And there we were standing in front of the entrance of an amusementpark on this rather sunny but also cool afternoon. Kevin seemed very nervous, which helped me stay calm. If he is loosing his head, I don't have to be all over the place, too. He was walking up and down in front of me and checking, if we really didn't forget anything. The weather forecast said there was a 25 % chance of rain, so we brought two big umbrellas. The wind would come from north, cooling off the whole country why we also brought two extra jackets for the girls. We even prepared a tiny lunch – just in case – and a lot of more things you wouldn't prepare for a simple date. But Kevin wanted to do everything, so I just joined is plans and didn't give any more thought to it. He knew, what we had to do. And so all the stuff we had prepared were waiting in the car. Actually, it was stupid to leave it there, since we wouldn't be able to use it in case of an emergency or rain. But I couldn't think more into it, since the girls finally arrived.

 

„Hey!“, Kevin said to Tea. Somehow I didn't like the way Martina looked at me, when she walked past me to Kevin. I'm sure Tea told her about our night together and I had to do my best to not blush in front of them. Girls. On the other side, it must mean something good if she even told her friend about me. I reached for her, put my hand on her waist and suddenly a lot of thoughts went through my head. Were we a couple? Was I allowed to kiss her? Or should I rather hug her? Kiss on the left, kiss on the right or directly on the lips? Was Kevin watching and did he think we were strange?

Because of the crazy monologue in my head I ended up hugging her rather half-hearted and kissing her neither on the lips, nor the cheek. I kissed her somewhere in between and tried to read her reaction. There was...none. Not happy. Not sad. Only awkward, just like I felt. Oh perfect. Idiot. To free us from the awkward atmosphere I ran over to Kevin, who already stand next to the counter and was about to pay for our tickets. I payed my and Teas ticket and handed it over to her. „Here. Do you already know what you want to do?“, I asked and promptly got a loud: „Viking!“. But not from Tea, it was Martina. I was looking to her and Kevin, who already seemed to be in their own little world. I pointed my finger at Martina and looked at Tea, to see if she liked her suggestion. She shrugged, smiled and I answered her also with a shrug. And with that we followed them – or rather Martina – to ride the Viking. On the way there, we didn't really talk about a lot. Somehow we couldn't stop talking about Martina and Kevin, who were walking just in front of us, holding hands. It was like mothers who exchanged information about their dating kids. I told Tea what Kevin told me and vice versa. We talked about bus drives, first kisses and holding hands. As if we were their parents. But we couldn't stop feeling happy about their childlike happiness and their joy. And whenever they were doing something cute with each other in front of us, we pointed at them, looked at each other, smiled shily and turned away. But what the hell was wrong with me? I already had this girl in my bed, we did so many things and then I'm awkward during a simple date? Why couldn't we talk about us? As long as our 'children' were walking in front of us, we wouldn't be able to talk about anything different. That was a frustrating thought, so I ended up making the viking our first and last couple-attraction. I took Teas hand and pulled her away from the other two, without saying goodbye. Those two were always talking with each other, so they wouldn't even notice if we were gone. Just to be safe and to not worry them in case they might notice we were gone, I wrote Kevin a message to tell him why we disappeared. With that, I tried to get back to talking about what we were talking about before angel-Kevin and his faithful companion made us look at them. „So... Do you already know what you want to do?“

Tea grinned at me and nodded. „Headbands.“

That was something I had to know. I rolled my eyes playfully and nodded. „Okay, anything you want. If I have to. But pick something hot for me!“, I said and pulled her with me into the next shop, to buy us one of those headbands. She wanted to pick something for each other, so I ended up not getting a headband. In Teas opinion there were no good headbands, so she gave me an bracelet. Nothing expesive, but there was a nice pattern on it. I put the headband I'd chosen for her away and looked for something similar to her present. In the end, I also decided on a bracelet in green and white, made of stone-pearls in heartshape. It looked like it wouldn't break easily.

„And now?“, I asked her.

„Hm... How about the rollercoaster?“, said Tea and started to pull me all around the park to get on the fastest rollercoaster in Seoul. We enjoyed our time on it. As well es the time in the ghost house, where Tea didn't let go of me and always stayed close to me. She really challanged my decision to not kiss her in front of other people. Then we also got onto some tiny cars to have a race and even though we really enjoyed our time, we had to take a break. That's why we decided to go into one of those typical amusementpark restaurants. Nobody seemed to notice me, so I enjoyed it even more, but I could listen to some girls at a table next to ours.

 

„I'm sure that was Kevin. If only the picture didn't turn out so bluddy...“ The girl sighed deeply and practically threw her mobile phone on the table. „But why would he be here? And on top of that with such an ugly foreign girl?! Maybe they are filming something?“

„Oh, smarty, and did you see one of the other members or at least a camera team? No? Then shut up.“

 

I tried to hide myself while being not too obvious. When I caught Teas eyes, I saw that she also listened to the girls. She looked as if she was asking for help. But what should we do at this point? What if others caught Kevin, too? I looked for my phone in my bag when in that moment, one of the girls jumped up and shouted: „Oh, there's Eli!“

She pointed her finger at me and all the others were jumping up as well. I tried to signal Tea that I'm sorry and that I couldn't do anything before I turned to the girls and smiled. Like always I waved at them and even managed to say „Hey, guys.“ to greet them. It didn't sound like me at all, but they didn't seem to notice. With my greeting they started to scream and made even more. With that, I realized what a big mistake I just made, since they only made more and more people realize that 'someone famous' was here. Many people came to ask for pictures and signs

 

