Jonghyun POV:

"Why can't she come here and tell me herself?" Lee Soo Man, the president of SM asked Taemin and I. We were trying to explain to him why she hasn't shown up for her schedule for over a week. Amber hasn't been practicing because she was pregnant and now that neither her or Rachel have been coming in to rehearse, our boss was peeved.

"We're speaking on Rachel's behalf. Please understand, sir. Rachel recently lost her mother to a car accident and it's effecting her, more worse than for better" Taemin explained. All I could do was nod my head. "You know, since she has joined your little 'family' (referring to SM town), she has been effecting herself and others. You're leader has taken too much time off to see her and now her bandmate is pregnant. We're keeping it a secret as best as we can for the sake of her's and Kibum's careers. I'm not saying Amber's pregnancy is Rachel's fault, but it's concerning me and the whole company, AND you're bandmates have been wondering where you all have been. I don't think you and the rest of SHINee should take so much responsibility for them. I've approved of Rachel and Jinki dating, but my tolerance is starting to run short." he rants. I don't blame him, but this was Rachel we were talking about. "Sir, please. She has no family. Her parents are gone, her only brother is going back to America tomorrow to attend Lisa's funeral. She might be an adult, but she needs support. She's taken responsibility for Amber and Onew hyung wishes to take care of Rachel until she can get back on her feet. Please let us help her." I pleaded. Lee Soo Man grew a rather sympathetic look on his face, much like Lisa's expression when we saw her across the street before she died. "I'll give you one week. One week off. Amber is the exception if I don't see her for a while, but I will take no exception for Rachel if she doesn't show up after 7 days" he said, finally giving in. Taemin and I both take in a sigh of relief. "Thank you, sir" I sighed with a smile on my face. "Now shoo, go help her. She obviously really needs it. I was more than sorry when she lost her father. I can't imagine what's going through her head now that her mother's gone" Soo Man sighed in defeat. With that, Taemin and I walked out of the office to find Onew leaning against the wall waiting for us. "Well, what did he say?" he asked, sounding sort of afraid. Taemin sighed. "We have one week"

Onew POV:

When we got to Rachel's and Amber's dorm, I was somewhat scared to see Rachel. What would she look like? Is she a mess? Will she talk? Will she cry? Will she come out of her room? Jonghyun lightly knocked on the door and took in a deep breath. "Come in" we heard Amber's soft voice say from behind the door. Jjong opened the door to see Amber talking to Rachel at the kitchen table. Rachel had on a black and white flannel, skinny jeans and converse, her hair was brushed and clean. She looked like what she looked like every day. On a normal day. There was no sign on her face that she was crying. Her eyes were her normal color. When we came in, she looked at us with a blank, rather bored expression. She looked at me and a small smile twitched on her face, but slowly faded away as she looked down at the table. "How's it going, you guys?" Key said quietly behind Jjong. "Nothing, just talking about random stuff" Amber stated, with Rach nodding quietly.  I stayed quiet, Jjong and Minho walked out of the kitchen, and Taemin and Key held a conversation with Amber. While they were talking, I shuffled extremely slowly towards Rachel. Before I knew it, I was standing right next to her. I knelt down and met eye level with her. "... Hey" I said softly, almost whispering. "Hey there..." Rachel whispered before blushing and looking down. I held onto her chin and tilted her face back up to look at me. "Are you okay?" I asked. I had the strongest feeling she really didn't want to talk about her mom, but I had to know if she was okay. She didn't answer but only wrapped her skinny arms around my neck. "I am now that you're here" she whispered in my ear. I could hear the smile in her voice. I sighed in relief. We both stood up and I could see her face. She was smiling and blushing madly. I smiled and kissed her lightly on the cheek. She was okay

Taemin POV:

Well, Rachel's fine. Amber's fine. Onew hyung is fine, everyone else is fine, thank goodness. Rachel still needs time to get over her loss, but I have a feeling it'll be easy. Rachel is pretty strong. Chris left back America so we won't be seeing him for a while. I thought he was a pretty cool guy. So that's pretty lame

"I wanna go! I wanna go!" I hear myself yell. I couldn't believe it. Victoria noona invited me, SHINee, Rachel, and Amber to come with her to the apartment buildings she used to live in so she can test out her brand new pro camera, like the ones photographers use. I thought it was so pretty. "Neh, you can go, Taeminnie! Exactly why I invited you!" Victoria said, trying to calm me down. "Noona! That sounds like such a fun project! I am so in!" Minho cheered

"I'm down!" Jonghyun hyung smiled

"Sounds like fun, I'll come with" Key hyung said

"Fun! I've always wanted to take professional pictures" Onew hyung declared

"Let's do it" Amber beamed

"I can dig it" Rachel giggled

When we drove down to the apartments, which were like three hours away, we had so many people with us. The rest of f(x) came along, so that made eleven people total, so we tootk a bus. The trip sure was fun. When we got there, I was filled over the top with energy. Nobody lived there anymore, but it didn't look old. Pretty odd to me, but no one seemed to bring it up. We walked into every room, every one completely stripped of furniture, except for five or six rooms, which were the rooms where we took pictures. Minho chased me down the halls. He is sooooo cute. I finally let him catch me. We were wrestling on the ground. "You know I've gotten stronger" I smiled, "Really?" he said shocked "Show me" I then grabbed him and pinned him toward the wall in record time. he only looked at me in shock. "What? Can't believe it?" I asked right before crashing my lips against his. I slowly let go and sighed. "You'll always be my superhuman" Minho giggled

Onew POV:

"Everyone! It's time to go!" I heard Krystal call from the lobby. Oh my, it's about time. Running around this apartment building has got me seeing stars, I was so tired. When we got down the lobby, Everyone I could see was okay for me. We all ran out to the bus and soon, very soon, everyone fell asleep.

