Luhan's POV

Five minutes after Ling's departure, I had a bad feeling nudging me at the back of my mind. I looked around the room and it was clear to me that I was not the only one concerned with her safety. Baekhyun nudged D.O softly on the side of his arm and whispered something to him making him stand up abruptly.

"We should go check up on her," D.O said putting down his pad of paper.

Suho nodded and looked over at me. "Do you mind if we all go?"

"What are you talking about," Jihyuk said waving a hand in the air. "Stay here, work on your music."

Xiumin stood up. "She's not here hyung, how do we write about her if she's not here."

He smiled and waved at him to sit down. "I already sent someone to look for her, you guys just calm down and write your lyrics."

Xiumin didn't budge. "I'm going to go look for her."

I stood up angrily, there was no way I was going to leave him alone with her again. I stopped him before he reached for the handle. "How much of the lyrics have you written?"

He glared at me which hurt me a little knowing all of the years of friendship we had. "Why does it matter to you?"

I stood in front of him and pushed him back from the door.

"I swear Minseok," I spat at him so that only he could hear. "if you are trying to keep Ling here in Korea, I won't forgive you."

"I don't need you to forgive me." He hissed at me.

Chen stood up and ushered Xiumin back to his seat. I took that opportunity to leave the room after exchanging a nod with their producer. I sprinted down the hallway and searched for where she could be, the washroom, the great hall. I asked the front desk who finally told me that she had gone to the back door of the building. With my heart beating fast, I ran down the stairs and sprinted through the back door.

Please, Ling, be alright!

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Ling's POV

She stood in front of me with her blonde hair tied in a high ponytail, her bangs hanging perfectly just above her eyebrows. Her brown eyes pierced me with the amount of hatred I have never seen from her before. She wore the same tall boots as she did the day of the concert as well as the same leather jacket. A small smile played on her lips as she walked closer to me, backing me into the corner of the wall.

"Borin, what are you doing here?"

She raised an eyebrow curiously at me. "Meeting you, of course, what else?"

I held my breath as she stroked my cheek with her finger, her face was now inches away from mine. "I knew you couldn't resist sticking your ugly little nose in EXO's business."

She flicked her finger hard across my face and her nail cut a slit across my left cheek. I winced in pain but did not break my stare. "What are you talking about."

"I mean, Ling," She paused to examine her nail. "Who do you think you are to decide whether or not I upload those photos or not?"

I was so confused, how could Borin be behind all of this none sense, could she be the one that was throwing the eggs at the concert as well?

"Oh, how much I wanted to strangle you," She continued. "The way you smothered him with your weak charms, absolutely disgusting."

"Who?" I mouthed at her hoping she would return to her senses.

"SEHUN!" She bellowed at me. "WHO ELSE!"

My mind swirled in a mess, I couldn't wrap my head around anything she was saying. "Sehun? Your bias is Chanyeol, I didn't do anything to Chanyeol."

"AHA!" She continued to yell. "So you admit, you did do something to Sehun."

"What? No!" I found myself yelling back at her. "I didn't do-"

"ENOUGH!" She screamed and slapped me across my face. It stung to be hit by someone I thought was my friend.

"I've heard enough from you, if the eggs weren't enough to shut you up, then maybe this will." She waved a hand and tall masked figures emerged from the shadows. They loomed over me as my heart began to race. I had seen some of these figures before as the ones who attacked me at that radio show last week.

Just when I thought that the beating was going to occur again, the figures turned around and began to assault Borin. She screamed in pain as their fists made contact with her face and various parts of her body.

"Borin?" I yelled in alarm. My mind was in a haze, I didn't understand anything that was happening at the moment. Just who were these figures and what did they want?

At that moment, Luhan burst through the back door calling my name. Before even making eye contact with me, he rushed over to the crowd of masked figures and stopped them from hitting Borin any longer.

"How dare you hurt her," He bellowed as one by one the figures ran off. "How dare you attack Lin-"

He stopped when he realised that it was Borin and he spun around to rest his eyes on me who stood there in alarm. "Borin was being attacked?"

"Those peop-" I started but Borin cut me off almost immediately

"Ling called those men!" Her voice was wavering as she struggled to stand up. "She called them to beat me up because she found out about our history together!"

My eyes widened in disbelief and my cold hands shook uncontrollably. "What are you saying?"

"I told her that we weren't involved romantically, but she didn't believe me and said that it would be better with me out of the way!" She continued this time with Luhan supporting her. "She's been making herself look bad so that you would pity her Lu-hyung."

"No, that's not what happened!" My voice was barely a whisper now, drowned out by the emotions that swarmed my mind. I tried to explain myself without much success as Luhan helped Borin to stand, supporting her shoulders and holding her closely. The EXO members burst through the back door and stood in between the two of us trying to make sense of what had just happened, not daring to say anything aloud.

We stood in the back of the building without a word as my heart pounded in my chest. None of this was my fault, Borin called those men, Borin made them hit her and not me, Borin threw those eggs at your concert.

Please.

I mastered the voice to call out his name, but my voice came out wavering and cracked. "L-Luhan?"

He didn't look me in the eye, or rather he couldn't and it felt like the world had crashed down on me.

Notes

//Author's Note:
Borin was the one behind all of those fan attacks!? And to make matters worse, Luhan trusted Borin over Ling, need I say more?
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