Chapter 35

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"She's with Chahyun..." Sejoon said while watching a recorded video clip from last night in the corridor. Ten is standing beside him, who's panting as he ran to get to the control room.

At the video, Chahyun and Star seems to be talking. Until Star started to run.

"Did she injure herself?" Sejoon asked as he noticed Star's way of running. She's limping.

Ten nodded, "I saw her tripped."

"So clumsy." Sejoon hissed. Ten smiled in agreement.

They played another video of the entrance of the building. They saw her running away continuously until she's out of the frame.

"This may be the dead end." Sejoon stated as he started contacting Jaerim.

'What made her run?' Ten asked in his mind. Then he remembered Chahyun.

He stormed out of the room and walked fastly towards the practice room. He immediately saw Star's co-trainees chattering. He searched for Chahyun and he saw her sitting on a sofa beside Hime, and she's looking at him.

When they all noticed him, the room turned silent. The way Ten looks at Chahyun changed the atmosphere. Just by his stare, the atmosphere became heavy and awkward. Chahyun noticed that there's something that Ten wants from her. She had a hunch that it's about Star. So she stood and walked towards him.

"Why?" Chahyun asked with a soft voice, trying to sound casual despite the heavy atmosphere. Ten just stared at her, trying to think of the kindest words he could possibly use.

"Where is Star?" He asked in a low voice.

"I don't know too."

"What did you say to her before she ran?" He quickly asked.

"Can we talk about this outside?"

Ten immediately turned his back and walked out. Chahyun followed him and closed the door.

The trainees were left with their mouths hanging open.

"What is just happening?" Seomin asked. Hime just shrugged and scratched her forehead.

Meanwhile, the two were having a battle of stares. Chahyun sighed and started talking, "I don't know where she is. And like you, I'm worried too."

"You were the last person she's with last night, before we lost contact on her."

Chahyun nodded, "I know."

"What did you two talk about? What happened?" Ten remained calm while waiting for her answers.

Chahyun gulped before speaking, "I told her that..." she lowered her head and thought of saying the truth or not.

"What? Is there a problem between you two?"

She looked up at him and smiled, "Go find her and tell her there's nothing between us. She might gone crazy there, thinking about stupid things about love."

Ten's brows furrowed hearing her words, "What are you talking about?"

"I said to her that... I like you." She said with her heart beating fastly. She prepared herself with whatever his response would be.

"What? Why did you say that to her? She really might think something's between us 'cause she saw us together last night!" He said with a furious tone.

"I said it because it's true!" She answered back with the same level of tone.

"What the heck? Chahyun, seriously?"

"We've been chatting, talking, sometimes we're together and you didn't notice it right?" Pain started to show on her face, "Do you know what I feel everytime we talk about her and how great she is? Goodness! Everytime we're together, she's the topic!"

"Wait." Ten stopped her as he realized something, "Do you know something about us?"

"That you two are dating?" She asked with a low voice so that no one could hear. Eventhough they're like quarelling, she's still careful. "Yeah. I'm full of sense, don't you know it?"

Ten sighed, "Why..." he said in dismay of the situation.

"Love is inevitable. I know you know better about it. Despite the contract you signed, you still dated. You still fell in love. Because love is inevitable. Same as my situation here."

"But you know that I only see you as a friend."

"I know. And I understand." She nodded while smiling. "And I know she loves you too." Ten smiled hearing about Star. "But for now, you have to look for her. Before anyone could."

"Huh?" He said in confusion.

"I saw Yuta passed by quickly just a few seconds earlier." Then she pointed at Ten's back, "I think he's on his way."

"What about Yuta this time?"

Chahyun laughed, "I told you I'm full of sense!"

Ten gasped, "Damn!" Then he ran away without bidding a goodbye.

"Take care!" She said while waving at him tho he's not facing her. And then she just smiled. She smiled eventhough she's breaking inside.

"I made the right decision, right? Star already had enough." Then she slowly walked back to the room while composing herself.

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"Star... where are you? Tsk." Yuta mumbled as he glance left to right on the streets. When he ran out of the building, he didn't know where to start at all. But he just started walking to search for her.

Good thing, despite being a foreigner, he knew some places in Seoul and memorized its routes.

He jogged on the pavements and streets, looking around. He registered Star's face on the back of his eyes so that he could easily recognize her face once his eyes saw her.

He can feel his heart beating fastly due to jogging and nervousness of what could've happened to Star. He stopped for a while to breath but didn't stop looking around. Afterwards, he continued jogging.

He looked up when he felt something poured on him. He then realised it's starting to rain. It's not that strong so he decided to continue.

He stopped when he saw a girl a few meters away from him.

"Star..."

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Ten is currently jogging too in a different place. He seems to be on the main roads. He pass by a lot of people, making sure he have checked all of them to see Star. Compared to Yuta, he looks more worried. He actually wounded his self when he accidently bumped on a barbed wire. He got cuts on his palms.

"Star... Star..." he continuously chanted her name while looking for her.

He's already bumping other people as he's not looking on his way and just focused on looking for Star. It's cold but he can't feel it. He just focused on what he's doing and didn't think of resting or at least stopping for a while.

But the rain started to fall and he groaned in dismay. He placed his right hand above his eyes to cover it from the raindrops and continued walking. He roamed his eyes and a girl caught his attention.

"Star!"

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Star is walking alone on a street somewhere she don't know. She's familiarizing each and every signs that she's seeing to make sure she won't be back here and get lost.

She sighed as she felt her knees giving up. She also feels hungry already. Worse, she don't have her money with her.

"Oh God, help me. Someone, please save me!" She said with a low voice.

She looked around to see if there'll be something or someone she could seek for a help. But she only found unfamiliar faces.

"Ugh! This really sucks!" She madly said and kicked the innocent plant box near her. But she soon regretted it as she felt pain in her limbs.

She sat on the plant box and massaged her limbs. She also placed her left hand on her tummy and pressed it. She just thought it could help because it's now aching also.

She sighed and sniffed. She wanted to cry but she can't. Not in her situation, not in front of many people.

She rubbed her limbs to heat up as she felt cold because of the weather.

"Oh goodness! Why is this happening to me?"

When she woke up earlier in the morning, she already started walking to go home. But she can't find her way home. She can't remember the streets she passed by last night.

"Great. I escaped and now, I'm lost! Great!" She said to herself sarcastically.

She just continued massaging her legs when the rain started to shower.

Pissed, Star looked up and groaned, "Damn!" She lowered her head and just let herself be wet.

The people around her are walking fastly with their umbrellas. While Star just calmed herself and focused on massaging her limbs, ignoring the rain. She's just so pissed right now because of her situation that she can't think properly anymore. Her tears started to come out from her eyes but they're concealed with the rain. She silently cried while violently massaging her limbs.

She stopped and just leaned her head on her knees. She smiled sarcastically. She's almost losing her hope.

"Star?" She heard a faint voice from afar calling for her.

She immediately stood as she heard that familiar voice. But because of the sudden motion her body did, she suddenly felt dizzy and she almost lost her sight and all she saw was black. Until her knees folded and she fell down.

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