The next time I woke up, Sulli, Luna, and Key were awake, talking in the back of the bus. I yawned and walked over to the driver. "How much longer until we get home, sir?" I asked, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. "A little over twenty minutes" he said calmly, but I could tell he was sleepy as well. "Cool thanks" I said while walking back to my seat. When I turned around, I noticed something. Something wasn't right.. I started to count the people in the car

"Victoria"

"Luna"

"Key"

"Sulli"

"Minho"

"Jonghyun"

"Krystal"

"Amber"

"....Me" I said, pointing to myself. I counted about eight to ten more times then started to panic. I looked underneath the seats, in the passenger seat, behind seats, everywhere. I could then start to feel my breathing getting heavier, which woke Luna up. "Onew-sshi? What's your issue?" she asked annoyed at me. I finally stopped, I needed help searching. "You guys!!!" I yelled throughout the bus. The driver stopped and looked back. Everyone started to wake up

"Yes?" Krystal asked

"What?" Key asked

"What?" Minho asked

"What is it?" Sulli asked

"Yeah?" Amber yawned

"What is it, Onew?" Luna asked

"What?" Victoria asked

"What do you want hyung? I was freaking sleeping" Jonghyun whined

I didn't hear their voices

"W-Where's Taemin and Rachel?" I asked, about to break out in tears. Minho and Key jumped and started searching, followed by Luna and Victoria. Jonghyun started to look with Krystal and Sulli.

"Taemin?"

"Rachel?"

"You guys"

Okay, come out"

"Come on out"

"This isn't funny"

"Yeahh, W-W'e're.. We're not laughing"

"Y-You guys?"

It was official, we left them behind. "RACHEL!!!"

"TAEMIN!!!"

