chapter fifty-one | trapped 

"WHAT!?" They all shouted, Daesung even slammed his hands on the table, Seungri almost choked while both Youngbae and TOP closed their eyes as if suffering from headache. Chaerin just looked at her while Bom was in a total panic mode. Jiyong, on the other hand, kept his silence, his composure in what he heard. He knew this was coming, heck, they knew this was coming. He looked at her as Dara continued eating. They were having their lunch at Dara's favorite restaurant when Dara finally broke the news to them.

This past week, the changes were coming too fast, too drastic that she felt like she was slipping away from them.

"You heard me," Dara sighed. "I will be transferring to YG International School."She kept eating as if she just said something not important.

"Dara, are you hearing yourself?" Youngbae asked. Dara looked at him.

"Noona, you can't transfer to YG." Daesung hysterically added.

Dara raised her brow, "And why not? I can't see anything wrong with it."

"Everything is wrong with it!" Seungri slammed his hand on the table.

"Okay," Dara sighed. "Tell me what's so wrong with me 'transferring' to YG," she rolled her eyes.

"Dara, you know what's wrong with it," TOP hissed. Dara looked down.

"Besides, it's just almost five months and graduation is coming, is it really necessary for you to transfer to YG?" Chaerin chipped in, glancing worriedly at Jiyong who kept his silent eating.

"I know about that of course but Minho assured me–," she wasn't able to finish what she was saying when Jiyong accidentally let go of his glass.

"Ah, sorry," he stood up and began picking up the broken pieces, one of the staffs came and said that they will take care of it. Jiyong bowed down in apology before looking at the shattered pieces. "Are you okay?" Dara worriedly asked, her hand squeezing his knee. Jiyong looked at her and contemplated for a second. This past days, he was not okay. He couldn't be okay with everything happening, moving too fast. He felt like he was left in midst of moving dimension, watching the girl he loved to be slowly moving so far from him.

He was about to answer when the heard someone entered the restaurant. "I keep telling you that this place is awesome! The food is superb," the heard a familiar voice followed by others. Soon, they came into view. Their uniforms felt like big sore in the eyes. "Hyunseung!" Dara called waving her hand. She stood up to walk to them but Jiyong held her hand. She looked at him, everyone did.

"I'm not okay," he mumbled, head lowered. Dara's expression softened. She sat back and gently placed her hand on his cheek. She lifted his head but Jiyong held her hand, keeping his head low. "Please, don't leave," he honestly doesn't know what he meant. Does he meant about her transferring... or does meant about her slowly becoming distant.

Ever since they got back from their out of town, Dara has been busy with her real family. Minho and Sanghyun was dropping her to school and every day they fetch her. She would gladly come to them. One time he tried to call her, she changed her number. This coming saturday Yang Hyunsuk will officially introduce her to everyone and that party of hers was the most talked about. She was still with them but the changes in her was so drastic that they don't know how to move whenever they were with her. She was not shouting anymore, she was wearing proper uniform and she suddenly became this well mannered rich girl.

One day, he finally had her for a date but one phone call from her twin brother she immediately left, saying sorry and promising that they will just go out next time.

She was a totally different Dara.

"Jiyong..." he looked up at her when he captured the pain in her voice. His eyes focused on hers. He was taken aback when he saw the thing he failed to see before. Why didn't he see that? Was he too busy worrying about an entirely different thing?

"Oh, Dara?" They all turned their attention to Minhowho just entered the vicinity. "Minho," there was an obvious shock on her voice. The latter smiled. "Should I cry seeing my fiancee being with someone else?" He laughed which earned teasings from his friends. Her fists clenched tightly just as how her jaw.

"You told me that you broke up with him already, tsk, Dara someone like you shouldn't lie," he smirked. Yoseob patted Minho's back. "Dude, you are harsh," he laughed. Everyone was laughing and teasing aside from Hyunseung who kept his gaze away from them.

Dongwoo draped his arm on his shoulder, "Hyunseung, what do you think? Should Minho punish his fiancee?" He laughed, putting a funny accent on the word fiancee. Hyunseung just removed his arm, "I am hungry," he coldly announced now earning mockings from his friends.

"Dara,"Jiyong called and Dara can't looked at him. "I'm sorry,"she sighed before smiling at him. Silence swallowed them whole. Each of them stopping themselves from impulsively beating Minho and his friends. They knew in doing so, they will widen the gap more.

