Chapter 1 - Meeting

“I hope we get to be roommates,” Yuri said to Taeyeon as they wheeled their luggage into their new university.

The university they are staying at was humongous that it could stretch out for miles. The entrance was spotless, the grass was fresh, clean cut, the water fountain was clear (maybe even drinkable), the trees were trimmed, and the sidewalks were swept. There was not a speck of trash in sight. As they were walking, students were studying ahead of the school year under a tree, a bench, or sitting on the ledge of the water fountain. 

Both Yuri and Taeyeon walked by grabbing the attention of the students that are studying. People were looking at them from the side, but some of them can tell who they are since they are popular no matter where they went.

“Isn’t that Kim Taeyeon and Kwon Yuri?”

“Are they new?”

“They look intimidating.”

“That has to be Taeyeon and Yuri.”

“They’re so pretty.”

“I’m envious of their beauty.”

Though Yuri and Taeyeon did not hear the comments about them, they already knew something like this would happen. They headed towards the main office and registered into the university. In return, they got a pair of dorm keys and papers to show their schedule.

“Good luck living in connected dorms,” the lady said when the girls left, but they did not listen to her.

“What dorm room number did you get?” Yuri asked as she eyed her own dorm key.

“Umm….” Taeyeon fumbled with the key to make it clear for her to read. “126. What did you get?”

Yuri sighed disappointedly. “125.”

“Aw, we’re not together! I wonder how I would get along with my roommate,” Taeyeon said while grimacing.

“Don’t worry. I think we’re next door,” Yuri said with a forced smile.

Both Yuri and Taeyeon always stick together no matter what. They basically did everything together. From fighting together and to going to the bathroom together. (No, they do not pee together.) If anyone messed with one of them, the other one would come immediately and messed with them back. 

They arrived at their dorm room and sighed. “We’re next door like you said,” Taeyeon said eyeing the gold numbers placed on the center of the door.

“Yeah, I’ll be going in now. If you need anything come next door or call me,” Yuri opened the door and walked in.

Taeyeon followed her actions and walked into her own dorm room. She closed the door behind her and saw a pair of shoes already at the front door. She looked towards the entrance of another door and saw a girl sitting on the couch watching television. The girl must have heard Taeyeon coming as she turned off the television and sat up to walk towards Taeyeon.

“Are you my new roommate?” the girl asked.

“Ah, yes,” Taeyeon replied.

“Oh great! My name is Tiffany Hwang.” Tiffany smiled, her eyes disappearing.

Tiffany Hwang sounds familiar, Taeyeon thought. “Nice to meet you, my name is Kim Taeyeon.” she bowed and vice versa.

“Wait… THE Kim Taeyeon?” Tiffany asked.

“Uhh… I guess… my name is Kim Taeyeon.” Taeyeon smiled awkwardly.

“So, you’re the Kim Taeyeon that is popular in Korea? I can’t believe you’re in this school,” Tiffany said surprised.

“That’s okay. I’ve been to schools like this and none of them except the brave ones bothered me. And can you show me my new room? The luggage is getting quite heavy now,” Taeyeon said impatiently.

“Ah I’m sorry; let me help you with that.” Tiffany smiled apologetically while taking one of Taeyeon’s luggages.

She started walking and stopped by a hallway. “Okay, your room is on the right,” Tiffany pointed to the door on the right, “and my room is on the left.” Tiffany pointed to the door on the left.

“Great. Let me just unpack then,” Taeyeon said while opening the door to her room. 

Tiffany followed suit and placed Taeyeon’s luggage by the door. “If you need anything I’ll be outside watching TV,” she said while closing the door.

Taeyeon turned around to look around the room. “Wow….” she said awed.

The room was like the size of her own room, which was not normal for an average person. Placed against the wall was a king sized bed. On each side of it were two night stands with a lit up lamp on top of one of them. And finally, to the right of the bed is a closet.

“Oh, my god, a walk-in closet?” Taeyeon smiled brightly and started unpacking her clothes to put it in the closet. 

“Oh yeah! The bathroom is at the end of the hallway!” Taeyeon heard Tiffany’s loud voice say.

Taeyeon finished unpacking her luggage and walked out of the closet. On the other side of the room was an empty shelf. “Maybe to put books in and stuff….” she mumbled to herself.

Right next to the shelf was a mahogany desk with a rolly chair and all the necessities to do your school materials.

“Jeez… this university is so much grander than I thought it would be.”

-*-*-*-*-

Meanwhile at the same time Taeyeon entered her dorm room, Yuri entered her own dorm room and was greeted with darkness and silence. Is there anyone living here? Yuri thought.

Just when she thought no one was here she saw a pair of shoes by the door.

“Must be someone’s….” Yuri mumbled to herself.

As she was walking more inwards in the dorm, a door opened to her right from a hallway revealing a blonde haired girl. The blonde haired girl closed the door behind her and looked up. “You must be the new roommate,” she said while walking towards Yuri.

She’s pretty, Yuri smirked. “Yes, my name is Kwon Yuri,” she said while flashing a killer smile.

“Jessica Jung,” the blonde haired girl answered coldly and walked past her.

Dang. Must be an Ice Princess, Yuri thought. “Umm… where’s my room?” she asked.

Jessica turned around and pointed at a door with her slender index finger, “That’s my room.” She then moved her finger towards the door across from it, “that’s your room.” And she moved her finger towards the end of the hallway, “and that’s the bathroom.”

“I also have a couple of rules if you’re going to stay as my roommate,” she continued.

“And that is?” Yuri asked while rolling her luggage towards her room.

“This one is definitely a big fat no. If I ever see you have it around me I’ll murder you.” 

“Umm… I think I’ll have to know what it is first….” Yuri said impatiently.

“Cucumbers! Don’t bring those elongated green things around me and don’t ask why.” 

“Err… okay.”

“And when I’m sleeping or reading don’t ever bother me and never go into my room without my permission.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes.”

“Ah okay… I’ll be unpacking now,” Yuri said while walking into her room and closed the door. Wow this girl is weird. What’s wrong with cucumbers? She thought.

She turned around and saw the same thing Taeyeon saw except she had a more amused expression then her. “Wah! This is awesome!” she said excitingly.

She unpacked her luggage and decided to change her clothes into clean ones. She wore a pair of jean short shorts revealing her long toned sexy legs, a plain white tank top showing off her curves, and a black unbuttoned cardigan.

She stepped outside her room and saw Jessica closing her door. Her outfit was not any different as she also wore a pair of jean short shorts, except darker, a pink Abercrombie & Fitch shirt that shows off her curves, and a white cardigan. 

“Are you going somewhere?” Yuri asked.

“It’s none of your business,” Jessica answered with her usual cold tone as she slipped on her shoes.

This girl is harder than I thought.

Right when Jessica was about to open the door while Yuri was putting on her shoes, they heard a couple of knocking on the door.

“Aren’t you going to get that?” Yuri said annoyed with the repetitive knocking.

Jessica peeped through the peep hole on the door and saw a girl with short hair and assumed she saw another person whom she could not see.

-*-*-*-*-

While Jessica was being cold towards Yuri, Taeyeon walked out from her room and headed towards the door.

“Are you going somewhere?” Tiffany asked.

“Yeah,” Taeyeon replied without looking at her in the eye.

“Me too, where are you going?” Tiffany asked while putting on her shoes.

Taeyeon sighed. “I’m visiting my best friend whom you don’t want to meet.”

“Why not? I’d like to meet THE Kim Taeyeon’s best friend.” Tiffany smiled.

“Okay you can meet her, but just don’t get too close to her or else you’ll get hurt,” Taeyeon said and walked outside and into the hall.

“Get hurt?” Tiffany mumbled to herself.

They both walked to the dorm room next to theirs.

“Wait, your best friend lives here?” Tiffany asked.

“Yeah....” Taeyeon replied. “Wait a minute.” she pondered for a bit. That Yuri better not make a move on her roommate already, Taeyeon furrowed her eyebrows.

Oh no… Jessi’s roommate is already here! She better not kill her with her glares…. Tiffany thought while knocking on the door with Taeyeon repeatedly.

Tiffany looked through the peephole placed on the center of the door and saw a certain blonde headed girl peeping through it. She stopped knocking and waited for her to open the door. The door opened revealing the blonde haired girl along with the tanned girl next to her.

“Hi Jessi!” Tiffany shouted and hugged the girl tightly.

“Yah Tiff stop it! You’re suffocating me!” Jessica tried to say.

Taeyeon grabbed Yuri’s arm and dragged her just a few feet away so the two girls would not hear their conversation. “Yah, don’t cause trouble okay?” she said.

“Relax Taeng. I got it all under control.” Yuri smiled.

“Sometimes I don’t trust you. You should break out of that player habit of yours,” Taeyeon exhaled out of her nose and grimaced.

“I didn’t do anything yet, okay? Don’t worry about it, umma,” Yuri said teasingly.

“Yah! I’m not your mom!” Taeyeon shouted.

“But you act like one,” Yuri stuck her tongue out at her and walked away.

“Jeez, this girl….” Taeyeon said while shaking her head and following the tanned girl.

“Hi! You must be Jessi’s new roommate. I’m her best friend, Tiffany Hwang,” Tiffany introduced herself to Yuri.

“Hello Tiffany, my name is Kwon Yuri. TaeTae’s best friend.” Yuri flashed her infamous killer smile.

“TaeTae?” Tiffany asked.

“Yep, this short kid right here.” Yuri chuckled while patting Taeyeon’s head.

“Yah!” Taeyeon slapped Yuri’s hand away and glared at her.

“Wow, TaeTae sounds so cute,” Tiffany laughed.

Taeyeon ignored her and talked to the blonde haired girl next to her, “You must be Yuri’s roommate. I’m Kim Taeyeon, her best friend.”

“Jessica Jung,” Jessica replied and once again with her cold tone. “So, you’re Kim Taeyeon? The famous daughter of Mr. Kim owning the Kim Enterprise?” she continued with the cold tone in her voice.

“Yes, but I’d like if you don’t go around the school telling who I am,” Taeyeon said.

“Don’t fret. I don’t do such things,” Jessica said while her eyes were wandering around the girl next to Taeyeon. She smirked and looked back at Taeyeon. “Me and my friend are going to go out for awhile. See you later.”

They both walked away from Taeyeon and Yuri.

“Did you see what she did?” Taeyeon said.

“What?” Yuri asked, her eyes never leaving the ice princess.

“She gave me one of those arrogant princess attitudes. I don’t like her already.” Taeyeon crossed her arms on her chest.

“You just met her Tae. Maybe she’s not like how she is.”

“Is she your next victim?”

“Who knows? I bet there are plenty of fresh meats in this university.”

Taeyeon sighed and closed her eyes. “Please just stop doing that for awhile, okay?”

“I can’t help it Taeng. You know you just have to chase after your prey.”

“And you’re the predator.” Taeyeon finished for Yuri. “More like rapist,” Taeyeon whispered the last part to herself.

“What did you say?” Yuri asked while she eyed Taeyeon suspiciously.

“I said you’re the predator.”

“No I heard something else.”

“It’s nothing important.”

“So how do you like your new roommate?” Yuri switched the subjects.

“She’s too happy. I don’t think I can bear with this girl for the next week. What about that ice princess of yours?”

“Just like you said, she really is one. She already gave me a set of rules and she gives off this cold aura around her.”

Taeyeon bursted into laughter. “You have rules to follow? Damn, that’s hard to believe since your one rebellious girl.”

“Can you believe it? She despises cucumbers.”

“What’s wrong with cucumbers?”

“It’s kind of silly, but I find it cute.”

“Oh my gosh! I swear by the next day you’re going to make a move on her.”

“Says who?”

“Says the rebellious player girl who hits on all the girls and guys in the world.”

“Be quiet Taeng. You’re saying it like I’m the only one that flirts.”

“I don’t flirt.” 

“Yeah~ whatever,” Yuri said in a sing song tone and walked away from Taeyeon with her hips swaying.

“Quit swaying your hips! You’re the only one in the hall besides me!” Taeyeon shouted while walking towards Yuri. 

Chapter 2 - Taking Advantage?

“How do you like your new roommate so far?” Tiffany asked her best friend.

They were both outside at the university walking around to get used to the school before starting their classes. They stopped at a bench in front of the infirmary and sat down.

“You’re asking me how I like my new roommate? Tiff, she’s Kwon Yuri. The biggest player ever,” Jessica said.

“She’s THE Kwon Yuri?! No wonder Taeyeon said I should be careful around her,” Tiffany said.

“I already don’t like her. She’s probably think I’m going to fall for her tricks.” Jessica scoffed. “So, how about your roommate, THE Kim Taeyeon?” she mocked.

“She’s alright I guess. I don’t see any coldness towards her. I wonder why they say that all over the news and magazines.” 

“They exaggerate.” Jessica sighed and leaned back on the bench with her arms crossed over her chest.

“So, how is your father’s company?” Tiffany switched the subject.

“It’s going well. I’m not working for awhile,” Jessica replied lazily but there was a hint of happiness in her voice because she was not working.

“Do you think Yuri is attractive?” Tiffany asked all of a sudden.

“Eh?” Jessica jolted up from the sudden question.

“Do you—“

“I heard you the first time.” 

“So….”

“I would be lying if I said she wasn’t attractive.” 

“I saw you checking her out.”

“What does that got to do with anything? That’s what I do to every new person I see.”

“People may get the wrong idea, Jess.”

“So?” Jessica pouted.

“So? Then stop doing it! You’ve been like this ever since he broke up with you….” Tiffany mumbled.

Jessica tensed up but did not say anything. She did not like the mention of her ex-boyfriend breaking up with her for the lamest reason she has ever heard. “You know better than to mention him.” she warned.

“You can’t hide from the truth. You have to get over him Jessica,” Tiffany said in a serious tone. She is not going to give in Jessica’s coldness this time.

Jessica closed her eyes and sighed. It was the first time she has ever heard her best friend calling her by her full name in a long time. She knew Tiffany was serious when she called her by her full name despite being happy-go-lucky all the time.

“I want the old Jessica Jung Sooyeon back,” Tiffany whispered.

“I can’t… I can’t get over him….”

-*-*-*-*-

A couple days passed as the new school year finally started. The four girls got their new uniforms at the office and wore them on the first day of school.

The uniform jacket was pink and on the edge was white. It had the school’s badge on the left side of the breast and there were pockets on each side to keep your hands warm. What came with it was a white long sleeved buttoned shirt and a pink tie with patterns on it. They were given a hot pink skirt with three different colors of plaid on it; black, hot pink and a color with both of them mixed. And like the white and pink color rage will not stop, they were given white, knee high socks and pink, high top chucks.

“Damn can this uniform get any more pink and white?” Taeyeon grumbled.

Both Yuri and Taeyeon wore their uniforms the same. The uniform jacket was unbuttoned, tie was loosening, and they rolled up their sleeves looking like delinquents. Tiffany had her uniform jacket unbuttoned but the rest of her clothing was worn properly.

“PINK! PINK! PINK! PINK!” Taeyeon heard a loud voice said. She stepped outside of her room and saw her roommate jumping like crazy and grinning like a dork.

“Are you… okay?” She was about to say mental, but then she figured that would be too mean to say.

“I LOVE PINK!” Tiffany shouted happily.

“That explains it….” Taeyeon mumbled. She went over to the kitchen and looked for some food.

“What are you doing?” Tiffany asked when she finally stopped jumping.

“I’m going to make breakfast for us. Where are your ingredients?” 

“Umm… I don’t have any… I can’t… cook,” Tiffany said embarrassed.

“What?” Taeyeon looked up from the refrigerator and at Tiffany as if she lost her mind.

“I usually get breakfast at the cafeteria with Jess,” she confessed.

“You’re kidding me right?” Taeyeon sighed and closed the refrigerator door. “I’m going to cook from now on so you don’t have to go to the cafeteria anymore.”

“Really?” Tiffany grinned from ear to ear.

“If you keep on grinning I’m going to reconsider.”

“Sorry.” Tiffany bowed apologetically.

This girl has her respects. Taeyeon thought.

“But then I’ll leave Jess going to the cafeteria by herself then….”

“That’s okay. She could come here to eat, or Yuri will probably cook.”

“Yuri can cook?” Tiffany’s eyes sparkled.

Taeyeon gave the same look to her roommate like she did a few minutes ago.

“You say it like you never saw anyone cook before.”

“Well it’s just that I’ve been living alone for two years and I don’t really know how to cook. And I just moved in here a few weeks ago… nothing changed.”

Should I risk it? Taeyeon sighed. “I’ll teach you how to cook.”

Tiffany smiled her eye smile. “Really? Thanks Taeyeon.”

“Well, let’s get going. I’m going to pick up Yuri on the way.” Taeyeon headed for the door while slipping on her chucks.

“Okay, I’ll follow,” Tiffany did the same actions as Taeyeon.

She locked the door and both of them started heading towards the room next to theirs. They knocked on it a few times and waited for someone to open it.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked out of her room and walked towards the open wide space at the living room. She looked at the small mirror hanging next to the kitchen door and adjusts her collar and fixes her hair. She notices that it has been awfully quiet and looks around not spotting the ice princess in sight.

Is she still sleeping? She thought.

She went over to the front door and saw two pair of shoes. One of them was hers and the other was her roommate.

“Aish… she’s going to be late if she doesn’t wake up now,” Yuri mumbles and headed towards her roommate’s door.

“And when I’m sleeping or reading don’t bother me and never go into my room without my permission.”

The words replayed in Yuri’s mind. She was debating whether to enter the room or not. 

“I don’t want to be late on the first day of school….” she opened the door and walked inside the room.

She swung the door open, but quietly closed the door. As she walked more inwards towards the room, she shivered.

Why is the freaking air conditioner on?!

She saw the blonde haired girl sleeping peacefully while snuggling close to the stuffed animal bear of hers.

She looks too peaceful to wake up….

“You know what… screw this,” Yuri says to herself and nudges the girl to wake up. “Yah, Jessica wake up or else we’re going to be late.” She nudges the girl on the arm repeatedly.

Jessica did not respond, but only turned making her back facing Yuri.

Yuri sighed frustratingly. She snapped her head around when she heard knocking on the front door. Ignoring it, she pulled the covers off of the blonde haired girl and screamed, “Wake up!”

The girl still did not budge at the voice, but shivered and hugged her body.

“Oh, my ****ing gawd!” Yuri was losing her temper as she jumped onto the bed and shook the girl violently. “Jessica Jung, wake up you sleepyhead!” she screams into the girl’s face with both of her hands on the girls shoulder and her knees placed next to the girl’s waist.

Jessica slowly opened her eyes and met with a pair of mesmerizing ones. She felt herself drawn into the tanned girl’s dark brown eyes. Her eyes then traveled down looking at the girl’s seductive lips and then her sexy collarbone. The first two buttons of her uniform was unbuttoned revealing more cleavage. Then her eyes traveled further down and realized the girl was on top of her.

“Yah! What are you doing on top of me?!” Jessica screamed and pushed the girl off.

Once the girl was off her bed, Jessica went into the corner of her bed and hugged her knees protectively. On the other hand, Yuri landed on the floor square on her butt.

She groaned in pain, “What the hell was that for?!” She stood up rubbing her bottom to ease the pain. 

“What did you do to me? I didn’t lose my virginity did I? Oh, my god I knew rooming with you was a bad idea!” Jessica shivered in fear.

Yuri ruffled her hair in frustration. “I’m not the type to take advantage of someone sleeping!”

“Then explain the meaning of this!”

“Well, you wouldn’t wake up after I screamed a million of times so I thought shaking you violently would wake you up and fortunately it did.” Yuri placed one hand on her hip.

“I don’t believe you….” Jessica muttered.

Yuri closed her eyes and slowly exhaled out of frustration. “Just… get dressed for school. I’ll meet you outside,” she calmly said and walked out of her room.

Once she was out of sight, Jessica scrambled out of her bed and closed the door. She leaned against it and groaned. “Since when was she allowed to go into my room?” she mumbled to herself.

She opened the door and headed towards the bathroom to shower, brush her teeth and change into her school uniform. Once she stepped out of the bathroom she mumbled to herself again, “I can’t let her slide not knowing what she did to me.”

She saw Yuri at the front door putting her chucks on. She was about to confront the girl but knocking was heard on the door and Yuri hurriedly opened it to avoid hearing any repetitive knocking.

“Oh, hey Taeng and Tiffany,” she greeted.

“Hey. Where’s Jess?” Tiffany asked while her eyes were peering into the room.

“I’m right here,” Jessica answered as she was right behind Yuri ready to go with her bag slung onto her right shoulder.

“Let’s get going,” Yuri said as she grabbed her bag from the kitchen table and closed the door after Jessica walked out.

-*-*-*-*-

The four girls were walking on the campus on their way to their classroom. The entire campus looked pink due to the school uniform except for the boys. The boy’s uniforms were dark blue. The girls grabbed everyone’s attention. Even the teachers. Many mumblings and murmurs were heard commenting about the girls.

“Is this a dream? The hot daughters from four of Korea’s top richest companies are here!”

“Two was great but four is even better. They’re so hot.”

“Kim Taeyeon looks so cute in real life!”

“Kwon Yuri is such a seductress. She’s so sexy.”

“Are you kidding me? Even though Jessica Jung has those cold looks, she looks hot.”

“No! Tiffany Hwang is the best among them with her smiling eyes!”

Two of the girls tried to ignore the comments with Taeyeon sighing in frustration and Jessica throwing icy glares at the people who dare try to come close. The other two had other plans as Yuri was flirting with the boys and girls and Tiffany greeting and smiling at the students.

They reached their classroom and the same exact thing happened outside. Everyone who was seated at the front was whispering to each other while looking at the girls. The classroom was huge. It could fit about a hundred or more people and if you were seated in the back, you could easily cheat on tests or do private stuff. The girls sat at the back since it was the only seats left and the front was occupied with students. 

The professor walked in immediately silencing the students. “Alright students. I am Professor Kang,” he introduced himself. He continued before looking around the room. “Since this is a new school year, I’d like each and every one of you to introduce yourself. But since there are too many people I want you to make your introduction as quick as possible. I want you to give out your name, age and interest. If you have any.”

The front row started introducing themselves one by one as they stood up so people could easily spot the person introducing themselves. About twenty minutes later, Jessica started the introduction for the last row.

“Jessica Jung. Twenty-one. Sleeping and reading,” she introduced herself and sat down.

“Well, that was short and sweet,” someone commented sarcastically causing Jessica to give him a cold glare.

Tiffany was next as she stood up. “Hi! My name is Tiffany Hwang. I am twenty years old and I love pink!” she gave a wink and sat down.

Taeyeon stood up. “Name is Kim Taeyeon. I’m twenty-one years old and I am not interested in anything.” She sat down emitting a cold aura. 

“My name is Kwon Yuri. I am twenty years old and I love to be friends with you girls and guys,” Yuri said seductively while flashing a killer smile.

The class went on with people still gushing about the girl’s introductions.

-*-*-*-*-

During class, Yuri kept throwing glances at Jessica while the latter was staring into space looking out the window. Taeyeon caught Yuri throwing glances and pinched her bare thigh – which her skirt failed to cover – to make her stop.

Yuri was about to scream in pain, but Taeyeon covered her mouth with her hand. Taeyeon quickly withdrew her hand knowing that if she kept her hand there any longer, the tanned girl would have bit it till it bled. Yuri threw a glare at Taeyeon, but was unmoved by it. She sighed and continued writing down the notes, listening to the professor’s words.

Tiffany sighed in frustration as she erased the words she jotted down on the paper. The professor was speaking too fast making it difficult to copy down his words. It was not only her that was struggling. She glanced over to Jessica’s paper and saw nothing written on it except for her name. She then glanced at her own papers as she wrote about ten pages of notes.

She nudged the girl next to her. “Jessi, you are supposed to be taking notes.”

The blonde haired girl slowly turned her head towards her. She saw Tiffany’s stack of paper on the right corner of the desk. Instead of overreacting and quickly taking notes, a cold smile formed on her thin lips before looking back at the window.

Tiffany sighed. She knew what that smile meant. It means do not bother her or else you will feel the wrath of the ice princess.

She looked to her right and saw Taeyeon copying down the notes word for word. She wondered how she managed to copy every word the professor said when he was talking like the speed of lightning. Yuri on the other hand did not bother taking notes. She did take some notes, but she was busy flirting with the guys and girls.

I wonder how Jess and Yuri will pass this class, Tiffany thought.

-*-*-*-*-

The girls three hour long class finally ended with Tiffany looking dead, Jessica yawning and looking bored, Taeyeon with no facial expression, and Yuri was giggling like a little girl with small pieces of paper in her hand.

“What is that?” Taeyeon asked Yuri.

“Phone numbers.” Yuri flashed a devilish smile.

Taeyeon sighed, but did not say anything. Even if she did, it would not change anything.

“Hey Taeyeon and Yuri. We would like you to come with us during lunch. Care to join?” Tiffany asked.

Taeyeon was hesitant to answer. She wanted to be alone for awhile to get used to the feeling at school. She was about to answer until Yuri answered for her.

“Sure,” she heard Yuri said.

Taeyeon groaned.

“Did you not want to come?” Yuri whispered into her ear.

“Never mind… let’s just go,” Taeyeon said.

All four of them walked into the cafeteria. Immediately, almost everyone dropped their forks and spoons and looked at the door. All eyes lay on the four girls.

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Chapter 3 - Understanding, Connected Dorms and Going Undercover

“It’s true! Kim Taeyeon and Kwon Yuri were enrolled into this university!”

“SoShi University combined with Dong Bang University is going to be even more famous.”

“What is Dong Bang University?” Yuri mumbled inaudibly.

“It’s the university combined with us. The boys go to that area while the girls go to this area and we come together during lunch and classes. The dorms are separated so nothing major can happen. We have them so we can hold events with each other,” Tiffany said over the loud voices of students screaming for the girls. “At least that’s what I heard.”

Both Yuri and Taeyeon nodded in awe. They did not expect another university to be combined with them. 

No wonder why this university is so big, Taeyeon thought.

Tiffany led the way to a table far back in the cafeteria. It was populated with so many people chatting and eating. The people in the back did not get to see the girls in the front – since the cafeteria was like the size of two football fields – which is why their expressions is like they saw a ghost.

They finally reached a table where about five other girls were seated. 

“Hey girls,” Tiffany said.

“Hey Tiffany and Jessica. Oh my gosh, Kim Taeyeon and Kwon Yuri?” a tall girl with short hair said with a shock expression.

“You got that right.” Yuri winked at the girl.

The girl grinned from ear to ear and felt like she melted at Yuri’s wink. “Hi~ my name is Choi Sooyoung,” the girl slurred during her introduction.

“Nice to meet you.” Taeyeon and Yuri shook hands with Sooyoung.

They both averted their eyes towards the rest of the girls.

The girl in front of Taeyeon and Yuri introduced herself, “Hi, my name is Sunny.”

Then the girl next to her with an innocent face introduced herself, “Nice to meet you. My name is Seo Ju Hyun but please call me Seohyun.”

A girl with auburn red hair introduced herself, “Hello, my name is Im Yoona, but just call me Yoona.”

On the other side of the table next to Sooyoung was a girl with medium length brown hair.

“My name is Kim Hyoyeon,” she introduced herself.

“Nice to meet all of you. I’m sure you know who we are already.” Yuri smiled to the girls but especially to the doe eyed girl. She’s prettier than a flower, she thought and smiled inwardly.

“Of course!” Sunny piped up, “who wouldn’t know the two of the four famous girls in Korea?”

“Yah! You didn’t know us when we came here!” Tiffany raised her voice.

“Shh!” Sunny shushed her but turned back to Yuri and Taeyeon and gave an adoring smile.

Taeyeon only scoffed at the sight and walked out of the cafeteria. Yuri noticed Taeyeon’s behavior and could not help but sigh. “I’m sorry she is usually not like this. I’m going to go check up on her. See you later,” Yuri said and bowed apologetically before walking away to find Taeyeon.

“Seems like the news and magazines were right after all,” Tiffany muttered to herself.

-*-*-*-*-

“Yah! Kim Taeyeon, what is up with you?” Yuri said panting for air.

She ran across the courtyard and the dorms only to find her best friend at a place that looks abandoned.

“What?” Taeyeon asked innocently.

“You are really letting out a bad first impression to the girls.” Yuri took a seat on the bench that Taeyeon was sitting on.

Taeyeon finally realized she found her way to a garden due to many flowers and an arboretum. There was also a fountain placed in the middle of the garden. It was a beautiful place to be to clear your mind or vent out your anger and no one would hear you due to not many people coming here.

“So?” Taeyeon said as she closed her eyes and sighed.

“I thought you wanted to start a new life.”

“Doesn’t mean I will start a new personality. It doesn’t matter anymore; I don’t expect to have friends.”

“But Taengoo, I’m your friend. BEST friend to be exact.”

Taeyeon shot her eyes open. “You are different… you actually understand how I feel through my hard times.”

“So this is why you let me into your life.”

“No duh.” Taeyeon stuck her tongue out at Yuri and laughed.

“Jeez, first you were all depressed and crap and now you’re all joking around.”

“Don’t ruin the mood or else you will want me to be depressed and cold all the time.” Taeyeon shot a glare at her best friend.

“Alright alright, jeez man. Take a chill pill,” Yuri said with her hands in front of her as if she was calming the person next to her.

“Let’s just go back. Class is about to start in five minutes,” Taeyeon said as she slung her bag over her right shoulder and walked out of the garden.

“Wow, you actually care about classes for once,” Yuri mumbled while following Taeyeon.

“Shut up.”

-*-*-*-*-

The girls were in their Math class and went through the same process as their morning class. They introduced themselves and like always, there will be people gushing over them. They were seated with each other again in the back, but this time Yuri and Jessica sat together while Tiffany and Taeyeon were together.

Yuri saw Jessica staring out the window not even bothering listening to the professor. She took this time to check out the girl starting at the head. She has long gorgeous blonde hair, pretty face, and thin pretty lips. She then let her eyes travel down the girl as she has sexy collarbones. Then she saw the girl’s curves at the perfect places.

Gorgeous hair, pretty face, slim body… This girl has everything, Yuri thought.

“Done checking me out?” she heard the girl whispered. 

She looked up as her eyes met with a pair of icy ones. She quickly look back and listened to the professor while blushing in embarrassment because she got caught checking the girl out. Jessica scoffed before looking back at the window and continued her daydreaming.

Jessica furrowed her eyebrows. Jeez, thanks to that girl I can’t go back to my daydreaming.

She then decided to turn to the front of the classroom and listen to the professor for once. She did not exactly listen as one word went through one ear and out the other so she threw a glance at the girl next to her. It later turns into a full look at the girl.

She admits she was checking the girl out from head to toe for the third time in one week. Which was an unusual thing to do for a girl like her. Long straight dark brown hair, a nice face, thin seductive lips, sexy collarbones, and a killer body with long pretty legs would be a way to describe the girl next to her. She looked back up at the girl’s face and felt herself drawn into her eyes.

Yuri looked to her left and saw the same pair of eyes looking at her. Jessica only gave a smirk and looked back at the professor. 

What the hell? Yuri thought.

She shook off the thought of the girl and went back to listening to the professor.

-*-*-*-*-

Over on the other side, Tiffany had a worried expression worn on her face due to the petite girl next to her. Is she okay? I wonder why she stormed out of the cafeteria like that. She thought.

She wanted to go and ask the girl, but looking at her facial expression she quickly withdrew the idea. Taeyeon had a cold, serious expression on. Her eyes showed no emotion and if someone died right now, she would not care and would just walk away.

So she decided to ask Yuri who sat on her left side.

“It’s nothing important. Don’t worry about it.” Yuri gave a reassuring smile but did not forget to add a wink to it.

Tiffany smiled and blushed at the wink before looking back to the front. They are best friends… I assume nothing will go wrong if Yuri was still the playful, flirtatious self. 

-*-*-*-*-

“Woo! Classes are over~” Tiffany said once she entered her dorm with Taeyeon trailing behind. 

They already bid farewell to Yuri and Jessica and could not wait to jump on their beds.

“Hey, what is this door?” Taeyeon asked

Tiffany looked over and saw Taeyeon next to a door that was located by the kitchen. Without asking anymore questions, Taeyeon opened the door.

“What the—“ Taeyeon quickly shut the door with a shocked expression.

“What happen?” Tiffany asked.

Taeyeon did not answer and walked passed Tiffany with a flushed face. Scratching the back of her head, Tiffany decided to check out what is beyond the door herself. She opened the door slowly.

“OMO! YURI!” Tiffany slammed the door shut and walked back to her room.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri was in the bathroom changing out of her uniform into fresh clean clothes. She felt a brush of wind by her back and turned around to see what it was. 

“What? A door?” Yuri said to herself. 

Shrugging the thought off, Yuri continued ********* her clothes off. 

“What the—“ 

Yuri looked back at the same door and saw Taeyeon with a shocked expression. Taeyeon slammed the door shut leaving Yuri with the same exact expression.

“OMO! YURI!” this time she saw Tiffany slamming the door shut.

“What the freak is this?” Yuri exclaimed.

Half naked, she opened the same door Taeyeon and Tiffany slammed shut. She then saw another dorm room and Taeyeon covering her face. “What is this?” she asked.

Taeyeon looked up and saw Yuri only with her bra and skirt on. “Yah! Put on a shirt!” she shouted.

“Taengoo what is this?” 

“What are you talking about? Why are you inside our dorm?!” 

“What are YOU talking about? I’m inside my dorm!”

Taeyeon shook her head in disbelief. She headed towards where Yuri was and looked inside the door. What she saw was a bathroom.

“Is our dorms connected together?” Taeyeon asked.

“What the heck! I think that is stupid actually. I mean you and Tiffany totally saw me changing.”

A few minutes passed until Yuri thought of something.

Didn’t that lady said our dorms were connected? 

“Hey, what happen?” they saw a blonde haired girl on the other side of the room.

Jessica quickly shut the door after seeing Yuri half naked.

“Dude… you should really put on a shirt,” Taeyeon said.

“I would’ve until this door popped out of nowhere!” Yuri exclaimed. 

“Well, I think it’s cool that our dorms are connected.” 

“Yeah whatever. Now leave before I karate chop your ass.”

Taeyeon shut the door leaving Yuri in the bathroom.

-*-*-*-*-

It’s okay Jessica, it is not like you never seen a half naked body before. Hell you even saw a full naked body. Jessica inhaled and exhaled the air with her eyes closed hoping the thought of Yuri will get out of her mind.

The image of Yuri’s half naked body spread all over Jessica’s mind again.

“GAH! Get out of my mind!” Jessica screamed in frustration while holding onto her head.

Just then Jessica heard knocking on her own door.

“Are you okay Jessica?” 

“I-I-I’m fine,” Jessica stuttered but she did not forget the cold tone in her voice.

Yuri did not seem affected by it, “Are you sure? No one screams out of nowhere.”

“And no one yells out of nowhere,” Jessica countered.

“That wasn’t me screaming. It was Tiffany.” 

“Why would Tiffany be in our dorm?”

“Our dorm is connected to theirs, if you didn’t know.”

Jessica walked up to her door and swung the door open. Yuri was startled and took a few steps back. She did not change in her clothes since the previous incident of Taeyeon and Tiffany.

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Jessica narrowed her eyes at her.

“Well the bathroom is connected to Taeyeon’s and Tiffany’s dorm.” 

Jessica walked past Yuri and did not forget to brush her shoulder against Yuri’s. She opened the bathroom door and up ahead was another door. She walked through the bathroom and opened the door seeing a whole new dorm room, and Taeyeon.

“Taeyeon?” she said.

“Eh?” Taeyeon turned around until she saw Jessica at the door with Yuri behind her.

“Well, seems like all four of us knows our dorms are connected,” Tiffany said as she walked out from her room.

Her face was still flushed due to the bathroom incident. Actually everyone’s face is still flushed, even Taeyeon’s.

“Seems like you finally put a shirt on, eh?” Taeyeon joked.

“Yah! Shut up Taeng, don’t act like you never walked around shirtless.” 

“What are you talking about? It’s mostly you doing that!”

Jessica immediately hung her head low and blushed at the thought of Yuri walking around the dorm shirtless. She walked back into the bathroom and into her room to sleep away the thought of Yuri.

“I’m going to go back. Call me if you need anything,” Yuri said and closed the door.

Taeyeon sighed and shook her head. She then walked into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator for a bottle of water. That is when she remembered she needed to buy food supplies and water. She went into her room and changed into casual clothes and shades to cover her identity. Then she walked out of her room and put on her shoes.

“Where are you going?” Tiffany asked right when Taeyeon placed her hand on the door knob.

“Going to buy some food since someone doesn’t know how to cook,” Taeyeon replied coldly and proceeded to open the door.

“Wait up! Let me go with you,” Tiffany said while running down the couple of steps and putting on her shoes.

-*-*-*-*-

“Let’s see… we need vegetables, fruits, and meat… water….” Taeyeon listed all the things she wanted as she placed the items into the basket Tiffany was holding onto.

They were in the supermarket — by the university — buying all the possible things they could buy to make food. Taeyeon and Tiffany covered up their identity with shades and had their hood over their head to avoid people asking for their autograph or questions as if they met their favorite idol.

