Chapter 1: Chapter I - Apology, Acceptance, Anonymous

Me and Soonyoung went back stage to greet Jun. He was being asked by some reporters, when he saw us, he pushed them aside and ran to me, he suddenly hugged me so tight the I was lifted up in the air. "Great job, Junnie!" I said when he let go, handing him the boquet that I bought earlier. "good thing you were able to come" he said in all smiles, "I thought you wouldn't know" he said again trying to resist hugging me again, since reporters were still around he gestured us to go to his dressing room for a private talk. "Soonie told me, I was suprised I thought you were overseas" I stated when finally entered his dressing room, Soonyoung became more lax and laid down the couch. Jun took my hand and guided me to seat on one of the bean couches, then he sat right in front of me. "Thanks bro!" he said then shortly glanced at Soonyoung, "hmm," Soonyoung just responded with a slight nod, and with that he covered his eyes and dozed off. While Jun and I shared stories that we have encountered for the past years "4 years have past," he stated, he was looking at me directly in the eyes, "yah!" I said, my mind was hazy thinking about the past 4 years, "you grew a lot" he said sarcastically, I slightly slapped him then laughed with him, "I know! I know, you giant!" I jokingly said to him, well he is really tall, I'm just a midget compared to him, and it is so unfair that he continues to grow taller, like every year, our laugh echoed on the dressing room, we heard Soonyoung grunted due to the noise. "Shh..." I said then puty index finger on my lips, "we have a lot of time to keep up," Jun said looking at the ceiling as if there was something that mesmerizes him there. "I'll be here for around 3 months." He continued then looked at me, "that's great! By the way did you know that Seokmin and Seungkwan is about to host a reality show?" I said, talking about our other friends, "really? that's great! And Minghao is about to fly back here next week!" he excitingly said, almost all of us are going to be in the same place, just like College days. I was spacing out a lot thinking about the past, when suddenly, a tear rolled in my eyes unexpectedly, Jun furrowed and wiped the tears that bursted out, "why?" he asked me, "I seriously don't know" I confusingly answered my eyes wont stop my heart was heavy, it was like about to burst out, something inside me hurts a lot, and I don't know what is hurting me. "There, there," he said patting my head, "such a cry baby" someone said upon the door opening, Jun & I looked at the door, even Soonyoung peeked through, there we saw our eldest friend I suddenly stood up and ran towards him, "Seungcheol!" I screeched then jumped at him, Luckily he caught me and hugged me back, "okay, okay!" he said a slight laugh left his mouth, "you big baby! I missed the recital but I still made it," he said still hugging me, then he glanced at both of the guys at. My back and just waved at them, I finally let him go, but tears still are welling up my eyes, "hey! Can I also have some of that hug?" Someone behind him suddenly said, a voice that was so distinc and angelic, "Jeonghan!" I screamed again, why do I keep on screaming today? I walked towards him and he engulfed me right away in his arms his right arm are on my head, I guess you can now say, yes I am short! Where are the other shortie friends when you need them? He was laughing? giggling? I don't know but it is like angels singing in my ears. "There, there that's too much hyung!" someone said then grabbed my arm and hugged me as well, I looked up but not much to look up to, I was hesitating to hug back since I am not sure who it was, 'Jihoon won't do this type of skinship' I thought to myself, when I saw the face of the person hugging I immediately wrapped my arms around that person "Dino-ah!" I, well you guessed it, screamed while I bury my face in his chest, not that tall but still taller than me. "Noona! I missed you so much!" He said hugging me tighter that I almost lost my breath. Someone grabbed my arm and Dino let me go, "you're hurting her already" a sudden cold voice of Soonyoung said, I was a bit shock but I did not let them notice it, Soonyoung let go of my arm, I just glanced at him and his smile was back. "We are almost complete, what do you guys say we hang?" Seungcheol said with all smiles, "well, I can call the others later" he again said "Who can you call exactly?" Jun asked, "well, I can call Seokmin and Seungkwan later" Soonyoung said, "I'll call Hansol and Jisoo" Jeonghan said, "who can call Mingyu & Minghao?" Dino asked, Jun raised his hands, "but Minghao is still overseas, I don't think he'll be here until next week" Jun then said after putting his arms down, "you sure about that?" A voice suddenly said from behind the door, we all looked at the door and saw Minghao standing there, wearing his cap down to his face, his long sleeves half tucked in half unruly, he took off his face mask and greeted us with a warm smile, I slowly walked towards him and greeted him with a huge hug, "Missed you too noona" he answered my gesture, "so it is just Wonwoo that we need to call," Seungcheol said and all of them glanced at me all in a different way, but all shows sadness, I all stared at them blankly, Soonyoung knows what happened earlier, "I-I can call him" I said trying to be confident, they all looked at me somewhat shocked, "I am the only one who has his new number anyways" I said again trying to avoid their judging looks. What is wrong with them, only Soonyoung does not react to what I said. Jeonghan suddenly coughed to break the silence, "so let's go?" He asked us, we just nodded in response, I took my bag and Soonyoung took his, Jun was packing his things. Jeonghan took my bag from me, "let me bring that for you princess" he said then smiled while brushing his long locks. 