Chapter 8

Fragile Eternity

   "Princess, princess!" Shouted some guy from the EXO Planet together after Claude disappeared. They were hugging her from the front, the back, holding her hand, etc. She was shocked by their actions.

   "Guys, stop it." Said Luhan.

   "Do not act like that to the Princess." Said Xiumin.

   "Sorry Princess, they are some children who do not know any manners." Suho said.

   "Why?" Protested Tao.

   "Isn’t this the right things to do to get closer to each other?" Chen added.

   "Everyone, let's go inside first before discussing this matter further." Luhan said.

   Some of these guys stopped hugging Lara and kept a distance after seeing Lara's stunned expression as well as the fear of receiving a creepy stare from Luhan and other older guys because of their behavior towards Lara. They also agreed to go back into the mansion and they went to the family room. There, they sat around Lara who was in the middle.

   Lara thought in silence for a long time before finally deciding to talk.

   'Oh my god...What just happened?’ She said in her mind.

   'All right. Regardless of what happened, I have to try to get through it. '

   'But, 12 people? Seriously?'

   'Wait, then I have to make some rules in order to avoid chaos here.'

   'Where should I start?'

   'How do I start with this ‘bond’ thing?’

   Various thoughts raging in Lara's head. Unconsciously she bit her thumb. She then looked at the 12 young boys. Starting from Chen, Kai, Sehun, DO, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, Tao, Kris, Suho, Xiumin, Lay, and Luhan. As her eyes met with Luhan’s, he smiled and said, "Do not worry, we'll help you Princess." He said.          

   For a moment Lara forgot that Luhan could read her mind.

   'He must have read the thoughts raging in my head just now.’ She nodded toward Luhan.

   Then after a long sigh, "All right, all of you please listen to me." Said Lara.

   "I'm going to make some rules here that you must obey."

   "First, if we are really going to get close to each other, I do not want any further formality." Said Lara telling the first rule.

   Regardless of the lack experience that Lara had about how to make friends, Lara decided that she should treated everyone equally.

   "But, you're our Princess..." said Kai frowning.

   "Yes Kai, but I want us to be like a friend. Friends do not do things formally like that. You can call me Lara. Okay?" Said Lara.

   "Okay." They said all together and making her smile, "Good."

   "Secondly, you should not fight and should resolve any problems with fine manners and well discussed." She did not want any protest then she promptly notify the next rule.

   "Third, you should not use your power unless it is extremely needed."

   "Princess ... I mean Lara, unfortunately we can not promise that one." Luhan said.

"We are your bodyguard, we should always be on your side and will use our powers at any time if you are in danger." Luhan said explained.

"Well if that's the case, okay." Lara said.

"Then, does anyone have any opinion on how we can get a closer bond with an effective way?" She asked trying to ask their opinion.

   "Playing together!" Cried Tao

   "Laughing together." Said Chanyeol and Baekhyun

   "I think spending time together will make us close with each other." Said Suho

   "Okay. Then again, how should we spend our time together? Together like this or split some people?" She asked again, bluntly.

   "I think it's better if you spend time with one of us every day." Said Chen.   

   Hearing what Chen said, all of them did not argue and just nodded as if agreed with Chen’s proposal.

   "Well, then who is going to spend time with me first?" Asked Lara.

   A second later everyone became very noisy. All of them wanted to get the first turn.

   "Guys, calm down. Well, I'll just invent lottery then." Said Lara

   She then made a simple lottery by writing down numbers on 12 pieces of papaer and asked them to wait and not to peep or cheating.

   "Luhan, please do not read my mind for a minute." She pleaded to Luhan.

   Luhan nodded and smiled, "Okay."

   Five minutes later Lara came back and bring the lottery paper, each person randomly select a paper that had been prepared by Lara. Then after making sure everyone was getting the paper, they began to open up the paper that  they had choose earlier.

   "So, who get the first turn?" Lara asked curiously.

   "I do." Said Lay and smiles happily and exposing his dimples.

   Followed by Chen, Luhan, Xiumin, D.O, Kai, Sehun, Tao, Baekhyun, Kris, Suho, and lastly Chanyeol. She also noted the order in her notebook so that she wouldn’t forget it.

   After that Lara took the 12 boys from the EXO Planet to get around her mansion as well as determining their respective rooms.

   Clarence family mansion was not as large as a castle but the mansion was quite large for the size of the mansion in general. The room available is more than 15 rooms.

   In each room there was a King Size bed that fit up to 3 people, but Lara gives the freedom to choose their own room. The oldest guys on average prefer to have separate rooms such as: Xiumin, Luhan, Kris, Suho and Lay. While the other did not mind if they have to share a room.

   Then after that Kate suggested Lara to go to the Mall to buy supplies and equipment for the daily activities of the 12 guys. She did not know what was their life on EXO Planet was, but she thought that they were no different from the humans on earth. The difference lied only in the power that they had. She also agreed with the Kate's idea and rushed to go to the Mall.

   She initially got confused because it was not possible to invite all 12 guys at the same time to go to a very crowded place like a mall. Then finally she decided that only 5 guy who would go with her. They were DO, Chen, Suho, Xiumin and Tao. But she promised to invite the others again next time.

   The Five of them then left. In her Mansion there were indeed cars, but Lara was never allowed to use it.

   “Very high risk of accident if driving with a car.” Said Kate

   But for this time she let her travelling with a car because a considerable Mall's distance before finally ensured that the five guy could drive it well.

   'Well, I guess they also have the talent to learn things quickly.' Lara thought to herself.

   Suho was the one who drove, DO was sitting next to him. Then in the middle seat there were Lara and Chen, while in the back seat there were Xiumin and Tao.

   After arriving at the Mall, Tao felt really excited because he had never seen a building like that before so he spontaneously hugged Lara from behind as he jumped towards her.

    "Yeaaaah! Thank you for taking me to come with you." Said Tao and made her a little bit surprised. The others were yelling at Tao which he immediately apologized for startling Lara but then Lara his head and said, "It’s okay. I'm just a little surprised." and smiled.

   When entering the Mall, the guy who directly act protectively stood around Lara, with Chen holding her right arm, DO  holding her left hand and then Suho and Xiumin watching them from behind with cautious. She initially felt uncomfortable at the amount skinship she received. But, after seeing the serious expression that emanated from all the guys, she couldn’t do anything about it.

   They then immediately bought supplies for the 12 guys from the EXO Planet.

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Charlotte0619 #1
Chapter 7: I love this story already x
Yuki-Nyx #2
Chapter 48: I really love this story :)
Can’t wait for the next chapter!
Thanks!
Fighting!!!!!!
Lolypop123 #3
Chapter 48: Can't wait for more
DementorBehindYou #4
Thanks for translating! It's always sad to miss out on stories simply because of a language barrier, so you have my eternal gratefulness!
Minyun25
#5
Chapter 3: What's up with the short chapters?
gracelynjtc
#6
Chapter 46: AHAHAHHAA THOMAS BRODIE SANGSTER OAIHSFOHOSDH YESSSSSS
gracelynjtc
#7
okay bingeread lemme grab my hot chocolate
vitaminzxx
#8
I read the description and I'm already so interested in it! Thanks for translating. Hwaiting!
Panda_coco
#9
Chapter 11: When Lara was blowing his neck, I remembered Defcon and Coni in Weekly Idol when they are doing the same thing to Lay (Exo Episode )