Remembering Elizabeth (Featuring Suho and Sehun)

Sehun spent the next three days trying to make up for what he had done and it was driving me crazy. On day three I couldn’t take any more of the pampering. I waited until he was in the shower and I snuck off to see Suho.
I thought he would be at breakfast with the others but Bacon told me that he was in the pool room swimming laps. That’s where I found him. I sat on the edge of the pool and dangled my legs in the warm water.
Suho didn’t see me at first and I enjoyed watching him swim so I didn’t make my presence known. He was a great swimmer. He went from one end of the pool to the other very quickly and smoothly. When he swam close enough to see me, I think it startled him because he rolled in the water and came up sputtering. He started laughing and said, “You scared me to death! How long have you been there?” He waded over to me.
“A little while,” I said and looked away from him. I had forgotten how much wet Suho affected me.
Without thinking, I think, Suho grabbed my leg and I was extremely aware of his wet hand on my thigh. It made me jump and he laughed again. “How did you manage to escape from Sehun?” he asked.
Not only was his hand on my thigh but now he was leaning against me with his wet body and I was trying my best not to watch the water drops sliding down his chest. “He’s in the shower,” I said in a much breathier voice than I had intended.
“Has he said anything about why he’s avoiding us?” he asked. His hand slightly squeezed my leg and I almost squealed.
“It’s not you. It’s Chanyeol,” I said.
“Chanyeol?”
“Yep. He said Chanyeol tells him he’s an idiot for wanting to be with me because he thinks I’m a fake,” I said.
“He what?” Suho raised his eyebrows. I was finding it hard to concentrate on the conversation. Every movement that Suho’s hand made on my thigh made me tingle.
“Please don’t say anything. I think Sehun wants to deal with it in his own way,” I said.
Suho really wasn’t using his brain because he moved over to stand between my legs. He had a hand on each one of my thighs and I was starting to squirm. I knew that he could tell something was wrong because he kept trying to turn his head to make eye contact and I kept trying to avoid it.
“Okay, what’s wrong with you?” he asked.
“What do you mean?” Water was dripping from his hair onto his chest and for one guilty second I imagined licking it off.
“You don’t come to find me unless something is wrong,” he said.
“I was just missing you,” I said. His hands were burning holes through me as I felt the red rising in my face. Is he doing this on purpose? Surely this is completely innocent on his part. I’m the pervert here!
“Really? That’s sweet. I don’t believe a word of it,” he said.
“I never see you anymore and I miss you. You are a very busy man Mr. Suho! And Sehun is always dragging me away so I wanted to see your sweet face,” I said and put my hands on either side of his face.
He grinned. “Alright, but every time I see you lately, you seem like something is off. You seem distracted,” he said. He took his hands from my legs but now he had his arms crossed with his elbows resting on each thigh and he was leaning into me.
“I am a little distracted,” I said. I looked away and bit my lip.
“You know you can always talk to me. You can tell me anything. Even about Sehun and I promise it will stay between us.”
“I know that,” I said.
“I have to finish my laps. Why don’t you sneak up and see Jongin? He’s been asking about you and I think he wants to see you for himself to make sure that you are okay,” said Suho as he backed away from me.
“Why?” I asked perplexed.
“Why? Because he spent two days trying to keep you alive while he had a severe head injury himself. That has to build some kind of a bond. I mean, you were naked together.” Suho winked at me.
“We were not naked!” I said and stood up.
“Sure you were but it’s alright. We all know it was just for ‘survival’!” he said and used air quotes when he said ‘survival.’
I stood there for a second with my mouth hanging open. “Suho!”
He started laughing and splashed water onto his chest.
Wow! No! Stop that! “We used body heat to keep from freezing to death and you know it.”
“Of course.” He waved, turned, and began to swim the last of his laps.

I made my way to Kai’s room, trying to avoid Sehun, by taking the back way. I knocked and heard a questioning “Come in?”
