This chapter is dedicated to @Galaxia_Queen for being an awesome friend and reader, showing love for my fic ♥, and for being an awesome author who made me laugh.

Enjoy xx

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She woke up with a grunt as something cold and wet touched her cheek. She peeked on one eye and saw Minki sniffing her face. She turned to the other side exposing her left ear, resulting it being licked. She giggled. Her fingers automatically flew to touch her forehead.

She opened her eyes and smiled, just to frown a second later. She was smiling, and she didn't know why, she just did.

"Why do I feel giddy. I never feel excited about that wake-up-to-a-new-beginning thingy." She mumbled to herself.

Another lick at the face was all it need to stir her back from her thoughts.

"Okay Minki. I'm up, I'm up. We need to brush your teeth later, Minki. You smell like bad oysters."

She pushed Minki from her face and put him beside her. She reached out and took her phone. She yawned as she scrolled through her inbox, replying a few messages from Jihyun. She stopped to see the time before placing the phone back to the side table. 7:15am.

Sitting up, she stretched her back. Suddenly a pain jolted at her side, making her body hunched forward. She slowly straighten her back, gasping on the pain. She lifted her shirt up and inspected the birth mark on her left side of tummy.

The crescent shaped mark was there all her life, and it looked swollen. She sighed. Every time she ran through the forest where she die, the mark would swell the next morning.

'It doesn't hurt when I ran after Minki yesterday though.' She thought.

She touched the mark and winced a little. Yep, its definitely swollen.

'This is getting out of hand.' She sighed.

A little bark made her snapped her thoughts back to the present. She smiled. "Oh, does my little Minky hungry?"

She put down her shirt, covering her stomach as she walked to the kitchen.

Minki wagged his tail and trailed after Hyuna. He waited near his bowl as Hyuna reached to the cabinet to grab his food, and when his bowl was filled, he dunked his head and ate.

"Sorry, Minki, that's all I could give. You have to wait until I get home from work and go for some groceries shopping."

She poured some water onto Minki's water bowl and went back to her bedroom to get showered and dressed for work.

Her work attire was simple, a dark maroon shirt and a dark blue pair of jeans.

She pinned her name tag on top of her left side shirt. It said 'Welcome to March Rabbit.' on top of it in bold letters and then 'my name is Hyuna' under it in an italic font. The name tag was black while the fonts were maroon.

She wore her long black hair in a high ponytail, grabbed her bag and keys and prepared to head out.

Minki looked up from his bowl and ran to Hyuna when she clicked her tongue.

"Minki, please be a good boy. I'll be missing you baby." She hugged her dog and ruffled his fur before slipping into her pair of worn sneakers and headed out.

The elevator stopped at her floor and she walked in. The young mother inside the elevator smiled.

"Ohayo." She greeted. "Ohayo Yuki-chan."

The girl nodded and hid behind her mother's hips. Her mother smiled apologetically.

"She has stomachache since yesterday morning. We're going to the doctor. She doesn't like it, and act really stubborn about it." She explained.

Hyuna nodded. "Eonni had tummy ache too, and it's really hurt. But after eonni meet the doctor it disappeared."

"Really?" Yuki peeked from behind her mother.

Hyuna nodded again. "Yep, and she gave me candy too! Maybe she'll give you candy, but first you have to be a good girl." She smiled.

The little girl tugged on her mother's sleeve. "Is it true, Okasan? Will the doctor give me candy?"

"Yes, honey. But you must be a good girl." Her mother answered and Yuki's eyes lit up.

She turned to Hyuna.

"Thank you." She mouthed.

"No problem." Hyuna answered. "Oh, by any chance Mika-san, did you see anyone suspicious anywhere in this building grounds yesterday?"

Mika shook her head, making her short hair swirled around her round face. "No, not that I remember. Why?"

"I heard someone paced back and forth at our corridor and at some point he stopped in front of my door. I got really scared."

Mika's eyes widened. "A man?"

Hyuna nodded. "A man. Because when I peeked out I smelled man's cologne."

Mika gasped and touched Hyuna's shoulder. "You have to be really careful, Hyuna. You're living alone. I'll have a word with the guards later."

"Thank you, Mika-san."

The elevator stopped and the doors opened to the lobby. Three of them walked out, said goodbyes and parted ways.

