Zoey's P.O.V540Please respect copyright.PENANA2D0eONLXhH
Waking up this Monday 540Please respect copyright.PENANAwDfpIvMX03
morning was hectic. I didn't want to get out of bed, but in one way or 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXH7tXhIyAT
another, I would have to. I lay awake, thinking. I didn't want to face 540Please respect copyright.PENANAt7zstCi7cW
off the challenges for today knowing that one of them was dealing with 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlklZCtEpDQ
Jehan. Since I still have the teddy bear, I wasn't as free as I expected540Please respect copyright.PENANAOwF0cylNZE
myself to be.540Please respect copyright.PENANAnu8rc0Edyo
I couldn't stop 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYmGBEoXG6Q
wondering what Seungri and TOP were doing at the mall yesterday. As much540Please respect copyright.PENANAD3YMRewTzD
as I wanted to believe that it was a coincidence, I couldn't help but 540Please respect copyright.PENANAu3du3HOT3C
feel that something was wrong.540Please respect copyright.PENANApoFYyUbIhz
Could they have known 540Please respect copyright.PENANAiszhgtoFUW
about Jehan? And if they did, then how? I shook my head. Maybe all that 540Please respect copyright.PENANAZdvoXRYAcp
was nothing but a coincidence and I was just being paranoid. If they 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYBCVpqcCvs
really had found out about Jehan, they would have been asking questions 540Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5A5CzLKfx
about him and what he does while we were shopping. But they didn't. We 540Please respect copyright.PENANALsQRQTw2Zx
just had our usual conversation.540Please respect copyright.PENANA8o6z5ZvHwU
I brushed off all those 540Please respect copyright.PENANAhtlu4765VU
thoughts aside when the alarm on my phone rang telling me to get up. The540Please respect copyright.PENANAGVXjOieKg9
last time I had ever put up an alarm was the morning of my last day of 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEGqOGoVj0p
high school. Eversince I became a musician, I never put up an alarm when540Please respect copyright.PENANA6b090WFoZ0
I knew I had someone around to wake me up. Like Sam.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZmv21GWp2D
But now that she wasn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4qFwFZTyAK
here, I had to wake up on my own. Most of the time, I would do so 540Please respect copyright.PENANAdomudd33RY
without her help. But when I overslept, she was always there to wake me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPvO9okprS4
Anyway, right now, I was just too troubled in my sleep that I must have540Please respect copyright.PENANAYvrZFUmCOd
woken up early before the alarm rang.540Please respect copyright.PENANAXev6ZTdF0n
I sat up on my bed and 540Please respect copyright.PENANAudmGoOvkEk
switched off the alarm. I checked the empty bed beside mine and I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAurz2LRbWJC
couldn't help but realise how much I miss Sam. I don't know why I was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAutduwdsTZ3
feeling this way, but I hated the fact that I was missing her so bad. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAmBPwa9K7CI
Not after what happened yesterday at the mall and all over social media.540Please respect copyright.PENANAD8qbPY26JE
After seeing her with 540Please respect copyright.PENANAROJdqSNJEC
G-Dragon yesterday broke my heart further into tiny pieces. As much as I540Please respect copyright.PENANAfVmkyC02wp
knew she was only there just to try and resolve things with G-Dragon, I540Please respect copyright.PENANARXcdqrMql8
was filled with fury seeing the two of them together. And to make 540Please respect copyright.PENANAHj6ZK1WBmx
matters worse, after I had left the mall, I went online and there were 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5bMNdb6iyh
pictures of the two everywhere. They were a trending topic for the whole540Please respect copyright.PENANAc5wgjnDzY8
day. That left me devastated.540Please respect copyright.PENANAQdRKG7Esz9
I couldn't stop looking 540Please respect copyright.PENANAvEUZFZxetU
at pictures online even when I came back to the hotel. I read so many 540Please respect copyright.PENANABTsGgVvflb
comments. As much as there were so many haters around (like myself), so 540Please respect copyright.PENANA2sjIlP4szv
many people couldn't stop talking about how adorable the two looked 540Please respect copyright.PENANATUSJQicitd
together. I couldn't help but admit to myself that they were right. They540Please respect copyright.PENANAMe0ILGVZTt
really did make a cute couple. And that left me envious. I wished it 540Please respect copyright.PENANAWjpTKjsaPu
was G-Dragon and I. Not G-Dragon and Sam.540Please respect copyright.PENANAMbXHhcQWZO
That sent me boiling to a540Please respect copyright.PENANA9zaasdAEUH
point where I almost threw my phone away. When Christine came to see me540Please respect copyright.PENANA5k5PUd8Ozg
in my room and found me in an angry fit, I told her how painful I felt 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGKBFL28rkh
seeing G-Dragon and Sam together.540Please respect copyright.PENANA8eg6omZu8X
Christine had told me to540Please respect copyright.PENANAMrOfVvJ4cY
cool down and that I shouldn't be jealous. She told me that Sam was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAqE4OcdbwpF
only with G-Dragon because she was only trying to resolve things. I told540Please respect copyright.PENANAB1ezCAoRVc
her that I already knew that. Christine quickly left me to myself when 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYxxkoCdAVM
she realised that she couldn't calm me down. So I was alone for the rest540Please respect copyright.PENANAW0Uqd9tdWP
of the day, not speaking to anyone. I didn't even join the others for 540Please respect copyright.PENANAe1WWqWByZC
supper. I had ordered for my supper to be taken up to my room.540Please respect copyright.PENANAfc7T82xq4A
And now, I had to face 540Please respect copyright.PENANAK4F6PwpaiR
another challenge of seeing everyone today, most especially Sam, since 540Please respect copyright.PENANAxGodpEReKX
we have to finish up on the dance routine and start working on the music540Please respect copyright.PENANAswNp9iJZGz
video as soon as possible. I have to put up with all this today when I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAnguVvrJV3R
was still so upset.540Please respect copyright.PENANAiql7ux74XG
I quickly got out of bed and went in the showers, hoping the cool water would cool down all the boiling anger in me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAUP8KVF27ql
After I was done, I 540Please respect copyright.PENANA6dpIpAHhWY
quickly dressed up. And carrying my purse with me, I went to meet the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAE67QGalG3n
others at the dining table for breakfast.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtcDL0eKQTj
I found them already 540Please respect copyright.PENANAK13dKANr2E
settled. When I came to sit, everyone mouthed out a "good morning" to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAfqo59Cgsg4
me, except Sam. And I replied back with a smile on my face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAC3cMkL04rt
I felt a little awkward 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7EViPUMOqC
when I looked at Sam who sat across the table next to Collins and hadn't540Please respect copyright.PENANAbn8ze2bOWK
said a word. She was busy with her breakfast, her usual bacon, eggs and540Please respect copyright.PENANAUp8RHXiOQ1
toast with juice. I realised she hadn't even looked up at me once and 540Please respect copyright.PENANA16R1t78g10
that also felt weird.540Please respect copyright.PENANA6NyxXP0TnA
I know that she and I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAjDMqnroAgM
aren't talking to each other at the moment, but I expected her to say a 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7dLpDEehLm
"good morning" or even look at me to acknowledge that I was around. She 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGEfca9Mpk8
was one person even if we ever had an argument, she would at least try 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXhwhzwzR3Q
to say something to me. The fact that she didn't greet me, made me feel 540Please respect copyright.PENANAHYZiaCQkcx
like something was wrong.540Please respect copyright.PENANA4trMkttypD
I poured myself a cup of540Please respect copyright.PENANApkydKfGJtu
coffee, trying to ignore what I was feeling at the moment. I got some 540Please respect copyright.PENANA6VDxXk9kLn
slices of toast and ate my breakfast.540Please respect copyright.PENANAua7aue3U9P
"Hey, Sam," said Mike, who sat right next to her. "Have you seen what people have been saying about you and G-Dragon?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAanvrINHRL4
My heart almost skipped a540Please respect copyright.PENANAmf4sQ4iLiA
beat and I almost choked on my coffee. What was Mike getting at? I know540Please respect copyright.PENANAYJdb4qByAj
he does things just to annoy me sometimes, but this time, he's gone way540Please respect copyright.PENANAueMLFUhMg5
too far. I was over here! Hello!540Please respect copyright.PENANAkEGNMqrJG5
"You don't have to remind me," Sam said as she looked at her brother. "I've decided not to go online today."540Please respect copyright.PENANAnlEYpks021
"For one who doesn't like attention, you might just disappear off the face of the earth," said Collins.540Please respect copyright.PENANA3tcdxMoXWj
"I can do that," said Sam, staring up at the ceiling obviously building castles in the air.540Please respect copyright.PENANAgxFyvrBiyR
"I have no doubt about it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAYLhfwy9eYh
"But I don't see why you540Please respect copyright.PENANAYRC309JeWt
have to," said Daniel. "Just because people make stories about you and 540Please respect copyright.PENANAJiY0YXTiAO
G-Dragon dating, doesn't mean that you are."540Please respect copyright.PENANA7437hvWJca
"One thing about fans is540Please respect copyright.PENANAXkVVW1Xt87
that they can make a story so believable, even those who don't know 540Please respect copyright.PENANAKOK9sxZWNj
what's going on, might end up believing it," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAXdhdGQPUCO
"I know," said Lee. 540Please respect copyright.PENANANcv75ZLh1k
"Right now, some k-pop news sites are already taking this to the next 540Please respect copyright.PENANAF1kiAnvuYm
level. But they all say they couldn't be too sure about it until they 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5HHr3AsfOs
get an official statement from you and G-Dragon."540Please respect copyright.PENANAvLikwsvC4R
