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•FLASHBACK, FOUR YEARS AGO, 2020•
It was cold in the whole of Seoul, cuz it has just rained. Light rain was showering in the dark sky down to the surface of the earth, but Camren was seen wearing a big black jacket as he waited patiently for the truck driver.
“What took you so long?” He asked when the truck driver arrived.
“I am sorry for delaying, I got stuck in traffic because of the heavy rainfall” The truck driver answered.
Camren sighed and brought a brown envelope containing money and gave it to him.
“Make sure you do a clean job. I don’t want him dead, just an accident that will keep away from some time”
“May I asked why you’re doing this? I have watch your music videos and you’re the closest to Lonnie. Why do you want to hurt him?”
“I just want someone to notice me” Camren said.
•STILL ON FLASHBACK•
Camren came back to the mansion and sees Sage arranging some gifts with a smiling face.
“What are you doing?” He asked.
“Tomorrow is Lonnie’s birthday and I want to give all of these to him. What do you think? Is it too much?” Sage asked, smiling and Camren shook his head.
“You should also get lots of gifts for him, you’re the closest one to him”
“Sure I will” He muttered, looking at her beautiful face.
“Is there something on my face? You keep looking at me” Camren didn’t give answer to her question and hugged her, tightly.
“Camren” Sage called his name in a surprise tone, and he broke the hug.
“Is everything okay?”
Camren looked at her and smiled. “Sure. You should also confess your feelings to Lonnie, who knows, he might like you back”
“I’m planning on doing so after his birthday tomorrow. You’re going to lift up my spirits, okay?”
Camren nodded his head, smiling.
“I will be in my room” He leaves with a smiling face, but when he got to his room, the smile on his face disappeared and sadness took over.
He sat on the bed looking at Sage’s picture on his phone. He zoomed the picture and he smiled.
“I wonder if you know I am in love with you? I always support your feelings for Lonnie, whereas I’m dying inside. I hope you’d get close to me when Lonnie finally have his accident” He muttered.
He swiped his phone and he gulped down hard when he saw a picture of he and Lonnie making a heart with their hands. They are on stage.
“I am sorry Lonnie, but you have to be away for sometime, so that Sage can finally look at me. She once said she had a crush on me, but it disappeared the moment you joined us as trainees, so I want her feelings back. I am sorry Lonnie, but this is the only way, I will be more closer to Sage and she’d fall in love with me” Camren said.
•STILL ON FLASH BACK•
“Geonbae (cheers)!!” Sage and Camren said in a loud voice hitting the glasses with Lonnie.
“Happy birthday, Golden voice” Sage said, and Lonnie smiled at her.
“Where’s Miles? Shouldn’t he be here with us?” Camren asked.
“He’d be the last person to show up here” Sage said.
“He is so grumpy. It’s more better without him. Cheers to the birthday boy!” Camren said, breaking dancing and Lonnie laugh.
“Stop doing that” Lonnie said laughing, and the way he laughed made Sage’s heart develop a beat, and she stared at him, smiling.
“He is going to notice if you don’t stop staring at him” Camren whispers to her and she hits him.
“It’s time for practice, let’s go” Camren said, standing up on his feet, he went to his room and secretly send an anonymous message to Lonnie.
•I know why your best friend committed suicide,
let meet•
Camren knew Lonnie has been wondering why his best friend committed suicide, so he used it to get to him, even he (Camren) didn’t know why he committed suicide.
Sage came out from her room after getting dressed for practice and same applied to Camren.
“Let’s go, Lonnie” She said, smiling.
“You both should go without me, I will catch up with you two” Lonnie said.
“Where are you going?” Sage asked.
“It’s none of our business, let’s go” Camren said dragging Sage out of the house.
Camren looked at Lonnie and he smiled when he saw how Lonnie was anxiously looking at the message he sent to him.
•STILL ON FLASHBACK•
Lonnie arrived at the meeting point, where Camren told him to go to.
•I’m here now, where are you?•
He sent lots of messages, but there was no reply.
After waiting like an hour, he decided to go back to the practice room to meet Camren and the rest.
Lonnie was driving to D•K entertainment to join the rest of his band mate, when he got a call from Camren.
“Where are you? We’re about to start?”
“I will be there soon, y’all can start without me”
“Just hurry up, Miles is gonna get mad” Camren said and ended the call, and he smirked and tells the truck driver to push through with hitting Lonnie with his truck.
Lonnie was about making a U-turn, when the truck driver drives towards him, and before he could step on the breaks, the truck hits his car forcefully.
Lonnie hit his head on the car window and his neck landed the steering wheel, forcefully. He lost consciousness with the car on, and the car began riding itself until it hit a building.
