"Oh my god!" Yena says from her seat across from Kai.
"What?!" He says startled, she holds the phone toward him so he can see the message.
"She dragged Taehyun inside her apartment?!" He stands up from his seat.
"Sit down sit down! Yes she did but that's not normal of her!" She says looking around.
"Is your friend..promiscuous?"
"No! Not the slightest! I don't understand what's happening! Maybe they misunderstand it." She says pushing away the thought.
"I trust Taehyun, but, strangely, Soona did that when she dislikes him with every nerve she has.." He stroked his chin.
"I don't know also, I'll check on her later. I'm sure she's fine."
"Soona?" Taehyun asks; her head was still down on the counter; she was fast asleep.
"Are you sleep?" Taehyun asks moving the hair out of her face.
"I guess so." He says, he noticed she looked a bit too pale.
He took the back of his hand and placed it toward her forehead; she was burning up.
'Is she sick?'
"Soona, you should lay down." He tries to shake her awake lightly.
"Hm?" She sits up stretching her back.
"Your forehead is burning up, you should lay down and take some medicine." He suggests.
"Is it? Oh wow you're right." She feels her own forehead and stands up.
"Be careful. You're still disoriented." He says walking behind her making sure she doesn't trip.
"I can see fine." She mumbled and fell over on her bed backwards.
"I'll get you some water." He says walking back to the kitchen.
'I am burning up' She feels her forehead again. 'Am I sick?'
"Here take this as well." He says, handing her medicine and sitting the water on the nightstand.
"What time is it?" She asks. She picks the water up and pops the medicine in her mouth; her eyes squint at the bitter taste and chug the water down.
"It's 10P.M" He says reading his watch.
"It's late, if you need to stay here it's fine." She says finishing the water.
"Are you sure? I don't want to forget and freak out later."
"I'm sure, just sleep on the couch." She says falling backwards on the soft bed.
"Goodnight then. If you need anything, just yell." He says slowly closing her door leaving it slightly ajar.
'Am i crazy? I think so'
'I feel really numb, it feels like i lost ability to feel'
Soona stares at the ceiling for a few minutes in deep thought as she hums to herself. She slowly gets up and walks toward her bathroom, and splashes her face with cold water. She felt weird seeing herself in the mirror since they don't allow it in the realm.
She never noticed her features clearly until now; she felt like she was looking at a stranger.
'Is this me?'
She shakes her head to come back to her senses, 'if it's not me, who else?' She walks back out the bathroom to her bed.
She changes her mind and walks toward her door; she peeks out to see a passed-out Taehyun on the couch.
She walks over slowly toward him; standing above him was a little creepy, but she didn't think he'd wake up.
'he looks nice this way unlike when he's awake'
'I'm shocked how kind he was to me today, but maybe it's all a front.'
"W-What are you doing?! You pervert!"He quickly sits up seeing Soona looking at him.
"S-Sorry I wasn't .." She awkwardly says.
"W-What do you want?" He says, covering himself with the blanket even though he was fully clothed as before.
"Sorry, your highness, I was just admiring you for a short second." She says, crossing her arms.
"Admiring me? you have no shame today really." She says scoffing.
"How does it feel being treated the same?"
"I don't watch you sleep." He says clenching the blankets.
"You're acting like I watched you undress!" She laughed.
"You imagined it while saying that didn't you!" He shoots back.
"I didn't!"
"Like this." He says trying to unbutton apart of his shirt.
"No!" Soona runs back into her room leaving him laughing.
"Goodnight!" He says and makes himself comfortable again; He smiles to himself before going back to bed.
'He's actually insane' Soona says to herself as she flopped back on the bed.
"I'm sure she's asleep, I won't bother her." Yena says to Kai, they both stood outside Yena's door.
"I see, I hope she's alright. Thanks for today. See you tomorrow." He says embracing her in a tight hug.
"Good morning." Taehyun says seeing Soona approach the kitchen.
"Oh? What's this?" She says looking at the food laid out.
"It's food I made, this is for the class and this is for our breakfast."
"You made this with my food?" She says, looking at her empty fridge.