"Wow, that's serious," said Sam.540Please respect copyright.PENANA4KvCokOauU
"But right now, we have no time for interviews," said Collins. "We have a music video to work on."540Please respect copyright.PENANAVB3EEIiOwK
"I can work with that," said Sam, with a smile on her face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbm4nq6XaQs
"Alright, guys, finish your breakfast. You know the drill."540Please respect copyright.PENANAb8hkjPg3J2
"Aye, aye," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAlqlK0jtvIe
"Well, you're quiet today, Zoey," said Christine as she looked at me. She sat directly across from me on the table.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbOSr8VCwif
"Do you have a problem with that?" I asked, eyeing Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANADSxseJ1huT
"You're just too quiet, that's all."540Please respect copyright.PENANAQp1zlydvbl
"You should be quiet more often," said Collins as he got up from the table. "It kind of suits you."540Please respect copyright.PENANAzOPet4X7cR
I frowned at Collins. "Thanks. I'll try doing so more often. That's if I really want to."540Please respect copyright.PENANAMcEgRpwy1a
"Now that's the Zoey I know," said Mike, raising his eyebrow at me and smiling.540Please respect copyright.PENANATlRAnBonM9
I stuck my tongue out at540Please respect copyright.PENANApbts50FX9h
him but he continued to smile mockingly nonetheless. I noticed that the540Please respect copyright.PENANA5ySF3C0Df6
others were laughing and smiling at the whole thing, except Sam. She 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7xZ2uyZBiV
still wasn't looking in my direction.540Please respect copyright.PENANATcodxTS5UH
Soon after breakfast, we540Please respect copyright.PENANAAArojdJSnk
left for YG. In the SUV, Sam sat at the back with her brothers. We were540Please respect copyright.PENANAF6UUYG7sSc
all chatting happily in the car but she was quiet the whole way. She 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIuXsedMSOD
was like that nowadays, always lost in thought. I wondered what she 540Please respect copyright.PENANAe34MRLvBen
could be thinking about. Sam was one person who never really shared what540Please respect copyright.PENANAREumywHdrH
she thought. When you asked her about it, she would usually say 540Please respect copyright.PENANAVpmMI813GU
"nothing" and say no more. But if she really wanted to share with you, 540Please respect copyright.PENANAZaqd3kUJYC
she would.540Please respect copyright.PENANAU4cjZjb7a1
We arrived at YG and we 540Please respect copyright.PENANAsNubYfbK2l
found ourselves back at the dance studio we were practising in on 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEAcpeuuTlH
Saturday. We found our dance instructor and all the BigBang members with540Please respect copyright.PENANApApbxCzcxL
the rest of the backup dancers, waiting for us.540Please respect copyright.PENANAC8bTxxlOIg
When everyone was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIhe9cIQzWq
exchanging greetings with each other, G-Dragon didn't respond to me when540Please respect copyright.PENANAuys1a7Qg1k
I said "hi" to him. Given with what happened yesterday, I bet he was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAeHaBiI7c4Q
still mad at me for how I behaved towards Sam. He didn't even want to 540Please respect copyright.PENANADnvdOadXoD
hang out with us soon after Sam had left.540Please respect copyright.PENANAUtyKnZ8F6p
He not responding to me 540Please respect copyright.PENANASAhdVWAeI1
felt awkward and I longed for him to at least give me some attention. He540Please respect copyright.PENANADxYNuO4n3I
didn't say "hi" to Sam either but just nodded his head when she greeted540Please respect copyright.PENANAEvSQGBfY58
him. At least that was acknowledging someone even if they weren't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAuF87NnmvPn
talking to each other. And he was staring at her the whole time even 540Please respect copyright.PENANA9autvApwSN
when she wasn't looking. I thought of throwing a shoe at him, but I just540Please respect copyright.PENANA4RuGcR7HOz
looked away instead.540Please respect copyright.PENANAc3a56cJeJw
We went straight to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFcEqTRvXDs
practising for almost a good five hours. And those proved to be the 540Please respect copyright.PENANATi5W4Xz5Lm
hardest five hours of my life. Since the dance routine starts with 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7DRcNjXMzl
G-Dragon and I, it was really hard having him so close. I realised that I540Please respect copyright.PENANAhRPUGklPSA
still had feelings for him. At some point during practise, I almost 540Please respect copyright.PENANAQiRJDQ2xuN
hugged him, but I brought myself not to. And that wasn't the worst part.540Please respect copyright.PENANAruzvCXFu52
During pratice, I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAdSplM7htOf
noticed that G-Dragon still couldn't take his eyes off Sam. This was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAx7E91SnKIX
getting to the point where I wanted to scream at him to snap out of it. I540Please respect copyright.PENANAVRRWvICGxK
wondered what he saw in Sam and that sent me thinking.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZIiKF4lMXO
G-Dragon wasn't the only540Please respect copyright.PENANAYKLDdVjPbG
one who liked Sam. Come to think of it, Daesung also liked her. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAS5tNXr59r8
Probably even Seungri and TOP, given that Seungri had a beautiful crown 540Please respect copyright.PENANAhdLkrctsOW
made just for her and TOP flirts with her whenever he gets the chance 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEeMn3Vk3Wd
to. Taeyang already had Hyo-rin and always takes Sam like a sister. What540Please respect copyright.PENANAABO3480rwi
did Sam have that even most of the BigBang members like her so much?540Please respect copyright.PENANAe9MPNrf9Bp
As her best friend, I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAOx3yRSoBhf
should be aware of her qualities. She was nice and friendly to whoever 540Please respect copyright.PENANAcbV5G8vqlL
approached her. She is very pretty and had a great body, though she was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAh8nL0IYE8J
never ever fully aware of her physical beauty. She always thought she 540Please respect copyright.PENANAaYgyEhCb1J
was like any other ordinary girl but she was more than that.540Please respect copyright.PENANAjRxibEQWMo
She is also smart, 540Please respect copyright.PENANAp9nNzqEMBI
caring and always understanding. She is a great leader and one who 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7kGscCAA6b
always had our backs whenever we needed it. I don't know how many times 540Please respect copyright.PENANAT8XgqytK1V
she had always tried to get The Toxins out of trouble. I agree that even540Please respect copyright.PENANAmjZjKjCaqg
if it looked like we don't appreciate what she does, we really do.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtR3dpBSfBS
Sam has a lot of good 540Please respect copyright.PENANAtTm4vUUQIr
qualities. Maybe that's why she is liked and loved by everyone. Even her540Please respect copyright.PENANAsbfq1iHxxe
fans. She is honest, when she wanted to. She is also a pretty good 540Please respect copyright.PENANAKsdM2lAzsU
liar, only when it was necessary to do so. And she is one who wouldn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANASW5FIE0nDX
want to hurt anyone around her.540Please respect copyright.PENANACi41S9RmIF
Realising this made me 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXLhT9LhOYD
feel a little guilty as I looked at Sam who was dancing in front of me 540Please respect copyright.PENANAgP1i0l2mQw
with Taeyang beside her. I looked at her face and she had this smile 540Please respect copyright.PENANA2AhsH7VSNk
that reflected her innocence. I realised that I had been giving Sam a 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlinrYeiotu
real hard time after I found out G-Dragon likes her and not me. She is 540Please respect copyright.PENANASiNz2zKDDS
my best friend and would do nothing to hurt me. I know she was only 540Please respect copyright.PENANANTGbU3OiVC
looking out for me like she always does, but I am just too ignorant to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAZgnP8ZQY5w
realise it till now.540Please respect copyright.PENANAUFCQAOFkYa
"Wait, hold on a minute guys," said the choreographer. We all stopped dancing as instructed.540Please respect copyright.PENANAnDaGmfzos4
"Zoey, you aren't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAVQlwVWx3oY
concentrating," said the choreographer as he looked at me. "This is the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAx5HaqK3IzF
second time you have made the same mistake."540Please respect copyright.PENANAU8CjF8QGrt
"Oh, sorry," I said, scratching the back of my head feeling embarrassed. "I'll try to be more cautious next time."540Please respect copyright.PENANAm9lmKI5d9T
"Okay. Let's continue from where we left off."540Please respect copyright.PENANAo5vcqu1lLf
It was lunch the time we540Please respect copyright.PENANAwyqkvYGGI8
broke off for a break. The choreographer left and the others were 540Please respect copyright.PENANAvCcVkNCLSa
talking to some of the backup dancers. I noticed Sam at the corner of 540Please respect copyright.PENANArKmzqgmtjG
the room with Christine and some of the backup dancers talking. It 540Please respect copyright.PENANAK4tq7pZb7I
looked like they were having one hell of a funny conversation because 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlEx1MGXs8V
they were all laughing.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOP1wBGHS1Z
"Hey, why are you here all alone?" came TOP as he came to stand right next to me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAcpldL3FkCm
"Nothing," I replied, looking down at my sneakers. "I just want to be alone today."540Please respect copyright.PENANArREc7gDfyT
"Still not talking to Sam?"540Please respect copyright.PENANALbpit0I7Wy
"Nope."540Please respect copyright.PENANARuwCKUY0AP
TOP's lips rose to a smile. "You really are stubborn."540Please respect copyright.PENANAqQrL7vBQIo
"Too bad it's in my DNA." I smirked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAwlKTiNTR4N
"And how long do you think you're going to put up with it?" TOP folded his arms as he looked at me.540Please respect copyright.PENANACSR71PVvEq
"Maybe till we go home." I shrugged my shoulders.540Please respect copyright.PENANAUMikHLTVkI
"I doubt it. Judging by the way you performed today, you looked really preoccupied that you made several mistakes."540Please respect copyright.PENANAixycVjuTyt
"Being preoccupied is Sam's thing."540Please respect copyright.PENANAHp45HaawVY