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The café was really loud by the time she arrived there. She looked at her phone. 8.30am. The café won't be opened until 9.

"Good morning. What's with the happiness?" She said, making her way to the counter. Before she could make another step, she felt someone grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the counter.

"Wha-" she turned around and saw she was being dragged to a corner table by Gayoon.

"Yah, eonni, what the heck?"

They arrived at the table where all of the three other staff stood crowding Sohyun who sat with her laptop on the table in front of her.

"....they were rumored to arrive at Korea last night from LA." The man from the news said. The sentence got the girls' squeals and giggles.

"Oh my gosh! They're finally back!" Jiyoon squealed, clapping her hands. Gayoon stood with a dreamy look on her face.

Hyuna crossed her hands over her chest. "Mind telling me why I'm towed here just to see a bunch of my workmate and that includes my Boss, drooling over Sohyun's laptop?"

Jihyun blushed while Sohyun laughed.

"Hyuna, the guys were finally back from their world tour." Sohyun said, eyes glued back to her laptop screen.

"What guys?"

"Big Bang." replied Gayoon, who was back from who-knows-what daydreams.

"Who-"

All head snapped to her.

"What do you mean 'who'?" Gayoon asked, her eyes narrowed at Hyuna.

"Um, I mean, who?" Hyuna squeaked.

Before she knew it, the Gayoon pulled her and sat her beside Sohyun who typed furiously on the keyboard and turned the laptop to Hyuna.

In front of her was a picture of a group, Big Bang, as the words on top said. There were five of them. Four of them stood looking at the camera while one of the guys stood with his back at the camera, with only half of his face can be seen. All of them looked kind of familiar.

'I must've seen them in the posters or somewhere.' She thought.

The other guys were handsome, all dressed in black and white, but the guy with his back on the camera caught her eyes. Her heart fluttered and she bit her lower lip.

"Well?" Jiyoon asked. Hyuna tore her gaze from the guy and turned to her friends who's eyes were on her.

"Um.." She looked at the picture again and pointed at a random member.

"Who is this?" She pointed at the guy in the middle. He was wearing a big-framed glasses.

Gayoon clapped her hands excitedly. "That is TOP oppa. He's gorgeous, isn't he?" She answered with a sigh. She suddenly stiffened and shot a look at Hyuna. "Don't you dare like him. He's mine."

Hyuna laughed. "Oh eonni, I'm not interested in.." She looked back at the picture and locked her eyes at the guy who's back on the camera.

"..him." She quietly added.

She slowly ran her finger to the guy. "Who's this?"

Jiyoon who was standing beside quiet Jihyun suddenly spoke. "That's Taeyang. I love him, you do too, right Jihyun?" Jihyun nodded shyly.

"Taeyang is really mysterious. He doesn't go out much. Really opposite of Seungri. But Seungri's really hot."

"Which is Seungri?" Hyuna asked and scrunched her nose at the guy Jiyoon pointed.

"He's young." was all Hyuna said. He indeed look young. Though all of the other guy looked young too, this one was exceptionally younger.

That's the thing about Hyuna. She dislikes younger guys, they're immature.

A smack on her head made her grunt. "Ow, eonni! What is that for?"

Jiyoon glared at her. "That young man is 'oppa' for you."

"And before you ask, this is GD, he's mine so don't ever think about it." Sohyun chirped in, pointing at a guy who was standing at the very left, wearing white shirt and black leather jacket.

Hyuna rolled her eyes and stopped to look at the guy who was standing between Taeyang and TOP. She squinted her eyes and even blinked several times to make sure she was seeing it right.

And damn, did she.

"Daesung?"

She heard gasps from her colleague followed by another smack on the head.

"Yaaaah, eonni! Stop hiting me for heaven's sake!"

"How come you know Daesung and not the other members?" Jiyoon exclaimed.

Would she tell them that it was the same guy she met in front of her place last night? Hell, no.

'They will interrogate me like I am some kind of serial killer.' Hyuna thought, sending some shiver down her spine.

'And its not like I meet him on purpose. We're simply in each other's way.'

"Whatever, can I get my breakfast now eonni? I'm hungry." Hyuna whined at Jihyun making Jihyun laugh.

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"Eat fast, but don't choke on your food. We're going to open now." Jihyun smiled as she poured juice to a glass.

