"Hey?" Sam called out to her worriedly. "I am fine... Fine!" Tiara assured them as she separated herself from KR, stumbling. KR and Sam spread their arms around her in the air to catch her if she lost her balance and fell. "Let's Dance!" Tiara said cheerfully in a loud voice and started to run toward the dance floor while KR and Sam ran behind her like parents running behind their baby who just learned to walk on its foot. She started to move her body to vibe with the loud music, not giving a damn about the people near her anymore. Vin, JJ, and Joy noticed her weird self but shrugged it off thinking that she might be enjoying herself but KR and Sam were still looking out for her.
She didn't care about how KR and Sam were behind her trying to catch her before she fell. She was lost in her own world, enjoying her broken state, still trying to forget the pain inside her by doing something she would never do in her sober self. 'Is it just me who thinks that her smile is the most beautiful one? She should smile often.' Vin was happy seeing her smiling face and adored her beautiful cheeky smile. 'But… something doesn't seem right. I never saw her smiling this much. Is it an effect of alcohol? Or something is wrong?' Vin felt something wrong and then his gaze fell on KR and Sam who were looking worried for Tiara. 'Her smile. Her smile is…wow! The glow it brings to her puffy cheeks is adorable.' JJ was lost in her smile while his dancing pace became slower than before. 'But I can't see any shining in her eyes as if she is just… smiling… what do people call it? A broken smile to show the world.' JJ knitted his eyebrows when he failed to see any sparkle of happiness in her eyes.
'geunyeoneun cheoeum-eulo sul-eul masyeossda. - "I think she drank alcohol for the first time." KR informed others and warned them to look out for her. "geugeosdo neomu manh-ayo!" - 'That too a lot of it!' Sam yelled as she lost her balance and started falling on her left side but successfully regained her balance.
Tiara grabbed JJ's arms as he was the closest person standing near her and pulled him toward her. The men around her were shocked by her sudden action as she never did anything like that. She started to dance with him being touchy while her eyes were closed as if she wouldn't know anything she was doing if she kept her eyes closed. JJ didn't pull himself back but he didn't touch her either, his gaze was just fixed on her wondering what was going on with her.
'Her smile isn't giving me happiness. It's like… it's not what it seems. Smiles that only appear on the surface of the face are beautiful yet filled with bitterness. Her smile is one of the best examples of those smiles. Gorgeous which will soothe the hearts and fool the brains with their brightness yet some people won't feel the warmth from them which they should feel from the bright smiles.' Joy took a deep sorrowful breath and looked at her with pity in his eyes.
"geunyeoneun jasin-i anida" - 'She isn't herself.' JJ blabbered in a low voice and detached himself from her. "geunyeoleul motung-ilo delyeogaseyo." - 'Take her to the corner.' KR ordered everyone worriedly while they were looking at everyone in a panic to think what to do. KR scoffed at them and grabbed Tiara's wrist to drag her out of the dance floor to disappear from people's sight. TR-X followed their leader who was dragging Tiara softly towards a corner after looking at her weird self. "Kaha lekar jaa rahe ho mujhe!? Bhench*d choro mujhe!" - "Where are you taking me!? Leave me m*therf*cker' Tiara yelled at KR in her mother language which they ignored as they didn't understand what she said.
"Are you okay?" KR asked her after shoving her to the corner. "I am okay." She replied to him in a low voice while looking everywhere but at him. "You drink? Or is it the first time when you've drunk alcohol?" KR questioned her directly. "Uhmm… Shush!!" Tiara put a finger on her lips and shushed KR as if they were talking about murdering someone and then she nodded her head slowly. She started to giggle, shocking everyone with her answer. "Then why did you drink too much?" KR held her shoulders to make her stand straight and looked at her eyes which were staring at his sharp eyes and soon, he noticed traces of tears in them.
KR noticed her tears breaming in her eyes but something else got his attention before he could say anything. It was Tiara's phone which was ringing inside her pocket, she shoved her hand in her pocket to pull the device out of it to see who was calling her. She tightened her grip on the little thing in her hands once she saw a video call coming from the same number she just talked with a few moments back. 'Why is he video calling me now? Even when I told him to stay away from me? Why!? Just why! Why does he keep making everything hard for me!!' Tiara screamed inside her hand, glaring at her phone. "Who it is?"Joy broke the silence between them.