"I know. But you aren't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAaS70H0ZOdF
yourself, that's for sure. The Zoey I know wouldn't be here all alone. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAibreJyc5BY
You would be chit chatting like you always do."540Please respect copyright.PENANAKL2bI4mKq5
"What if I just want to be alone for today?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAsg6pqvjan1
"It's okay. Everyone has those kinds of days. But you make it look like being alone sometimes is a bad thing."540Please respect copyright.PENANAv6hydbbiJe
I frowned. "Why?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAizpAu0h99g
"Because you look miserable."540Please respect copyright.PENANAHi5JR84ESC
I didn't expect that coming from TOP. My mouth was agape as I looked at him.540Please respect copyright.PENANAMDpzQvppbb
"Miserable!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAUQbKT57WGx
"Ya." TOP nodded his head. "It clearly shows."540Please respect copyright.PENANAeDDHybrkyw
I thought for a moment 540Please respect copyright.PENANA3ziJh5OPQt
and went back to looking at Sam and Christine with the backup dancers. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGNYaxShbBl
Mike, Daesung, Seungri and Daniel had also formed their own little 540Please respect copyright.PENANAca6rZ3TLjG
circle and were laughing and chatting too. Taeyang and G-Dragon were 540Please respect copyright.PENANAASnD1QdPK3
with some of the backup dancers, having a normal chat.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZtVD7J93uL
Seeing all this in front540Please respect copyright.PENANAGTEUvqx9tj
of me made me realise that TOP is right. I am definitely miserable. By 540Please respect copyright.PENANAnbFtD0iaqj
now, I would be with the others, chatting. But here I was, all alone. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAdMgfgdEemM
Until TOP came to talk to me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtA2QASRgUV
"I guess you're right," I said. "I am miserable."540Please respect copyright.PENANA5GIni2bCoG
"Don't worry about it. Aren't you going to resolve things with Sam?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAJrtvdTSRI3
"I don't know," I said 540Please respect copyright.PENANAsX71hGq5TL
as I looked at Sam who was laughing out loud. "I'm still mad at her, but540Please respect copyright.PENANAjZ01DCsnY1
something in me says that I can't stay like this for long."540Please respect copyright.PENANAUHf1L21sQG
I told TOP what happened in the morning and how it felt weird that Sam didn't say a word to me nor even looked at me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAWQP0hSbTNn
"I felt so bad about it," I said, shaking my head.540Please respect copyright.PENANA5hRJXDpzzg
"Then why don't you talk to her?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAdS44YDkol9
"Pfft!" I rolled my eyes. "Why should I? Sam always does all the talking."540Please respect copyright.PENANAqH1CzuvM5J
"Really? You think Sam would do that this time around? Besides, she wasn't really at fault with all this."540Please respect copyright.PENANAgaqaRF8YOl
"I know."540Please respect copyright.PENANAcCsfB5G7LR
"So? Are you going to try and talk to her yourself?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAA9as42jUrm
"I'll think about it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAPOM65zVQaJ
"Hey, guys," came Seungri, suddenly calling out to everyone in the room. "Who wants pizza?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAMABCIGt3aq
Everyone muttered out "me!" really loud. Seungri smiled and said he would bring the pizza.540Please respect copyright.PENANA5btuPXtI19
"Mind if you guys can help me?" Seungri asked as he came up to TOP and I.540Please respect copyright.PENANANiOeiPb6ST
"Sure," I said. I really needed to get out of here for a while and breathe.540Please respect copyright.PENANAqzNnnwKgEf
The three of us went out540Please respect copyright.PENANAGGu2Il7fZR
of the room and headed to the elevator to take us downstairs. Seungri 540Please respect copyright.PENANAdSnjWcBzpv
already had his phone out calling the pizza parlour to take the order.540Please respect copyright.PENANADa0d4WhqpK
As soon as we reached the ground floor, we stuck around in the lobby waiting for the pizza.540Please respect copyright.PENANAt9bF1kVS4i
"I'm so hungry," said Seungri, staring at his watch.540Please respect copyright.PENANA2Da8P4tTp1
"Chill, you just ordered540Please respect copyright.PENANAGmvJeWtbiZ
pizza like right now," said TOP who was sitting right next to me on one540Please respect copyright.PENANAml4w2zBPSN
of the chairs in the waiting area of the lobby.540Please respect copyright.PENANApEHHp7kD0v
"But I'm so hungry."540Please respect copyright.PENANAaAUH98FHzN
"Trust me, you aren't 540Please respect copyright.PENANATx8K3oST4K
the only one," I said as I looked at Seungri who was still standing. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAVyVhKQFR11
"Sit down or else you're going to drain the last remaining blood you 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4E2zUhJxEC
have."540Please respect copyright.PENANALp3qpho4F9
"Well, that's mean," said Seungri as he sat next to me. "What's up with you?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAWK7oPOEK2S
"Nothing," I said as I folded my arms.540Please respect copyright.PENANAMt8nLrLrTq
"She's cranky, don't mind her," said TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANAo4MCvbSzGR
"I'm not cranky. Just having an awful day."540Please respect copyright.PENANAjVnDe3mLwH
"Ya, we can see that," said Seungri with a smirk on his face.540Please respect copyright.PENANABDZQjSXYLI
I didn't say anything as540Please respect copyright.PENANASrTuZpVZG4
I shook my head. All of the sudden, I felt my phone vibrate against my 540Please respect copyright.PENANA2t2USWaGYC
thigh in the pocket of my sweat pants. I took out my phone. Jehan was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAoavekAlgDf
calling.540Please respect copyright.PENANA18C8uibVKF
"Isn't it that French guy we met yesterday at the mall?" TOP asked, looking at my phone screen.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOyNBG5DNAP
"Can you please not look!" I said as I turned the phone screen away from TOP's eyes.540Please respect copyright.PENANA3sblvOdDtS
"Okay, well you better answer that call."540Please respect copyright.PENANACEgk5VfYWM
I stood from the chair and answered Jehan's call when I was a few feet away from the two.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAHfDkQHlaj
"Hello," I answered.540Please respect copyright.PENANAvIlv307uK4
"Hey, Zoey," said Jehan. "Are you busy today?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAoP8CuQpEzk
"Ya, I'm very busy," I answered. "Why?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAKln6z9r3pu
"We have to meet today, ASAP."540Please respect copyright.PENANAaebb3bkQUH
"But I can't. I have a lot to do today and I don't think I'll manage to meet with you."540Please respect copyright.PENANAsJQuiYtzvo
"I don't care. I need that teddy bear today. Not tomorrow, but today."540Please respect copyright.PENANAc1zAVkXQx6
I knew Jehan was going 540Please respect copyright.PENANAxAZfW7V7XV
to call and demand for the teddy bear. Luckily, I carried my purse with 540Please respect copyright.PENANAyN3TKhsV5R
the teddy bear in it. I hadn't removed it from my purse since yesterday 540Please respect copyright.PENANAD5lGIBZ2tL
and I checked to see if it was still in there this morning. The purse 540Please respect copyright.PENANAqz0XGebTwV
was upstairs in the dance studio.540Please respect copyright.PENANAWwSw2tAbFd
"Okay, what time do you want to get the teddy bear?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAouxmofmaYA
"I'm coming to YG to get it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAUanQdmQ7Y0
"What!" I was horrified and equally surprised. "No way. You can't come here."540Please respect copyright.PENANAVJ7Cxd99Z8
"Fine. If you have a better idea, then call me or text in the next thirty minutes. I have to get that teddy today."540Please respect copyright.PENANA7Tipl7FH6M
"You don't have to remind me," I snarled.540Please respect copyright.PENANAFC0jGeiswA
He cut the call and I 540Please respect copyright.PENANA8KMC9i3VBI
looked at my phone like I was ready to throw it out of the lobby through540Please respect copyright.PENANAOUHjB9xEJy
the open entrance doors. This was bad. Real bad. He wanted to come here540Please respect copyright.PENANAuQVAdOjyWv
to get the teddy. That was going to be dangerous. If anyone were to see540Please respect copyright.PENANAg0bQ4WZxm8
him they would start to ask questions.540Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2v6HopEfk
"Zoey," came Seungri's voice behind me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAjZTyzYgsJC
I turned around and there stood Seungri and TOP staring at me.540Please respect copyright.PENANA80bfLGu4Qg
"What?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAdfZbHSF6sl
"Was that Jehan you were talking to?" TOP asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAt5begNROk
"Um, ya. Is there a problem?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAYdF2L1nb1i
"You two didn't seem to be having a normal conversation," said Seungri. "It sounded like you were arguing or something."540Please respect copyright.PENANAGxuePhvybZ
"Arguing? Pfft. No," I gave out a small laugh trying to hide my fear. "It was just some silly misunderstanding."540Please respect copyright.PENANAjEUa1gMPjI
"Come on, Zoey," said TOP. "That was no ordinary misunderstanding and I know an argument when I see one."540Please respect copyright.PENANAdn1nBlREwv
"Guys, it's nothing. You're worrying for no reason."540Please respect copyright.PENANA3WgqwqSIL8
"Oh, ya? Then why were you talking about that teddy bear then? It's that small cute teddy he had sent you, right?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA1K1tEh1TKX
Dang it! I was cornered 540Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4Ble3BWDC
now. They had heard about the teddy. I couldn't come up with a lie. If 540Please respect copyright.PENANAk8kPNO5Cxe
anything, I'm a terrible liar. Looks like the truth will always come to 540Please respect copyright.PENANApWj0ArBp81
light no matter how much you try to hide it.540Please respect copyright.PENANAxjYZl12VcB
"Tell us, Zoey," said Seungri softly. "It can show on your face that something is wrong."540Please respect copyright.PENANAgcTdjL3b1z
I sighed as I looked down on the floor. "Fine. But don't tell anyone."540Please respect copyright.PENANAxAqvrGUWai
"Okay. Now tell us what's going on," said TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANAE5mrzniVTc
We went back to settle down on the chairs. We were at a reasonable distance away from the receptionist so I could talk quietly.540Please respect copyright.PENANAXcy0cKuvUr
