I was pacing around in Troy’s room, biting my finger in thought. I was utterly disappointed that the girls also had no clue where poor Alex was. Okay, so this was the end of it. If Alex wasn’t here, I can at least free all the other girls. Once the police get a hold of Tony and his goons, we can find Alex from there.

“Agent Yi, are you there?” I spoke to myself.

Static filled my ears for a moment before his clear voice said, “I’m here, Uki. What’s the plan?”

“Raid now. Send them now. It’s time to shut this place down.”

~~~~

Okay, when I said raid now, I didn’t expect to have to wait for three hours for something to be done. Honestly? I COULD’VE BEEN KILLED IN THREE HOURS AND HE WAITS THREE HOURS TO SEND ANYBODY?! I didn’t see them right away, but Agent Yi gave me heads up, telling me that they were just now surrounding the building. I nonchalantly walked over to the window, looking outside. Sure enough, there was a brigade of SWAT people out there with protective gear, waiting for the order to charge. I looked around and was able to spot my boys and my family behind a protective barrier. Aish, what were they doing here?! They were gonna get hurt!

I saw them all scanning the side of the building, in search of something. Then they all pointed to my window after seeing my face. Agent Yi spoke in my ear.

“Uki. Uki, are you ready? Is it a go?” he asked.

I pursed my lips, looking around me uncertainly. Making sure that Tony was preoccupied with his card game at the table, I was about to give a nod, signaling for them to commence the raid, when all of a sudden, a voice went off somewhere in the room yelling, “Tony! Tony, man, the cops found out! They’re surrounding the ing building!”

Oh .

“WHAT?!” Tony exclaimed. “Put all the rooms on lockdown this instant! Gather every single girl to the center of the room! NOW!”

He shot up and flew to the window, looking outside.

“Uki! Uki! Are you okay?!” Agent Yi yelled in my ear.

Well obviously, I couldn’t answer him. I stood there, giving Tony a poker face. He turned to look at him.

“You,” he spat. He grabbed me by the hair and threw me to the ground, slamming me into the coffee table. I let out a little cry as I hit the floor, covering my head in case he decided to hit me again. “You did this, didn’t you?!”

“How could I have done it?!” I yelled back, causing him to hit me across the face again.

Goodness! I think he’s gonna permanently deform my face if he keeps hitting me like that!

“You planned this, didn’t you?! You made a plan to get yourself kidnapped again so you could lead them back here?!”

“Why would I do that for?! If I wanted to bust you guys, I would have just told them where the damn building was! Why would I go through the trouble of getting myself kidnapped all over again?!”

“ARGH!” He hit me again and began pacing, leaving me bleeding and crying on the floor. “Kevin, get the rope! If they ing raid this place, your head is gonna be the first to come off, do you understand me, you stupid little ?!”

I couldn’t say anything. I couldn’t even fight off the hands that forced mine behind my back, binding my wrists together tightly while someone else tied a bandana around my mouth. They stood me up, holding onto my hands and positioning a slick knife at my throat. Tony came up to me and leaned his face close to mine.

“You better hope for your sake that they don’t come in here,” he growled.

Donghae’s POV~

“What’s going on?! Why are you not sending your men in there?!” my mom screamed.

Donghwa and I held onto her tightly. She hasn’t been the same since Alex disappeared. She’d been colder, meaner, sadder.

Agent Yi turned the radio he had in his hand up so we could all hear.

“Kevin, get the rope! If they ing raid this place, your head is gonna be the first to come off, do you understand me, you stupid little ?!”I heard Tony’s voice yelling.

Oh my God, Uki!

“Don’t you dare send them in there!” I screamed. “Uki’s gonna get killed!”

Agent Yi sighed, looking back up to the window, a look of a pained decision crossing his face. “Hold, men! If we raid, they’re gonna kill every single girl in that building! Get a negotiator on the phone! We need one out here right now! Oh crap, WHO LET THE FANS KNOW?!”

