We all sat around eating food and talking. 

"So guys." I clapped my hands together. "I have this friend." I looked over at Youngjae. "You saw her already." 

"Yeah what about her?" He said. 

"Well I was wondering if I could..." 

"No, it's too dangerous." Jaebeom shook his head. "She's just gonna have to meet us at fan meet and greet." 

I looked at him running my tongue across my teeth. 

♥

"She'll be here any minute now." I smiled. 

"I can't believe we're doing this." Jaebeom sighed shaking his head. 

"Well I kinda only wanted Youngjae but nooo you guys wanted to tag along." I rolled my eyes. "Her bias is Youngjae so don't get offended if she only pays attention to him." 

"Jelena was is the emerg-ency" Her eyes scanned the room. "Jelena was is GOT7 in your living room?" 

"Surprise!" I smiled. "I just wanted to bring Youngjae but the others tagged along." 

"Jelena are you trying to get yourself killed or something?" Maria grabbed me by my arm and pulled into the kitchen. "If their fans find out about this, they won't stop until you are out of their lives." 

"I know, that's why no one know about this." I sighed looking out to them. "I trust that you will keep this a secret." 

"You know I can, anything to protect my only best friend." Maria hugged me. "Come to me if anything happens. You're not strong enough to deal with this on your own." 

I nodded giving her a smile. 

We back into the living room. Youngjae's eyes landed on Maria and it was like times stopped for the both of them. I walked over to Mark as the two just stared at each other. 

"I think they just fell in love with each other." I smiled. 

"Kinda like us." Mark wrapped his arm around me. 

I smiled resting my on his chest. 

"We can do that too." Yugyeom wrapped his arm around BamBam. 

I laughed shaking my head. 

"Do you think you two would have more supporters than haters?" Jinyoung asked. 

"Well it's twenty-nineteen so I hope we have more supporters than haters." I said. "But It's Mark Tuan we're talking about so I don't know." 

"Yeah, when people thought Jaebeom was dating his fan accounts shut down." Maria chimed into the conversations. 

"Whatever happens, I'm going to protect you." Mark kissed my temple. 

Thoughts roamed my head. 

Would us being caught ruin his career? 

Would even last after it? 

Most importantly, could I take the hate from people who don't even know me? 

All the thoughts running through my head trying to find answers got me dizzy. I grabbed onto Mark tightly as I felt the room spin. My breathing got heavy. 

"Jelena?" Mark steadied me. 

"I'm fine." I lied, inside I was worrying like crazy. 

"Everything will be okay. We're all here for you." Jackson gave me a reassuring smile. 

Deep down inside I knew everything wasn't going to okay. 

"I think we should leave now." Jaebeom said. "Stay too long can be dangerous." 

"Yeah." I nodded. 

I watched as Maria and Youngjae exchanged numbers. 

"Come on Youngjae." Jaebeom called out to him. 

"I'll call you when I get home." Mark gave me a quick kiss. 

Maria and I sat in the living room. We ended up ordering food and binge watching Descendants of the Sun. 

"You know, you never gave me a reassuring answer earlier." Maria looked at me. "You're going to come to me if anything bad happens right?" 

"Yeah." I nodded. "I will." 

"Good." She rubbed my back. 

I kept looking at my phone waiting for Mark to call but nothing. I sighed. Somewhere in time I fell asleep. I woke up to the smell of bacon and eggs. I yawned with a stretch. I was still in the living room. I looked to see Maria in the kitchen cooking and dancing along to Lullaby.   

"Smells good." I said making my way to the kitchen. 

"Good you're up, breakfast is almost over." Maria smiled. 

I nodded grabbing a water bottle from the fridge. I went to the living room and checked my phone. I saw that Mark texted me more than once last night. I didn't bother to text him back right away. I stood clicking on twitter. I scrolled down my timeline. I paused seeing a picture of me and Mark. My eyes widened. 

How? I thought they had taken care of everything. 

I scrolled through the replies. Our faces are covered up in the picture yet people are still saying negative things about me. But one comment stuck out the most. 

I don't know who is she but whoever is she I hope she dies. 

I clicked on it reading the replies to it. There was some positive but the negative out weighed it. I didn't even know I was crying until Maria said something about it. 

Clicking off of twitter I went to Mark's messages. Ignoring Maria calling out to me. 

Mark
Stay off of social media 
Please

With tears running down my face I texted him back.

Jelena
Too late... 

۵•۵

Don't listen to what people say.
They don't know what you've been through so they don't have the right to judge you. 

I'll be doing the rest of this book in third POV