She ignored Joy's question and picked up the call because she wanted to hear him, she wanted to know if he loved her as much as she loved him back, she wanted to know the reason behind his video call, she was too curious and innocent to pick up his call. "Oo, I didn't expect you to be in a club. Looks like you changed a lot!" A male voice came out of her phone which grabbed TR-X's attention, they started to peek at the phone's screen from the corners. "What do you want now, Neel?" She asked acting irritated but deep down she wanted him to pamper her like a princess. "I just wanted you to meet someone who is very close to me." Neel, Her ex-boyfriend said with a smirk on his face. He didn't let her say anything else and moved his camera a little away from his face and showed her a girl beside him. She knitted her eyebrows when her eyes fell on the girl sitting very close to him.
TR-X was confused about what was going on as they didn't know the relation between Tiara and the man on the screen or what were they talking about. The man on the screen had tan skin, round black eyes, a big hawk nose, plump lips, and black silk hair. The woman beside him had toffee-colored skin, pores on her cheeks, downturned brown eyes, a round face, and thin lips who was looking at Tiara with an evil smirk. "My girlfriend" He introduced her to his new girlfriend who side hugged him and kissed his cheeks. Something shattered inside Tiara but no sound came out, tears started to brim in her eyes again which didn't go unnoticed by the men standing near her.
They didn't understand the whole story behind her tears but could guess that she was bothered by the people and their lovey-dovey scene. They heard the word 'Girlfriend' word when he introduced her to Tiara which hurt her. TR-X understood that she was bothered by the relationship between the man and woman. "And I can guess that you are still single. I mean who would like to get into a relationship with who kissed a celebrity against his will? Or someone who can kill people without thinking twice?" He taunted her and laughed at her along with his new girlfriend. Tiara was about to cut his call and throw her phone away as far as possible but KR took her phone out of her hand and turned the camera toward him while he assembled himself beside Tiara.
"I don't know what you said to MY girlfriend as my Hindi isn't good but if you dare to call her ever again then I will make sure that you can't call anyone ever." KR snaked his arm around Tiara's shoulder and smirked at the camera, Tiara was confused by his statement but didn't react much as she knew it was better than letting her ex know that she was single as he assumed. "Yo-Your girlfr-" Neel was about to say something but his girlfriend stopped him. "Oh my God! King Rapper!! I can't believe…OMG!!" Neel's girlfriend screamed in joy and came near the camera after pushing Neel away from her and KR giggled at the sight in front of him. "Wait, How can she be your girlfriend? I thought you knew her. She is an attention seeker." The girl commented which made KR's giggle disappear in a second. The rest of the TR-X members came in front of the camera with a serious look on their faces.
"Are you Soul?" Vin asked her with a serious tone. "Yes!! Yes, I am!!" She replied to him cheerfully, too happy to see her idols in the video call. "Then you should know… She is our friend." Vin said in a back-off tone. "Correct, And we don't like people who say things for our friends." Sam warned her with sweetness coated in his tone, trying to control his anger. "Don't bother her." Joy asked her to back off sweetly. "You aren't our Soul if you don't respect others." JJ said disgustingly, not even trying to show sweetness. "I respect everyone but I know what type of girl she is and I know that she is not KR's girlfriend as well!" She yelled at the member through the phone call. "Don't test our patience and who told you that she is not my girlfriend?" KR raised his eyebrows at her and pulled Tiara close to him as much as possible.
He kissed her forehead to prove that she was his in-front of the girl believe it. Vin fisted his palm tightly to stop himself from reacting in front of the girl on the video call. JJ was too stunned to react to anything, it was like everything happened too fast in front of his eyes that he couldn't even blink his eyes. Joy gave KR a side eye to tell KR that he didn't approve of his action while Sam made a face and sighed. Tiara couldn't understand what just happened to her, She only could feel something warm and soft on her forehead that stayed there for a few seconds. "Don't bother, MY girl." KR warned last time and cut the call before hearing anything else.
