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Chap-18

I smiled as i looked outside the window of my hotel room. Three months passed away so quickly that i didn't notice. France, Netherlands, Canada, USA, Brazil and Japan, we have done and dusted the concerts there. It was a hell of fun. After the concerts, we all used to hang out and created good memories together. Seo-joon and my bond was stronger than before. He took me out on dates after the concert and spend the nights with me. Sirius members were getting tired but they held high spirits and continue to perform incredibly.

We landed in London today. Here there are three concerts and then one back at Korea and then we are done with the Tour. Sirius members went to the stadium for practice, i was not needed there so i stayed in with Bong Cha and Nicole.

"Here's your coffee. Now tell us what you wanted to tell." Bong Cha said, putting the hot coffee cup on the floor.

We were sitting on the carpeted floor, near the large room windows as we looked outside enjoying the view.

"Well, during Japan tour....

I was talking to my helper when Doctor Min-jun message pop up on my phone.

Excusing myself. I pull out my phone and read his message.

Meet me near entrance. Important.

I frowned and looked around to find him but he was in no where in sight.

"Call me, if anything happens." I told my helpers and pocketing my phone i walked through the people to reach the entrance of back stage.

Sirius were performing on the stage and they seemed to be doing fine today. The fans were cheering and shouting. I walked to my right and bumped into Hae-won. She flipped her hair and rolled her eyes as she passed me. I scoffed and shoke my head. Not minding her, i continue to search him.

Where the hell is he?. I thought.

Then i heard loud shouts.

"Doctor Eun Aee! Eun Aee!" I blinked and turned back to see, a helper running towards me.

"Doctor it's emergency, why aren't you picking my call!" He said as he grabbed my hand and made me run along with him.

My heart was beating so fast, i ran and saw a people gathering around a person.

They parted as i made my way through them. I saw Tae-ri breathing heavily and blood around him.

"We need to transfer him into the room. I have to stitch the wound." Doctor Min-jun said, who sat beside Tae-ri telling Luca.

Luca nodded his head and helpers picked Tae-ri up and took him into a room.

"Where were you?" Luca asked, who looked pissed off.

"I-uh"

"Eun Aee. I know you are friends with people here but that doesn't mean you neglect your duties and wander off! What if something bad happened and you were no where to be found. Thank goodness, Doctor Min-jun was here." He yelled at me.

I gulped and lowered my head, and nodded.

He was absolutely right. I should have been here. And he had every right to be angry with me. I was not doing my duty rightfully.

"I am sorry. I assure you, this won't happen again.." I told him, bowed my head.

He nodded his head and left.

I turned around to walk into the room where they took Tae-ri. But saw Hae-won on my way who was smiling as she played with her hair strand. Rolling my eyes, i walked inside.

"Let me see." I told the doctor pushing him away.

It was his fault too. If he wanted to talk, he should have come to me.

Wearing gloves, i inspected the wound. It was a small gash on his ankle.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"There was a protruding metal piece on stage. As i was dancing, my foot hit it and this happened." Tae-ri told me.

It must be painful, looking at the wound. He winced as i inspected it.

"Doctor please go and look after others. I will look after him." I told him and he left without any complaint.

After stitching his wound up and reporting CEO Bang about his state. I walked outside.

"How is he doing?" Sirius members all asked me.

They came down as soon as the concert finished.

"He is fine. But he can't dance for a while. Otherwise his wound will split open again and it can damage to the tendon." I told them.

They sighed and walked in. I sat outside and drink water to moisten my dry throat. Doctor Min-jun who was talking to Hae-won, saw me sitting so he walked towards me.

Since when he and Hae-won became buddies?. I thought.

"I was waiting for you. You didn't come." He said as he sat beside me.

"I came and searched for a while but you weren't there." I told him.

"I am sorry. May be i didn't see you as there were many people." He said, bowing his head.

"Thank you looking after Tae-ri ." I told him, rolling my eyes

Seeing Tae-ri in that state made me hate myself for not being present there for him.

"No problem. It's my duty to look after my patients." He said, with a smug look.

I frowned and looked down.

Confused by his behavior.

"Well. I need to go." He said and left

I just sat there and look to where he left.

Thats what happened." I told them and rest my back against the window.

"Oh. Thats bad." Bong cha said, sitting with a sullen expression. She used to have a crush on Doctor before but not now.

"Why i feel like it's his doing." Nicole said, looking outside with a frown on her face.

"What?" I asked her, confused.

"Like he messaged you to come but he wasn't here and then he was present at the back stage. Don't you feel something fishy." She said, biting her lip, deep in thought.

"No no. It's not like that. I guess we are looking too much into this." I said,not believing her.

