We finished not too late but it wasn’t early either.  It was a lot of boring waiting around and cueing lights but it got to be 10 pm before I managed to get back to the hotel room that I was hoping to find her waiting in. 

I said goodnight to the rest of the guys and made my way down the hall to the room before I realized I had left my phone at the venue.  Stupid, but I was almost here now, I decided to go back and get it later after I saw her.

I put my key in the room and opened it to darkness.  I walked in flicking lights on and found her curled up in a ball on the bed sound asleep. 

‘Poor baby’ I whispered to myself her hair. 

As I put my weight on the bed she shifted under my touch and opened her eyes up at me.

‘Hmmm, hey’ she said gruffly her voice full of sleep.

‘Hey baby, sorry I woke you’ I said gently.

‘No, it’s ok don’t worry’ she said rubbing her eyes and sitting up. ‘What time is it?’

‘Around 10’ I told her softly.

‘10? Jesus, I must have fallen asleep as soon as I arrived’

‘What time did you arrive?’ I asked her,

‘Hmmm, around 7 I guess, didn’t you get my text message?’

‘No, I left my phone in the room there after we ate and I forgot to pick it up when we left’

She chuckled at me, for some reason she found my ability to lose and forget things charming, I found them inconvenient. 

‘Are you ok?’ I asked her, I was worried about what I had heard on the phone.

She looked up at me with a strange look on her face I had never seen before.

‘Yeah, I’m fine’ She replied.

‘Why were you crying?’ I asked her bluntly.

She frowned at me before she answered.  ‘I was just over reacting really, it’s nothing’ She began to get up from the bed.

I pulled her back wanting an answer ‘Tell me what happened?’ Why wouldn’t she tell me?

She shifted in my grasp. ‘Ok, I don’t want to make a big deal about it.  When I got into the elevator to go to Exos dorm to say bye there were these girls in there.  I don’t know who they were, but they looked maybe your age, maybe younger, I’d never seen them before and . . . ‘She hesitated biting her