•STILL ON FLASHBACK•
Sage keeps sniffling as she folded her clothes in her luggage. They were going on a hiatus because Lonnie is still in coma.
“Are you still crying?” Camren asked, entering the room.
“Why? You expect me to be laughing when the boy I love is in coma? Should I involved myself in accident too? Maybe that way, Lonnie will know he is not alone. I want to be in coma too!!!” She yelled trying to cut her wrist, but Camren stopped her and hugged her.
“Let go of me! I want to be with Lonnie in Coma!!!” She yells crying.
“Don’t, I’m begging you Sage, don’t do it. You’re not alone, I’m here for you. I won’t be able to take it if I lose you, please”
Sage cries in his arms.
******
•FLASHBACKS ENDS, PRESENT DAY•
The truck driver held Camren and pinned him to his car, but Camren didn’t nothing.
“After I got arrested, you said you were going to get me out of jail, but you abandoned me and made me spend four years in jail!!! You lived your life like you were innocent whereas you are the devil himself. I’m going to reveal your true colors!”
“I regret what I did. It wasn’t my intention for Lonnie to lose his voice in singing. I just wanted him to be in coma, so that I’d have more time to be with Sage. When he woke up and he could no longer sing, I felt so bad. I want to come clean as well, so let me be the one to tell him” Camren said with misty eyes.
“Do you think I’d believe you? You’re nothing but a liar!!!”
“Camren!” Sage said coming out from the hotel.
The truck driver released Camren’s collar and leaves.
“Who was that?” Sage said trying to look at the truck driver, but Camren blocked her.
“It’s no-one, Sage”
“Are you alright? Your face looked sullen?”
Camren fakes a smile and said. “I’m fine”
Sage smiled and hugged him. “I missed you. I waited all day for you where did you go to?”
Camren said nothing, neither did he hugged her back and Sage broke the hug to look at him.
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
Camren nodded.
“Go in Sage. I have somewhere to go to” He entered his car and drove off.
He stopped driving when he was far from the hotel and he began to cry.
He knew his evil will come back to haunt him but he didn’t know it would come so quickly, not now that Sage is slowly giving her heart to him.
He regrets it
He regrets everything, but it was too late to cry over spilled milk cuz thanks to him, Lonnie lost his voice in singing and had to live like an ordinary man.
******
•LONNIE’S HOUSE•
“Who is this?” Land asked when she was swiping the picture in the photo album. He was fourteen years old then and he was with another kid who was just the same him.
Lonnie looked at the picture and a sad look erupted into his face.
“He is my best friend”
“Your best friend? What is his name?”
“Nathan. He was supposed to be the main rapper of our group”
“Really? Then why is he not part of the unbeatable?”
“He died or should I say, he committed suicide”
“Why?”
Lonnie shakes his head. “I don’t know why he committed suicide. D•K entertainment wanted us to debut as a four member and because he was so good at rapping he was given the position of the main rapper, while Sage took the lead rapper. Just four days to us debuting as a group, he purposely fell down from D•K’s building, and Miles had to replace him as the main rapper. Although all news about him was closed, but I keep asking myself why he chose to die. He was my best friend and yet I didn’t know he was having the mindset of ki||ing him self. He was the one who brought up the idea of becoming trainees since he knew how to rap and I knew how to sing. Nathan was always there for me, but I wasn’t there for him at his last minute on earth. Maybe if I was with him, I’d have stopped him from ki||ing himself and find out why he wanted to die. I wasn’t a good best friend” Lonnie said with a sad face, and Lani patted him.
“It’s not your fault, I’m sure he didn’t want you to be involved in what he was going through” Lani said.
“That’s the more reason why I blame myself, I was so oblivious toward him” Lonnie said allowing his tears to fall down from his eyes, and Lani cleaned his tears.
“I’m sorry for reminding you about a painful past”
“You didn’t Lani. I have always grief over Nathan each night, I just didn’t say it out loud, but don’t worry I will be fine”
Lani smiled and moved to the next picture and she frowned when she saw Lonnie with a girl, he was carrying her in his neck and they looked happy together. She doesn’t look like a Korean, she is an American.
“Who is she?”
Lonnie smiled and said. “Her name is Tiffany, she is my first love”
“First love? Like you both dated?”
“Yes. I met her in America during our world tour. We had a connection and we dated”
Lani became jealous.
“Lemme guess, she was the first girl you had s*x with, right?”
“Yes”
“Eish!!!! Why are you answering the question?!!!”
“Cuz you asked, I’m just telling you the truth”
“Don’t you know I’d be jealous? Come to think of it, she saw you naked before I did! I’m sure you kept it a secret, cuz I’d have known about it, cuz I know everything about you. Where is she now? Why aren’t you dating her?”