They finally got all the items they needed and proceeded to the cash register. As they were waiting in line Tiffany saw the magazines hanging onto a vending machine.

“Hey, it’s you Taeyeon,” Tiffany said in her low voice to avoid people hearing her while pointing to a cover of a magazine.

Taeyeon looked over to where Tiffany was pointing and saw her own picture. Smiling a forced smile.

“Aish… Dad is only making things more difficult.” Taeyeon sighed and placed the basket onto the conveyor belt for the cashier to check out the items.

“Hello, did you find everything okay?” the cashier asked.

Taeyeon nodded and flashed a forced yet cold smile. 

“Your total is $56.78.” 

Taeyeon handed the cashier the money while Tiffany grabbed the grocery bags.

“Hey aren’t you Kim Taeyeon?” the cashier asked.

Taeyeon looked up with a shock expression, though the cashier could not see her wide eyes because of the shades.

“No,” she replied and walked towards Tiffany.

“Wait, you look exactly like her though!”

How the hell can you tell by the shades and hood! Taeyeon thought.

The cashier then looked over to the other girl holding the grocery bags.

“And aren’t you Tiffany Hwang?” he asked again.

This time, Tiffany was shocked, but her expression was far worst then Taeyeon’s. “W-w-what are you talking about? You m-m-must’ve got the wrong person.” Tiffany stammered.

Taeyeon noticed Tiffany’s stuttering as she grabbed her arm and ran away.

“HEY WAIT UP!” the cashier yelled at them.

Taeyeon ran past many people not minding the swearing at them. Getting away is Taeyeon’s top priority. They finally reached an empty alley and settled down to catch their breath. “YAH! You almost got us caught!” she scolded.

“What are you talking about?” Tiffany gasped while placing her hands on her knees, “he was the one that noticed you first!”

“If it weren’t for your stuttering he wouldn’t be suspicious about it!” 

“Well at least we got away. Look we got the groceries,” Tiffany said as she held up the bags.

Taeyeon huffed, “Let’s just go back to the dorm.”

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Chapter 4 - Ex-Boyfriend

Hmm since we’re alone I guess I should ask her now, Jessica thought. “Hey you,” she called.

Yuri turned around and saw Jessica calling out for her. “I have a name,” she said.

Jessica scoffed and walked down the small steps and walked closer to Yuri. “Tell me. What exactly did you do to me?” she demanded.

“What are you talking about?” Yuri walked past her to get to her room.

She opened the door to get into her room but Jessica rushed over to her and closed the door, slightly brushing her hand against Yuri’s. Jessica felt a thousand volts of electricity running up her arm and down her spine when she felt skin contact with the girl next to her.

“What are you doing?” Yuri turned around and faced Jessica.

“I need to know what you did to me! Who knows what a big player like you would’ve done to me.”

“You know this is first time you actually talked to me.”

Jessica furrowed her eyebrows. She’s right. I don’t normally talk to people a lot besides Tiff. “That’s not the point.”

“Listen. I did nothing to you okay?” Yuri pushed Jessica aside and walked towards the front door.

“Yah! I’m not done talking to you yet!” Jessica spun Yuri around to make her face her.

“What do you want?” Yuri leaned in closer to Jessica leaving only inches between them.

“You… you are telling the truth right?”

“Of course. I don’t lie no matter what a big reputation I have for being a player.” Yuri walked closer to Jessica their lips almost touching.

Jessica stood unmoving. She was staring at Yuri’s lips. It was tempting her to close the gap between them.

I can’t… I still love him. 

“Well… do you believe me now? If anything did happen to you, I’ll take full responsibility for it.” 

“I’ll let it slide just this once,” Jessica pushed Yuri away and walked into her room.

Yuri chuckled. Aish, what a troublesome girl she is.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon was laying down on her bed thinking about the past incident. If that cashier guy knew it was actually me, my cover would’ve been blown. She thought. She groaned and closed her eyes for a few minutes. She then opened them to grab her phone and dial her best friend’s number. After a couple of rings, the person on the other line picked up.

“Yeah?” the voice said.

“Yuri, come over here. I need to talk to you,” she said then hung up the phone.

Few minutes later, Yuri finally arrived at Taeyeon’s room.

“Wow your room looks bigger than mine,” Yuri said as she sat down on the bed.

Taeyeon sat up and leaned against the headboard. “I almost got caught today,” she disclosed.

“Huh?” Yuri was caught off guard.

“I and Tiffany went to the supermarket to buy some stuff and the cashier guy almost found out about us.” she sighed.

“You should’ve covered yourself more. What if your parents found out about this?”

“They are going to either make me come back home and work with them or at least let me stay here, but I’m going have to work with them either way.”

“Your father is so harsh.” Yuri lay down on the bed.

“Lucky for you. Your father doesn’t make you work.”

“Hey!” Yuri sat up. “I do work!”

“Not as much as my father wants me too.” 

“Well it’s not my—“

Yuri was cut off by Taeyeon’s phone ringing. Taeyeon grabbed her phone and stared at the screen.

“Aren’t you going to pick it up?”

Taeyeon turned the phone over so Yuri could see it.

“It’s your dad.” Yuri mumbled.

Taeyeon sighed and threw the phone onto the bed.

“Why?” 

Taeyeon scoffed, “There is no way I am going to pick up the phone. My father is going to nag me to come back home and all that crap.”

“Well,” Yuri turned so her stomach is flat on the bed as she propped her elbows up and her hands were placed under her chin, “you should at least tell them where you are.”

“Are you kidding me? Then they will send their bodyguards and literally drag me back home.”

The ringing finally stopped but not until five seconds later the ringing started again. Taeyeon got frustrated with the ringing as she grabbed her phone and took the battery out leaving the ringing to die down.

“Someone’s a little frustrated.” Yuri teased.

“Shut up Yu—“

This time another ringing from a phone came but it was Yuri’s phone. She stood up so she was standing on her knees as she dug into her pocket to get her phone. She looked at the caller ID and mouthed the word ‘dad’ to Taeyeon.

“Hello dad?” she answered.

“Ah Yuri. I know you might be studying or something like that but I need you for a few hours at the company right now.”

“Right now?”

“Yes, I’m sending someone over to come and pick you up,” he hung up.

She stared at the phone as she muttered a few curse words under her breath.

“Do you have to go?” Taeyeon asked.

“Yeah, dad needs me. I’ll be back later, see you Taengoo,” Yuri said as she left the room.

Taeyeon sighed and leaned her head against the headboard. I’m going to go back no matter what.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked down the halls of the dormitory and up ahead was a bunch of heads behind the wall.

“Wow she looks like a model.”

“A sexy one that is.”

What is up with everyone complimenting me? Yuri thought.

Someone walked past the people and looked up.

“Ah! Yuri!” she said. 

Everyone’s head turned to the other girl.

“Are they friends?”

“What if they are a couple?”

“Then my dream would never be fulfilled!”

“Hey Tiffany,” Yuri said as she caught up with the bubbly girl.

“Do you want to grab a snack? I’d let to get to know you more,” Tiffany asked.

Should I? It takes thirty minutes to get here so that means I’ll have spare time… Hmm I shouldn’t let this chance pass by.Yuri thought. “Sure.” she smiled as Tiffany grabbed her arm and led the way.

Everyone gasped and whispered to each other so the two wouldn’t hear, “They are a couple!” 

-*-*-*-*-

“Tell me a bit about yourself,” Yuri asked when they both sat down at a café.

The café they were at was located inside the university. A lot of people go here to study or to chat and it was mostly quiet.

“Hmm well, Jessi always says I’m too happy and I get pretty annoying,” Tiffany said.

“Really? I don’t see what’s wrong with being too happy. I think that lifts up everyone’s spirits,” Yuri said as she smiled.

Tiffany smiled as her eyes were turning into crescents, “I’m glad that there’s someone who doesn’t think I’m really annoying. So, how about you?”

“Well you know what my reputation is. Being a player.” 

“Are you really a player?”

Yuri sighed. “Yeah.” 

“Why did you suddenly become a player?”

Yuri leaned over to Tiffany and whispered, “It’s a secret.”

Tiffany sat still and blushed with Yuri’s face just inches away. Is she making a move on me?

Yuri leaned back on her chair and chuckled. “You look cute when you blush.”

Tiffany blushed once again. “Thank you.”

“Tell me about the girls that we met at cafeteria. I’d like to get to know them,” Yuri asked.

“Hmm okay, well the girls you met at the cafeteria are like us. They are not that rich as us, but they have a lot of money too. The first girl who introduced herself to you is Choi Sooyoung. She’s tall, pretty, and slim but she is one big eater. I can get pretty jealous of how slim her body is no matter how much she eats. She never gains weight. Also, she’s going out with Sunny,” Tiffany said.

Yuri nodded to show that she was listening. So Sunny and Sooyoung are together. She mentally crossed out their names in her mind.

“Sooyoung’s girlfriend, Sunny, is very bright and energetic. You can probably call her the energizer bunny,” Tiffany chuckled, “she uses aegyo a lot too.”

Aegyo, huh? Yuri silently chuckled. Taengoo seems like she has one more person to add to her dislike list.

“The one that sat next to Sooyoung is Kim Hyoyeon. She seems mysterious from time to time and she always goes out when she receives a call. I’ve seen her dance once and I have to say she’s a pretty good dancer.”

Kim Hyoyeon… hmm. Yuri mentally drew a question mark next to Hyoyeon’s name. 

“Over at the other side of the table was Seohyun. She’s innocent, pure, and mature. She always seems to question us about what couples do which shows that she’s pretty innocent. I recommend that you do not play with Seohyun,” Tiffany warned.

Yuri nodded. That’s not going to stop me.

“And last but not least is Yoona. First time I saw her I have to say she’s prettier than a flower with her doe eyes. At first I thought she was going to be innocent like Seohyun, but when I saw her hang out with Sooyoung and Hyoyeon… maybe not so much.”

Yoona… Yuri smiled to herself. Maybe I’ll give her a try.

“And that is all about the girls,” Tiffany smiled.

Yuri smiled in response, “Hey… why don’t you tell me a little bit about your best friend?”

“Jessi? Hmm…” Tiffany said as she tapped her finger against her chin, “well she’s cold to everyone she meets, but there’s a reason for that. She mostly doesn’t talk to anyone she knows except for me since basically I’ve been with her all her life.”

“What’s her reason for being cold?” Yuri asked. 

Getting to know the ice princess was interesting to Yuri. Sure she asks about the other girls just to get to know a little about them before approaching them, but this one seems a little hard to approach.

“I can’t really give you full detail, but she’s been like this because her boyfriend broke up with her. She still loves him though and I really wish someone will come into her life and change her life, in a good way that is.” 

Their drinks that they ordered when they got here arrived as Tiffany was stirring her drink with her straw.

“Oh really?” Yuri mumbled.

“She never seems to give a chance to guys,” Tiffany said.

I’ll come into your life and break that ice barrier around your heart. Yuri thought.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica walked out of her dorm just to get fresh air. Why did I get that tingling sensation when I barely touched her?

She saw heads behind the walls, but she ignored them as she walked passed by them. She walked outside of the dormitory building and sat at the bench across from it. She lean back against the bench and closed her eyes. She breathed in the fresh air and sighed.

I miss you, she thought.

She heard footsteps walking by her, but she ignored it.

“Oh look, isn’t it Princess Jessica?” a familiar guy’s voice said.

She opened her eyes once she heard that voice she hasn’t heard in a long time. She looked up and saw him, the one that broke her heart.

“Donghae…” she said.

She stood up as she saw him with another girl. He had his arm wrapped around her shoulder and the girl had her arm wrapped around his waist. The image in front of her shattered her heart.

Why do I still love him?

“What’s wrong? You’re still lonely ever since I broke up with you? I would’ve thought you got another man. You gold digger,” he sneered as the girl next to him giggled.

She glared at the two and clenched her fists.

“Oh, looks like someone is getting mad,” he mocked.

“Shut up!” she screamed and pushed him by the shoulder with all her force.

He stumbled backwards and would have fallen if his girlfriend had not held onto him. “Still the same feisty girl aren’t you?” he said as he brushed his shoulder. “Seems like I gotta teach you a lesson,” he walked closer to Jessica and cracked his knuckles.

“What are you doing, Donghae?” his girlfriend asked.

“Don’t worry about it babe, this girl ought to get her ass wooped,” he raised his hand up and was about to strike Jessica until a hand caught his wrist. He looked to his right and glared at the person who interrupted, but slowly backed away.

“What kind of guy hits a girl?” the person asked. The voice was husky and deep according to Jessica. It was attracting her to look at the person, but she was still terrified when Donghae was about to hit her.

“You… what are you doing here?” he said.

“I go here,” the husky voice was ringing in Jessica’s ears.

She looked up to her left and saw that it was her roommate, Kwon Yuri. Half of her thanked her that she saved her while the other half hated that she was going into her personal business.

“And I assume you go here too,” she said as she was eyeing Donghae’s uniform that was the same to the other guys that go to the university.

“Have you ever broken out of that player habit of yours Yuri?” he asked.

“Nope, and it seems like you haven’t either,” she said as she glanced to the girl next to him.

He chuckled, “Are you with Jessica? I have to say she’s the worst one you would ever get together with.”

“Why is that?” 

“Every time I go out with the boys she’s always pleading me to not go with them and spend time with her. What a nagging ***** she is. That’s why I left her. And you know what she did when I left? She practically dropped to her knees and begged me not to go. Such a sl*t,” he laughed and it echoed across the university.

Donghae was getting on Yuri’s last nerve. If this guy insults me or Jessica one more time he is going to get it.

Yuri glared at him, “Maybe if you would’ve spend more time with her none of that would’ve happened.”

“What do you know? You probably don’t even get to know the guys and girls your with. You probably just get them drunk, have sex with them, and break up with them the next day. Seems like everyone is a one time thing to you,” he said.

Yuri heaved a frustrated sigh. She looked up at him and grabbed him by the collar. “What the f*ck did you just say?” she hissed at his face. “What would you know? Maybe you done the same thing to your girls,” she pushed him down to the floor. 

His girlfriend rushed by his side and tried to pull him up. He stood up as his girlfriend brushed the dirt off his back.

“Yah! Why did you do that to my boyfriend!” she screamed and attempted to slap Yuri.

Yuri caught her wrist and clutched onto it hard. The girl was screaming in pain and Yuri let her go. 

“Are you okay?” Donghae asked as he inspected his girlfriend’s wrist. It was red and the girl could barely move her wrist. “That does it,” he hissed and walked up towards Yuri. 

He threw many punches towards Yuri, but she blocked him all thanks to her karate skills.

“Stop fighting!” Jessica screamed and it caused Yuri to stop, but it did not to Donghae as his fist struck Yuri’s right cheek.

She felt his fist came in contact to her cheek and held onto it. She hung her head low and her hair was covering her face. She hissed in pain. She has never been struck to the face like that. She looked up and decided that she was never going to leave Donghae uninjured. 

She punched Donghae square on his face. He flew backwards once he felt Yuri’s fist against his nose and hissed in pain. 

“Ack, my nose!” he screamed.

Yuri was about to go and throw a couple of more punches to Donghae, but she got held back by Jessica. She turned around and she saw Jessica’s eyes. She was glaring at her, but as she looked deeper into her eyes it showed weariness, sadness, and loneliness.

Have you been lonely all this time? Yuri thought.

“You have one hell of a fist Yuri,” Donghae said as he got up and wiped the blood that was coming out of his nose with the back of his hand.

She turned around and faced him.

“Oppa let’s go… I don’t want your pretty face to get injured anymore,” his girlfriend said.

“Alright. Maybe I’ll see you some other time Yuri and Jessica. And when I do, I won’t hesitate to send you both to the ER,” he said and left.

She stared at his back and clenched her fists. What a jerk. 

Chapter 5 - Learning How to Cook and Joined Companies

“Why did you do that for?!” Jessica screamed once they both reached back at the dorms.

“What are you talking about? He was about to hit you!” Yuri screamed back and winced in pain as she held onto her cheek.

Jessica looked at her and started to get worried. She never cared for anyone and if someone fell in front of her she would not dare to help them. She walked over to Yuri and brushed her hand away from her face and inspected it.

“What are you doing?” Yuri asked.

“You got hit because of me. The least I could do is help you with it,” Jessica said as she got closer to Yuri’s face.

Yuri blushed when Jessica’s face got closer. Why am I blushing? I never felt like this before. She thought. “I don’t need your help,” she brushed Jessica’s hand away from her face and backed away before she does anything unnecessary to the girl in front of her.

Jessica looked up at her and glared. “Fine, and when Donghae comes and bothers me don’t ever show up. I don’t want you to get into my personal business,” she said coldly and walked to her room.

“What’s her problem?” Yuri muttered. Her phone in her skirt pocket vibrated as she dug into her pocket to get her phone. “Hello?” she answered.

“Hello, Ms. Yuri. I have been outside for thirty minutes and I saw no sign of you,” the other voice said.

“Oh shoot! I’m so sorry Mr. Lee! I’ll be out,” Yuri said and hung up the phone.

She slipped on her chucks and ran out of her dorm even though she was still in her school uniform.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon walked out of her room and into the kitchen and that’s when she remembered that she promised she’ll help teach Tiffany how to cook.

I yelled at her… I should probably apologize first. Taeyeon thought.

She turned around and headed towards Tiffany’s room. Just when she was about to open the door, the door opened and Tiffany appeared in front of her.

“Oh, umm…” Taeyeon stood there motionless.

“I would like to apologize for—“ they both said at the same time.

Tiffany chuckled embarrassingly causing Taeyeon to do the same.

“You can go first,” Tiffany said.

“I want to say I’m sorry for yelling at you. It’s just that I don’t like to get caught and be in a middle of millions of fans,” Taeyeon said.

“Apology accepted,” Tiffany smiled.

Taeyeon gave a small smile, “What was it that you were going to say?”

“Oh well… I just wanted to say I’m sorry for almost getting us caught.”

“It’s alright. Let’s just hope this doesn’t happen again.”

Tiffany nodded and smiled, “You know you should really smile a lot more. You’re a lot prettier when you smile.”

Taeyeon stared at her surprised. She was blushing at Tiffany’s comment as she quickly turned around to hide her face.

“Well it’s just that I don’t like to smile a lot. Anyways, I promised that I’ll help teach you cooking. Are you free for today?” 

“Yeah I’m free.”

“Good then let’s go.” 

They both headed towards the kitchen as Taeyeon was taking out all the materials needed for cooking.

“Okay first I’m going to teach you how to make soup. You know how to boil water right?” Taeyeon asked.

“Okay I may look dumb and not know how to cook, but of course I know how to boil water,” Tiffany said as she opened the cupboard and grabbed a pot.

“I was just asking…” Taeyeon mumbled.

As she was still taking out the ingredients from the refrigerator, Tiffany was filling up the pot with water and placed it onto the stove once she is done. She looked at it dumbly figuring out how to turn on the stove.

“Umm…” she started.

“What is it?” Taeyeon stood up and looked away from the fridge, “you have to turn on the stove in order to boil water.”

“Yeah, that’s the problem,” Tiffany mumbled.

“You don’t know how to turn on the stove?” Taeyeon asked with an incredulous look.

“Yeah…” Tiffany nodded.

“You just said you know how to boil water.”

“Well I haven’t work with this stove so I don’t really know how to.”

Taeyeon sighed and walked over to the stove. She looked around for the knob to turn on the stove and found it in front of her face. She pushed down the knob and turned it clockwise for it to turn on. A few seconds later, the flames appeared as it danced under the pot.

“There. You have to push down the knob first and turn it this way,” she said motioning to the right side, “and there you will have the fire.”

Tiffany nodded in awe as she stared at the little bubbles forming on the water.

“Okay next I want you to cut the vegetables. You know how to cut them right?” Taeyeon asked as she brought out a cutting board and a knife from the sink.

She placed it onto the table and brought out several of vegetables.

“Yes,” Tiffany replied as she stood next to Taeyeon.

“Show me how you cut it then,” Taeyeon said as she handed the knife and the vegetables to Tiffany.

Tiffany took the knife and the vegetables and laid it onto the cutting board. She placed the vegetables in her left hand while holding onto the knife on her right hand. She put the knife over to the vegetable and started slicing it. She smiled to herself as she was doing well until she felt a sharp pain on her left index finger.

“Ah!” she screamed and dropped the knife as she held onto her finger.

She accidentally cut her finger as blood was oozing out. Taeyeon snapped her head around to see what happened.

“Oh man,” she cursed and ran into the bathroom.

She came out thirty seconds later with a first aid kit. “Here, come with me,” Taeyeon said as she grabbed Tiffany’s arm and brought her to the sink.

She turned on the faucet and brought Tiffany’s finger along with hers under the water. She helped her wash it as Tiffany was blushing at the skinship they were having. Taeyeon turned off the water and grabbed a towel to dry off Tiffany’s finger.

“Sit down,” she ordered.

Tiffany sat down with Taeyeon in front of her. Taeyeon opened the first aid kit and brought out a rubbing alcohol bottle and band-aids. 

“It might sting a bit,” she warned as she poured some rubbing alcohol onto the towel.

She held Tiffany’s finger and dabbed it a little bit. Tiffany flinched when the towel came in contact, but she held her composure. After Taeyeon was done, she wrapped a band-aid over her finger.

“Maybe we should do this another time… or not at all,” Taeyeon said.

“I’m sorry.”

Taeyeon looked up and sighed, “It’s okay. Just be careful.”

“I’m sorry once again,” Tiffany kept apologizing and bowing.

“It’s alright; I should be the one saying sorry. I didn’t watch over you,” Taeyeon said as she tried to keep Tiffany from bowing.

Seeing that Tiffany wasn’t going to respond, Taeyeon stood up and cleaned up the stuff. “You should go and rest. I’ll clean everything up,” Taeyeon suggested.

“But I shouldn’t let you do everything yourself,” Tiffany said as she stood up.

“Just go. I’ll make dinner, okay?” A small smile formed on Taeyeon’s lips.

Tiffany hesitantly nodded and walked away to her room. Taeyeon watched her walk away before continuing cleaning up the mess and cook dinner.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri ran outside of the university and spotted the black luxurious car waiting for her at the front. Students were passing by looking at the car and at Yuri wondering if that was her own car. She was inches away from the car as the driver’s door opened revealing a middle aged man dressed in a nice black suit. He walked over to where Yuri was and opened the door and motioned her to get inside the car. Yuri smiled and climbed inside the car while the driver shut the door. He ran over to the driver side and started the engine.

“So why did father want me for, Mr. Lee?” Yuri asked as she buckled her seatbelt.

“I’m assuming it might be company matters Ms. Yuri,” he said as he drove away from the university.

“Oh really…” she mumbled and nodded.

“Ms. Yuri, how was university so far?” Mr. Lee asked.

Yuri sat up and smiled widely, “It is very fun! Especially with all the new people I met.” 

“Glad that you like it Ms. Yuri,” the driver smiled.

Thirty minutes later, they finally arrived at the entrance of a grand house. It was as big as a mansion and you could even say that the owner was a billionaire. The driver parked outside of the house and got off the car as he ran over to Yuri’s side and opened the door. Yuri stepped out and looked at the house.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been home,” Yuri muttered and glanced to the house next to theirs. “Taeyeon too…” she mumbled and walked towards the gate.

Mr. Lee ran over to the gate and unlocked the door while motioning Yuri to get inside. Yuri bowed slightly and walked inside the house. The pathway was clean and the grass was nicely cut. She walked towards the center of the front yard and saw the water fountain running. Passing by it, she spotted two lines of people at the edge of the pathway. On the left side were men dressed in black suits and they had their hands folded behind their back and on the right side were men and ladies dressed in white and black attire as they had their left arm, with a towel on top of it, placed in front of their stomach while their right arm were behind their backs.

“Welcome Ms. Yuri,” they all bowed in a ninety degree angle. 

“Ah, uh, yes,” Yuri stuttered at the awkwardness and motioned them to rise back up to their positions.

She then continued walking towards the front door with her driver following behind her. She reached the front of the door as the driver quickly ran to it and opened the door for her. She looked over to the man and smiled before walking inside of the house. She took of her shoes and walked inside the house while Mr. Lee was closing the door.

“Where’s dad?” she asked him.

“Mr. Kwon is inside the living room,” he answered.

Yuri nodded and walked over to the right where another door was. She opened the door and spotted her father sitting on one of the couches talking to another man.

“Ah Yuri you are finally here!” he said as he sat up and walked over towards Yuri. “How is my pretty daughter?” he asked as he rubbed Yuri’s back.

“I’m fine,” she smiled.

“Oh yeah. This man over here is Mr. Jung. Owner of the Jung Industries.” he introduced the man sitting on the couch, “and this man over here is Mr. Lee, the owner of the Lee Enterprise.” He introduced the other man that sat next to Mr. Jung.

“It’s nice to see the daughter of the Kwon’s. Especially when she is very beautiful,” they both sat up and shook hands with Yuri.

Owner of Jung Industries? Jessica’s father’s company? Yuri thought.

“So Yuri… me, Mr. Jung and Mr. Lee were talking about how we would be working together,” he said as they both took a seat on the couch.

“And the reason why I was brought along in this conversation is?” Yuri asked.

“Well, since we would be working together, I was expecting you to be good friends with Mr. Jung’s daughter and Mr. Lee’s son,” he continued.

“My daughter couldn’t be here today. I couldn’t reach her for some reason,” Mr. Jung said.

“And my son couldn’t be here as I knew he would be out playing with the girls. So sorry for that,” Mr. Lee said.

“And when we will be working together we are bringing you, Mr. Jung’s daughter and Mr. Lee’s son along into the company. You probably won’t have enough time for school,” he said.

“Eh? The reason why I enrolled into the university is to study. Not to work,” Yuri said.

“Don’t worry. You will have time to study,” her father reassured her. “We would be having dinner tonight to celebrate our new friendship bond between each other. I expect you to be at Royal Capital at 7 PM tonight, okay?” he said.

“Yes dad,” Yuri mumbled.

She loathed going to eat at restaurants. Especially if it involves the company with another company. 

“Tonight will be the night when you would meet Mr. Jung’s daughter and Mr. Lee’s son. I expect you to be on good terms and treat them respectfully, okay?” 

“Yes dad.”

He chuckled, “Alright, off you go. And here are your car keys to get to the restaurant.”

He grabbed the set of keys off the table and tossed them to Yuri. Yuri raised her hand and caught it in a swift motion.

“Thanks dad. I’ll be off now. It is nice meeting you Mr. Jung and Mr. Lee,” Yuri stood up and bowed then walked away. 

Yuri walked out of the house bowing to the people that bowed to her earlier and jumped into her silver Audi R8. She turned on the engine as it roared to life while searching for her shades in her glove department. Once she found it, she put it on and zoomed out of the house and onto the busy streets of Seoul. 

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica lay in her bed sleeping the night away. She noticed that she couldn’t sleep anymore so she took a peek at the clock. “It’s only 6 PM? God dang it,” she cursed and closed her eyes shut, wishing that she would drift away into sleep again. 

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Jessica reached over to the nightstand and grabbed her phone. “Hello?” she answered annoyed.

“Jessica, you finally picked up,” the person on the other line said.

“Oh dad. What do you need?” she sat up abruptly and opened her eyes. 

“I was calling you for the past three hours to say that we are having dinner with the Kwon’s and the Lee’s in an hour.”

“An hour?” she asked.

“Yes, we need you here right now, okay? You don’t need to dress formally, just dress a little nicer than you usually do.”

“Alright.”

“Royal Capital. Okay bye dear. I’ll see you soon,” he hung up.

Jessica took a deep breath and climbed off her bed. She went into the restroom and noticed that her roommate was not here. Wait the Kwon’s? It couldn’t be her could it? Wait what am I talking about…? It has to be her. 

She stomped towards her way to the bathroom and slammed the door shut.

“Damn!” she cursed.

After a quick shower, she walked into her room and picked out her clothing. She wore a white button up shirt with denim shorts that was held up with a two red heart belt and high heels. She brushed her blonde hair and had her bangs parted to the right side. She grabbed her car keys and headed out towards the parking lot in the university. 

Pressing the unlock button on her car key, she found her SLR McLaren Roadster a few feet away. She walked towards her car and climbed in while putting her key into the ignition. Hearing the car roaring to life she stepped onto the gas pedal and sped away towards the restaurant.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri was still riding in her car, not noticing that it was only thirty minutes till 7. She glanced towards the clock that was on the dashboard and panicked.

“Oh crap! I gotta head back to the university and change!” she stepped onto the gas pedal harder and zoomed past a silver Mercedes Benz not noticing that she almost got into a car crash with it.

The car she almost ran into went into a halt as the tires were screeching. Yuri would have driven back and apologized, but she couldn’t miss this dinner and disappoint her dad. 

After a few zigzags between the cars and almost running over a person, Yuri finally reached the university. She got out from her car after shutting off the engine and ran towards her dorm.

“Twenty-five minutes. Still have time to shower,” Yuri said as she walked into her dorm and ran into the bathroom.

After a very quick shower, she ran into her room and changed into her outfit. She wore white skinny jeans with a grey sleeveless shirt that had rows of beads on it. She slipped on some accessories and high heels and walked towards the front door of her dorm. 

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Yuri quickly dug into her purse and grabbed her phone and pressed answer.

“Yuri you know you have ten minutes to get here. Where are you? Everyone is waiting for you,” her father sounded furious.

“I’m sorry dad, I’m on my way right now!” she tried to say while having her phone placed between her right ear and her shoulder while she was trying to find her car keys in her purse.

“If you don’t get here on time I’m going to take away your car,” he threatened.

“NO NOT MY CAR!” she shouted gaining a few people’s attention in the parking lot.

Embarrassed, she quickly ran towards her car and unlocked it and jumped into the car. 

“Well you better hurry up before I actually do. Bye,” he hung up the phone. 

Yuri glared at the phone as if her father was on the screen before throwing it on the passenger seat. She turned on her engine and sped away to the restaurant.

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Chapter 6 - Pretend Couples?

Yuri turned off the engine of her Audi R8 and stepped outside of her car. Next to her car parked a silver Mercedes Benz sending a rush of faded memories through her head, but couldn't get it. As Yuri walked towards the restaurant she was covering her face to avoid the flashes of cameras from the reporters.

She knew something like this would happen. Every time she would have a company dinner, a mob of reporters will come to get some juicy news. She stepped inside the restaurant and closed the door to make sure the reporters won?t come in, but to her dismay, there were a couple of reporters inside the restaurant ready to snap a picture.

She walked further into the restaurant searching for where her father may be. She took note of that her father rented the restaurant all to themselves for the night since she couldn't find any other customers. 

"Yuri! Over here!" someone called.

Yuri looked over to the source of the voice and found a table filled with middle age women and men and two young looking people. As she got closer she took the last seat that was open next to her father and a blonde haired girl. She looked to her right where the blonde haired girl was and gasped.

"What the?"

But she wasn't looking at the blonde since she knew she would be here. She was looking at the young looking man two seats away from her.

"Looks like we meet again Yuri," the young man said.

Yuri decided to not say anything else and caught a glimpse of Jessica. She looks unexpectedly calm, but she could see her hands, which were folded on her lap, shaking. Yuri snuck a hand under the table and held onto Jessica's hand. She knew she shouldn't be doing this since the older girl might've held a grudge on her, but she hope that this would help calm the girl down.

Jessica looked at Yuri with an almost a glare-like expression, but quickly changed into a soft one when she saw Yuri's warm smile. It made her calm all of a sudden. As if her worries were gone, the owner of the hand that was touching her would protect her.

Yuri was actually quite surprised that the blonde didn't back away. She kept her composure. She threw one more last look at their intertwined hands and found out that she wasn't shaking anymore.

"I'm glad that everyone could make it today," her father finally said. 

"After this dinner we would have the ceremony of the official bonding of all three companies. I hope this whole celebration goes through without any problems." 

A couple of minutes later, the food were served onto the table. Yuri let go of their intertwined hands and Jessica felt a rush of coldness through her body when she did. 

She wanted that warmth again. 

The warmth that was provided by tanned girl. 

After the dinner and almost everyone was full, Jessica's father decided to make a toast. Everyone stood up with their glass of champagne, waiting for the speech he was going to say.

"A toast, to the success of all three companies. I wish for the best of all of us. May our teamwork rule the world!" He joked on the last sentence.

All of the champagne flutes clanked against each other as the golden liquid were falling off of the flute splashing onto the table. Yuri clanked her flute against Jessica's and smiled at her before taking a sip of her champagne. 

After the toast, everyone headed out towards the middle of the restaurant where the reporters were standing at.

"Thanks for coming everyone," Yuri's father said to the reporters.

A couple of pictures were taken and everyone smiled to the camera. After all of the speech and handshaking which determined the official teamwork between the three companies, photos were taken of the three hands being shaken as they were getting ready to be on tomorrow?s headline. 

After the final handshake, the reporters packed their equipments and headed out the door, but the families remained stayed at the restaurant. The music blasted through the room as a celebration was held to celebrate the three companies' decision to work together. 

"So Yuri, remember what I said last time?" Donghae approached the two.

The three of them were standing by the bar at the side of the room alone as the adults were on the dance stage dancing to a slow song. 

"I wouldn't cause a scene if I were you," Yuri told him.

Donghae chuckled, "Relax. So it seems like you two getting quite intimate huh?"

He looked down at their intertwined hands. 

Yuri and Jessica didn't even notice they interlocked hands. It's as if their hands were magnetic and would automatically be locked to each other. Jessica quickly withdrew her hand from Yuri's hold and placed it against her stomach with her other hand on top of it. 

"You guys aren't really a couple are you?" he continued.

"What makes you say that?" Yuri asked.

"You guys seem more like best friends then couples."

More like a hell relationship. Yuri thought.

She didn't want to think that she was just protecting Jessica that other day just because she was her friend. Or was she?She swung an arm around Jessica's shoulder and brought her closer to her body.

"We're together. What are you talking about?" She said.

Jessica turned to Yuri and whispered, "What the heck are you doing?"

Her lips were grazing against Yuri's ears, sending a tingling sensation down Yuri's spine. She ignored Jessica and tightens her hold and pulled her even closer which caused the blonde to hold onto Yuri's waist.

Donghae scoffed, "Yeah right. I bet you anything you girls are putting up an act right now."

Yuri tilted her head and smirked, "Really? What if I can do something that I can prove we are a couple?"

"Show me then," Donghae challenged.

Yuri then backed away from Jessica and looked into her eyes. Jessica's eyes were as cold as ice and glaring at her, but she wasn't affected by it. 

She was never affected by it. 

She tilted Jessica's chin upwards and leaned in closer, aiming for her lips. Jessica stood there stunned. She knew what Yuri was doing and couldn't back away. Just when she was about to, Yuri pressed her lips onto Jessica's softly. Jessica's arms were hanging by her side, eyes wide open and lips slightly parted. Yuri placed a hand behind Jessica's neck and a hand on her waist and pulled her closer to deepen the kiss. 

This feeling. What is it? Jessica has never felt this feeling when she kissed someone. It was a good feeling obviously. She wanted more of this. She needed this. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around Yuri's neck and kissed her passionately.

A wave of flash was shone on the couple. The reporters hadn't actually left. They were hiding behind plants to get some juicy stuff since they knew something big would happen. The cameras were snapping taking pictures of the two kissing. Even the adults stopped dancing and looked at the two while the music was still blasting.

Donghae sneered and walked away from the scene.

Apparently, something else was going to be big on the newspaper tomorrow.

-*-*-*-*-

After the kissing scene, the reporters finally left. They didn't hide behind fake plants, pillars, or walls anymore. 

Yuri knew she wasn't going to get out the situation without a scolding. Both Yuri and Jessica were outside receiving a long talk from their parents. 

"You kids are still at a young age. You shouldn't be kissing out in the open like that! Do you know how much this will affect the companies' image?" Yuri's father scolded her.

"Dad, we are only... what? Like 21? 22?" Yuri said.

"It doesn't matter what age you are! You kids are still under the company!" 

"Honey, you shouldn't shout at Yuri like that. Plus they are young adults, let them have their fun," this time, Yuri's mother stepped in.

"Dear, do you know how much this could affect the companies' image? Both my company and Mr. Jung's company could be crashing down after the news get out!" He then turned to Yuri, "It would've made sense if you were kissing a boy, but you were kissing a girl!" 

Over on the other side, Jessica was also receiving a scolding.

"What are you thinking going around kissing girls like that?!" Jessica's mother shouted at her.

"Mom... please relax. I won't do it again, okay?" Jessica said in a calm, cool voice.

"Because of this, our company's image is going to be ruined!" Her mother then stomped her way to the car.

"Why do they only care about their image...?" Jessica muttered.

"Sooyeon-ah, you shouldn't really go around kissing girls like your mom said," Jessica's father said in a calm voice.

"Dad, I promise it was only this time!" 

"Alright, I'll trust you on this. But I can't seem to trust the Kwon's daughter. I get a player vibe from her," her father said, then left to the car.

"Oh dad, if only you knew she is a player."

Jessica sighed when she saw her parents driving away in the car. She could see them both bickering at each other while her father was driving and her mother was seated at the passenger's seat doing weird hand gestures.