The café offered breakfast and lunch (and even dinner for some occasions) for the staffs. Its part of the many things Hyuna liked about the café.

Hyuna bobbed her head while chewing half of the sandwich in her mouth. Jihyun turned to look at Hyuna.

"Oh Hyuna, when will you learn to eat like a lady." Jihyun chuckled, handing Hyuna the glass.

Hyuna took the glass and drank deeply.

"Ahh," she sighed before stuffing the remaining of sandwich in her mouth.

Jihyun laughed again, while the chef, Sohyun snorted at her. Sohyun was the youngest among them but she cook like a pro.

"I'll be at the front." Jihyun said and left the kitchen, leaving Hyuna to finish chewing her last chunk of food like a cookie monster.

"We are open!" Yelled a voice- probably Jiyoon's making Hyuna choked on her sandwich.

Her eyes watered and she thumped on her chest while Sohyun laughed.

"Gwaenchana, eonni? Here drink your juice." Sohyun filled the glass and handed it to Hyuna.

Hyuna quickly downed the glass of juice while Sohyun held her stomach, laughing.

"Yah, its not funny!" Hyuna said between coughs.

"Eonni, you should really start to eat slowly. Your eyes are all red." Sohyun chuckled, shaking her head and went to continue her work.

Hyuna grunted and rinsed her glass before hurrying to work.

8 hours later, she left the cafe and headed straight to the market.

On her way, she texted with Jihyun who demanded her go straight to home after the grocery store. She chuckled at Jihyun's protectiveness. Her heart warmed.

She never felt wanted after that deadly night that took her parent's life. But being with Jihyun, it made her felt like she finally met her long lost sister. That's the only thing she love about her life now. Well, including her other three crazy friends a.k.a workmates.

She was about to reply another text that came from Jihyun when a very loud mob came her way.

She was flattened against a building wall in no time when a bunch of girls screaming and yelling with their colourful banners walk (or ran) past her. They were crowding in front of a big white building she had just passed.

"What the.." She was cut short when someone ran past her and knocked her phone from her hands.

She crouched down and retrieved her phone. It had a big crack at the side of the screen where it first met the hard ground.

"Ah, my phone!" She turned angrily to the girl who did it. The girl was wearing a school uniform, no doubt younger than her. But instead of apologizing, the girl just shrugged and went straight to her friends to join the crowds.

Hyuna was beyond angry.

"Yah." She walked briskly to the girl with the phone in her hand.

"Hey." She tapped on the girl's shoulder, and when she was being ignored, she pulled the girl's elbow.

"Excuse me, but you broke my phone." Hyuna said between gritted teeth. She had just bought the phone a few months ago, and now it's damaged.

The girl raised her eyebrows as her friends turned to see what was happening.

"Well, its not my fault when you're standing on the way. You should try standing at the sides next time. It's safer." She said with a shrug.

Hyuna's mouth dropped. When did human start giving births to bitches?

"You're rude, you know that? Is it hard to apologize?"

"Why should I?"

A few of her friends snickered at the come back.

"I'm older than you. Don't you think you should at least respect me? Did your parents teach you how to respect people?"

A few person were now aware of the little commotion and stared at them, whispering with each others.

The girl went red at the face. She pushed Hyuna by the shoulder. "Do not include my parents."

A black van stopped in front of the building's entrance and it got the crowds attention. Well half of them.

"It's a wonder though. How did they raise their child." Hyuna glared at the girl. The girl rolled her eyes and crossed her arms on her chest.

Some of the other audiences finally thought the word-fight between two girls aren't worth their time and switched their interests to the black van.

"My parents raise me just fine, I think its none of your concern." The girl smirked.

Hyuna know she should snap back at the rude girl in front of her but she started to feel uneasy. Her heart beatings rapidly grew and she start hearing things.

"He's here." Someone whispered.

Hyuna turned around to see if there was anyone, but everyone seemed to focus at the van, well except for the girls who were still looking at her like they were afraid she would stab them at the back if they turn to join the others in worshipping the van.

"He's here." She turned the other way. "He's coming."

"Go, run! Before its too late." Hyuna panted.

Her eyebrows were drawn together in confusion and everything came to her.

The uneasiness, the voices, the blurriness, the pains.

The death.

As the last thing touched her mind, a familiar feeling jabbed at the back of her skull sending a vague numbness through her body.

"No." She whispered.

