Song: "You Better Know" - Red Velvet

Crowd - "You're My Little Secret"
Word Count: 1134
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"All I posted was a Snapchat. How about you guys?" Mario asked everyone else in the car.

"I tweeted about Orlando but that's it," said Geo.

"We have been broadcasting all week about Playlist," said Jovani, talking about Julian and himself.

"How did they find us?" Mario asks rhetorically.

You look outside of the car. Hundreds of supporters surrounded the car. Luckily the windows of the car were tinted, so they couldn't see you or the boys. But somehow they knew you guys were in there. You focus back onto the conversation.

"Well, we have to get through somehow," said Julian, "all our stuff is in there." He finished pointing at the building past the crowd of supporters.

You let out a deep breath. This was a disaster. You feel someone grab hold of your forearm. You look at the hand and let your eyes gaze all the way up to the face of the person. Mario.

He gently rubs your forearm with his thumb. A soothing gesture. He gives you a half smile. You slightly smile back.

"It's going to be okay," he whispers softly. You nod your head in agreement.

Geo interrupts your little touching moment. "Dude, what are you going to do about Y/N?" He asks Mario. (By the way Y/N means "your name")

Mario looks at you with concerned eyes as he thinks of a solution. Suddenly, his eyes lighten up. He has an idea.

"Put your hair up," he says.

"What?" You ask. You look around and everyone looks just as confused as you.

"Just, put your hair up," he says, a little annoyed. He starts taking off his sweatshirt.

You take a hair tie from your wrist and put your hair in a low ponytail.

"Put this on," he says handing you his sweatshirt. Realization hits you. He's trying to disguise you. Hide your identity from the supporters.

You pull the sweatshirt over your head and pulled it down so it covered your entire upper body.

"The hood," Mario says while putting it up so it covered your hair and most of your head. "And put these on," he says handing you sunglasses. You put them on. They rested on your nose gently and made everything look five shades darker. You let your eyes adjust to the new light exposure and then turned to look at Mario.

"Am I good now?" You ask, chuckling a little.

"Yeah, you're good," he says, smiling.

"You guys ready?" Jovani asks. Mario looks over at you and you nod at him.

"We're ready," he says.

"I'm ready. Let's go," says Geo, opening the car door.

Geo and the twins get out first, and are surrounded by the crowd of supporters. Mario gets out and turns around to help you out of the car. The girls behind him grab onto him, and try to pull him towards them. He struggles to stay put. He reaches his hand and gets hold of your arm, helping you down. He puts his hand on the small of your back, and begins to walk towards the building.

It all becomes a blur. There are a lot of voices, yet you can't make out a single coherent sentence out of any of them. You look around as you make your way towards the building. You could see the excitement in the supporters' faces and the struggle as they try to get near Mario or take pictures of him. Random arms and hands can be found all around you as they reach out to touch Mario. Some touched you too.

You couldn't help but feel violated. You knew that celebrities had to deal with stuff like this but you never thought it would be this intense.

This was truly chaotic.

Mario pulled you closer as the crowd got closer. You looked up at him. He was smiling, but you could see the fear in his eyes. He loved his supporters but this was chaos. He doesn't want anything a bad to happen to them or the both of you.

You were being pushed around to the point that you were pulled away from Mario. You start to panic.

"Mario!" You yell, but everyone is yelling the exact same thing. Luckily he must have heard you, because he rushes towards you and pulls you close to him. You hold onto his arm and he grabs your hand. You continued to make your way to the entrance.

You both were now about ten feet away from the entrance when the hotel security came. They started pushing the crowd out to the side and help you and Mario safely into the hotel. You walk through the door and into the lobby.

Both you and Mario let out a sigh. You let go of his hand and arm.

"I can't believe celebrities do that all the time," you say trying to catch your breath.

"Me neither," he says. You look back out at the crowd as the girls were being pushed back, away from the hotel, by security. You turn your attention back to Mario. You turn towards him.

"Why did I have to disguise myself?" You ask, taking off the sunglasses, hanging them on the collar of Mario's sweatshirt and pulled the hood down.

"Because," he started, pushing a lock of hair that you had missed when making the ponytail, behind your ear, and placed his hand on your cheek, "you're my little secret, and I want you to stay that way, for now," he finished. You leaned into his hand, smiling, and enjoying his gentle touch.

"Guys?" Asks Julian. Both you and Mario look at him and the other guys.

"You coming or not?" Asks Jovani.

You and Mario start walking in their direction and they continue walking forward as well.

"You know, I'm gonna need that sweatshirt back," he says, smiling. You knew he was just teasing so you tease back.

"I don't know," you say teasingly, "it's really cozy." You put both of your hands, which were in the sleeves of the sweatshirt, up to your chin and covered your mouth. You shrugged your shoulders up and closed your eyes too, all so you could exaggerate the coziness of the sweatshirt. You also did this so you could smell the sweatshirt without him noticing. You felt all warm inside as you breathed in his pleasant scent.

He laughed. "Fine, you can keep it," he said pretending to sound defeated.

"Really?" You ask.

"Really," he says, wrapping an arm around your waist. You wrap your arm around him in return.

"You're the best," you say, placing your head on his shoulder.

"I know," he says, resting his head on yours as you continued walking.