'Sweet as ever, ahh my beloved friends' I thought smiling to myself, "can't wait to see Seungkwan and Seokmin!" I suddenly said out loud, I secretly laughed with my foolishness, they just ignored me I seriously miss all of them, having 13 male friends is a handful, but a blessing as well, I feel super protected wherever, whenever I am. Hopefully I can see them always just like college days. I was super dozing off in the wilderness as we walk out the mini concert hall, I almost tripped down the stairs, but someone grabbed me preventing me from falling down, "focus on where you are walking Kidae" Jun said then, someone flicked my forehead, "what are you thinking?" Seungcheol said his hands on his waist leaning forward close to me, "we are really here, you are not dreaming" he again said then crossed his arms and stood straight, everyone of us laughed at his gesture, "Okay, ajushi, I know you really are here" I said then we laughed again, "noona, quick I'll give you a piggyback ride" Dino offered, he is now the one standing in front of me his back facing me waiting for my response, I quickly jumped at his back and he supported my legs with his arms, "wait! We forgot who will call Jihoon!" I suddenly shouted, they all looked at me then smiled, "look at your right," Soonyoung said pointing to a mini van, someone got out of that mini van, I can see the yellow corn hair, I jumped down from Dino, I can hear his slight sigh, "Jihoon!" I said waving my arms like they are about to break. "Kidae!" He shouted back at me and wave his hands as well, I unknowingly ran towards him and gave him a pinch on the cheek, he just smiled, his eyes missing with it, then he gave me a short hug, "let's go," he said and gestured me to seat inside the car, I seated to the passenger seat where the driver will be beside me, "who'll drive?" I asked when they all went in, "I will" the angelic voice of Jeonghan said then he sat on the drivers seat next to me, he put on his seatbelt first, "we all ready?" he asked us, we all shouted "yeah!", then he glanced at me. He suddenly moved closer to me, he removed his seatbelt, then move a lityle bit closer to me almost hugging me, he was trying to reach something besides me, "don't forget your seatbelt princess" he said as he finally grabbed the seatbelt besides me, his face was too close to mine that I almost buried my back on my seat just to avoid his breath, it was refreshing to smell, 'wait! no!' I shouted in my head, he locked my seatbelt and put on his again, then he started the engine, I can hear it whirl. "Where are we going again?" I asked when we were already out of the parking. "Oh yah, we forgot to tell you" Seungcheol said from the back, I looked at the rearview mirror to meet their gazes, "remember that I said that Seokmin and Seungkwan will host a reality show?" Jun said, not even bothering to look at the mirror, "we will be their first guests" he added, "ahh, I se- wait? what?!" I almost lept in my seat, this is surprising I don't have anything with me aside from my phone, wallet and a few skin essentials, my eyes was dramatically widened, "well, they talked to us, and," Jihoon said "And?!" I said almost frantically, "and we can't get a hold of you, and even Soonyoung can't even call you last week" Jihoon added, well, it is my fault I guess I was trying to write an article last week and I turned my phone to airplane mode and shut down my internet for one whole week just to finish it right away, I did not even bother even if my doorbell was ringin back then. "Oh," I said then sighed I thought hard on what to say next "I don't have any clothing with me, not even one underwear" I whispered to myself then sighed again, "we'll drop by a department store first" Jeonghan suddenly said, then glanced at me, I just looked at him and smiled, mouthing 'thank you' he just smiled and got his eyes back on the road. I looked at the rearview mirror again just to get a view of what the guys were doing, there I saw, Soonyoung on his phone I think someone already picked up since he was already talking distincly, then Dino was face timing Mingyu on his phone, Jeonghan passed his phone to Seungcheol, "call Hansol and Jisoo" he said not taking off his eyes on the road, we are already on the main road. I took my phone out amd hesitantly dialed Wonwoo's number, "Kidae!" an immediate answer after just 2 rings, "ahh, hello?" I hesitantly said "What is it?" he said, "Mingyu, stop using your phone, we still have customers," he suddenly shouted. "I'm on break, Minhyuk is on the counter" I heard Mingyu shouted back, I removed my phone from speaker phone as everyone started laughing, "can you do me a favor?" I finally said after taking long breath, "anything for you" he said, his low voice peircing my very eardrums, "we will be the first guest on Seokmin and Seungkwan Reality show, and we need all of us to be there" I stated like I am in a hurry to end the call, "I'll meet you at the airport," he calmly said then hung up, a let out a loud sigh and hid my phone in my bag. "Wow!" they all said in unison, I just chuckled at their reaction, "that was a fast yes from mister cold gaze" Minghao commented, I just laughed at his comment, "well, everyone will be at the airport at 3 PM sharp" Seungcheol said then placed Jeonghan's phone behind the hand break. We dropped by a small department store to get me few clothes, luggage bag, underwear, and toothbrush. Just the essentials, not much needed anyway. "Okay we are all set, let's get to the airport it's almost 2:30 PM" Jeonghan said as he buckled my seatbelt again then his. Then we were on our way to the airport. There was a sudden traffic on the highway going to the airport, we can't even detour, Jihoon called the others that we will be slightly late due to the traffic, the traffic was taking longer than expected, we were stuck on the same place for more than 15 minutes, Jeonghan placed a flashdrive on the cars audio station, then we were jamming to their groups songs, my eyelids suddenly felt heavy since we were not moving Then '바람개비' played my eyes slowly closed, then I fell on a deep sleep.