Suddenly the world was spinning and she swayed a bit.

The guys stepped out one by one from the van. The crowds started cheering louder but the girl and some of her friends were still looking at her like she was some kind of walking dead meat.

In their face now was a look of alarm, like she would claw at their face in any second. They stepped away.

"He's coming."

"He's here."

"You have to hide."

"He's coming for you."

The whisperings came to her abruptly. She whirled around 360 degrees and cupped her ears to mute the sounds but it was no use.

She was scared. The voices only exist in her dreams. Not more.

"This is not real. This can't be real.. Please." Her voice felt little.

"Hyung.." She heard a muffled voice said amongst the deafening voices of fans screaming and the whisperings.

How she could hear the particular voice belonged to an idol, she didn't know. And the fact scares her even more.

Some of the guys were looking at her now. She remembered them from the picture Sohyun showed to her that morning and she even spotted Daesung standing between his friends. His blue eyes gleamed as they sparkled something..

Concern?

One of the guy was saying something but she can hear nothing apart from the muffled sounds that seemed to break the words they said.

"She...fighting.....girl....." The guy who she remembered as Seungri said, pointing at her while looking at his friends. Daesung tore his gaze from Hyuna and looked over his shoulder to the insides of the van.

"He's coming!"

"You have to run!"

"Hide!"

The whisperings turned to urgent yells. She slammed her palms to her ears a few times until she was sure her ears turned bright red by now, but the voices were still there, and tears started to appear.

She felt the oxygen was being drained from her body and she gasped desperately for air. She felt her throat burned. She grasped at her collar.

Next everything went impossibly quiet.

So quiet that you could drop a pin and hear it echo.

She could only hear the sound of her beating heart and the sound of her desperate attempts to breathe, as her head started to hurt more, if it even possible.

The guys were still talking and pointing at her and the crowds were still cheering but she couldn't hear anything. Her eyes fixed on the black door of the van.

A guy stepped out, and their gazes met. It was the guy with his back on the camera.

Taeyang.

For a moment, in which their eyes locked, she felt the light dimmed and everything focused on him. His dirty blonde hair and green eyes. His perfectly sculptured cheekbones and jaw.

Her heart beat like crazy and she felt her knees weakened, as well as the other limbs in her body. She was near to the phase where she would faint, but she forced herself to stay conscious.

Taeyang's eyes widened and a voice found its way to her ear.

"Run."

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a/n

3,010 words everyone! Woohoooo~ and its not even including the top short a/n and this a/n.

I know its not a big number for all the awesome authors out there, but for me it is. Because I usually stop at 2,000 so this kind of break my record ;)

But anyway..

SORRY FOR THIS CRAPPY UPDATE!

I am really struggling on my daily lives and I just can't find enough time for this (though I wrote more than I used to) but trust me on this: I really did my best for this.

Although it didn't turn out good or maybe didn't match your expectations :(

It may have some typos in it. Please do not hesitate to tell me. I've been writing my stories on my phone since my house was robbed and believe me, though I can write anywhere with my phone, I can't wait till I get a new laptop. Writing on little screen hurt my eyes =_= I wanted to update later until I finally get a new laptop but I can't let you all wait that long right? And I don't intend for you to wait long too. So here's nothing :)

(Just a question.. is everyone or- am I the only one who act like Hyuna's workmates towards any fangirling stuff? HAHA ;D)

But amidst all this, I want to express my greatest gratitude to @swiftlyfree (for being a loyal reader/commenter/voter) and @Galaxia_Queen (for adding my book to three of her reading list and one to KpopFanFicRec reading list!) Its really an honour to have these two people here with me to support me and stuff *hugs both of you*

Thanks so much :)

And of course, thank YOU for reading this ;)

~"People come and go, but the loyal ones leave footprints in your heart." -anonymous

Sincerely,
Charlotte xx

Oh! For a quick glossary:

Ohayo- Good Morning (this is Japanese)

Okasan- Mom (this is Japanese)

Eonni- Sister (if the first person is a girl)

Oppa- Brother (also a nickname called by a girl to her boyfriend- if the first person is a girl)

Gwaenchana- Are you okay?

P/s I also slipped in some Japanese language in here. Mika and Yuki (is a Japanese, obviously) is both an important character. You may want to keep them at the back of your mind for some reference later.

(updated 04.05.15)