"Sorry, I'll give you money for it later!" He says apologizing.
"Let's just eat and get to school don't worry." Soona shakes it off, she didn't have energy to be angry today.
"Are you feeling better?" He asked.
"A little, Thank you for last night."
"No problem, i'm glad you dragged me in here otherwise you would of suffered alone." He chuckled.
He grabbed both their empty plates and quickly washed them off in the sink.
"You can carry the Sandwhiches i'll carry the other two dishes."
"Sure, Be extra careful with your steps." Soona warns him before they walk out the door.
"Hey you two." Beomgyu says seeing them walking together; it was only natural he'd run into them since he lives so close.
"Oh morning." Soona greeted him, Taehyun just nods.
'He even slept there? Wow, this guy Beomgyu gritted his teeth into a forced smile.
"I'll get going ahead!" Beomgyu walks off carrying the bag of drinks.
"That was awkward.." Soona says rubbing her neck with one hand.
"Don't mind them, they're just suspicious of me."
"Good morning Soona- Oh Taehyun too?" Soobin says as the two walked inside the half entire class.
"You two seem close suddenly." Kai says; Yeonjun looks over at them. "Real close," he says out loud by accident.
"Anyways, Soobin please help me sit these down." Soobin comes over and takes one of the plates from Taehyun helping him sit them on the table.
"Did you make this?" Soobin says, smelling the delicious food from Taehyun.
"Yes this morning."
"Oh? With Soona?" Kai asked and Taehyun nodded.
"You slept there?" Soobin says with raised eyebrows.
"Soona was sick don't misunderstand." He reassured them both.
He felt the piercing eyes of Yeonjun and Beomgyu but ignored their eyes.
"I see, I can't wait to taste it later." Soobin rubbed his stomach.
"Oh these sandwhiches look good too!"
"I made them." Soona says proudly.
"Alright, class, I will be delaying the paper reading due to having difficulty deciding who's was worthy; all of you wrote many good things. We can all begin the party now. Remember, don't be too loud and stay respectful." The teacher says.
"I want to try the Tteotbokki~." Kai says rushing over.
"Do you want some?" Soobin asks Soona.
"I don't like spicy foods." She rejected kindly and grabbed the other foods instead.
"Yena!" Kai says hugging her tightly, "I was allowed to come to this class for the party."
"I'm glad you're here, we missed you." Yeonjun says standing beside her.
"Oh my gosh, these are delicious." Kai says eating apart of the sandwhiches made.
"Thank you," Soona says, feeling happy inside.
"Oh it's raining again!" Beomgyu says standing by the window admiring it.
"Again? it's making everyone so gloomy!" Yeonjun says, throwing an arm around Beomgyu.
"Those two are cute." Yena says smiling to herself.
"I can do that too." Kai says mirroring the actions of Yeonjun, Yena's face turns bright pink.
"Headlock!" Taehyun says wrapping his arm completely around Soona.
"Yah! wrong type!" She says laughing with him.
Yeonjun's smile fades, and he clears his throat; he walks outside the room.
"What's wrong with him?" Yena says noticing.
"I don't know lately." Beomgyu says from across the room.
"I'll go check on him." Soona offered and walked out into the empty hallway toward the vending machines to see Yeonjun slumped down on the wall.
"Are you okay?" She says; he peered up at her and looked back down.
"Yep."
"You're not fooling me, what's up?" She bends down to his face.
"Nothing, you're standing too close." He stands up and walks off.
"What a jerk today." She walks back inside the classroom sitting at her desk.
"No luck?"
"None, he's in a mood." Soona says, biting aggressively into the food.
"I'll go check on him." Beomgyu walks off to join him.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just want to be alone."
"I know something's wrong.." Beomgyu says and Yeonjun stopped in his tracks.
"I'm just so frustrated." Yeonjun says ruffling his hair.
"What do we do?" Beomgyu says.
Yena came skipping down the hallway until she came to a sudden halt seeing Beomgyu and Yeonjun.
Yeonjun doesn't say a word to Beomgyu. Instead he quickly turned around, grabbing his wrist, and pulled him closer to him; the only thing separating their faces was the inch of space.
