'Huh, What video?' Tiara put pressure on her brain to figure out what video their friends were asking her about in the messages. She replied to Kaashi's message who was freaking out in their private chat without telling the cause as her messages weren't making any sense.
'Oh my god, Don't tell me you are dating!' 'How it happened?' 'Whennn?' 'You should thank me.' 'You are famous now, GIRL! YOU GO GIRL!!' These were her messages. 'About whom is she talking about? Am I dating? But who? What when? Nothing happened then from where this how came? Thank you for throwing me between those eaters. I am famous for the wrong reason, girl! That's different!' Tiara talked to Kaashi mentally and made a weird face while she read her friend's messages. She sighed and decided to ask her what was going on.
"What are you talking about? I am not dating anyone. Why would you say that? And I am not going to thank you for bringing me here. I AM FAMOUS FOR A BAD REASON!" Tiara asked her but she didn't get any reply from Kaashi and got a call instead. "What do you mean you are not dating?" Kaashi asked yelling at her. "Is it hard to understand? And who will I even date?" She was curious to know the whole thing. "Then why were you crying in front of Taehee and why was he comforting you like you are his girlfriend?" Kaashi directly asked Tiara about her crying session yesterday night. "Who is Taehee?" She asked innocently. "Ughhhh, I am done with you! Vin! Vin is Taehee." Kaashi honestly seemed done with Tiara and it could be heard from her voice which rose as soon as Tiara refused to remember his name.
"Ah.. Vin." She said with a sigh and glanced at him who was busy looking at his phone with a shocked expression but Tiara chose to ignore it as she had her own problems to worry about. "Well, I was crying and he just came to give me comfort. He is a good human being." Tiara tried to explain but then it hit her. "Wait, How do you know I was crying and he was the one who comforted me?" Tiara asked her friend with curiosity. "Don't you know? TR-X posted a video of you two an-" Kaashi was telling but Tiara cut her off. "They what? I will call you later!" Tiara said with a loud voice and ended the call.
She turned to look at Joy with dark eyes filled with anger. "Tell me you didn't do it!" She said gritting her teeth while opening their channel to have a look at the video and Joy gulped his saliva down looking at what he has done. She looked at the video of her crying about how she killed the zombies while Vin wiped her tears with his thumb, rubbed her back, and cupped her face with his bare big palms like a male in a relationship would do.
Meanwhile, Vin was looking at his social media being blown with their fans' questions regarding their relationship. The fans' messages, posts, and comments were filled with rage, envy, jealousy, and bitterness only some of those were supportive. "Why did you do it?" KR asked Joy in their mother language. "I thought it was a good idea. They were thinking that she was heartless and a killer but when I saw that she was crying then I thought to let them know that she is broken from the inside." Joy explained his reason innocently making others sigh.
As soon as the video ended she scrolled down to look at the comments about her. 'I feel sorry for her.' 'How can you all still hate her? Vin is just trying to comfort her. Stop thinking things in your heads and hating her!' 'I bet she cried on purpose to get attention from him. #attentionseeker' 'She got a chance and she took it. #golddigger' 'I am so sorry for her.' 'She is not heartless!' 'Why can't she just stay away from Taehee?' 'Why it's always Taehee and her?' 'Ugh, I hate her!' 'Just accept it y'all. You all are just jealous of her.' These were the comments she read and the rest of the comments were vomiting and angry emojis.
'They are right when they say, this world is filled with bad and good people. If you get love then you will eventually get hate as well. When you get fame then there will be people who will be ready to defame you as well.' Her mind was filled with lots of emotions, thoughts, and what her family would think. She never cared about what others thought of her as long as it doesn't concern her family, she only cared about what her family thought of her yet she was scared of what thing will her family has to listen to, the taunts from strangers just because of her. She wasn't scared for herself but what her family would go through.
She went silent trying to control her mind from exploding because of the things inside it meanwhile Velvet Brothers were confused about what was going on. "What happened?" Ian asked KR who was sitting on the floor, speechless and thinking of a way to clean the mess. "What happened to her?" Jose asked KR while pointing a finger at her back who was still kneeling down on her knees and staring at the comment section. KR and Joy were looking at her with pure concern in their eyes.
"Well, Joy posted a video… you should look yourself." KR replied to him shortly still staring at Tiara's broken figure. Jose nodded and opened their channel to play the video. The video's sound echoed in the whole room because the room was silent indicating that it was the calmness before the storm. Velvet Brothers looked at Jose's phone to see the video as well and Tiara clenched her fists filled with rage tears started to form in her eyes that were refusing to fall down from her eyes like they were scared because of her anger as well after she heard the video's sound again. "I told you not to post something weird or like this!" Nolans talked to Joy who was just sitting on the floor feeling shame.
