'Golden Mary'

Part 27

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Seohyun thought she was the first to wake up, but when she went to check up on Victoria she realized she was already gone. Scratching her head she started back down the short hallway and poked her head into the living room to see that there was also no Luhan. Feeling a sense of lost at their disappearance she walked into the kitchen and grabbed a granola bar. While eating away at it she wondered if the two had gone out together again without telling her. If they were together, shouldn't she get suspicious? What if the two of them were really together?

"No...it can't happen," Seohyun shook hear head in denial, "Victoria's not a cougar type. But then, where did they go?"

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A dim light seemed to glow in front of her. Victoria also felt warm, very warm, which was very peculiar. On such usual mornings this kind of warmth never came to her. She dug the side of her face deeper into the pillow, eyes still calmly closed. This kind of warmth, she suddenly remembered now, was familiar. In the small apartment she shared with her parents she often slept in her mother's arms and those warm arms embraced her all night long. During the cold seasons she'd feel content with the heat that vibrated off her mother's body kept close to her. A smile flicked itself onto her lips at the sudden trip back down memory lane.

Her mother was in China, though...then who was giving her this nice warmth? Victoria felt her eyes stir, daring her eyelids to open. She shifted her head.

"No," a voice called warning her to keep dreaming.

If her mother was in China, who was this?

"Wake up, wake up," a voice at the back of her head called.

When her eyes slowly started fluttering she spotted a window, the sun shining in, and the ray of dust floating down diagonally. A breeze of headache flowed into her mind and she bit her bottom lip at the hard throbbing inside her head.

"Ah...shit..." she muttered raising a hand to feel her head.

That was all before the picture froze and she realized she was not in her tiny apartment. Rolling her eyes down she spotted an arm hooked over her waist and a pair of legs next to her own. A hot trembling breath of shock forced its way through her and her mind was threatening to explode on the spot at the situation. With mouth gaped open she turned to see Donghae's head leaning against her pillow dreamily.

"Fuck."

In less than 5 minutes, Victoria had found her way out of the room walking back and forth down the hallway before finally finding her way to the lobby. Bewilderment and embarrassment glued themselves onto her edgy face, the headache still throbbing at the back of her head but now forgotten. All she wanted to do was get out of there. And next she would have to remember why she'd gone there in the first place.

Continuing to mumble to herself Victoria could only focus on shuffling her feet as fast as she could. Once she started walking by the front desk one of the receptionists called out for her. Victoria halted and tried to hide her face as best as she could when the short haired woman started toward her.

"Your boyfriend left his card last night..."

"Have a good day!" Victoria abruptly said grabbing the card from her before dashing out of the door, the receptionist still hollering at her.

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"Mom, are you sure you're ok?" Luhan asked into the phone pressed closely against his ear.

He had woken up extra early and not wanting to wake up anyone with his phone call, he'd stepped outside. The sun's overbearing heat was already starting to pour over him, but what was really getting to him was that his mother wasn't listening to him at all.