Yena's face became red from embarrassment, she felt she wasn't supposed to be seeing this.
Yeonjun hesitates for a moment before finally throwing all his concerns away and suddenly kisses Beomgyu.
Yena covered her mouth to suppress her squeal wanting to come out; she was shocked by the sudden doing.
She accidentally dropped the milk tea can she was going to give to Kai; it hits the floor with a "clink," noise-causing Yeonjun and Beomgyu to face her quickly.
"S-Sorry!" She picks the can you and ran back inside the room panting.
"Woah, what happened to you?" Kai asked seeing a panicked Yena.
"Soona, come here!" She grabbed Soona and dragged her outside the classroom.
Soona was being pulled so fast she couldn't even try to stop it; she suddenly hits the chest of Yeonjun, making her crash to the floor.
"Sorry." She says, standing up and not even looking at him as she followed Yena to the bathroom.
"Where did you two go so long?" Kai asked.
"Soona sorry I am but I have something to tell you!" She says releasing Soona's hand.
"What?"
"I saw Yeonjun kiss Beomgyu earlier."
"What?"
"Yeojun purposely kissed Beomgyu!" She says again and it processed through Soona's brain.
"It's happening then." Soona slumped down against the wall.
"Why aren't you happy! Our mission is successful so far!" She grabs her hands trying to pull her up.
"Nothing; I don't feel good again. I might puke. You might need to get out." Soona says grabbing her stomach.
"Oh gosh! Okay! I'll come back if you don't return in 4 minutes ok!" Yena rushes out the bathrooms.
"Where is Soona?" Kai asks not seeing her behind Yena.
"She isn't feeling well; she said she needed to throw up."
"Throw up? She's that sick?" Beomgyu asks worried.
"Maybe she's really stressed these days." Soobin says.
Soona walks back out of the bathroom, she debated on returning to class or skipping to go home. She didn't feel too hot after all.
"Here." Taehyun taps her from behind, and she turned to face him; he held out medicine he retrieved from the nurse.
"Thank you." She says quietly as she took the medicine from his fingers.
"She nurse said you could return home early today If needed."
"I think i'll try to stick around." She says swallowing the medicine.
"Don't force yourself." He says and she nods. "I won't"
"Are you okay?" Soobin asks seeing Soona enter the room.
"I'm fine, sorry to worry you all." She says sitting in her desk.
-Earlier in the hallway-
"Why did she look so scared?" Yeonjun asks to Beomgyu after they saw Yena run away.
"She probably thinks she saw something we didn't want her to.." Beomgyu says.
"Why did you do it?" Beomgyu asks looking at Yeonjun.
"I- I'll tell you another time, let's just go back." Yeonjun says , his chest felt too heavy to tell him the truth now; it wasn't a good time.
Beomgyu sat there at his desk, his head deep in thoughts about earlier; he touched his lips.
'Did he mean to do that?'
'I'm selfish' Soona thinks to herself as she scribbled in her notepad.
'I'm only thinking of myself'
'I should be responsible'
"What's got you worked up?" Yena asks scaring Soona, "Don't scare me please." She says, holding her hand to her chest.
"Sorry, you look really concerned."
"It's nothing as I said before; I just don't feel well." She says, forcing a smile on her face.
She felt she could cry any moment if someone asked again 'What's wrong?'.
She bites her lip in desperation to not cry; her thoughts were eating her alive.
'I want live a normal life'
'I felt what it's like to be alive'
'I want to....'
She gripped the sides of her chair, her nails diffing into the plastic.
The sounds of voicing chatting, and laughing were distant as she tucked herself into her thoughts.
The thought of leaving, pained her even to imagine it; she couldn't bear it.
"Let's go." She felt a hand on her back; she looked up to see Taehyun standing there.
She nodded without hesitation; she needed to get out of the classroom; she felt surrounded and constricted.
The other watched as the two stepped outside, their minds trying to figure out the two.
"I think I know what's going on." He says sitting down beside her.
"What?"
"Let's not chat here, It's too risky for someone to overhear it. Let's talk another time at your place okay?" He says patting her arm.