"Dara!" Minho called and she looked at him grimly. "Come here, I reserved a seat for you," he smiled impishly. Dara took a deep breathed in before standing up. Jiyong grabbed her hand but she ignored him. She dutifully sat next to him. Minho automatically draped his arm on her shoulder. Jiyong and others just watched them. Minho leaned to whisper something to her, shock registered in her widened eyes but she looked down for a moment before she smiled and turned to look at him. Minho leaned down and claimed her lips. Dara closed her eyes as tears fell down her cheeks.

It happened fast but Jiyong grabbed Minho throwing him to one of the tables. Minho crashed on the floor with the table. A fight quickly errupted with Bigbang and Beast, Minho and Hyunseung's group. Even Bom was joining the fight until police came and tore the two groups apart.

" you, Lee! I don't know what you are doing with Dara but I will get down to it and I assure you when I did, I'll return you to hell!" Jiyong was still thrashing from the hold of the polices who came.

"Kwon, you are too late! I am already burning in hell!"He chuckled, breathing heavily.

"Minho!" Dara looked at him. "That's enough, this is my fault, I will not do it again," she almost hissed. Minho stood straight, telling the police that he was already calm. He wrapped his arm around her, pulling her on a hug before he leaned to whisper something.

"Just make sure because I know when to pull all this strings, Sandara." Dara felt her tears burned in but she made sure to keep them at bay. She gave a nod, fists clenching tightly because of the defiance she kept to herself.

•••

She was lying on the huge bed, staring at the ceiling. Gently, her eyelids shut close and eveything flowed like the calm waters of the river trying to find the sea.

The moment she reunited with her parents, she told them how grateful she was to see them and to know that they were okay. They spend hours of talking after they asked her to change her wet clothes. They were excited and longing but when the moment she was waiting for came, she told them that she will not leave her parents and she wanted to stay with them. She somehow promised that she will be visiting them often and she told them, assured them, of the love she has for them but she was not prepared to be away from her parents and to change the way she was living. She was happy and even though she knew it was selfish, she wanted to keep living with them.

They couldn't understand it at first but eventually they compromised but that's when Lee Minho came in.

After their out of town, her parents asked if she can at least spend one night at their house, Sanghyun also pleaded so she didn't refuse to it. When she was about to sleep, someone knocked on her door thinking it was Sanghyun, she stood up to open the door, only to see Minho standing behind it with a lopside smile on his lips, both hands inside his pockets. Before she can even ask what he needed he was already inside her room.

"Finally this useless room is put in use." Dara glared at him as he roamed around her room. "I will not keep this long, I want you to be a good girl and live here, be a perfect little heiress like my plan."

"Excuse me?" Dara crossed her arms over her chest.

"Like what I said, I want you to be a perfect little heiress who do what I tell you to do," he smiled.

" you too,"she snarled at him. Minho smirked walking closer to her.

"Feisty. Listen, Yang Sandara I didn't spend my whole life putting up this stage just for you to ruin it. So do what I tell you to do," he said inch away from her parted lips.

Dara took a step backward and was about to land a strong punch on his face but Minho dodge it, he gripped her wrist, twisting it as he slammed her on the wall. "I like your fighting spirit but we need to tone it down," he chuckled.

"Let go of me, bastard!" Dara kept thrashing underneath but he just pinned her down more.

"Tell me, Sandara, do you know the feeling of working hard for your dreams and when you have finally reached it, two of your best, best, best friends betrayed you stripped you of everything yours and threw you off when there was nothing left to steal from you. Tell me, do you, Sandara?" Dara grunted and kept struggling to get out of his cage.

"Me, I don't know the feeling," he laughed pulling her from the wall and pushing her to the floor where she fell face first. Minho grabbed his phone and dialled a number, Dara pushed herself up and threw a spinning kick that targeted his jaw only he dodged without breaking a sweat. "But my father does though," he smiled stepping backward, dodging her all out attack.

He captured her wrist, pulling her he twisted her arm, pressing it behind her back. "Oh, hello, yes please, I got her here," he talked to the one on the other line. "Yes, please. Phone for you, Sandara," he said, way too cheerful. He then pressed the phone to her ear. Dara was still trying to get away from his hold only when she heard the noise on the other line, she was stopped.