I told them everything 540Please respect copyright.PENANA3e7kXCJHNG
from what happened in Paris till now. They listened carefully and hadn't540Please respect copyright.PENANANQH4pwwEFH
said a word until I finished the whole story.540Please respect copyright.PENANAzdd2T9OJMz
"Have you told anyone about all this?" Seungri asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANABE8J4bxnOV
"Just you two," I answered.540Please respect copyright.PENANAW1ig1IPJmG
"Wow, this is serious," said TOP, trying to take it all in. "He's a diamond smuggler?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA7XOYbW6DTi
"Surprising, right?"540Please respect copyright.PENANALnejgSYONk
"He seemed so nice when we met him," said Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANA5uJU4uOLa0
"We should involve the police," said TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANAqpQHjFgZEz
"No! We can't!"540Please respect copyright.PENANA2m0UMe5OgM
"Why?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAxL6DhCFYiT
"You know word goes out 540Please respect copyright.PENANARbVPCTjbAe
fast. The next thing we know, it's going to be all over social media and540Please respect copyright.PENANA7CHji2VRA7
might give The Toxins a bad name. I would rather do this quietly."540Please respect copyright.PENANAtcy4zck3x4
"And how are you so sure he isn't going to use you again?" Seungri asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANArAyOxBL4t4
"He assured me that this540Please respect copyright.PENANAH1K7ZkB8Gg
will be the last time he will ever use me to do any of his dirty 540Please respect copyright.PENANAdUOh3XsFSz
business. I just have to give him the teddy bear and that's it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAIo0Wp323Xm
"Give who the teddy bear?" came Christine's voice.540Please respect copyright.PENANAcGiGZiVveU
The three of us turned 540Please respect copyright.PENANAUxhy7tHgnU
and we saw Christine standing a few feet away from us. We hadn't heard 540Please respect copyright.PENANAbxu28jAgkd
the elevator doors open nor her footsteps. How did she get here unheard?540Please respect copyright.PENANAxMWwolI3hH
"Christine, you're here?" I raised my eyebrows.540Please respect copyright.PENANA2ir6LLAI0X
"Ya, I came to check up on you guys since some of us are really hungry," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAQckwBQpD1a
"The delivery guy hasn't arrived yet," said Seungri with a smile.540Please respect copyright.PENANAn4sxBkcUcb
"What's this about some guy and a teddy bear?" Christine asked as she looked at me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAzvMwAiYci7
"Ummm, it's nothing, Christine," I said, waving my hand in the air. "Just talking about some random stuff."540Please respect copyright.PENANAuUy8x6EFsE
"Random stuff involving a540Please respect copyright.PENANAfUoXTVOWPY
teddy bear?" Christine shook her head at me as she folded her arms. "I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAeFMvhujNZ3
clearly heard you talking about giving some guy a teddy bear and that 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIChfD0uyzf
you won't have to do his dirty business anymore. I know you're hiding 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYfubbskvVe
something from me, Zoey. So you better start talking."540Please respect copyright.PENANACbFXy3ObrW
I rolled my eyes and sighed so loud in frustration. How many people was I going to tell the truth to today?540Please respect copyright.PENANAwabBxGuqAN
"Fine," I said, looking at Christine. "But please don't tell anyone about this."540Please respect copyright.PENANAsKkDbDMkKF
"Okay, I won't."540Please respect copyright.PENANAzE7TicTZYH
"Sit down."540Please respect copyright.PENANA6lXhd5ASsK
Christine sat right next to TOP and she looked at me with anticipation.540Please respect copyright.PENANA1vFnWvx1Vo
"I got myself into trouble," I started.540Please respect copyright.PENANA75egiT3pRp
"Great!" Christine threw her arms in the air. "What did you do now, Zoey?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4fXH9QcCZ
"I got involved with a diamond smuggler."540Please respect copyright.PENANAYEbrYkwoZ6
Christine's face soon 540Please respect copyright.PENANAC0cA9BtHiP
drained of colour and she looked as white as a ghost. She tried to open 540Please respect copyright.PENANA76Lcxlkn75
her mouth to say something but she couldn't. Until....540Please respect copyright.PENANAXyIwP522Fw
"What!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAjfQoOU5VYK
TOP quickly covered up 540Please respect copyright.PENANAQJ2EcQsa7K
her mouth before she could shout out anything else. The receptionist 540Please respect copyright.PENANA1RsY2nwWq0
looked our way and soon went back to work. When he was sure she had 540Please respect copyright.PENANAqeTTjQSVgW
cooled down, TOP removed his hand from Christine's mouth.540Please respect copyright.PENANA48UGS5ptat
"Are you cool now?" TOP asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtkOAaXaS2D
"Cool?" asked Christine, sounding anxious. "I come here and hear about some diamond smuggler. How can I be cool?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAVIKu9KbX7Z
"I know you're really mad at me right now, but you asked what was going on," I said, looking apologetically at her.540Please respect copyright.PENANAgXg5m9mHta
"Of course I'm mad!" 540Please respect copyright.PENANAllREw9EP0Y
Christine whispered angrily at me. "I know you always get in trouble, 540Please respect copyright.PENANAbpsOHATHGd
but this by far is the worst one of them all."540Please respect copyright.PENANAi8iXkQpgM0
"At least it's not a drug dealer," I said shrugging my shoulders.540Please respect copyright.PENANAEBf4bvGDBZ
"Is there a difference? Seriously, Zoey. How the heck did this happen?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAs6pjRa4zT2
"It happened in Paris," I said. "Remember the guy I introduced you to at the fashion show?"540Please respect copyright.PENANANrHP77B7FI
"Ya, I remember. What about him?"540Please respect copyright.PENANANo1QVFZd51
"He's the diamond smuggler," said TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANA21lmxxMIF5
"WHAT!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAAxdb4sOuQW
"Ssh!" TOP, Seungri and I hushed at her at the same time, putting our fingers on our lips.540Please respect copyright.PENANA8kahwBy73M
"Guys, I can't help it, sorry," said Christine. "Wait, that handsome guy is the diamond smuggler?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAfOWDkIKuOQ
"And the one I met at the café," I said.540Please respect copyright.PENANAGhgSNqHuNg
"So he is the one who sent us the teddy bear?" Christine asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAwscaLaTCla
"Yes," the three of us answered at the same time.540Please respect copyright.PENANAlHLKALgSzX
"But why does he want the teddy bear back?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAzAQzpVCGzc
"Because the teddy has diamonds in it," said Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANAgucnHRGiab
"Wow, seriously?" Christine's eyes bulged out with surprise.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOwRu57F5gr
"Ya," I said. "I planned540Please respect copyright.PENANAW2yr1Lydeb
on giving him the teddy bear yesterday but I couldn't because these 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFcRxL9UF7E
guys showed up." I pointed at Seungri and TOP with my two thumbs.540Please respect copyright.PENANABB9SIpZu6j
"So you're the one who 540Please respect copyright.PENANAc9e2TExBap
got the teddy from our room yesterday," said Christine. "Lee was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAWcV8NJKJgy
searching for it and couldn't find it. She thought she must have 540Please respect copyright.PENANAD1tcBIoUcO
misplaced it somewhere. You even went to meet him? I thought you went 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPinCFb2ePf
out with Seungri."540Please respect copyright.PENANAemZEhikkMv
"I lied."540Please respect copyright.PENANAv0IOmqmped
Christine shook her head. "I knew something was up. You are really not good at lying."540Please respect copyright.PENANAZd9vhVG4iM
"I know." I gave Christine a grim look, not feeling impressed about myself at all.540Please respect copyright.PENANAGRswd1rHyN
"Why didn't you tell us you were being threatened by this guy?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAj856Pt6WYm
"I wasn't supposed to. And besides, it was too dangerous. He threatened me with a gun in Paris not to tell anyone."540Please respect copyright.PENANA7KqGCTBtC7
"That's great. There are guns too. Blackmail would have been so much better."540Please respect copyright.PENANAGRqXIDOCNd
"I know. Now he wants the teddy bear back today. And I don't know what to do. He wanted to come here and get the teddy himself."540Please respect copyright.PENANAgvuPDWQpkA
"Then why didn't you let him?" Christine asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZxP3zc8Elt
"That was going to raise a lot of questions if anyone saw him," said Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANAojK46NFmcS
"Now where is she going to meet him now? She has to take that teddy bear away or else it could land us into more trouble."540Please respect copyright.PENANAaRA1zvXmhP
"He said I should have a location as to where we meet," I said. "And I haven't thought of anything yet."540Please respect copyright.PENANAhnsrqr0gHB
"Why don't you meet after practice?" TOP suggested.540Please respect copyright.PENANANMhF0r7eEZ
"But where?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbw1ze5ts6K
"Tell him you will meet at the café. The one you had met him in last time. TOP and I will take you there," said Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANAB11xg7XySP
"I'm also coming with you," said Christine. "And don't refuse." She pointed her finger at me when I opened my mouth to object.540Please respect copyright.PENANA8IfqZRD8FG
"Fine, but remember, don't tell anyone," I said.540Please respect copyright.PENANAftWUjGI23V
"Got it," said TOP and Seungri at the same time. Christine nodded her head.540Please respect copyright.PENANACYNVCSdbxz
I took my phone out and 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYOTzpjMFvQ
texted Jehan that we should meet at the café after practise some time in540Please respect copyright.PENANAjwtj3drxwz
the evening. He replied saying that he would be there.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAu37xgZErO
"Okay, it's settled," I said as I put my phone back in my pocket.540Please respect copyright.PENANA2b65UOjHKP
"Yay! The pizza is here," said Seungri as he stood up and approached the pizza delivery man coming in through the entrance.540Please respect copyright.PENANAO62r1j6gQt
Seungri had ordered ten 540Please respect copyright.PENANAhvpNl54u4m
