*Key’s POV*

I ran outside to find Taemin sitting on the front steps of the restaurant, hugging his knees and crying.

“Taemin,” I whispered as I sat down next to him and embraced him in a hug. He hugged me back and cried into my arms. I’d never seen him cry like this. “Shhh, it’s going to be okay.”

“No Key! It’s not going to be okay! I’m a terrible person!” he sobbed.

“But what did you even do?”

“I don’t know! That’s what makes me so terrible! She broke up with me because of something I did, and I’m so blind that I can’t even see what it was!”

I rocked him back and forth, ignoring the people walking by and giving us strange looks. “Shhh, I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding. We’re going to work it all out when we get back tomorrow, okay? I need you to be strong. Carolyn still loves you; I know that for a fact. She held onto her life for you.”

“Hyung,” he cried even harder into my chest, “Say it again.”

“She loves you,” I said softly. “Carolyn does and always will love you.”

I whispered it over and over again. His breathing finally began to slow and his tears dried up. Before I knew it he was asleep in my arms. The others came out of the restaurant a few minutes later. I carried Taemin to the van so we could head to our hotel.

When we got to the building I said that Taemin and I could share a room, just in case he needed something. Brianna offered to help me take care of him, but I told her there wasn’t much else to do than to just let him sleep.

*Brianna’s POV*

“What are you looking for?” I asked as Rebecca searched through her things.

“My phone… aha!” she shouted when she found it.

“Why do you need your phone? You rarely ever use it.”

“I’m going to talk to Carolyn,” she answered.

Suddenly I wasn’t so tired anymore. I shot up out of bed and hurried over to her side. She selected Carolyn’s name and pressed call.

“What if she’s asleep?” I asked as it rang.

“Then at least we can say we tried to help,” Rebecca answered. The phone rang two times before our call got ignored. “OMO, she ignored our call!”

The phone buzzed and Rebecca quickly opened the text message, which simply read: Go away.

We looked at each other in shock. This was turning out to be worse than we had thought!

“Maybe we should just leave it alone and let the two of them work it out when we get back,” I suggested.

“Yeah… good idea,” Rebecca agreed, closing her phone and resting it on the nightstand by her bed. “Let’s get some sleep.”

I lay in bed wondering what was going on between Taemin and Carolyn. They seemed so close, yet how did this suddenly happen? I wondered if something could ever be bad enough to make me break up with Key and actually MEAN it. My conclusion was… no.