She looked over to the other side of the wall were Yuri was. Her parents were finally leaving and heading towards their car. After they left, Yuri leaned back against the wall and let out a sigh of relief. 

She was about to walk over to where the tanned girl was, until the restaurant door opened revealing the Lee's family. She saw Donghae going over to where Yuri was. She saw him whispering to her and walked away. It didn't look too good since Yuri had a pissed off expression on her face.

After they left leaving the two alone outside of the restaurant, Jessica walked over to Yuri who was oblivious to her presence.

"Yah," she poked the tanned girl on the arm, but she didn't budge.

"Yah, Kwon Yuri," she shook her arm this time and finally, she looked over.

"What is it that you want Princess?" Yuri said.

Jessica's facial expression worsens. She hated being called Princess. Especially since that was her nickname by her ex-boyfriend. 

"Don't call me that ever again," Jessica hissed.

"Why not? You do act like one."

"I don't like that nickname," she leaned against the wall next to the tanned girl.

"How about Sica baby?"

Jessica turned and looked at Yuri with an incredulous look.

"Sica baby? There is no way in hell you are ever going to call me that."

"You are kind of picky, but this is my choice of calling you whatever I want," Yuri pushed herself off the wall and stood in front of Jessica and whispered huskily into her ear, "Sica baby is actually pretty cute though."

Jessica bit down on her bottom lip. For some reason she enjoyed the sexual intension that was happening between her and Yuri. Yuri's body was practically pressed against her own body making her sandwiched between the wall and her.

She suddenly remembered about the incident where they talked with Donghae. 

"I can't believe you made us pretend couples!" She pushed Yuri away from her.

"Oh geez!" Yuri rubbed her arm showing that Jessica pushed her hard, "it seems like we're going to have to pretend all the time then."

"What do you mean all the time? If so, I'm breaking up with you right now," Jessica huffed.

"We were together before?" Yuri asked.

Jessica stomped her foot onto the ground and sighed in frustration, "That's not what I meant!"

"Yeah yeah, whatever. I'm going back to the dorm now," Yuri said and went to her car.

Jessica also did the same and right when she reached her car, she looked at Yuri's car.

"Wait," she blurted out which caused Yuri to stop as if she was sitting on air.

Jessica walked over to Yuri and inspected the car.

"Were you the one that was driving all crazy?" 

"What do you mean?" Yuri looked over to Jessica?s car.

That was when it struck her. The silver Mercedes Benz was her car that she almost went into a car crash with when she was hurrying back to the dorm to change.

"OH MY GAWD, I'M SO SORRY SICA!" Yuri backed away from Jessica while placing her hands in front of her, trying to ease the blonde before she goes on a rampage.

"You! You almost made me die!" Jessica shoved Yuri's head and smacked her on the arm.

She groaned and walked back to her car.

"I can't believe I let that girl kiss me!" she mumbled to herself and got in the car.

She closed the car door and buckled her seatbelt and stuck her car key into the ignition. The car roared to life and Jessica pressed on the brake pedals with her heels. She shifted the gear and sped away. 

Yuri followed closely behind and later on zoomed right past her on the right side. They both stopped on a traffic light with the light red. Both of them were side to side. Yuri on the right lane and Jessica on the left lane. Jessica's windows were rolled down, so Yuri rolled her windows down.

"Hey Sica baby!" she shouted.

Jessica looked over and glared at her, "I told you not to call me that!"

Yuri chuckled, "I'll race you back to the dorm."

Jessica guffawed, "Are you kidding me? Your car isn't a match for mine."

"We will see about that," Yuri winked and drove away as the light turned green.

-*-*-*-*-

Both Yuri and Jessica reached back at the dorm at the same time. They both got out of their cars after parking them in the parking lot.

"I totally won!" Yuri shouted.

"No way! I won!" Jessica shouted back at her.

"What are you talking about? Your car wasn't even here by a millisecond!" 

"What?! When I got here I didn't even see your car!"

"Yeah~ you're just jealous that I beat you back here," Yuri stuck her tongue out and ran away, even though she was in heels.

"YAH! WHEN I CATCH YOU I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!" Jessica said as she chased Yuri, also in heels.

What they both didn't know was there were two people hiding behind one of the pillars at the parking lot witnessing the two arguing couple chasing each other.

One of them was snapping their cameras taking picture of the two, while the other was sucking on a lollipop.

"Yah, aren't you going to help me?" one of them said to the one sucking on a lollipop.

The one with the lollipop turned and looked at the photographer, "What am I suppose to do? You are the one with the camera."

"You are supposed to gather information about the two. We are suppose to break up their company bond remember?"

"Yeah, you're lucky I bought some reporter disguise for us two to go there. The two seem like a cute couple don't you think?" The girl pointed the lollipop at the two.

Jessica almost caught up with Yuri, but Yuri swerved to the right causing Jessica to stumble and fall. Her heel broke and she was sitting on the floor holding onto the back of her knee. Yuri looked back while she was still running and saw Jessica on the floor hissing in pain. She ran back towards the blonde and crouched down to get to her level.

"Are you hurt?" she asked.

Jessica looked up and stared at Yuri, "Oh no I'm perfectly fine."

"Really?" Yuri asked again, oblivious to the fact that Jessica was sarcastic.

"No I'm not fine you idiot! My knee is bleeding and I think I got a bruise on my hip!" 

"Oh uh umm..."

Oh my gawd I don't know what to do. Yuri thought while panicking.

The first thing she thought of doing was to pick up the blonde and take her back to their dorm. She swipes her right arm under Jessica's knees and her left hand placed just right under her breast, carrying her bridal style. Jessica yelped in surprise and flails her arms, almost hitting Yuri in the face. 

"Put me down! I can walk by myself," Jessica ordered while hitting Yuri on the shoulder.

Yuri sighed and immediately put Jessica down onto the floor. She watched Jessica take a few steps, but couldn't take another as the pain in her knee was throbbing causing her to fall. Yuri quickly grabbed Jessica's arm and held onto her.

"You can't walk. Just let me carry you back, okay?"

Jessica contemplated for awhile and let Yuri carry her back to the dorm.

"Yah! Hyun Joong did you get the pictures?" The girl asked as she was patting onto the guy's shoulder causing him to miss some shots.

"Stop hitting me, Hara! I would get some clear pictures if you stop hitting me!" Hyun Joong hissed.

Hara immediately stopped hitting him and placed the lollipop back into her mouth. She took out a notepad from her back pocket and a pen in her front pocket and immediately wrote down some notes about the couple.

"Okay, I think we are good," Hyun Joong said and stood up next to Hara while showing the shots he took to her.

"Looks good, but seriously they look like a good couple!" Hara said while smiling, though it was awkward since the lollipop was in her mouth.

"Aren't they a couple? Why did you say they look like one?" Hyun Joong asked.

"I don't know... Whatever, at least we know they are a couple, right?" 

Hyun Joong laughed, "Yeah, this is going to be some big news. We gotta get back to boss now. By then we should be able to publish the news by tomorrow morning."

Hyun Joong turned off his Canon EOS 10D and placed it in his bag. They both got on his Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R and sped off to their company.

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Chapter 7 - Scandal Breaks Out

Taeyeon finally finished cooking dinner for her and Tiffany. After she was done, she placed the pan and spatchula in the sink. She took off her apron and hanged it on the hanger that was stuck on the refrigerator. She set up the table placing several of dishes, two plates, two spoons, two forks and two cups for drinks. 

Before calling Tiffany out to dinner, she walked into the bathroom to wash up. After she was done she decided to check the other side of the dorm where Yuri and Jessica were. She opened the door slowly and peeked inside before walking in. The lights were turned off and the only source of light was the moonlight shining through the window and onto the couch at the end of the hallway.

She walked inside of the dorm and looked at both of the doors to see if the light was shone through the door crack, but there was none.

"Not a surprise that Yuri isn't here, but Jessica isn't? Don't tell me she passed the first stage with her already..." Taeyeon mumbled to herself.

Shaking her head and sighing, she went back into her dorm and knocked on Tiffany's door. She waited for a few minutes for Tiffany to open the door, but didn't get any response. She knocked on it again and the same thing happened. Thinking that it was okay to proceed on entering the room, Taeyeon opened the door slowly and saw Tiffany sleeping on the bed.

"She bored herself to sleep?" Taeyeon asked herself.

She walked inside of Tiffany's room but stopped to shut the door. She continued walking towards Tiffany's bed trying to not make a sound. She tiptoed and saw the younger girl sleeping soundly and peacefully. 

Didn't care whether or not she ruined her peaceful sleep, Taeyeon shook the girl lightly to wake her up. After a few minutes, Tiffany stirred and turned around facing Taeyeon. Taeyeon froze leaving her hand in mid air. She stared at Tiffany's face like it was the most beautiful creation god has ever made.

She is really beautiful. She thought.

Tiffany slowly opened her eyes and saw Taeyeon staring at her. By instinct, she pushed Taeyeon away and crawled to the corner of the bed. 

Jessi recently told me something happened to her just like this and now I'm in the same situation?! She thought.

"Oph!" Taeyeon groaned as she landed butt first on the floor.

"You... you didn't do anything to me did you?" Tiffany asked scared as she brought her blanket under her chin.

"Of course not! Okay, my best friend may be a player, but I don't pick up on her habits! Just trust me. I didn't do anything okay?" Taeyeon stood up and rubbed her butt to ease the pain.

Tiffany lowered her blanket and saw Taeyeon's serious expression, "I'm sorry I pushed you."

Taeyeon sighed realizing that Tiffany is forgiving her, "It's okay. I made dinner. Let's go out to eat okay?"

"I'll give you time to freshen up," Taeyeon said and walked out of her room.

Tiffany sighed in relief when she saw Taeyeon closed the door.

"Aish! What am I thinking about that for? Dang it Jessi..." 

She stood up and walked out of her room to go to the bathroom. After washing up, she headed towards the kitchen where Taeyeon was.

"Wow! You cooked all of this?" Tiffany said awed at the dishes placed in front of her.

Taeyeon nodded in response and took a seat. Tiffany also took a seat across from Taeyeon. 

"You didn't have to go all of this trouble cooking the food."

"I don't consider this trouble. It's actually pretty easy cooking all of this."

"Are you kidding me? I couldn't even cook one dish!"

"Yeah I noticed that..." Taeyeon mumbled and started eating.

Tiffany followed Taeyeon's action. After she took a bite of the meat Taeyeon cooked, her jaw dropped in awe and her eyes were wide. Taeyeon looked up from her food while chewing, but immediately stopped once she saw the girl in front of her.

"Is it that bad?" Taeyeon asked.

Tiffany immediately snapped out of her oh-my-gawd-this-food-is-so-delicious trance and looked up at Taeyeon.

"No no! I'm just so amazed at how well you cook! How did you learn how to cook like this?" Tiffany asked and went back to eating normally.

Taeyeon nodded and continued eating, "My father said that when I marry someone, I should learn how to cook for my husband. So he sent me to cooking classes ever since I was about ten. Since then I cooked for my family sometimes in replace of the maid at our household."

"That's amazing... I bet if I took cooking classes I still wouldn't learn how to cook as well as you," Tiffany complimented.

Taeyeon lightly laughed causing Tiffany to be in awe again. Her laugh was like a melody. A song to people's ears that could send you to heaven. 

Taeyeon stopped laughing and looked up and saw Tiffany with the same expression as last time.

"What is it now?"

"No... it's nothing. It's just that, that's my first time ever hearing you laugh. It's very beautiful," Tiffany smiled.

"Well I didn't take laughing class for this."

Tiffany giggled, "I don't think there is such thing."

"Who knows? There are a lot of classes for a lot of things."

Tiffany nodded, "True."

They both went back to their dinner eating happily. 

She really has a sweet melodic voice. Tiffany smiled.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri placed Jessica back onto the floor and let her lean onto the door. She dug inside of her purse looking for her set of keys.

"Ugh... Where is it?" Yuri mumbled.

Jessica stared at Yuri not noticing that she was struggling to look for her keys. She tilted her head to get a better view at something. Yes, she was staring at Yuri's face. More at her lips actually. She brought her hand up to her own lips tracing the outline of it with her thumb. 

Our lips fit perfectly with each other when we kissed. 

Unconsciously, she reached out for Yuri's lips. She was a few inches away from touching Yuri's lips, but then Yuri found her keys and shouted.

"I found it!"

Jessica took her hand back and placed it against her chest, panicking. 

What am I doing? She hit her head a few times to knock some sense into her.

Yuri inserted the key in the door knob and unlocked the door. Before she opened the door, she wrapped an arm around Jessica's waist to keep her from falling. She kicked the door open and carried Jessica inside and placed her on the couch. Jessica laid on the couch taking up the whole space. Yuri walked inside of the bathroom grabbing a first aid kit from the cabinet under the sink. She turned on the lights and walked to the couch and sat on the edge of it.

She put Jessica's legs onto her lap and sat back on the couch so she'd be in a comfortable position. She opened the first aid kit and grabbed a few cotton balls and a rubbing alcohol bottle. She poured the rubbing alcohol onto the cotton ball.

"This is going to sting... I would be lying if I said a bit. So... it's going to sting. A lot," Yuri warned making Jessica slightly scared.

She grabbed the back of Jessica's left knee and starting dabbing the cotton ball onto her knee. Jessica winced and bit down on her bottom lip to prevent from screaming in pain. The blood soaked up the cotton ball quickly and Yuri took gauze from the first aid kit as a replacement for the cotton balls. The blood was trickling down from Jessica's knees and dripping onto Yuri's white skinny jeans. Tears were welling up on Jessica's eyes because of the pain.

"It hurts," she muttered. 

Yuri looked up and to her right and saw that Jessica was about to cry. She continued to place the gauze onto her knee, but this time gently. After soaking up all the blood, Yuri bandaged up Jessica's knee.

"There, your knee is done. Now take off your shorts," Yuri said.

"WHAT?!" Jessica screamed.

Yuri flinched at Jessica?s scream. It was like a high dolphin pitch sound.

"Didn't you say your hip was bruised? Your shirt has blood on it too. It's probably bleeding there."

"I am not taking off my shorts."

"It might get affected! C'mon I'll be gentle."

"I already told you once! I am not taking off my shorts!" 

"Fine. If you're not going to do it, then I'll do it myself." 

Yuri stood up placing Jessica's legs back onto the couch and took a few steps and stood on the right side of Jessica. She placed her right knee onto the couch while her other knee was against the leg of the couch. She grabbed onto Jessica's belt ready to unbuckle it, but Jessica squealed and quickly grabbed onto Yuri's hand.

"Stop it!" Jessica demanded.

Yuri ignored her and swatted her hands away. She successfully unbuckled Jessica's belt and threw it onto the floor then proceeded on unbuttoning Jessica's shorts. 

"No!" Jessica squirmed but winced in pain because of the bruise and cut on her hip.

"If you would stop moving then it would go by faster!" 

Yuri finally unbuttoned Jessica's shorts and unzipped it. She slowly took her shorts off, but stopped at Jessica's thighs as she was staring at her underwear. Yuri took note of that Jessica was wearing a pink lacey underwear and couldn't help but stare at it.

"Stop staring at my underwear you pervert!" She swung her arm at Yuri, but Yuri quickly caught her arm and her other arm and pinned it down slightly above her head.

"Yuri! Jessica! Is everything alright? We heard screaming and we we--" They both turned their heads to the door where rapid knocking was heard. 

The door opened revealing Taeyeon and Tiffany staring at them as if they saw a ghost. Both of Yuri and Jessica were in an uncomfortable position. Jessica was sprawled on the couch with her arms pinned down by Yuri, her shirt raised slightly and her shorts pulled down to her thighs. Yuri was on top of her with both of her knees placed at each side of Jessica's thighs and her face dangerously close to Jessica's.

"YURI!"

"JESSI!"

Both of Taeyeon and Tiffany rushed towards where Yuri and Jessica were. Taeyeon grabbed Yuri's arm, but she didn't budge.

"Yuri what the heck do you think you are doing?" Taeyeon scolded.

"What do you think I'm doing? I'm helping her with her injuries," Yuri said innocently.

Taeyeon placed her hands on her hips, "I am not falling for that excuse this time! I knew you would go and sex up Jessica."

Yuri let go of Jessica and sat up, still on top of her, "Okay, I know my reputation of that, but I'm seriously not lying okay? Look at her knee and I'm just helping with her hip."

She pulled down Jessica's shorts completely and threw it to where her belt was. She then rose up her shirt and pulled down her panties a little just to make sure she doesn't see what she really wanted to see and saw the wound bleeding on her hip. She grabbed the rubbing alcohol and poured it onto the cotton ball and dabbed Jessica's wound. Jessica winced and grabbed onto Yuri's free hand, that was resting on her thigh, automatically.

"I told you she was injured," Yuri said.

"What happen Jessi?" Tiffany asked. 

"I fell."

"Someone falling can cause a huge injury like that?" 

"Well I scraped my knee and kind of landed on my hip. I think I somehow got dragged too." 

"Sorry for accusing you like that Yuri. Never thought you would care for someone and actually not... do it..." Taeyeon said.

Yuri laughed, "Why are you saying like I never care for anyone and I'm just a sex maniac?"

"That's because... you are..." Taeyeon mumbled slowly.

Yuri rolled her eyes and sighed, "Whatever."

She finished cleaning up Jessica's wound and bandaged it. She pulled up Jessica's panties and put on her shorts. She pulled down Jessica's shirt and stared at her.

She tapped her on the shoulder, "All done!"

She stood up and threw away the used cotton balls and gauze and put away the first aid kit. She came back out from the bathroom and saw Jessica holding onto Tiffany for support.

"Thanks for helping her Yuri-ah. She really can't treat her injures well," Tiffany said.

"It's alright. I was the cause of the injury anyways," Yuri said and plopped onto the couch next to Taeyeon.

"Where did you two go anyways?" Taeyeon asked.

"Company dinner," Yuri and Jessica both answered in unison.

"Oh... anyways I'm going to head back. Tell me the details tomorrow, Yuri," Taeyeon stood up and walked out of their dorm.

"I'm going too. Take care of Jessi for me, Yuri-ah!" Tiffany said and followed Taeyeon leaving both Yuri and Jessica in awkward silence.

"Well I hope your better now. Do you need me to carry you to your room?" Yuri asked as she stared at Jessica who had her injured knee slightly bent.

"No I got it," Jessica replied.

Yuri nodded and stood up, "I'll be going now."

She walked towards her room but suddenly stopped since she thought she heard the blonde said something.

"Did you say something?" She asked as she turned around.

Jessica looked up from her knee, "No."

"Ah... well good night," Yuri walked into her room.

"Thank you..." Jessica mumbled.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri woke up to the sunlight shining through her window. She got out of her bed and walked to the bathroom to get changed for class. After showering and brushing her teeth, Yuri was dressed in her school uniform ready to go to class. She stepped outside of the bathroom and saw Jessica walking out of her room at the same time. She smiled and walked past Jessica to get to the front door. 

Stacks of paper which Yuri assumed to be some fan letters were slipped under the door. 

"Newspaper?" Yuri asked herself and grabbed the papers and sat on the couch. 

On the front page was something that she knew she was going to see. It stated in big bold letters: Kwon Jong Min's daughter, Kwon Yuri, kisses Jung Sungmin's daughter, Jessica Jung.

Under the bold letters, Yuri was reading the article about her and Jessica and the company bond. 

'At Royal Capital where the families of Kwon, Jung and Lee Enterprise gathered, an unexpected event happened. The daughter of Kwon Jong Min and the daughter of Jung Sungmin seem to have an intimate relationship with each other. A reporter has stated that Kwon Yuri and Jessica Jung were having a friendly talk with the son of Lee Chun Ho, Lee Donghae. After the talk, the two have been seen kissing each other passionately.

Other than that event, the three companies' have officially been bonded together and will be working on important projects together in the future. 

But there is more two it. The two are students of SoShi University as they have been seen being friendly with each other in the parking lot. Another unexpected event occurred as Jessica was injured causing Yuri to carry her up to their dorm.

Published By: SoShi University's Goo Hara and Dong Bang University's Kim Hyun Joong.'

Yuri threw the paper aside and sighed. 

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She grabbed her phone and pressed answer.

"Hello?" she answered.

"By details you really know how to make a big one," the familiar voice on the other line said.

"It's nothing big okay?"

"What do you mean it's nothing big? You two have been seen kissing and the reporters had caught it. Now it's all over the newspaper. Hell it's even on TV! Both your and Jessica's father are going to flip."

Yuri sighed, "I know. I already had a long talk about it with my father. There is no way to clear the situation now. The only way to get through it is to pretend that I'm actually her girlfriend and then break up."

"You are lucky the head of the companies' doesn't know how big of a player you are."

"That has nothing to do with this."

"It does too. If they knew about this and you break up with Jessica immediately... Well that is if you are in a relationship with her, you would be one of Korea's hated people."

"C'mon Taeng. Not everyone knows that I am a player. Well the school does, kind of, and the companies' don't."

"Alright Yuri. You shouldn't be like this, okay? Just somehow, clear this up"

"You would help me right?"

"I will. In a way. I'll meet you in five minutes. Bye."

Yuri hung up the phone and placed it back inside of her bag. She stood up and slung her bag over her right shoulder and saw Jessica walking out from the bathroom. No one would know that Jessica has been injured since the socks covered it, but that is unless everyone read the newspaper.

"Are you ready to go?" she asked Jessica.

Jessica nodded and put her chucks on. They both headed out their dorm and immediately the two saw photos of them plastered along the walls. It was the same photos from the newspaper and someone seems to have photocopied the pictures of them two kissing and Yuri carrying Jessica.

"What the hell..." Jessica muttered.

"And just when I thought it was only on the newspaper..."

They both ignored the pictures of them and walked to their first class. Once they walked outside of the dormitory building, everyone stared at them muttering words and taking pictures of the two. A couple of them were even bombarding them with questions.

"Are you two really a couple?"

"If they aren't a couple that is just sad since they are playing with the media."

"There's no reason to play with the media."

Getting fed up with people's questions and comments; Yuri swung her left arm around Jessica's shoulder and held onto her. 

"Play along," Yuri whispered in Jessica's ear before she asks any question.

Jessica immediately wrapped her right arm around Yuri's waist and walked towards their first class.

"They are a couple."

"They look good together."

"It's like they are a match made in heaven."

They ignored the comments once again and the flashes of people's camera phones and reached their first class. They both saw Taeyeon and Tiffany sitting where they were seated at. 

"You are going to help me right?" Yuri asked Taeyeon.

"Just let me think of something first," Taeyeon said.

Yuri nodded and took her seat next to her while Jessica took her seat next to Tiffany. The professor walked in silencing the student's murmurings and comments. About Yuri and Jessica obviously.

"Kwon Yuri and Jessica Jung," the professor called out.

They both stood up when their names got mentioned and everyone turned around to stare at the two.

"The dean calls for you," he said. 

Chapter 8 - Her Past

Both Yuri and Jessica were seated outside of the dean’s office waiting to be called on. After a couple of minutes, one of the office ladies called Yuri and Jessica to go into the dean’s office.

"Good morning Ms. Kwon and Ms. Jung. Please take a seat,” the dean said as he stood up from his chair.

He was a middle aged man wearing glasses, that rested on the bridge of his nose, with gray hair and almost bald. They both took a seat in front of his desk waiting for what he was going to say. He took a seat in his chair and folded his hands on the desk.

“As you can see, the university school newspaper stated that you two have been quite…” the dean trailed off searching for the right word to say.

“Intimate,” Yuri finished for him.

“Ah yes. That’s the word. Even if it’s not true, the pictures are enough. Well because of that we do not accept such behavior at SoShi University.”

Both Yuri and Jessica tensed up. What if I get kicked out? They both thought at the same time. How can I explain this to my parents? What if the company did the same thing?

“Usually we would kick the students out for this kind of behavior, but since you two are well known in both SoShi and Korea and you guys shot up the popularity of the university like a rocket, we will keep you in this university.”

They both sighed in relief. They didn’t want to go home saying to their parents that they got kicked out of the university for doing something daring. 

“But if I ever find out that this happen again, you will know the consequences. Understand?”

They both nodded and were excused by the dean to go to their classes. They walked back to their class in silence, not wanting to say anything about the situation. They took their seats besides their best friends once they reached their classes and resume the lecture from the professor.

“What happen Jess?” Tiffany asked when Jessica took her seat.

“Nothing,” Jessica responded coldly.

Tiffany pouted, “It must be something if they sent you to the dean.”

“I told you it’s nothing, okay? Stop asking.”

Tiffany puffed up her cheeks and sighed. Even she can have a limit of taking the cold ice princess.

“Are you happy that you are being a pretend couple with Jessica?” Taeyeon whispered, not looking at Yuri.

“Sure I am,” Yuri smiled.

“You two will have to put up the act if you don’t want to cause any conflicts. Do not confess to her and do not fall in love with her. It should be pretty easy for you since you break so many people’s hearts.”

Yuri sucked in the air through her teeth and clicked her tongue, “Alrighty.”

“You remember what happened, right?” Taeyeon said bitterly.

Yuri grimaced. She knew what she was talking about.

“Of course I remember. I remember it as if it was yesterday.”

“I don’t want you to end up like me,” Taeyeon whispered and lowered her head as if she was looking at her paper.

“Taeyeon… do you…”

Taeyeon’s ears perked up. Never did Yuri call her by her full name. It was only if she was serious, or was confused about something.

“What is it?”

“Do you still love her?”

Taeyeon gripped onto her pencil tightly. If she gripped it any harder, it was going to snap. Yuri noticed the grip Taeyeon had on her pencil and tugged onto it. Taeyeon loosen her grip and it dropped onto the desk making a small sound.

“No. I am already over her.”

“What if she came back for you?”

“Yuri, don’t start with the what if. It is never going to happen. It has been two years already.”

“You never know.”

Taeyeon ignored the last comment that Yuri said and listened to the professor rambling on about some mathematics stuff. It was then that the topic she and Yuri talked about entered her mind. She never set her mind on the topic ever since she broken up with her ex-girlfriend. She was heartbroken when it happened. She loved her with all her life, promised to protect her, and promised that she would never leave her side. But then it all shattered when she decided to leave her.

“SUNYE-AH! Don’t leave… please…” Taeyeon pleaded with tears welling up in her eyes while grabbing onto Sunye’s arm.

“I’m sorry Taeyeon-ah. It’s best for the both of us,” Sunye slowly pried Taeyeon’s hand off her arm and walked away with the suitcase rolling behind her.

“Why Sunye?” That made her stop walking.

“Why so suddenly? Why did you just decide to break everything between us? Everything that happened with us for three years? Why?” Taeyeon’s voice cracked as she shouted gaining people’s attention in the airport. 

“What did I do wrong?” she said in a calm voice.

Sunye turned around and looked at Taeyeon. Taeyeon couldn’t tell if she was looking at her, staring at her or glaring at her since her tears were blocking her vision making Sunye’s figure blurry.

“It’s all a game Taeyeon. You are such a fool for falling in love with me in the first place. I never loved you,” Sunye said coldly and walked away to the terminal.

The tears that were welling up in Taeyeon’s eyes flowed furiously down her cheeks. She wanted to run up to Sunye and shake her telling her what she said right now, was a lie. But she couldn’t move her legs; the words struck her hard leaving her heartbroken. 

Later on that day she ran to Yuri’s house and barged into her room without greeting her parents.

“Taengoo?” Yuri wheeled around in her chair away from her desk and saw Taeyeon’s puffy red eyes and tears stained face.

She gasped and scrambled up to her feet. Taeyeon walked up to her and hugged her and sobbed on her shoulders.

“Yuri… she’s gone… she played on me…” 

It was the first time Yuri has seen Taeyeon cried ever since they were childhood best friends. Taeyeon was always the strong cold one while Yuri was the playful one and would cry to her for her problems. 

Taeyeon’s relationship with Sunye wasn’t what she expected. It all started off being a pretend couple when Sunye suddenly dragged her into the situation. She started to develop some feelings for her and thought that it was wrong to do since it was all an act. That’s when she couldn’t take it anymore. She decided to confess her feelings to Sunye and fortunately, she responded the same thing. Then after a good three years relationship, it all came crashing down.

After that event, Taeyeon blocked everyone out from her life except for Yuri. 

It’s funny how love can make a person do so many things.

-*-*-*-*-

Time flew by quickly as class already ended. The whole day was free and the students either went to their dorm and jumped on their bed or just hanged out in the courtyard.

Tiffany decided to go out for awhile and enjoy the scenery that she hadn’t really gotten a chance to look at it. She wore a red plaid blouse where her cleavage was almost visible, blue skinny jeans, white flats and sunglasses to block out the sun for her view. 

She walked out of her room and looked for Taeyeon to tell her that she was going out, but couldn’t spot the older girl. Thinking that she was already out, Tiffany walked out of her dorm and headed towards the dormitory building exit. 

The smell of fresh cut grass, non-polluted air and various flowers relaxed Tiffany once she stepped out of the building. She closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh air and exhaled. She sat down on one of the benches that were half on the sidewalk and grass. 

“Relaxing, isn’t it?” A familiar voice said.

Tiffany opened her eyes and turned around, spotting her roommate. She herself was dressed up too. She wore a light blue button up shirt, which was rolled up to her forearm, with a white undershirt, denim short shorts and light blue chucks. She had her hair up in a ponytail and her bangs pinned back with a bobby pin revealing her beautiful forehead. 

Tiffany smiled, “Yeah, it is.”

“Mind if I take a seat next to you?”

“Nope. Go on right ahead.”

Taeyeon walked over and took a seat by Tiffany. She did a similar action as Tiffany as she breathed in the air while closing her eyes and exhaled. The area they were in was peaceful and wasn’t too noisy since students were talking to each other. 

“I always wanted a nice peaceful area like this.”

“Well, it’s here. Delivered to you by the university.”

Taeyeon lightly laughed at Tiffany’s joke. For some reason she actually enjoyed Tiffany’s company. She gave off a friendly comfortable vibe that you can tell all her problems to her. 

They both sat there in silence enjoying each other’s presence till they realized that the sun was setting.

“I am going to go out for awhile. I want to explore the outside world of here,” Tiffany said and stood up.

Taeyeon nodded and watched Tiffany walk away. She too was going somewhere, but didn’t know exactly where she wanted to go. She stood up and decided to go by the Han River and look the river flowing down the stream. 

She walked into the parking lot and pressed the unlock button on her key. After hearing the alarm, she opened the car door to her Lexus IS-F Sports Line Black Bison and started the engine as it roared to life. She shifted the gear and pressed on the gas pedal to get on her way to the Han River.

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany decided to enjoy the scenery at a different area and this time at the Han River. After parking her red Nissan GT-R near the river, she walked on the sidewalk of the bridge looking over the rails. Many people were here checking out the river or just to stop by during their date. She leaned over the handrail and folded her hands. She put one hand around her necklace. It was a necklace with an S as the pendant.

Tears started to well up in her eyes. Her past was one of them she didn’t want to remember since she had to face a horrible experience. Throughout this whole time, she covered it up by smiling and laughing a lot as if nothing had happened to her.

“Why did you have to go?” she whispered and looked up to the sky.

“You must be happy up there.”

Tiffany was driving her car on her way to her date with her boyfriend. She was excited for this date since it was their two year anniversary. As she was driving, she realized the traffic was getting heavy. Impatient and frustrated she huffed and sat there waiting for the car to move up. Thinking that it going to take awhile to get to the place where her boyfriend told her to meet up at, she decided to call him.

“Yes babe?”

Tiffany smiled at her boyfriend’s answer, “Oppa I think I’m going to be late. Traffic is heavy.”

“That is alright. Later is better than never.”

“Sorry oppa. I will make it up to you when I get there.”

"Hmm. Arasso. I will see you in a bit. I love you baby.”

“I love you too.”

She hung up the phone and placed it in the cup holder so it won’t fall and be easier to find.

After thirty minutes, the traffic was getting lighter as Tiffany kept zigzagging the lanes, not wanting her date to wait any longer. She was getting closer to the destination, but had to stop abruptly when hearing the wailing sirens. An ambulance passed by her and she turned the steering wheel to get on the lane. 

The ambulance was going at full speed and it was going the same direction Tiffany was going. She finally reached the destination and that is when she realized the accident had happened in the area.

“I wonder what is going on…” she mumbled and stepped out from her car.

She took a few steps and strains her ears to hear what the people were saying. 

“That was a horrible accident! He looks so young too.”

“Such a handsome young man. He didn’t deserve such tragedy.”

“He helped me up earlier when I bumped into him when he was talking on the phone. It seems like he was waiting for his date too.”

“No… It can’t be oppa,” Tiffany panicked and pushed through the crowd to see the scene.

She wished she didn’t push through the crowd. She wished she had gotten here sooner. She wished the traffic had never happened. She wished for a lot of things to not happen and to happen. But what she really wanted to wish was that was not her boyfriend she was seeing right now.

He was lying on the floor covered in blood. His eyes were closed and right next to him was a shattered phone. Over at the sidewalk, Tiffany made out that his motorcycle got crashed. The witnesses had said that he was standing by his motorcycle and apparently a drunken driver had driven off the road and onto the sidewalk crashing into him while he wasn’t looking. 

“Oppa…” Tiffany’s eyes started to well up with tears.

She walked slowly towards him and crouched down next to him.

“Oppa this isn’t happening right? Oppa please live,” she nudged him on his good arm waiting for a response, but never got one.

Scared, she screamed for his name constantly waiting for him to wake up. Tears were flowing down her face. Why did he have to face through this?

“O-O-O-oppa…” her voice cracked, “please live… your strong… OPPA!”

Having enough with the screaming and sobbing, the paramedics pulled her away from the scene and sat her down on a bench by a shop. They put her boyfriend on the stretcher and into the ambulance. The sirens were wailing once again as they sped off to the nearest hospital.

“Oppa…” her body shook as her tears were uncontrollable.

“Siwon oppa…”

She couldn’t go to the hospital later on that day. She couldn’t bear to see the sight of her boyfriend on the hospital bed all bloody. Later on that day, she received a call from his sister saying that he had passed away.

A tear fell from Tiffany’s eyes and landed on her hand that was holding the necklace. Before another one can drop, she quickly wiped away the tears and placed her hands onto the rail. A motorcycle was slowly passing by behind her and stopped right next to her. Tiffany didn’t take notice of the motorcycle since she was in deep of thinking about her ex.

The driver kicked the kickstand and placed his helmet on the handle. He leaned against the bike and stared at the night sky. Finally, Tiffany took notice of him and looked to her left. Her eyes widen and her jaw dropped.

“O-O-O-oppa…?” she stammered at the impossibility for him to be alive.

He turned his head and grinned at Tiffany, “It has been a while hasn’t it… Tiffany?”

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon parked her Lexus and headed towards the bridge. She leaned against the handrails. She noticed that not that much people were around here which was a perfect thing. Every time she had a problem on her mind, she would come here and shout out to no one in particular saying that she could do it. 

She brought both of her hands and cupped it around her mouth, “KIM TAEYEON! YOU CAN DO IT! YOU ARE ALREADY OVER HER!”

She dropped her hands to her sides and let it dangled. She sighed and started walking back to her car. She suddenly stopped walking when she saw a tall muscular man leaning against his motorcycle. His hair was combed nicely and he wore a black leather jacket with a black button up shirt, dark blue jeans and white sneakers. 

He looks familiar… 

She took a couple of more steps towards the man and gasped once she got a clear view of him.

“It can’t be…”

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked into her father’s company receiving the attention from a couple of people. She wore a white sweater with a cartoon imprinted on it, dark blue skinny jeans and black sneakers. Since it was at night time, not much people were working and had already gone home. Everyone who saw Yuri bowed to her in respect since she was the company’s president’s daughter. She smiled to everyone who bowed to her and walked to the elevator. She pressed the up button and waited for the door to open. 

The door slid open and she walked inside pressing the button for the 13th floor. The door opened and she walked her way to her father’s office. As she walked through the first door, on her left was a lady behind a desk.

“Good evening Ms. Kwon,” she stood up and bowed.

Yuri bowed down to her as well in respect.

“Good evening to you too Ms. Kim. Is my father inside?”

“Yes he is. You may proceed Ms. Kwon.”

Yuri dipped her head and walked towards the door and opened it. She closed the door behind her and walked through the spacious room. She walked to her father’s desk where a chair’s back was turned to her.

She cleared her throat, “Dad.”

The chair turned around revealing her father, “Ah you are already here Yuri.”

Yuri nodded and walked around the room, “So what is it that you need?”

“Well we are officially working on our first project tonight with our teammates. They are coming over right now and with an extra person whom they called their assistant.” 

He continued, “But before I start talking to you about the project, I want to talk to you about your relationship with Jessica.”

Yuri stopped tracing the family pictures that were hanging on the wall and turned to her father, “If you are going to make me break up with her, don’t worry about it. It will happen soon.”

“That is not it. Consider yourself lucky that our company’s image didn’t get ruined nor did the Jung’s.”

Yuri walked towards her father, “Then what is it that you want to talk about?”

“I actually do not want you to break up with Jessica. I want you to keep your relationship with her.”