large sized boxes of pizza, enough for everyone upstairs. And the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFpJuizKxfH
flavour, mac and cheese. Sam's favourite. Well, almost everyone's 540Please respect copyright.PENANA97ZNPQfWbV
favourite.540Please respect copyright.PENANAQsDZy6e5th
We helped Seungri with the pizza and went to the elevator which took us back up to the floor of the dance studio.540Please respect copyright.PENANAGN4HRHTx9R
"When all of this is over, Zoey, you're going to get a scolding from me," said Christine, as we walked down the hall.540Please respect copyright.PENANArXILrXK1OF
"I'll be ready for 540Please respect copyright.PENANAvdghW4d4YK
that," I said as I rolled my eyes. "I just can't wait to have everything540Please respect copyright.PENANA2QVL2FQHno
back to the way they were. Before all the threatening."540Please respect copyright.PENANAb5Sy50gEFj
"No, they won't," said Seungri. "You still have Sam to resolve things with."540Please respect copyright.PENANAjzXSaf0SQO
"And G-Dragon," TOP added.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOcurRya4sP
"Can we please not talk about that?" I asked. "You don't have to remind me all the time."540Please respect copyright.PENANA7ZqdpmUmof
"Well, someone has to," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANA71iBvMs5mH
"Just so you know, I'll agree to resolve things on my own terms."540Please respect copyright.PENANAVhXc3KgSSB
"Jeez," said Christine, rolling her eyes at me. "When you say that, I have to get ready for the unexpected."540Please respect copyright.PENANA0ja9tTVOVk
We found ourselves back 540Please respect copyright.PENANAU9yUnZ39Uj
at the studio and this time, I found Sam talking to Taeyang. G-Dragon 540Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9kbkQZHoI
was still talking to some of the back up dancers and I could see him 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGsJdIN48Wd
staring at Sam through the corner of his eye. Or was that me being 540Please respect copyright.PENANACrEwxLgjqK
paranoid?540Please respect copyright.PENANAL0OuwrrMPy
Christine snapped her fingers right in front of me and I turned to look at her.540Please respect copyright.PENANASWOGuvppqr
"What?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAmkzTZwFe6x
"You were frowning," Christine answered.540Please respect copyright.PENANAmSwEAPzez5
"Frowning? I wasn't frowning."540Please respect copyright.PENANAiiHewesvV9
"Says the person who 540Please respect copyright.PENANACEZHZgUNfR
couldn't stand seeing G-Dragon looking at someone else." Christine gave 540Please respect copyright.PENANA1hxWxYuAqz
me a smirk and left me standing all alone by the door, while she joined 540Please respect copyright.PENANAiyXUqkKxbF
the others who had soon formed a circle around Seungri and TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANAa8nphbtJZR
Soon after lunch, we 540Please respect copyright.PENANASKI77RdHct
went straight back to practising. This time, for a good six hours. We 540Please respect copyright.PENANASXSPSod2eC
had to do the dance routine over and over again to perfect it. This time540Please respect copyright.PENANAacRujOodtm
around, I made sure not to make any mistake like I had been doing 540Please respect copyright.PENANA8nb1gi6VsZ
earlier. This time, everything was coming out perfectly and I don't know540Please respect copyright.PENANANxw1M5W6fm
how many times we had to do the routine all over again. But despite the540Please respect copyright.PENANARtd2cb90m4
number of times we did it again, we had a whole lot of fun.540Please respect copyright.PENANAWKiapsBUJw
At some point in the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAoeIfzR67Qo
afternoon, our two managers and Lee came over to check on us and they 540Please respect copyright.PENANA9Gflt2yGrD
were really impressed. Yang Hyun-suk thought filming the dance practise 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIPcfsW7fC6
will be helpful and that they would release it after the music video. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAzssVua21u1
The dance practise was shot and it came out perfect, but still, we went 540Please respect copyright.PENANASU4EpNqcIY
back to practising until we could pratice no more.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPLHTPfG3iN
It was five and the sun 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPcRcQHmveV
was setting when we were finally done for the day. I was so tired that I540Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6rXNujTEA
was lying on the floor. My body aching everywhere. Luckily, I wasn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAeYU23AXFQO
the only one on the floor. Christine and Daniel were lying on either 540Please respect copyright.PENANA3IdFmo6ATi
side of me. We were all pretty tired.540Please respect copyright.PENANARm0gA3Rs7V
The choreographer had already left and the backup dancers also started to leave. G-Dragon and Taeyang left together.540Please respect copyright.PENANAUmj1AFk8uL
While I was resting and 540Please respect copyright.PENANAq2mzWTHyux
gathering up any ounce of energy I had left, Seungri was standing next 540Please respect copyright.PENANAtIdHRf3NKd
to my head and looking down on me. I looked up at him with a puzzled 540Please respect copyright.PENANAwm0LDfI8FS
look on my face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAFG9wQXHH1i
"Get up, Zoey, we gotta go," he said.540Please respect copyright.PENANAFcI3eNv23p
"Go? Go where?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAkeWO3D2lKZ
Christine roughly nudged me on my side with her elbow, I looked at her with a whining look on my face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAdgSysDDLgD
"Ouch, that hurt!" I said.540Please respect copyright.PENANA7e1O3QqRTc
"Are you forgetting, Zoey?" Christine asked, raising her eyebrows. "We have to go somewhere to do something."540Please respect copyright.PENANAQa8NIclTel
It was then that I remembered that I was supposed to meet Jehan at the café. I totally forgot.540Please respect copyright.PENANA7osX6t47aW
"Oh, ya!" I quickly sat up on the floor and Christine followed. "We have to go."540Please respect copyright.PENANAaTLYEzxm7z
"Go where?" Daniel asked, still lying down on the floor and looking at us.540Please respect copyright.PENANA97md7ffKyy
"No where," I answered quickly. "We're just planning on going around the city for a drive."540Please respect copyright.PENANAs0gEkhJwCX
"I want to follow too," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtEjE6nxO7m
"Where did you say you were going?" came Mike who had been talking with Sam and Daesung.540Please respect copyright.PENANA6gdnFltVbp
I rolled my eyes. Seriously? The last thing I want is for everyone to follow and find out what's going on.540Please respect copyright.PENANAHoG2oISZUl
"It's nothing really," said TOP. "We were planning to drive around the city. You don't have to follow."540Please respect copyright.PENANAggPCWH7TaY
"But this is not fair," said Daniel, sitting up quickly. "I also want to come along."540Please respect copyright.PENANAO4HuWKdGG4
"Ya, me too," said Mike.540Please respect copyright.PENANALsbjPkqcQM
"Why don't you want 540Please respect copyright.PENANAs2gOyzA9rD
these guys to go along?" Sam asked. I noticed that she still wasn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPYqHkjaUVT
looking at me. "You're just going for a drive. I see no reason for them 540Please respect copyright.PENANA798XnxgSOR
not to follow."540Please respect copyright.PENANAvkufdwRLuv
I wanted to protest and 540Please respect copyright.PENANASTi6Doy62u
refuse but then I realised that I wasn't supposed to talk to Sam. And 540Please respect copyright.PENANAmQ3qjr5PoB
refusing her was going to be pointless because I already know Seungri 540Please respect copyright.PENANABtFu3x6QyU
and TOP weren't going to deny her so easily.540Please respect copyright.PENANANrUt0Hz9KU
"Okay, they can come along," said Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANAB9wOi3bqxd
Dang it!540Please respect copyright.PENANAmM7fZSDhGZ
"Okay, you'll find me back at the hotel. I'll tell Collins that you had to go out," said Sam to the others, giving them a smile.540Please respect copyright.PENANAVzmw6fERXD
"I can take you back to the hotel if you want," said Daesung, addressing Sam.540Please respect copyright.PENANAlMqSQnLx2e
"Thanks, that's nice of 540Please respect copyright.PENANAJScrSaORXg
you, Daesung," said Sam giving him a sweet smile. She turned to look at 540Please respect copyright.PENANASAgX7NsgDO
the others. "Have fun you, guys."540Please respect copyright.PENANASjmjNw82iw
Sam and Daesung left the540Please respect copyright.PENANAvNDFKVDmuC
room together and I couldn't help but look at the door and think to 540Please respect copyright.PENANA0yoSbPRXna
myself that the two also made a nice pair.540Please respect copyright.PENANAp7DZow15kW
"So, where are we going?" Mike asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAqELudv5Ggo
"Please, don't ask any questions," I said as I turned to face him. "It's none of your business."540Please respect copyright.PENANAtigkcV0V4h
"Mmm, seeing the look on your face, something's up," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAgLJ45Fh91g
Christine stood up from 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4ig6abR6Ln
the floor and said, "look guys, if we tell, you have to promise not to 540Please respect copyright.PENANA76RQT01mfR
tell anyone. Not even Sam. No one."540Please respect copyright.PENANAX6OCorrDz1
I looked up at her with my eyebrow raised. "Are you seriously going to tell them?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANA1roG7I3D7L
"Do I have a choice? You know how persistent these two are and they are probably going to find out anyway."540Please respect copyright.PENANAmHAEV3ibgf
"Ya, Christine's right," said Seungri. "And we also couldn't refuse Sam for them to come along."540Please respect copyright.PENANA8gWZPXrMKU
"You just couldn't refuse because you like her too much," I said, turning to face Seungri.540Please respect copyright.PENANAlx0k98EcRU
Seungri shrugged and smiled. "What can I say? I've to obey the lovely queen, right?"540Please respect copyright.PENANABKKdWjXdIW
I almost snapped back at him but I controlled myself and looked away.540Please respect copyright.PENANAzp0JRMOHRx
"Okay, can we focus on telling us what's going on?" Daniel asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAi7eai55C8e
"Fine," I said. "Someone tell them. I can't keep repeating myself with all this."540Please respect copyright.PENANABXTyCxcRHw
TOP told Mike and Daniel what was going on. The two brothers were shocked after what they heard.540Please respect copyright.PENANA98uyB2rRRY