"I'll head home now, Enjoy the rest of the party." She stands up, dragging herself away from the school.
Taehyun watches as she trailed off into the distance, becoming smaller until not visible anymore.
'I felt the same as you did, long go.'
He sighs and returned back inside the school; his hands in his pockets.
"She went home?" Soobin asks to frown, he wanted to talk to her today, but he guesses she didn't feel too well.
"Yes, she's not doing too good lately." Taehyun informed them.
"I'll check on her again later, She's just going through some emotions." Yena explained.
"Oh about you two, how's your relationship?" Kai asked Yeonjun.
"It's good." He smiles nervously.
"I'm glad; I always thought you two looked cute together." He chuckled.
"Thank you." Beomgyu says smiling.
Soona stood there, the water from the showerhead flowing over her; she didn't even care if the water was going in her eyes.
She felt emotionless; she didn't feel anything but sadness.
She felt a sense of anger, knowing what happened earlier; why did they kiss? Why couldn't they wait a little longer?
She puts her fist on the shower wall in anger.
'It's driving me insane.'
'it's not their fault but why do I feel resentment?'
She turns off the water and stands there for a minute before coming back to reality.
'I'll just sleep it off'
She tossed and turned all throughout the night; many thoughts are passing her head. She wanted to scream in frustration.
The thoughts were surrounding her; all she could think of was leaving; leaving people who mattered to her behind.
She didn't want to be forgotten; she wanted to be remembered.
She pulls her knees to her chest she tried to suppress her tears from falling down her cheeks.
The sky began to thunder; rain was coming soon. The thunder felt like Soona's resentment, the hatred she held in her heart. She didn't want to but it overcame her that night.
"It's raining again." Yena says, looking out the window. Yena and the others stayed to help cleanup after the party, so it was night already.
"Ah, I brought my umbrella luckily with me. Do you need to share again Yeonjun darling?~" Beomgyu teased him and made Yena burst into laughter.
"Ah stop that, I brought my own today." He says with a flush of red on his cheeks.
"I'll get going, Ah what did you have to tell me earlier?" Beomgyu asks Yeonjun.
"Oh earlier that, I'll come tell you tonight!" Yeonjun smiled before walking away happily.
'Don't do it'
'Do it'
'Dont'
'Don't you want to stay longer?'
'No I can't'
'It's the only way'
Soona sits up in her bed looking around, her mind was leading her to cause trouble, she tried to ignore it, but she couldn't.
She sits up and grabs her shoes sliding them on; she runs outside in the rain, immediately becoming damp.
The rain falling on her face made her feel somewhat alive at the moment; she runs down the wet and slippery street toward the houses.
The puddles splashing below her running feet, wetting her pants as well.
Her breathing to become short as she ran so fast without stopping to care about the air inside her lungs.
'Stop'
'Don't do it!'
'You're going to rush everything'
'Isn't that the point?'
Tears began streaming down her cheeks, her eyes began to feel swollen, but she kept running even if her knees felt weak at the moment.
She runs past Yeonjun, who was walking in the rain with an umbrella; he sees her and tries to catch up but can't.
"Soona!" He yelled after her, but she heard nothing but the sound of her heartbeat with the rain. He tried to catch up, but her silhouette became invisible as the distance become longer, he gave up running and called Beomgyu.
"Are you okay? you sound out of breathe?" Beomgyu says from the other line.
"S-Soona she's, She's running in the rain toward your direction; please stop her.." He says catching his breathe. His vision felt blurry as his lungs were desperate for oxygen.
Soona continued running, not even looking back; as she approached Beomgyu's house, she saw him just reaching his home from walking from the school.
Beomgyu heard the sounds of approaching footsteps and turned around while unlocking his door to see Soona running full speed toward him.
"Soona?" He says confused as she runs on his porch and bent down catching her breathe.
He could tell she was crying due to her reddened eyes; he was concerned for her at that moment.
"Do you need to come inside?" He asked; she suddenly stood back up and grabbed his arm, pulling him inside his house with her.
"Forgive me." She says.