Yuri looked at him confused. First, he was all yelling at her at the restaurant saying that she might ruin her image and that he doesn’t accept her kissing girls and now he wants her to continue the “relationship”?

“What is the meaning of this?” Yuri asked.

“Your relationship with Jessica is actually a rocket booster for our company’s image. It seems like Korea does not care if you are straight, but rather think you two are a good pairing. The people have been talking about you two nonstop.”

Yuri scoffed, “So this is what you want? Publicity?” 

“Now Yuri. This can be beneficial to you too.”

“How so?”

“If you continue dating Jessica, I might be able to give you the president position to you.”

“You’re kidding,” Yuri said mouth agape.

“No I am not. You see how this all works out?” Her father smiled in triumph.

“I will think about it.” 

“Think good my dear daughter.”

She walked behind her father’s desk and looked out the glass window. The door opened revealing two middle aged men and three young looking people. 

“Good evening Kwon Jong Min,” the head Jung and head Lee greeted Yuri’s father.

Her father stood up and greeted them also, “Good evening to you too Jung Sungmin and Lee Chun Ho.”

“I’d like to introduce a new person that would be working with us,” Chun Ho said.

He walked over to the Chinese looking girl next to Donghae, “This is Victoria Song. She will be working with us for the future projects. Her Korean may not be fluent since she was born in China, but she knows the basics.”

Yuri snapped her head around once she heard the girl’s name. She walked towards the girl, but kept her distance and gasped. Victoria seems to have taken notice of Yuri as she also gasped.

“Yuri?”

“Victoria?”

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Chapter 9 - Cover Blown?

After seeing the Chinese girl, Yuri stormed out of her father's office. Everyone turned to look at the door in confusion.

"I'm sorry about her behavior. I'll send someone to bring her back," Yuri's father said.

"No need sir. I will go look for Yuri," Donghae said.

Yuri?s father hesitated, "Alright..."

Donghae made his way to the door and walked out of his office.

"While Donghae is looking for Yuri, let's go over the files."

Everyone nodded and walked out of his office and to one of the conference room.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri quickened her pace while walking through the corridor.

What is she doing here?

She slammed her fist against the wall while walking and pressed the up button on the elevator. She walked into the elevator when it opened and pressed the up button once again to go to the roof. She stepped out of the elevator and opened the door to the roof. 

The air rushed past her face when she opened the door. She closed the door and made her way to the rails. She closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh air while facing the night sky. Her heart started to ache when she saw her again. She didn't think she would see her again after three years. Even though Victoria was one of her girlfriends that she played on, she was a different kind of girlfriend. 

A tear escaped from one of her closed eyes and she quickly wiped it away. 

Don't cry Yuri. You are strong.

The door opened, but Yuri took no notice of it. The figure behind her slowly took steps towards her while their fists were jammed into their pockets. 

"Did your past get to you?"

Yuri didn't turn around. She knew too well of the voice.

"If you want to do what you said to me and her last time, go ahead. But keep in mind that I won't back down."

The figure scoffed, "You have nothing to worry about anymore, okay? I'm not in the mood of fighting anyways."

"Do you still love her?" Yuri asked.

The figure had a puzzled look on their face. They didn't respond but instead leaned against the rail next to Yuri.

"Donghae, answer me."

He sighed, "I... I still have feelings for her."

?Why are you treating her like dirt??

"I want to show that I am over her already. But every time I see her my heart beats faster."

Yuri nodded to show that she understood what he said. 

"I would beat you up right now, but I don't feel like it," she smirked.

The corner of Donghae's mouth tugged upwards.

"Is there anything going on with you and Victoria?" He asked.

"We had a history."

"It must be a painful one for you to storm out of your father's office like that."

Yuri smiled weakly, "It was."

She turned around and leaned her back against the rail. Her phone interrupted her thoughts and received a call from her dad saying to meet them at the conference room. She looked over at Donghae and assumed that he also got a call since he had his phone against his ear. She left him at the roof without saying anything and made her way to the conference room.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica was sitting at the left side of the conference room along with Victoria. Her mind was filled with thoughts and was confused about why Yuri left the office just like that. She always seen her playful and happy, but this time she had a painful expression worn on her face. She looked over to the girl next to her and saw that she had a similar expression.

They must've had a past. She thought.

The glass door opened revealing Yuri and behind her was Donghae. Yuri still had the similar expression on her face. She tried to hide it with a forceful smile. Jessica's heart started to ache when she saw her expression. She clutched onto her chest.

Why am I feeling like this?

She looked over at Donghae and her heart did not fluttered anymore. That's when she realized she stopped loving Donghae.

Yuri took a seat besides Jessica and Donghae took a seat besides Victoria before apologizing to the adults for her sudden departure.

"Alright kids, this will be your first time working together. I know some of you would get along and some wouldn't, but please don't let your personal matters involved with your work," Mr. Kwon said and looked at the young adults, but mostly at Yuri.

Mr. Jung came into the room while rolling a stand with white butcher paper on it. He placed it against the wall and tore out a long piece of white butcher paper. He laid it on the table and smoothed it out.

"As you see this paper we are sketching some buildings to build around this area," he said.

"We are planning to build a restaurant, hotel and possibly an amusement park," Mr. Lee said.

Everyone else nodded and eyed Mr. Jung writing down a couple words on the paper.

"Okay. I want Yuri and Jessica to sketch the amusement park. I want every possible ride and concession stands to be drawn on here. It doesn't have to be too detailed. Victoria and Donghae you both will help each other sketch the restaurant and hotel." 

"Does anyone have any complaints?"

Hearing no voices and silence, Mr. Jung ordered everyone to start working. Everyone stood up from their chairs and went to their area to work at. Yuri and Jessica walked to the end of the table while Victoria and Donghae walked over to the other end of the table creating a fifteen feet space between them.

Yuri and Jessica began sketching the outline of the park together and kept their minds off of their scandal and relationship. They both knew it was fake, but they had to pretend every time that they were a couple except at the dorm. Their hands accidentally brushed against each other sending a thousand volts of electricity through their arms. They blushed at the skinship and took a couple of steps away from each other to avoid any possible skinship again.

Why do I suddenly feel weird? They both thought at the same time.

Victoria and Donghae were sketching the outline of the hotel, but they couldn't since they got distracted by looking at Yuri and Jessica. They were saying a few words to each other but they couldn't hear what they said and can only look at them. Victoria was staring at Yuri intensely eyeing every movement she does while Donghae had a guilty look on his face when looking at Jessica.

Yuri sighed. It was two hours into sketching and she and Jessica made every possible ride and stands detailed. She looked at the clock that was placed at the end of the room and saw that it was midnight. It was okay since she didn?t have classes tomorrow, nor did Jessica. Sweat beads were forming on her body and her forehead and her face was getting red. She looked at the end of the room once again and saw the metal looking thing that was hanging on the wall turned on. 

"Gah, the heater is on. No wonder it's so hot," she mumbled to herself.

She took off her white sweater and threw it on the chair next to her. Jessica turned away from the paper and looked at the tanned girl next to her since she heard so much sounds and mumbling. After looking at the younger girl, she couldn't turn away. Yuri was wearing a plain white tank top and saw her neck, collarbone and arms glistening. It didn't get any better since Yuri's tank top was white and nearly transparent because of the sweat. The tank top was sticking to Yuri's slim body and Jessica could easily tell that she was wearing a black bra. 

Jessica quickly looked away and back at the paper and took a deep breath. Her face was beginning to show a shade of red, but no one took notice of it. After a couple of minutes of sketching, both Yuri and Jessica stretched their arms. 

"We are done right?" Yuri asked and Jessica nodded in response. 

Jessica sat on her chair and watched Yuri stretching her body and arms over the table to write a couple of words on the top of the paper. Her tank top was rising with her and her toned abs were showing making Jessica blush once again. 

Don't look... don't look... don't look... Jessica said in her mind, but it didn't cooperate with her since her eyes landed on Yuri's stomach once again. 

She admits that the slim tanned girl was hot, but she keeps telling herself she doesn't swing that way. She looked away once again and stared at her phone to keep herself distracted. She slid open her phone and saw five missed calls and two new messages. 

She opened her call log and saw all the missed calls were from Tiffany. She looked at the digital clock on the screen and saw that the calls were from an hour ago. She opened her messages and they were from Tiffany also. 

From: Tiff

Time: 11:46 PM

Date: April 24, 2010

Y aren't u pickin up ur fone? D: call me back when u get dis msg.

She pressed back on her phone and opened her last unread message.

From: Tiff

Time: 11:52 PM

Date: April 24, 2010

I called u 5x already!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dis is super important!!!!!!!! I went over 2 ur dorm. Where r u & Yuri? Did u 2 do sumthin agn?

She was starting to get annoyed with Tiffany's way of texting. She couldn't read her abbreviations and had to reread the message at least five times to get what her best friend was saying. She called Tiffany to hear what she wanted to say, but the call went straight to her voicemail.

"Aish! What the heck? She calls me and now she doesn't pick up."

Mr. Kwon came over to their side of the table and inspected their sketching of the amusement park.

He laughed a hearty laugh, "As expected of my daughter. Jessica you did a very nice job of drawing."

Jessica quickly put her phone away back inside of her purse and stood up and bowed to Mr. Kwon.

"Thank you President Kwon," she said after bowing.

"Are you kids thirsty or hungry? I will get my secretary to bring some food," he asked.

"It's alright dad. I'll get the stuff," Yuri offered.

"Yuri-ah, it's dangerous out at this time of night."

Yuri sighed and whispered to her father's ears, "Have you forgotten already dad? You trained me to protect myself."

Mr. Kwon chuckled, "Oh~ I forgot already. I'm getting old, Yuri. Bring Jessica along with you, okay?"

Yuri nodded and watched her dad walking towards the other end of the table. She looked over to the blonde who was still standing. 

She grabbed her sweater, "Let's go Sica."

Jessica looked over and glared when she heard her new nickname. She was going to tell the taller girl to stop calling her that again, but she knew she was going to rebel against it and would still call her 'Sica'.

"Why do I have to go?" she asked and crossed her arms.

"Because my dad said so. Now let's go."

Jessica gave up and sighed and followed Yuri out of the room. Both Victoria and Donghae looked up from the paper and eyed the couple. They looked at each other and nodded their heads as if they had a plan all along.

"Mr. Kwon, is it okay if we take a break?" Victoria asked.

Mr. Kwon looked at their paper and nodded.

"Thank you Mr. Kwon. I will be back in five minutes," she said and walked out of the room.

"I am going to go get some fresh air. The heat is killing me," Donghae said and followed Victoria.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri and Jessica were strolling along the sidewalks during the night. They both knew it was dangerous to walk out at this time of the night since it was after midnight, but they went out anyways. Yuri had her sweater slung over her shoulder and she jammed her fists inside of her jean pockets. Even though it was cold and chilly out, she was still feeling hot because of the heat inside of the room. 

Jessica on the other hand was the opposite of Yuri. She was shivering and she hugged her body to get warmth. She looked over to Yuri and saw that she was fine even though she was wearing a tank top.

Is that girl crazy? She's still wearing her tank top in this stupid cold weather. 

They both walked to a nearby 24/7 convenience store and walked inside of the store. 

"Hi Mrs. Kim!" Yuri greeted the owner cheerfully.

Mrs. Kim looked up from the counter and saw the tanned girl smiling.

"Ah Yuri! Are you here to get some snacks?" the owner asked.

"Like always," Yuri smiled and walked to the end of the store to get some snacks and drinks.

Jessica had no choice but to follow her since she didn't know what else to do. After gathering all the items, they walked to the counter and Mrs. Kim slid the items over the scanner.

"Total would be $8.76," she said.

Yuri dug into her pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. Mrs. Kim took the bill and tapped in a few buttons on the cash register before it slid open. She placed the money back in and gave Yuri her chance before looking at the girl next to her.

"Ah, this must be Jessica am I right? Your girlfriend?" she said.

At first Yuri gave a puzzled look to the owner but quickly changed it into a smile after figuring out what she was saying. Jessica was blushing and she turned her head away to hide it.

"Yes, I assume you must've seen the news," Yuri said. 

"Of course I have! Congratulations Yuri."

"Thank you Mrs. Kim. We will be going now. Be safe and I'll see you next time!"

"Walk back safely Yuri and Jessica!" 

They both walked out of the convenience store with two bags of items and made their way back to the company. 

"Ugh, I hate pretending like this," Jessica complained.

"If you don't want to cause conflicts we have to continue doing this."

Jessica was about to say something else until she saw two figures running into the alley. She patted Yuri on the arm repeatedly.

"Hey, hey, did you see that?" she asked.

"See what?" 

"I think someone is s--"

Jessica was cut off by Yuri's phone ringing.

"Who is calling me at this time of the night?" Yuri mumbled and dug into her pocket to get her phone.

She clicked the answer button and placed her phone against her ear, "Taengoo? Why are you calling me at this time?"

"I know you are at the company. Meet me at the park across the company right now."

"It is important," she added.

"Okay, I am on my way."

She hung up her phone and quickened her walking pace to the company.

"Yah! What is the hurry?" Jessica asked as she jogged her way next to Yuri.

Yuri ignored her and walked to the entrance of the company, "Tell my dad that I won't be back until thirty more minutes."

She gave the bags to Jessica walked off before she could say anything else. Jessica stared at the back of her figure, puzzled. She sighed and shook her head before going inside of the company.

-*-*-*-*-

"Oh my gosh, we almost got caught!"

"Don't worry, it's night time. They probably didn't see our faces."

"We got a good scoop though."

They both smiled, "I can't believe they are pretending."

"Our plan is going well. You can get back with Yuri while I can get back with Jessica."

Victoria laughed and placed the digital recorder back in her pocket, "This is really good. Let's go back now."

They both walked back to the company smiling. They actually planned this all along ever since they step foot into the company. Donghae knew he still had some feelings for Jessica despite the time he treated Jessica badly. He had some doubts about the two dating and now that they had evidence, his doubts were real.

Victoria was the same like Yuri. She never thought she would see Yuri again, but once she heard about the company's working together, she immediately assigned herself as Donghae's assistant. Despite her break up with Yuri, she still wanted to get back together with her even though she got played on.

Victoria was on her way to her girlfriend's house. She wanted to surprise the girl once she arrived in Korea from China. She kept contact with Yuri by emailing with her and webcamming with her and every time she saw her face, she wanted to go back to Korea right away.

She reached the front of Yuri's house and greeted the workers there. Everyone knew their relationship with Yuri and congratulated them. She felt happy knowing that no one would dare go between them since everyone knew. 

"Ms. Victoria welcome back. Ms. Yuri has a visitor upstairs. I just like to inform you beforehand," Yuri's butler said.

Victoria nodded and walked up the spiral staircase. She walked to Yuri's room and opened the room without knocking on the door. 

She pushed the door wider, "SURPRIS--"

She gasped. Her eyes were wide and her mouth was left hanging. She knew that this would come since Yuri had a reputation of a player. 

On her bed were Yuri and another girl sleeping together. She knew that they had sex since Yuri's back was revealed and she was naked under the covers. Before any one of them could wake up, Victoria ran down the stairs and out of the house in tears. 

After that day, she called Yuri and broke up with her. 

Victoria grimaced at the thought of her catching Yuri with another girl. She knew she still had feelings for Yuri and regretted breaking up with her. She tried to make them go away by dating other people, but Yuri had a special place in her heart. The only way that the burden of her heart would be lifted was to make Yuri hers again.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked to the park and saw a figure on the swings. She squinted to see who was on the swings since the streetlight was flickering.

"Taengoo?" she asked just to make sure she was there.

The small figure stood up and made her way towards Yuri.

"Yuri," she said.

"Hey. What is it that you want to talk about at..." she looked at her phone, "2 AM?"

"This is serious."

"What is it?"

"He's alive."

Yuri dropped her phone and looked at Taeyeon in shock. She knew who she was talking about. 

Who else they knew would have died?

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Chapter 10 - Cinderella Game

"You are kidding me right?" Yuri asked in disbelief.

She picked up her phone but didn't put the battery and back cover back on.

"I knew you would doubt this happen. Actually everyone would. I took some pictures," Taeyeon said.

She slid her phone upwards and showed the images to Yuri. Yuri took the phone out of Taeyeon's hands and mashed the buttons on the phone at the speed of lightning.

"That's impossible... He was dead in the hospital!" She dropped her hands and stared at Taeyeon.

"I did some research before I came here. It seems like Siwon actually lived through the tragedy accident. For how he managed to get out of the hospital, I don't know."

Yuri handed Taeyeon her phone back and stared up at the night sky. 

"He seems to have a connection with Tiffany. Since Tiffany is best friends with Jessica, they are probably friends."

Taeyeon continued, "I'm going to have to keep a good eye on him. I know he had a relationship with Tiffany before. He's back Yuri and he is up to no good."

Yuri sat on the swings and covered her face with her hands. "Just when I thought we got rid of him."

"Wait," she blurted out and uncovered her face.

Taeyeon turned her head and looked at Yuri with a questioning look.

"If he's alive and back in Korea then that means..." 

Both Taeyeon and Yuri gasped and had a look of horror on their face. "She's back."

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany sat in her room, still not believing that her ex-boyfriend was alive. After a year and a half, she finally saw him again. What she noticed about him that's changed was his outer appearance, of course. After he asked her out on a date, she quickly called Jessica to tell her all about the impossibilities, but her best friend never picked up.

She lay down on her belly and hugged her pillow. She smiled to herself at the thought of getting back with her ex. The only reason that they were separated was death. Everyone accepted their relationship. Even the nation did.

ne haendeupon sumanheun namjan han geuljaman bakkun yeoja

She picked up her phone and answered cheerfully, "Hello?"

"You called me and you didn't pick up your phone. What is up with your voice?" The voice on the other line said coldly.

"Jess~ I found him!" She squealed.

"Found who?"

"You know... Siwon oppa."

Right when she said that, there was a moment of silence. Tiffany thought that Jessica was going into shock of disbelief.

"Hello? Hello? Jess? Helloooo~~~ Are you there?" 

She looked at her phone and saw that her best friend had hung up on her. She pouted and threw her phone on the other side of the bed. 

"I wonder how he is suddenly alive. Did God give him a second chance?" She said to herself while placing her hands under her chin and kicking her feet up in the air.

-*-*-*-*-

When Tiffany thought that Jessica was going into shock, she really was. Jessica was still outside of the company building when she decided to call Tiffany. When she heard all of the blasphemy her best friend told her, she accidentally dropped her phone causing the back cover and the battery to fall out.

"No way..." she said in a low voice.

She leaned against the wall and scoffed. How can that man be alive? He's no good for Tiff.

Though everyone was against Siwon, Jessica knew Tiffany would still love him no matter what she heard about the man.

She crouched down onto the floor and picked up her phone parts. She put the pieces back together and turned on her phone waiting for the screen to light up.

"Hey Princess!" a familiar voice called.

Jessica closed her eyes and took a deep breath. There was that nickname again that she never wanted to be called. She stood up, opened her eyes and turned to the owner of the voice.

"What do you want?" she said coldly.

"You know, you should really get rid of that cold tone of yours. Then maybe you would have had more friends."

"Cut it out and get straight to the point. I don't need your stupid lecture."

Donghae smirked. "I want you to get back together with me."

Jessica let out the most hysteric laughter she has ever laughed. "Are you kidding me?" She walked up towards him. "Me? Get back together with you?"

"Not even if it cost my life," she said in her normal cold tone and walked away.

"I have evidence of your fake relationship with Yuri."

He held up the digital voice recorder and waved it in the air. Jessica turned around and stared at the metal box.

He took small steps towards her. "If you get back together with me, I won't release this to the press."

Jessica scoffed. "What the heck is this? Now you are blackmailing me?" 

A rotten smirk was plastered on Donghae's face. "Hey, I said I have evidence."

He pressed play on the voice recorder as Jessica strained her ears to listen. 

"Ugh, I hate pretending like this."

"If you don't want to cause conflicts we have to continue doing this."

"I don't know what you are saying. I'm together with Yuri and that thing right there," she pointed to the digital recorder, "does not say anything about us being fake."

She smiled to herself once she saw Donghae's defeated expression. Good job Jessica. You defeated him.

"Yes it does. Why else would you be pretending? This 'thing right here' is a digital recorder. It easily distinguishes yours and Yuri's voices."

While Donghae was smiling in triumph once again and Jessica feeling defeated, they heard footsteps coming towards them. They both turned their heads to the direction of the park and saw Yuri and Victoria running towards them.

Yuri had a metal thing in her hand while she was running towards the two. She ran in front of Donghae and snatched the digital recorder out of his hands easily and threw both of them against the wall. The recorder fell down to the ground broken in pieces, sparks flying out of them.

"Evidence my ass," she muttered while panting.

"I'm sorry Donghae. I tried to stop her," Victoria said while bending over with her hands on her knees.

Yuri walked over to Donghae. She clutched onto the collar of his shirt tightly.

"I'm not surprised that you already figured everything out. You have no evidence now and you don't have the right to tell my father, your father, Jessica's father or anyone else about me and Jessica being fake." She pushed him to the wall, still holding onto his shirt.

"If you and Victoria ever do something like this again, I will seriously kick your ass. Consider yourself lucky that I don't want to cause a scene in front of the building where my father can see from above," she hissed and let go of his shirt.

She gave him and Victoria one last look before walking into the company building with Jessica. 

"I knew we shouldn't have gone to them separately. Yuri would do something like this," Donghae mumbled while smoothing out his shirt.

"Sorry Donghae," Victoria apologized once more.

"It's alright. They are not going to stay hidden forever."

-*-*-*-*-

Since the girls didn't have classes today, Taeyeon decided to go out. She walked through the courtyard and passed the buildings and saw that other people were in class. Ahead of her was boys walking around and she assumed that the boy side of the university was out on their break or passing period.

A couple with a group of boys caught her eye. Feeling suspicious, she hid behind a tree to listen to their conversation.

"I didn't know you go to Dong Bang University," the girl said.

The boy next to her smiled. "Well I didn't know you go to SoShi University."

"It's amazing how you are here again Siwon oppa."

Siwon smiled wider. "I like being here with you too, Tiffany."

A group of boys walked over to the two.

"Hey Siwon! Is this your girlfriend that you were talking about?" A boy asked.

Siwon looked up and grinned. "Yep, I know you know her. This is Tiffany Hwang."

Tiffany stood up and bowed. "Hello, my name is Tiffany Hwang. Nice you meet you."

The boys then smiled and introduced themselves also.

"I'm Hankyung."

"I'm Eunhyuk."

"I'm Leeteuk."

"I'm Ryeowook."

"And I'm Sungmin!"

The boys all smiled and couldn't control their laughter.

"Well, me and Tiffany are going to go on a date." He stood up and winked at the boys.

They both walked away towards the exit of the campus.

"So, she must be the Cinderella that Siwon is playing on," Hankyung said while holding onto the strap of his backpack.

"You saw the signal Siwon gave us. He's doing it tonight," Eunhyuk said while cleaning the lens of his camcorder.

The boys laughed. "The girl is a fool for falling in love with him. She has no idea what Siwon have been doing all this long."

They walked away to their classes in laughter. Taeyeon punched the tree she was hiding behind with the back of her fist.

"I knew it..." 

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri sighed. She was laying on her bed clad only in a black bra and white short shorts. Only reason she was dressed like this was it was hot or she just felt like it because her room was private.

She saw her phone vibrating on the night stand and picked it up.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Yuri, I need you right over the company right now. Bring Jessica along." 

The person on the other line hung up before Yuri could even protest. She groaned. She hates it when her father orders her to do something when she doesn't even get a chance to talk about it. She lay in bed for a few more minutes until a knock on the door interrupted her rest.

"Come in!" She called, not bothering to put on a shirt.

"Yah Kwon, we got to get to your-- KYAHHH!!!!! PUT ON A SHIRT!"

Yuri jumped up and looked over her shoulder at the door. She saw Jessica holding onto the doorknob while her other hand was covering her eyes.

She sighed and put on a t-shirt that was hugging her body showing off her curves. "Acting all innocent."

"Are you done?" Jessica asked.

"Yes Ms. Innocent," Yuri said and walked over to her.

Jessica glared at her. "I just don't like to see a half naked person on bed."

"Really?" Yuri titled her head. "You are going to see one every day then."

Jessica gasped. She opened her mouth to say something, but the words got caught in her throat when she saw Yuri leaning in towards her face. She was getting closer making Jessica close her eyes while her lips were still parted. Yuri smirked at the sight.

"Why are your eyes closed?" She whispered, her breath lightly hitting Jessica's face.

Jessica's eyes shot open. "Uh... It's nothing."

She dashed out of the dorm before Yuri could even say anything. Yuri giggled at the sight.

"She was totally waiting for a kiss."

-*-*-*-*-

"Hi dad!" Yuri came barging into her father's office with Jessica walking behind her coolly.

"Yuri, I need you and Jessica to inspect this amusement park that the Choi's possessed. It's closed right now, but I think his son is using it for his date," her father said.

"Inspect? I thought we were building one," Yuri asked.

"I know, but the Choi's might be able to sell this property to us. Then we may be able to make the amusement park a better one than before."

Yuri nodded. "Okay I'll go over right now."

"You don't have to drive, by the way. It's just five blocks from here."

Yuri nodded once again and left.

"We will be back President Kwon," Jessica politely said and walked away.

Once they stepped out of the building, Yuri spoke up. "You could make a good actress."

Jessica looked up at her. "What do you mean?"

"Your cold tone and now your polite tone. You could easily fool someone."

"You sound so much like him." Jessica increased her walking pace, wanting to get away from the tanned girl.

Yuri grimaced and mumbled to herself. "Well geez. Can't people sound the same?"

-*-*-*-*-

"I had a great time with you, oppa," Tiffany said once they stepped out of the restaurant.

"I had a great time with you too." Siwon smiled.

He looked at his wristwatch and saw that he had a lot of time left.

"I guess I'll be going now." Tiffany started walking away.

He looked away from his watch and grabbed her arm. "Wait. It's just eleven thirty. Do you want to visit this place with me?"

Tiffany looked at his hand on her arm and then his face. Siwon saw the look on her face and quickly let go of her arm.

He rubbed the back of his neck. "Ah sorry. I guess I'm used to doing that now."

"No it's okay. I guess I'll visit this place of yours then."

"Great!" Siwon smiled and led the way to a closed amusement park.

What they both didn't know was that Taeyeon was following them all along. She promised to herself and Yuri that she would keep an eye on Siwon in case he was planning something bad and he was. She kept a distance between her and them just to make sure she didn?t get caught.

-*-*-*-*-

"Here we are," Siwon said.

Tiffany looked around with a confused face. The place was closed down and the lights were off. Just when she was about to speak up, the lights turned on. The lights on the Merry-Go-Round ride turned around and a melody played. Tiffany twirled around and smiled brightly at the beautiful lights.

"I reserved this place just for us. My father owns this amusement park."

"Wow! It looks very nice." 

Siwon grabbed Tiffany's hand and led her up the steps. He stopped which caused Tiffany to stop and he looked deeply into her eyes. He held up both of her hands close to his chest.

"Tiffany, ever since I was in the hospital I was scared to death thinking that I would be gone and that I would never see you again. Luckily, my father got the best doctors in Korea to help me with my injuries and I managed to live through the surgery." He smiled the warmest smile Tiffany has ever seen. 

He looked down and saw that Tiffany was wearing the necklace that he gave her on their 1st anniversary. He smiled to himself. I'm sorry that you had to play this game with me.

On top of the Merry-Go-Round was a clock. It had struck midnight and a bell was chiming. The lights turned off and the rides stopped working. Tiffany looked up and around her wondering what?s going on. From every corner, a boy dressed in school uniforms stepped out laughing.

Tiffany stepped away from Siwon and looked at the boys around her. She made out that they were the boys that she met earlier with Siwon.

"Siwon oppa? What's going on?" She asked slightly scared while staring at him.

Siwon was chuckling to himself. He dropped his hands to his side and his head was down. He looked up and let out a boisterous laughter to the sky. By then, the boys reached the two and circled them.

"Siwon oppa?"

"I won Tiffany. All this time when we were dating you were playing a game."

Tiffany looked at him with a puzzled look. "What are you talking about?"

Siwon ignored her and snapped his fingers. "You can play with her all you want guys."

He pushed through the boys and walked away.

"Wait! Siwon oppa!" Tiffany shouted and tried to get past through the boys, but they blocked her path.

"Don't even try Tiffany! My boys are black belts in karate!" Siwon shouted from far away.

The boys were smiling and laughing to themselves.

"Hey Eunhyuk, get the video camera ready."

They were touching her in several of places while Tiffany was trying to back away from them, but couldn't. Eunhyuk was behind the boys while video cording the scene upon him. Taeyeon was watching on the side while dialing a number on her phone. After a few rings, the person she was trying to reach wasn't picking up.

"Sh*t," she cursed.

Guess I'll have to do it myself. She thought.

She placed her phone back into her pocket and ran towards the boys. She tried to make no sounds just so she came make the boys unaware of her. She ran up the steps and grabbed the closest boy next to her, spun him around and punched him square on the face. He fell down and held onto his face.

"What the heck is this girl doing here?" 

Everyone turned around and saw her.

"Yah! What the heck do you think you are doing here? Now that you saw this, we won't let you off so easily." 

Taeyeon walked up to them and threw the boy that was marching towards her. He fell, rolled down the steps and groaned in pain. 

The boy that was behind him hissed, "Why you..."

He threw a fist at Taeyeon, but she caught it and kneed him right in his groin area. The rest of the boys came and charged towards her and she tried her best to hold them up, but she couldn't. Just before the boys came and pounce on her, she ran past them and grabbed Tiffany's hand.

"RUN TIFFANY!" She screamed when one of the boys spun her around and punches her on the face.

Tiffany ran down the steps and saw the boys beating Taeyeon up. She bit down on her lip and wanted to run back and help Taeyeon, but she already saw the boys finished up with her. She gasped and ran away just before they could turn around and find her.

Taeyeon lied on the floor beaten up. Blood was dripping from the corner of her mouth and her eyes were closed. One of the boys kicked her right on her stomach knocking the wind out of her. She groaned in pain and clenched her teeth. She was too weak. She broke her promise of protecting Tiffany and keeping an eye on Siwon, but she just stood back and looked at them.

The boys looked at her in disgust before walking away to find Tiffany.

"Yuri..." Taeyeon mumbled. "Hurry up and find Tiffany."

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri and Jessica almost made it to the amusement park before something struck Yuri in the head.

"Ah! What the heck was that?" she mumbled to herself and held onto her head.

She looked around her and found nothing on the floor that was possible enough to have hit her in the head.

Jessica looked back. "What's wrong with you?"

Yuri said nothing but continued walking. They finally made it at the amusement park and saw that someone already came here. She squinted when she saw an unusual lump on the floor.

"What's that?" she asked.

"What's what?" Jessica asked in returned.

She slowly took a couple of more steps into the amusement park and gasped.

"TAEYEON!"

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Chapter 11 - Cinderella Game Part 2

Both Yuri and Jessica ran to Taeyeon as quickly as they can. Yuri picked her up and laid her on her lap. She cupped both of her cheeks and shook her to wake Taeyeon up.

“Taeng, Taeng, wake up!” Yuri screamed.

She has never seen Taeyeon like this before. Taeyeon was always the strong one. She never cried, she never got beaten up and she never gives a damn about someone.

“Who did this to you?” Yuri mumbled, tears welling up in her eyes. 

Jessica stood next to them and bit down on her thumb. She has never seen Taeyeon like this either. Actually, she has never seen someone like this. 

Who would do this? She thought.

Taeyeon opened her eyes and saw Yuri on the verge of crying.

“Yuri…” she tried to say, but coughed.

“Taeng, don’t talk for awhile,” Yuri said.

“No… Find Tiffany…” Taeyeon said hoarsely.

“Tiffany?”

“Tiff?”

Both Yuri and Jessica asked simultaneously.

“Siwon…” was all Taeyeon said before she passed out once again.

Yuri stared at Taeyeon as if she was a ghost. So Siwon planned all of this? 

She carefully laid Taeyeon back onto the floor.

“Jessica stay here,” she said and walked down the steps.

“Wait Yuri!” Jessica called and grabbed her arm.

Yuri turned around and stared at her. “Stay here and watch Taeng. I have to find Tiffany.”

Jessica let go of Yuri and watched her run away and hopped through one of the entrances. She walked back up the steps and crouched down next to Taeyeon.

Please save Tiff, Yuri. 

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany ran past bushes, trees, and buildings as fast as she could. While she was running and looking behind her, she tripped over a pavement and scraped her knee.

“Dang it!” she cursed and saw the high heels she wore was broken.

She tried to slip it back on but then she heard the voices of the boys calling for her.

“Tiffany!”

“Tiffany where are you?”

“Tiffany you can’t hide forever!”

She grabbed her heels and jumped over a rail. She hid behind a bush and closed her eyes praying that they didn’t find her. The boys were getting closer and closer and they finally walk passed her. Tiffany let out a sigh of relief before standing up and finding her way to get out of the amusement park. 

She ran past an alley and saw half of the boys ahead of her.

“No…” she mumbled.

She turned back and tried to run away from the direction she came from, but the other group of boys was walking towards her.

They were laughing once again while getting closer to Tiffany. 

Someone… please save me!

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany was struggling to get away from the grip of the boys, but couldn’t. They threw her to the floor in front of Siwon. Siwon stood still with his fists jammed into his pockets.

He chuckled. “I’m surprised Taeyeon actually came here.”

He looked to the area where his boys beat her up and saw a blonde next to her.

“And oh? Jessica too?” 

“Sorry Tiffany, but if someone were to save you right now it would never happen. My boys beat up Taeyeon and that means no one else could save you.” The boys laughed and hi-fived each other.

“Really?” A familiar and husky voice said.

Everyone turned their heads to the sound of the voice.

“Just because Taeng got beat up doesn’t mean no one else could have saved her.”

The figure walked closer to the group not scared of what was going to happen to her. 

“What are you doing here Yuri?”

“Doing a good cause.” She stared down at Tiffany who was still on the ground.

“Yuri…” she mumbled.

Siwon scoffed. “Good cause? Nothing is good when it’s coming from you.”

Yuri laughed. “Hey Siwon. Do you know what ‘inappropriate’ means in English?” 

Siwon looked at her as if she was the dumbest person on earth. “It means bad and wrong.”

“Right. And guess what are you doing right now?”

Siwon clenched his teeth and didn’t respond. He knew where this was going. Yuri walked up to one of the boys and grabbed the back of his neck.

“You are doing something ‘inappropriate’. According to my dictionary.” She threw the boy to the ground.

“Look who’s talking.”

“Hey, at least I don’t make girls fall in love with me and then have a group of people play with her.”

“That does it… Boys get her!”

Immediately, the boys came charging at Yuri throwing their fists or legs at her. Yuri dodged all of the careless moves the boys made. She punched one boy in the face, threw two of them against the fence, threw a roundhouse kick to the side of the boys head, and finished off the rest of the boys with her karate skills. 

The boys lied on the floor lifelessly. Blood was coming out from the corner of their mouths and bruises were forming on their bodies. She grabbed Siwon who was the only one left standing and kneed him in the stomach. He groaned and tried to punch Yuri, but Yuri dodged it and kicked him right in the face. Siwon fell to the floor and lay with the rest of the boys that were beaten up.

She dusted her hands and placed it on her hip.

“Ah, they ripped my shirt.” She pouted. 

She looked around for Tiffany and found her sitting against the wall. 

“Hey Tiffany, let’s go.” She grabbed her hand and pulled her up.

Tiffany tried to walk, but immediately fell against Yuri.

“Are you okay?” Yuri asked.

They both looked down at Tiffany’s feet and saw that a bruise was forming on her ankle and her knee covered up with blood.

“I think I sprained my ankle.”

“We’ll treat it once we get Taeng to the hospital,” Yuri said.

“Taeyeon?” A guilty look was forming on Tiffany’s face. “Is she okay?”

“I don’t know. Siwon’s boys beat her up pretty badly. It was the worse I had ever seen from her, but she could live through it. She’s strong.” Yuri flashed a reassuring smile. “Can you walk?”

Tiffany tried to walk but then she immediately fell onto Yuri’s arms again.

“No.” Tiffany frowned.

“Umm… okay. Hold on.” Yuri picked up Tiffany causing her to squeal.

Tiffany automatically threw her arms around Yuri’s neck while Yuri was carrying her.

“Don’t squeal, hit me or try to say that you can walk. Your stubborn best friend has done the same thing,” Yuri said.

“Jess?” Tiffany asked and Yuri nodded in response.

After a moment of silence she spoke up. “Thanks for saving me Yuri.”

Yuri smiled in response and continued walking to where the other two was.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica was still next to Taeyeon not knowing what to do. She saw the sky getting clear and bright and realized that morning was coming. She heard footsteps coming towards her. She turned her head and saw Yuri walking towards her with Tiffany in her arms. For some reason, that image made her heart ache. 

“I found her.” Yuri smiled.

“I think I’ll be able to hop on one foot. Jess can help me,” Tiffany said.

Yuri nodded and placed her back down onto the floor. Tiffany held onto Jessica for support causing Jessica to automatically hold onto her waist. Yuri turned around, picked up Taeyeon and placed her on her back.