It was Mr. and Mrs. Park being beat by group of people.

Her tears quickly fell. "What the hell are you doing to them!? Let me go! Mom! Dad!" Minho pushed her and ended the call. "Got your attention now? Perhaps, geez, those two should be imprison, what they did is kidnapping, you know," he smiled. Dara was too pissed that her body moved on its own. She launched another punch that he was able to catch with his hand.

"This is taking too long, becaus you won't listen to me." He sighed. "I have many men under me willing to participate in torturing and beating those 'Mom' and 'Dad' of yours. Not only that, I control the medication given to Sanghyun and Hyunsuk. If I played with the dosage or decided to change the drugs, they can say hello to God for me," upon realizing what he meant, Dara's strenght disappeared, leaving her body weak. It was her anger alone that kept her standing.

"Best part is, you know Yoon Jinhwa?" Dara's eyes widened at the mention of Jiyong's butler. "He works for me! One call and bang, he'll bury a bullet in your boyfriend's head." He's evil, she knew. There was nothing human in him.

"What do you want?" Her voice was shaky. "What the do you want!?" She snarled, her tears falling.

"Simple, I am your God, Sandara. Follow whatever I tell you and everyone is safe," he smiled.

" you!" She cried in frustration. How can he do this? Minho let out a hearty laugh. He went to her, grabbed her wrist. And before she can react he took her lips on a kiss. His tongue slipping in her surprised parted lips. Dara quickly bit his tongue. They parted both having that rusty taste of blood in their mouth. Minho laughed before cupping her face with one hand, "You will be my perfect doll... my leading lady. Sandara, make sure I am always satisfied," he wrapped his arm on her eyes before dipping again to kiss her. This time she didn't fight, not when everyone was in the line.

Dara quickly stood up when someone entered the room. She stared at him, he was stunning in his evening blue suit. Tonight, they will have a family dinner and a quick meeting about the upcoming party.

"You look stunning," he smiled, she wearing his chosen evening blue dress for her. She smiled, politely thanking him like how she was thought. "Surprisingly, I miss your smart mouth," he chuckled and her patience was slowly vanishing.

"Now, you do?" There was an edge on her tone.

He walked and gave her a back hug. "I always do," he whispered against her neck and she shivered at the warmth of his breath. Every day she was thinking of a way to turn the tables but days had come and go and she was still stuck in square one.

"Why are you doing this again?" She asked, breathless. Minho placed his hands over hers, gently it glided to her shoulder. He made her face him. "I told you because I want to get everything Yang Hyunsuk owned. I will marry you and I will start with that, what you will inherit will be mine as well. Sanghyun will willingly give everything his for his beloved noona," he glided his hands back to her hands which he lifted to land long kiss on her knuckles. "Then I will have everything Kwon has. He will give it up for you, you know." He smiled, gently tucking her hair behind her ear. He was sick.

"Your lips need some life in them," he leaned down, the moment their lips met they kissed gently, then deeply but they lacked the love that a kiss should intensify. "There," Minho ran his thumb against her lip.

"So tonight, you will suggest about our engagement," he placed his arm around her waist as they walked out of the door. Minho landed a small kiss on her bare shoulder. "Good luck charm," he winked.

•••

Jiyong was on his nth bottle yet he couldn't feel the liquor kicking in since he can still remember her kissing that ing Lee Minho. He can still feel the pain. He was about to finish his bottle only Youngbae snatched the bottle and drank it instead. Bigbang sat on the empty space next to him.

"You could have called us," Seungri grabbed one bottle of beer and drank it. TOP has fully recovered but fresh with bruise from the fight in the restaurant with those YG troublemakers. "What's fun in getting drunk alone?" Daesung asked, slummed on his seat, watching the dancefloor.

"There's something wrong," Jiyong pushed himself to sit straight.

"Something wrong?" TOP raised his brow, grabbing his own bottle. "Hell yes, Dara is losing her head." He took a straight gulps from the cold drink.

"Not that," Jiyong waved his hand.

"What do you mean then?" Youngbae opened a new bottle of beer.

"She is hiding something? I don't know but what happened a while ago looked like a scripted show..." he slurry said. Bigbang looked at him. "I don't know, it doesn't look good enough to be real," he muttered raking his hair.