„Please, one after the other. But no pictures. Okay?“, I said while trying to sound friendly and not making them notice Tea. It worked. But maybe it worked too well. They practically kicked her off the chair and soon I was surrounded by people and couldn't see her at all. I frantically signed everything they were giving me, so that they would leave soon. When I noticed that this would never end, I stood up. Where was she? I unwillingly hugged one of the girls, that was nearly sitting on my lap before, and searched for Tea. She wasn't here. On the way out I hugged two more girls, who threw themselfes in my arms and tried to find Tea somehwere around this restaurant. If someone found out that Eli from U-KISS was in an amusementpark... I didn't want to think about it. I got lost of the girls who tried to follow me by entering the toliet. There, I took my phone. Kevin or Tea? It had to be Tea. I tried to call her and actually got to hear her ringtone. Oh, she was so cute. A song from U-KISS... Wait wha-? I could hear her ringtone! I looked around panicking to find out from where the song came. It was the females bathroom. Why wouldn't she pick up? I sneaked a peek through the door and could see that nobody was inside. With that, I entered the room and what I found there still makes my heart stand still. Not really able to stand alone, Tea was hanging over the sink, bleeding from her nose and sobbing. She tried to stop the bleeding. I could even see a cut on her lip – not very deep, but definitely there. She also cooled the area next to hear eye with a wet paper towel. What in the world...?

 

„Tea?“

 

She must had only notice me now, because she stopped sobbing, looked at me shocked and after she realized it was only me, she sank on her knees and started to cry hard. I only noticed now how much she was shaking. I took two big steps to get to her and hugged her tightly. I didn't dare to say anything, I just wanted to hug her, make her feel less miserable and give her confort.

We were sitting like that for a few minutes, until a woman came in. She was so shocked by my presece that she turned around and went straight out. It was time to move. I took Tea, gave her my cappy, took a few of the papertowels with me and went outside. I was looking for a place where we could have time of our own. I found something that could do for now: Between an attraction and one of the sweet stalls. I made her sit on the floor and started to clean her face. She stopped bleeding from her nose, but dry blood was everywhere on her face. I concentrated on cleaning her, while she was doing something on my jacket. „What?“, I asked, without looking away from her face.

„I'm sorry, my blood is everywhere on you.“

I took a little peek on my jacket and shook my head. There were only two drops of blood. „It's okay, I'll clean it at home. Keep still.“

 

Soon I had completely cleaned her and looked at the bump next to her eye. Nothing too visible. In two or three days it should be gone. And the cut on her lip also didn't seem too serious. I still looked at her to see, if there was something unnoticed by me, when I suddenly heard a voice behind me.

 

„I thought we made clrea, that you shouldn't get close to our Oppa.“

 

Oh, so they were this kind of fangirls. I pretended not to hear them and gave Tea a kiss on the cut of her lip. I hadn't even toucht her yet, when the girls behind me already started to scream. So I turned around and looked at them with a surprised face. „Oh, I didn't know you were here! Hey.“, I said and tried to pull Tea up, who still seemed like a body without soul. According to what they said, they must've been the ones who beat her up. I saw some of them taking out their mobile phone to take pictures of Tea and me, so I acted fast and threw my jacke over Teas head, lifted her up and ran out of the bathroom, leaving behind a big group of screaming girls. They tried to follow us, screamed really nasty threats at us but gave up in the end. In this situation it wasn't possible to think about more fun at the amusementpark, so I took tea straight to the car and put her on the backseat. Thanks to Kevins thoughtfullness we had a few blankets in the trunk – thank god, and I was laughing at him for packing so many things. I threw one of the blankets over Tea and sat down next to her. I took out the can with Tea – also prepared by Kevin – and gave her a cup.

„I'm sorry for what happened.“, I said and her head caringly. „Those were pretty dedicated Kiss Mes we met there. You really have ambitious Fans, Eli.“, Tea said and tried to sound calm, what made me feel even worse. I pulled her closer to me and sighed. I was so sorry for what happened. Why did it have to be today? If Kevin and I... Oh no, Kevin. I gave Tea a kiss on her forehead, put my arm around her shoulder and tried to find my mobile phone in my pocket.

 

„We should check if the other two are all right.“

 

I wrote Kevin a short message and it didn't take long until he replied. He was in a taxi, they also got found out. I was happy, that the both of them were well and looked back to Tea, who was staring into her cup of tea. I felt so bad. I didn't manage to protect my girl.

 

„I'm so, so sorr-“

„It's okay.“

„How can it be okay? You were beat up by a group of girls!“

„Yes, but...“, she said and stopped. She seemed to be thinking. Only now I realized that maybe she was just trying to find courage for her next statemet.

„...that seems to be the price for such a great boyfriend like you, right?“

I couldn't even say anything to that. She seemed to slowly calm down, even though she sill looked scared. But she had a beautiful smile on her face while she said 'great boyfriend'. I should take care not to get too arrogant over her comments. For a second I wondered if Martina already said something similar to Kevin. I'm sure not. 1:0 for the Ela pairing. Oh yeah. With this sentence, I had forgotten what happened with the fans, which also helped Tea forgetting what had happened. We were sitting on the backseat of the car, ate the lunch us boys had prepapred (I really did help a lot!) and talked about everything and anything – like it should've been all day today. And the best thing was: I didn't have to worry about being seen by anybody. Whenever I felt like it, I gave Tea a kiss, held her hand or put my arm around her shoulder. We were so relaxed in the car, thet we ended up lying down at the backseat and Tea was resting hear head on my chest and nearly missed that it started to get dark. How fast time passed. I gave her a ride home and drove home myself, to prepare for the next day of work.