"wae geunyeoege kiseuhaess-eoyo!??" - 'Why did you kiss her!??' Vin asked KR in a loud voice as soon as he cut the call. "naneun geugeos-i olh-eun il-ilago saeng-gaghaessda." - 'I thought it was the right thing to do.' KR explained his side and removed his arms from her shoulders. "It was not!" JJ yelled at KR in his mother language, ready to start an argument. "Correct, She isn't in her right state of mind. You can't do that to her without her consent." Joy agreed with JJ but gestured to JJ to keep his tone low. "Sorry, I just kissed her forehead. I don't think it's a big thing." KR tried to reason with them which made everyone else even more furious at him. "A kiss is a kiss does matter where you kissed her. You kissed her without her consent and that matters a lot. Especially, When she is drunk!" Vin started an argument and said in an aggressive tone. "Okay okay, I am sorry. I will apologize to her once she gets back to her sober self, okay?" KR tried to end the argument and accepted that he had made a mistake.
"Good, Let's end this topic here." Sam ended the conversation and smiled to distract everyone from the previous conversation. "I think we should drop her home." JJ suggested. "No, I don't think that's a good idea. Imagine a sober girl reaching home drunk after spending time with some friends for the first time. Her family will get mad at her." Vin shared his thoughts, being thoughtful. "Yes, I remember, she told us about her family being strict and all." Joy remembered the time when she wore the shorts for the first time and informed them. "Right, but won't they get mad after knowing that she stayed with us all night?" KR questioned and looked at Tiara who was standing there without having any thought, trying to remember about herself.
"She can lie that she stayed with some of her friends because she won't be able to fake her soberness in this drunk state." JJ answered KR in an instant. "Uhm, Yeah… I think it's better for her to stay with us." Vin nodded his head in agreement with JJ. "Okay, one of us will have to share our room with each other and she can take the room for herself." KR planned to let her stay in the room alone and no one protested to his suggestion. "Let's just get out of here." Sam said and gestured for others to take her outside.
JJ and Joy started to drag her out while people around them were staring at them because they were taking her against her will. "Wh-where are you taking me? Ahh… Le-lea-leave me!" Tiara yelled at them to stop dragging her out as she still wanted to dance and forget her worries. They tried to hide their faces, scared to let anyone recognize them. They pushed her inside their little bus and then made their way in as well. "Where are we going?" Tiara asked them innocently. "Hotel. So, You can sleep there." KR answered her and settled her down on the passenger seat carefully.
TR-X gathered around Tiara's seat while their driver started the bus to take them to the hotel. They were looking at her with confusion, pity, worry, and sadness in their eyes. She smiled after looking at the faces who were staring at her. 'I wonder what is the reason for the pain in her smile. I wonder who can hurt such an angel like her. An angel?... Yes, She is an angel. My Angel." JJ thought and smiled back at her.
'Who was he? Why was she crying over a boy like him? I don't know. I don't care who he was but I do care about her tears and the reason behind what caused them. I want to ask her lots of things but the language difference is the barrier between us. Doesn't matter how much I try to break this barrier I fail to spell a sentence correctly. She is such a sunshine so why will she cry like a stormy rain? Yes, A sunshine that shines on anyone's life just by being in it. Just like she was there to protect us when we were in trouble, filled the light in the darkness of Aglos, and guided us through the hard path. My sunshine." Joy took a deep breath as he was holding himself back from breathing, afraid that he would start to cry after seeing her broken state.
'She always was as strong as a wild tiger but look at her now. Broken but still smiling through her pain. An injured tigress, not to forget that the injured one always turns out to be more dangerous than ever but why can't I bear her tears? I don't understand the relationship between her and the boy who videocalled her but at least, I know that he was no good for her. Was he her boyfriend? I couldn't care less who he was. Just look at her now, Still trying to smile like a strong like a tiger. My tiger.' Vin softly smiled at her while his eyebrows were knitted.
'How can she smile innocently after giving us stress? She was crying and wincing like a stubborn child just a minute ago and look at her now, Smiling and sitting like an obedient child. Such a devil. A little devil indeed.' Sam sighed and gave her a nickname that suited her best according to him.
'She never cried before in front of anyone, even when we were surrounded by thousands of zombies that's the reason I always saw her like a princess who doesn't need a soldier, a knight in shining armor, or a prince to protect her because she was enough for herself. Turns out she really is a princess because princesses always hide their true feelings inside themselves and show their strong side to everyone else hiding their vulnerable ones but there's always a time when she has enough and breaks down like a broken piece of art. A princess.' KR passed her a sad and forceful smile to reassure her that it was okay.
