Guardians

Chapter 10 - Memory Eraser

In the moment Nessa was trying to convince me to help, the rest of my friends barged into the room with Jonghyun, Onew, and Key right behind, obviously having failed to keep them from entering.

"Nessa is right, we are old enough to make our own decisions," reprimanded Lena.

"How about we take a vote?" Soo Min suggested.

"Yes, who wants to help these beautiful men and save their sexy asses?!?!" Juli chirped in. I grinned, they made me feel at home. I was proud to be friends with such amazing women.

All their hands were raised high.

I chuckled and shook my head while slowly raising my hand. "I guess I might as well join since I got you all in this mess anyways. Plus, I can't have you going on an adventure without me."

"Alright!" Juli smacked my shoulder. Even though it was a small strength slap it sent pins of pain to my side. "Oh, sorry, I forgot."

"Juli! Be more careful." Lena looked concerned. I noticed then that not only Nessa, but all my friends had bags under their eyes and resembled zombies.

"It's okay, I'll be fine. Don't worry about me." I quickly added before I could see the worry in their eyes.

"Well, I hate to break up this reunion, but we have to get back to planning," said Onew in a genuine but firm voice, "I was thinking, we can't all go. The girls must go because we can't just throw them in there without training. So, Minho and Taemin will go with them and the rest of us will take care of things here."

"I agree. Key, excellent work on erasing everyone's memory at the event and for erasing all that footage." The familiar older deep voice travelled over to us.

We all turned to where the voice came from. The director was by the doorway with a tall and slim young girl around 14 years old. She seemed friendly and it didn't seem like she was Korean either. "Lisa here is visiting and will make a pit stop to five weeks from now," introduced the director. Lisa, from the new group, Blackpink?

"Visiting?" Soo Min questioned.

"Yes, Lisa is an immensely powerful young lady. She is able to time travel; she is actually 5 years in the future right now." The director proudly announced.

Lisa smiled in response and nodded, "Yeah, I wanted to see for myself if all my work paid off and to check if I was happy with my life. That's when I ran into Mr. Sung and he asked me for a favor."

"Will you be able to take this many people?" inquired Jonghyun.

"I've never done it before but I'm sure we'll be fine." She reassured.

I had that gut feeling again where I knew something was going to go wrong. On second thought it could just be gas. Taemin let out a soft chuckle that he had been holding back. I felt my cheeks burning up with embarrassment. Be more careful of what goes through your head, Dummy.

"Okay, so what do you need us to do?" Minho was ready for action.

"Just form a circle around me and hold on to me. I'm still just a beginner so, if you hold on to me, I'll be able to have more control." Lisa explained confidently. "Maybe you should get dressed though before we go," she signaled at me.

"Right...good idea. If I could get some help finding my clothes? Also, getting help to walk to the bathroom and to stand me up would be awfully nice," I finished my sentence with a bit of sarcasm.

"Sorry," The director sincerely replied, "we had to get rid of your clothes they were covered in blood."

"Oh, don't worry," Key quickly left and snuck back in with a bag. "I got some clothes for our hero." I smiled gratefully as he handed me the bag. "Your necklace is there, too."

"Thank you," I quietly let out.

Jonghyun came over to me and started helping me get up while all my friends took turns to unplug me from the machines. With Jonghyun's help I got to the bathroom with almost no agonizing pain. I turned to close the door.

Jonghyun was already closing the door but he paused and lean through the crack.

"You sure you don't need any help changing?" he asked with a dashing half smile.

"Ah-ha-ha, no that's okay I'll manage through the pain," I blushed.

"Okay, your loss." He winked and closed the door.

Caught my reflection and cringed at the sight of me. Not a foreign reaction, though I was definitely not having a good hair day. I was not ready to time travel physically or mentally. How were my friends being so cool right now? I whimpered at myself in the mirror and covered my face with both hands. Control yourself. You aren't alone. My friends are right here with me. I had let out my stress with a big sigh and prepared myself for whatever was to come next.