Chapter Twelve- Safe In His Arms

~Third Person POV~

The members of LIT M sat in front of PD Nim's desk in his office, their manager standing beside him. The men were silent as they looked through the "gift" Erin had received, the only sign the girls had that they were angry was the matching scowls on their faces.

It was a rather cold day in Seoul and all the girls were bundled up well to prevent the cold from seeping into their skin. But for Erin the cold still seemed to nip at her, trying to settle itself into her bones. How she would love nothing more than to curl up in her bed with a cup of hot cocoa, blankets wrapped around her, and a good book.

But she had work to do, sadly, relaxing would have to wait. Finally PD Nim took a deep breath, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose. "So you say he didn't harm you in any way, correct?" Erin nodded. "That's good, at least he didn't hurt you. Are you okay to start practicing again?" The girls all exchanged looks before agreeing.

"We can start practicing right away, it was probably a waste of time for us not to be practicing." Aeri answered for all of them.

"Good, you all can get to work. Oh, but before you leave, I had a meeting with your manager and Bangtan's manager and we came up with an idea. Since both LIT M and BTS are having a concert next month we decided to have a special stage. We will pick the song and you will get to perform together. Later today we'll inform you which choreo you will begin learning." All the girls smiled excitedly before nodding firmly. "Thank you PD Nim!"

They all filed out of his office leaving the gift behind. PD Nim looked over at the manager. "We should tighten security, and at times when they won't have security, we will make their schedules so they will be around BTS." The manager nodded before bowing. "I'll get into contact with Bangtan's manager and set up the schedule." PD Nim nodded giving him a quick thank you before the manager also exited the office.

Erin and the others made their way to the practice room, making jokes and teasing one another to keep the mood light and their minds off of worrying. Although she smiled and laughed along, Erin couldn't help but worry about her members safety as well as anyone else who may come in contact with her. Because of her she could be putting everyone around her in danger. But at the same time, they are in danger anyway being famous.

Even knowing that, she couldn't shake away the guilt of making everyone worry about her. "Hello! Are you listening Erin?" Said girl snaps her head up, she hadn't even realized everyone was talking to her. "Sorry, I was just thinking. What were you saying?"

The three girls exchanged glances before Alex shook her head. "Nothing, are you really okay?" Erin quickly threw a smile across her face. "I'm fine, really! Practice will do me some good."

Her best friend didn't seem to buy it as she raised an eyebrow.

Alex knew Erin was faking her smile, she had known her too long to believe her little lies. But Alex also didn't want to push Erin on the subject because she knew Erin only lied when she didn't want to worry people, she didn't like it when people would be sad because of her. Erin always hated people worrying about her so she would try her hardest to put on a happy front so her friends would stay happy too.

Letting the subject drop for now, Alex decided to save her friend by changing the subject as they entered the practice room. "Hey, who is excited for our combined stage with Bangtan?" Immediately all the tension in the air cleared and all the girls began chatting about it. Erin let out a small sigh and began to chime in too, hoping to keep up her I'm-okay act.

"Do you think we will be partnered up with members from Bangtan?" Euna asked as she began combing her hair back into a ponytail.

"We all know who Erin's partner will be.~" Aeri smirked wiggling her eyebrows suggestively at Erin, causing her to roll her eyes. "They would be assigning us partners so I doubt it." The girls all laughed and got into position to dance.

After an hour and a half of dancing, all four girls lay sprawled across the cool wooden floor. The door creaked open alerting all the girls of a new presence. Sitting up they were met with Jimin and Jungkook.

Both boys donned big, puffy jackets, with little sprinkles of snow in their hair. "It's snowing!" They both said in unison earning a few chuckles from the girls in the room. "Come on Noonas!" Jungkook called as Jimin walked over and began trying to pick them off the floor. "Come on, let's go play in the snow!~" Jimin whined.