I turned around to see hoards of girls behind me. WHEN THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN?! Surprisingly enough, they weren’t attacking us.

“Oppa, is Uki unnie in there?” a young girl asked, looking up at me with round eyes wide with fear.

I nodded slightly, frowning at her. “Sadly.”

She clung to another girl beside her, a little bit older, bursting into tears. She reached for one of the policemen beside her, who looked down at her with a worried expression. “Bring my unnie out safely! Bring her out safely!”

“Sir, we got a negotiator, but it’ll be another half hour before she can get here!” someone yelled out.

“We don’t have half an hour, we need them now!” Agent Yi growled angrily. “SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GET HERE BEFORE UKI DIES!”

“She won’t die unless you raid the building,” we heard someone saying.

We looked up to the roof of the building. It wasn’t a tall building, only about three stories or so, but I highly doubt we would have been able to hear Tony without the bullhorn he had in his hands. My eyes widened in shock as my fists clenched in anger. One of them was holding Uki, who was bound and gagged, with a knife to . My poor baby

Uki’s POV~

I cannot believe that Tony is gonna stoop as lowly as to let my family see me like this. I bit down on the bandana between my lips to keep myself from lashing out on them. I composed myself. I was not going to let my family see me as a weak person. I refused to. I looked at my surroundings. Okay, so I don’t see any chances of me escaping this situation whatsoever. And of course, the knife slightly poking into my neck is kinda stopping me from trying anything either. I stood there, staring down at all my boys who had equal looks of worry on their faces and my ELFs who were all shouting and screaming threats at Tony. Aish, I loved my ELFs<3

I began thinking. Okay, so Tony had warned me while coming up here that if I put up a struggle, the girls would be hurt. Aish. I hated it when he had that kinda of hold over me. He knew how to get to me all too well and it pissed me off man. -__- So what do I do? Fight? I can’t do that! AISH!

Tony turned to look at me. “Tell me now that it was you who called them and maybe I’ll show mercy.”

I gave him a ‘are you ing kidding me?’ look, to which he remembered that I couldn’t exactly speak. He yanked the gag off me and said, “Speak.”

I my dry lips and looked him right in the eye. “I did not call them here.”

“YOU LIAR!” He backhanded me across the face, making me fly out of Kevin’s hands and almost topple over the edge of the roof.

I let out a very high-pitched and girly— -__- —shriek and started flailing my legs to try to catch a hold of something before I completely fell over. My mind went blank, the only thing filling my ears being the worried screams and shrieks of everyone down below. I was hoping that someone would save me, that maybe, just maybe, Tony’s heart was gonna melt and he’d reach out for me. And boy was I shocked. He actually did reach out to me!

But it was a little too late.

I toppled over the side, plunging down the side of the building, shrieking at the top of my lungs. I heard every one screaming below as well. Goodness, why was this fall taking forever? It wasn’t that tall of a building.

God, it’s me again. I know this is probably where you’re ending things for me, am I right? Yeah, same last request. Take care of my boys for me please.

Siwon’s POV~

I watched in horror as Uki freefell down the building, shrieking at the top of her lungs. My mom was sobbing in mine and my dad’s arms, my other arm around Jiwon who was also sobbing at this point.

“Unnie! Unnie!” I kept hearing the ELFs scream over and over.

I couldn’t believe this. Of all the ways to die, this was how Uki was gonna go?! I can’t believe this! After what felt like hours, we were shocked.

Looks like Uki wasn’t quite ready to leave us quite yet.

With some of miracle or luck, Uki slammed into one of the metal balconies, bouncing slightly then went still. Oh my goodness, stand up, Uki, stand up! I saw her moving slightly as she slowly tried standing up. She almost succeeded then her knees buckled and she fell again. NO!

“UKI, STAND UP! UKI, STAND UP THIS INSTANT!” I yelled at her seemingly lifeless body.

Soon enough, everyone else’s shrieks began mixing in with my own, but no matter how much we all yelled, no matter how much we all screamed, no matter how much we all begged, Uki’s body didn’t so much as twitch. Oh my goodness.

