very low voice and then Tiara smirked at him which didn't go unnoticeable to him. "You protect me, right?" He asked in his broken English but Tiara just grinned after looking at his miserable state.
"What?" He got tensed thinking Tiara wouldn't protect him. "Yeah yeah, now shut up." She told him to keep quiet because she noticed one zombie reacting to their whispers. They were taking slow and firm steps forward not wanting to make any noise but maybe it wasn't enough because one of the zombies attacked them and came directly toward J.J.
He tried to move the zombie away but he slipped and fell on the ground which made a lot of sound and the zombie attacked him while Tiara looked at the incident before her. The moment she came to her senses she kicked the zombie away from him but it attacked her.
She stuck out her sharpened rod against it but she didn't aim anywhere specific to attack the zombie. Tiara closed her eyes the moment she felt the rod r*pping through its fl*sh. The rod w*nt straightly through his m*uth r*pping to the back of his h*ad. bl**d started coming from its mouth and Tiara pulled out the rod from his mouth. it fell down, lifelessly.
She opened her eyes, there were tears. She held her breath not to scream out of fear and heartbreak, the emotional pain was more than enough to break her from the inside. She looked up at the roof of the hallway trying not to see the lifeless thing on her feet while holding up her tears. She was lost in her thoughts that she didn't see other zombies coming to them and JJ jumped to stand up quickly.
Joy screamed for Tiara to come into reality from her thoughts. She blinked her eyes and saw the zombies near her. It saw just about to bite her when K.R. came and stuck his sharpened rod to his neck. Her heart dropped after seeing the bl*od but she had to be strong for the ones she just met and her family because they were waiting for her at home.
She saw another zombie coming from behind KR. She didn't think and aimed at the zombie shoving the rod from near KR's neck and taking another life with her hand. Both lifeless bodies dropped to the floor and when KR moved from her eyesight she saw that others were struggling with 5 other zombies.
KR ran toward them and tried to k*ll them as well but then she saw more zombies coming from the back. "Just shove them and run!" She said in a little loud voice which made everyone look in the direction she was looking.
They shoved them with all their will and run for their lives. Joy, Tiara, and JJ were behind everyone again. Tiara was a good runner but she didn't want to leave Joy behind with no protection so she slowed down but then again another zombie attack at JJ.
He froze after he saw its face. It was their manager who supported them since their trainee days, His body went numb not trying to do anything just holding it away enough not to allow it to bite him. Tiara looked at the drama before her face for a few seconds and decided to help him just when it was about to cut him. "It's not a romantic movie that you can't break eye contact with him!" She said sarcastically and scolded him.
She attacked it and k*lled it in front of his eyes without knowing who he was then JJ came to his senses when the manager zombie fell down from his vision. "You take too much time- to save me." He spoke and tried to hide his sad feeling. "Well, Take it as revenge." She held his hand and started to run while Joy was behind them, running with his full strength.
They pushed every zombie which came in their way and finally made their way to the last room. Mr. Min knocked on the door and the other group inside opened the lock quickly and everyone else pushed the door inside. When Tiara reached the place it was already surrounded by zombies all over. It was a very thin corridor but thankfully the door's way was clear. She left JJ's hand and grabbed Joy's hand and shoved him inside the room in a hurry because zombies were ready to enter the room.
She held her rod horizontally and pushed the zombies away while JJ did the same in another direction of the corridor. Tiara noticed that the corridor was very thin and that their rods were stucking between the two walls from time to time.
She turned her head back to look at JJ to tell him about it but his eyes were closed because of the power he was using to push them away. She looked at the zombies on his side and then she saw that one of the zombies was bending down for his hand.
She kicked back and directly to its teeth to keep it away from his hand. "JJ!" She yelled at him. "Keep your eyes open!" She requested him while others were shocked after her kick because her balance wasn't affected by it and she was still strong enough to keep the zombies away while doing it.
She tried to stuck her rod between the walls properly to stop them at least for a few minutes. After some tried she was successful. She let go of the rod slowly seeing if it works or not giving everyone else a heart attack and taking her as a fool but when they saw that the rod didn't fall down and was just stuck between the walls, they were shocked. Tiara quickly went to JJ and grabbed his t-shirt from one hand and from another hand she held his rod. She shoved him toward the room's entrance.
He was shocked at what she is trying to do like everyone else. "Go!" She held JJ's rod with all her strength and tried to do the same thing as she did on the other side. She did all this within a few seconds and soon she stuck JJ's rod as well but JJ was still standing there trying to process everything. She looked at him, held his hand, and ran inside the room after she was successful to stuck the rod between the walls.
She didn't close the door and looked at the zombies for a few seconds who were stopped by stuck rods but when JJ's rod was about to fall down, KR pulled her inside and locked the door.
Just the moment Tiara turned toward everyone else two arms were around Tiara without any delay, and feminine sobs started. It was Mrs. Kim. Tiara was shocked and didn't hug her back. She tried to look at the woman but couldn't because of the tight hug. "naneun dangsin-eul wihae geogjeonghaessda. dasineun ileon sig-eulo naleul nollage haji masibsio." The woman said while sobbing and the thud on the door started to begin. The undeads outside were reacting to their voices and sobbings. Tiara's eye browns knitted trying to understand anything.
"She said… She was worried for you. Don't scare her like this again." KR translated for her and Tiara smiled, tears took place in her eyes after seeing that someone here cared for her. Maybe she was craving motherly love during this hard time from the start. She hugged her back tightly, eyes closed allowing her tears to roll down her cheeks and a smile on her face. "I won't. I promise." She replied the woman sobbing more than her. KR translated Tiara's words to Mrs. Kim.
