"Please break up with my daughter and let me take her home." My mother said.

"M-mom!" I looked at her with my heart broken expression, she was trying to take everything away from me.

"Ever since she came to this hemisphere she has been sick, heart broken and even assaulted. I beg of you to let her go, if this gets out to the press it'll end badly; please conceder it."

"Ma'am, I see where you are coming from but they didn't build Rome in a day! We are finally just getting started in our relationship-!" I cut Taemin off.

"No." I said loud enough it startle them. "You. Can't. Do. This." I paused with every word, I managed to get to my feet.

"Don't get up so quickly Phoebe!" My mother stood up aswell. " You'll open your stitches-"

"Is that what it'll take to make you understand?!" I could feel the pain pinch in my torso. " I Spent years training to get here, just like you just said. Now you want to take that away from me?"

"Hon, you're not understanding-"

"I understand very well."

I doubled over onto my knees, they all darted towards me; the pain in my gut got worse, I pressed on the pain only to be greeted with a damp feeling.

"You opened your wound, idiot." Key picked me up bridal style and set me on the couch again. "You shouldn't have moved so much." He lifted my shirt and sent Taemin for a first aid kit while he cleaned up.

"I-I'm.." My mother stood there in shock as I kept my gaze away from her.

"Excuse me, please give her some time to stop being so hot headed." Key said to her.

"Who you calling hot headed?!" I went to raise my voice at him, he poured a little bit of wound cleaner onto the injury shutting me up.

"I understand." With that my mother returned to the guest room and out of sight.

--

I must have fell asleep, when I looked for the time I was greeted to a sleeping Taemin at my feet; he was sitting on the floor with his arms and head resting on the foot of the couch. His was was tousled and everywhere, he had sleep lines on his face from his clothing. Although he was worried he managed to sleep so peacefully at my side.

"There is no way I could leave you.." I whispered quietly.

I didn't even notice a half away Key on the love seat across from us, "Is that how you feel?"

"Key~ What are you doing awake?"

"I have a lot on my mind,"

"Did you need to talk about it?"

"Can we talk at all?"

I got the hint, our friendship was still a bit rocky from the incident in Korea. I felt like the world was against me at that time and I found a safe haven in him, causing our misunderstood feelings to get us in trouble. I still felt guilty for leading him on, but he did use my weakness as an advantage.

"A lot has happened since, I hope we can talk like before very soon."

With that I took the chance to head back to bed and avoid anymore stressful situations for the next few days.

--

When the morning came things were instantly better, both my mother and I tend to let these fights go very easily; although I was still a little hurt by her words. We managed to have a civil breakfast and even watched some television when the guys left for their check in with their manager.

"Mommy~"

"Daughter~"

"Can you help me, you know shower?"

" Oh course."

It had been years since the last time my mother bathed me, but there was no way I was doing it by myself. She poured the water over my hair, helped me rinse my arms. After helping me into a new set of clothes she brushed out my hair and began to braid it slowly.

"You must really love that kid."

"I would get stabbed again just for him." I joked.

"Not funny."

"But it's true, after dedicating my life to him in the last few years I can confidently say I can't love anyone else."

After a few silent moments my mother spoke again. "You remind me of myself. I used to proclaim that I would take a bullet for your father, I even spent nights out in the cold making sure he got to eat breakfast the next morning."

"You stalked him?!" I asked

"I-I wouldn't say that, I was just a big fan of his."

"Yeah yeah, you can call it what you wish." I .

Another long day bonding with my stalker mother accomplished, she understood more than I thought. She would never be an evil K-drama mother, but it was sure fun to imagine.