“Let’s get going,” she said and led the way back.

While they were walking away, up at the top of the steps a body was moving. Siwon lifted his head up and a shimmering metal weapon was in his hands. Blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth and his left arm was broken. He raised the switchblade while looking at the four disappearing from them.

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany and Jessica were in Taeyeon’s hospital room after her process in the emergency room. The doctor has said that she only had a few minor injuries on her face and body and would be able to be discharged in a couple of days after healing. Jessica and Tiffany sat by the Taeyeon while Yuri was out of the hospital trying to fix up a couple of things.

They both looked at Taeyeon’s figure. Taeyeon was sleeping on the bed with the oxygen masked wrapped around her face. Her arms were strapped with the IV, her left arm had a cast on it and her head was bandaged. 

Tiffany looked at her with watery eyes. If she didn’t have come to the place with Siwon, none of this would have happened. She put the blame on herself because of Taeyeon’s condition.

“I’m sorry… It’s my entire fault,” she cried.

“Tiff it’s not your fault. It’s that god damn boy’s fault,” Jessica said while rubbing her back. 

Yuri barged into the room panting and gaining attention from the two. Luckily, she didn’t wake Taeyeon up.

“Can you get any louder? Taeyeon is sleeping,” Jessica scolded.

“Sorry.” Yuri gulped and took a seat at the couch that was in front of Taeyeon’s bed trying to breathe for air. 

“What happen to you? You look like a mess.”

Yuri came back with her shirt even more ripped. Sweat was all over her mixing with the dirt on her body.

“Nothing. I just ran into a… person I’ve known for a long time,” Yuri said to calm down the two that was worrying over her.

Jessica and Tiffany looked away from her and back to Taeyeon. Her arm was slightly moving and she was mumbling something, but it was inaudible.

“Hey her arm is moving!” Jessica said.

Tiffany stood up from her chair and leaned against the handrail that was set up by the side of the bed so Taeyeon won’t fall when she’s sleeping. She stared at Taeyeon hoping that she would wake up and that she would be okay.

“Taeyeon… please be okay…” she mumbled.

She held onto Taeyeon’s right hand and caressed the back of her hand with her thumb. Jessica looked at the sight and smiled slightly. It wasn’t a surprise that Tiffany was doing such a thing. She was always the friendly caring person and what Siwon just did to her, she didn’t deserve it.

“Siwon… I will… kill… you…”

Both Tiffany and Jessica looked at Taeyeon’s face in hope that she was awake, but realized she was only sleep talking. They both sighed and looked back to whatever they were looking at. Suddenly, they heard a loud crash which startled both of them.

“What was that?” Tiffany asked.

Jessica looked over to where Yuri was suppose to be, but couldn’t find her. She then looked to the door and saw that it was closed. She stood up and slowly walked to the foot of Taeyeon’s bed and screamed.

“YURI!” She ran over to her and crouched down next to her.

Yuri lied on the ground and her shirt was all bloody. Tiffany stood up at the sound of Jessica’s scream and ran over to where she was. She gasped and placed her hand over her mouth. Jessica lifted up the back of Yuri’s shirt slightly and saw the wound on her lower right back.

“Tiff… Tiff, go call the nurse.” Jessica’s lips quivered.

Tiffany immediately dashed out of the room and went to go call a nearby nurse.

“Yuri… what the heck happened to you?” Jessica shook Yuri lightly.

Jessica felt guilty for screaming at Yuri earlier when she had a weary expression on her face. She should’ve noticed the dirt and sweat on her body and that her shirt had gotten even more ripped. Blood was dripping from the wound making its way down to the floor, staining it. Jessica panicked even more and hoped that the nurse would come as soon as possible. 

Tiffany ran into the room with a nurse and a doctor following her. They both saw Yuri on the floor lying in her own blood and immediately called for help to lift her up. Help came and they put Yuri onto one of the stretchers. After placing her on the stretcher, they rolled her to the emergency room.

“Tiff, I’ll go check up on her. You stay with Taeyeon,” Jessica said and followed the doctor.

Tiffany went back and sat down on her chair that was seated by Taeyeon. It has been three hours since Taeyeon was already in the hospital and none of the girls were getting any sleep except for Taeyeon. Tiffany’s eyes were feeling heavy and wanted to close, but Tiffany fought to keep them open. It wasn’t until later that Tiffany closed her eyes and laid her head by Taeyeon’s hand, drifting into sleep.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica sat on the chairs outside of the emergency room with tears in her eyes. She felt guilty for not watching over Yuri and not asking her where she was going because she kept her ice princess pride and decided to be cold towards her. If only she saw the weariness in her eyes and maybe inspected her body more for why she was panting, then she would’ve rushed her to the doctor faster.

It was before she knew it that tears were streaming down her cheeks and landing onto her hands that were folded on her lap. It was the first time in a long time that she ever cried for someone. The last time she cried for someone, she regretted it deeply since it was her ex-boyfriend. She wiped her tears and looked up at the ceiling to prevent it from falling down. 

The emergency door room opened and out came Yuri on the bed rolling out from the room. The doctors and nurses were holding onto the rail of the bed rolling Yuri to a room. Jessica stood up and asked the nearest doctor if she was okay. The doctor continued walking but explained the process to Jessica making her follow the doctor.

“Kwon Yuri suffered a fatal injury on her lower right back, but she made it through the process. The only way for her to suffer such an injury is that someone must have stabbed her,” the doctor said while speeding up his pace.

“She will be okay right?” Jessica asked.

“Yes she would be okay. It’s a good thing she has a strong healthy body. If not then she could be… you know…”

Jessica grimaced and nodded as if she understood.

“Aren’t you Jessica Jung the daughter of Jung Sungmin? It’s nice that you stayed here to wait for your girlfriend, Kwon Yuri,” the doctor said and smiled.

Jessica politely smiled in return. Too bad we are not together like people think.

The doctors had put Yuri in the same room as Taeyeon since the room was a two patient room and one spot was open. The beds were next to each other, but they were separated by a drawer and curtains.

“Patient Kwon Yuri is treated already and she will be able to wake up in a couple of hours,” the doctor said. “As for patient Kim Taeyeon, she should be able to wake up in about an hour. If not thirty minutes.” 

“Now if you would excuse me I have to go save other lives.” The doctor smiled and walked out of the room.

Jessica slowly walked over to Yuri’s bed and sat down next to her. She sighed and stared at Yuri’s figure. Yuri was almost the same as Taeyeon. She had the oxygen mask wrapped around her face, but only her lower back was bandaged. She looked like she was sleeping peacefully, but no one would sleep peacefully with such an injury. 

She looked behind her and saw Tiffany sleeping with her head on the bed. Taeyeon didn’t wake up yet so she turned her head back to look at Yuri. For some reason she felt like she was responsible of the injury for Yuri. She reached out for Yuri’s face and pushed her bangs aside. After noticing what she was doing, she quickly withdrew her hand back and leaned back against the chair.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon’s eyes slowly opened. She looked around her surroundings and tried to get up, but the straps on her arms won’t let her. After lying back down for a few seconds, her eyes finally adjusted to the lights. She finally found out what had happened to her and where she was. She took off the oxygen mask and tried to sit up, but the pain in her head caused her to fall back down on the bed.

Tiffany eyes fluttered open due to the noise and disturbance of her sleep. She lifted up her head and saw Taeyeon struggling to get up.

“Taeyeon you need to rest.” She stood up from her chair and placed Taeyeon back down onto the bed.

Jessica turned away from Yuri’s bed and saw Tiffany caring for Taeyeon. She got up from her chair and walked over to Taeyeon’s bed.

“What happened?” Taeyeon asked.

“You got beaten up by the boys when you tried to save me,” Tiffany said.

Taeyeon sighed and closed her eyes. If only I wasn’t weak during that time.

She opened her eyes once again and looked around the room trying to look for the tanned girl. She looked to the other side of the room and saw that it was blocked by a curtain.

“Where is Yuri?” She asked.

Both Jessica’s and Tiffany’s expression worsen and they looked at each other.

“What is up with your guy’s expression? Is she not here?” 

“No. It turns out that she had a pretty bad injury. She’s on the other side of the room,” Jessica said and walked over to the other side of the room and push the curtains aside.

Taeyeon looked over to where Jessica was and saw Yuri lying there on the hospital bed.

“Yuri…” she mumbled and tried to get up. “Ugh, what the heck is all this wires on me?” 

She looked over to the other side of the room again and felt a weird feeling at the pit of her stomach.

“What happened to her?” She asked.

“I don’t know. The doctor said that maybe the cause of her injury might be because someone stabbed her,” Jessica said.

She continued, “We’ll have to ask her when she wakes up.”

Taeyeon lay back down on the bed, closed her eyes and sighed. She told herself a long time ago to never get her best friend hurt, but she went back on her words. It seems like not everything can go as planned.

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Chapter 12 - Unexpected Guest

Yuri walked out of the hospital after sending Taeyeon in. She wanted to get some fresh air so she excused herself from Tiffany and Jessica. She strolled against the sidewalk in the early morning not minding the few joggers staring at her since her shirt was ripped and her face was dirtied. 

She walked a few blocks away from the hospital and settled down at a park. She sat down on the bench facing the streets and her back facing the park. She breathed in the air of the early morning and exhaled. It was a good feeling like it was during night time. She closed her eyes and sat up straight to savor the morning.

She heard footsteps behind her, but she didn’t mind it since she thought it was one of those early morning joggers. 

She was wrong though.

Her eyes shot open when she felt a sharp pain on her lower right back. She groaned in pain. She hasn’t experience a painful feeling like this. She reached for her back and felt the surface of something cold and metal. The weapon was pulled out from her back causing her to scream in pain. She fell off the benches and turned around to see who would do such a thing.

Right in front of her was the last person she wanted to see. She saw Siwon with his cut up and bloody face holding a switchblade that was dirtied with her own blood.

“Siwon…” she mumbled weakly.

She got up slowly and stumbled but kept her composure. Her arms dangled and she was panting making her look like a zombie who just came from the dead. She mustered up all her strength to jump on the bench and stepped on Siwon’s face, hard. Siwon didn’t bother fighting back since his energy was draining. 

Yuri gave him one last kick to the back of his head and he fell face first onto the floor knocked out cold. She held onto the bench to keep her balance. The wound was getting worse and the blood was staining her shirt. It was trickling down her skin and onto her pants making it wet and sticky.

After taking one big deep breath, she gathered up all her strength and ran back towards the hospital.

Yuri’s eyes shot open. She tried to get up, but the IV was stabbing against her skin making her scream but it was muffled by the oxygen mask. She reached for the mask, took it off and sighed. She got up slowly to avoid getting stabbed. Her face and body was sweating due to the flashback she just had in her dream. She looked down and saw that the doctors didn’t even bother changing her bloody clothes. Her clothes were sticking to her body due to the sweat and she felt her body on fire due to the heat. 

She looked to her right and saw a blonde head sleeping on the bed. She squinted to see who it was, but realized that the only blonde head she knew or the only blonde head in the area she lived in was Jessica. She looked further to her right and saw half of a body while the other half was covered by the curtains. 

Feeling like she was trapped on the bed and her freedom was taken away; she ripped the wires off of her not caring about the beeping machine. She got off the bed slowly to avoid the pain on her lower back. She walked to the other side of the room while holding onto the things near her to keep her balance. 

She saw Taeyeon on the hospital bed still in her slumber and right next to her was Tiffany who was also sleeping. She looked at the clock hanging on the wall and saw that it was nine thirty in the morning. After taking one last look at the three people, she made her way out of the room and closed the door quietly so that she wouldn’t wake them up, although the beeping machine did the job.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica was dreaming about a normal girl’s fairytale dream. Her meeting her prince charming, them falling in love then they get married and eventually kiss. But it all got ruined by something beeping.

She kept moving her head from side to side trying to block out the beeping noise. She kept thinking why is something beeping in her dream and why couldn’t she control it. She opened her eyes, looked up and saw the disrupter.

She groaned, stood up and walked over to try to shut up the machine. She squinted at the machine since she wasn’t fully awake and pressed the silence button. She was about to go back to sleep again until she remembered that there used to be a body on a bed.

“Wait… who was it…?” she mumbled to herself.

She closed her eyes and scratched the back of her head trying to remember who the person on the bed was. 

Finally, realization has struck her as she clapped her hands when she finally remembered.

“Where the hell is she?” She panicked and looked around the room.

She walked over to Taeyeon’s side of the room and saw her and her best friend still sleeping. She looked at the clock that was hanging on the wall and saw that it was ten thirty. She ran inside the bathroom to check if the tanned girl was there, but she wasn’t. Then she ran out of the room since that’s the only place where Yuri could have gone unless she would have jumped out of the window but it was the 9th floor.

She ran down the halls looking for the tanned girl. After a few minutes, she stopped at the corridor to catch her breath. She placed one hand on the wall while the other was on her knee. She looked up and started to run again to search for Yuri. She mentally slapped herself for falling asleep and not watching her. 

“Yuri where are you…?” She said inaudibly and ran outside of the hospital.

The sun was bright and the sky was clear. Birds were chirping and the leaves of the trees were swaying with the light wind. She placed a hand over her eyes to block out the sun and continue searching for Yuri. She ran to the park that was near the hospital and searched for her there. 

She dropped her hand to her side and looked at the tanned figure that was nearly sleeping on the bench. She sighed and sat down next to Yuri. She leaned in closer to Yuri’s face to check if she was breathing normally and she was. She lightly placed two fingers on Yuri’s neck to check if it was beating.

Yuri jolted at the light touch and opened her eyes. She looked to her right and saw Jessica who didn’t notice she was awake. She was too focused on trying to find the beating on Yuri’s neck.

“What are you doing?” She asked when she felt Jessica touching all over her neck.

Jessica looked up and backed away noticing the close distance they were in. 

“I just wanted to see if you were alive,” she replied.

Yuri stood up, twirled around and stood in front of Jessica. She bended down a little to get to Jessica’s eye level.

“Whoa, someone is suddenly caring for me.” She smiled.

Jessica scoffed and crossed her arms. “You wish. My care for you is just the same as everyone else and that means I have no care for you.”

Yuri pretended to be surprised by placing her hand over her mouth and widening her eyes.

“Oh my… You are so heartless!” She rolled her eyes and stared at Jessica again. “You know you should really start caring for someone. Maybe then you are more likeable.”

“As if.” Jessica nibbled on her bottom lip. “People would think I’m weird if I change all of a sudden.”

She narrowed her eyes at Yuri. “Wait. Why are you telling me this? I don’t expect you to like me.”

Yuri shrugged. “I was just saying…”

“Anyways, you have to get back to the hospital now.”

“Why? The hospital is so stuffy and hot. Out here is better.”

Jessica glared and shouted at her. “Just get back to the hospital right now… N.O.W!”

Yuri flinched and looked around the park to see if any people heard them. Luckily no one did since it was just the morning and kids were at school.

“Alright geez.” Yuri pouted and marched her way towards the hospital.

“You better, you bloody freak.”

-*-*-*-*-

Both Yuri and Jessica walked back into the hospital room and by then, Taeyeon and Tiffany were already awake. 

“Where did you two go?” Taeyeon asked.

“I went out for some fresh air and this girl right here.” Yuri pointed her index finger at Jessica. “Somehow figured out where I was.”

“Yah! Why are you saying it like a bad thing? Just be grateful I found you. Or else you’ll wind up like how you are right now,” Jessica said and plopped onto the couch.

Yuri exhaled loudly out of her nose before going back to lie down on the hospital bed. She didn’t bother putting back the wires on her since it was difficult to do, so she just sat there. Both Yuri and Jessica were having a staring contest, but it was more like a glaring contest for Jessica. Yuri broke off the intense contest and huffed causing Jessica to do the same.

“Cut it out guys. You’re acting like little kids,” Tiffany said.

“She started it!” Both Yuri and Jessica yelled while pointing fingers at each other.

“Yah! If I wasn’t lying here right now I’d kick both of your guy’s asses,” Taeyeon said with a cold tone.

Jessica pouted and lay down onto the couch with her back facing the three of them. Yuri did the same and had her back facing the three of them also. Both Taeyeon and Tiffany saw the couple’s childish act and couldn’t help but shake their head in disappointment of how they’re grown up, yet they still have the kid heart inside of them.

Tiffany was about to stand up and talk to Jessica about how she was acting right now, but Taeyeon caught her by the wrist causing her to sit back down.

“Just let them be,” Taeyeon said.

Tiffany nodded. “How are you right now?”

“I’m fine.” Taeyeon gave a comforting smile.

I just need to get back at that Siwon.

-*-*-*-*-

Siwon sat at his desk with his left arm in a cast. He was treated at home by a doctor who came personally while the others were treated in a hospital. He was typing down a couple of lines in a document with his right hand.

“Sir, do you want tea?” The maid came in and interrupted his train of thoughts.

He shook his head and smiled slightly at the maid before going back to typing his document. The maid left the room and closed the door.

“Kwon Yuri, Kim Taeyeon now you two will finally realize what situation you are in.”

-*-*-*-*-*-

“Kim Taeyeon you are a okay,” the doctor said after checking Taeyeon’s injuries.

“When will I be able to be discharged?” Taeyeon asked.

“You will be discharged later on tonight after I go through some files. Now if you would excuse me,” he said and walked out of the room.

Tiffany closed the door and walked back next to Taeyeon’s bed. She placed the tray of food onto the stand and sat down.

“Well that’s good. At least you will be discharged tonight,” she said.

Taeyeon nodded. She looked over to Yuri’s side of the room and found the two bickering couple was fast asleep.

“Tiffany, how do you know Siwon?” She asked.

Tiffany looked up from her fingernails and bit down on her bottom lip. “I met him a couple of years ago. We were in such a good relationship that I didn’t realize I was playing this Cinderella game of his. He could make such a good actor.” She sighed. “How did you meet him?”

“Through a company bond. My father’s company and his were good partners, but then we slowly drifted apart for some reason. We didn’t exactly have a good relationship. Neither did he have a good relationship with Yuri.”

Tiffany leaned back against her chair. “I can’t believe I was in this game of his for such a long time. His death was probably fake too.”

“You are not the only one that played a game. I did too. With his sister.”

“His sister?” Tiffany tilted her head, trying to figure out who his sister was. “Sunye?”

Taeyeon nodded. “I have a feeling these two were together when they decided to play the game. When did you start dating Siwon?”

“Five years ago…” Tiffany said slowly once she realized how long she has dated Siwon.

“Yep, they planned this together.” Taeyeon sighed and also realized that she has dated Sunye for three years and broke up and parted ways for two years.

Tiffany lowered her head. Throughout the five years of dating Siwon she did not suspect one thing that made it obvious she was playing a game all along and lost. Siwon was slick, smooth and careful of what he did with Tiffany. Looks can be deceiving.

“Oh yeah, here’s your lunch,” she said and placed the tray onto the table that was on the roller.

“Thanks,” Taeyeon said and took a bite.

“I’m going to go to the restroom.”

Tiffany stood up and headed towards the restroom, locking the door behind her. She looked at the mirror and saw her own reflection. She leaned against the counter and placed her hands onto the edge, gripping it tightly.

“Tiffany… how can you be so clueless,” she muttered, still staring at her reflection.

She let her eyes traveled down her own face and looked at the necklace that was hanging around her neck. It was the necklace that Siwon had given her on their 1st anniversary. It was an ordinary necklace with the pendant as a letter ‘S’, but it meant a lot to Tiffany. She unclipped the necklace and placed it onto the palm of her hand. She stared at the necklace some more, looking back at the memories she made with him.

She closed her palm, her hand forming into a fist. She dropped her hand to her side and released her fingers, the necklace dropping into the trash can. She touched her neck, the feeling of nakedness around it. She has been wearing the necklace ever since she first got it and never took it off, only when it was necessary though. 

She sighed. From now on she told herself to forget Siwon and everything that somehow relates to him. She does not want to remember the guy she loved who played her for such a long time and decided to break her heart now. She opened the restroom door and stepped out.

“That was quick,” Taeyeon said while chewing onto her food.

Tiffany laughed and sat down on her chair. “Well, I did not think what you think I did. Just washed my face a little.”

Taeyeon nodded and placed the spoon down onto the plate, pushing the table away from her. 

“Tiffany, can you help me up? I want to go out for a walk. The hospital is pretty stuffy,” she asked.

“Of course.” Tiffany stood up and helped Taeyeon off the bed, bringing the IV machine with her.

“Thanks, I can walk from now,” Taeyeon said.

“Let me accompany you. I don’t want you to get hurt anymore,” Tiffany said.

Taeyeon nodded while Tiffany jogged over to the door and opened it. She realized that Tiffany was not wearing the necklace she always seen her wore.

Perhaps she put it away? 

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica opened her eyes once she felt that she was awake. She sat up slowly, stretching her limbs and yawned which showed her tiredness. Across from her was the tanned girl whom she was bickering with earlier. Her expression worsened and she felt like she wanted to strangle the girl. 

She stood up and headed towards the restroom to wash up. She walked out and adjusted her clothing while walking back towards the couch, unaware of the tanned girl sitting on the edge of the hospital bed. Once she looked up, she flinched and took a few steps back, letting out a shriek.

Yuri covered her ears, a painful expression worn on her face. “What the heck? Why the heck did you scream?!”

Jessica sighed in relief and placed a hand over her chest, panting. “You startled me.”

“I did not even do anything,” Yuri said.

“You didn’t have to do anything! Look at your face, it’s like a ghost!” 

Yuri stood up and walked over to the bathroom while muttering some words. “What the heck are you talking about? Some ghost?”

She turned on the bathroom lights and looked into the mirror. “EY! I LOOK DISGUSTING!”

“No really…” Jessica said to herself and sat down on the couch.

She looked around the room while Yuri was in the restroom, possibly prettying herself up. She saw the bed next to Yuri’s and realized that it was empty.

“Tiffany must have taken her somewhere…”

Just when she was about to text the girl where she had gone, her phone beeped, startling her for the second time. It was text message from Tiffany.

From: Tiff

Time: 1:46 PM

Date: May 1, 2010

I’m @ the prk across the hosp. wit Taeyeon. Bbl.

Jessica’s face scrunched up in confusion. What the heck did she just sent me?

Yuri walked out of the restroom looking better than she did before. She looked at Jessica’s face and laughed quietly to herself.

“Yah, do you know how funny your face looks like?” She said.

“Huh?” Jessica looked up from her phone, the muscles on her face relaxed. “And do you know how funny your face looked like before?”

“That was before. What are you looking at?”

“Nothing that concerns you.”

“Why do you have to be like that?”

“Because I can be like that.”

Yuri narrowed her eyes at her while walking to her hospital bed and muttering some words under her breath. Jessica smirked at her before looking back to her phone, reading Tiffany’s message for the nth time. 

OH! I’m at the park across the hospital with Taeyeon. BE BACK LATER. GOSH JESSICA YOU NEED TO GET UPDATED!Jessica mentally slapped herself in her mind.

“Sica baby~~” Yuri said while bobbing her head from side to side.

Jessica looked up in annoyance and gritted her teeth when she heard the nickname the tanned girl personally provided her. “What do you want?”

“I’m hungry. Can you get some food for me?” 

“Why don’t you do that yourself?” Jessica said coldly.

Yuri faked a gasp. “Is that how you treat injured people? Heartless people these days.”

“I do have a heart!” 

“Really? Prove it by giving me food.”

Jessica shot a death glare at the tanned girl which made her froze in her spot. After a second staring contest, Jessica gave up and decided to go get the food for Yuri.

“Fine, just this once though,” she said and walked out the door before she could see Yuri doing her victory dance in bed.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon sat down on the stone bench that was on the grass, the IV machine next to her. Tiffany was sitting next to her also, enjoying the scenery in front of her.

“Taeyeon…” Tiffany started. “Thanks for helping me.”

“It’s not a problem,” Taeyeon said with ease.

“But it is! You got injured because of me.”

Taeyeon sighed and turned her head to look at Tiffany. “Listen, it’s not a problem okay? Don’t work yourself about it.”

Tiffany slowly nodded and lowered her head, fiddling with her fingers.

“Taeyeon-ah?” A familiar voice was ringing in Taeyeon’s ears.

Taeyeon looked away from Tiffany and squinted at the figure in front of her, the sun blocking her face. Once the figure walked closer, she stood up abruptly, startling Tiffany at the sudden action.

“What are you doing here?” Taeyeon gritted her teeth, controlling the anger in her voice.

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Chapter 13 - News Breaks Out

“Is this how you treat a person you haven’t talked to in two years?” The figure said as she inched closer to Taeyeon. 

Taeyeon took a step back while holding onto the IV machine, the back of her knees touching the cold surface of the stone bench. Tiffany looked at Taeyeon and at the figure back and forth. She was confused to whom the girl was, but the girl’s face was all too familiar to her.

Taeyeon scoffed and rolled her eyes. “What do you want?”

“I just decided to visit you since I heard about what happened. You do know it’s all over the news, right?”

Both Taeyeon and Tiffany gulped nervously at the same time. If the news were talking bad about them, then it’s all hell for the four of them. Even if the two were not involved. 

“You might be wondering how it’s already out in the news. One of the police was patrolling the area and saw the boys’ bodies lying on the ground. Immediately, it was on the news but no one knew who did it until Siwon released a paper.”

“A paper?” Taeyeon asked.

“Yes. He sent it to all the government buildings. Now everyone knows and would not dare to oppose Siwon since he is the one who publishes articles. You do know he has a part time job as that, right?” The figure glanced at Tiffany.

“When did you come back?” Taeyeon asked as she clenched her teeth to refrain from yelling.

“A couple of days ago. Why do you care?”

“You are a living human.”

The girl chuckled. “I know I am. Doesn’t mean everyone treats a person like everyone else. Not everyone treats people nicely.”

“Sunye, please leave. I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” Taeyeon pleaded as she sat down.

Now Tiffany knew who she was. The face was familiar to her that she forgot whom she was since she only saw her face one time.

“Why? I’m just informing you, you know?” Sunye said.

“I didn’t ask to be informed.”

“Well then, I shall take my leave,” Sunye said as she looked at Taeyeon and Tiffany before walking away.

Taeyeon sighed in relief once Sunye was gone. Her heart was aching once she saw the girl she used to love. She recalled the moments when they had their romantic times when no one was around, but she did not expect Sunye to have that cold side of hers. Now, she is expecting to see Sunye a couple of more times since she is back in town.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri sat down on the hospital bed fiddling with the sheets. Jessica has been gone for a long time now and she has been starving.

“Geez! Why does it take this long to get food?” She asked herself as she frowned.

She was cursing the girl in her mind until her phone interrupted her thoughts. She took her phone from the stand besides the bed and picked it up without looking at the caller ID.

“Hello?” 

“Kwon Yuri, you have some explaining to do,” a harsh deep voice said.

Yuri gulped. She knew who the voice was. It was none other than her father and the only time he would use the tone he was using right now was when he was angry or disappointed in her.

“What are you talking about?”

“Have you not watched the news or even read the newspaper? What is this? You and Taeyeon beating up twelve boys at the amusement park I sent you? I told you to inspect it, not beat up people! You even beaten up the Choi’s son.”

“Dad! You don’t understand. If I haven’t beaten them up did you expect me to be talking to you right now? They could have beaten me down to a pulp if I didn’t fight back.”

“There is no reason to resort to violence.”

“Dad, please understand me. Listen, I was just helping out—“

“I don’t want to hear it. Thanks to you there is the media crowding around our company building wanting to know questions about why you did this. Either you come here and explain everything what happened or the media will stay here.”

“Are you kidding me? And you expect me to go there when I’m in the hospital?”

“Why are you even in the hospital? There is no way you could have gotten hurt seriously.”

Yuri rolled her eyes to no one in particular. “Oh, you have no idea dad.”

“Stay there, okay? I’m coming over right now.”

“Wait dad—“

Her dad had hung up on her right when she heard the beeping noise on her phone. She heaved a heavy sigh and threw her phone next to her on the bed. She lay back down onto the bed and closed her eyes, her head sinking into the pillow. Just when she was about to fall asleep, the door busted open revealing the blonde who has been gone for an hour and thirty minutes. 

Yuri opened her eyes and sat up looking at Jessica who was holding a tray in one hand while the other was closing the door.

“What took you so long?” She asked as Jessica set down the tray onto the table.

“You have no idea how packed that cafeteria was,” Jessica said and sat down on the couch, immediately sinking into it.

“Thanks,” Yuri said and started digging into her food.

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just don’t send me there ever again.” Jessica yawned and stretched her body onto the couch ready to sleep.

Yuri set down the utensils by the plate and stared at Jessica’s sleeping face. She had bags and dark circles under her eyes and could not help but felt sorry for her. 

Was she staying up for me the whole time?

For the second time of the day her thoughts were interrupted by the door opening with a short person behind an IV machine and a taller girl next to her. Yuri swore she had to straighten up her body even more to see who the person was behind the machine till she realized it was her best friend.

“Oh Tae, where did you go?” She asked, slightly giggling to herself that the IV machine was taller than Taeyeon.

“I was out for awhile,” Taeyeon said, her expression worsening each step she took.

Yuri watched her carefully and rarely saw her like that. She looked at Tiffany to find out what had happened but she still had her normal look on. 

Tiffany walked over to Jessica, who was sleeping on the couch, and slapped her thighs. Jessica yelped in pain and her eyes shot open, her mouth open ready to shout at the person who hit her.

“Why?” She asked, rubbing her red thighs in the process.

“Have you had lunch yet?” Tiffany asked.

Jessica shook her head, her lower lip slightly poking out. Tiffany grabbed Jessica’s hand and dragged her towards the door.

“Then let’s get something to eat. Yuri, Taeyeon, we will be out for awhile,” she said and left the room with a tired whining Jessica behind her.

Once the two was gone and silence growing up on the two best friends, Taeyeon turned her head to Yuri who was amused by what had happened.

“Yuri,” she began.

“Yeah?” 

“I met her at the park when I was outside with Tiffany.”

“Her?” Yuri’s face scrunched up in confusion until she finally realized that there is not anyone that Taeyeon would not call someone by their name.

“Oh… her… What happened?”

“The news about us, or rather you, beating up Siwon’s boys are all over the news. Turns out she had said that Siwon published an article.”

“That bast*rd…” Yuri gritted her teeth, her fists forming into a ball.

“I don’t think we would get peace after we get discharged.”

“I know. My dad called me and said that the media is at the company. I bet they are at yours too.”

Taeyeon nodded and sighed. “Tiffany and Jessica are also dragged into this when they did not really do anything to be involved in the beating.”

“I know,” Yuri said, her eyes drooping. “We got to do something about this.”

“I’ll think of something. You’ll have to do it, okay?” Taeyeon asked.

Yuri nodded in response and threw her head back on the pillow, ready to fall asleep any moment. The painkillers that the nurse had given her were taking over her right now.

Taeyeon was always the one who would think of something to get them off the hook if they were in situations like this. The duo was basically doing teamwork. Taeyeon plans the plot, while Yuri does what she says and immediately got them off the hook with her charms and killer smile.

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany and Jessica took the elevator down to the basement where the cafeteria was placed at. Jessica sighed once she realized that she has not been gone for at least ten minutes from the cafeteria and here she is back at the place once again.

“Tiff, I’m telling you it’s packed. We’re not going to get food until like an hour,” she said. 

“Where else do you want to go? The cafeteria is out last choice since you don’t want to go out,” Tiffany said as she stepped out the elevator with Jessica trailing behind her.

“You get the food then,” Jessica said as they entered the double doors.

She sat down at an empty table without letting Tiffany reply to what she had just said. Tiffany sighed and stood in line. She tapped her foot impatiently while waiting in line till her phone beeped which caused her to stop her tapping rhythm. She took her phone out from her pocket, the charm that was hanging on her phone swinging around. 

“Text message?” She said to herself as she clicked the button to see who sent it.

Immediately, she deleted and blocked the person that was on her phone without bothering to check what the message had said. She did not dare see the message since she told herself not to see anything or read anything related to her now ex-boyfriend.

Though, she was confused to why he had texted her. She knew they were over ever since the incident at the amusement park. If he had called or texted to apologize, she would not accept it since he had played with her heart for five years now.

She placed her phone back into the pocket with the charm sticking out. She took the phone out once again and looked at the charm. The charm that is hanging on her phone is two cartoon figures holding hands, a heart in the middle of them. One is a female with a T on her t-shirt while the other is a male and had an S on his t-shirt. She placed the phone onto her thigh, her leg slightly lifting since she was standing up. She kept her balance while untying the charm from her phone. Once she got it off, she placed the phone back into the pocket and looked at the charm.

She heaved a heavy sigh. She did not know how many times she had sighed today. As the line was getting smaller, right next to her is a trash can. She lifted up her hand with the charm and released her fingers, the charm falling down into the trash can. Right after it fell, a male had dumped his leftovers into the trash can staining the charm. She grimaced once she saw the sight. 

She quickly turned away from looking at the charm that was now dirtied in the trash can and looked forward to get food for her and Jessica.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon was fiddling with her phone while Yuri was dead asleep by the cause of the painkillers. She was about to call the girl to wake up until the door bursted opened for the second time of the day causing her mouth to be hanging open.

Right at the door was a middle aged man holding onto the doorknob scanning around the room. His eyes landed on Yuri’s sleeping figure and it immediately became stern, ignoring Taeyeon’s presence.

“Mr. Kwon!” Taeyeon gasped as she saw him.

Yuri’s father stopped walking and turned his head towards Taeyeon’s direction. “Kim Taeyeon? Do you know that your father is looking for you?”

Taeyeon lowered her head. “I know.”

“Then why aren’t you going over to him?” He turned his body, his front facing her.

“I just wanted a break, you know? I didn’t want to get stressed over work and get all this white hair,” she said.

Mr. Kwon nodded and sighed. “I know how you are feeling. A young girl like you shouldn’t overwork yourself.”

Taeyeon grimaced. “Yeah, tell that to my father.”

Mr. Kwon chuckled. “Don’t worry Taeyeon. I’m sure your father wouldn’t overwork you again once you get back in the company.”

“I hope so.”

He averted his eyes from Taeyeon and looked at the tanned girl sleeping on the hospital bed next to them. 

“Yuri is sleeping, huh?” He asked.

Taeyeon nodded in response and looked over to her best friend snoring lightly. 

“Since you are my daughter’s best friend and you can be trusted, can you care to explain to me what had happened during that incident at the amusement park? The news has said that you two were looking for a fight and beat up the twelve boys when Choi Siwon was having a date with his girlfriend, Tiffany Hwang.”

Taeyeon sat up, her back against the top folded of the bed. 

“I’d like to say that is half true.”

Mr. Kwon raised an eyebrow. He sat down at a chair that was next to Taeyeon’s bed and listened attentively to what Taeyeon is going to say.

“It is true that we beat them up and that Siwon was having a date with Tiffany, but we were not looking for a fight.”

She looked over to Mr. Kwon and he nodded as if to say for her to continue.

“I was suspicious of Siwon since he was alive again. So I followed them. I know it was wrong to do so, but my thoughts are never wrong. That one night where you have sent Yuri and Jessica to inspect the park, those two were over there first along with me staying by the entrance.

“It seems like all this time Siwon has been playing a game on Tiffany. He had his boys all over the amusement park just to satisfy their needs of playing their game. If you do not believe me that they are playing a game, one of his boys had a camcorder video cording the whole scene.”

Taeyeon took a deep breath before continuing again. “I ran over to them once the boys were touching Tiffany in inappropriate spots, but I failed into surviving the boys. Right when they were finished with me, they were searching for Tiffany. Thankfully around that time, Yuri and Jessica have arrived and saw me on the floor. I did not know what had happened after that, but I do know Yuri had saved Tiffany from the boys.”

Mr. Kwon exhaled out of his nose and nodded. “I’ll take your story into consideration. Choi Siwon does not look like the person to do that, but you know, you can’t judge a book by its cover.”

He stood up and walked over to Yuri’s bed and lifted the covers to inspect her injuries. Right when he lifted up the covers, he saw the white bandage wrapped around Yuri’s abdomen. He grimaced and covered Yuri before looking back at Taeyeon.

“I will take my leave now. Please tell Yuri I visited when she was sleeping.” He walked over to the door and left the room.

“Oh that’s right; I haven’t asked her how she got her injury…” Taeyeon mumbled to herself.

The door opened revealing the two American girls walking into the room and closing the door after. Jessica walked over to the couch and jumped on it, her body taking the whole space, closing her eyes getting ready to sleep. Tiffany pouted at the sight and walked over to the chair that was next to Taeyeon’s bed and sat on it.

“Did you see the news?” asked Tiffany.

Taeyeon shook her head. “No, but I did hear about it.”

“It was on when me and Jess went to the cafeteria. Luckily, most people didn’t really watch the news or were engrossed into their food that they didn’t notice us.”

Taeyeon sighed. “I just wished I could close my eyes and open them then all of this drama could go away.”

“Yeah,” Tiffany said and leaned back against her chair. “Wishing could never get you that far.”

They both sat in silence with their best friends snoring lightly as the only source of sound. Tiffany broke the silence by standing up, her chair screeching against the tiled floor.