Did I just lose my baby sister?

Uki’s POV~

I crashed down to the balcony again after trying to stand up, my knees giving out on me. I heard them all shrieking for me to get up, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. It just hurt so much. The pain was literally unbearable. It felt as though I’d just gotten run over by a pickup truck and left for dead. God, what made me think that I could do this? That I could go through with all this pain and still think I could survive? What made me think that I was invincible, that I could withstand anything life threw at me? What made me think that nothing could harm me? Oh right. Because I’m just that damn stubborn.

I felt myself slowly slipping in and out of consciousness as my eyelids grew heavier and heavier by the second, the rope digging into my flesh. Just give up, Uki. It’ll be so much easier than fighting it. Give it up. Give it up now. Who cares about anybody else? You’ve been caring about everybody else way too damn much and now look where it’s gotten you. Just give up. It’ll all be so much easier for you. Slowly, I felt my body agreeing with my thoughts as I felt myself shutting down. One by one, everything inside me slowed down to a near halt. Mmm, it felt so nice. Giving up I mean. It felt so nice to just give it up and let everything go.

I could feel that I was almost fully gone when one voice cut through clearer than the rest of them down there.

You thought it was Donghae?

Nahh.

“UKI SEOHAE CHOI! IF YOU DON’T GET UP THIS INSTANT, YOU’RE ADMITTING TO YOURSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE THAT I’M BETTER THAN YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME?! I’M BETTER THAN YOU! I’M BETTER THAN YOU IN EVERY POSSIBLE SHAPE, WAY, OR FORM! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?! YOU’RE ADMITTING TO ME RIGHT NOW THAT I’M YOUR SUPERIOR!” a shrill voice shrieked at me between her sobs.

Oh no she did not just say that.

My eyes snapped open as a sudden rush of energy from my angered adrenaline spread through every last crevice of my body. I brought my wrists to the front of my body, weaving them underneath my legs. Finding a shard of broken glass on the balcony, I managed to free myself. Goodness, they were still screaming at me to get up. Can they not see that I’m moving just fine? Oh, no they can’t. The railing is blocking me(x Slowly, I stood up, looking down at all of them as they cheered for me. I stared at Jiwon, who was looking up at me with a giant smile on her tear-stricken face. I smiled back at her. If she hadn’t said what she had, I really would have given up.

I stretched my arms above my head, my back feeling as though it was about to break. Wow. That fall literally knocked the breath right outta me. I propped myself up on the railing, giving myself a few moments to catch my lost breath. Instinctively, I reached a hand up to my neck.

…

My hand felt around my neck for a second, sweeping across my clavicle.

…Why does my neck seem so bare?

I looked down.

MY NECKLACE!

WHERE WAS MY NECKLACE?!

Fear and adrenaline coursed through my veins as I frantically searched around the balcony, thinking maybe it had flown off during my fall. Gah, I can’t find it anywhere! WHERE WAS MY NECKLACE?! I started panicking. That necklace freaking defines who I was, man! I WENT THROUGH HELL TO GET THAT NECKLACE! WHERE THE WAS IT?!

“Yoo-hoo,” I heard a sing-song voice taunting me from above.

I looked up to see Tony casting me an evil grin, holding onto something gold and shiny in his hand.

“Looking for something?” he asked, smirking at me.

I grinded my teeth in anger. Then I just smiled coldly at him, shaking my head slightly. Oh, you’re so going to regret that. I’ve been playing along all this time. I’ve been a good girl all this time. I haven’t been fighting all this time.

But now?

Now you’ve really messed with me.

Somebody was going to die tonight.

Hey, guys, major foreshadowing. ;D

Lol.

And I promise you! You're finding out the whereabouts of Alex in this next chapter! I promise!(x

Kekeke. So, I'm thinking for sure that probably another 3-5 chapters just might do the trick, depending on the bipolarness of the length of my upcoming chapters(x Lol. Thanks again for those of you who have been keeping up with this since day one! I love you!<3