A K-Pop Utopia (A Black Kitty Series, Book 2)

Chapter 13: Being an EXO-L

"Whatever," I said rolling my eyes like I didn't care. "I don't deserve one, anyway."

"Look who just showed up alive and kicking," came Mino's voice behind me.

Sam and I turned around and there was Mino with the rest of WINNER coming towards us. Mino already had his arms outstretched and reached Sam first to hug her.

"Hi, Mino," said Sam as he hugged him back. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the two of them as I twirled a strand of my hair.

"How are you doing?" he asked as he looked at Sam. "You had us all worried."

"As you can see, I'm fine," said Sam as she rubbed the right side of her forehead. Her bruise was barely even noticeable. It healed up pretty quickly from yesterday.

Seunghoon came and quickly pushed Mino aside just to hug Sam.

"Wow, chill out, hyung," Mino complained as he stared at Seunghoon. "You could've hurt me."

"I missed you so much, Sam," said Seunghoon, still hugging Sam and not caring that he almost knocked Mino over.

"Seunghoon, I'm fine," said Sam. "You can stop hugging me, you're squeezing me too tight."

"Oh, sorry." He let go of Sam and smiled at her.

"It's good to have you back, Sam," said Seungyoon.

"Ya, it feels good to be back," said Sam.

"So, are you excited about the news?" Jinwoo asked.

"About BTW? Definitely. I think it will be so cool to have both BTW officially announced and the music video being released on the same day."

"Hey, girls," greeted Mino as he waved towards BlackPink.

BlackPink also waved at him and to the rest of WINNER too. WINNER also ended up greeting the other Toxins. I couldn't help but feel I was being totally ignored today and that was almost setting me up in flames.

"Hello, people," I said waving my hand in the air to grab everyone's attention. "Are we all forgetting someone here?"

Nobody said a word as they all looked at me.

"Isn't anyone going to say anything?" I asked. "You've all been ignoring me like am a nobody when I'm definitely somebody."

"We know, Zoey," said Sam. "We aren't ignoring you."

"Oh, ya? Then tell me what everyone else is doing? BlackPink don't want to hug me at all and WINNER didn't even say hi to me!"

Everyone else except Sam and the other Toxins, started muttering among themselves and they made their way into the studio building. The three other Toxins followed them, leaving Sam and I outside.

"What's wrong with everyone today?" I asked as I watched them go. "It's not fair that people still blame me for what happened to you."

"Well, you still can't deny that it was all your fault," said Sam as she looked at me.

"Ya, I know. I regret ever doing that to you, better yet, lying to everyone else about your accident."

"Maybe you should apologise."

I closed my eyes in frustration and opened them again. "I did so yesterday."

"Maybe you should continue doing so until they feel sorry for you. It's just like what the others did earlier."

"You guys are so unfair. You're giving me a hard time just because of an 'accident.' Did you see the way Mino ignored me today? It's so unlike him."