“I’m going to get some fresh air,” she said and headed towards the door.

“Be careful,” Taeyeon said.

Tiffany smiled and nodded before closing the door. Taeyeon sighed and laid her body down against the bed, her muscles relaxing. 

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany walked along the sidewalks; the sun was setting making the sky turning into an orange-ish red color. She walked passed a park noticing a young looking man whom she thought he looked familiar, but ignored it and thought that every human being shared some similarities. She sat down on the stone cold bench, the same bench she sat at with Taeyeon earlier today.

She closed her eyes and kicked her legs back in forth, her hands gripping the edge of the bench. She breathed in the fresh air and the smell of the fresh cut grass, smiling at how the cool breeze is brushing past her face.

She heard footsteps a few feet away from her as it was getting louder and louder. She opened her eyes and saw the man that broke her best friend’s heart.

“Hey Tiffany,” he said.

“H-Hey Donghae,” she said, looking away from the eyes that made the blonde cried for days.

“Mind if I take a seat besides you?”

“No, go ahead,” she said kindly, though it was forced out of her mouth.

He sat down and folded his hands, his fingers interlocking. “Can I ask you a favor?”

Tiffany furrowed her eyebrows but didn’t look at him. She decided to accept his favor just to see where he was going with it.

“Sure.”

“You are still best friends with Jessica right?” 

Tiffany’s expression darkened. “Where are you going with this?”

“I-I…” Donghae hesitated. “I want to get back with her.”

Tiffany guffawed and turned to look at him with an incredulous look. “Are you kidding me? You want to get back together with her after what you—“

“I know what I did was wrong,” he said, cutting Tiffany off. “I know I’m still treating her like dirt, but I just want to show her that I am over her, you know? You don’t want to see a man crying to a girl begging her to take him back. It just shows the weak, cowardly side of him.”

“You are implying that you are a weak coward…”

Donghae sighed. “I know and I want you to help me get back together with her.”

“I can’t do it,” Tiffany said and stood up.

“Why not? You accepted it.” Donghae stood up also, towering over her.

“Do you know what you are doing? Jess is going out with Yuri and I just can’t break up their relationship by helping you getting back together with Jess.”

“Jessica’s relationship with Yuri is fake.”

Tiffany’s eyes widened. “What?”

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Chapter 14 - Broken Promises

A few days have passed and Taeyeon has already been discharged from the hospital while Yuri was still resting. She sat in Tiffany’s car with the latter being the driver taking her home. She refused taking the ride from Tiffany, but Tiffany was too stubborn and decided to take her home just so she would not get into an accident like the one in the amusement park.

Tiffany’s mind was fogged up ever since she has encountered Donghae. She had tried asking her best friend about what he had said, but the blonde would always sleep it away or ignore her. She had also tried asking the tanned girl, but she would always be sleeping or getting checked up on by the doctor.

“What do you mean it’s fake? The papers had stated that they were kissing and when me and Taeyeon walked in on them they were…” she covered her mouth from saying anything else.

“They were what?”

“Never mind. Just forget about it.” 

“Well.” Donghae smirked. “Their relationship is fake. Even Yuri admitted it.”

“That can’t be true,” Tiffany said, “Jess or Yuri wouldn’t lie.”

“I don’t know Tiffany,” Donghae said and sat back down onto the bench. “Why don’t you ask them yourself?”

Tiffany stood there frozen. She was always loyal to Jessica and would never lie to her and she expected the latter to do the same. 

“No it’s not true. Jess might be embarrassed.” Tiffany clapped her hands. “That’s right; she must have been embarrassed that Yuri is her girlfriend.”

She smiled to herself remembering the thought of Jessica despising Yuri. 

“Embarrassed or not, their relationship is still fake. So would you help me get together with Jessica?”

Tiffany’s smile immediately disappeared. “I a –“

“TIFFANY WATCH OUT!” Taeyeon screamed and placed her hand on Tiffany’s shoulder.

Tiffany blinked and shook her head. She gasped upon realizing that she has driven off her lane and onto the opposite lane where an 18-wheeler truck is honking right in front of her. She turned the steering wheel to the right and drove off the lane onto the righter way. She sighed in relief when she was out of the way.

“Gosh Tiffany, are you in earth right now?” Taeyeon said as she snapped her fingers in front of Tiffany’s face.

Tiffany flinched and removed Taeyeon’s hand from her sight. “I’m fine. I’m sorry we almost got into a car crash.”

She turned her steering wheel to get back onto the lane until Taeyeon grabbed onto her arm causing her to stop.

“You know what, I should drive,” Taeyeon said and unbuckled her seatbelt.

“No wait, I’m okay I can drive,” Tiffany countered.

“No, you almost got us into a car crash and I won’t let it happen again. Just let me drive, okay?” 

Tiffany nodded hesitantly and unbuckled her seatbelt before opening her door. She made her way towards the other side of the door while Taeyeon is walking the opposite way. They both got into the car at the same time and closed the door.

“Are you okay?” Taeyeon asked as she buckled her seatbelt.

“I’m fine.”

Taeyeon knew Tiffany was not telling the truth but refrained herself from saying anything further. She pressed her foot onto the gas pedal after Tiffany has buckled her seatbelt.

“Where’s Jessica?” She asked.

“She’s at the hospital staying with Yuri.”

“Wow, I’m quite surprised she’s at the hospital. Isn’t she one of those types of people who normally don’t care for others?”

“She has a special place in her heart for people she cares about, is what she had said. She told me that I was part of that special place no matter how much she says that I’m irritating and annoying and her family too. I’m guessing Yuri has entered that special place.”

“I’m just saying but Yuri has her ways to woo people’s heart.”

Tiffany chuckled. “If you are afraid of Yuri hurting Jess, don’t worry. She doesn’t really let people into her heart that easily.”

“Let’s just see about that,” Taeyeon said.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica paced around the hospital room while nibbling her fingernail. She had no idea why she agreed to stay with the tanned girl and she could not just leave right now, leaving Yuri with no company. She looked over to her and found out that she was sleeping again.

“And I thought I was the one who sleeps a lot,” she mumbled and walked over to the side of the bed.

She looked over to the clock and back at Yuri after founding out that she has been sleeping more than she should have slept. She nudged the girl on the arm to wake up, but never responded. She grabbed her arm and violently shook her, but the tanned girl never responded once again. She sighed and picked up a half filled water bottle off of the stand. Did not care whether or not it was drank, she uncapped the bottle and stared at the girl once more.

She rose up the bottle over Yuri’s head and tilted it, the water slowly making its way to the mouth of the bottle. Right when the water was about to drip out of its contents, Yuri opened her eyes and squinted, her eyes slowly adjusting to the lights. Jessica gasped and was startled once she saw Yuri’s eyes open, causing her to shake the bottle. The water poured out from the bottle and splashed onto Yuri’s face.

“YAH!” Yuri screamed and jolted when the cold liquid came in contact with her face.

“Oh sh*t,” Jessica cursed and placed the bottle back onto the stand.

Yuri wiped off the water on her face with the sleeve of her shirt before turning to look at Jessica. “What the heck was that for?!”

“I-I-I was trying to wake you up,” Jessica stuttered.

Damn! Why am I stuttering?

Yuri scoffed. “Who wakes up a person like that?! Especially when they are injured and bandaged!”

“W-Well, you wouldn’t wake up!” Jessica snapped back.

“You could at least let me sleep some more.”

“You already slept long enough! Heck, you even slept more than me when I sleep on a daily basis.”

“Well, I am in a hospital and I need a lot of rest, okay?”

Jessica stuck her tongue out before running towards the couch and sitting on it calmly knowing that the tanned girl would not get out of her bed because of IV strapped to her arms. Yuri sat still, aggravated by how Jessica’s acting. 

Yuri opened her mouth to say something, but stopped once she saw the door opened. Jessica looked over to the door and saw the tall young man looking back at her. She froze in her spot, as if she saw her own self glaring at her. She knew she had gotten comments about her glares freezing up people and she just got a taste of her own medicine.

“What are you doing here?” Yuri finally spoke up a word to the man.

“I just wanted to check up on one of my good friends,” he said and walked towards Yuri.

Yuri scoffed. “Good friend? Yeah right.”

“You seem to be doing well.”

“I was until I saw you.”

He sighed and put on a fake sad smile. “That hurts.”

Yuri rolled her eyes. “What do you want? How did you even find me in here?”

“The news, duh,” he said as he snapped his fingers. “I came here and asked the nurse what room you are in.”

“Well, I don’t want to see you. Now leave,” Yuri said and looked away from the man.

He chuckled. “Alright.”

He headed towards the door until he remembered that he saw Jessica. He placed his hand onto the door and looked at Jessica.

“Princess, I need to talk to you,” he said.

“Go away Donghae. I have nothing to say to you,” Jessica said coldly.

“Well, I have something to say to you,” he said and dropped his hand from the door.

Jessica bit down on her lower lip and looked over to Donghae, but avoided seeing the eyes she had once fallen for. She stood up and walked over to where he was.

“You better make it quick,” she said.

“It’s private.” Donghae opened the door and walked outside.

Jessica walked through the door and threw a glance at Yuri whom the latter never caught.

-*-*-*-*-

“Speak,” she said and leaned against the wall opposite from Donghae.

“You are still acting cold, huh?” He said.

“Is this all you wanted to talk about? If it is, then yes I am still acting cold,” Jessica said and walked to the door.

“That’s not what I wanted to talk about.” Jessica stopped in her tracks and crossed her arms, waiting for Donghae to talk.

“Do you remember that one time where I broke it off with you?” 

Jessica sighed and lowered her head, but didn’t speak.

“I got to say that was foolish of me saying that to you.” 

“Yeah, it really was,” Jessica mumbled inaudibly.

“I want to get back with you, Jessica.” He finally said the words he wanted to say.

Jessica looked up from the floor and stared at Donghae incredulously. She opened her mouth to say something, but the words got caught in her throat.

“I know this is too sudden, but what I did to you was wrong of me. The boys had gotten into me of breaking up with you. They had told me you were some sl*t, getting at my money even though you are the daughter of the second richest man in Korea. And they had even said that the reason you got together with me was because of my looks, not because you really like me.”

This is why boys are so stupid… Jessica thought.

“Those harsh words I said to you what the boys had said to me. I didn’t want to be with a girl that’s like that, you know? That’s why I broke up with you even though I really loved you at that time.”

It was the same for me.

Jessica cleared her throat and looked at Donghae’s charming eyes. She looked back into the time when she first met him in high school.

Jessica ran away from the fanboys that had been chasing her ever since she had arrived in Seoul High School. She was trying to get a normal lifestyle despite of her fame in Korea, but the fanboys wanted to get a picture with her or an autograph just like they had met their idol. Or so she thought. 

She ran across the field of grass hoping to get away from them. Up ahead was two intersections and Jessica found this chance of getting away. She ran across one street and hid behind a big black van, trying to confuse the boys. Once she heard the boys running pass by, she ran into an alley. She leaned against the wall and took a deep breath.

“Finally I got them away,” she said to herself, but what she had just said turned back on her. 

She was surrounded by the boys who had rotten smiles plastered on her face.

“Jessica I am your biggest fan!” one of them had said.

Jessica gulped in fear, thinking that what the boys wanted from her was not what they really wanted at all. She tried to get away from the boys, but they had created a barricade over her.

“Get away from me if you really are my biggest fan,” she said coldly, trying to cover up the fear in her voice.

None of them had move except for one who really was her biggest fan and all he ever wanted was a picture. 

She gripped onto the handles of her bag tightly, hoping that someone would help her get away from the boys who had raging hormones. She looked around her for a weapon but never found one. 

A boy had reached out for her shirt, getting ready to unbutton it, but Jessica had swatted his hand away. Just then, all the boys hands had reach for her causing Jessica to let out her dolphin shriek, but that did not stop the boys from touching her. She closed her eyes while swinging her arms around hitting a couple of boys in the face. She wished that it would come to an end or she was just having a nightmare.

“YAH! GET AWAY FROM HER!” A boy screamed, pushing the boys away from the blonde.

A couple of them had fallen to the floor or had run away after seeing who the boy was. All of them scrambled up to their feet, running out the alley.

“Are you okay?” The boy asked as he inspected Jessica. 

She had her shirt ripped, the buttons on the floor and her skirt unbuttoned. The boy gulped when he saw Jessica’s half naked body. He reached out to cover her, but the blonde thinking that it was still one of those perverted boys slapped him on the face.

“Get away from me you pervert!” She screamed, buttoning up her skirt and pulling the shirt to herself.

“N-n-no you got it wrong!” The boy screamed while holding onto his red cheek.

Jessica looked up, her eyes brimming with tears. 

“I’m not like those boys, okay?” He said.

“Who are you?” She asked.

The boy had his jaw hanging, realizing that the daughter of Jung Sungmin did not know who he is.

“I’m Lee Donghae, son of the Lee Enterprise. Do you really not know me?” He said.

Jessica looked at Donghae once again and caught herself staring into his charming eyes. He had a smile that the fangirls would die for.

“Lee Donghae? T-That’s right… I’ve heard of you,” she said, tears getting caught in her throat.

“C’mon, let’s get you back home,” he said while holding onto her shoulders.

Jessica stiffened and felt electricity running through her body once Donghae placed his hands onto her. Donghae had also felt a shocking current in him, but thought otherwise that it was just him.

Jessica looked at the same boy she had met and wondered if he really was how he was like once she met him in the alley.

“You haven’t changed… have you?” She asked.

“If you are thinking about the time when we first met… I am still that Lee Donghae you first met,” he said, smiling to himself that this was the chance he would get Jessica back.

“So, would you get back together with me?”

Jessica opened her mouth to say something but stopped once she heard the familiar husky voice behind her.

“You are hilarious Donghae.”

She turned around and saw the tanned girl leaning against the wall. The IV straps were off of her and she could hear the beeping machine in the room.

“If you really think you could get her back, think again.”

Yuri removed herself from the wall and walked behind Jessica. She placed her hands onto Jessica’s shoulder. Jessica swore she felt déjà vu all over again except that there was no raging hormones fanboys after her. She felt a thousand volts of electricity running down her spine. 

“Yuri, you are not a part of this. Remove yourself here before I do it myself,” Donghae said while gritting his teeth.

Jessica looked at Donghae for the last time. “She’s right Donghae.”

Donghae’s eyes widen as he gasped. “What?”

“You should think again. There is no way I would get back together with you,” she said, glaring at him.

Donghae scoffed and smiled. “I knew this was too good to be true. And to think I asked Tiffany to help me.”

“Tiff?”

“Tiffany?”

Donghae laughed. “Yeah, that’s right. I asked Tiffany. She now knows that you two have a fake relationship.”

Jessica’s eyes widened in horror. She stood there frozen for the second time once she found out that she had been lying to her best friend. She promised to her that she would never keep secrets to herself and that she would never lie to her, but she had broken that promise.

“This is not the end Kwon Yuri. I will fight you if I have to, to get Jessica back,” Donghae said while walking backwards.

“Good luck then. You’ll need it,” Yuri said and smirked.

Donghae smiled and turned around to walk towards the exit of the hospital.

After Donghae was out of their sight, Yuri removed her hands from Jessica’s shoulder and walked towards the door. She gripped onto the doorknob and looked back at Jessica who had not moved an inch.

“Yah, are you going to stay there forever?” She asked, bringing Jessica back from her train of thoughts.

Jessica turned around and walked towards Yuri where the door was. Yuri furrowed her eyebrows seeing Jessica in the state she is in right now, but did not mind it and walked into her room.

-*-*-*-*-

He scoffed while holding his phone. “Of course she would block me.”

He threw the phone to his bed and walked over to the glass window that was in his room. From afar, he could see the Kwon Enterprise being crowded around with the media.

He chuckled to himself. “This is what you get Kwon Yuri.”

He walked over to the couch and turned on the TV. Right away, the news popped up on the screen showing the Kim Enterprise like how the Kwon Enterprise was.

“Kim Taeyeon is also receiving the same torture,” he laughed.

A female walked into his room and plopped down next to him on the couch.

“Don’t you think you are going too far? Jessica Jung and Tiffany Hwang are also in a crisis.”

“Who cares? Its fun seeing them in pain,” the boy said and sipped his glass of wine.

“Oppa, oppa, oppa, where did you get this little evil mind of yours?” The girl said as she tapped his head.

“From you of course,” he said, not minding the irritating tapping his sister is giving him.

He was too happy to get angry right now after finding out his plan is working. He had even brought the two girls whom were not involved in the beating into his plan when originally he had only aimed for Yuri and Taeyeon.

“I met Taeyeon a few days ago,” she said.

“Oh? What happened?” 

“Nothing really. I guess she’s shocked that she’s on the news. For a bad situation.”

He chuckled. “Of course she would be.”

“I met Tiffany too.”

He stopped laughing and placed his glass of wine back onto the table.

“You are over her, right?”

He cleared his throat. “Of course I am. Why else would I join in this game of yours?”

“Five years is a long time to fall in love with someone. I’m glad you had not fallen in love with her.”

He smiled. “You should be proud then little sister because I had never liked or loved her.”

“Alright then. I’ll be going to my room,” she said and got off the couch.

She reached the door until she remembered why she came in the first place. “Oh Siwon oppa.”

“Yeah?” 

“You better watch out for Taeyeon.” She opened the door. “I wouldn’t play around with her too much.”

“Don’t worry sis, I got it all under control. You know Taeyeon better than me anyways.”

“You should know that Taeyeon and Yuri have the best teamwork in Korea other than us,” she said and left the room.

Siwon smiled to himself while swirling the wine in his glass. “This is going to be even more fun.”

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Chapter 15 - Press Conference

Taeyeon shifted the gear and turned off the engine. She turned to the passenger side to wake up the girl next to her but was greeted with a slight snoring sound instead. Chuckling to herself, she unbuckled her seatbelt before opening her car door to go to Tiffany’s side. She opened the door and unbuckled her seatbelt. After double checking that she was asleep, she slid her arms under Tiffany’s legs, but immediately retracted her hand after feeling an electricity current running up her arm.

What is this? Pikachu? She thought.

After taking a deep breath, she slid her arms under Tiffany’s legs once again and felt the same electricity, but ignored it. She got her free hand and placed it around Tiffany’s shoulder and slowly removed her from the car seat.

She kicked the car door closed and locked the car while pressing the lock button the car keys. She walked towards the dormitory building but stopped after sensing that there was someone behind her. She turned around with Tiffany in her arms while looking around her surroundings, hoping to find someone. She shrugged off the thought and continued walking.

A male and female figure removed themselves from behind one of the pillars and watched Taeyeon walking away. The male figure whipped out his camera, taking a couple of shots of the scene while the female figure wrote down notes on a notepad with her hello kitty pen.

Taeyeon stopped walking once again after hearing clicking noises causing the two figures to hide behind the pillar in panic. She scoffed at the sight when seeing the long dark brown hair flying against the wind. 

She continued walking towards the building but did not forget to shout out a few words.

“I hope you got some good shots.”

The two figures behind the pillar stiffened in fear. The male figure almost dropping his camera while the female dropped her pen, causing Taeyeon to chuckle at the scene behind her.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon laid Tiffany down on the bed and tucked her in the blankets. She removed the bangs that was covering Tiffany’s face and tucked it behind her ear. She smiled while looking at her features. Tiffany stirred in her sleep, facing Taeyeon. Taeyeon froze in her spot, her heart beating faster than normal when seeing the younger girl’s face just inches away.

She quickly scrambled up to her feet and ran outside of the room before closing the door. She leaned against the door and placed her hand on her chest, trying to calm down her rapid heart beating.

“What am I feeling? It’s all too familiar…” she whispered, clutching onto her chest.

-*-*-*-*-

A few days later after hoping the news had died down about the commotion of the two best friends beating up twelve boys; Yuri was discharged from the hospital. She still had her bandage over her wound but received medication to take daily if she wanted the wound to go away faster. 

She sat down on her bed in her bra and shorts after taking a quick shower. Next to her sat the bandages to be wrapped around her body. She covered the wound with a sterile dressing before wrapping her abdomen with a bandage. Feeling frustrated that she could not get the roll of bandage around herself, she decided to give up and lay on her stomach on the bed.

She sighed and closed her eyes. She was about to fall asleep until someone knocked on the door.

“Who is it?” She asked lazily.

“It’s me,” the cold voice responded.

“Come in,” she said, did not bother moving.

Jessica stepped inside the room with a phone in her hand. She walked towards Yuri and rolled her eyes at the sight of the tanned girl lying lazily on the bed and did not bother to bandage her wound.

“Are you that lazy that you can’t even treat your wound?”

“I can’t do it. I need help,” Yuri replied, her face buried in the pillow.

“Get up.”

“No! I’m tired.”

“Get up!” Jessica shouted and slapped Yuri’s bare back.

“Ow! Okay I’m up!” Yuri screamed and jolted up at the stinging pain on her back.

Jessica grabbed onto Yuri’s wrist and pulled her out from the bed. She grabbed the sterile dressing and the bandage.

“I’ll help you.”

“Are you serious?”

“Do I look like I’m joking?” Jessica asked with a glare.

“N-no,” Yuri replied.

Jessica walked behind Yuri and placed the sterile dressing onto the wound. 

“Stay still!” She demanded while her free hand was holding onto Yuri’s waist.

“I can’t if your hair is going to tickle me like that!” 

Yuri tried to wiggle away from Jessica’s grasp, but the blonde held onto her waist even harder. She pressed the dressing hard onto Yuri’s wound causing the latter to scream in pain.

“OW! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”

“You are so hard to keep still,” Jessica mumbled and grabbed the roll of bandage. 

She placed the end of the bandage at the sterile dressing and rolled it across Yuri’s back all the way to her waist. While keeping one hand on the end, she grabbed the roll and rolled it across Yuri’s abdomen from the back. Her chest pressed gently on Yuri’s back while rolling the bandage.

Yuri gulped at how close Jessica was by how she was breathing on her neck and how her fingertips were slightly grazing against her stomach. She tried her hardest to control her hormones and not pounce on the blonde. 

Jessica was blushing while wrapping the bandage on Yuri. She would have gone to the front of Yuri to roll the bandage, but she did not want to see the tanned girl’s eyes that she was sure she might fall for. Just like how she did with her ex-boyfriend.

After rolling the bandage till it was all gone, Jessica took a piece of tape and taped it on the end of the bandage.

“There,” she said and grabbed the phone that she left on the desk when she came in earlier.

“My dad called by the way,” she continued. “He had a talk with your dad and he wants you to clear up the misunderstanding between you, Taeyeon and Siwon.”

Yuri sighed and put on a black tank top. “That’s all? All I have to do is talk to the media, right?”

Jessica nodded and walked towards the door. “He’s expecting you to clear it up by tomorrow or by this afternoon at least.”

Yuri grabbed her cell phone off her nightstand and started dialing Taeyeon’s number after Jessica had left her room.

“Tae? Meet me up at the park across the company. Bring Tiffany along.”

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon and Tiffany had reached the park across Yuri’s father’s company after being told. They had no idea why the tanned girl had called them here, but Taeyeon had guessed that it would have something to do with the company.

After much persuasion from the tanned girl, Yuri and Jessica had arrived at the park together, spotting the other two at the playground. While walking their way there, there were many reporters shouting and snapping pictures across the street where the Kwon Enterprise was.

“What is it that you want to talk about, Yuri?” Taeyeon asked as the two met up with them.

“We have to clear up the whole thing,” Yuri said, “Tiffany; we need your help too.”

Tiffany nodded. “I’d gladly help… but I want to talk to Jess first.”

Jessica looked away from the reporters and to her best friend. She let Tiffany dragged her away from the other two and stood in a sandbox that is a good distance away from them.

“Jess… tell me. Is he lying or not?” Tiffany asked right away, though she did not give out the name and expected the blonde to question her who she was talking about.

Jessica sighed and bit down on her bottom lip. She knew she had to face her best friend to talk about this matter someday and the day just happened to come.

“He’s not lying.”

Tiffany’s eyes widened. “We are talking about the same thing right?”

Jessica smiled a cold but weak smile. “Of course we are.”

“But Jess…” Tiffany felt defeated that she was at loss for words. “I never kept a secret from you…”

After seeing Tiffany lower her head, Jessica grabbed onto her shoulder’s and forced her to look into her eyes.

“Listen, I did not tell you because I was too busy to even know I was in a fake relationship. Just… I’m sorry, okay Tiff?”

Tiffany sighed and nodded. Jessica smiled and pulled Tiffany in for a hug.

“I’m sorry I broke this promise… it won’t happen again,” she whispered.

Tiffany nodded, her chin rubbing against Jessica’s shoulder. Jessica broke the hug and backed away from the younger girl but close enough to hold her by the shoulders. She dropped one hand and made her fist into a ball but left a pinky out.

“Hey, I’ll promise this time. No more secrets, no more lies,” she said and stuck her hand out towards Tiffany.

Tiffany looked at Jessica’s hand for a few seconds and smiled. She did the similar hand action as the blonde and hooked her pinky with Jessica’s.

“Promise,” she said.

They both smiled widely. Tiffany’s smile turned into a warm one once she had noticed that she saw her best friend smiled for the first time in a long time that it was not forced, but real. They both turned around and walked towards the other two with Taeyeon sitting on the swings and Yuri standing in front of her with her arms crossed.

Once the two heard the footsteps near them, they both turned their head around and saw the two best friends who just sealed a promise.

“I got an idea,” Taeyeon said, “But we need our fathers to be in this one.”

“What is it?” Tiffany asked.

“We are going to hold a press conference.”

-*-*-*-*-

The four girls walked into the Kwon Enterprise’s premises since it happened to be closer to them. They dodged the reporters and avoid answering questions while blocking their faces from the camera’s view. Once they had reached inside the building, the security guards came behind them and blocked the door to prevent any reporters to walk in.

They walked to Yuri’s father’s office where the four daughter’s father’s just happened to be.

“It’s like a reunion,” Mr. Kwon spoke up.

Taeyeon was the last person to step inside Mr. Kwon’s office. Once she did, she met the eyes of her father who was longing to bring her back into the company. She sighed to herself thinking that this time she would have to go back.

They all sat on the couch that was placed in the middle of the room. 

“So Yuri, have you decided to speak with the media?” Her father asked.

Yuri nodded. “But Tae came up with an idea.”

“What is it?”

Taeyeon cleared her throat before speaking. “We decided to hold a press conference. By doing this, we don’t have to go to each company that is surrounded by the media and talk with them but do it all at once in a building.”

The male adults nodded and looked at each other as if they were conversing that it was a great idea.

“We will go with your idea, Taeyeon,” Mr. Jung said, “We will schedule you four to go to the courtyard tomorrow morning, got it?”

“That’s if Jess would wake up…” Tiffany mumbled to herself, but the blonde heard it and nudged the girl on her ribs.

The girls nodded and stood up one by one. After they bid farewell and left their fathers, Taeyeon was pulled back by her father.

“Taeyeon-ah,” he said, “I want you to come back to the company.”

“Why? So I can be stressed out again?” Taeyeon countered.

“Taeyeon, listen. You are the heiress for the company and you are the only child.”

“Dad, I don’t want to become the heiress! Why can’t I at least live a normal lifestyle?”

Mr. Kim sighed. “If you don’t come back I understand. I will give you 48 hours to decide. If you refuse, get out of my sight.”

With that said, he left the office leaving Taeyeon alone with the other three fathers. She sighed and exited the office but walked slowly so she could think things through. It was the first time seeing her father so defeated. She would have expected him to lash out on her and forced her back into the company, but he didn’t which made her feel bad about it. She knew he does not have much to live which gave another thought to her mind.

“Should I go back?” She asked herself as she walked down the halls.

-*-*-*-*-

Right when Yuri was about to exit the company, a young lady at the front desk called her.

“Ms. Kwon, Mr. Kwon calls for you to go back to his office,” she said.

Yuri nodded and headed back towards the office. She reached the office and opened the wooden double doors.

“What is it that you need, dad?” She asked as she stepped into the office. 

There was no one in sight except for Mr. Kwon and Mr. Jung. 

“Yuri-ah, remember that one amusement park I sent you along with Mr. Jung’s daughter?” Mr. Kwon asked.

Yuri nodded. “Why?”

“Well, I bought the area already before the whole commotion began.”

“What? They could buy it back then!”

“No, I am not going to sell it and the Choi’s are not allowed to get the area back after being bought.” Mr. Kwon smiled. 

“Okay, so what do you want me to do about it?” Yuri asked and brought her right leg over her left.

“Starting next week we are going to build the amusement park. I will hire people to work and build.”

“And this involves me in which way?” Yuri uncrossed her legs and rubbed the back of her neck.

“You will help along with Jessica, Donghae and Victoria.”

Yuri dropped her hand and gasped at her father. “Help?! Dad I just barely got out from the hospital!”

“You have been staying in the hospital for quite a while now so your wound should be almost completely healed. It should take a few days for it to be gone so you will be fine before we start constructing.”

Yuri sighed in defeat and dragged her feet towards the door. She knew she would still had to help no matter how much she complains and how much she tells her father that she is injured. 

“What is he? Some medical doctor?”

-*-*-*-*-

The next day came upon the four girls as they arrived at the courtyard where they will be holding the press conference. Almost everyone was there. The employees at the four companies, the owners, the reporters but Taeyeon took notice that the cause of the incident were not here.

She stood on the side of the stage where Mr. Kwon is standing in front of a podium with a microphone sitting on top of it.

“I’d like everyone to please take a seat,” he instructed, the reporters immediately sitting down at their seats, taking pictures of the event in front of them.

“This press conference being held right now will clear up the misunderstanding between Kwon Yuri, Kim Taeyeon and Choi Siwon.” He looked around for any comments from the reporters.

After seeing none, he continued. “Kim Taeyeon and Kwon Yuri please come up to the stage.”

Yuri and Taeyeon walked up the steps to the stage, the flash of the cameras blinding them. Mr. Kwon walked passed them and gave them a look of encouragement before walking down the steps and standing next to the two other girls.

Yuri stood by Taeyeon’s side as the latter stood in front of the podium. The two have suggested that Taeyeon would be the one speaking since she is the one that is good with words. She gripped the edge of the wood and looked around, the reporters still snapping their cameras.

“First off, we would like to apologize for causing casualties,” Taeyeon said, looking around as she did.

“Why did you even do it?” A reporter yelled out, interrupting Taeyeon.

“It should be obvious. Other people would have done it also. It was for defense,” she calmly answered. 

“What made you so sure that people would have done it too?” Another reporter called out.

Taeyeon averted her eyes from the first reporter to the one that just asked the question. “Tell me, you wouldn’t just stand there and receive the hits would you? Wouldn’t you at least defend yourself?”

Whispering and murmurs could be heard among the reporters. As they did, they continued taking pictures of the two best friends standing behind the podium. 

“I’d like to say that Choi Siwon and his boys played a game and the main target is Tiffany Hwang.”

The reporters turned and looked at the person being called. She was standing nervously next to the blonde, her fingers fiddling with each other.

“That’s not true,” a voice said behind all of the reporters.

Everyone turned around and looked at the owner of the voice. He was with three other people and people could assume this to be a four versus four match.

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Chapter 16 - Winning the Game

“I’d like to say that is not true,” the man repeated himself as he slowly walked closer to the stage, his hands in his pockets.

The three that was with him followed him closely, the four girls shooting glares at each and every one of them.

“Choi Siwon, I’d like that if you would not interrupt,” Taeyeon said as she gritted her teeth.

“Why not? This way you will also know my side of the story.”

He walked up stage without permission and the three stayed behind with Jessica and Tiffany. Tiffany looked at them in disgust and backed away, clutching onto Jessica’s arm. The blonde ignored the three and focused on listening to the speech. Siwon threw a glance over his shoulder and realized that the girl of the game was here all along. His eyes widen in shock, but he quickly covered it up with a smirk on his face.

The reporters snapped their cameras of the newcomer walking on stage. Siwon pushed Taeyeon away from the podium as he took it over, his hands gripped tightly onto the edges. Taeyeon looked at him in annoyance as she stood on the side with Yuri. Earlier, she had observed him carefully, noticing the shock expression he had. She scoffed, a smirk playing on her lips as she realized she may have just won this game.

“Kim Taeyeon has no proof of the evidence she had said. Would you believe her? I would never play a game with Tiffany Hwang.”

The reporters wrote down notes onto their notepad of the situation the boy is describing. The girls looked at him in disbelief, knowing that the reporters would believe him because of his pure image.

Tiffany played with her fingers as she bit down on her bottom lip. She would have to go up there and explain the situation herself. She looked at the blonde next to her and as always, no expression was worn on her face. She wondered what Jessica was thinking right now and how she was feeling. Was she feeling scared? Worried? Or just nothing like always?

She sighed and looked back to the stage; her roommate’s eyes were icy cold as if they were shooting icicles at the man standing behind the podium. Taeyeon looked away from him and glanced at Tiffany, their eyes meeting each other for the longest time. She nodded her head to the left, indicating for Tiffany to come up on stage. 

“Is there any comments or questions?” Siwon asked after finishing his speech and the situation he was in.

Taeyeon glared at him from the back, not believing he was acting this way. Everyone knows the truth yet Siwon decided to go with a lie to save himself.

After hearing no comments or questions from the reporters, Siwon smiled in triumph. Taeyeon pushed him aside, now standing in front of a podium.

“I’d like to bring up a witness. The main person of this whole commotion,” Taeyeon announced.

Tiffany walked up the stage and stood timidly in front of the podium. It was her first time standing in front of so many people and giving out her explanation of what happened.

“What Siwon said was false,” she said into the microphone, the reporters gasping. “It’s true we went on a date, but it seems like he was enjoying his sick pleasure of hurting me and my friends.”

Siwon looked at her from the back, feeling uneasy. He looked back at the reporters, the murderous eyes meeting him. 

Jessica on the other hand also felt uneasy standing next to three of their enemies. Just when she thought she could never get more uncomfortable, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw the tanned girl smiling reassuringly to her. She weakly smiled in response, feeling safe and protected next to Yuri. She looked to her right, noticing the eyes of her ex-boyfriend staring back at her. She broke off the stare and looked back up on the stage, listening to her best friend explaining the situation.

Yuri took a deep breath, looking at the girl she had once played on. It was the first time she had ever felt guilty for doing so and she never felt guilty since she had the heart of a player. She looked away and back at the blonde, smiling to herself as she remembered they had a fake relationship which she liked to turn it real.

Jessica furrowed her eyebrows, suddenly remembering something that she found at the amusement park. She gasped and turned to Yuri, which startled the tanned girl.

“What’s wrong?” She asked.

Jessica grabbed Yuri’s wrist and pulled her away to where no one can hear them.

“I found a video tape.”

-*-*-*-*-

After giving a signal to Taeyeon to make the press conference longer, Yuri drove to the closed down amusement park with Jessica sitting at the passenger seat.

“What is this video tape?” She asked, curious to how Jessica found it.

“I didn’t think it was anything, but I remembered seeing a guy on the floor with a video camera… The thing must have felled out,” Jessica said, “This will be great evidence.”

Yuri smiled. “That’s great.”

They arrived at the amusement park, the both of them running out of the car. They reach the entrance of the park which was taped up with yellow caution tape.

“We can’t get through,” Jessica said, biting down on her lower lip.

“I got this. Stay here,” Yuri said and started running to the other side of the amusement park.

“Wait Yuri, you are injured!” Jessica sighed in defeat, the tanned girl already running off to the back.

Yuri climbed up the fence and jumped down, the impact of the floor sending a shocking feeling up her legs. She hissed in pain but ignored it and ran all the way to where Jessica was on the other side.

“Where did you say you found it?”

Jessica snuck her hand over the tape and pointed at the stairs. “Right over there. It’s by the stairs.”

Yuri glanced at the stairs and nodded. She ran all the way to the stairs, Jessica pacing back and forth hoping that the tanned girl could find it as quickly as possible so they could present it at the press conference. 

Yuri looked around the stairs carefully. She frowned upon thinking that the tape must not be here or that the owner of the video camera must have found it. Carefully looking at each step, she saw a black box hanging off of the steps. She smiled widely and grabbed the box.

“Got it.”

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon tapped her foot repeatedly creating a rhythm. She continued listening to Tiffany’s explanation of the whole commotion and it seemed right, even though she is the victim of the whole scheme. She felt her phone vibrate against her pocket, her hand immediately reaching down.

She flipped her phone open and looked at the new text message she has received from Yuri.

From: Yuri

Time: 11:45 AM

Date: May 21, 2010

We found it… (:

She smiled and closed her phone, gripping it tightly. Tiffany has finished explaining the situation from her point of view and stepped down from the podium, her eyes meeting up with Siwon’s. She glared at him and broke off the stare, walking down the steps. She looked around, wondering where the tanned girl and the blonde did go.

At a time like this…? She thought.

Mr. Kwon walked up the stage and stood in front of the podium. He looked at every reporter before speaking.

“We have now heard the story from each side. Any comments or questions?” He asked.

“Choi Siwon.” A reporter stood up, his pen in the air while his notepad was on his other hand.

Siwon looked up at the reporter, waiting for him to speak up.

“Why did you lie about this entire situation if Kim Taeyeon, Kwon Yuri, and Hwang Tiffany said the same thing?” He finally asked the question that has wanted to be answered from all of the reporters. 

