Goodbyes

One of the officers gave her a key and she took it without saying anything. "What is-" Nolan tried to ask her something but she turned her head a little side and put her index finger on her lips to silence him. She moved to open the gate with that key and unlocked it without making any sound. She pushed the gate wide open and stepped inside quickly while the person inside the room turned only get find her at his doorstep. His face turned pale and she smirked devilishly at him. For a few seconds, her eyes turned all black, There was no white space in her eyes at all, only darkness of black while the person in front of her got scared of her shivering even when the temperature inside the room was warm. Her eyes moved to the laptop in front of him after her eyes went back to normal like the darkness was never there and the officers came inside when she slowly went inside.

The officers grabbed his arms tightly making him stand up. "What? What is happening? Why are you doing this?" Xiang asked, yelling at the officers in Chinese and looking at Tiara while everyone else was seeing what was going on inside the room standing outside. "Her... Her eyes... I-I-I saw!" He pointed to Tiara and said in English, She turned her expression to an innocent one like she had no idea of what he was talking about. She sneakily peeked at the laptop's screen which was showing a process of uploading something. "You didn't look at at the video you are uploading, did you?" She cut him off and asked him playfully pointing to his laptop.

She saw that the process was at 99%. "Let me do the honor." She bowed playfully like a princess, bending 90 degrees and then she walked toward the laptop, and the process completed with 100% showing a preview button. She clicked on it and the video started and then she looked at him while the rest of them came inside the room to look into the matter closely.

Video started. First, Tiara peeked at the camera and went back like she was playing a game with the camera in the video and then she came into the center of the screen waving her right palm in a sarcastic manner. "It's such a cute camera that it just got my attention in the bathroom." She said and chuckled. "I wonder who will leave such a good camera in a small and dumb bathroom shower." She acted as if she was thinking and started tapping her index finger on her chin but then her expression changed into a darkened one. "I'm not sure about who are you know but I can guess." She exclaimed and pulled her upper lips a bit upper from the right side gritting her teeth. "There are millions of porn videos you can find on the internet which are shot intentionally but m*therf*ckers like you do this kind of stupid things!" She yelled at the camera and sighed loudly. "I wonder how much greedy you can be. Or maybe you have a different reason to do it. What were you going to do after you get a video of me being naked? See and enjoy? Or just post it on the internet to get some kind of revenge?" She said in rage trying not to yell again and then she bend close to the camera with a dark expression. "I can end your greed. Don't mess with me again because I can literally turn your life upside down." She warned with her deepest voice tilting her head right and life. "Remember, I am a survivor, and being a survivor means that I have done lots of ugly things which I know you are very well aware of, right?" She spilled a fact and questioned giving a smirk at the end before the video went blank.

"Yo-You knew?" Xiang asked her, stuttering. "Are you dumb? Of course." She said standing up from the table. "Th-Then why didn't you say anything to me before?" He questioned her again. "Do I look like a dumb person like you? Or do you think everyone else is dumb like you? I wanted to catch you red-handed." She answered sarcastically and he started to scream at her without making any sense. "Please, Take him away." Tiara gestured for the officers. They started to drag him out when JJ grabbed his collar and punched him hard enough to shove him onto the ground. Xiang grabbed his left cheek where he punched when another two hands approached him making him stand up, He looked at Joy's face filled with rage but he couldn't see his face for longer because his face met another hard fist making his face turn left but he didn't fall down as Joy was still holding his collar with his right hand. Joy punched him again and again until Sam pulled him out of his grip and slapped Xiang before kicking him and throwing him on the ground.

Officers started to move toward him to save him from them and get him out but Nolan and Ezra stopped them from doing so. 'I didn't expect this.' Tiara thought and then smiled after knowing that they were ready to fight for her anytime. Vin reached outside of the room and there were two bags on his bags that he ran to his room to grab. He saw that KR was picking up Xiang from the floor and punching him when blood started to come from the side of his lips. He hurriedly went inside after giving the bags to Mr. Min and asked Joy what was going on He started to tell Vin everything they saw. On the other hand, Jose took Xiang out of KR's grip and glared at him in rage. "I knew you are no good to her." He screamed at his face and punched his face. "How dare you!" He screamed and punched him again making him fall to the ground but before he could fall Vin grabbed him and punched on his nose while he just winced in pain even more.