Opening the door, I found Kai sunk down in a giant bean bag chair with a game controller in his hand. He was alone. “May I come in?” I asked.
He smiled and said, “Come on in!”
I sat on the edge of the bed and saw that he was playing the shooter game that I wasn’t allowed to play. His head was back to normal I was happy to see. It was such a pretty head. He had a small bruise but he was hiding it with his hair. “I’m glad to see you are feeling better,” I said.
“I’m glad to see you aren’t a blue Popsicle,” he said. He leaned over and pulled a second bean bag chair beside his and said, “Sit over here.”
I went over and sunk down in the seat and Kai put a controller in my hands. “Uh, I don’t know how to play this,” I said. I didn’t want to tell him that I wasn’t supposed to.
“This button moves and just hit this button a lot,” he said and pointed at the green button.
I was happy to see that I was going to play with the blue man. “Yay! I get to be Harvey,” I said without thinking.
Kai looked at me, “Who?”
“Uh, Harvey is what I call the little blue man. It’s just a thing,” I said and didn’t look at him.
“Have you played this before?” he asked.
“Just a couple of times. I don’t know what I’m doing though,” I said.
Kai hit buttons and said, “It’s okay. I kill at this game so you don’t need to be good.” He gave me a sideways glance and then we laughed.
It was weird but I had missed Harvey. He had been my only friend for a little while when I was my loneliest. And Kai wasn’t wrong. He was great at this game. We were playing with other people online and they started trying to avoid him while chasing me down. It became a hide and seek game on my part. One player in particular would hunt me down and I started to become a little suspicious of him. Kai had put on a headset and was talking to the other players in Korean. He would give me side glances and laugh at something they would say.
I began to look more closely at their names. One was DOingbattle. Another was SizzlingBacon and the third was ChendaeExodus. Kai’s name was Kaiportation94. I knew exactly who I was playing with. Those sneaky little boys! No wonder they were after me so much! I stopped running from them and started running at them full force. They didn’t know what to do when I started hunting them.
They began to realize that I had figured them out and during our last match, they all ganged up on poor Harvey. Even Kai.
“Hey! I thought you were on my side!” I yelled and smacked his leg. He just laughed and kept shooting at me.
I actually took Bacon down before the other three got me. Just then, Chanyeol came into the room. He gave me a shocked look and then he just looked annoyed before saying, “Never mind,” and leaving the room with a slam of the door. Kai gave me a strange look and said, “What’s wrong with him?”
“I am,” I said. I handed him the controller and stood up. “I think he wants to talk to you so I’m going to go.”
“You don’t have to go,” said Kai.
“I think I do. Besides, Sehun’s probably looking for me. Thanks for the game,” I said and left.
I walked down the hall toward my room when I noticed one of the bedroom doors was opened. I looked in as I walked by and was surprised to see Chanyeol standing just inside. He grabbed my shirt and pulled me into the room, slamming the door closed. “We need to have a talk,” he said and pushed me against the wall.
He stood an inch away from me and looked down into my face. “Okay,” I said.
“I don’t like what you’re doing to Sehun. He’s been acting weird since we got here,” he said.
“What am I doing?” I asked.
“That’s what I’d like to know! This whole sick little girl act is a crock and we both know it. I know you were kidnapped and all that but I think you’ve played that whole scenario out a bit long haven’t you?”
I couldn’t back up any farther but he kept getting closer. “I don’t know what you mean,” I said.
“Just stop! You have Sehun wrapped around your little finger and you’ve tied him in knots because he is afraid if he does one wrong thing, he’s going to break you or something. I think its bullcrap! You know you fell into a good thing. Why don’t you just go home? Go back to your real family in America and stop messing with mine!” He slammed his hand against the wall beside my head and I jumped.
“Why do you think I’m faking? What have I done that is so bad to you?” I asked. I wasn’t afraid of him but he was intimidating.