Doctor and i became friends on the tour, he was a pretty decent man. But as she said, i sometimes couldn't shake off the bad vibes. Not thinking into it, so i just let it go. Seo-joon felt a bit jealous but never said anything. I assured him not to get worried or jealous as i have feelings for him only. Even Baek kyung told me that he didn't like how the doctor gets free with me. I never got the time to think too deep into it and always let it go.

After eating our food, we went to get ready. As i was applying a lipstick, i opened my gallery folder and found Seo-joon and mine photos. In one picture we were wearing matching shirts, laughing while standing in the middle of the road. I remember Baek kyung took that candid picture of us. The other was a selfie of ours in my bedroom back in Korea. There were quite a several pictures of us together.

Bong Chas message appeared to come down as van was here, pocketing my phone, i went down to get in the van.

Reaching the stadium, i greeted the staff members as i passed by them. I went to the medical room to check up the things.

"Maam, where should i put these." My helper asked as he came inside the room.

He was carrying a box of mini Oxygen cylinders.

"Please put them along with that. We need to take of all this when the concerts starts. Okay." I told them,

A while later, Doctor joined me who was smiling extra today.

"Did something happened?. You are way too smiley today, like its not a bad thing but." I asked him, looking at him as he took a sit on a chair while going through the things.

He laughed and looked up at me.

"Nothing. I will get what I want today." He said with a smug look on his face.

"What?" I asked him, giving my full attention to him. I crossed my arms over my chest as i stared at him with confusion.

"You will see by yourself." He said, winking, standing up from the chair.

I only blinked and nodded slowly. He behaved really weird sometimes.

He walked out of the room, shrugging my shoulders, i went back to work.

I and Doctor Min-jun were at the back stage, looking after things. Sirius members were doing splendid as they usually do. Everything went smoothly, i smiled in relieve as nothing bad happened today.

Me and my helpers were packing our unimportant things. When i got a message from doctor Min-jun saying he needed to show me something. I asked him what about but he insisted that i should come to a room that he mentioned.

Sighing, i went on as Sirius were done with their performances. They were just saying good bye to their fans.

Leaving the things, i went to the room he mentioned to room. The room had windows and i could see him waiting for me inside.

I knocked the door and it was pulled open by him.

"Yes yes. Come in." He said, closing the door behind me.

"So what were yo-" i was brutally cut off as he grabbed my hand and pushed me against the wall.

My whole body got stiff, my brain was trying to process what was happening.

"What are you doing?" I asked him, looking up into his eyes.

"You didn't see, i like you alot." He said, putting his hand on my waist, getting closer.

I struggled against his grip.

"Doctor please move aside." I said sternly, glaring into his eyes.

He started to laugh,

"I can't." He whispered as he got closer to me, our bodies were touching as i tried to get free from his hold.

Then he hold my hair, i winced in pain.

If i shout, no one will hear me as it was really noisy.

I tried hitting him with my knee but he expected I would do that he blocked it and smirked.

"You are a jerk. Let-" he cut me off by putting his lips on mine.

I felt my heart drop and my body stilled. Coming back to senses, adrenaline rushing into my blood, i pushed him with all my might. He stumbled back and then i saw my worst night mare. Seo joon and Baek kyung stood outside looking at me through the window with shock and hurt evident on their faces. The door opened and Luca entered, eyeing me and him up and down. Luca looked at me with surprise.

"What the hell is going on here? Eun Aee are you okay?" Luca asked coming inside. Seo-joon and Baek kyungalso came to stand in the door.

"Nothing. I am fine." I said, wiping my mouth with my sleeve. Throwing one glance at Min-jun. Luca walked towards me and looked at my face, inspecting for any kind of injury.

That bastard.

"Leave. I will deal with you later." Luca said, turning back to Min-jun with a glare. Baek kyung was holding Seo-joon who was trying to get free from his hold and probably to hit Min-jun.

I guess Luca knew what happened here.

"Don't worry, i saw everything. It's not your fault. Freshen up and come to the conference room. CEO Bang has summoned all of us." Luca said, patting my on my back.

I felt like burden has lifted of my shoulder as he said.

I nodded my head as he left the room. Seo-joon and Baek kyung came rushing towards me as they saw tears falling down my eyes.

"Hey hey." Seo-joon engulfed me into his arms.

"I didn't do anything. He was forcing himself on me. He kissed me." I said,

"Shh.." he said as he patted my hair.

"He didn't hurt you?" Baek kyung asked.

I pulled back and wiped my face with my hands. Looked up at them, i shoke my head.

"We will talk about this later and i will make sure he doesnt come near you after that." Seo-joon said,

"I will punch his face, when i see him." Baek kyung said, with narrowed eyes.

I chuckled at him

"Please don't. We will handle it later." I said, patting his arm.

He scoffed but nodded his head. They left as i went to wash my face. I met Nicole and Bong Cha on my way and i told them what happened.

Nicole called Min-jun every bad word she knew on her list which made me laugh.