Vin kicked him on the ground and started kicking his chest and after 2-3 kicks everyone joined him in his kick party with Xiang. She noticed that a lot of blood started to come out of his mouth and that's when she wiped that smile off her face. "Stop guys. He can die at this rate." She commanded them and they stopped after a last powerful kick. Ezra and Nolan left the officers to let them go and get that trash out of the room. The officers grabbed his shoulders carefully trying not to hurt him anymore and made him stand. Vin looked at his face and his blood started to boil if there was a way to let go of the blood's stream then he would've lost half of his blood already. He fisted his palms tightly so that the veins could be seen on his tight fist and punched him with all his strength so that the man on the officer's shoulders fell unconscious. The officers were speechless, exchanged glances with each other, and sighed heavily while everyone was still glaring at the unconscious body.

They left with the almost dead body leaving Tiara and her fighter alone. They all tried to calm themselves after the hot fight before saying anything. "Why didn't you tell us about it?" Ian asked her when they calmed themselves. "I didn't want to burden you with it because I could handle it on my own." Tiara simply shrugged her shoulders. "But still! You should! What if... something goes wrong?" Vin yelled at her almost crying. "Weren't you the one who said about trust?" Tiara asked him sarcastically. "It is not about trust... It is about... safety! What if he did something to you?" Vin answered her still yelling. "I trust you but I don't trust him." He added in a low voice, She took a deep breath before parting her lips to something again. "Everything is okay." Tiara exclaimed and smiled to reassure her that everything is under control.

"Recorded?" She asked to one of the women still standing inside the room and she nodded in response. "Cool, Post the video until they started to fight." She commanded while the woman taped on the phone to edit the video. "Are they helping you?" Jose asked her. "Yeah, I made them my friends. They agreed to record when I caught him red-handed and post it online to let everyone know about his doing and see his face." Tiara answered him, nodding, and smiled at the women who were busy editing and posting. "Wow, You are literally going to let him suffer his whole life when everyone sees him with suspicious eyes, huh?" Nolan said with a smirk which she returned as well. The woman who was posting the video gave her a thumbs up that they posted the video online. She gave them a double thumbs up and winked at them.

"Looks like, It's time." Tiara took a deep breath and looked at the men in front of her with a smile. "For what?" Jose raised his eyebrows and asked confusingly. She smiled widely putting a smile on others' faces as well. "To say goodbye." She replied to him still a smile on her lips while other's smiles dropped from their faces and looked at her with knitted eyebrows.

They reached the airport by taxi and Tiara looked at the others coming out of their taxis one by one. "So, Your flight is after an hour than mine?" She asked the same question again when they got the taxi with her. "Yes." KR answered her. "That's good." She exclaimed and started to walk toward the entrance while one officer followed her to get her entered and handle everything. "He-y." Vin called out to her from behind when they reached inside to check in and she turned around to see if he was calling her. "Your bags." He handed her two bags one of which was hers and the other one that they brought from the mall filled with the clothes they picked. "Woah, I totally forgot about these. Thank you." She thanked him for being surprised while he showed his all teeth grinning at her. She took the bags from her and hung them on each side of her shoulders.

She extended her hand for a handshake in front of getting him off guard but he took it quickly when he came back to his senses. "Thank you for everything." She thanked him one last time and pulled her hand back to herself but he didn't let go of her and kept smiling on her. "Ahhn... I said thank you." She slowly repeated herself and looked at their hands holding each other. "I know." He replied to her joyfully ignoring her gestures. "I... need to go." She said still trying to pull her hands out of his grip. "Go." He replied to her senselessly. Sam sighed looking at his senseless self and pulled him away from her while Vin whined and Tiara laughed awkwardly.

"Wait wait!" Vin stopped her to go inside and she raised her eyebrow at him. He freed himself from Sam's grip and went to her again. "Where do you live?" He asked her finding her dumbfounded. "Uhm... India." She answered him hesitantly. "Where?... In India." He shook his head and asked for a clear answer. "Uhmm..." She looked at everyone else staring at her, waiting for her answer as if every one of them waiting to know the answer. "In Maharashtra...near Goa's border..." She gulped before answering him, However. She didn't tell him her full address because she knew he wouldn't understand the address or remember it and then she parted her lips to avoid the awkwardness.