"Oooh, you're in a lot of trouble now, Zoey," said Mike, looking at me and shaking his head.540Please respect copyright.PENANA4wqDclYT9Q
"You don't have to remind me," I said rolling my eyes.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbDX01VTVJt
"I can't believe that guy is the diamond smuggler," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAVldsAAs052
"I know," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAnSb5tutQ9m
"You haven't told Sam about this?" Mike asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3o63cxWVI
"No. No one has to know," I said. "Not even the police."540Please respect copyright.PENANAT3YUrBMaAs
"I think you should have told Sam," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAc9vNVudgJ
"So that she can judge me? No way."540Please respect copyright.PENANAX4zm7PDd80
"You know Sam can never do that," said Seungri. "She would have helped in any way possible."540Please respect copyright.PENANAm3aTMkCvlz
"Don't try to convince 540Please respect copyright.PENANAfSlwMXXGXS
her of anything," said Christine. "She probably won't listen like she 540Please respect copyright.PENANAWTcNn3mc7F
always does." I raised an eyebrow at Christine and she looked back at me540Please respect copyright.PENANAkwugO0Bezv
like she could hit me with a hammer.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPgFzngkVT5
"Okay, let's go," said TOP.540Please respect copyright.PENANABmMImqidyx
I got up from the floor 540Please respect copyright.PENANArjDvw5hOQX
with Daniel and I took my purse. We soon left the room and headed 540Please respect copyright.PENANAeSaWvJsr5L
downstairs. Sam and Daesung had already left since there was no sign of 540Please respect copyright.PENANA1VzMMG8tw5
Daesung's car in the parking lot. Christine and I went with Seungri in 540Please respect copyright.PENANABXxqmzkVCO
his car while Daniel and Mike went in TOP's car.540Please respect copyright.PENANA4AfSD6vVn0
The cars soon left the 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5MV5Yzgg7E
YG premises and in the car, I couldn't help but feel nervous. What if 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlQlMZF215Z
things didn't work out like it did yesterday? I hope not. Every now and 540Please respect copyright.PENANA1vRFHjK6FE
then, I would open and check if the teddy bear was still in my purse.540Please respect copyright.PENANARexjr8eKLf
"Can you you please stop540Please respect copyright.PENANAMb6rXkKZVB
doing that?" Christine asked from the back seat. "You might just drop 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXEM9nWIrB3
the teddy and lose it in the car."540Please respect copyright.PENANATzZseZjIIm
"Stop joking around," I said as I turned to look at Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAxW1ESMDCWB
"Well, then stop getting nervous. We're all here with you so there is nothing to be worried about."540Please respect copyright.PENANAiIpukMuBXv
I leaned back on the chair and tried to relax. "You're right," I said. "I need to relax."540Please respect copyright.PENANAFIlRBrqt85
"Don't worry, we're almost there," said Seungri as the car took a turn.540Please respect copyright.PENANATp6q2SaVex
"I just want to get this over with."540Please respect copyright.PENANAMXotjwpQO0
We were soon packed 540Please respect copyright.PENANAKgOnu69PzY
right outside the café and TOP's car parked right next to us. I took a 540Please respect copyright.PENANA47juV5MhYk
deep breath. Christine came over and put her hand on my shoulder. I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPQmlnFgaWO
turned to look at her.540Please respect copyright.PENANAMZqkFpvxzk
"Everything is going to be okay," said Christine giving me an encouraging smile. "If anything happens, we'll be here."540Please respect copyright.PENANATGxvEfvsaE
"Thanks," I said with a smile. "I'm glad you guys are all here."540Please respect copyright.PENANAz3xgQHcGmq
Seungri also turned to 540Please respect copyright.PENANANRvCxAujeM
smile at me. I don't know what I would have done without them. Their 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIABd0wDW5D
presence here gave me a little comfort. But I felt a small hole in my 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4OCj61FL2j
chest and I wished Sam was here too.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbEwULTQlk6
I soon got out of the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAI9qo1h8e3V
car and there was a sudden chill in the air. Maybe it's because the sun 540Please respect copyright.PENANA8zrGSSQK34
was setting that it started to get cold. I had my purse in my hand and I540Please respect copyright.PENANAhwqQ4gtoCE
looked towards the café. I hope everything will go as planned.540Please respect copyright.PENANAVxfTvM69m3
Before I could find my 540Please respect copyright.PENANAAr4hhqI2pg
way into the café, TOP, Mike and Daniel waved at me through the windows 540Please respect copyright.PENANAz7BBLMZZ55
of TOP's car and giving me a thumbs up. I smiled a little and waved 540Please respect copyright.PENANArtFFTkrSLC
back. At least that gave me the confidence to go ahead.540Please respect copyright.PENANAsbqvSY5VBG
I quickly went in the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEpCqQ1XmF6
café and when I slowly stepped in, I looked around for Jehan. I spotted 540Please respect copyright.PENANARlhr2JUI6U
him right next to the huge glass window where we had last sat down 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXPDNfnM6gD
together. He was alone in his smart pressed black suit, as always.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOIokyPf5QE
I slowly approached the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAqzUZayS0tr
table. His eyes never left me since I walked in the café. When I got to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAvIVvmyO873
the table, I sat facing him. My heart was beating so fast. I don't know 540Please respect copyright.PENANAYEtIKnfaam
why I was so scared that things might go wrong and Jehan wouldn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAMIyKnMn4Kw
hesitate to end my life right here.540Please respect copyright.PENANAEbvSY1qnMg
"I'm glad you could make it," said Jehan. "I was almost about to call my driver to come pick you up."540Please respect copyright.PENANAGaX8hhSXOU
"I was practising today," I answered.540Please respect copyright.PENANAesyPgmMv8m
"You look really tired. It could show all over your face."540Please respect copyright.PENANAv4kyBuMVGR
"Thanks," I frowned at 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7a4QMDAVo8
him. "Can we get this over with? I still have a busy day tomorrow and I 540Please respect copyright.PENANAJh87d0ia7Q
would like to get this teddy bear off my back."540Please respect copyright.PENANAAmStms1BfG
Jehan smirked. "Certainly."540Please respect copyright.PENANA6gMsxSEtfB
I quickly reached out 540Please respect copyright.PENANA565hSsSDD4
for the purse on my lap, opened it and gave him the teddy bear. Jehan 540Please respect copyright.PENANA6cXS948na0
reached out to take it and I couldn't help but feel relieved.540Please respect copyright.PENANALZFdpObmks
"There! You have your teddy," I said. "Can I go now?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAuJMEfKGpom
"Wait." Jehan held up a finger when I was just about to stand up and leave. I sighed.540Please respect copyright.PENANAzy7KSpTjE9
"What now?" I complained.540Please respect copyright.PENANAeBTKQ0dxTj
"I need to check if all the diamonds are in here," said Jehan, shaking the teddy in his other hand.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAslOrz1kCI
"What do you think? That540Please respect copyright.PENANAWvtNIrDV5Z
I would steal from you?" I was really surprised that he didn't trust 540Please respect copyright.PENANA54YWBDpdVr
me. "You pointed a gun to my head in Paris and I have done everything 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGAOfEO6yW9
you have asked until now. What makes you think I would steal your 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4VsYKTiaf8
diamonds? I have a life to live, may I remind you."540Please respect copyright.PENANA9RdgXOnCCU
Jehan raised an eyebrow 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFGiQ9HsIdA
at me. "Nice one, Zoey. You almost had me convinced. But I'm still going540Please respect copyright.PENANAl33G0MnFiJ
to check. I've to make sure all the diamonds are in here before I make a540Please respect copyright.PENANAlmIHfwpoY3
fool of myself in front of my clients I'm selling these to."540Please respect copyright.PENANAimeJLyyrvN
"Fine." I folded my arms on the table. "If you don't believe me, then check it yourself. I know I'm innocent."540Please respect copyright.PENANAu9k1LS183C
"I know you're." Jehan gave me a smile and I looked away facing the window. It was getting really dark outside so fast.540Please respect copyright.PENANAWKCNQzyFtR
I went back to looking 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4fifqBM7tY
at Jehan who had laid the little teddy bear on the table and he dug into540Please respect copyright.PENANAOLx6mR25Va
the pockets of his suit and removed a small pocket knife. It didn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFcUjtSrbwr
surprise me that he carried that thing around.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPgG8y5BYP0
Jehan slowly laid the 540Please respect copyright.PENANADN1uTHsbBL
blade onto the little teddy's belly and cut through its tiny suit, 540Please respect copyright.PENANA8G6FTHSYtL
dissecting the teddy bear. This reminded me of science class back in 540Please respect copyright.PENANAG5URAEfisD
high school when we were told to dissect a frog. Doing that was so 540Please respect copyright.PENANAzTMMcFEwhP
disgusting that I ended up purking all over Sam's shoes, who was my 540Please respect copyright.PENANA3PjeaX1cfB
science partner. This time, it was just cotton stuffing that came out of540Please respect copyright.PENANASJspwjJTnF
the teddy bear.540Please respect copyright.PENANAWCZoIA7HyX
Wait. I frowned. This 540Please respect copyright.PENANAoEkRhoDGWu
isn't right. I raised an eyebrow when Jehan kept on removing cotton 540Please respect copyright.PENANAOIcYi3fDl8
stuffings and there was no sign of the diamonds. Where were the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAsdNz3Z1rRE
diamonds!540Please respect copyright.PENANADh15OYRFik
I stared horrified at 540Please respect copyright.PENANASI1r8fAs3b
the scene on the table. There was tiny cotton stuffings everywhere and 540Please respect copyright.PENANAWqp2ObyK5n
the bear that laid stuffless on the table was a sad site to see because 540Please respect copyright.PENANADWANwqO8gm
there was nothing in it. No diamonds.540Please respect copyright.PENANAnqwJO9K6oS
I looked up at Jehan and540Please respect copyright.PENANAMfLtzNK88D