Siwon gulped, knowing that this question would be asked towards him even though he came here in the first place. He opened his mouth to speak up, but two girls had run into the courtyard.

“Because he wants to keep his stupid, pure image,” Yuri said, flinging the video tape into the air. “Other than the victim of the whole situation, we have a video of the situation.”

Siwon’s, Sunye’s, Donghae’s, and Victoria’s eyes widened in shock. Yuri smirked in response, walking up to the stage with Jessica trailing behind her. She gave the video tape to her father and smiled, as if she was conversing with him with his eyes telling him to present the video. Mr. Kwon looked at the security guards and nodded his head, the two men in black suits walking to the black luxury car seated out on the street in the front. 

-*-*-*-*-

“We will now present the video,” Mr. Kwon said, a projector in front of him as the screen was behind him.

He pressed play, the video immediately popping up in front of the screen.

“Here!” A boy chuckled on the video, touching the girl inappropriately. 

Tiffany shifted her foot from side to side, watching herself getting touched inappropriately by Siwon’s boys. Taeyeon noticed and held Tiffany while smiling reassuringly. Tiffany looked at her and sighed, the older girl’s smile making her worries go away. They looked back at the video and watched, the evidence clearly showing that Siwon’s statement is false.

The video shown Tiffany being thrown to the floor, the boys surrounding her as Siwon approached her slowly with his fists jammed in his pockets.

He chuckled. “I’m surprised Taeyeon actually came here.”

He looked to the area where Taeyeon was lying on the floor, the camera following his point of view. It showed Taeyeon lying on the floor lifelessly with Jessica kneeling down next to her.

“And oh? Jessica too?”

“Sorry Tiffany, but if someone were to save you right now it would never happen. My boys beat up Taeyeon and that means no one else could save you.” The boys laughed and hi-fived each other.

“Really?” A familiar and husky voice said.

Everyone turned their heads to the sound of the voice, the camera now focusing on the newcomer.

It all went by quickly, the camera shattering into pieces with the video tape falling out. The reporters have assumed that the situation being blocked out right now is showing Yuri beating up the boys. 

Mr. Kwon walked up to the stage and shut off the projector. He faced the reporters and stood at the podium.

“The evidence has been shown. It clearly stated that Choi Siwon is at fault for the commotion,” he announced, the reporters writing down the newly added information on their notepads.

“Press conference adjourned.”

The reporters stood up and walked away, some struggling to bring their camera equipments with them. The courtyard is now empty with chairs except for the people that have been involved in the situation.

“I’m glad you proved yourself right girls. Good job,” Mr. Kwon said as he smiled at the girls.

“Thank you President Kwon,” Taeyeon said and bowed, Jessica and Tiffany following suit.

“Choi Siwon will receive punishment for lying about the whole situation when he, himself could have explained the truth at this press conference. As for the casualties you two have caused, we will pay for the hospital fees. Once again, good job.” Mr. Kwon smiled for the last time and walked away to converse with the other company owners.

Taeyeon walked towards the opposing group, the three girls following her from behind. She stood in front of Siwon, the man being ashamed of losing his own game.

Taeyeon smirked. “Choi Siwon, it seems like I just won the game. Yet it must have been embarrassing for you to be up there and having someone one else point out your own faults.”

“You be quiet Kim Taeyeon. I will get you back at this. Just watch out.” Siwon sneered and walked out of the courtyard, his companions exchanging glares and stares at the others as they walk out.

“Well, we showed them,” Yuri said and smiled.

Taeyeon turned around, a wide smile plastered on her face. “Thanks guys for finding the video tape. Even though we had Tiffany here to help us, I think the video tape just gave us more evidence and putting Siwon at fault.”

Yuri and Jessica nodded; the four of them could not keep smiling from their accomplishment.

“Hey, we should have lunch,” Yuri suggested while looking at her wrist watch.

“That seems like a good idea,” Tiffany said.

“Let’s go then. I found a nice restaurant around here.” Taeyeon walked to her own car as Tiffany sat in the passenger seat while Yuri went to her car with Jessica in the passenger seat.

They drove off, Yuri and Taeyeon exchanging smirks at the stop light, indicating that they were going to race each other.

-*-*-*-*-

“Ah geez! Why would you race on streets like this?! You could have killed the both of us!” Jessica complained as she stumbled out from the car.

She stomped her way to the entrance of the restaurant where Taeyeon had told them to meet. Yuri chuckled and closed the door, the key ring twirling around on her index finger. 

Taeyeon and Tiffany arrived shortly, parking in the space next to Yuri’s car. They stepped out from the car looking calm unlike the other two who had gotten here first.

“Yuri, you never know if there is someone in your car do you?” Taeyeon chuckled; looking at Jessica’s pissed off expression.

Tiffany walked up towards her and held her, the blonde shrugging off her hands. “Are you okay?”

“Does it look like I’m okay?” Jessica snapped, walking into the restaurant leaving the three alone.

Tiffany sighed and faced the other two. “Don’t worry, she’s usually like that.”

“I can tell,” Yuri said and laughed along with Taeyeon.

-*-*-*-*-

Siwon stormed into his room, slamming photo frames, vases that were sitting on the tables on the side. He grabbed the remote control and pressed the on button, the news immediately popped up of what happened in the press conference earlier. Sunye, Donghae, and Victoria followed behind slowly, Victoria shutting the door. 

Siwon gritted his teeth and slammed down the remote, the controller breaking into pieces. The three of them were used to how he was acting for being with him for at least three years. Sunye has been with him all his life since they were siblings and this was probably the nth time that she had seen her older brother getting angry. 

“Siwon, calm down,” Donghae said calmly, despite the situation they are in.

“How can I calm down?! I’m the one receiving the punishment not you guys!” Siwon snapped and pushed Donghae aside. 

He walked to the middle of his room and huffed, his hands on his hips. Victoria looked worried, not knowing how to control the angered man. Sunye on the other hand did nothing to calm down her brother as she just sat down on the couch, reading the newspaper. 

“Sunye, how can you be so calm with this whole thing?” Victoria asked.

“I got a plan,” Sunye said, gaining attention from all three.

-*-*-*-*-

The girls waited for their lunch as they already took their order. On one side, Tiffany and Jessica sat together while on the other was Taeyeon and Yuri. 

As Yuri sat up to adjust the hem of her jeans, she accidentally kicked Jessica – who was sitting across from her – in the shin. Jessica hissed in pain and glared at the tanned girl who was oblivious to the fact that she had kicked her. Right when Yuri sat down, Jessica kicked her in the knee. She placed her elbows on the table and cupped her face, acting innocent as Yuri stared at her thinking that she was the one that kicked her.

“Yah Sica, did you kick me?” She asked, rubbing her knee to ease the pain.

Jessica looked at her, her eyelashes batting against her skin innocently. “What? I think it’s just you.”

Yuri averted her gaze towards Tiffany, who was staring out at the window. She sighed, knowing that the older girl would not do such things to her. She pouted and looked at Taeyeon, her best friend staring out into space. Then her gaze landed on Jessica once more, the blonde still acting innocent as she smiled at her. Yet Yuri knew it was fake. 

She sighed and crossed her legs, kicking Jessica in the knee in the process. Jessica dropped the fork she was playing with at the sudden impact on her knee, glaring at the tanned girl. Yuri smiled innocently and did not deny it like the blonde did.

Soon, they both played footsies under the table, bringing Tiffany and Taeyeon back from their own worlds.

“Yah Yuri! Keep quiet will you?” Taeyeon said.

“Why? She started it!” Yuri countered.

“No she did!” Jessica shot back.

“Just be quiet both of you. We came to have a peaceful lunch and we don’t want to have another war do we?” Tiffany said which made the both of them stop playing with each other.

Yuri gave Jessica one last kick in the shin, the blonde almost retaliated if it were not for Tiffany holding her back. Yuri stuck the tip of her tongue out, teasing Jessica. The corners of Jessica’s mouth twitched, refraining herself from shouting in the restaurant. She ignored the girl and focused on the food that was being placed on the table by the waitress.

An awkward silence enveloped the four of them until Tiffany decided to break the silence.

She cleared her throat. “Looks like we got rid of them.”

Jessica scoffed; not looking away from the steak that she was violently stabbing, pretending that it was the girl across from her. “They’ll come back, just watch.”

Yuri flinched at the last stab Jessica made on the steak. It was now filled with holes all over. She ate her food peacefully unlike the blonde.

“I know. We have to be prepared,” Taeyeon said, chewing her food like an elegant person.

Yuri smirked, placing her spoon and fork down by her plate. “I know what we can do.”

The three of them looked up from their plates and at the tanned girl, the smirk still playing on her lips.

“What?” They all said at once.

“Meet me up at my place. Tae, you got the keys to my place right?” Yuri asked.

Taeyeon nodded. “We’ll go after this.”

Taeyeon and Yuri went back to eating, the other two still dumbfounded about the whole plan that Yuri was thinking. They shrugged and went back to eating again, the blonde and the tanned girl silently playing footsies under the table.

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Chapter 17 - Kidnapping? No Just Luring

Yuri and Jessica have decided to go back to the dorm first, thinking that Taeyeon and Tiffany already driven off to Yuri’s house. Yuri noticed two pieces of mail sticking out from under the door and bent down to receive it. She looked at who it was addressed to, her and her roommate. 

“Hey Sica,” she called, throwing the mail over to the blonde who turned around after hearing part of her name.

“What is this?” Jessica asked, flipping the piece of mail, inspecting it.

“I don’t know. Anyways, let’s go,” Yuri said and gestured her to follow her as she left the dorm.

Jessica followed behind, closing the door and locking it, wondering what the piece of mail she had been sent.

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri driven up to the driveway of her house, noticing Taeyeon’s car parked in the driveway. She had come to the conclusion that Taeyeon must be in her house by the likes of her not spotting her around her house. She walked to her doorstep and unlocked the door, Jessica slowly following behind. She stepped inside her house and spotted Taeyeon and Tiffany looking at a mail that looks similar to theirs.

“Hey guys,” Yuri said, gaining their attention.

“Did you guys get one of these too?” Tiffany asked, waving the mail in the air.

Yuri and Jessica nodded and sat on the couch next to them. “What do you think it is?”

“Open it.”

Immediately, all four of them ripped opened the mail and took out what seems like an invitation to a party.

“It’s an invitation to a party that’s happening this Friday,” Yuri said, reading the information on the front cover. 

She flipped it open and saw the creator’s name and what the reason for the party is.

“Ok Taecyeon?” Yuri read the creator’s name.

“Oh, I know this guy,” Tiffany said, causing all three to look at her curiously.

She continued, knowing that the girls were curious to who this man is. “Ok Taecyeon, the son of Mr. Ok who practically owns half of the hotels here. Taecyeon runs his own company, Good Shot Productions. I assume he must be a photographer and a model. He throws a party every year in the summer, mostly to celebrate the hard work everyone has done in the school year. Everyone goes to his party, but not everyone gets invited. Only the most high class people are invited.”

“It even says, ‘I hope you guys can come’,” Taeyeon commented, noticing that the man has been informed that the Korea’s top four richest company’s daughters have enrolled to the university they have combined with.

“So, what is your plan, Yuri?” Tiffany switched the subject, setting the invitation aside.

“Since this came along, I’ve been thinking that Siwon’s group may have been invited also. I know that they are planning something right now. We have to go to this Taecyeon’s party and see what they are up too,” Yuri suggested.

“So in other words, you have no plan,” Jessica coldly said.

Yuri sheepishly smiled but did not say anything. “Don’t worry guys. We just have to counter their plans and throw one right back at them.”

“Whatever you say. I’m going to go now. Tiffany, are you coming along?” Taeyeon asked as she stood up.

Tiffany nodded and they both headed out the door, leaving Yuri and Jessica alone. They heard Taeyeon’s car started up and driving away by the likes of the sound of the car trailing off.

“Let’s go,” Yuri said and walked towards the door that is next to the entrance door.

Jessica furrowed her eyebrows and stood by the doorway, looking at the cars inside the garage. Yuri placed her set of keys to her Audi R8 in her pocket and took out another set of keys from her other pocket. She twirled the key chain around her index finger and walked over to the motorcycle placed by her car. 

“Are you taking that?” Jessica asked, baffled. 

“Yeah, I got bored with my car so why not ride my motorcycle?” Yuri suggested, smiling as she patted her motorcycle.

Jessica stepped down from the doorway and slowly walked over to Yuri, her arms crossed. 

“Here,” Yuri said, throwing a helmet to Jessica’s direction.

Jessica immediately uncrossed her arms to catch the helmet. Yuri placed her own helmet on and strapped the straps, sitting down on her Yamaha FJR1300A. She looked over to Jessica, who was still confused to how to put the helmet on, after starting up the engine.

“Are you not going to get on?” She asked, the blonde looking up from the helmet.

Jessica walked over and sat down behind Yuri, fumbling with the helmet. Yuri let go of the handles and glanced behind her. She chuckled at looking the furious expression worn on Jessica’s face. 

“Here, this is how you put it on.” Yuri took the helmet from Jessica’s hands and placed it on Jessica’s head.

Jessica looked at Yuri’s eyes, but quickly looked away as the latter was putting on the helmet. She felt the straps tightened on her chin while Yuri looked at her and smiled. Yuri pressed a button on her motorcycle, the garage door behind them lifting up to make way for them. She placed her foot down on each side of the motorcycle and walked backwards while standing up. Jessica calmly sat with her feet hanging off.

Yuri pressed the same button on her motorcycle, the garage door closing. She looked at Jessica and smirked, revving the engine of the motorcycle.

“You better hold onto me if you don’t want to fall,” she warned.

“Eh?” Jessica was dumbfounded by what Yuri had said.

Yuri chuckled and drove out of the driveway, increasing the speed of her motorcycle as they made their way to the dorm. Jessica shrieked, immediately locking her arms around Yuri’s waist. Yuri smiled as she felt Jessica’s arms around her except the latter was angry, thinking that it was the tanned girl’s plan for skinship. 

Jessica suddenly felt comfortable, resting her head against Yuri’s back. The wind was soothing to her, making her fall asleep on Yuri’s comfortable back. Yuri looked at the right mirror and smiled as she saw the blonde’s closed eyes. She continued driving the motorcycle but at a calm, slow speed. 

-*-*-*-*-

It was the day of the party and Yuri has been informed that Siwon’s group was attending the party by her butler. Her butler was like her secret agent, receiving the information she needs about the person she liked to know about.

“So, butler Lee has informed me that they would be attending, but we couldn’t receive anything about the plan since they spoke none of it,” Yuri said, as she walked around while the three girls were seated on the couch.

Taeyeon who has been doing her own research spoke up. “I’ve got a little bit of information about their plan… but since they are keeping it on the down low, I didn’t get the whole thing.”

“What did you get?” Tiffany asked.

“I saw the four of them talking with other people in this alley intersection. I was only driving by.”

Taeyeon drove up to an alley, wanting to take a shortcut back to the dorm quicker. As soon as she turned, she noticed two familiar people and decided to shut off her engine, wanting to listen to the conversation. She rolled down her windows halfway, her ears perked up to listen to her ex.

“Are these the people who are going to help us with the plan?” Sunye asked, her figure being shadowed by tall buildings.

“They’re coming to the party on Friday since they have been invited by Taecyeon. Don’t worry about it. I’m sure none of the girls know who these people are. We are going to use these people since they will obviously think we will encounter them, so why not choose people they don’t know?” a man divulged, only the clothes on his back were noticeable due to the moonlight.

“I have a plan to encounter one of them,” another girl suggested, walking towards the both of them, her heels clicking against the ground. 

She continued after being signaled to. “Since one of them is a player, I’m sure she has been with girls numerous of times that you can’t even imagine how much. Just choose one of these girls here,” she pointed to the two girls, “and have them encounter Kwon Yuri even though she has a girlfriend right now. It’s most likely that Kwon Yuri will question who the girl is since she has never seen her before, but she mostly forgets who she has been with.”

“Good job Victoria. I guess this is a good thing that you have been with her before,” the man said, a smile playing on his lips.

Victoria smiled and leaned against the wall. The girl next to her walked up to the four people that are lined up.

“Okay so you—“

The girl stopped talking after noticing a car’s light flickering amongst them. Taeyeon panicked and cursed, starting up the car engine and revved away before anyone of them could notice who the eavesdropper was.

“I’ve only heard about their plan against Yuri. They will use a girl and have her encounter her, just because she has a reputation of a player.” Taeyeon looked up at Yuri. “Yuri, I want you to play along with the girl’s plan. Just so you would look oblivious to it and once you lure her out of the party, I want you to bring her to the warehouse we are going to bring the others.”

“Why are we bringing them to a warehouse? Isn’t that illegal to do? Like kidnapping?” Tiffany asked, panicking at their plan.

“This is just to lure Siwon’s group into the warehouse too. I want each and every one of you to play along with their plan. Some of them might even be perverted enough to lure you guys into a hotel or their own house, but once you guys managed to get out from the party, call me.”

Taeyeon ripped a piece of paper from the notepad on the table and wrote down her phone number to give to Jessica and Tiffany. 

“I’ll have butler Lee to help me with this, okay?” Yuri suggested, Taeyeon nodded.

“Everyone go get dressed,” Taeyeon said and stood up. “Our plan begins now.”

-*-*-*-*-

The girls were dressed and ready to go to the party, the four of them standing in Taeyeon’s and Tiffany’s dorm. Yuri was wearing a simple outfit, yet sexy enough for girls and boys to drool over her. She wore a black sleeveless top that revealed part of her toned midriff with denim skinny jeans that had studs on her back pockets and heels. She wore a glittery silver belt and jewelry to get rid of the dullness of her outfit. Yuri’s hair was nicely brushed, yet just by the looks of her you could tell she was a party girl. 

Even though they had not been informed that it was a formal party or not, Jessica wore a red strapless dress that goes all the way down to her mid thighs with heels. A bow was placed on the front of her dress. Her blonde hair had small curls at the end with her bangs nicely combed, covering her forehead.

Taeyeon wore a simple outfit much like Yuri’s, but it was already enough to throw people over the edge. She wore a silver sleeveless top that was covered with a black vest and a black skirt that goes down to her mid thighs with flats. Taeyeon’s hair was simple; nothing was done to it except for brushing it and having a little hairspray sprayed over it.

Although she did not go with her pink obsession of a color choice with a dress, Tiffany wore a white strapless dress, the hem grazing against her thighs. It was plain and simple with little ruffles on the front of her dress, but people get to have a glance at her smooth legs. Her hair was crimped at the end and Tiffany was not used to having her hair styled for this occasion.

“Everyone looks nice,” Tiffany commented, looking at each and everyone’s outfits.

“It’s simple enough. Let’s get going,” Taeyeon said and led the way out the dorm.

Yuri dialed a few numbers on her phone and pressed it against her ear as she waited for the person she was calling to pick up. 

“Butler Lee? Get everyone ready.”

-*-*-*-*-

“Dang! His house is huge!” Tiffany said; bewilderment all over her face as she stepped out from the car.

“Tch, I’ve seen better,” Jessica coldly said, crossing her arms. 

Both Taeyeon and Yuri stepped out from the car at opposite sides and stood next to the two girls.

“You guys ready?” Taeyeon asked, everyone nodded in response. “Let’s get this started.”

The four of them walked up the stone path to the opened door where Taecyeon was standing greeting and bowing to the guests who had came to his party. The girls arrived at the doorway, Taecyeon grinning from ear to ear.

“I’m glad you four girls can make it!” Taecyeon said, the girls smiling in response.

“Go on right ahead.” He gestured for them to walk on, the girls dipping their head as they walked on.

Everyone was in the living room which happened to be the dance floor, dancing with drinks in their hands and laughing. Just a few feet away from them was a bar section, the girls were surprised that even a house can have a bar section with a bartender. 

“Should we split up?” Tiffany yelled over the booming music.

Taeyeon nodded and the four of them decided to split up. Yuri sat at the bar, ordering a drink. Tiffany walked to the dance floor and danced with whoever approached her. Taeyeon walked over to the staircase and leaned against the rail, twirling her phone as she waited for the call by Yuri’s butler. Jessica did not like being with strangers and decided to sit at the bar next to Yuri, decided to keep up their fake relationship.

Taeyeon noticed someone approaching her, thinking that Siwon’s plan has started. She placed her phone back in her pocket and crossed her arms, acting arrogant. 

“A pretty girl like you shouldn’t be standing here alone. Having any problems?” The boy asked, sipping his alcoholic beverage.

Taeyeon tucked her hair behind her ear and forced a smile as she turned to the boy next to her. “I’ve been having some sort of problems and it would be great if you would listen to me.”

“Glad to. My name is Jang Wooyoung. I’m sure you are the infamous Kim Taeyeon?”

Taeyeon uncrossed her arms and pushed herself off the rail. “Seems like you have been doing your research.”

Wooyoung chuckled. “I don’t think I had to do any research to know who Kim Taeyeon is. You are practically all over the news that I just can’t get you off of my mind.”

“Why you flatter me,” Taeyeon said, forcing another smile. She looked to the others that were scattered around, noticing that they have already been occupied due to the fake couple being split up.

-*-*-*-*-

The song switched to a slow song and Tiffany had no one to dance with until a man came up to her and asked her for one.

“Can I have a dance with you?” His charming voice and smile was enough to have girls swoon over her, but Tiffany wasn’t moved yet as she grabbed his hand.

“I’d love to.” She placed one hand on his shoulder as her other hand was locked with his. “So, what is your name?”

“My name is Kim Hyun Joong. You must be Tiffany Hwang, am I right?” His soothing voice was ringing into her ears.

Tiffany smiled. “Glad you know.” 

He twirled her around, the hem of her dress flowing with her gently. Hyun Joong stopped twirling her and placed his hands back on her waist. 

“You look really beautiful. Especially with the white dress you have on.”

“And you look really handsome. Especially with the suit you have on.”

Hyun Joong chuckled at how Tiffany copied his sentence, yet with different words. He was lured into her eyes, how it turned into crescents every time she smiles.

“Why don’t we go outside? I saw a small orchestra playing outside and I think it would be much better,” he suggested.

Tiffany smirked, but it was hidden so the orange haired boy could not see. “Sure. I’d love that.”

-*-*-*-*-

From the people’s point of view, they would have thought the two girls were kissing by how closely they were sitting next to each other. Yet, they were actually whispering.

Jessica glanced behind her, noticing a girl and a boy approaching the both of them. “Six o’clock. Girl and boy.” 

Yuri’s eyes averted from Jessica’s to the two newcomers. After noticing that they were a few feet away from them, Yuri gave Jessica a deep kiss on the lips, much to the blonde’s surprise, just to show that they were a couple. Jessica gave in and closed her eyes, feeling the electric sparks and hesitating to wrap her arms around her neck. To her, she always loved being kissed by the tanned girl, yet she always gave her the cold shoulder. 

Yuri broke off the kiss, leaving Jessica disappointed and wanting for more. The two finally approached them as one of them spoke up. “Kwon Yuri. Do you remember me?”

Yuri spun around on her stool and leaned against the counter with her elbows placed on the table. She tilted her head in confusion, Jessica noticing that the act has begun. She looked over to Tiffany on the dance floor; their plan was just beginning to start as she noticed the brunette walking out of the house with an orange haired boy next to her. She looked over to Taeyeon and the boy next to her, also noticing that they are walking out. 

“Excuse me, would you care for a drink?” A charming voice was ringing into Jessica’s ears, but how much she wanted to listen to the husky voice of the girl next to her instead.

“Sorry, I don’t drink.” Jessica declined the offer to the man sitting down next to her. She noticed that Yuri was being dragged by the girl who had just come earlier.

“That’s a bummer. Why not try at least one? I know this great alcoholic beverage that is great for beginning drinkers.” 

Jessica spun in her chair and unintentionally glared at the boy, chills running up his spine. “Fine. I’ll try this drink of yours.”

The boy smiled and called the bartender to give the blonde a drink. “My name is Park Jaebeom. Is the girl sitting next to you earlier your girlfriend?”

Jessica smiled, it was real this time whenever someone mentioned about her fake girlfriend. “Yes she is. I hope you are not uncomfortable about that.”

“Oh no,” Jaebeom disagreed. “I have nothing against that. My sister has a girlfriend too.”

“So you are comfortable by how we were kissing earlier?” Jessica asked, not believing she was conversing with the boy next to her. 

The bartender placed the drinks in front of them, Jaebeom sliding the drink over to Jessica. “It’s a great drink. One of my favorites.”

Jessica picked up the drink and sipped it. She lied. She does drink and she was a great drinker. She knew the boy’s intention next to her and noticed the strong smell and bitter taste of the alcohol from the beverage she was drinking. She knew the plan was to make her drunk and possibly do things to her she wished that she would never know. 

She placed the drink down, Jaebeom looking at her just to see her reaction. “How is it?”

Jessica turned to look at him and forced a cold smile. “It’s great. I like your taste.”

Jaebeom smiled. “That’s nice. Say, my place has all of these nice alcoholic beverages that I’m sure you would like after drinking this one. Why not come over?”

Jessica raised an eyebrow, not believing that he was moving this fast.

Jaebeom noticed her facial expression and placed his hands in front of him as if he was calming down the girl. “Don’t worry. I am not that kind of guy. You can invite your girlfriend along with you if you want.”

“No it’s fine. I’ll go,” Jessica said, not knowing any other way to bring the boy outside with her.

“Great!” Jaebeom smiled and led the way out.

Jessica glanced over to the tanned girl who was somehow trapping the girl in between her and the wall. She knew she was using her own charms and her flirtatious ways to lure the girl outside, but she felt a pang of jealousy and heartache.

-*-*-*-*-

“So you really don’t remember me, Kwon Yuri. It’s me, Park Hyomin,” the girl introduced herself.

Yuri was awed to how similar the girl looks to Jessica. She though the alcohol was doing the trick, making her see a double Jessica. She felt a hand on her wrist and being dragged to the far right where no one occupied. Hyomin released her grip and looked at the tanned girl.

“No. I’m sorry I don’t remember you but why don’t we start anew?” Yuri said, walking up to the girl.

“Start anew?” Hyomin asked; her back coming in contact with the cold wall.

“Yeah, you know. Like a new relationship,” Yuri whispered, still walking closer even though there were inches left between them.

“D-don’t you have a relationship already?” Hyomin stammered, she mentally slapped herself for doing so.

“It doesn’t matter.” Yuri smirked, noticing the girl’s short breathing. She knew she was making the girl feeling uneasy.

She grabbed the girl’s wrist and pulled her to the door. “I know this great place where we can just talk. Perhaps you could help me remember you?”

Hyomin gasped, knowing that her plan was not going as planned. She was already outside before she could even go back. Yuri crossed her arms and smirked, pulling out her phone. She dialed a familiar number and placed it against her ear, waiting for her best friend to pick up.

“Tae?” Yuri placed an arm around Hyomin’s shoulder. 

“We got everyone here, Yuri. Are you almost done? You better not be kissing the girl.”

Yuri chuckled. “I’m on my way.”

She shut her phone and looked into Hyomin’s eyes. She devilishly grinned, noticing her butler’s assistants walking up to her.

“Miss Kwon, is she your companion?” A man dressed in a slick suit with shades asked.

Yuri nodded and winked, indicating that the girl next to her was the target of the plan. Hyomin regretted having to agree to go with the plan. She already failed on doing so, knowing that she was going somewhere else than where Siwon had commanded her to.

They both got into a black luxurious car, the both of them sitting in the back seat alone with Yuri’s butler as the driver. He drove off the curb, knowing where to go since he was also part of the plan.

Yuri glanced to the girl next to her and leaned in whispering, “No need to be afraid. You’ll be back in one piece.”

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Chapter 18 - My Virginity! No I'm Still Pure

“Isn’t this an old warehouse?” Hyomin asked as she stepped outside the car, slowly walking towards the wrecked building.

Right behind her, Yuri’s butler threw Yuri a gun. Yuri placed the metallic weapon against Hyomin’s neck, chills traveling down the latter’s spine. She turned around and faced the tanned girl with horrific eyes.

“Yah! What are you doing?” Hyomin shouted, panicking.

Yuri chuckled and placed the gun back onto her neck. Before Hyomin could even push the gun away, Yuri pulled the trigger, the dart stuck into Hyomin’s neck. “This is what happens when you mess with me.”

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked into the warehouse while dragging an unconscious Hyomin. Her butler and bodyguards were following behind; making sure no one would interrupt them. Yuri noticed that the tranquilizer gun did not last long by the likes of the three victims already awake. She placed Hyomin onto the chair next to the third boy, both Jessica and Tiffany walking over to tie up the look alike.

Taeyeon walked up to the boy on the far left and ripped off the duct tape, the boy wincing in pain. 

“Tell me, did Siwon tell you to do this?” She asked. 

Wooyoung scoffed. “I ain’t going to tell you.”

Yuri walked behind the boy, pulling out a real gun from her jeans. Tiffany’s and Jessica’s eyes widened in shock, also having the victims panic in fear by their widened eyes. Yuri cocked the gun and placed the muzzle against Wooyoung’s head. His lips quivered in fear as he knew what the metallic, cold weapon was pressed against his head.

“If you don’t tell us.” Yuri leaned in against Wooyoung’s head. “I might as well just shoot you to death.”

“P-p-p-please don’t shoo-shoot m-me. I-it’s true. Siwon and his si-sister Sunye p-p-put us u-up to this.” He stammered, closing his eyes shut waiting for the bullet to go through his head.

He had watched movies where the exact same scene was happening. Except that they would die either way even if they had told the truth.

“Now tell me.” Taeyeon placed the duct tape back on his mouth and walked over to the other boy next to him. She ripped off the duct tape, Hyun Joong wincing in pain as he hissed. “What is this plan you planned to do to Tiffany?”

Not wanting to get shot in the head, he divulged his plan against the brunette. “I was to approach her and do everything I had to do to lure her outside and then lead her to this place Siwon told us to.”

Jessica flipped out her phone. “Do you still have Siwon’s number, Tiff?”

“No. I deleted it,” Tiffany coldly said, much to the blonde’s notice.

Jessica looked through her contacts, thinking that she still may have the man’s number. She smirked as she realized she still does and dialed his number. She placed her phone against her ear, her left arm crossed as her right elbow was resting on top of it.

“Hello?”

“Good evening, Choi Siwon,” she said, Taeyeon placed the duct tape back on Hyun Joong’s lips as she listening attentively to the conversation. 

Jessica put her phone on speaker as she placed it on the wooden table, Siwon’s voice echoed in the building. 

“Who is this?” 

Taeyeon walked over and signaled that she would take over from now. Jessica nodded and walked back to where Tiffany was, Yuri twirling her gun in the air with her index finger.

Taeyeon chuckled into the phone. “How funny that you cannot recognize a person’s voice over the phone.”

“Kim Taeyeon…” 

“I know your plan over this. If you want to save your fellow friends come to the old warehouse.”

“Old warehouse? You mean the one that we duke it out once?” 

“Yes that one. You better come here in fifteen minutes if you don’t want to see your poor little friends lying in their own pool of blood.”

She hung up the phone before Siwon could even utter a word. The victims were shivering in fear, hoping that the man does come at the desired time. Yuri placed the gun in the back of her jeans, the handle sticking out. As if he had superhuman powers, Siwon busted the door open with his three companions.

His eyes widened in shock looking at his so called workers tied to the chair, one of them unconscious. The others were no different.

“How did you do all of this?” He uttered, his lips somehow trembling.

“Say hello to butler Lee,” Yuri introduced as she placed her hands on her butler’s shoulder.

“And say hello to Mr. Tranquilizer,” Taeyeon said, placing the gun in front of her.

“Release them now!” Sunye yelled, Taeyeon chuckling.

She wagged her finger in the air as she shook her head. “It’s not going to be that easy.”

“What do you want?” Siwon asked, finally giving up this game. He did not want to save himself and leave the four others to die.

“Stop messing with us,” Jessica coldly said, mostly directed to the boy standing next to the Chinese girl.

“Stop messing with our father’s companies,” Tiffany added.

“And go fall in a ditch,” Yuri jokingly finished, smiling widely.

“F-fine, we will stop messing with you and your father’s companies,” Siwon said in defeat, the others not believing he was giving up this easily.

“If you don’t do as we say, we might as well put your company into a deeper financial crisis. Isn’t that your punishment, Choi Siwon?” Taeyeon asked.

Siwon gritted his teeth; the brunette was pushing the limit of his anger. 

“You might as well just drop to your knees and beg.” Jessica crossed her arms as she walked around. 

Taeyeon walked up to face her worst enemy, looking up to him in the eye since he was much taller. “I don’t want to put your company into a deeper financial crisis because I am not that evil. But if I had to, I will and you will turn poor and homeless.”

Siwon’s breath was shortened, his knees trembling, threatening his legs to fall. He dropped down to the floor in front of Taeyeon, the younger girl crossing her arms as she stood unmoved, looking at the older man kneeling down in front of her.

“Don’t, I beg of you,” Siwon hesitated to say, his head bowed down hoping that the girl will not destroy his company. 

His companions looked at him, never seeing the older man in a state like this. He was always the strong one, never willing to give up, but Taeyeon pushed the button. They followed suit, dropping to their knees and bowing down.

“Don’t put his company into a financial crisis,” Donghae said, “It will hurt us too.”

Tiffany watched as all four of them bowed in front of Taeyeon. She felt guilty for doing this and she was not the type to kidnap people and shoot them with tranquilizer guns. Well, Taeyeon did all the work. She was a helpful person, the type of person that wants peace. 

“Stand up,” Taeyeon ordered, immediately all four of them did as if she was their master. “I’m watching you. Go and take your worthless friends. Team Taeyeon just won this game too.”

She walked out of the warehouse, the three girls and Yuri’s butler and bodyguards following along. Siwon sighed in defeat and looked up at the ceiling.

“I can’t give up like this.”

-*-*-*-*-

“Oh my, I need a drink from all of this work,” Yuri complained, fanning herself. 

“You barely did anything,” Taeyeon said, walking towards her car. “But I am in the mood for some alcohol.”

“You better not get drunk. We have class tomorrow,” Tiffany warned sitting in the passenger seat as Yuri and Jessica walked to their own car.

Taeyeon sat in the driver’s seat and started up the engine, the car roaring to life. “You’re drinking too.”

Tiffany turned to look at her, shocked. “What? What for?”

“To celebrate. We finally got that jerk off our backs and we can live peacefully, for now.” 

“For now?”

“I don’t know.” Taeyeon turned the steering wheel and drove out from the premises of the warehouse, butler Lee following behind. “I just don’t trust that Choi Siwon. I always think he is up to no good, even if he begged.”

“He never begged his life. He was always the strong one, the one never giving up,” Tiffany mumbled.

“Seems like his company is his life then.”

Tiffany shifted in her seat, not uncomfortable with the topic they are talking about. “Can we not talk about him? I promised myself to never speak of him again.”

“Okay, sorry for bringing him up.” Taeyeon apologized, smiling.

Tiffany glanced and caught her smile. Her heart raced uncontrollably, wanting to burst out of her chest. She placed her hand on her chest, her breathing shorten as if she could not breathe. Taeyeon took notice as she stole a few glances at her.

“Are you okay?” She asked, concerned.

“Yeah… I’m fine,” Tiffany said and smiled to cover up her state.

Taeyeon took a look at her eye smile, her arms somehow trembling. She felt weak at that smile. She shook her head a few times and took a deep breath, thinking that it was her thinking only, not her feelings.

She arrived at a liquor store, shutting off the engine. “I’m going to buy a couple of stuff, wait here okay?”

Tiffany nodded and watched as Taeyeon got off the car and walked to the liquor store. She leaned back against her seat and took a deep breath, closing her eyes.

“It’s that same feeling again… Perhaps…” She shot her eyes open. “No way.”

-*-*-*-*-

“Cheers for winning against Siwon two times!” Yuri drunkenly said, clanking her glass cup against the others. 

Jessica smiled. She had too much to drink than her usual limit and her cheeks were rosy red. She felt as if she was going to pass out any second now. Yuri was no different. Her words were slurring whenever she spoke and she could not keep her eyes open. Tiffany was fine, though she did have the same amount of drinks as the both of them. Taeyeon looked at her in awe, not believing she was not drunk yet.

They were in Taeyeon’s and Tiffany’s dorm, drinking the alcohol beverages Taeyeon had bought earlier. They were seated on the floor with their drinks on the table, unintentionally letting out hiccups and giggles. Mostly from Yuri and Jessica. Yuri lustfully eyed the blonde, the latter not taking notice since she was swaying from side to side, her eyes threatening to close. 

“You are one good drinker,” Taeyeon complimented the brunette next to her.

“Thanks, I’ve been told that a few times.” Tiffany chuckled and smiled.

“You got to watch out for Yuri though,” Taeyeon warned, pointing at the tanned girl who was leaning towards the blonde.

“Why?”

“She can get pretty wild when she’s drunk.”

“What do you—“

They both saw Yuri straddling the blonde, kissing her roughly on the lips. Tiffany’s eyes widened to shock, almost standing up to stop the tanned girl but Taeyeon grabbed her wrist, pulling her down.

