It's been a day since they separated from each other. They were alerted to 4 separate rooms next to each other, One for Kim's family which included Sam, Mrs. Kim, and Mr. Kim. Second for Kang's family which included KR, Mr. Kang, and Mrs. Kang. Third for the rest of TR-X which included Vin, JJ, Joy, and Vin's father, Mr. Min. Fourth and the last for Velvet Brothers. Tiara was alone in the monitoring room between strangers.
The translator came twice to talk about the things she may need but she didn't want to talk about anything yet he didn't inform her that they were staying here for her. She ignored him while he looked disappointed but left with a smirk on his face that didn't go unnoticeable to her. She knew something was going on in his mind but she wasn't sure what.
'I should call Mom to let her know that I won't be coming home for a few more days.' She thought and stared at her phone which was on charge. 'I should have just called yesterday.' She sighed and get off the bed to get her phone. She dialed her mother's number and waited for her to pick it up. "Hello?" Her mother's voice came out of the phone. "Yeah, Mom." She called out to her mother before continuing. "I just wanted to inform you that…uhm… I won't be able to come back home for a few more days." She informed her. "Why? Didn't you take those helicopters? Where are you now? What are you doing?" Her mother kept throwing questions at her until she stopped her.
"Mom, Those helicopters brought us to China and these people are making sure that…uhm.. None of us are infected and has kept us in different rooms." She lied to her mother not wanting to tell the trust. "Are you okay there? China can kill people without thinking twice if they see them as a threat, you know that right? Be safe and speak when you should! Don't just sit there with sealed lips!" Her mother yelled at her through the phone that she needed to hold her phone a bit away from her ears to protect her eardrums.
"Yeah, I know, and don't worry, I am your child. I won't let these stupid people harm me!" She said cheerfully and laughed. "I wish you had my tactics but you don't!" Her mother said sarcastically. "Mom!!" She whined after listening to her mother's taunts. "What? You can't even go to buy an ice cream at a shop or speak to any shopkeeper yourself." Her mother complained and reminded her of her shy and introverted behavior. "Because… I.. ugh! Nevermind. It's useless to talk to you. Bye!" She got irritated by her mother's taunts because it was more than 100 times that her mother had reminded her about that one incident again and again.
She threw herself at the bed again and whined like a baby.
Meanwhile, Velvet Brothers and TR-X members not including Sam were standing in front of their room and looked tensed and irritated. "What do we do!" JJ asked and palmed his hair tightly in frustration. "We don't know where are they keeping her in this big building." Nolan defeated said and placed his forehead on the wall sighing. "Why don't they just let us see her?" KR asked with confusion.
"Is she even alive?" Jose asked while he leaned on the wall and looked up at the roof. "They can't kill her." Vin said in a low voice but it was more of a question to him. "We should've asked her for her number before she went with them." Ian said, regretting. "Why can't they just tell us where is she?" Nolan asked. "I tried to ask some of them who work here but they don't understand Korean or English." KR informed them about his tries but failed badly.
"Who knows Chinese here?" Ezra asked and shrugged his shoulders while looking at everyone else. "Sam…" Joy answered him hesitantly. "Yeah, His one of side languages was Chinese." KR said and rubbed his nape shyly. "Should we ask him to help us?" Ian wondered if they should ask the one who got them into this mess or not.
"It's useless." Vin stopped them to go any further on this topic. "Why?" Jose raised his eyebrow at him. "I tried… web translator to ask them but- th..they don't answer." He told them and they all sighed after knowing that no one there is going to help them.
"We should walk around to see the surroundings." KR suggested. "Are we allowed to roam around?" Ian looked at KR confusingly. "We can't just sit here." JJ cut their conversation off and stood straight to go with KR while Vin and Joy did the same. "He is right. We aren't going to get to know about her whereabouts by just standing here." Jose agreed with KR and nodded his head in agreement.
"Okay, We will go." Nolan agreed as well and looked at Ian giving him glares to scare him off as he was elder than him. "Okay okay, Let's go." Ian agreed, forcefully and Ezra chuckled while he circled his arms around Ian and started to drag him toward the others who started to walk further.
They walked around for quite a while but no one seem to answer them about her whereabouts. They started to lose hope and slow down their steps when a young man came to them with a huge grin.
"mabsosa, geudeul-i TR-X yeogi meomuleundago han geos-eun geojismal-i anieossseubnida." - 'Oh my god, They weren't lying when they said TR-X is staying here.' The young man said happily. "You speak Korean?" Joy asked him in a loud shocking voice in his mother language. "Yes, I learned it when I became a Soul." He answered him happily and Joy smiled at him.
"That's good to know." KR said making Velvet Brothers confused because they all were talking in Korean. "Do you know where is she?" Vin quickly asked him not caring about their ongoing conversation. "Who?" The fan asked him. "She… She was with us. You probably know her. Where is she?" He asked him again and the fan got an idea about whom he was asking about but hesitated to answer him.
