Hidden: Strings of Fate

CHAPTER 19

"Yes, didn't Wonshik oppa tell you? I would have thought that he would have seeing as he is the first member that I met..." I said to Hongbin.

"Ohh... I... might... have forgotten to mention... it to the other... members..." Wonshik said, after which he had become quiet.

"You forgot...?" Hongbin said through gritted teeth.

"Well we'll just have to make his memory better, then won't we?" Hakyeon said and then grabbed Wonshik's neck and held it to his side under his arm. He had him in a headlock while the members rubbed his head with their knuckles giving him a noogie.

"Ahhhh!!! Hyung!! Ahhhh that hurts!!! Honey!!! Ahhhh!!! Save me!!!" Wonshik screamed at the top of his lungs.

"How oppa?" I asked, "what am I supposed to do? Tickle him?"

"That might just work," Jaehwan muttered, causing Hyuk to snigger.

"Yah! Hajima! Don't you dare...!" Hakyeon threatened.

I placed my bags on to the floor and headed towards Hakyeon, my fingers ready to assault his ribs. He went a step backwards, trying to increase the distance between us. We continued this until his back had hit the wall behind him. I lunged towards him, hands at the ready. Ready to tickle him that is...

"No!" Hakyeon screamed as he tried to hold my hands away from his ribcage. He didn't realise though that my plan had worked. Let me explain. I was only going to 'act' as though I was going to tickle him. And the plan had worked! He let Wonshik go.

"Told you it'd work," Jaehwan said as the whole elevator started to snigger. Leo was stood in the corner, silent, looking at us through rage filled daggers.

Realising that he had been duped, he started to pout, pulling out his lower lip further and further, crossing his hands across his chest.

"Awww oppa! I was joking. Is my oppa upset with my little trick?" I said, with as much aegyo as I could.

He pulled his lip out further and turned away from me.

"Aigoo! Hakyeoniessshi! Oppa! Come here," I chuckled as I wrapped him into a tight embrace.

"Yah!!!! That's not FAIR!!! Where's my hug??!!!" The elevator was filled with protests.

"It's because I'm the eldest. Who's laughing now?" Hakyeon teased as he pulled his tongue out at the other members. I giggled into his embrace. It was funny seeing the other members pout because of a simple thing.

The others began their pouting session. I let go of him and one by one went through all the members. First Wonshik, then Hongbin, then Hyuk. When I got to Jaehwan, as I leaned in to give him a hug, he lifted me off the floor. I was suspended in mid-air, with him holding my waist. I looked down in confusion and whined "Yah! Oppa, what are you doing? Let me go. Put me down. Please."

He didn't respond to my aegyo, rather he ignored me and asked me, "tell me something. How come you were only mouthing Leo hyung's lyrics and not ours?"

I looked at him wide eyed. I realised at that moment that he had seen. He had seen EVERYTHING! The actions that I was doing to the song, the facial expressions I was making. 'Oh, how embarrassing,' I thought, blushing. I mentally face palmed myself at least 50 times before replying.

"MWO?!" I scoffed. "What are you talking about?" I justified in a calm voice, "I was mimicking all of your lyrics not just," I took a big gulp before I said his name, "Leosshi's."

I looked around. There was silence in the air. Leo had stopped rocking. The rest of the members had been staring at me for a while now. They were stood wide eyed and in shock. Like they couldn't believe their ears. What?! It was true. I did mouth all the members lyrics. Not just Leo's. Didn't I?

I repeated myself "oppa now that you have your answer, do you mind letting me go? It's starting to hurt." Just then I felt a yank on my left shoulder. The force was so great that it almost seemed as though I was flying into the elevator wall behind me. I felt a liquid trickle down my forehead. I couldn't move to check what it was. My body felt as though it had been paralysed.

I saw a brief moment. It looked like they were shouting at someone. I couldn't recognise who it was.

Someone was saying "why did you do that to her? She's HURT! And it's your..."

Another voice retorted "why did he have to hold her like that? If she said that she was hurting, he should have let go!! NOT KEEP A HOLD OF HER!"

I slipped into the blackness and blacked out.

I had a moment of consciousness later. Someone said, "do you have a first aid box?" Then another voice replied "yes, hang on," then moments later that same voice said "here."

I felt a dabbing against my forehead and before I knew it, I slipped back into the darkness once more...