Short but light chapter. Not painful like the previous. I tell ya!

Hmm.

Not that painful.

I’m pretty sure, this isn’t. Believe me.

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New cover photo will be up next chapter. I really want to show it to you all! A very kind and awesome Royal chingu made it but T_________T till now, I can't seem to upload it. I'm having a problem with my Photobucket account. I-I don't know . . . tsk. I'll definitely show it to you next chapter! :)

November 12, 2015

It was 10 in the morning when Dara finished her shower in approximately 15 minutes. She put a large blue sweater on and a gray jogging pants from Adidas. Without combing and drying her hair, she lied on her soft, pink bed again. She had no schedule that day. She was free to do anything she wanted. And that is to sleep and still, do nothing.

Dara opened her eyes and reached for her cellphone beside the lampshade on her left side. She tapped that Instagram icon on the screen and she immediately looked for one profile account.

@leedonghae

To her disappointment, it was still in private. It was a couple of days ago when she visited his account to check if he posted any new picture besides that last post which he made in August and found out that he turned it to a private account. Even his Twitter account was in a private mode a day after his IG buzz happened. Netizens were speculating that someone hacked his accounts again. While she? There Dara was, lying on her bed, hair wetting her pillow and eyes glued on the phone, wishing that the fish would come and ring that doorbell . . .

DING-DONG!

Dara’s eyes flew open and she sprinted her way to her apartment’s door. She flung that door open while panting for a bit.

Could it be?

He’s going to surprise me for this day?

That all along, he is just planning for something to-

“Happy birthday!!!”

Silence.

Dara smiled softly. Tears began forming on her eyes. Although the person behind that door wasn’t him, these people stayed beside her no matter what. 2NE1 girls, Bigbang, Se7en, WINNER, Sanghyun, Durami and her mother. They were all smiling brightly at her. Bom and CL were holding a ‘Happy Birthday Dara!’ on the center. Park omma and Durami had colorful balloons on their hands. Se7en and Top raised the wine bottles while Taeyang and GD with the freshly picked flowers. Daesung, and Seungri were screaming ‘food’ with their eyes, along with Minzy and Thunder. WINNER had their gifts on their hands.

“Komawo,” told Dara in a shaky breath as she smiled at them warmly.

“We miss that smile,” told her mother in an also shaky voice. The other girls nodded in agreement.

“We miss you,” said Taeyang as he gave her his famous eye smile.

“I missed you all too.” Dara wiped the tear that fell on her left eye and chuckled. “Aish! I’m hungry!” And they all laughed.

“Let’s go party!” Seungri shouted and he ducked his way passed s and began hugging Dara to enter her pad. TOP and GD smacked him on the head as they followed him. They were all too noisy, saying their greetings and stories how they managed to get whatever they brought for Dara at once. The latter was just staring at the rowdy bunch. Yeah. She misses them so much.

2:18 P.M.

The guys were scattered on the floor, while the girls were on the couch as they all laughed wholeheartedly at Seungri and CL who were bickering at the center when they hilariously performed their own version of Troublemaker.

“Come on! Let’s do it one more time! I can’t let them see The Great, King Ri failed in any ways!” Seungri pleaded as he clung onto CL’s left knee.

“Get off me Panda! I don’t want to do it with you again! You look so ert!” CL shouted at him in a high-pitched voice. She glared at Seungri and began tugging his hair to let her go.

“Yah Lee Seunghyun. Just let go. You’re too much of nuisance already.” GD stood up and began pulling Seungri away from CL.

“Jiyong hyung.” The Bigbang’s maknae quickly stood from his kneeling and hugged GD on the waist. “Will you be my Hyunseung then?” He purred on the dragon’s neck. The WINNER boys laughed the loudest with Seungri’s ‘PDA moment’ with the leader.

“Da ! No!” Jiyong pulled away from him and began wiping his neck.

“What happened to Nyongtory?” Seungri kept on trying to act cute while pouting and swaying his body from left to right. GD just laughed at him, covering his cute gummy smiles. Dara and Durami hugged each other, trying not to fall from the couch because of laughing too much.

“Seunghyun.”

“Ah ne Seunghyun hyung?” Seungri turned to his back when he heard TOP’s low voice.