They were staring at her for 3 minutes straight, thinking of a word to say and trying to figure out the whole situation to handle it smoothly. Tiara was exhausted and irritated by their stares and raised her both arms in the air to surrender herself. "Okay okay!" She surrendered and lowered her gaze to avoid tension in their eyes. "He was my ex-boyfriend." She stood up slowly, trying to be steady as much as possible in her drunk state. A tear silently escaped from the cage of her eyes showing how much pain she was in. "How can he blackmail me that he has touched me everywhere and then…" She was whimpering like an angry child but then she stopped. "Just a few minutes after… he introduced me to his new girlfriend. Leaving me like a fool." She said stuttering as she struggled to breathe because of the dryness in her throat. "What does he mean!!" She screamed, letting all her frustration out while the men were confused and freaking out about her situation.
"So, What if he that has touched me here!" She grabbed KR's hands and put his palms on her cheek, his palms were cupping her cheeks while he was shocked by her sudden action. Dumbfounded to remove his palms from her cheeks. "Or here!" She let go of KR's hand and pulled Vin's hand to place it on her breast. Vin's eyes became bigger than they ever did, heartbeats racing crazily, his face became paler than before, and his hands trembling as he was shocked by her action. His eyes were trembling as well, staring at his hands on her breast. He didn't know what to do or say, he was just frozen in his spot right there like a statue. Everyone else was looking at the scene in front of them with horror, startled as they never imagined that something like this would happen.
JJ twitched his lips in frustration after seeing that Vin wasn't ready to remove his hands from her while KR pulled his hands off her face slowly. JJ passed Vin a glare to scare him off but Vin didn't notice his glares as his eyes were stuck in one place only. 'She is drunk! She is drunk! That's why she is doing it! She doesn't know what she is doing!' Vin was panicking from the inside but he stood still from the outside as if he had forgotten how to function his body. JJ slapped his hands away from her body and sent him daggers from his glares as if he were telling him to back off. "Or here!" She grabbed JJ's hand which just slapped away Vin's hand and placed his hands below her belly.
JJ was stunned and stared at her with big eyes. He begged her to let his hand go from her grip but she couldn't see anything properly as her eyes were half closed due to alcohol in her system. Vin coughed aggressively to drag JJ out of his deep thinking and remove his hands away from her lower belly. JJ's blood rushed to his cheeks, resulting in redness on his cheek. He had a small natural scar on his left cheek which was highlighted due to the hue of the red, as red as a tomato. He tried to get a hold of his blush but couldn't help it because he knew that his face would have turned red within a second, He knew he had to control himself to not show his friends a flustered side of his. Vin elbowed JJ as he ignored his cough warning and sent him daggers after their eyes met. JJ gulped down the dryness in his throat and then pulled his hand back to himself. JJ looked down in embarrassment still trying to hide his flustered face but it was of no use as everyone already saw his all red tomato face.
"It's okay!" Joy tried to comfort JJ about his flustered self and took a step toward him. "So, what if he kissed me like a hundred times? I can kiss anyone. What's the big deal about!" Tiara continued, ignoring everything around her, and grabbed the nearest person randomly to pull him to her. Joy suddenly felt a small hand on his elbow which was holding him tightly, He turned his head a little towards the person who had a grip on his elbow and found Tiara looking at her grip with half-opened eyes. He didn't hear what she said because he was concentrating on JJ, that's why he couldn't understand what was going on or what was going to happen.
She didn't give him a chance to get away from her and pulled him to herself. She stood on her toes to reach his height properly and crashed her lips on his. He froze, looking at her closed eyes while her lips were syncing with his. 'She is drunk. I-I can't. I shouldn't do this! Stop it. It will mean that I am taking advantage of her drunk state! God!' Joy cursed himself as he was unable to hold himself back from kissing her back. He didn't return her kiss or want his lip to sync with hers but his lips weren't listening to him. 'Her lips… taste like candy. A sweet yet salty one. A kind of mixture of both. So soft and juicy.' Joy was looking at her face with large eyes while she was sucking his lips. Everyone else was too stunned to say anything as it was too much for them to handle. She was pulling stunts after stunts without any stop.
"Okay, That's enough!"