They took me the conference room where everyone was present. Without looking at anyone, i took a seat beside Bong Cha.

"Doctor Eun Aee. I need you to speak the truth." CEO Bang said with expressionless look.

I blinked my eyes, trying to process what was going on.

There was a projector, which was switched on. And a picture was displayed on it.

It was mine and Seo-joon;s photo and above was written 'dating'.

Shocked, i looked towards Seo-joon who had a disbelieve look on his face. Feeling my eyes on him, he looked up at me. He was trying to read something in my eyes but then he lowered his head and put it in his hands.

"And this is all the fans tweets and reactions towards it." He said, with a sigh.

I looked towards the projector which showed fans angry tweets and reactions to this photo. Which was labeled as 'Couple'.

"I hate you Seo-joon! You have a girlfriend while you say you love us!"

I read one tweet.

My heart broke as i looked as many hate tweets and reactions came up.

"Why did you leak it? I made myself cleared that day that you should not leak the pictures why you did this!? Do you know how big of an issue this is? This may effect their popularity!" He raised his voice little, trying to control his anger.

Bong Cha who was sitting next to me jumped in shock as he shouted in anger.

"I don't know, sir. I didn't upload any of the pictures. I don't know who did." I said, my voice thick with emotions.

"Then do you have any idea who did this?" He said, with a softer tone.

"I don't know!" I said, bewildered.

He sighed and looked at Seo-joon. Who was looking at me with hurt in his eyes.

"Please, tell the truth. It's okay if you did." He said, his voice wavered.

"I didn't Seo-joon. Why would i do that?" I begged him, feeling my heart break into pieces at his words.

But he shoke his head and the rest looked at me with unbelievable looks.

"You know very well only we have this picture. No one else. I didn't upload any picture. You are saying you didn't. Then who did!?" He asked, tensed with all the situation going on.

"I don't know." I said, looking down at my shoes.

What was happening?.

"You remember what you asked me about our relationship going public?" He asked,

Flashback....

One day, i asked Seo-joon as we were laying on my bed.

"Seo-joon, what happens if i upload a picture of us? How will fans react?" I asked

"Well, I don't know. It's a very sensitive topic. Don't ever think of uploading, it will cause big problems and we both are not ready for that." He said with a serious look.

"Hey, i was kidding. Of course i won't. Don't worry." I said and hugged him close.

..........

My eyes open wide as i looked up at him.

He believes i did it on purpose.

"Okay, then what is this? Is this a lie too?" Min-jun said as he walked towards Luca with his mobile in his hands.

He showed something to Luca and CEO Bang who looked at me with disbelieving looks. I frowned at them.

"Eun Aee what is all this?" Luca asked me, with bewildered look.

He came towards me with Min-juns mobile in his hand and passed me, where there was a message send my me.

It read:

"I will upload the picture and that's how i will end things. His image will be destroyed, well i don't care. He wants to hide us so i will show him what i can do."

It was send from me?. ME!?

I read it carefully and found it was a scheduled text.

"I never send it. It is a scheduled text!" I said, looking up at them.

Luca sighed and shake his head.

CEO Bang got angry and came towards me. I stood up as he came near me.

" You destroyed their careers! You didn't even think of them for once? I don't want you near my team any more! Show me your phone! " He yelled as he grabbed my phone without my permission.

I shoke my head and i felt like ground was pulled beneath me. He swiped open my phone as i had made no lock. He went into my gallery and deleted all my and Seo-joon's pictures. I stumbled from the shock. Tears were falling down as i shoke my head.

"But i dont believe it's her. We have lived with her but all this.. I think we should think and ask around." Baek kyung said and Tae oppa joined him in agreeing.

"Everyone leave the room immediately! Luca you stay back." CEO Bang said with his voice loud.

I looked at Ho oppa, who looked disappointed and walked away. Tae-ri and Joo-ho left after throwing worried glances at me. Tae Oppa looked at me and gave me a small smile trying to make me relax. Then he left. Nam-joo ran his hand in his hair, he looked so confused. He looked at me and then down like he was thinking. But then he left shaking his head.

"Everything will be fine. Don't worry. Okay." Baek kyung said.

I almost burst into sobs. He was the only person who had full trust in me.

He sighed and left the room.

"Please let me talk to him." I asked CEO Bang, who shoke his head, he was angry.

I looked back at Seo-joon who had a torn look on his face.

I tried telling him from my eyes to believe me. But he was being dragged by Luca and he got out of the room.

Luca came back and stood beside CEO Bang.

"I told you, who breaks the rule is treated harshly from me. Luca, finish the contract with her and pay her as we discussed. And book a flight for Korea today for her. Never try to contact us, you hear that. If i hear you spreading any news or inside thing, i will make sure you pay for it. Now leave!" He said, throwing my phone on the sofa.