“She is dead”
“Really?”
“Yes. She died from leukemia five years ago”
“Oh I see” Lani said with a smile flipping to the next picture.
“You look cute here”
“Really? You’re happy over someone’s death? Do you know how hurt I was when she died”
Lani glared at him. “Do you want to see me get angry?”
Lonnie began to laugh. “You’re right. I look cute here. How about we take a picture together?” He asked, purposely changing the topic, cuz he doesn’t want the evil spirit inside Lani to manifest.
Lani nodded her head, smiling.
******
•PRACTICE ROOM•
“Whoa!!!” Rory and Lani clapped when Dami ended the song with her incredible dance. Rory wasn’t yet practicing with them, cuz he hasn’t recovered fully to the extent of dancing with them.
“You’re incredible dancer, Dami. I wish I could dance with some energy. You’re so energetic and flexible as well, with a dancing swag” Lani said and Dami laughed.
“Stop teasing me, you also have a nice voice too, that’s where your powers lies” Dami said and try both laugh, while Rory looked at Dami with a smiling face.
Dami still doesn’t know that Rory heard everything she said on his hospital bed.
“Have any of you heard from Posy? She is being scarce lately” Dami said and Rory sighed guilty.
Posy entered the practice room, Lani and Dami quickly went to her.
“Posy, is everything okay with you?” Lani asked, while Dami and Lonnie looked at her.
“I came to make a confessions to you all. I will be carrying this burden in my heart if I don’t let it out”
“What do you mean?” Rory asked.
Posy took in a deep breath and said. “I know who the hit-and-run driver is”
“Who?”
“It’s Verity”
“Verity! Why?” Dami asked and Posy began to cry.
“It’s all my fault. I was so hurt when Rory said he loves Dami and not me. I told Verity that Dami stole something from me, and I wanted her to scare Dami. Believe me when I say I never told her to hit you with a car, but I am no saint cuz she did it because of me”
“You wanted to ruin our friendship cuz of Rory. Aside that Rory is also our best friends, I thought that it was sisters before misters?” Lani asked.
“I’m sorry”
“Sorry don’t justify what you did, Posy! You knew how dangerous your sister is, and yet you gave her a go ahead. You broke our friendship code, so you are out from our friendship group. I don’t want to ever see your face again. Don’t think about talking to us or joining us for practice. You can practice alone and become a soloist” Dami leaves.
“Lani” Posy called her name.
“You’re banned from calling my name. I can’t believe you can do such a thing, you disgust me” She leaves.
Posy held Rory’s hand when he tried to leave. “Please, don’t abandon me like Dami and Lani did” She cries.
Rory took his head from her.
“For the sake of old times, I won’t tell the police what I know, cuz I know it’s going to affect your career if by chance you become an idol. I thought you became distance because I turned you down, but now I why you have been distant and quiet lately. We have few weeks left before the audition, practice on your own and don’t ever approach me” Rory said and walked away.
Posy fell to the ground crying. She cried the more when she remembered how wonderful moments with her friends.
******
•A WEEK LATER•
“Are you sure you don’t want Posy to be part of your group? You both practice together and you just have a week left before the audition” Lonnie said.
Lani sighed and sat on the bare floor.
“What she did was unjustified. Although she wasn’t the one who knocked down Rory with a car, but it won’t have happened if she didn’t involved her sister. It hurts not having her around, but we did her a favor by not reporting her to the police. Dami, Rory and I will be fine without her”
“Fine. If you say so, are you prepared for the audition, remember you’re the least dancer among your friends”
“That’s because I don’t put too much energy into my dance. I have a weak body system and I can’t over do it, but have you forgotten I have the best vocal?”
Lonnie smiled and sat beside her. “I haven’t forgotten about it. Your voice always melt my heart and you do it without knowing”
“Really?
Lonnie nod. “Since I can’t sing, Sing me a song”
“Sure, I will. Should I sing one of your songs?” She asked smiling and he nodded again.
Lani cleared her throat and began to sing one of the songs Lonnie sang with his band members when he could still sing.
“No Lani, you got the tune wrong”
“Really?”
“Yes, it sure have been like this;”
🎶 Don’t think about the pains 🎶
🎶 Cuz it’s never gonna last 🎶
🎶 Don’t think about the hardships 🎶
🎶 Cuz it’s never gonna last……..
“Lonnie, you just sang!” Lani said with widen eyes.
Lonnie was surprised as well, cuz he just opened his mouth and his vocals came out without him realizing it.
His hand slowly went to his neck, he open his mouth to produce a vocal sound and it came out perfectly just like before.
“Lani… I… I… got my voice back!”
……
TBC