The sun rose up in the sky spreading all its light all over the place indicating that it was around 10'o clock in the morning while Miss Not a morning person was still sleeping and everyone was not ready to wake her up. They knew it was important to wake her up but they couldn't fearing that she will start crying again.
"Wake her up. She should have breakfast now." Mrs. Kim suggested to others in her mother language. "Why don't you?" Mr. Kim asked his wife. "I…" She couldn't answer her husband and looked at her. Tiara started to move her body to find comfort but couldn't and she ended up opening her eyes a little to look around just to see everyone looking at her which made her flustered and embarrassed.
She quickly woke up and sat straight looking down to get her mind working properly. "Breakfast." Mrs. Kang said and brought a plate full of food in front of her face. "I don't eat or drink anything before brushing." Tiara said in her same husky soft sleepy voice and pushed the plate slightly away from her along with Mrs. Kang's hands. She stood up and went out to take a shower and get fresh after taking new clothes from the clothing section.
"Ahh, Why can't I get warm water to take a bath!" She hissed when the cold water hit her skin. 'It's torture to take a bath with cold water for people like me!' She thought when she started applying soap to her skin and took a quick bath to avoid cold water running down her warm skin.
She came out from the restroom wearing a simple top and loose pants with new thick black boots that she took earlier. Her hair was tied like before because she didn't wash her hair.
She went to the guard's room which became their little house by now. She pushed the door wide open and looked at everyone who was just talking to each other casually. She took the plate that Mrs. Kang offered before and sat down to start eating. "Thank you so much." She thanked the ladies for the food and bowed her head to them while they did the same. She ate breakfast peacefully and no one dared to say anything to her because they were confused and ashamed as they thought that they were the reason behind her sobs last night.
"Take it." Tiara told Sam while holding her plate in front of him. "Do the dishes." She added after looking at his confused state. He didn't say anything and took the plate from her. "But why? We will be gone then we don't need to clean them." Ezra protested. "Gone or not. We need to clean what we use." Tiara answered him softly and gestured for them to go and do the dishes.
None of them protested anymore and went outside to wash the dirty dishes. "Are… you okay?" Vin asked her hesitantly, scared to push her to cry again. "Yeah, What will happen to me." Tiara said with a 'don't you dare talk about it' tone. "But yesterday night you-" KR ignored the warning hiding in her tone before and started to ask her but she cut him in the middle sentence. "I don't want to talk about it, Don't you get it?" She said with a heavy sharp and serious voice. "Let's just pretend it never happened, okay?" Tiara added, still not aware of how they kneeled down and begged in front of all their fans just for her sake.
They nodded and looked at each other to look for confidence to speak anything. "We will be gone today, right?" Tiara asked them leaning on the wall and looking at the room's roof. "Yes." KR answered her shortly trying to figure out what is going on in her little head. "That's good. We spent 3 days as good as we could, right?" Tiara asked them unconsciously lost in her own thoughts. "Yes." Vin answered her while others nodded their head.
"I don't know about you all but I won't be able to forget these days. I experienced lots of new things after all." Tiara was still staring at the roof with no expression on her face still feeling empty inside trying to figure out what was going on with her when she let out those words out of her mouth. "We won't be able to forget any of it ever as well." KR told him with a little smile on his lips while JJ stared at her trying to figure out something. Tiara looked at KR and gave him a small smile. "I know, right?" She said showing her teeth.
"You can't forget me ever! If you did then I will make sure to remind you again!" She said with a bright smile and jumped to stand up while giggling getting the men dumbfounded. "What?" She asked them after looking at their speechless flustered expressions. "Aaahh, Don't worry. I won't forget you all as well." She said reassuring them with a big smile as she thought they were thinking if she will forget them making them smile with her and she took their worries about her away from them.
"Are you only taking phone and laptop from here?" Joy asked her, stuttering. "Yes." She nodded. "But I want to give you gifts." Vin said jumping from the floor. "Me too." JJ raised his hand as if he was giving attendance to a teacher in class. "Me three." Joy raised his hand as well and laughed. "Me four." KR raised his hand slowly avoiding her gaze and looking down. She chuckled looking at their actions. "You know, you can't gift me anything." Tiara said, laughing cutely at them.
"Why?" Vin quickly asked her, Sje blinked severely times to think about an answer. "Because… you can't buy anything here." Tiara answered him thinking about her answer. "Giving a gift… don't mean we need to buy something." JJ pointed out and stood up as well. "Bu-but I don't want any gift from you." Tiara said in a low voice and it was true. "But we want." Vin said in a confident voice with a wide grin on his face.
"Yeah? What do you want to give me?" Tiara crossed her arms close to her chest and raised her eyebrow at them curiously. "Something…" Vin went into deep thinking. "Clothes!" JJ quickly answered her with a happy tone. "I already have clothes at home." Tiara shook her head in disapproval of their choice of gift.
"But… they aren't from us!" Vin said jumping subtly with an aggressive look on his face. "We want to give you our style clothes." Joy said cheerfully in a loud voice. "Huh?" Tiara was confused about what did he mean and what were they thinking. "I think they want to give you clothes as per their taste." KR tried to explain his teammate's words and thinking. "And I think it's a good idea. It will help you remember us. Each one of us has a different style which you should try." KR added and shrugged.