She stood up, took a big step toward Joy, and grabbed his collar tightly pulling him close to her face. He looked at her face closely filled with nothing but rage while his face was filled with guilt, sadness, and horror. His heart ached when he noticed those unfallen tears in her large almond double-lidded eyes, He knew she wasn't angry but broken and scared of what had yet to come at that moment.
"Can you undo it? No, right! Then why did you post this video without my consent!" Tiara screamed at Joy looking right into his eyes and shaking his body by his collar. "I can sue you because of it, don't you think!?" Tiara continued screaming at him while everyone in the room was silently looking at her trying to figure out what should they do in this situation. "Why aren't you saying anything!? Tell me why the hell you recorded and posted that video!???" Tiara asked him still shaking his body. "They… said you are heartless…." Joy struggled to answer her as she was still holding his shirt's collar.
She shoved him to the ground leaving her grip on his collars and started laughing like a maniac. Everyone looked at each other, scared of her current state because she was looking like an angry devil who was laughing at her prey before starting the torture.
After a few minutes of laughing, Her gaze fell on Joy again and she suddenly stopped her laugh looking seriously at him like she was never laughing. She grabbed his collar with her right hand and looked at him again with a bit softened eyes than before, There was still anger in her eyes but not as much as before. "Do you think I care about if they think I am heartless? They can think whatever they want! I don't give a shit about it!" Tiara yelled at his face, glaring at him.
She pushed him to the ground again before she turned her back to him and went to grab her phone to check other things. "I don't care how you fix it but just fix it!" She said softly as if she spit her anger on Joy's face.
'Does she regret saving me? No no... She didn't say it but I did wrong. I should have asked her before posting it. I can't decide it alone." Joy regretted his decision deeply and was guilty of Tiara's state. "ulineun mwongaleulhaeyahabnida"- 'We should do something.' Sam said pulling TR-X's attention. They started to discuss what and how they should do it.
Meanwhile, Tiara checked her social media. She got thousands of new followers, hundreds of comments, and countless messages. She checked the comments first before checking the message as she could just ignore and delete the messages without anyone knowing but comments were something that could be read by others. 'How they got to know about my social media?' Tiara wondered while she started to read the comments on her posts.
'Devil in sheepskin.' 'Cry baby.' '#Golddigger' '#MissZombie' 'Stay away from TR-X you ugly bitch.' 'You are using TR-X for fame, right!' 'Such an attention seeker.' 'Don't mind these haters. These are just jealous people!' 'You should die there.' 'Guys, plz! She saved our angels for more than one time. Give her some respect at least.'
Tiara sighed and reported the comments she could find that were harassing her. She was about to continue reading the comments when her phone rang again. A broken smile formed on the lips after she looked at the caller id. 'Mom', the only person she can cry to and tell everything that was going on inside her little mind. She picked up the call in a hurry scared to get the call missed.
"Hello? Mom!" Tiara said and started to cry letting her vulnerable state out. "Don't cry. First, tell me, Is there something going on between you and any of them?" Her mother asked with a worry-filled voice and anger could be spotted as well. "No! I was crying then he woke up and came to comfort me. That's it." She explained to her mother while sobbing while others were just uncomfortable seeing her vulnerable in front of them and their brain puzzled to think about anything. She was talking in her mother language which made them even more confused about what she was saying.
"Then why did they post it? Are they dumb!? Don't they know what should they do or not? What did their parents teach them? And you! Couldn't you push him away while he was touching you!?" Her mother burst out in anger not caring about how she may feel. "Mom!! I was crying! I didn't have any sense at that time!" She yelled at her mother trying to cover herself up. "A girl should stay in her senses at any moment! Especially, if there are boys near them!" Her mother yelled back at her, arguing with her and ignoring all her sobs, all her regrets, and all her feelings.
"Be at my place and say that! I am going to cut the call now because I don't want to deal with you right now! I thought you will understand me but you are just like others! Why did I even expect you to understand me for once while you were the biggest judge of my life. Bye!!!! I wish I died here!" She yelled back at her mother and said everything as fast as she could and cut the call right after but she heard her mother's sobs before she ended the call which made her heart ache but she didn't want to listen to her anymore.
"Was that your mother?" Ezra asked her after listening to their conversation. Tiara tried to calm her mind down and sighed while she nodded. "I don't want to talk about her." She made it clear before they could ask any further questions.
Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Kang came to her and took her into her embrace letting her sob silently in their presence. She hugged them back without saying or listening to anything and sobbed silently.
TR-X felt guilty after seeing her like this, she was the strongest girl they have ever encountered yet she was crying in front of them and the reason was them and them only. They felt ashamed of their fandom about how narrow-minded they could be, how can they let their jealousy take the best out of them, how could they hate her this much even after she saved them many times, and how could they talk so much shit about just a young girl.