Erin bit back the comment she wanted to tease Jimin with and stood as she began putting on her jacket. The rest of the girls sighed before following after their leader. Jimin grabbed Erin and Aeri, dragging them along as Jungkook grabbed Alex and Euna.

As soon as they stepped outside they were met with the sight of fluffy white snow blanketing everything in sight, such a blinding white it made the girls squint against it. But as soon as the serenity of the snow wore off it left them with the biting cold that nipped at their faces.

Erin shivered against the frigid wind that seemed to go right through her layers, easily sinking into her skin. She was about to head back in to warm up her already cold fingers when a snowball came sailing towards her. She barely dodged it and turned to see who had thrown it, catching sight of a giggling Taehyung ducking down behind a snow covered bush. Smirking, Erin bent down as she gathered snow into her hands ignoring the chill it sent through her. Forming a good-sized snowball, she snuck around to find Taehyung.

The boy had his back to her giggling excitedly into his gloved hands, completely unaware of her sneaking up behind him. She quickly threw the snowball, hitting him in the back of the head. The force shocked him and sent him flying face first into the snowy bush. Erin let out a loud bout of laughter, causing all the others to turn in their direction. Taehyung pulled himself out of the bush and joined her laughter with his own, accompanied by his famous box smile.

Yoongi and Namjoon made their way over first, being that they were the closest. "What's so funny?" Namjoon asked as Yoongi gave Taehyung a weird look as he noticed the snow on his eyebrows. "Haha... she threw a... hahaha..... snowball at my head! Hahaha!" Taehyung said between his giggles. Namjoon shook his head with a smile while Yoongi also gave a smile while high-fiving Erin.

Suddenly a snowball flew right at Yoongi, hitting him in the face successfully wiping the gummy smile away. He snapped his head in the direction it came from and glared at a dancing J-Hope.

"Oh it's so fucking on!" He yelled as he made a snowball and threw it back at J-Hope who dodged causing it to hit Jin. Yoongi froze "Shit." He mumbled under his breath as Jin turned to him smirking as he made a snowball too.

Jin ran at him, shoving the snowball on the back of his jacket. Alex made a snowball and aimed right for Jin, hitting him square in the face. Jin slipped due to the snow and fell on top of Jimin who was in the process of making a snowball. "Hyung! You're heavy!"

Aeri picked up a bunch of snow and began making a snowball of her own. She looked around for a target, smirking as she caught sight of Euna helping Jimin and Jin up. The snowball hit her exposed neck, causing the girl to squeal and squeak. The scene completely amused Aeri and earned laughter from Alex, Erin, Yoongi and Namjoon too. Jin and Jimin began helping her get the snow off her neck as Jin gave her his scarf.

"Hey, let's make teams!" J-Hope yelled as he hid behind Jungkook who held a huge snowball.

"No way! Every man or woman for themselves!" Aeri yelled throwing a snowball at him. It sadly missed Hoseok, instead hitting the huge snowball out of Jungkook's hands. Jungkook pouted at the fallen snowball that had taken him a while to make.

Erin and Namjoon turned to one another smirking. Erin hit him in the face with a fistful of snow, giggling as she ran away from him. He hadn't expected her to turn on him, he had actually hoped they could make an alliance. Erin ducked down behind a bush, jumping slightly when she sat next to Yoongi.

He stuck his hand out. "Truce?" He asked as she smiled and nodded, shaking his hand. "Truce." Alex threw a snowball at Taehyung before hiding behind a car. Suddenly Hoseok ducked down behind the same car she was using as cover. He looked at her fearfully quickly throwing his hands up in surrender. "Truce!" She nodded with a smirk. "Let's take out everyone else, we got this!" He smiled happily "Yeah!" Jungkook and Taehyung immediately teamed up as Euna, Jin and Jimin were plotting who to get first.