he was as surprised as I was. His mouth was wide open and he couldn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAciTaA9rmQF
stop looking at the dissected teddy. If he kept on looking at it like 540Please respect copyright.PENANA54Jext7yrp
that, he was going to end up traumatised.540Please respect copyright.PENANAVCMrtYylrR
"Je-Jehan," I said 540Please respect copyright.PENANANimFw4Ekzr
softly. Hoping he wouldn't bite at me like a dog with rabies. "Jehan. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPE0eYHVTNY
I...I have no idea what has just happened, but, there are no diamonds in540Please respect copyright.PENANAK1WUfrmRiJ
there."540Please respect copyright.PENANAaVbUSwLrwL
Jean neither moved nor 540Please respect copyright.PENANAaUgLP2RsDZ
said a word. I was getting worried. Should I move him to try and snap 540Please respect copyright.PENANAwoNpmKcIRZ
him out of it? I didn't know what to do.540Please respect copyright.PENANAEMGerbYltn
But how could this be? 540Please respect copyright.PENANAHCFT4p7UsI
Where did the diamonds go? It's not like the teddy bear could just poop 540Please respect copyright.PENANApZ9OoelzD3
out diamonds since it wasn't alive or anything. Something weird was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAgQ0YUUJCjw
going on. And I wasn't like liking it at all.540Please respect copyright.PENANAKa5I0mEGNd
"Where are my diamonds?" Jehan muttered silently, still looking at the scene before him.540Please respect copyright.PENANAdW0JOkHNNG
"I...I don't know," I said shaking my head. I was scared of his reaction and I prepared myself for it.540Please respect copyright.PENANAG20jeOUrBZ
He banged his fists on 540Please respect copyright.PENANAy86m3eIoh4
the table so loudly that he startled not only me, but everyone else in 540Please respect copyright.PENANAuBJaXzFjHE
the café. Everyone turned to look at us and I looked around then back at540Please respect copyright.PENANAomMl0QFTqP
Jehan, whose eyes were as red as a bull's, staring at me.540Please respect copyright.PENANAosmoxD1wgQ
"Jehan, chill," I said, putting my hands up to calm him down. "Let's not try to get angry here."540Please respect copyright.PENANA1bdsnaL2MF
"Where are my diamonds, Zoey?" This time he didn't shout but the anger in his voice got me shivering.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPPRMUmcl1x
"I don't know. I don't 540Please respect copyright.PENANASvsr5M5IzR
know what's going on right now. This is the same teddy bear you sent us.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZtHywJYa9k
I don't know why it doesn't have diamonds in it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAWYAL6Wg5x1
"How did the diamonds go missing?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAMhRQolFVG6
"How am I supposed to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlHfk7T5iqA
know? I just kept the teddy for you. Maybe you sent me the teddy without540Please respect copyright.PENANAe49KepsfVs
diamonds in it and you probably never noticed."540Please respect copyright.PENANA1P2LC6qeYy
"Don't doubt what I do, Zoey! I made sure I made no mistake."540Please respect copyright.PENANAWsmjJCiPKM
"Okay, chill, I believe you. Look, why don't we try to sort this out calmly? Getting upset won't do us any good."540Please respect copyright.PENANAeugLKQ6n2s
Jehan rubbed his 540Please respect copyright.PENANAvoKTxwbmey
forehead and sighed as he leaned back further into his seat. He seemed 540Please respect copyright.PENANAjNA9Q7gOUj
to have calmed down when he looked at the teddy bear again.540Please respect copyright.PENANAOzUjMT2n5k
"I need my diamonds back, Zoey."540Please respect copyright.PENANAfEN6PzHZAO
"I know. You've said that like almost a hundred times now."540Please respect copyright.PENANAAwsfwvoGgm
"Let's not joke around here. What happened? Why does this bear have no diamonds in it?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAguWHJIQp0s
"I didn't do anything. I swear. That teddy was just the way it was eversince you sent it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAojpQvWGDHa
"Then why doesn't it have diamonds in it?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA03oaKn88WV
"I don't know."540Please respect copyright.PENANAC9tayP3VQw
Jehan looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "Who else had this teddy apart from you?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAIqBAAULLob
"Ummm," I looked down 540Please respect copyright.PENANApFdlUvruEm
and played around with my fingers. "Uh....I wasn't the one who had been 540Please respect copyright.PENANAlvy5To7fzC
taking care of the teddy bear this whole time."540Please respect copyright.PENANAIoWyt45MPj
"What?" Jehan sounded surprised. "What do you mean?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA6mqBaO5klw
"I didn't have the teddy bear with me at the hotel the whole time," I said, looking at him fully in the eyes now.540Please respect copyright.PENANAtvlEZ4ysD9
"Who had the teddy bear?" Jehan leaned closer, his eyes not leaving mine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAnvrtcY3jet
"Lee had it before I took it from her yesterday."540Please respect copyright.PENANAplLoII3OsR
"Oh, my gosh!" Jehan 540Please respect copyright.PENANAyaA5vCgwlB
covered his face with his hands and I could see this wasn't going too 540Please respect copyright.PENANAKz3VqZzlHl
well for him. "Could she have the diamonds?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAmQVuwvu9Ed
"I don't think so. Lee 540Please respect copyright.PENANA61TFLoZEd7
is an honest person. If she did notice there were diamonds in the teddy,540Please respect copyright.PENANAtuCVxvxUj7
she would've said something. No way. She can't have the diamonds."540Please respect copyright.PENANAOTBZtz6VyM
"Then how do we explain all this! She was the last person to have the teddy, correct?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAD2qe4wJBKy
"You're right. But if she did find out about us and all this diamond business, she wouldn't keep that to herself. I know Lee."540Please respect copyright.PENANA3YbHittRvf
"Maybe you don't know Lee well enough. If this is the same teddy I had sent, where could the diamonds be?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA8TM7OLAg0w
"Maybe this is just another teddy bear and the actual one with the diamonds is still at the hotel."540Please respect copyright.PENANAhWujuzfxXP
After I said that, Jehan540Please respect copyright.PENANAplmBquuMQG
quickly took the dissected teddy bear in his hands and looked at it 540Please respect copyright.PENANAeYWcJl5cFn
carefully. He turned the teddy, looking at its back side and tearing the540Please respect copyright.PENANApqHyRAW5IP
suit away. I wondered what he was looking for because he had a serious 540Please respect copyright.PENANAwyEixQlofy
look on his face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAsoWbWWcGF6
"You're right," said Jehan. "This is definitely another teddy bear and not the one I sent you."540Please respect copyright.PENANA8Eft0TBHGk
"Wait, how do you know?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANAxLxHyihc7b
"I remember one of my 540Please respect copyright.PENANA8dNzBTOiR6
men who sewed the teddy bear after putting diamonds in it at the back. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAoZLYxSKQZ9
There should have been some stitching here but this one doesn't."540Please respect copyright.PENANA4XGQRiVKH5
"Ha!" I snapped my fingers. "I knew I was right!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAtsFemJDgU5
"Don't snap your fingers and be all happy about this," said Jehan, back to giving me that angry look. "I need that teddy, now!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAg0ppfG47MT
"Huh? I can't start 540Please respect copyright.PENANAjqzZ7Wbia7
searching for it now. It would look suspicious. And I can't start asking540Please respect copyright.PENANA1BmBbB2dfM
Lee if she bought another teddy just like this one. She already knows 540Please respect copyright.PENANAuRGKhHNJ8K
that the bear is missing."540Please respect copyright.PENANAQnWEzVmmim
"Then maybe, Lee isn't the only person you should be asking."540Please respect copyright.PENANA0OWhiQaTj3
"What do you mean?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAN0wBQpGRxj
"Someone else must know where the other teddy bear is. Your group members perhaps."540Please respect copyright.PENANAizSg9GflwH
"No. I highly doubt it. Lee must have bought another teddy and we just didn't know about it."540Please respect copyright.PENANAFGi8QF74f1
"Now that, makes no 540Please respect copyright.PENANATfAtY3sD9Z
sense. If I were you, I would go back and find out what happened to that540Please respect copyright.PENANAe4osjbDndR
teddy and ask around for it. I'll need that teddy tomorrow."540Please respect copyright.PENANASWi4GbLtNG
"Tomorrow! Are you nuts!"540Please respect copyright.PENANAmciuAeAVdY
"Maybe I am because I'm desperate to have those diamonds back."540Please respect copyright.PENANAHESN0Yv7s7
"I might not be around tomorrow. I have a music video to shoot."540Please respect copyright.PENANAYY90j54Oyd
"Find those diamonds and you will be scott free, Zoey. Or do you want everyone to mourn over you when they find you dead?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAUU9Nu3lvGl
I completely forgot that540Please respect copyright.PENANAcFUZbIobyE
I was being threatened by this guy. Though his threats didn't scare me 540Please respect copyright.PENANAtZIOkEF6aV
anymore, I just had to abide to everything. Who knows, he might not have540Please respect copyright.PENANAsmcTrQ8B9A
me killed, but he could hurt the others and it would be all my fault.540Please respect copyright.PENANAAOF7GvwTS6
"Okay. I'll see what I can do."540Please respect copyright.PENANA2uy1JZOuME
Jehan gave me a smile. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAVYOuaWQyVe
"That's more I like it. I would start working on this soon if I were 540Please respect copyright.PENANAFRU9tQk7sM
you. Try your best to find the bear by tomorrow, will you?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAvgAt8KOlpn
I nodded my head and 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7ilXqAuuU3
that made him smile even more. He soon stood up from his seat and looked540Please respect copyright.PENANAd2W3yVDFpz
down at me. I looked back at him without a saying a word.540Please respect copyright.PENANAVfft9X44dW
"See you tomorrow," said Jehan and he quickly walked out of the café.540Please respect copyright.PENANAb0v1ewjeyZ
I sat there as I buried 540Please respect copyright.PENANALPZFLgiXVO
my face in my hands, thinking of what to do. Again, everything was 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5onzwE6GYN
ruined. First, the interruption from TOP and Seungri yesterday. Now, the540Please respect copyright.PENANACSLG6Pm52x