“My group has had nothing but bad press since you came along. Jun has been in trouble. Sehun’s been in trouble. Baekhyun said he tried to kill him over you one night. You’re just trouble. I think you know more than you’re letting on. Besides, you know that once we are back on tour, Sehun’s going to leave and forget about you eventually. Right? He gets lots of offers every night and from a lot better looking girls than you. He can have his pick. You think he’s going to stay with little miss messed up when he can have someone normal?” Chanyeol laughed sarcastically.
I thought for a moment. “I guess that’s up to Sehun to decide,” I said.
He slammed his other hand beside my head on the other side. “Don’t think I haven’t seen how you flirt with the others when Sehun isn’t looking. Teasing Baekhyun. Going out with Jongin. And don’t get me started on Junmyeon! I know if he showed an interest that you’d be all over both of them. I run into girls like you all the time. You’re just a sasaeng that got lucky enough to get close.”
“I don’t know what that is,” I said.
“What about me? What if I showed an interest? Could I convince you to sneak around with me behind Sehun’s back?” he said and acted like he was going to kiss me. I put my hands on his chest and pushed but he didn’t go far. “Of course not because I can see through your bull!” he said.
I pushed again. “It doesn’t really matter what you think,” I said. “Sehun isn’t listening to you anymore. And you’re wrong. I only want Sehun and I haven’t faked anything. Now let me go!”
He didn’t move. “Make me!” he said childishly.
I bent down to go under his arm but he moved his arm down and caught me around the middle. “You gonna run and tell Sehun on me now? Or Junie?”
“No, I just want to leave. Please move,” I said.
“Not until I get you to admit what you are and to say that you’ll leave Sehun alone,” he said. I tried to pull his arm from my waist but he was too strong. I was beginning to feel suffocated. “You aren’t going anywhere until you say that you’re a fake!” He threw me back into the room and stood in front of the door.
Instinctively, I looked for another exit. There was only the bathroom. I could yell for Kai but I didn’t want to cause a problem. My heart began to race and I started to feel caged. Chanyeol stood against the door with his arms crossed. When I looked up at him, his face changed into Kyung’s for a second. “Chanyeol, please let me go. I need to go,” I begged. I could feel the familiar feelings of fear beginning to take hold of me. I didn’t do well in situations where I was powerless to do anything.
“I’ll bet you do. Tell the truth and I’ll open the door,” he said. “Better yet, call Baekhyun and tell him. I’ll let you use my phone.” He got his phone out of his pocket.
I was starting to shake. The room was changing. The white comforter was becoming black satin. The purple flowers on the desk became pink roses. Chanyeol was becoming Kyung. I still knew that none of what I was seeing was real but I didn’t know how long that was going to be true. “Please let me out. At least open the door. I need for you to let me out.” I could hardly get the words out because my breathing was becoming labored.
“What are you doing now? It isn’t going to work with me. You can have your little fake attack all you want but I’m still not letting you out. Want me to call Baekhyun so you can tell him that you are a big fake and I’ll have a witness when I go to tell Sehun?” He held out the phone.
“Yes, call him. I’ll say it,” I said. I was having a panic attack. I couldn’t breath and I felt like my heart was going to burst from my chest. I knew that it wasn’t real but I was starting to feel the chain around my ankle. I could feel the weight of it and the pain it caused when I moved. I could hear it scraping the floor.
“You will? You’ll admit that all of this is bull?” asked Chanyeol.
“Yes! I’ll admit it. Please, call him. I’ll tell him I’m faking.”
“Alright,” said Chanyeol and he pushed a button. He must have had it on speaker cause I could hear it ringing. I saw broken glass all around me so I gingerly got onto the bed. I heard Bacon say, “Hey Chan, what’s up?”
“I’ve got someone here who wants to say something to you. I need you to be my witness,” said Chanyeol.
“Alright. Who?” asked Bacon.
“Well, you know how I’ve been trying to convince you that Elizabeth is a lying little witch?”