"Please believe me!" I said, my voice thick as tears fall down.

"Please leave." CEO Bang said, leaving the room.

I wiped my tears off and looked at them. They didn't believe and wasn't ready to hear me out.

"You all are going to regret this. One day, when truth unfolds, you will regret doing this to me!" I shouted with anger to the CEO Bang who was about to get out of the room. I was sure everyone present outside heard me but i don't care .

He shake their heads not believing me and left. Luca said nothing and left, me there alone. Nicole and Bong Cha entered shortly after and they both hugged me. They asked me what CEO Bang said and when i told them about what he said. They look heart broken.

"We believe you, Eun Aee. We know you can't do this." They both kept telling me that but it can't heal my shattered heart.

They helped me with my things in the back stage when Luca came.

"Here. Your contract and money. You flight is 6am in the morning, a car will be there to drop you." He said, putting the things on the table and turned to left.

"Luca you too. You are my friend, you really think i can do this." I tried one more time.

I knew it won't change anything but i wanted to tell them i was right.

He sighed and left while shaking his head.

I kept silent as Bong Cha and Nicole tried talking to me on the way back to the hotel.

The scenes kept on repeating in my mind like a recurring disease.

I sighed and bit my lip stopping it from trembling.

If he really liked me or trusted me then he should have at least listen to me.

The next hours passed in a blur. All my bags were packed with the help of Bong Cha and Nicole.

"Let's go out and eat together." Bong Cha suggested.

I nodded my head knowing that this will be the last hangout of ours.

We went to a restaurant by walk which a mile way from our hotel. They tried to cheer me up, telling me it's going to be fine.

"We believe you, Eun Aee. He just saw those things and believed that it really happened. But i don't know how the picture leaked." She asked, probably thinking.

"I think it's all doctor Min-juns doing, the messages, the sudden calls for you. I told you i feel something fishy about him." Nicole said, putting her drink down.

"I don't know. Please can we stop talking about this." I said, looking down my drink.

"Okay don't worry." They said as they both gave me a hug.

After we did our dinner we went back, talked for a while which mostly consisted of consoling me and then fall asleep. I couldn't sleep through the whole night, tossing here and there and felt suffocated in the room. I turned to my left and picked up my phone from the night stand and checked the time. It was 4:30 am. I had to leave at 5:30 am, so i got dressed up and packed my other things which were left.

Leaving a message on both of their phones, i left the room. They slept in my room for giving me comfort, i was really grateful for their presence.

Walking outside the hotel, i stopped and looked up at the sky. It was still dark but sun was starting to come out of it's hiding. Putting my hands in my pocket i went for a stroll in the streets of London.

I felt my phone buzz, taking it out of my jacket i read the message from Nicole.

"Okay. Stay safe. Come back before 5:15. Okay." Heart emoji in the end.

I send her reply telling her i am on my way. Standing up from the bench on which i have been sitting on, thinking about my whole life. The things happened before, the hurt breaks, loneliness and now when i going somewhere this happened. What hurt me the most was that Seo-joon didn stood up for me for once. This is what you call love?

I reached the hotel and get in the elevator. Walking out of the elevator i stopped as i found them standing in front of me. It was Seo-joon, Baek kyung and Tae-ri.

I averted my eyes and as they stooped and looked at me, coming out of the elevator. I walked by them not throwing second glances. I walked towards my room as a new emotion was trilling inside of me.

It was of anger and hurt.

Hurt because he refused to listen to me and believed the wrong thing.

Anger because of all what happened.

Nicole and Bong-cha helped me with the bags and we went down.

"Please take care of yourself. Try to forget about what happened. I will miss you so much, i will find a way to talk to you okay." Bong cha said and whispered the last part into my ears.

They were not allowed to talk to me after today.

I laughed through my tears and nodded my head.

"Girl, if i heard you have been crying all day, i will come and kick your ass." Nicole said teasingly. I nodded my with a smile.

"I know it will be hard but you are strong. I know you can do it. Gonna miss you girl." She said and engulfed me into a hug.

I hugged them both and told them i was grateful to meet them and thankful that they believed me and supported me.

Nicole said Seo-joon is going to regret ever letting me go.

I just shoke my head and waved them bye as my bags were being put in the car. I found Seo-joon and Baek kyung at the entrance of hotel, watching me silently. I threw one glance at their way and then one last time at Seo-joon.

His black eyes staring at mine. I always have been a open book, people could easily read me and i wish he could read my emotions right now.

I wished you believed me, Seo-joon Just one time.

Sighing, i broke the eye contact and went to sit in the car.

I waved bye to my girls as they both had tears in their eyes. We three used to be joined by hip all the time, we grew close like sisters. It was hard for them as it was for me to let go so suddenly.

Resting my back, i closed my eyes as the car started to drive.

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