TOP began caressing Seungri’s side of the face and biting his lips in an attempt to act ily. “I’ll be your Hyuna, y boy,” told TOP in a hair-standing impersonation of a high school girl’s voice.

“Aniyo hyung! Not again!” Seungri flinched away and looked at his hyung incredulously. He went behind the laughing Park omma to avoid the Bingu TOP.

When the laughter subsided, Se7en stood on the center and looked at Dara smilingly. “Dara. Bestfriend.” Dara smiled at him and repeated, “Bestfriend!” Se7en winked at her and continued, “First of all, happy birthday! The first time I saw you, I knew you and I would go a really long way. I’m so blessed to have a friend like you. And as your friend, Dara . . . I’m always here for you. I’m just a one call or text away. Please do remember that. Arasso?” Dara nodded back at him and a tear escaped her left eye again. Durami hugged her sister tightly.

“Uh noona.” Daesung sipped the juice on his glass. “You are always saying that I’m your vitamins but in all honesty, you are that vitamins in YG. Your smiles and laughter give us energy every time. Happy birthday noona! Sanjangnim already approved our dream drum collaboration on the next YG concert! We should start practicing now noona!” Daesung exclaimed and hugged Dara.

“Noona,” Jinwoo jumped on the middle after Daesung.

“Yah! Jinwoo hyung! I thought we all agreed to have me first among the WINNER members?! I’m the one who is compatible to noona after all!” Mino exclaimed while eating a chicken leg.

“Yeah. You can be her dishwasher. Go to the kitchen. Now.” The diva, Taehyun rolled his eyes at Mino while drinking his wine sassily.

“I’m the leader! Plus, I’m the closest to noona! I’ve worked with her in We Broke Up!” Seungyoon protested.

“Shut up hoobaes!” Seungri shouted at the WINNER boys. “Aigoo! How come Jinwoo could go first before us?”

“B-but . . . I’m in the QT line.” Jinwoo simply told with those big and innocent eyes.

“What?” They all asked.

“Ne!” Dara backed him up. “Go on Cutie Jinwoo.”

“Aren’t I qualified in the QT line?” Seungri asked loudly in all seriousness.

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Silence.

Seungri bit his lower lip to ease his irritation with his so-called family. How could they not see my cuteness?! It’s overflowing that it could massacre people’s hearts at once! He thought. “Go on Jinwoo.” Paused. “Ppali!” He shouted while glaring at the famous lost kid of WINNER.

“A-a-arrasso hyung!” Jinwoo straightened his back up. “Dara noona.” He bowed at her while blushing. “Happy birthday noona! Honestly, you always look like a lady celebrating her 18th birthday. I’m starting to believe about the rumors-”

“Huh? What rumors?” Dara was puzzled for a bit. Park omma and Durami left the living room to prepare the extra boxes of pizza which the Bigbang boys ordered.

“That you are a vampire.” Jinwoo chuckled while covering his mouth with a hand. “You’re like the Korea’s Avril Lavigne. She’s a rockstar princess. You are our angel goddess.”

“Aigoo! That’s…” Dara hid her face with his words. GD excused himself from the crowd and went to the bathroom.

“It’s true noona. Since you are our angel goddess, we wish nothing but only happiness for you, Dara noona. I miss you so much in the YG building.” Jinwoo smiled at her genuinely which tugged Dara’s heart. How long had she been avoiding them? They are her friends. Her friends whom she can always count and lean on. Dara thought.

Seungri was about to stand up but Bom held him on the collar and pulled him down again as she went to the center. “That hurt Bom noona!”

Bom ignored Seungri’s attempt of cute glares. “Dara.” She looked straight at Dara’s eyes. “How could you shut us all out in your life?”

Silence.

Everybody tensed up. “Eonni!” CL and Minzy called her in disbelief. The boys cleared their throats while glancing at Bom and Dara at the corner of their eyes.

“Why?” Bom asked with those very hurt eyes. “When that stupid drug scandal of mine erupted, you told me that what I needed the most were the people who truly love and trust me. And those people are you guys. You said that I should let you guys help me in healing all the pain but . . . why you?” Bom paused as she wiped the tears that were falling on her cheeks. “Why did you keep us out? Why wo