Suho and the sea

Thirty Two

"Can you call Jongin," I say as I lean against the bathroom stall wall, and Junmyeon gives me a look. But he nods and accepts this fate, he calls and less than a signal seems to ring before he speaks; "Kai, can you come and get Lily, she started to throw up.. like a fountain" He speaks before he listens to a bit, and It's clear he get one of the others managers on the line; "No, I think I'll be able to manage, as long as someone sends me the info to the art studio, where we are meeting up with the artist and photographer, I'll manage... Yeah, I have the car." He says as he rubs my arm gently. I feel better having Junmyeon there, to be honest, I know I need to tell him why I became so violently ill. But now wasn't the time. "Babe," He murmurs after a minute; "I have to be at the studio within five minutes, you can wait up here or go down, and Kai will pick you up in about 15 minutes." He said as he kissed my cheek. He took my iPad and headed towards the door, and he looked around before exit.

I wash my face and see my now greyish skin appear in the mirror. And I feel, ultimately defeated. My coworker called me again, and I now pick up; "What happened?" He questioned, "I can't tell you right now... I'll call Tad and talk to him." My coworker agreed. Tad is the primary manager after all, also sort of my boss. I press Tad's number in my phone, and he's quick to reply; "I'm sorry, I'm a sucky manager." I say, trying to keep my tears in, "No, no Lily, all the boys love you, what did you eat? Are you pregnant? Are you sick? what's going on?" He asks with rapid questions, "Did Simon tell you what happened to me?" He sighed softly; "He said there was an incident, which wasn't your fault, and you needed something new." I nod: "The reason for the incident just stepped into the elevator with Junmyeon and me so.." He stops me; "You don't need to explain, let me know who he is, and I can try my best to get you away from anything related to him." Tad said like a protective brother.

It glads me that Tad doesn't need an explanation. As I hung up the phone, Jongin texts me and says he's in the building. I decided to leave the bathroom, and as I step outside, Michele's voice is like a dagger in my soul, and I freeze: "Well, well, well.." I can't move, as the pain of my memories haunt me, terrifies me. He's close, and I feel violently ill again as he comes to stand in front of me. I just wished Junmyeon was there, but he was busy, I wanted to melt through the floor. "I've missed your scent." He whispered into my ear as he runs his fingers through my hair on one side. My eyes avoid all of his attempts to look into my eyes. I don't say anything at all, I simply stand there, his hand now on my arm. "What the fuck are you doing?" Jongin's voice brings me back to reality. As he pushed the horrible human out of my sight, Jongin comes and cups my cheeks; Are you okay?" He says low as the tears start to roll. The fact that I had asked for Jongin had clearly been understood to him that he had needed me based on what he knows.

"And who are you?" The man said as Jongin looks at him, and he goes quiet: "I'm sorry, You're Kai, from Exo, right?" He's quick to hand Jongin something, and Jongin scoffed: "What would I do with this?" He says with a ton of sarcasm, "Well, we'd like to work with you for sure." And Jongin laughed; it wasn't his usual laughter; it was a bit more vicious than I'm used to: "I'd recommend you don't approach us again." Jongin said calmly as I now notice people around us. Jongin turns to face me and wraps his arm around my shoulder and leads me over to the elevator, and as he steps on, he places his cap over my face as the door closes. The last thing 
I see before the cap is Michele's fuming face.

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As we get to the car, I can't contain it anymore and starts to throw up. Jongin doesn't say anything. He holds my hair and pats my back, just like Junmyeon had done. When we get into the car, he hands me his water. Orders me to drink, and as I do, he texts someone. He turns to look at me, "Are you okay?" He asks softly. I nod, I didn't know what I was going to do, he had to have come to that floor solely to mess with me. I lean back in my seat and watch the window, and Jongin takes my hand and squeezes it: "It was him, right?" Jongin asks, and I nod. "I should have killed him on the spot, the fact that I know who he is too." He muttered, and I look at him; "You know him?" I ask, and he nods; "He works in promotions now, for bands and such, the fact that he'll be handling the girls too worries me now." He says, and I watch him; "So what? he changed his job?" I sigh, and Jongin shrugs, "I know he's new and did the latest promos for Monsta X, like the concept for it." I feel sick again; "Won't ever be able to escape him." I state, and Jongin squeezes my hand; "We'll make sure that you will." I sigh as I hug my stomach; this day has been the most strange rollercoaster I've ever experienced. I woke up happy, four hours ago, and now I'm a mess who's thrown up and made an idiot out of myself.

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I wake up that Jongin lays me down on my bed, he sits down next to me and checks my forehead: "You're burning up." He mutters. I watch him as he stands up: "Don't go." I mumble, and he chuckled; "I need to ask Kyungsoo something, I'll be right back." He said gently, "Don't leave me alone." Jongin watched me with concerned eyes; "Maybe we should go to a hospital?" And I shook my head. "Mmm... Okay, I'll stay until Junmyeon comes." he says as he pulls his phone out and texts someone as I nod and smile weakly. I feel like I'm about to die, life slowly leaving my body. Jongin sits on the bed, next to me; "Do you want me to sit here? or what do you want?" I sighed and laid down on my side; "I need you to touch me, and not like in a dirty way, but before that, I want to shower." I say and sit up, and Jongin looks pleased; "You know what." He says and gets up from the bed and picks me up effortlessly, and I shout in surprise. I look at him in shock: "You want to get wet, you say." He smiled as he kicked open the door out to the backyard. And I looked at him confused, and my shout had startled the rest of the boys who came out watching us.

When Jongin reached the edge of the pool, I looked at him terrified; "And in you go." He says as he tries to toss me in, only that I grabbed onto his neck, causing him to fall in with me.