"Goodbye, everyone. I will miss everyone and every moment we spent together." She said and waved her hand before getting in leaving them behind with fake smiles on their face. After a while, She found her seat on the plane and sat there waiting for the flight to take off when she started to think about everything again.

'I forgot that they were celebrities and I am just...a no one.' She looked outside of the window when she found some familiar figure quite far from the plane. People were waving after they found her looking out of the window at them, the very same people with whom she spent her 9 days. 'Yet, They never made me feel anything less than them. They treated me good... no better than anyone else in my life.' She smiled at them waving crazily at her. 'They were just themselves in these days around me.' She thought and waved back at them with happy teary eyes from the small window.

She heard the announcement of a plane taking off and buckled at them after stopping waving at them while they stopped as well. She looked one last time at them before the plane started to go forward and looked at each one of them and the bitter-sweet smiles on their faces. 'Is it a goodbye forever?' She questioned when the plane left them behind slowly. 'Let's see. What's the future holding for us.' She smiled bitterly at her thought and leaned back on the plane's seat making herself comfortable for the long flight which was taking her back to her old comfortable life.

She spent most of her time sleeping, watching something on the mini television in front of her seat, or around. She could swear that she caught some people staring at her but they started to look in another direction as soon as she laid her eyes on them. She sighed and ignored everyone around her.

It was night when she prepared herself to take a little nap in her uncomfortable seat before the flight landed but fell asleep sooner because of the tiredness after a long day. A group of people came near her and pulled their phones out of their pockets without making any sound. They woke up the old lady sitting next to her, they shushed her before she could say anything or scream at their sudden appearance in front of her.

They gestured for her to get up from her seat and she did as they said because she didn't want any trouble which allowed them a way to go near her. One of the girls from the group went and sat next to her looking closely at her face and smiled. She turned her head to look at the others and nodded to them.

She pulled her phone upper and smiled at her phone's camera to take a photo of herself with Tiara's sleeping figure. A click sound came out of the phone making Tiara come to her senses while the girl made another pose for the camera to click another photo. "What do you think you are doing?" Tiara asked her in a low voice making her jump in shock while the girl's fellow stepped back from her.

"I asked something." She looked a the young girl in front of her with a straight face. "Don't you think it's bad manners to click pictures of someone while they are sleeping?" She noticed the open camera in her phone and asked her looking directly into her shocked bigger eyes.

"I-I… wanted a picture… with you." The girl replied to her hesitantly and stood up from the seat. "Sorry." She apologizes to Tiara after standing straight. "It's okay. Go to your seat now and let me sleep peacefully." She said half closing her eyes while the group returned to their respective seats. At that moment, She knew that her life wasn't the same as before. It had changed a lot, People recognized her. But little did she know that she was just the start of her new life.

After a few hours, She heard the announcement of landing and sat straight after taking a good amount of sleep. She got off the plane and took her both bags to go home quickly but her eyes snapped as soon as she stepped out of the airport. She tried to open them but only saw the flashes in front of her eyes and then in the next moment she was surrounded by people around her not allowing her to go easily.

"How are you feeling?" One of them asked her in her mother language shoving the mike in front of her face. "Are you happy to be back?" Another one asked. "What is your relation with TR-X?" "Are you close with the Velvet Brothers?" "Do you have their numbers?" and just like that every reporter threw questions at her while she struggled to even stand properly between them.

"Please, Give me a way out of here." She requested them but no one listened to her and kept up with their questions. She was small and seemed miserable between them, struggling to find a way out while the bags weren't making anything easy for her. She couldn't push them away from her because they were uncountable. "Let me go." She begged them but no one listened again.

Tears started brimming in her eyes while the flashes around her shone her tears like crystals on her face. She couldn't handle it, she couldn't understand anything. She never wished for a prince on a white horse or a knight in shining armor in her entire life but she was hoping at that moment. She hoped that someone could come here, hold her hand, and drag her out of here, away from these unsensible people, away from their questions, away from these flashes, away from everything but no one came for her.