"18." Joy started guessing the name. "No, I think she is younger than 16… So, 14." Nolan said and Tiara took it as an insult and got offended, She gave him deadly glares while her head was still low to peel onions. "Wait, Are you trying to say that I am flat?" Tiara asked him angrily and dared him to say it. "No no! Your body is womanly but your face is like…children even your skin looks soft and smooth like babies." Nolan said quickly to avoid her deadly glares as if she was going to shoot right onto his head. "I'm going to take it as a compliment, I guess." Tiara said in a cold voice and turned her eyes to the onions she was peeling. "17." KR guessed. "No no, I think she is 16 because she didn't deny that she isn't 16 either." Ian jumped to the conclusion again. Tiara pressed her lips into a thin line and continued her work. "No, 18." Vin guessed and Tiara smiled a little.
"She smiled!" Nolan pointed to her, making everyone else look at her face to find a smile there. "Does it mean Vin is right?" KR asked her for confirmation. "No, I'm not 18!" She said with a loud voice with honey sweetness in it while she harshly cut the onion into two pieces as she was done peeling them all. "Wow, You were fast with peeling these." Jose complimented her while she blushed harder that resulting in her nose turning apple-red color. "Thanks…" Tiara said shyly trying to control her big smile. JJ went to Mrs. Kang and started to help her in cooking like a pro. "I think you are 19." Jose guessed and questioned her if his guess was right or not. "Close enough." She nodded while she was almost done slicing the onions. "Careful, You can cut your fingers at this speed." KR warned her.
"Wait wait… You said you aren't 18, 17,16, 14, or 19. What is left?" Ezra raised his eyebrow at her thinking that she was playing with them and fooling them because they didn't know anything about her. She stood up with the sliced onions quickly. "I'm 20 and will turn 21 this October." She said while handing the plate full of sliced onion to Mrs. Kim and shocked them all.
She looked at their reaction before giggling at their stupidity and then started to pull her hair up to make a bun and turned to the stoves on the table, her back was facing them all which revealed a cute mole on her right shoulder. Vin and Joy were the only ones who noticed her mole. 'Even her mole is cute like her.' Vin closed his eyes and rested his head on the wall behind him. "Are you sure about your age?" Ian teasingly asked her. "What a dumb question." She replied to him sarcastically while following Mrs. Kang's gestures to help with cooking.
Soon the food was ready and they all ate it happily, They didn't care if it was tasty or not because they were very hungry to even care about the taste. "By the way, How did you know that I was in danger?" She asked JJ as she remembered that he came running to her means he knew there was a zombie behind her. "He saw it in the live footage in the CCTV room behind you." Before JJ could answer her KR replied to her and she turned her head to look at the room behind her. "Aah, Okay. " She started to eat in a hurry as something came to her mind again. As soon as she finished her food, She stood and started to go into the CCTV room. "What are you going to do?" Jose stopped and asked her. "Uhm… I am going to have a look at the footage to get an idea of how many zombies are left out there." She pointed toward the gate of the CCTV room, Jose nodded while taking another bite of food into his food.
She went into the CCTV room and started to look at each screen as she counted the zombies through all the corners of the mall and then she found that there were still around 20 zombies inside the mall. She stepped outside the room and sighed which grabbed everyone's attention, They knew what the worry on her face meant. "How many are left here?" Jose asked her. 'Aww, He can guess what I am worried about.' Tiara thought and started to blush, She stood there looking like a fool while staring deeply at Jose as if she was looking at his soul. "Uhmm? Tiara?" Vin said pulling her back to reality as it's been 2 minutes since she was staring at Jose but she still didn't answer and shifted her gaze to Vin because it was his first time when he called her name with his soft yet manly solid voice.
"Uhm... I was just counting how many zombies I have seen in the CCTV footage." Tiara lied like a pro. "I think there are still around 20 zombies out there. The ground floor is safe because there's no zombie there but still, those 20 zombies who are on the 2nd and 3rd floors can come downstairs anytime." She told them and explained the possible chances. "So, What do you suggest?" KR asked, It was new for him as well to ask for someone else to lead them as he always was the one who lead his team but as soon as Tiara came to his life and all this happened, everything changed. He started to trust her suggestions, plans, beliefs, and her.
"I suggest going out for a hunt and clearing them all to make the whole mall safe for us. Because we will need to go to pick clothes, groceries, and many more things and we can't always be prepared to attack them." She suggested her plan which made everyone sigh and looked at her as a killing machine, A machine that kept killing all of the hunters they got in their way of living since the start. "Why you just wanna kill them all?" Ian asked her, exhausted from all this. "They are already dead." Tiara said and sighed. "How many times should I say this? They all are already dead, We aren't killing them… We are just…" Tiara was frustrated with the same questions again and again but she stopped and took a moment to find the right word before speaking again. "We are just killing the virus inside them." She said and completed her sentence, but her words were more for her than for them because she knew she was committing sin even if it was important for the left who could be saved.