"Scripted?" Seungri blinked before drinking again.

They were about to continue their conversation when a girl wearing tight black leather dress in which she looked like spilling from. The girl smiled when she leaned down to whisper something on Youngbae before discreetly handing him a piece of paper. "Make sure Kwon is sober and follow the instruction on the paper if you wanted to know the truth." The girl pulled away with a wink and Youngbae smiled. After that she left.

"Kwon, let's go," he said and everyone looked at him surprised. "Daesung and Seungri help me, TOP pay the bill first," knowing Youngbae moves with sense they followed with questions.

The moment they got inside TOP's Range Rover, Jiyong was sobbered up. Youngbae quickly opened the paper. Inside it was an address written, the problem was the travel was two hours. "TOP, I'll take the wheel, we need to drive for two hours," he sighed. TOP just nodded not really being the driver.

After two hours of driving, others fell on a quick nap yet when they were getting close, the questions began arising.

"What did the girl told you?" Daesung yawned.

"To make sure that Kwon is sober, she told me that if we wanted to know the truth we need to follow the instruction." He answered honestly.

"So this is part of it?" Seungri asked. He nodded.

"Who is it?" Jiyong asked. Youngbae shrugged.

"We are about to know," he said the moment he turned into a private road leading to a vacation house.

The moment they parked the car, TOP opened one of the compartment of his car, he tossed one gun he has to Seungri. Seungri checked the gun before tucking it behind. "Better to be sure than sorry," TOP locked the gun before tucking it on his belt. No one said anything. They went down, they quickly went to the door. Before they can even knock the door was opened by a cute lady wearing a black nightie and a white jacket on.

"Come in."She smiled. They bowed down and got inside where they were served with cup of tea and cookies. They looked at each other before to the expectant lady. She laughed, "Don't worry, poison is not one of the ingredients," they all just scratched the back of their head when someone knocked on the door. "Oh, he's here," the girl went to open the door as they all gently placed the cup down and staying alert and prepared.

The moment they came in both Seungri and TOP pulled the gun aiming to him. Hyunseung laughed raising his both arms as the girl hid behind him. "Geez, chill down," he laughed and they both brought the gun down and finally tucking it back to where they got it.

"I'm glad you are all here, we will be needing many people as much as possible." He smiled walking towards them. He bent down to grab one cookie in which he quickly ate it. "Hmm, Hyuna, you are the best baker there ever is," he smiled to the girl who in return just giggled before planting a sweet kiss on his lips. "Baby, just go up stairs I need to settle something with these jerks," he grinned while they all violently reacted.

After Hyunseung pleaded for his dear life, they finally was able to talk.

"So why did you have to make us go here just for a talk?" Youngbae began.

"Better to be safe than sorry, Seoul is Minho's turf and there's no way I am taking my chances." Hyunseung grabbed another cookie.

"So this is indeed about Minho," Jiyong looked at him intensely.

Hyunseung sighed, "This is why I hate attachments." He scratched the     back of his head. "Don't get me wrong, Minho and I have known each other ever since. We did planned this together and up until now I am working under him but I am done seeing Dara being treated like that. I need to save her, we need to save her and I, on the other hand, wanted to save Minho from himself."

"Save Dara? Being treated like what?" Jiyong was now unsettled, thoughts plagued him. Hyunseung sighed.

"Minho is using Dara to have his every plan come to life. The first plan was to find someone who can pose as Sanghyun's long lost sister. It was Hyuna who was supposed to do that only even before we began the plan Minho crossed path with the real heiress of YG Industries." Hyunseung explained, crossing his legs.

"Wait, this is too confusing. What plan? And why the hell are you even doing this?" Daesung chipped in while ruffling his hair.

Hyunseung sighed, "This is a lot to explainso listen first then ask me questions after I am done explaining okay?" He began his explanation of every plan, he even told them what happened on the first night that Dara came back to the mansion.

"So that tard Lee Minho has Dara at her neck," TOP hissed. Hyunseung nodded. "For christ's sake you know how hero wanna be that girl is," Hyunseung added.

"Now you know, what the truth is. Are prepared for the counter attack?" Hyunseung smirked. Everyone looked at him and then they all gave a nod.

•••

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Okay. This is cliche and i don't even want to talk about it.

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