Taemin POV: <<3 hours ago

"Everyone! It's time to go!" I could hear a familier voice. "Be right down!" I yelled. I started walking for the stairs when I saw an elevator. I had no idea that was an elevator. I started walking towards it when a room I walked by had a figure in it. I looked back and I saw Rachel in the kitchen playing with old pots and pans. She looked up and saw me. "This place is nice, isn't it" She asked. "Very. I don't why no one lives here anymore" I said in disbelief. I really didn't know why this place was adandoned. "Vic told me it was because of a deadly virus that was spread within the building, so everyone who wasn't infected left and everyone who was died" Rachel said bitterly. "How sad. Let's get out before we get infected!" I joked. "That was years ago. Of course there's no virus here now. But yeah let's go home. We've been here all day" Rachel yawned. We both left the room and headed for the stairs. "Yah, is that an elevator or not?" I spoke out. Man was I curious. "It looks like it" she said quietly. "Well I am down right tired of walking, let's use it" I said contently as I pushed the button and the doors opened. Rachel nodded and followed me in the elevator. I pressed the lobby button and down we went. The trip down was awfuly long and quiet. "So, I know you tell everyone you're okay, but are you really?" I asked out of no where. Rachel knew what I was talking about and sighed. "Taemin.. I-" she didn't get to finish because the elevator started to jerk around, which would've been startling for anyone. After a few shakes, the elevator stopped. We waited for the door to open so we can walk out, but the door didn't open. Rachel pressed the "Doors open" button at least five times, but the door wouldn't open. Then I realized, we weren't even in the lobby, we were on the fourth floor. "What's going on?! Why won't it open?" she asked, obviously upset. I started to panic. "Let us out! Please! Everyone is gunna leave without us! Yah!" I yelled repeatedly. Sweat started to drip from my forehead. Rachel's forehead started to shine with sweat as well. We tried pressing every button, we tried opening the door ourselves, we threw ourselves against the door. Nothing happened. After an hour of fighting with the elevator, we both sat down in defeat, knowing everyone has already left, or they would be looking for us. Every two minutes, we would scream for help. But nobody would reply. After the second hour, I started to feel myself cry. Rachel looked over at me and crawled closer to me gave me a tight hug. "W-We're gunna d-die in here, a-aren't we?" I cried in between gentle hiccups. I had my head in the crook of Rachel's neck, crying uncontrolably. After a few seconds, Rachel chest started to breathe heavily, as if she was trying to gasp for breath. "D-Don't say that, T-Taemin-ah" Rachel cried, her tears started to land in my hair. "We're g-gunna get out of here. When th-they realize we're not there, they'll come back. J-Just watch" she tried reassuring me. She lifted my head up with both hands to look at me, covered in tears and sweat. She giggled through her tears and wiped the tears from my eyes with her sleeve. "Minho will come back for you. You don't know how much he loves you" she sighed looking down at me. "You don't know much Onew hyung loves you, Rachel. You have no idea" I continued as she pulled me back down so I could cry. Rachel immediately started crying again to the sound of Onew's name. "I-I know" she barely manages to say. After the fourth hour, Rachel seemed to have fallen asleep. But I stayed up, waiting for Minho. "I know you'll come for me, yeobo. Bring Onew hyung with you" I mutter to myself before looking over at Rachel. After the fifth hour, Rachel had woken up. I was still awake, and we started talking about hungry we were. "I can't believe we had to leave our cell phones in the bus. How dumb can we get?" Rachel said, openly calling us both dumb. I was gunna argue, but then I had to accept it, we were stupid for leaving our phones behind. "Rachel, everyone wants to know if you're okay. You say you are, but do you really mean it?" I asked. She looked over at me blankly. "It's okay, it's only me here" I giggled, looking around the elevator. "Honestly, I'll never be okay with it. Never. But I am okay. I'm not gunna let it ruin my life. But whenever I think about it, it'll start to bother me if I don't stop thinking about it. But it doesn't mean I'll never be the same. You know, I was always afraid talking about my dad would mean I was letting him down. But I found myself talking about him and thinking about him a lot more, and I realized he's looking out for me still and he's proud of me. So I won't treat my mother any different. Even after what she did, I still love her. The day she died, she apologized to me, in the hospital on her deathbed. She told me she loved me and that... and that she hopes for me.. and you... and Onew... and everyone else to stay a family" as she was saying this, she started to cry. "Lee Soo Man gave us the responsibility to look after you until you can return to work. But I'll always take care  of you, whether at SM or not. All of us will" I smiled through my own tears. Rachel just smiled. "Thank you" she sobbed. I let her put her head on my lap while we both fell asleep. When I woke up, I checked my watch and did the math. We were on our seventh hour. "They should be here any minute" I sighed, Rachel's white hair, which was still on my lap. I started singing "Kiss Kiss Kiss" quietly. It was Rachel's favorite song of mine and SHINee's. When I was halfway through the song, Rachel took a deep breath and smiled in her sleep. Still her hair, I finally finished the song. I sighed and closed my eyes again, waiting to drift off... "I feel so faint,Taeminnie" Rachel sighed, with her eyes still closed. I looked down to see dark deep circles around her eyes. I looked at my reflection in my watch to see that I resembled a zombie as well. I didn't say anything. Ever since we got trapped, the elevator got hotter and hotter inside. Rachel stripped herself of nothing but jeans and her under shirt while I was ready to go shirtless it was so hot. The air also started to grow thin, since there was barely any way to get extra oxygen from the outside, we had been wasting it this whole time. My eyes started to close on their own involuntarily, as if I was falling asleep again, but this time, it felt like I was ready to pass away. Until something forced them open.

BANG!!!

It sounded like doors getting thrown down. Have they come back? Oh what the hell!? Who else would it be?! "Rachel! They're here!! WAKE UP!!" I scream in her ear and she jolts up, trying to breathe in, but failed to do so. "HELP!!!!" Rachel tried to scream. "HELP US!!!!" I tried to scream, but my voice cracked and we both started coughing. "TAEMINNIE!!" I heard Minho from the outside call my name. I could barely stand up. He sounded like he was on our floor. "MINHO HYUNG!! WE'RE IN THE ELEVATOR!!" I yelled as loud as my body would let me. Rachel only listened until..

"RACHEL?!?!" Two familier voices scream at the same time. "ONEW! JONGHYUN! WE'RE IN HERE!" Rachel screams. "They're in here, you guys" I heard Minho say to Onew hyung and Jonghyun hyung. "JJONG, ONEW, MINHO! ME AND RACHEL ARE IN HERE!!!" I yelled one more time. "Call 911" I hear Onew hyung demand from outside the elevator door. Soon, the police came and got me and Rachel out of the elevator, where we were treated with oxygen and food and pure love from our family. Yes, our SM family.

"Oh my, you guys scared us to death" Krystal yelled

"What happened?" Sulli yelled

"How'd you get stuck in the elevator?" Victoria yelled

"We're you in there when we left?" Luna yelled

"We're so sorry we forgot you!" Amber yelled

All the attention was making my head hurt even worse...

"You guys are okay, right?" Onew asked

"How long have been in that elevator?" Jjong asked

"Did you really think we weren't coming back?" Key asked

"We never thought that!" Rachel chimed in

"We missed you guys" Minho said

"And we missed you too" I said while hugging Minho around his neck while Rachel wrapped her arms around Onew hyung's waist. "I'll just say this, while we were stuck in there, she was my responsibility" I smiled, feeling like a man. "Thanks for taking care of her while I couldn't" Onew sighed "I owe you big time" Everyone really did miss us. Everyone went home with smiles on their faces, even Rachel