Joy quickly stood up and gave Tiara a wide bright smile. "We are going!" Joy said and glanced at JJ and Vin who smirked at him before looking at Tiara. They ran outside smiling widely like kids while KR stood up lazily and went behind him leaving her behind with confusion. 'What just happened?' She wondered and looked at the gate which was half open as KR went out.
Tiara sighed and started to scroll through reels. She noticed some apology messages and comments but she ignored everything and continued what she wanted to do but messages and comments kept coming without any break making it hard for ignoring them.
'Ugh, I can't even watch reels in peace now! I am going to delete this account and create a new one but this time keep it private. I don't want those crazy people to find my account and keep barking at me.' She thought and sighed. Within 10 minutes, she deleted her old account and created a new one, and then followed her friends. 'Much better.' She smiled and started to watch reels again.
Just after a few minutes, JJ, Joy, Vin, and KR came back with a bag in JJ's grip. "We are back. Would you like to see the clothes?" KR asked her while JJ shook the bag in front of her eyes happily. "Uhm.. No. That's alright." Tiara replied to him uninterestingly. "I am not going to take that bag, you know right?" She asked them. "Why?" Vin questioned her, shocked because he picked the outfit with happiness and thoughtfully just for her. "I can't hold two bags at once." She coyly answered him.
Vin came near her, his face close to hers, his nose an inch away from hers while he looked into her eyes who were shocked after seeing how fast he moved close to her. She was looking into his eyes as well but her gaze moved to each corner of his face to avoid his gaze at her then her eyes fell on his pink-ish lips which were partially open giving them a ravished look. She gulped down remembering their kissing moment at the fan meet again. Everyone was shocked after Vin's action that they weren't able to say anything. "I will do it for you." He said in a husky low voice sending her shivers all over her body and her eyes met his eyes again. He was still looking into her eyes with the same expression as before.
"Huh? What?" She was confused about what was he talking about, her mind was all over the place. She couldn't put a finger on what does he mean by it and why did he move so close to her. He pulled away a little from her still looking deeply into her eyes. "I will hold one bag for you." Vin said in a soft low but louder voice than before and she snapped out of her mind.
"Yeah. That's great! Thank you." She said vibrantly, stuttering. 'I should wash my dirty mind with holy water.' She cursed her mind and looked at the floor hoping that no one noticed the way she was looking at him while He stood straight and went to his friends. 'What did you think? He would kiss me? UGhh.' She thought and shoved herself on the floor to not think about what just happened meanwhile they sat on the floor comfortably ignoring her weird behavior.
Time: 1:19 p.m.
Everyone was bored of waiting for any news about the rescue team while Tiara was just scrolling through reels forgetting about the awkward moment a while back but their attention was taken by KR's phone which started to ring. KR answered the call hesitatingly because the caller id was unknown. "Hello?" He said curiously to know who is it on the other side and after a minute his expression changed to a happier one, and the curiosity faded away with that little smile on his lips.
"Who was it?" Nolan asked. "They are coming in half an hour to get us out of here." He answered him with the loudest happy voice. The dried environment became happier, The flat line on the lips turned into curves and the eyes which were lacking glitter on them became brighter with glitters of freedom and living normal lives again. "They are sending 3 helicopters to take us out of here. 5 people will be on each." KR continued and looked at the brighter faces in front of him, capturing their joyful faces in his eyes.
"That's great. Only half an hour and we will be out of here." Ezra cheered and clapped out of joy. She heard everything and smiled a little without saying anything, what was there to say? They were going to their homes and they won't meet each other ever again afterward that's why she didn't say anything to keep them away from her, stopping herself to get close to them. She knew what a separation from people you are close with could do, it could change your whole personality forever, a broken and lonely self that everyone pity and she was someone who never wanted anyone to pity her.
Time: 2:03
They heard KR's phone ringing again while everyone was ready to get out of the place they were stuck in. He answered the call and told everyone to go to the terrace because the rescue team was near the mall.
"Wait, I think we should take the rods with us." Tiara stopped everyone before they could step out of the room. "Why?" Sam questioned her. "Yeah, We are going to leave anyways." Jose nodded and gestured to come. "We don't need them anymore. Unless you are going to fight with people there." KR said sarcastically. "I know… But I think we should be ready for any situation. What if something goes wrong? You can just throw it away once we are flying away." Tiara said hesitatingly, following her instincts again and feelings something weird like something wrong was going to happen. They all sighed and took the rods not believing her and then glared at her as if they were bothered to carry a simple stick of wood.
They all gathered on the terrace with bright smiles while hot sun rays were falling on their skin but only their eyes were bothered by the bright light of the sun as they couldn't open their eyes properly. Soon, They heard a helicopter sound and turned to look at the direction they were coming from but then they heard screams not from the helicopter's direction but below.