"He is asking about Tiara. Our friend. We don't know where is she." JJ confirmed that Vin was asking about her and introduced her as their friend. "No one is telling us about where is she." Joy informed his fan and sighed. "If you know where is she then tell us, please." KR requested him. "I… I know where is she.. But we aren't supposed to tell anyone." Their fan tried to dodge the question.
"We won't tell anyone that you told us. Just tell us the direction." Vin requested and held his hands with his. The fan looked at his hands held by Vin and gulped down. He wished he could scream out of happiness that he met his idols and one of them held his hands but he stopped himself to do so. "You can click pictures with us if you tell us where is she." JJ tried to bargain with him and offered him a decent deal. The fan was shocked because they don't let anyone take pictures with them because of their agency's rules.
"She-" He opened his mouth to tell them her direction. "Come on, Tell us." Joy pushed him. "You can come and meet us anytime as long as we are here." Vin offered him an even bigger deal and he went speechless not able to handle his happiness. "Yeah, We will tell you our room number and block after you tell us about her whereabouts." KR nodded his in agreement and pushed him even more to spill about her direction.
"Okay, She is on the 4th floor, B section. In Examine lab. You will need to go to the 4th floor and turn right from there and then walk straight. You will see the lab's board on the wall." He broke and told them about her direction. "Please, Don't tell anyone that I told you." He requested them and they all smiled feeling victory. "Of course, We won't." KR reassured him genuinely. "So, Picture?" JJ asked him to click the picture as he promised.
The fan smiled widely and pulled his phone out of his pocket to click. They all gathered around him and smiled for the picture. "Thank you so much." The fan screeched happily. "No, Thank YOU so much." Vin thanked him and gestured for others to walk as they knew her location now. "Yeah, Our room is on this 2nd floor, Room number 48, section A." Vin told their fan to complete his promise and waved his hand with a grin on his face to move in a hurry.
Velvet Brothers were confused to follow them because they didn't understand what happened in front of their eyes but followed them anyway. "Did he tell about her direction?" Jose asked while trying to match their speed because TR-X was walking at a running speed. "Yes, 4th floor, section B. In Examine lab." KR answered them shortly because his breaths were hitching due to the speed they were walking in.
"A Lab!?" Ian asked to confirm if what he heard was correct or not. "Yes." JJ answered him shortly struggling to catch up with the breath but he didn't care about his breaths. "What the f*ck! Is she their rat on whom they are testing or what?" Jose yelled not believing it and struggled to breathe afterward. "Can you guys slow down a bit? I can't walk like this anymore." Nolan asked, huffing.
"Lift." Vin pointed toward a lift he saw on their right side. "Finally." Jose said while they faster their steps toward it as if the lift will walk away if they didn't catch it on time. They get inside the lift and started breathing heavily to normalize their breaths along with their heartbeats.
They heard a ding sound and looked at the elevator's door to open. They turned right and went straight at the same speed they were walking in earlier. No one said anything just looked around to find the board to the Examine lab. They stopped once they found the board they were looking for and exchanged glances before steadily entering the lab.
There were around 9 women in the lab who were looking over Tiara and talking to each other when their eyes shifted to the gate and 8 handsome muscular men entered, they didn't care about the women staring at them and looked at the separate room where Tiara was laying on the bed tension free.
They were about to move toward the glass room when the women stopped them and gestured for them to go out. They looked at the women in front of them and then Tiara who wasn't even aware of their presence and looked at her phone's screen. They stood there waiting for Tiara to notice them but women started to push them out.
"Hey!?" Nolan called out to her hoping she would notice but no luck. "Tiara!" Ezra called out her name and this time she seemed to hear. She looked around in confusion until her eyes fell on them. She jumped from her bed and went near the glass wall, there were small dots to communicate with others who were outside of the glass room. "What's going on here?" She asked in a loud voice that the women stopped pushing them and looked at her.
She ignored it, rolled her eyes, and started to type something on her phone. "Biéguǎn tāmenle. Tāmen kěyǐ suíshí yǔ wǒ jiànmiàn!" - 'Leave them alone. They are allowed to meet me anytime they want!' She touched her phone near the holes in the wall and a robotic voice came but the women outside didn't budge and stood there still holding the men in front of them. Tiara sighed and typed something on her phone again and put the phone back near the holes. "Nǐ bù míngbái ma? Wǒ shuō líkāi tāmen ba!" - 'Don't you get it? I said leave them!' A robotic voice came out of the phone again and Tiara glared at old women in front of her.
They left the men with shaking hands and went back to their places. The singers stood there dumbfounded and looked at her who was smiling at them. She brought her face close to the holes and parted her lips. "I thought you left me here." She said and smiled at them while they moved close to the wall in front of her. "We didn't. How could we." Jose came near her face to speak through the holes in the wall and said in a low voice.