teddy bear had been swapped with another. My life couldn't get any 540Please respect copyright.PENANAH4M1Umfs3z
worse than this. What was going on? Who was putting me into so much 540Please respect copyright.PENANAG2gR4Kxhsj
drama that might just ruin my life?540Please respect copyright.PENANAGEpmN6KIZd
I hadn't noticed the bell of the café ringing because I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I looked up, there stood Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAXD0Eu4OyLI
"Zoey, what happened?" Christine asked, as she turned to look on what was on the table.540Please respect copyright.PENANAdmP4FYPGia
I could hear footsteps 540Please respect copyright.PENANAPqpTc0G1Bn
behind me. The others had come in the café too. They all looked worried 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEanepmMmtC
when they saw the look on my face.540Please respect copyright.PENANAvyXGvrQim5
Christine sat where Jehan had been a few minutes ago and looked at the tattered teddy bear on the table.540Please respect copyright.PENANApCfGeSlSZi
"What's going on?" Daniel asked. "And what happened to Mr Teddy?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAOZN5EJgRgC
"Jehan didn't look happy when he left the café," said TOP. "Didn't he get his diamonds?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAkKo28xXw6o
"No," I answered. "He didn't."540Please respect copyright.PENANAvlkhvjYvDY
"What?" Seungri sounded surprised. "What do you mean he didn't get his diamonds?"540Please respect copyright.PENANARyWGc9ITYe
"This teddy isn't the teddy he had sent us," I answered. "Someone swapped the teddy with another."540Please respect copyright.PENANABchLt1g9TB
Mike shook his head. "But who? We didn't know what that teddy bear had until now, so, it couldn't be anyone of us."540Please respect copyright.PENANArwJX5q7Ile
"And what about Lee?" 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5x7kfT872u
Christine asked. "She was the one who last had the teddy before Zoey 540Please respect copyright.PENANAIx8T9zIIkD
took it. But what doesn't make any sense is why she would want to get 540Please respect copyright.PENANA5LOiP2GPkn
another teddy when she had asked me last night where Mr Teddy had gone 540Please respect copyright.PENANA7ysPNV3ukb
to."540Please respect copyright.PENANAXCnax1HGoT
"This is bad," I said, 540Please respect copyright.PENANAGgX7uvMFfJ
leaning my elbows on the table and holding my head. "Whoever has the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAOcKq3FtY4A
teddy, knew what must have been going on this whole time."540Please respect copyright.PENANAs1PzEq7xhP
"Ya, but who could have known?" Seungri asked. "It couldn't be Lee because all she knows is that the teddy has gone missing."540Please respect copyright.PENANAFiD6WSf8qv
"Maybe Sam has it," said Mike.540Please respect copyright.PENANAD6u7SpWFLw
We all turned to look at Mike with grim looks on our faces.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPp8l2UOdpq
"Sam?" I wondered for a 540Please respect copyright.PENANABsjSA4CNCu
little while. "Why would Sam have the teddy? And if she did, how could 540Please respect copyright.PENANAmUIyKo2M0y
she have swapped it with the other one?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAuhret3qpqh
"Okay, wait," said TOP. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAMifCKU2aGJ
"This is all too confusing. Does Sam even have any idea or clue as to 540Please respect copyright.PENANASFa77rKOpP
what's really going on in the first place?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAjGYRn4AMf6
"I doubt it," I said 540Please respect copyright.PENANAi5A83G3ap4
shaking my head. "If she knew what was going on she would have 540Please respect copyright.PENANArmumJA3gSE
confronted me. And besides, she was also at the mall yesterday and would540Please respect copyright.PENANAuRmI64Fv5p
have probably seen Jehan and I together. But she didn't."540Please respect copyright.PENANA7O5Lq9xB4a
TOP and Seungri looked 540Please respect copyright.PENANAWikhwKNc4B
at each other after I said that. What was up with them? The look they 540Please respect copyright.PENANAG4enMJOs55
gave each other made me feel that something was up but I quickly brushed540Please respect copyright.PENANA6JOb8lLsGz
it away.540Please respect copyright.PENANATVzFtqlSDW
"I highly doubt it too,"540Please respect copyright.PENANAeHC3YId8wC
said Daniel. "If she knew Zoey was into some kind of serious trouble, 540Please respect copyright.PENANAzNaryj0LhM
she would have asked us about it."540Please respect copyright.PENANATu4T7JBPhr
"That's true," said 540Please respect copyright.PENANArlXaOTuTWD
Mike. "Come to think of it, I don't think Sam has it. For her to swap 540Please respect copyright.PENANA1qNfgNg6J1
the teddy, she would have bought it from somewhere."540Please respect copyright.PENANABA3KbFOEiI
"And I checked out the 540Please respect copyright.PENANAc8E4yCZilN
shopping bags, Lee came with yesterday when she went shopping with Sam. 540Please respect copyright.PENANAEkG01nbJnq
There was no sign of a small teddy in any of them," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANA3nAUDa4UAT
"She must have bought it when she was with G-Dragon," I said.540Please respect copyright.PENANAjk2cMa3ASt
"No, I highly doubt it,"540Please respect copyright.PENANAlOry1GpeP2
said TOP. "There are some dedicated fans who followed those two 540Please respect copyright.PENANAfPtc4x2Knm
yesterday, describing which store they went to and taking pictures. They540Please respect copyright.PENANANEVoZ5uS8A
said nothing about them entering a toy store."540Please respect copyright.PENANAenc8WuujGc
"Now that's what I call a dead end," said Daniel.540Please respect copyright.PENANAlMartYQphX
"Fine, so Lee and Sam have been cancelled on the list," said Seungri. "Who else could have swapped the teddies?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAT4JrcReBNJ
"Collins?" Mike asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANA0wjSywLIgX
"Ha! No way," I said, almost laughing in a such a serious situation. "How could he have known about Jehan and the diamonds?"540Please respect copyright.PENANA6RaXyJSH14
"Mmmm, good point," said Seungri. "He's been really busy these past few days."540Please respect copyright.PENANADN9RqaFZi1
"But who knows? Maybe he540Please respect copyright.PENANAI4heIxxHeJ
has been spying on me this whole time and I haven't noticed. He 540Please respect copyright.PENANAMx8Vun7keY
considers me the black sheep that has to be kept an eye on at all 540Please respect copyright.PENANAQsOoWKIouH
times."540Please respect copyright.PENANAZoqc6gfMtC
"You're definitely the black sheep, Zoey," said Mike.540Please respect copyright.PENANAbYHU81HXJA
"Hey! May I remind you, I'm not the only one here who gets into trouble here."540Please respect copyright.PENANAkvUqZQOSJ3
"Okay, guys, focus," said TOP. "What makes you think Collins might have been the one who swapped the teddies?"540Please respect copyright.PENANAieyQxV3cyL
Daniel suddenly snapped his fingers. "I remember now. Yesterday when he came back with Sam, something happened."540Please respect copyright.PENANAS1eiwI4KL6
"Wait. Collins was with Sam?" I asked.540Please respect copyright.PENANA9rUkEyF9YU
"He was the one who went540Please respect copyright.PENANAAQKrvQT0E8
to pick her up from the mall," Daniel answered. "Back to what I was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAv0aA0qApOr
saying, Collins had something delivered to him at the hotel. He even 540Please respect copyright.PENANAn19bpixSzq
went to get it himself from the delivery man who was coming up the 540Please respect copyright.PENANABTFYkOcfch
elevator."540Please respect copyright.PENANABEVvrJM6vG
"What was it?" We all asked Daniel, looking at him anxiously.540Please respect copyright.PENANAZft1aQaRk3
"It was a small box. And if you ask me, it was kind of like the one Jehan had sent that teddy bear in."540Please respect copyright.PENANA22i6eieMyq
"Gosh, it's been Collins this whole time," said Christine.540Please respect copyright.PENANAyXyxaaCdNJ
"I couldn't be too sure," I said. "But after what Daniel has said, I don't know what to believe."540Please respect copyright.PENANAxI9Uf1Upu3
"We really have to go," said Seungri. "We can't stay here."540Please respect copyright.PENANAKYkTqXBjaX
"You're right," I said 540Please respect copyright.PENANA4HPV22KYnK
as I stood up from the seat taking my purse. "I've to search for that 540Please respect copyright.PENANAxIpyEDYuDJ
teddy if I want to make it out alive tomorrow."540Please respect copyright.PENANAKycVStyfQn
"Wait, we can't leave all this here," said Christine, taking what was left of the teddy bear in her hands.540Please respect copyright.PENANATey6yw5SNG
We all walked out of the540Please respect copyright.PENANAhqJbxIqxSN
café, hopping no one had heard our conversation. There were a few 540Please respect copyright.PENANAktXWQh0Kte
people in the café and I highly doubt if they really heard anything.540Please respect copyright.PENANAPzmjaNGQya
While I was in the car 540Please respect copyright.PENANA813rZEPnur
with Seungri driving and the others in the other car behind us, I was so540Please respect copyright.PENANAqIffXz6PNt
troubled about the missing teddy. I couldn't help thinking that Collins540Please respect copyright.PENANARbRGjkOmqO
is involved. But that didn't make any sense. As much as I wanted to 540Please respect copyright.PENANAsT0pZ7aVRF
believe that Collins could have swapped the teddies, I shook my head at 540Please respect copyright.PENANAfco1OFYDnD
the thought of it. Maybe it really wasn't Collins.540Please respect copyright.PENANAYtRahbgwDc
If it isn't him, then 540Please respect copyright.PENANAfcP7lfvFIE
who? It couldn't be Lee because she had the teddy with her the whole 540Please respect copyright.PENANAXXPbEwM52F
time and she couldn't buy another teddy for no reason. And I couldn't 540Please respect copyright.PENANAqDbtR5lBjT
picture Sam doing anything like that either because I had never seen her540Please respect copyright.PENANABCwCkwctMP
near that teddy after Jehan sent it to us that day.540Please respect copyright.PENANAsZRKikhWMA
What if I had the wrong 540Please respect copyright.PENANAHoPLMsa1Kg
teddy the whole time and I had never known till now? All this was too 540Please respect copyright.PENANA9tvXrmIAQx
confusing. Who swapped the teddies? And when did the swapping ever take 540Please respect copyright.PENANACHwMAzToaU
place without any of us noticing in the first place?540Please respect copyright.PENANAwRMXWzsFR3
I hope I could be able 540Please respect copyright.PENANA0HmuMdxP1I
to find the teddy soon. Jehan might threaten to kill me, but I was 540Please respect copyright.PENANAevbKE8NGZo
pretty sure he would try to hurt the others too. And I wouldn't let that540Please respect copyright.PENANA1y1BvdxoOl
happen.