Their eyes grew wider and moved to the edge of the terrace to look down just to find the zombies screaming at the helicopter's sound. One of the helicopters came down to take 5 of them, they exchanged glances and terror could be seen in those wider eyes. "The parents should go first." Tiara said and gestured to the old fellows to sit inside the helicopter while KR opened the gate for them quickly.
Tiara ran to the edge again to look at the growing screams and saw that they were trying to enter the mall and perhaps, trying to break the entrance gate of the mall by now. Jose came and stood beside her to look as well. "They are going to enter, Aren't they?" Jose asked Tiara worriedly. Tiara didn't answer him because she knew that he knew it as well and glanced at the parents who were getting in the helicopter.
She ran to them and they stopped thinking that she wants to go first but she didn't get inside. She took one of their rods and bowed a little in a hurry to close the gate of the terrace. She closed the door while JJ helped her and she put the rod under the handle of the gate. 1st helicopter started to go upper into the sky as soon as the old fellow settled in the helicopter and closed the door.
2nd helicopter started to come down and She started slowly moving to the edge again where Vin and Sam were already standing and looking down but she heard Sam's voice before she could. "Zombie broke…gate." Sam informed them and Tiara moved faster to look what was going on there.
The zombie's numbers were decreasing slowly outside while they were moving inside meaning that they were filling the mall by their presence. The 2nd helicopter landed and they looked at each other. "We don't have time to think. Just keep moving." Jose anxiously screamed at them. "Go already." Tiara yelled at them standing still and looking confusingly.
Meanwhile, The zombies inside started to run around the mall to find the source of the sound and started filling, the 1st, 2nd, and then 3rd floor within a couple of minutes with themselves but on each floor, the number of undead was decreasing as only some of them could find the stairs to go on the upper floor.
KR, Ezra, Ian, Nolan, and Joy went inside the 2nd helicopter that came for their rescue while others' heartbeats were going crazy due to the stress they were taking over some dead people. For a time they could hear each other heartbeats standing inches away from each other holding tight to the rod into their grip and looking at each other. They were trying to act normal but they couldn't hide the worry of losing their life at any moment now.
3rd and the last helicopter started to land on the terrace once the 2nd one flew up. 'Why the helicopters are so slow.' Tiara asked herself cursing the helicopter's functions and the pilot who was controlling it but her attention was taken by the harsh knock on the terrace's gate. 1 knock, 2 knocks, 3 knocks, and then uncountable harsh knocks on the gate making it vibrate. No words came out of their mouth but they stood straight taking the position to fight for their lives.
The helicopter finally landed and Sam was about to open the gate when the gate broke down along with the rod that Tiara stuck on the handle allowing the intruders to come to the terrace. "Go inside." Tiara commanded and pulled two guns from both her pockets after she let her rod fall on the terrace's floor and Sam opened the gate.
Tiara spread her both arms to shoot with both guns, She started to shoot her prey one by one without any single pause not allowing herself to miss any of her aims while Jose, Vin, and JJ were confused about the second gun she revealed in her grip but they ignored it and started to fight while they were moving inside the helicopter. Jose was the second one to get inside after Sam and then Vin. "Come." JJ said while he pierced his rod into the undead. "I am behind you. Keep moving." Tiara said as she shoot her 11th prey while the pilot started the helicopter's engine again to fly, The rotor started to move in circulation sending the one outside heavy air upon their body.
JJ hurriedly got in and Tiara shot another of them and was about to get inside when the helicopter started to go up but she didn't care as she could still enter the helicopter but then one of the zombies was about to enter when she pushed it away from it and threw both guns on his face because she ran out of the bullets. She kicked another one away from her who was thinking to eat her in his lunch and then she looked back at the helicopter which was up to her shoulders.
She jumped on it without any delay but barely could get inside. Only half of her body could get in while she struggle to take the rest of her body up, Sam came near her to help her get in while Vin, JJ, and Jose were screaming at the pilot because he was about to leave Tiara behind. Sam was about to pull her inside when her body pulled outside. Sam quickly looked down to find out what was pulling her back when he saw that one of her feet was inside one of the eater's mouth.
She was still holding tight to the helicopter's entrance with her small palms. "Help me." She requested Sam who moved his gaze to her with wide eyes. Her eyes were filled with colorless watery blood which was coming out of her eyes begging him to help her get inside but his eyes were cold, He didn't see her as his friend anymore. He was scared of her, scared that she might turn into one of them soon as well.
He stood up back to his foot and took a step away from her while the helicopter was still going up which helped her to kick the zombie away from her feet but she was still hanging on the helicopter with the help of the small grip while the bag on her back wasn't doing much help.
"What are you doing!? Help me." She called out for Sam again who was looking at her blankly but he came to her again. He looked at her for some seconds and then started to kick on her tiny palms which were holding onto the helicopter.
Her heart broke after she look at Sam doing it to her, Her vision was getting blurry while she was letting out those gasps out of her mouth due to the pain in her palms caused by Sam. "Why!?" Tiara asked him sadly in pain. "Zombie bite you in your foot." He answered while he kicked at her palm again. He wanted her to fall down from the helicopter, away from him and his friend, and die just for their safety.