They discussed how should they handle this situation but nothing was coming to their mind. They ended up going live to end everything right there and make everything clear to their fans but this time it wasn't for themselves but for her. Jose agreed to be the one recording as there wasn't any stand to hold the phone. They took a glance at Tiara who drifted to sleep and then looked back at where Jose was standing holding the phone.
"I don't know what to say right now." Sam started saying in Korean and went quit looking at the others to say something. "Right, We all are speechless and ashamed of the Souls' behavior at this moment." KR continued the conversation. "I never thought that our Souls can be filled with hate and can act like this." He added shaking his head to show them that he didn't agree with their behavior toward Tiara.
"I feel guilty about posting that video online. I read your comments about how you think she is heartless, a murderer, and whatnot… I just thought it was a good idea to show you that she is hurt, afraid, and feels sorry like the rest of us too but I didn't think it will turn out like this." Joy said with a guilt-filled voice and started sobbing silently. "There's nothing like that. Everyone was sleeping when I heard her crying. I decided to comfort her because her state was unbearable to watch. If there was anyone else other than me then he would have done the same thing as well." Vin explained his point of the story while he didn't feel good about he was admitting that there was nothing between them and any other guy would have done the same with her. In a corner of his heart, He was happy that it was him and not anyone else with her.
"Right, We have become friends over just a few days… there's even more pure relation between us than friends. It's like we all are family that are here to protect each other… She never gave us a chance to save her when she is the youngest of us but she saved us lots of times instead. We will be grateful to her forever… She basically owns our lives, guys. Why do you hate her so much?" JJ expressed his gratitude toward her in front of his all fans while others were shocked after seeing JJ talk about someone else this much as he never was the one who liked to talk a lot that too about someone else. "Exactly! We won't be able to forgive us if you all are hating her because of us." KR said sadly and sit on his knees.
The rest of the TR-X fell on their knees as well in front of the camera making Jose gasp. They hung their heads low, kneeling down in front of their all fans. "We request you not to disrespect her and hate her like this." KR said on behalf of the TR-X team. "She is suffering from lots of things. Don't make it even harder for her." Vin requested Souls from the bottom of his heart and a drop of tear escaped from his eyes. "Please, We request you." JJ requested their fans. "We beg of you." Joy begged in a heavy voice and Sam joined his hands to request without saying anything because he still wasn't ready to say anything as nothing was coming to his mind.
Jose ended the live stream when he realized that it was the right time to do so. Sam stood up after a few seconds Jose ended the live stream but the rest of them were still on their knees and heads down.
It was 8:47 at night, "Should we wake her up for having dinner?" Mrs. Kim asked Mrs. Kang in Korean. "I… don't know. We should ask her if she wants to eat." Mrs. Kang answered Mrs. Kim. They went near Tiara's small sleeping figure and bend down to wake her up. Mrs. Kim shook her a little but she didn't open her eyes. "Ttal?" - 'Daughter?' Mrs. Kang called out to her and Mrs. Kim glared at her daring her to call that again but MRs. Kang ignored her. "Tiara?" Mrs. Kim called her name remembering that she woke up after calling her name. "Hmm?" She hmmed. "Dinner." Mrs. Kim said to let her know about the dinner. "I don't want." Tiara replied to her and turned to another side to sleep. They got the idea that she refused to eat dinner by her actions and then they left her alone.
Soon, TR-X and Velvet Brothers came back from outside after clearing their minds to think properly after all the mess. The old ladies gave them dinner and they looked at Tiara who was still sleeping. "Did you wake her up for dinner?" Vin asked Mrs. Kim in Korean. "Yes, But she refused to eat." Mrs. Kim answered him worriedly. "Let her be, She just needs time to calm down. Give her some space." Mr. Min suggested and gestured for everyone to continue eating.
They finished the dinner and the elders went out to have a walk in the mall to have a better digest while everyone else started to talk about random stuff to each other in the room. "We will go to our homes tomorrow, right?" Vin said sadly looking at Tiara sleeping peacefully. "Yes, I am happy!" Sam answered him cheerfully. "I am happy too but won't it mean that we won't be able to spend time with each other like this?" JJ asked shrugging his shoulders. "Yes." KR nodded. "Will we be able to meet her ever afterward?" Vin asked in a low sad voice still looking at her. "Do you want to?" Joy asked him. "Uhm, I… I would like to. She has become our friend after all." Vin answered him hesitatingly.
"Can you guys talk in English?" Nolan scoffed at them after hearing their blabbering in Korean. "We aren't comfortable in English." Sam told him without any hesitation. "It's nothing important, though." KR told Velvet Brothers not to care about their conversation.
'Will we ever meet again?' Vin mentally asked Tiara. 'Is it important for you to go back to your home?' JJ asked her mentally as well. 'I am sorry, Little friend. I always create more trouble for you." Joy apologized to her mentally staring at her sleeping figure. 'Is it a goodbye?' KR asked himself feeling that unease feeling inside him that he couldn't refuse.