This chapter is dedicated to @watermclons :)

Okay I will admit that I felt so awkward at this photo shoot. I may have looked like a model, but I had no idea how the heck to act like one. And the fact that all of the guys stood there staring at me didn't help either.

Jooheon must have noticed how nervous and awkward I was feeling because he leaned towards me and whispered in my ear. "Relax. Just have fun with it. Remember like when we were little."

I just nodded as he smiled back at me and did just that.

After that we started laughing and running around just like old times. And the photographer loved it.

I was loving it too. So much that when we were finished I was kind of sad.

"Alright," the photographer started, "We just need photos of Lee and each of the other members individually, and then a group photo with everyone. So I.M. switch with Jooheon."

Jooheon looked at me before walking away and being replaced by I.M.

"Okay. Now for the concept for you two, you're a couple so we want more couple poses. So just do whatever seems natural."

We both nodded and awkwardly did a few poses, before we found one that wasn't so awkward.

The two of us leaned against the wall next two each other while we held each others hands. Then I continued to look at the camera while I.M looked at me.

It was fine for a moment until I stared to feel his gaze on my face...if that's even possible... Well I did and I turned to look back at him so now we were staring at each other.

"Perfect! I love this! Stay just like that!" The photographer yelled.

But four seconds later the two of us burst out laughing at ourselves and our awkward attempts to be a couple on camera.

"Alright! That's enough. Everybody in the picture! Let's keep it simple people! Stand in a line. Lee you're on the end next to Jooheon."

Within ten minutes we were done...and I wanted to cry tears of joy because I had never felt so awkward in my life.

Once we were done, the car arrived to pick us up and we went back to the dorms.

•••

Back in our room after we had all changed, once again Jooheon had to be stupid.

"See I.M. I told you, she's trying not to fall in love with you."

I could feel myself blushing out of embarrassment.

"Jooheon you're an idiot." I.M. said as he turned and smiled at me.

"You guys are just too scared to accept it."

The bunk above I.M started to move as Hyungwon slowly appeared from under his covers. "Could you guys quiet down. I'm trying to sleep."

Really Hyungwon? Still? Do you ever not sleep.

"Ehh. Just go back to bed." Jooheon sneered. "We're leaving anyway."

"Wait, where are we going?" I asked.

"A haunted house."

"What?? No! Why? I don't want to go." I felt my heart beat faster and I knew that tears were coming. It was getting hard to breath as I slunk down and sat against the wall on the ground.

"What's the matter?!" I.M. yelled as he dove to the ground next to me. "Are you okay?!"

"Yeah she's fine." Jooheon laughed. "She is just deathly afraid of haunted houses because I ditched her in one when she was 9."

He did ditch me in a haunted house, and it scarred me for life honestly, but I never held it against him. Now when Jooheon tells the story he likes to explain it in a way that makes it seem as if he purposely left me there as a joke when that was definitely not the case. Jooheon is also terrified of haunted houses, so when we reached the end of the haunted house, he ran as fast as he could without looking back. So there I was, left alone and so terrified I peed my pants.

"That's horrible Jooheon." I.M. turned to look at me and grabbed my hand in his. Breathing was suddenly a bit easier, and I didn't feel like I was about to cry anymore simply because of his reassurance. The weight was lifted off of my chest. But my heartbeat didn't slow down as he gazed into my eyes. "It's okay. You can go with me. I won't let anything happen to you."

The last thing I said was "Okay." As he pulled me back up on my feet and we left.

Everything was going to be fine.

We filed into the car once more and enjoyed the 30 minute drive there.

Of course this haunted house had to be the exact same one Jooheon left me in when I was little.

Walking into the front door of that place again was the scariest thing I have probably ever done. If I.M.s hand wasn't cemented in mine I would have already broke down or ran out.

Everything was dark. It smelled of sawdust and something else that I couldn't identify, but it burnt my nose.

I could not even see two inches in-front of me.
The darkness was unsettling and undeniably creepy, making me squeeze I.M.'s hand extremely tightly.

"I'm scared." I whispered to I.M
He squeezed my hand back. "Don't be."

We slowly crept through the long corridors of the building. They were covered in blood and cobwebs galore, and jump scares popped out around every corner.

After thirty minutes or so I knew we had to be getting close to the exit. Which meant we were reaching the point where Jooheon had ditched me last time. My eyes were squeezed shut and I.M. had to nearly drag me along behind him due to my reluctance to reach the next point in this terrifying maze.1

There would be a bunch of loud banging and a man with a chainsaw would appear. Last time I never made it past him. Instead I had sprinted all the way back through the haunted house to the entrance.

*BANG* There it was. The banging started. And the hum of a chainsaw was heard down the hallway.

I tried to pull away and run in the opposite direction, but I.M held me in place.

"I.M. no. I can't do this! Please just let me go!"

He turned to face me and wrapped his arms around me. "I'll never Let you go." The warmth of his body suddenly brought rational thinking back into my body. I took a few deep breaths to calm down and clear my mind.

Then he suddenly pulled away and grabbed my face in his hands, positioning my face so I was looking up at him. Our eyes met, barely visible if we weren't only an inch apart in the pitch black. My heart was racing again...but not out of fear- it was something else this time...
"Now, let's get out of here together." He grabbed my hand and dragged me behind him as the two of us raced towards the exit, basically plowing over the chainsaw guy.

Finally we had made it.

We sprinted out the exit. Only to be met be the other members of MonstaX including Hyungwon.

I was so confused. We had been the first to go in and not even all the guys had come with us before.

"What's...going...on?" I asked, still catching my breath.

Then their manager appeared.

"We have the perfect amount of footage to share now. That little intimate moment between you two. The camera loved it, and the fans are going to go crazy." All of the guys, even I.M. and Jooheon laughed in agreement.

I felt disappointment, hurt, and anger all bubbling up inside me as I turned to look at I.M.

"You knew it was a set up, and we were being filmed?"

"Well yeah."

"Oh-" was all I could manage to choke out.

As the laughter died down and the boys circled up together, I backed away in the opposite direction, turning and running into the woods to be momentarily alone.