“Chan!” said Bacon.
“No, listen. She’s going to admit it and I wanted you to hear her say it too.” Chanyeol held the phone out to me. Not for me to take it, just to speak into it.
He wasn’t Chanyeol any longer. Now he was Kyung and he was holding a whip. Before I lost reality completely, I was able to yell to Bacon, “Please help me. I need help!”
“Wait! What? What’s going on, Chan?” asked Bacon.
“Like I said, she’s faking it,” said Chanyeol.
“Uh, what’s going on? What is she doing?” asked Bacon.
“Well, at the moment, she’s pretending to be a crazy person. I told her I wasn’t going to let her go until she finally admits that she’s using Sehun…”
“CHANYEOL! You can’t do that! She’s not faking it! I’ve seen it and it’s not fake! Where are you?” Bacon sounded panicked.
“Baekhyun, she’s lying! You should…”
“WHERE ARE YOU?” yelled Bacon.
“Oh my God! I’m two doors down from Jongin’s room. Are you going to come and save her now? You wanna sick Sehun or Jun on me?” Chanyeol opened the door.
None of it mattered to me. I was once again in my prison cell awaiting my punishment for being a bad girl. Kyung stood at the door just looking at me and a few minutes later, Tom came through the door holding a giant injection needle. He came toward me and I screamed. He backed off. “Do I have to go to Amsterdam?” I asked him. “I’ll be good. Can I just go home?”
“I can’t believe you are falling for this crap!” said Chanyeol.
“Are you an idiot? Can’t you see this is real? I’m calling Sehun. He’s the only one that can get her back.” Bacon began dialing. “Sehun, I need you to come to Jongin’s room.” There was a pause. “Yes, I’m with her now. Just come up here.” He hung up. “Elizabeth? It’s alright. It’s me, Bacon. Remember me?”
“Tom? Are you going to give me a bath?”
“I’m not Tom. I’m Bacon. You don’t need a bath. Sehun’s coming. You know Sehun don’t you?” Bacon came closer little by little while Chanyeol sat at the desk rolling his eyes.
There was a commotion in the hallway and Bacon stuck his head out. “Come down here,” he said.
Kyung just kept sitting there staring at me. Then Sehun came into the room. I was confused. How did he know about Kyung’s room? “Sehun?”
He smiled at me. Then to the others he said, “What’s going on?”
“Uh, she’s gone again. She seems to recognize you but she thinks I’m someone named Tom,” said Bacon.
“What in the hell happened?” asked Sehun and he shot Chanyeol a look.
“It doesn’t matter. Just bring her back,” said Bacon.
Sehun came over to me and I noticed that the broken glass was gone. “Elizabeth?”
“What?” I asked distractedly. I was watching the roses change from pink to purple and then they stayed purple.
“Where are you right now?” he asked. He sat on the bed near me.
“I’m not sure. I thought I was at Kyung’s but everything is changing,” I said. I saw the bedspread as white one moment and then black the next. Eventually it stayed white.
“You are in Jun… Suho’s house. Remember?” Sehun put his hand on my leg and I looked at it and then at him. The room I was trapped in faded and I was back in Suho’s house with Sehun. I looked at Bacon who still looked panicked and then at Chanyeol who no longer looked like Kyung.
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what happened. I’m okay now. Can I go lay down? My head hurts.” All I wanted at that moment was to get away from Chanyeol and to lay in my soft pink bed.
“Come on. I’ll go with you.” Sehun stood up and held my hand as I got off the bed. He waited until I was in the hall but I heard him say, “Baekhyun please follow me. Chan, don’t go anywhere. I want to talk to you.”
Sehun took me to my room and asked Bacon to play his song. He waited for me to get into the bed and then he pulled the blankets up around me. I held my head because it was aching. He went over and talked to Bacon for a few minutes and then came back to lay beside me. He ran his hand gently through my hair and I fell asleep. I didn’t dream.

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