The woman smiled and hugged her more tightly. "You shouldn't talk now because they are reacting to our voices and may break this door soon if we continue this." KR took the situation into his hands. They both pulled out of the hug and looked at him with teary eyes and nodded. The TR-X members were shocked after seeing Tiara and Mrs. Kim bond, They almost looked like mother and daughter when they nodded exactly like each other.
Everyone walked away from the door and Tiara approached KR's arms taking his attention to her. She pointed to the large couch in the middle of the room and said "Bring that here."
KR was about to open his mouth to say something but Tiara stopped him. "We can cover the door with it to make it safer here as you said that they can break the door anytime." Tiara spoke her mind. He nodded and gathered everyone to bring the couch near the door to block it properly.
They were going to drag it but Tiara stopped them and gesture for them to pick it up and then bring it rather than dragging it which will make more noise. They picked the large couch and Tiara was impressed by their strength. Once they settled the couch against the entrance to be sure about their safety inside the room and Joy stopped his recording.
They looked at each other and the moment Tiara's eye fell on the Velvet brothers her expression changed into something happier and flirtatious trying to hold back her coy smile and looked at someone certain, He was her celebrity crush.
She licked her lips then bit her lower lips subtly in a nervous way trying hard to hide her happiness and hold back her fangirl side. She bit her cheeks from inside her mouth trying not to keep staring at him. Other than the parents, every man in the room noticed it including Vin which made him jealous. Tiara noticed that everyone was looking at her after 2 minutes because of their constant gazes.
"Uhm… It's nice to meet someone with whom I can actually communicate with no translator." She tried to break the silence, The Velvet Brothers laughed. "Let us introduce ourselves." One of them said. "I'm-" He was going to introduce himself but Tiara cut him off. "I know who you are." Tiara waved her hand nervously.
"Ezra." She pointed to one of Velvet Brother's members who was the tallest among them. "Nolan." She pointed to the other one who had a beard on his face making him look like the eldest in the group. "Ian." She moved her finger point toward the third man who had curly light brown hair. "And… Jose." Her coy smile took place again on her face after his name came out of her mouth. He was gorgeous with a chiseled face, narrowed deep ocean blue eyes, a pointed nose, pouty heart-pink lips, and wavy black hair. He smiled at her and she ran her hand through tied hair to fix them subtly.
"Thank you for intro but… you rest now." Vin said with a jealousy-filled voice. "I will." She didn't look at him and kept smiling which made other TR-X members awkward as well.
KR pulled her aside by grabbing her arms. "Stop acting like this." He said in a low voice. "Acting like what?" Her eyebrows knitted and pouted like a child from whom someone just took his favorite candy. "Like a crazy flirtatious fangirl." KR described. "But I am a fangirl of them." She looked into his eyes with a downturned smile acting cute. "You are making everyone uncomfortable. Can't you try to hide it?" KR was frustrated but somewhere he was melting after seeing her cuteness.
"I… I am trying to… but…" She looked at Jose again and started blushing hard who was talking to his brothers. "But I can't! It's hard!" She buried her face into his chest trying to hide her blush and smile. He was speechless now trying to think of a word or anything to say but couldn't, He didn't even move his body. "I know, I am acting childish but ughh!!" She said while her face was still buried in his chest. "It's just hard to control." She looked at his face putting her chin on his chest and blushed while he was still struggling to think of anything or even taking a breath.
He rose his face and looked around. Every member of TR-X and their parents were looking at them and they weren't looking happy but shocked. She started to bump her head against his chest again and again in frustration which pulled his attention to her again.
He stopped her by holding her shoulder which made her realize how close she was to him and what was she doing. She pulled herself away from him. "I'm sorry." She apologized in a low voice feeling embarrassed. "I- I will try what you said." She looked down trying not to look at his face and went near the window and sat down on the floor.
All the idols sat near each other and started talking. Some of their conversations were with only their group members and some of them were with everyone else while Tiara just sat in a corner alone trying to catch some rest and sleep.
Vin and KR started to talk privately while still sitting with everyone else in Korean. "What were you talking about?" Vin asked KR. "With her?" He asked for confirmation. "Yes." Vin confirmed that he was talking about Tiara. "Nothing, I was just telling her not to act like a crazy fan." He answered honestly. "Then why was she acting cute in front of you?" Vin said, there was worry in his voice, a worry filled with jealousy, a worry that he may start to like her as well. "She was trying to hide her blush and shyness. I think so." KR was not satisfied with his answer. "Are you sure? Then why didn't you push her away at first?" Vin raised his eyebrows. "I was shocked by her actions." KR answered immediately.
Meanwhile, Joy, JJ, and Sam were talking to each other as well. "I think she and KR got close." Joy said doubtfully. "I don't know, If it's the case then Vin won't be happy about it." Sam was worried about Vin's reaction. "Ehh, I don't like this drama during this horrible time." JJ's nose wrinkled.
"How can you say that when she saved you 3 times just some minutes ago." Joy looked at JJ. "3 times? It's only 2 times." JJ corrected him confidently. "No, 3 times. She saved you when you were pushing the zombies away too." Joy corrected him. "He had his eyes closed that time." Sam explained to both of them as an elder. "Huh? No." JJ tried to deny it. "I have proof! Look!" Joy was confident and shoved his phone playing the video he recorded of them where Tiara kicked the zombie in its face to save him. JJ's puppy eyes widened and then he looked at Tiara in shock.
"baegopayo. ulineun eumsig-e daehae mueos-eul hal geos-inga?" - "I'm hungry. What are we going to do about food?" Mr. Kang groaned, Tiara looked at her with confusion and everyone else face dulled because all of them were worried about how they are going to feed themselves while the Velvet Brothers were confused about what was going on as well. "What?" She asked about what she said.
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