Paper Hearts | Begin

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Sana

"You've been waiting here for hours and even went to an early flight just to meet him in time for your birthday to the point that we celebrated in a plane. We should head back to the dorm." Jihyo said as she looked outside the quite streets of Seoul.

After our schedule in Japan, I desperately pursued Tzuyu and the other members to pull some strings so we could immediately go back to South Korea. No one knew that we arrived earlier than expected.

Me and the members were supposed to celebrate my birthday in the hotel but we celebrated instead in the plane on the way back. It was because I feel so guilty about not telling Kook about the change of schedules.

He was really excited with the thought of celebrating my birthday together but ended up canceled because I was in Japan. He must have feel disappointed upon knowing that we ended up not showing personally in the year end show.

I also was not able to send him a message earlier because our schedule was hectic to the point were we were not able to take a long sleep. We were informed of the sudden changes in our schedule in such short notice.

So everything was pushed to an earlier period, me and the girls were tired but we didn't complain and choose to go out and carry on our schedules. Including flying back and forth to Japan and South Korea from time to time.

So I came up with the decision to go back earlier and invite him over late night dinner. I sent him a message to meet me at the same place and at the same time, which means meet me on Jeongyeon unnie's family restaurant before midnight.

We had always reserved this restaurant during late night dates from before since Jeongyeon unnie makes sure that we won't be caught by press people. We used to eat late night dinner here, just the two of us or with some members.

He had seen the message according to my notification but I received no reply. I was thinking that maybe they are too busy since they are set to perform. And he could only see my message and missed the chance to reply.

I tried calling him when we touched down the airport but his phone was out of reception and can't be contact. So I assumed that it might died all of a sudden. Hoping that he had received and read my message I proceeded with the plan with my other members.

We are all tired but they insisted on waiting and accompanying me for a while until Kook arrived at the place but it has been two hours and he is no where to be seen yet. I was already one in the morning.

I waited anxiously while the members tired to make way for them to be entertained such us posting videos and pictures of me in Instagram as birthday greeting. And reading hilarious tweets in Twitter.

But apparently everyone grew sleepy and tired afterwards. And I think that we already waited long enough so we should head back to the dorm to get a rest properly. I really feel sorry for them staying up ate because of me.

"The kids are already in the side sleeping, its been a long day. I guess he won't be able to come. Let's go back to the dorm after I close down the place." Jeongyeon unnie said seriously as when I found out the the maknaes are already sleeping on the couch.

"I am really sorry for bother you and your family unnie. I guess he won't be really coming, let's go back home." I responded to her as we helped one another to pack the foods prepared by unnie's father.

"You don't have to worry about it, her dad might be only be thinking that we girls had a night out tonight. And we stayed up late to celebrate." Nayeon unnie cut it while pertaining to Jeongyeon unnie.

Her dad cooked us delicious foods and left it in the kitchen along with a note. He said that he will leave the place in hands of her daughter and that we should enjoy the foods and have fun celebrating.

There were no longer any staffs in the place and it was practically empty. All we had to do is to open the door with the duplicate key which was in Jeongyeon unnie and reheat the foods in the kitchen.

"I will wake the kids up, we should head home already and rest. We are all tired, don't worry he must be tired from the recent schedule." Momo told me as I just gave a faint smile as a response.

Mina helped waking up the maknaes and assisted them to go to the car while we finished up packing the foods. After that we placed the food containers in a paper bag and head out of the restaurant.

Jeongyeon unnie and Nayeon unnie made sure everything was locked before proceeding to the vans. They were also tasked to drive the vans back to our dorm since they are the oldest and who knows how to drive.

"Don't worry he may just probably be tired, I heard that they had a longer stage than the usual and performed a lot of songs tonight. He must have fallen asleep on the way back to their dorm."

Mina tried to coaxed me, I responded a warm smile to her. This girl is like a spy in the internet, she and Chaeyoung. Well I guess everyone is, we all have secret social media accounts to monitor what our fans think most of the time.

And laugh secretly when they get theories wrong. Mina probably surfed the social media sites again like usual and saw the news. "Yeah probably he did..." I told her while we waited for Nayeon unnie to get in the van.

When she did, she begin driving on the way back to our dorm. We helped each other put the food containers in our refrigerator after we had settled the maknaes in their respective beds since they were already drifting to sleep.

It even made me feel guilty more, the younger ones must have been too tired but insisted on staying up along with the others. Their tiredness must have kicked in that they can no longer move around so we have to carry them in our backs all the way up to our floor in the apartment building.

Feeling disappointed, I switched off my phone and place it on the last drawer of my cabinet before going to bed. According to our schedule, we will be free until the second week of January, so we can go for a vacation.

But we promised to spend a meal in the houses of every Korean members of the group tomorrow. I wish that would help me keep my spirit up for a while. I tried thinking of happy thoughts and drift of to sleep after when the tiredness finally kicked in on me.