Jungkook and Taehyung worked together to make another huge snowball. Namjoon ended up throwing a snowball at Jimin who was trying to sneak up on Aeri. "Truce?" He asked as she shrugged "sure, let's win this!" He laughed before joining her in making snowballs. Erin and Yoongi looked around at all the people who teamed up. "Let's start taking out Euna, Jimin and Jin." Yoongi said as he scanned the area. Erin nodded and began preparing more snowballs.

"Hey, let's work together to take them out!" Taehyung said as he and Jungkook crouched down next to them. They looked at each other before nodding. They slowly crept through the soft snow, getting behind Euna, Jimin, and Jin. Erin threw a snowball at Euna as Yoongi helped Taehyung throw a huge one at Jin and Jungkook threw his own huge snowball at Jimin.

They all cried out in surprise before laughing together. They stood and headed inside to warm up. We took their hiding places as we watched the last four besides us left in the game. Alex and Hoseok, and Aeri and Namjoon were the last of the opposition.

Meanwhile, nice and warm inside PD Nim stood beside the members who were already eliminated. "You kids are all crazy." He smiled watching them ducking for cover. "It's fun though!" Jimin said with a big smile, even as he shivered in the blanket wrapped around his shoulders. PD Nim merely shook his head. "Yeah I remember when I used to think freezing to death in the snow was fun too. Now I enjoy watching other people attempt to survive in the snow." Euna and Jin laughed.

Alex and Hoseok decided to try and take out a few of the people in the new alliance of four. Alex threw a snowball at Yoongi as Hoseok hit Taehyung with one. Both Tae and Yoongi sighed as they stood and went to warm up inside too. "Avenge me!" Yoongi called as he left. Erin and Jungkook bolted, taking new refuge as they planned their revenge. Hoseok and Alex were headed to take out Namjoon and Aeri, but Namjoon and Aeri had the same idea as they met each other half way. Hoseok bravely took a snowball to the face in the middle of his high pitched war cry, while Aeri got hit in the chest.

"Truce!" Alex called to Namjoon as he nodded. They found a hiding place, it was now them against Jungkook and Erin. "Okay, Alex and Namjoon are the last ones, we got this!" Jungkook said, confidence pouring off him. Erin nodded as she finished the big snowball she was making. "One... two...." They both got ready to charge. "...Three!" Erin yelled as they ran, Namjoon and Alex jumping up to run at them too. Somehow they all ended up in a big pile on the snow, Poor Namjoon being on the very bottom.

Jungkook's snowball had been smashed in Namjoon's already frozen face as Erin and Alex had smashed each other in the face at the same time, bursting into fits of giggles after. Namjoon managed to shove his snowball down Jungkook's shirt. "Wait, so who won?" Alex asked, combing her fingers through her hair. "It was obvious that we did!" Jungkook stated with a proud smirk as Namjoon shook his head. "No way, we did!" Both girls simply laughed with one another, before another frigid wind came through causing both girls to shiver.

Jungkook slung his arm around Alex's shoulder. "Let's call it a tie and go in, I'm freezing!" Namjoon nodded as he opened his jacket and pulled Erin into his chest to try and give her some warmth. They all waddled quickly out of the cold, their bodies numb from the intense snowball fight. "That was so fun!" Hoseok said as he did some crazy dance, Jimin joining him. Everyone nodded in agreement.

They all headed into one of the dance rooms that had a few heaters that everyone set up in the middle, sitting around them like a campfire. Alex looked over towards Erin to see her sleeping, curled up in Namjoon's lap with his jacket wrapped around her. Alex smiled, glad they had taken Erin's mind off of that stalker and that her best friend was finally sleeping.

Alex may not have said anything, but she knew Erin hadn't slept much the night before. Everyone laughed as Hoseok began to bravely retell his war tale, with Taehyung overdramatically gasped and pretended to faint at the amazing story.

Closing her own eyes as she laid her head on Jungkook's shoulder, she allowed herself a small nap too. It had been an eventful few weeks and a little break like this was just what she needed.