She shyly smiled and looked into his eyes. "Didn't that bastard tell you that we chose to stay here?" Nolan pushed Jose away breaking their eye contact and asked her in a quite loud voice. "No… Did he know?" She asked him. "Of course." Vin shoved Nolan away answering her and looked at her. "You didn't take a bath yet?" Joy pushed Vin a little and asked her after seeing her yesterday's clothes. "Ahh… No. Not yet. I was feeling lazy. Plus, The washroom is small. I was going to take a quick shower." She answered him with a sweet voice and pulled her tongue out of her mouth a little.
"Thank you for staying here for me." She thanked them genuinely because her mood was lit up after seeing them here for her. "Of course!!!" They all screamed in unison and she laughed. "Did you eat?" KR asked her from behind Joy. "Yes." She nodded her head. "Are they treating you right?" Ezra pushed Joy and asked her in a low voice. She laughed after seeing that he was scared that anyone would listen to him asking her this question. "Well, It's only been a day and it's quite a morning to judge anything yet." She answered him whispering back and then laughed. He rubbed her nape shyly.
"You should take a bath. We can come anytime now, right?" Ian asked from behind Ezra. "Of course, You can. You all chose to stay here for me after all, right?" She nodded and said with a teasing voice while they looked at each other, speechless to admit anything but they nodded slightly anyways. She grinned big at them.
"Did you meet that translator again?" KR asked her. "His name is Xiang and Yeah, He came just about half an hour ago. I guess." She answered him. "How do you know his name?" KR asked her curiously. "He introduced himself when he came here a while back." She answered him "Just stay away from him." Jose said struggling while pushing everyone to get near the holes in the wall. "I don't think he has good intentions." Jose warned her after he stood right in front of her again. "Why do you think that?" She asked him for a reason. "Do you trust him?" Vin pushed Jose out of his way and asked her. "Of course not, I noticed his behavior but I don't know… all he does to me is talking… What can he do through talks." Tiara told them and shrugged her shoulders. Jose tried to push Vin but he didn't budge and stood in front of her like a rock. "Just be caution of him." Jose gave up and said from behind Vin. "Yeah, Of course. I will be." She reassured them.
"I am going to take a shower. Thank you for stopping by." She said happily and waved her hand. They waved their hands in return before they started to go away but JJ stopped moving and came forward to her making her shocked. "You are okay, right?" He asked her seriously. She gulped down after seeing his intense eyes and she could only see her in his eyes, clear enough like a mirror. "Ye-yeah…" She said, stuttering. "We will be back." Vin pushed JJ and exclaimed looking directly into her eyes and then gave her a reassuring smile which she returned with a nod and slight smile. They all left and Tiara sighed after looking at the washroom's gate.
She grabbed the towel and clothes left by the staff. 'I don't want to take a shower… Is it weird?' She stopped and looked back at the women who were busy talking to each other. 'I don't want anyone to think that I am a dirty girl.' She thought and started to move her legs again towards the bathroom.
She went in and locked the gate properly. She hung the clothes and towel on the wall and started looking around for something. 'Ahh, What's this unease feeling.' She sighed and places her right palm on her heart. 'Maybe it's because there's no window for the air to pass.' She thought and looked around again.
She avoided her uneasy feeling and grabbed the nook of her top to pull it off but she got goosebumps and she shivered hard to stop her from doing so. 'What the hell!!' She internally screamed and a gasp came out of her mouth. She grabbed the left side of her breast tightly and fell to her knees.
After a minute or two, She relaxed and stood up slowly. 'Ahh, Something is wrong here.' She removed her palms from her breast area and looked around carefully. She started to move everything on the small shelf near the shower but didn't find anything.
She sighed and looked up around the wall. Her gaze was roaming around in a hurry but she stopped looking when her eyes fell on something out of the place. A square shape small box behind the shower. She knitted her eyebrows trying to figure out if it was part of the shower or something else.
She brought the small bathroom stool below the shower and climbed on it to reach the tiny small box. She tried to pull it out from the shower but it didn't come out so she used all her strength to pull it.
After trying a lot, The tiny black box came into her grip but her feet trembled at the sudden release of the thing she was pulling out. She held the shower's neck to protect herself from falling down and she was lucky enough to protect herself.
She took a deep breath and climbed down off the stool to look at the thing in her palm correctly. She opened her closed palm and looked at the small thing in her hands. Her eyes got bigger in shock, lots of questions in her mind, and sweat on her forehead. It was a small camera that was fitted perfectly to film her showering, naked.
She closed her palms in anger when she realized what could have been done to her and closed her eyes tightly to think properly. 'Xiang has been acting strange. I saw him smiling when he showed me the bathroom as well. Xiang, can you do it?' She opened her eyes which were filled with rage, desire of revenge, and irritation.
'Who else can it be? I won't let you go easily.' She moved her head right and left while a cracking sound came out of her neck. 'Hmm… What should I do? People keep summoning my devil side out so I think I should give them what they are asking for then.' A devil-ish smirk came on her lips. 'Just wait and watch how I mess up your whole life, Xiang or whoever you are.' She shook her head once and smiled looking at the small camera in her palm.