"Yes!" Vin said and came near her as he was supporting her, and then JJ and KR came to stand beside her as well letting everyone know that they agree with her. "We agree with her. She is right." KR said, supporting her while she was feeling awkward standing between those three muscular and tall bodies, She felt tiny in front of them as she barely could reach their shoulders. "I agree too." Jose said and raised his both hands in the air to surrender while sitting on the floor. "Okay, then we will go to kill the rest of them." KR said and then looked at Tiara who was comparing her height to theirs while looking at their shoulders. "When should we go?" He asked, raising his eyebrow at her. "I-I… why do you keep asking me for everything?" Tiara accused him while trying to hide her embarrassment from trying to compare their heights and then he realized he has been depending on her. He cleared his throat. "Uhh… We can go right now as we are full of energy." He said hesitantly. "Will it be alright?" He asked Tiara again. "Again!" She pointed out and everyone giggled at her reaction including KR. Tiara was flustered after seeing everyone laugh and then smiled shyly.
"We can go." She said in a low voice and started looking around, trying to find something. She started to open the drawers after she went into the CCTV room again which made everyone confused. "What are you looking for?" Nolan asked her. "Bullets." She replied to him shortly. "How do you know that you will find bullets here?" Ian questioned her. "Because it's a guard's room? I read that there were supposed to be weapons like guns and bullets in a guard's room on the web." Tiara explained to him about her research and kept searching for bullets. She opened the last drawer which was half filled by the gun's bullets. "Found them!" She said happily and started to examine the pistol to know where to fill the bullets into it. "I doubt you sometimes." KR said when he saw she opened the cartridge successfully without any guidance. "Why?" She asked him shortly while refilling the bullets into the pistol. "How do you have knowledge about guns?" KR asked her. "Yeah, How can you shoot right at the spot?" Ezra threw a question on her right after KR. "Yes, I saw you saved me when we were about to enter this room." Jose said. "Thank you for that…" He added with appreciation in his voice. "Mhmm, I saw you shot that zombie right into its head even when you could hit JJ by that distance between you two." KR questioned again.
"Are you mafia or something?" Nolan jumped to the conclusion after listening to everyone, asking her seriously. Tiara laughed and threw herself onto the guard's chair in CCTV room. 'Do they seriously think about I can be mafia?' She thought and kept laughing at their conclusion while everyone looked at her as if they didn't find it funny. "Okay okay…" She tried to stop herself from laughing. "If I was a mafia then I would have abs or a well-built body, Don't you think?" She asked them playfully. "How do we know if you have abs or not?" Ezra raised an eyebrow at her because she didn't answer them straightly. "Would you like to look if I have them or not?" She said without thinking twice getting the silence in return. She looked at them still standing outside of CCTV room looking at her with shocked faces. She coughed and thought about her own words she just said. "First of all, I am not mafia. Second, I think I am just good at aiming at things. Third, I am good at scanning things and finding a way how to use them. That's it." She said and pushed the cartridge inside the gun after refilling it.
"Shall we go now?" She stood and asked everyone else, who were dumbfounded. "I'm not going. If you want to go then you can." Ezra said being lazy. KR and everyone else who were ready to go looked at Ezra, Ian, Sam, and Nolan who refused to go out for the hunt. They were waiting for them to get up but Tiara just sighed and rolled her eyes. "Okay then, Everyone who is going to stay here is going to wash the dishes-" Tiara was saying with a smirk on her face but Ian cut her off. "Yeah, We can wash the dishes rather than go out there to kill them." Ian said confidently not regretting his decision even a bit. "Going to wash the dishes until we get out of here not including the parents members." Tiara smirked and wiggled her eyebrows at them which made the rebellion group gasp and regret. "Wait, no!" Ian tried to protest again. "I am coming with you guys." Nolan said and started to get up from the floor. "No, You are going to wash the dishes and that's final." Tiara said and walk to the gate.
"Go and wash the dishes now." KR teased them before following her after taking the rod while the rest of them followed him. "You are coming to record everything only, right?" Tiara asked Joy. He nodded with a sheepish smile while Tiara pressed her lips into a thin line giving him an annoying look. They started to go upstairs carefully, Tiara walked in front of them while Joy followed them from the back to record everything with them in it. "We should split up, right?" Jose asked looking right into Tiara's eyes which gave her goosebump, She gulped down, not wanting to break their eye contact and trying to hold back her lips from spreading and give the brightest and shiest smile like a fangirl would do. 'God, What's wrong with me whenever he looks at me with those deep blue angelic, sweet eyes!' She complained to god about her hormones that were getting out of control even in a situation like this. "I don't think that will be a genius idea." KR answered Jose instead of Tiara because she wasn't answering him, Jose broke his eye contact with Tiara which made her come back to reality, and started to look around in embarrassment still not getting what were they talking about.
"Uhm… Yeah yeah." Tiara let out these words in her mouth and everyone thought she agreed with KR while she had no idea what was going on. "Anyways, We should stay nearby so that we can look out for each other and ensure everyone else is safe. Don't go out of everyone's sight, okay?" She first commanded everyone and then asked if everyone agreed. They just nodded and continued to walk.
As soon as they reach the middle of the hallway on the 2nd floor. "Wait! I have a better plan." Tiara stopped and smirked turning back to face everyone. They gulped down looking at her devilish smirk, anyone could tell that her idea wasn't one of a kind. Tiara stopped herself from revealing her new plan as she examined their expressions which caused them to have sweats on their forehead because of the tension in the air. She was looking like a devil haunting their souls at this very moment.