“Are you used to this already?” Tiffany asked.

“Yeah, I have been kissed a few times by that wild girl.” Taeyeon chuckled.

“What makes her stop?”

“Jessica or someone has to slap her.”

“Well, that is easy for her to do, but she’s drunk too. And I’m quite surprised Jessi is drunk since she beats me to drinking every time.” Tiffany leaned against the edge of the couch, sipping her drink.

“And that won’t happen anytime soon,” Taeyeon commented.

Jessica responded to the kiss, wrapping her arms around the younger girl’s neck. She deepened the kiss by pulling her towards her, their bodies pressed together. 

“Can you slap her? I’m afraid Yuri might go further than that,” Tiffany asked.

Taeyeon stood up and pushed Yuri off of Jessica, slapping her on the cheeks a few times. Yuri was unconscious after the slap, the blonde’s eyes fluttered open after noticing that the weight has gotten off of her.

“I wouldn’t want to take Yuri out to drink if she has problems. That is unless you want to kiss her unconsciously,” Taeyeon said and sat on the couch. 

“I’ll keep that in mind.” Tiffany giggled, feeling slightly dizzy.

Taeyeon, who only drank one cup, looked over to the brunette who was acting just like the other two.

“Are you feeling dizzy?” 

Tiffany giggled once again. “Uh, yeah I guess I better stop drinking now.”

“I’ll clean up, you can go to sleep.” Taeyeon picked up the glasses and put them in the sink. 

“But I should help.” Tiffany stood up, but she was wobbling from side to side.

Taeyeon rushed over and held her by the shoulders. “You don’t seem fine. Just take a rest. I got all of this under control.”

Tiffany pouted and nodded. She wobbled over to her room, leaning against the wall for support. Taeyeon watched her from behind so she would not fall over. After Tiffany had entered her room, Taeyeon went back to cleaning up the table. She chuckled at the sight of Jessica snuggling close to Yuri, her head resting on her chest as her arm was draped over her waist.

“Cute,” she commented and placed the half empty bottles in the fridge.

She walked back to the living room and scratched her head, not knowing what to do with the two drunken sleeping girls. She came up with an idea, pulling out her cell phone. She snapped pictures of the two girls sleeping together, closely and tightly. She placed her phone back into her pocket after taking enough pictures.

“Now what do I do with them?” She asked herself. 

She decided to leave them sleeping on the floor, knowing that she cannot pick up the two girls without help. She walked to her room and took out a spare blanket from her closet and walked back. She placed the blanket over the two, Yuri shifting in her sleep, placing her arm around Jessica’s shoulder protectively. Jessica responded unconsciously, her head placed in the crook of Yuri’s neck, steadily breathing against it.

Taeyeon bent down and patted both of them on the heads, wishing them a good night before turning off the lights. She walked over to Tiffany’s room and slowly opened the door to check up on the girl to see if she had made it to her bed. Tiffany was sleeping peacefully with the blankets draped over her, a smile on her lips. Taeyeon smiled and closed the door, walking to her own room.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica woke up, but did not open her eyes. She decided to sleep a little longer, pulling to what she thought was a pillow closer to her. Her pillow moved, feeling something on her waist. She furrowed her eyebrows.

Pillows can’t move…

She slowly opened her eyes, the sight of a tanned skin in front of her. She sat up abruptly, her eyes widened in shock noticing that she had slept with the tanned girl.

“OH MY GAWD, PERVERT!” She yelled, slapping the girl on her arms. 

Yuri’s eyes shot open, wincing in pain each time the blonde had slapped her. “St-st-stop!”

“Pervert, pervert, pervert!” Jessica repeated herself while slapping the younger girl, backing away from Yuri, protectively putting her arms on her chest.

She looked down, noticing that her dress was still on, but the hem of the dress was slightly pulled up. Yuri sat up and held her head, groaning in pain. She was experiencing a hangover and now even more pain due to the frantic slapping by the blonde.

“You… We… didn’t… do what we did… I thought we did… right?” Jessica stuttered.

Both Tiffany and Taeyeon barged out of their rooms after hearing screaming in the living room. They sighed in relief, knowing that this would happen.

“TIFF!” Jessica stood up and hugged her best friend, wailing and crying on her shoulders.

Tiffany looked confused, glancing at Taeyeon who just shrugged. She patted Jessica on the back, not believing that the ice princess was acting this way. Yuri stood up from the floor and sat on the couch, still holding onto her head.

“Tae, can you get me some water?” She asked.

Taeyeon nodded and walked to the kitchen, filling up a cup with cold, ice water.

“I t-think I lost my v-virginity!” Jessica cried, sobbing onto Tiffany’s shoulder. “AND TO YURI NO LESS!”

Yuri removed her hands from her head. “Relax will you? It’s not like sleeping with me is a bad thing.”

“Besides,” she continued. “I don’t even think I did it with you.” 

Jessica removed herself from Tiffany and stomped over to where Yuri was. She pointed at her own neck; the red love mark was highly visible. “Then explain this!”

“It’s a… hickey…” Yuri slowly said, “Not like a symbol that I did it with you.”

She stood up and leaned in towards the blonde, whispering, “You would have been naked if we did.”

Jessica’s eyes widened in shock. She pushed the tanned girl away, Yuri plopping down onto the couch, chuckling. Taeyeon came back with a glass of cold, ice water, handing it towards Yuri who gulped it down. She sat down next to Yuri playing with her phone as she heard the whole situation.

“It’s true Jessica. You would have been naked. Butt naked,” Taeyeon said, not looking away from her phone.

“Why? Were you a victim?” Jessica asked.

“Almost. If it weren’t for me slapping her.” Taeyeon turned and nodded her head towards Yuri.

Yuri raised an eyebrow while drinking her water. Tiffany sighed and walked over to Jessica, placing her hands on her shoulders.

“It’s not the end of the world type of thing.”

Jessica glared at her assaulter, who winked and smiled at her. She sneered and walked back to her dorm, not forgetting to give her an I-am-watching-you look. Yuri placed the cup down and smiled. 

“Thanks for the water. I’m going to get ready for class now,” she said and walked back to her dorm.

Tiffany sighed and sat down next to Taeyeon. “They’re having a love-hate relationship.”

“It’s so obvious,” Taeyeon said, “Look.”

She gave Tiffany her phone, the latter looking at the picture she had taken last night. It was the pictures of Yuri and Jessica peacefully sleeping next to each other.

“They look so cute,” she commented with a smile.

“That’s what I said.” Taeyeon smiled and stood up. “Let’s get dressed for school.”

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Chapter 19 - Cold-Hearted? Everyone Has Feelings

A week has passed ever since the kidnapping and luring to the warehouse. Both Yuri and Jessica sighed to themselves, yet they were in their own respective rooms. Today was the day they will help start building the amusement park along with their exes, Victoria and Donghae.

Both Taeyeon and Tiffany were in separate classes, concentrating on their studies while the other couple with the love-hate relationship was off schedule today. Tiffany was wearing her spectacles, listening to the professor as she tapped the end of her pencil against her chin. She sighed in frustration. Oh, how much she dreaded this class she was taking which happened to be the Korean course.

Taeyeon was next door to Tiffany, studying Business. Tiffany figured it might have to do something with her company.

-*-*-*-*-

“Oh.”

“My.”

“God.”

Yuri, Jessica, Victoria, and Donghae were standing in front of the caution tape, their mouth agape as they looked at the amusement park they were going to rebuild.

“It wasn’t this... ugly before,” Jessica mumbled.

“What happened?” Yuri asked.

Mr. Kwon walked up behind them with his hands folded behind his back. He chuckled at the expressions the four had. “I had a crew come in and break everything down.”

“But weren’t some of the buildings good?” Donghae asked.

Everything beyond the yellow caution tape was demolished, the buildings were crumbled down and what everyone could see was only pieces of bricks, sand, and the fences along the perimeter of the amusement park. 

“Yes, some were, but they were not my liking,” Mr. Kwon replied.

Yuri groaned, knowing that if her father found something in good condition, yet it was not his type, he would throw it away or demolish it immediately. 

“Well.” Mr. Kwon let out a sigh. “Get working kids.”

A crew member walked towards them with red and blue jumpsuits in their hands and construction hats. Jessica had a short, blue jumpsuit, Yuri had a red jumpsuit, Victoria also had a red one while Donghae had the last, blue one. 

“We have to wear these?” Jessica looked at the outfits in disgust.

“Well, you don’t want to ruin the clothes on your back, do you?” Mr. Kwon remarked.

Jessica sighed. Yuri glanced at her and noticed something had changed about the older girl. Her hair color.

“Was your hair always brown? I thought it was blonde,” Yuri mentioned.

“I dyed it yesterday for your information,” Jessica muttered. 

Yuri smirked. She started heading towards the restroom that was not demolished. She stopped behind Jessica and whispered, “You still look hot.”

She quickly walked on before Jessica could even understand what she said. It sucks to be slow sometimes.

“Yah! Kwon Yuri!” 

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica pouted and stepped outside of the restroom. She was dressed in a blue, short jumpsuit with a white tank top. The jumpsuit ends at the middle of her thighs, showing off her legs as she wore a pair of white high top Nikes. There was no back of her jumpsuit which caused her to move uncomfortably, but thank god for tank tops. Her bangs were clipped back while the rest of her hair was let down.

Yuri stepped out of the restroom after Jessica, dressed in a red jumpsuit with her half top like a sports bra showing off. She figured she would work hard, breaking sweat and be in need to strip out half of her jumpsuit which is why the top half was tied around her waist. She had no need to change as she just slipped on the jumpsuit, except to strip out of her shirt. She stretched her body as she bend backwards, her midriff glistening due to the sun. 

Victoria came out after, dressed in the same jumpsuit as Yuri’s except she kept the top half on. She unbuttoned the buttons and rolled up the sleeves with her hair tied in a ponytail. Donghae came out from the boy side of the restroom, also dressed in the same style jumpsuit as them but blue. He rolled up the sleeves and unbuttoned the buttons, dressed exactly like Victoria. 

All four of them received a pair of leather work gloves to pick up the bricks and other materials that were sure to cut their hands. After slipping on the gloves, they picked up their white, construction hats and strapped them on their chins, ready to work.

“Why am I the only one dressed in this kind?” Jessica asked herself. 

“Okay kids!” Mr. Kwon walked up to them, the only man in the amusement park dressed in a slick, smart suit along with Mr. Jung.

“Are you guys ready to work?” Mr. Jung asked.

“Yes!” They all shouted.

“Alright, chop chop!” Mr. Jung clapped his hands for each word, the four of them rushing out to pick up the bricks and putting them in wagon carts, dropping them at one side. 

Both Yuri and Jessica decided to work together, knowing all too well that they do not want to work with their exes who tried to scheme them. Jessica pushed the wagon cart as Yuri picked up bricks and placed them inside along the way. They were too concentrated on their work that they did not notice the other two workers were spying on them.

The other construction workers helped out while some continued knocking down buildings with a bulldozer. Mr. Kwon and Mr. Jung stepped out from the premises of the amusement park, watching the construction workers working as they peeked through the caution tape. 

Yuri threw one brick into the wagon cart aimlessly, bending down to pick up another brick. Jessica saw the brick Yuri threw earlier that was aiming towards her arm, yet she could not released her grip on the handles of the wagon cart on time as the brick scraped against her arm, making her release a shrill shriek.

“Yah! Watch where you’re throwing!”

Yuri glanced behind her and saw the auburn haired girl holding onto her arm which had a white mark on it, slowly turning into a red one. Yuri dropped the brick and took off her gloves, trapping it between her side and the side of her elbow as she grabbed Jessica’s arm.

“Let me see.” Yuri looking closely into Jessica’s arm, noticing the fresh blood oozing out from her wound.

They were so close to each other that the other workers would have thought they were kissing and slacking off. Yuri pulled Jessica into the restroom and put the older girl’s arm under the faucet at the sink, turning on the water. Jessica hissed as the lukewarm water came in contact with her skin and her fresh wound.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to,” Yuri apologized; washing Jessica’s wound as she wiped the blood with her fingers.

Jessica looked at Yuri’s concentrated expression, a side she has never seen before. She thought that Yuri’s caring side has kicked in. After all, she did cause the wound. She blushed as Yuri stepped closer towards her, their arms brushing against each other as the latter continued to clean the wound. 

Jessica jerked her arm back which caused the tanned girl to look at her in confusion.

“I-I can clean it myself…” she mumbled, holding onto her soaking, wet arm.

Yuri nodded and flicked the water off of her hand, grabbing paper towels as she dried her hand. She left the restroom as she continued to pick up the bricks on her own, leaving Jessica alone to clean her wound. 

Jessica turned off the faucet and grabbed a few paper towels, placing it onto her cut. She was spacing out once again, thinking about how Yuri was caring for her. She always thought the tanned girl was the type to never care about others.

Maybe she’s not so bad after all…

-*-*-*-*-

Once Yuri stepped out of the bathroom and turned the corner, she was taken aback by the two figures standing against the wall.

“What the heck were you doing? Spying on us?” She asked with her eyes narrowing at them.

Donghae cleared his throat while Victoria rubbed the back of her neck in embarrassment of being caught. They were indeed spying on the two of them, wanting to know if there was a chance to ever get back their ex lovers. 

“None of your business, Kwon Yuri. I wasn’t spying on you,” Donghae spat out. 

“Jessica is my business. Still so determined, huh? Well let me say this too, mind your own god dang business.” 

Yuri threw the used paper towels down onto the floor and walked back to the wagon cart where she threw the bricks at. Jessica walked out of the bathroom while drying her hands and just like Yuri, she was startled at how close the two people were right when she turned the corner.

Instead of confronting them, Jessica ignored them and walked to where Yuri was until Donghae reached out and grabbed her wounded arm. Jessica hissed in pain and retracted her hand, slapping Donghae in the process. She did not feel bad for slapping the man in the face; in fact, she felt that he deserved it.

“Don’t ever touch me again,” she coldly said and hurried back to where Yuri was. 

Donghae held onto his stinging cheek, watching as Jessica pushed the cart and Yuri throwing the bricks into them. Victoria bit down on her lower lip.

“You okay?” She asked in concern.

“I’m fine. All I need to do is to get rid of Kwon Yuri and Princess will be mine.”

-*-*-*-*-

“Are you okay?” Yuri asked as she continued to throw bricks, but this time watching where she threw them.

“Why are you acting like this?” 

Yuri stopped throwing the bricks and straightened her back. “What do you mean?”

“What I mean is—“ 

Jessica could not finish her sentence as she watched Yuri take off her gloves, stretching her back. Her eyes were traveling down to Yuri’s bare midriff, glistening due to the sweat she was producing. Jessica too was sweating, yet it was not because of the heat.

“What you mean is what?” Yuri finally stopped stretching which brought Jessica back to her senses.

“What I mean is why are you suddenly caring for me?” Jessica finally asked, looking away from the tanned girl as she did, a shade of red appearing on her face. 

“Well, do you want me to just stand there and watch you bleed while I was the cause for it?”

“So you’d do the same for anyone?” 

“Duh. I’m not that mean.”

Yuri smiled at her while she continued to pick up the bricks. 

“Yuri, why are you a player?” Jessica blurted out which caused Yuri to drop the bricks down onto the floor.

“Funny, Tiffany asked me the same question.”

“What did you say?” 

Yuri turned around and gripped onto the edges of the cart. “It’s a secret why I am one.”

“But,” she continued, picking up the bricks and looked at it. “Someone might actually change me back into the person I was before I was a player.”

“Who?”

“Just a girl I've fallen in love with.”

-*-*-*-*-

After all the brick picking, they were all placed to one side of the amusement park as the rest of the construction workers swept up the place, picking up the small particles of the bricks. Yuri and Jessica stood on one side as they watched one of the construction workers controlling the controls of the wheel loader, the machine moving upwards as the bucket scooped up the bricks. 

Donghae and Victoria were on the other side, knowing that if they were close to the other couple, they would back away immediately. 

“Alright! Yuri, Jessica, Donghae, Victoria come over here!” Mr. Kwon yelled out as he stood in the middle of the four, the four of them running to where he was standing.

“This is enough for today,” he announced, everyone letting out a sigh of relief. “Next week we will start building according to your guy’s final draft. Yuri and Donghae will help out build the rides while Victoria and Jessica will help out build the games and booths. Once it is all done, we will have you test them too.” 

Yuri clenched her jaw, much to Jessica’s notice. They both had to work with each other’s exes, knowing that it would not go so well.

“Um, father, is there a way we can switch partners?” Yuri suggested. 

Mr. Kwon turned his head and gave his daughter a stern look which startled her. “Like I said, don’t let your personal matters get involved with your work.” 

“Now,” he continued, “I want everyone to be here next week 8 AM sharp. That is when you guys do not have classes, correct?”

Everyone nodded and headed towards the bathroom to change after being dismissed. Jessica let out a groan. She despised the girl she was working with as much as she despised Donghae. She figured she would work alone instead and not cooperate with the Chinese girl. 

Yuri sighed and scratched the back of her head. She once had a good relationship with Donghae, but it all came crashing down ever since he had insulted her, hard. It led to the usual, fighting. They were both equally good, but Yuri mostly won most of the matches since she always strike the first hit. 

How can I work with him? 

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon walked out of the class, the straps of her bag slung over her shoulder. Even though she has been a student for months, there were still students looking in awe as if she was a goddess. On her way back to the dormitory building, she spotted Tiffany walking out of the classroom ahead of her. She sped up her walking pace, figuring that she would walk with the taller girl instead.

“Hey Tiffany,” she said, slightly startling her.

Tiffany turned around and weakly smiled after realizing it was just her roommate. “Hey, done with class?”

“Yeah, what do you think Yuri and Jessica are doing?” Taeyeon asked.

“Probably glaring at Victoria and Donghae,” Tiffany joked, yet she didn’t realize she was telling the truth. “Let me text Jess to find out.”

She took out her phone from her bag, sliding the phone upwards as she started to tap on the keyboard. Taeyeon, on the other hand, tried to focus looking ahead instead of taking peeks at Tiffany’s phone. She did not want to have an impression of invading someone’s privacy.

From: Tiff

Time: 4:24 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

U guys done?

A few minutes later, Tiffany had received a text back from Jessica.

From: Jess

Time: 4:27 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

Yeah… I’m with Yuri right now. Where r u?

From: Tiff

Time: 4:30 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

Just ended class, goin to head back to the dorms wit Taeyeon. Did Yuri pull a move on u? 

From: Jess

Time: 4:33 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

U wish. Girl’s been acting weird.

From: Tiff

Time: 4:34 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

Idk Jess… u 2 had quite an interesting relationship tog.

From: Jess

Time: 4:40 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

………….. What?

“Oh, you are kidding me,” Tiffany blurted out.

By the time Tiffany was texting Jessica, she and Taeyeon had already reached their dorm rooms.

“What did Jessica say?” Taeyeon asked.

“She said she’s with Yuri right now. Probably heading back to the dorms.”

Taeyeon nodded in response, heading to her room while Tiffany went to her own. She let out a sigh as she dropped her bag onto the chair, crashing down onto her bed. She was about to drift off to sleep until she remembered she had a meeting with her father today.

A week ago, Taeyeon was driving her car towards a familiar building. She parked in the underground parking lot and stepped out of her car, locking it as the noise echoed. She walked towards the elevator and pressed the up button, stepping inside as she waiting patiently for it to rise up to the main floor. 

Today, she had decided she would talk to her father. She knew her father could not possibly get another heir or heiress to run the company, knowing how much trust he puts into people and only such limited people gained his respect and trust. 

The elevator door slid open as she stayed inside, seeing people entering the elevator and noticing her as the Kim’s daughter. She smiled and bowed to the older workers who acknowledged her, showing respect as her father’s daughter. She waited as the elevator rose to the 15th floor, tapping her foot to the rhythm of the elevator music.

A few minutes later, the elevator door opened as she quickly rushed out of the elevator and down the halls where her father’s office is. She opened the door and saw her father’s secretary working on documents in the small room. The secretary took notice of her as she stopped working on the documents and stood up, bowing to Taeyeon. Taeyeon slightly bowed in response and walked onto the next room, finally where her father’s office is.

She twisted the golden door knob and slowly opened the huge, mahogany door and closed it. Up ahead was her father busily writing on documents that he did not take notice of his daughter.

“Father,” Taeyeon said as she walked towards his desk, gaining his attention.

“Taeyeon…” He set down his pen besides the stacks of papers and watched as Taeyeon took a seat in front of the desk.

“Have you decided?” He asked the young girl.

Taeyeon let out a sigh. She was hesitating to give out her answer. She looked up and saw her father slightly raise his eyebrows, seeing the wrinkles on his forehead.

“I’ve decided… I’ll come back to the company,” she finally let out. 

Her father’s eyes slightly widened at her response. He expected that Taeyeon would not come back since she wanted time away from the company. 

“Taeyeon…”He began, but Taeyeon cut him off.

“I know you don’t put your trust in other people to become an heir or heiress besides me aside from Yuri, but she has her own company. So, I’ve decided to carry on the family company and help out. This is my final decision.” 

Taeyeon looked up and her eyes met with her father’s. She knew he was getting old, soon to be gone and the company will pass down to Taeyeon. She did not come back to carry on the generation, but seeing how weak and old her father was, was heartbreaking for her. Something she had not felt in a long time after her mother. 

She stood up from her chair. “I’ll be going now.”

Taeyeon started heading towards the door before hearing her father calling her. “There’s a meeting with the Choi’s next week. It just us and them, the Kwon’s, Hwang’s, or Jung’s will not be attending even though Yuri, Hwang Tiffany, and Jung Jessica is a part of it. Turns out the misunderstanding is still yet to be cleared out.”

Taeyeon continued to walk on and her father took that as a response as she understood. It always turns out this way. Taeyeon and her father never had a strong father-daughter relationship. It was more as a boss-employee relationship.

Taeyeon stood up and walked to her closet, picking out smart, business clothing to wear for the meeting with the Choi’s tonight. After finally picking one, she walked towards the bathroom, ready to face Choi Siwon once again.

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Chapter 20 - My Feelings Are Clear For You

Jessica sat on the couch, scrolling through her phone while Yuri was sitting next to her, flipping through the channels on the television. As she was reviewing her texts with Tiffany, she had asked the younger girl what ‘idk’ means.

From: Tiff

Time: 4:57 PM

Date: June 22, 2010

I don’t know

“What?! How can she not know?” Jessica blurted out.

Yuri glanced over to the frustrated girl. “What?”

“Yah, what does ‘idk’ mean?”

“I don’t know,” Yuri answered.

Jessica stood up abruptly which startled the tanned girl, stomping her way to her room. “Gosh! No one knows!”

Yuri shrugged her shoulders as she watched Jessica slammed her door, averting her attention back to the television. From the corner of her eye, she could see Jessica’s phone blinking.

“She must’ve left it here…” She muttered.

Yuri tried to focus back on the television, but there was something urging the tanned girl to look through her phone.

“No! It’s going to invade her privacy. Focus Yuri!”

Subconsciously, her fingers were creeping on the couch and latched itself onto Jessica’s blackberry. Yuri quickly dropped the phone after coming back to her senses, grabbing onto the edge of the couch. 

“I wasn’t like this before!” Yuri continued muttering and growling to herself as her knuckles was turning white from the forceful grip on the couch.

She released her grip from the couch as her hand quickly grabbed Jessica’s phone once again.

“Well, it won’t hurt for a peek…”

Yuri unlocked Jessica’s phone by touching the lock symbol on the screen. Her wallpaper came into view and she was shocked to notice that her wallpaper was the same. She quickly whipped out her phone from her pocket, comparing the two wallpapers.

“She must’ve got it from Tae, but how?”

“Hey Tae buddy!” Yuri barged into the dorm room from the connected door, plopping down onto the couch as if it was her own dorm.

“Good thing you yelled or I would’ve thought you were some burglar,” Taeyeon quipped, walking out from her own room with a glass of water. 

Yuri turned on the television, looking for something interesting to watch. Taeyeon sat down next to her before placing her glass on the cork coaster.

“What are you doing here?” Taeyeon asked.

“I got bored,” Yuri nonchalantly replied. 

She turned towards Taeyeon and started to whine against her. “Tae~! I’m so bored! I thought university life was supposed to be fun with all those parties!”

“Yuri, we are in SoShi University, okay? There are not many parties here besides the end of the school year.” 

Yuri groaned. “Can I play with your phone?”

Taeyeon grabbed her phone out from her pocket and handed it towards Yuri. Yuri smiled widely and gladly accepted the phone and instead of playing games like she normally does, she decided to see how many ghost pictures she took. But instead of finding pictures to the maximum brightness, she found pictures of herself and Jessica sleeping together. She raised an eyebrow as she threw a glance towards her best friend who was oblivious to her intentions as she was sipping her glass of water and watching the television.

Yuri pulled out her phone from her pocket and transferred the pictures from Taeyeon’s phone to her phone. She smiled sinisterly as if she committed a crime. After the transferring process was complete, she handed the phone back to Taeyeon.

“Well, I’m going to go back now!” 

Taeyeon looked at her in amusement, wondering how Yuri’s boredom could be vanished so quickly.

“Or did Tiffany have the pictures too?” Yuri wondered to herself before hearing Jessica’s door creak.

She threw the phone aimlessly and continued her position, her right hand under her chin as her left hand was flipping the channels on the remote.

“Have you seen my phone?” Jessica asked, patting her pockets as if she was still checking if it was there.

“It’s on the couch,” Yuri replied.

Jessica walked over to the couch and grabbed her phone, smiling. “Ah! There you are!”

She tapped the screen, noticing that it was unlock. Wondering if Yuri had any intentions of snooping through her phone, she asked the tanned girl. “Have you looked through my phone?”

“N-no, why would I do that?” Yuri gulped, ignoring the stare she was receiving.

Jessica stared at her suspiciously as an idea popped up in her mind, trying to get the younger girl to confess. She placed her phone on the table and grabbed the remote out from Yuri’s hand, turning off the television.

“Yah! I was watching!” 

Jessica ignored her as she poked Yuri’s shoulder, pushing her back against the couch. Jessica climbed onto the couch and sat down next to Yuri sideways with her right elbow resting on the head of the couch, her hand resting against her head.

“Yuri, tell me now, did you or did you not look through my phone? I have very personal stuff in there.” 

Yuri turned her head, yet she slightly regretted it since Jessica’s face was dangerously close. Her lips trembled as she tried to find the words to speak but her eyes landed on Jessica’s pink, luscious lips. 

“I-I told you already, I d-didn’t!”

“Why are you stuttering?”

Yuri turned her head. “Cause you’re so close to me!”

Jessica moved closer, her chest brushing against Yuri’s left arm. Yuri stiffened at the contact as her eyes continued focusing inside the kitchen room with her right hand on her forehead.

This is odd… Why is she doing this to me? 

Jessica pouted and bit down on her lower lip. Why isn’t she confessing yet! I thought she loves this kind of thing.

Letting out a soft sigh, Jessica brought up her left hand and grabbed Yuri’s chin. She tried to move the girl’s face towards her, but she just won’t budge. 

“Yah! Kwon Yuri, look at me!”

Using both hands, Jessica cupped Yuri’s cheeks and slightly slid off the couch, her thighs brushing against Yuri’s. Yuri finally looked at the older girl who looked like she was sitting down on the floor in front of her.

“Why are you doing this?” Yuri asked.

“Because I told you, I have very personal stuff in the phone and I can’t have anyone looking through it. Not even Tiff.” 

If she’s talking about the wallpaper, it’s not like anyone would see it… Even though I did. Yuri inwardly smiled at the thought.

“So.” Jessica went back and sat down next to Yuri, except she was much closer this time and her hands were still cupping Yuri’s cheeks. “Be a good girl and tell me the truth.”

“What’s so personal inside your phone that even Tiffany can’t look at?”

“Well, it won’t be personal anymore if I tell you, won’t it?”

Jessica used her left index finger to trace the jaw line of Yuri’s, traveling down her neck, and down her arm. Yuri shivered at the touch. Even though she was enjoying what the older girl was doing to her, it was not like her.

“I won’t answer.”

“Then I’ll torture you till you do.”

This is torture? 

Jessica’s hands latched itself onto Yuri’s already loosened tie as she completely untied it and threw it down onto the floor. She continued the process while changing her position, sitting down on Yuri’s lap. 

“Now tell me before I kill you twice.”

“… I only have one life.”

Jessica rolled her eyes and groaned. She is so enjoying this, isn’t she?

She slowly unbuttoned Yuri’s shirt one by one till she reached the end. Yuri was still unmoved by Jessica’s process of her ‘torture’, but she felt completely different with Jessica than the other girls she had been with.

Jessica leaned in closer, her body slightly touching Yuri’s bare stomach. Her hand grabbed onto the collar of Yuri’s shirt and pulled it down, her hands trembling.

“Are you really doing this to me?” Yuri whispered, her breath tickling Jessica’s neck. 

Yuri’s shirt slid down to her wrists, leaving her clad in her black bra. Jessica’s hands were resting on Yuri’s toned abdomen, feeling the muscle. She bit down on her lower lip as her hands continued to tremble. She was surely new to seducing someone.

“Ugh! I give up!” Jessica got off of Yuri and ran towards her room in embarrassment, leaving Yuri half naked on the couch.

On the other hand, Yuri was fanning herself. “Oh gosh.” 

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon slammed her car door and threw the keys to the young boy dressed in a red suit who was in charge of valet parking.

“If I find anything stolen or my car scratch, you better watch your back,” she threatened as she continued to proceed walking to the restaurant.

The valet boy gulped in fear as he fumbled with the keys he unsuccessfully caught.

Taeyeon opened the double glass doors and walked up the stairs that was on the left side of the restaurant. As she reached the top of the staircase, she noticed that everyone has arrived on time except for her. She walked over to where her father is sitting and sat down next to him, meeting face to face with Choi Siwon.

“Now that Taeyeon is here, let’s get this on, shall we?” Taeyeon’s father said.

Mr. Choi cleared his throat, smoothing out the napkin on his lap. “It appears as though my son, Siwon is at fault for the situation. He, himself had declared to me it wasn’t.”

Taeyeon scoffed and stared at Siwon incredulously. Siwon had the nerve to even lie to his father, no less to the world. 

“Taeyeon, do you have something to say?” Mr. Kim asked, noticing Taeyeon’s antics.

“Yes, I do,” Taeyeon replied. “I’m going to be straight to the point. Choi Siwon, you even have to nerve to lie to your father when all the evidence points out to you. Why don’t you just accept the five year sentence instead of trying to save your ass and getting a ten year sentence?” 

Taeyeon stood up. “I’m not staying here any longer since this has already been cleared. Choi Siwon is at fault for attacking me and assaulting Hwang Tiffany. Or should I say Yuri too since you have ordered your boys to attack her. The video tape Yuri and Jessica found should have already cleared out this whole situation.”

She walked away from the table, leaving the men baffled. “It shouldn’t be long till you are sent to jail, Siwon.”

She smirked and left the restaurant. The valet boy immediately appeared inside her car, parking in front of her before throwing the keys to Taeyeon. Taeyeon got inside of the car and inserted the keys into the ignition, the engine roaring to life. She sped away from the restaurant before the adults could run outside of the restaurant, only to find Taeyeon’s car speeding away.

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany walked out of her room just in time to see Taeyeon entering the dorm. Taeyeon still had the small smirk on her face.

“You look happy,” Tiffany pointed out.

Taeyeon snapped out from her trance and looked at Tiffany who was standing by the hallway, arms crossed and smiling. She smiled again and placed her keys on the table besides the couch.

“It’s nothing.”

Taeyeon walked past Tiffany and entered her room causing the latter to furrow her eyebrows in confusion. After Taeyeon closed the door, Tiffany shrugged her shoulders and decided to head over to Yuri’s and Jessica’s dorm. She entered the connected door to the bathroom and exited from the door across. 

“Yuri?” She called.

Yuri looked away from the television and stood up abruptly, her back facing Tiffany. She was buttoning up her shirt since she was droned into the television to do so. She finally turned around and saw Tiffany standing at the end of the hallway, peeking both ways as if to see of the auburn haired girl was around.

“Is Jess in her room?” Tiffany asked.

Yuri nodded in response. “She might be a little moody.”

“Moody?” 

Tiffany still went to Jessica’s room and knocked twice on the door. 

“Yah! If you’re going to apologize I’m not going to accept it until you tell me if you looked through my phone!” Jessica yelled on the other side of the room.

Tiffany was baffled, looking at Yuri who gave her an I-told-you-so look in return.

“Jess, what are you talking about? It’s me, Tiff.”

Tiffany heard scrambling on the other side of the room, possibly some items crashing down onto the floor. Jessica swung the door open and sheepishly smiled at her best friend.

“Oh, sorry. I thought you were Yuri,” she said, glaring at the said girl at the end of her sentence. 

Yuri purposely tried to ignore the girl’s glare as she continued to stare at the screen of the television. Jessica made way for Tiffany to walk inside her room, closing the door after.

“What brings you here?” She asked, sitting down on the edge of her bed.

Tiffany followed suit and sighed. “I can’t visit my best friend?”

“No, that’s not what I mean,” Jessica quickly explained which caused Tiffany to chuckle.

“How’s work?”

Jessica lied down on her bed, one arm resting above her head as her free arm was resting on her stomach. “It’s fine… But if I had a choice to go to class or to work, I would go to class.”

“Typical Jess.” Tiffany smiled and lied down next to Jessica.

“You know,” Jessica began, “Yuri’s not that bad as I thought.”

“What do you mean?” 

“I thought Yuri would be one of those snobby, rich players who jump from girl to girl or even girl to guy or guy to guy.”

“Well, that’s why you don’t judge someone by their looks. You always misjudge people, Jess.”

“I just want to keep my guard up. Better safe than sorry,” Jessica mumbled as she turned her head away from Tiffany.

Tiffany sighed. Her fingers were tracing the designs on Jessica’s blanket.

“What’s on your mind right now?”

Jessica’s question snapped Tiffany out of her trance causing her to let out a confused look. She understood what her best friend meant, but did not respond after a few minutes. Jessica knew what the silence meant. She knew when Tiffany comes over for no apparent reason, or so the latter says, she would always have something on her mind.

“If it’s about him… Don’t worry about it. There’s much better guys than him.” Jessica broke the silence between them.

“It’s not… I wouldn’t even think about him at all.”

“In a way, you are right now.”

Tiffany shot a quick glare to Jessica which the latter did not catch since the back of her head was facing Tiffany. She let out another sigh for the nth time; her fingers quit tracing the designs as they latch around the blanket, wrinkling them.

Jessica waited patiently for Tiffany to speak up about what is on her mind. She did not dare to push the latter to speak, knowing that she wouldn’t. If she wants to speak, she’ll speak, is what always crosses Jessica’s mind.

“I’m confused of my feelings,” Tiffany finally spoke.

Jessica turned her head and saw Tiffany harshly clutching onto her blanket. Her eyes were half closed and Jessica could see the slight sadness in them.

“For Taeyeon?” Jessica asked.

Tiffany lifted her head and looked at Jessica incredulously. “How did you know?”

“It’s quite obvious. I mean, who else would you talk about? Taeyeon’s been hanging around with you for awhile if she’s not busy with work or not with Yuri.”

“Plus,” Jessica continued, “You would have talked about the guys you have met.”

Tiffany weakly smiled and placed her head back on the pillow, immediately sinking in. She was grateful enough when Jessica understands her and she did not have to take the liberty to explain the situation to her. Other than her cold demeanor, Tiffany liked this side of Jessica a lot.

“The feelings I once had for him… It’s like they transferred onto Taeyeon,” Tiffany murmured.

Jessica slowly sat up on the bed, her arms crossed around her knees as she looked over her left shoulder at Tiffany. She did not speak, knowing that the girl would continue.

“Her smile makes my heart race as if it’s running a marathon, her kind gestures make my heart flutter and give me butterflies in my stomach. I wonder why people think she’s cold and rude.”

Jessica turned away from Tiffany and looked straight ahead at the blank, white wall. “Tiff, you know what this means right?”

Tiffany sighed, her fingers subconsciously drawing her name along with the said girl’s. “I’m falling in love again.”

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Chapter 21 - It Was for the Better

Tiffany lied on her bed with the covers up to her neck, sighing for the umpteenth time. It was time for class, but Tiffany did not want to go one bit. She rolled around in her bed, trying to find the comfort to let her fall back into her slumber. She decided she will skip for today. Letting out a sigh of relief, she felt warm and comfortable under the blankets again, a small smile forming on her lips. She closed her eyes once she felt the drowsiness starting to take over her.

Few minutes passed and Tiffany wished she fell asleep already. She heard footsteps outside of her door, coming to a conclusion that Taeyeon was walking around, making breakfast. But her conclusion was wrong.

Her door was bursted open, causing her to open her eyes wider than normal. She sat up from her bed abruptly and saw her best friend approaching her with feet sticking out in a V and arms crossed.

“Why aren’t you getting dressed?” Jessica asked.

Tiffany heaved a heavy sigh and slump back into her warm blankets. “I’m tired. I don’t want to go to class today.”

“How many classes do you even have?” Jessica continued to approach the drowsy girl and sat down on the edge of the bed, shifting its weight.

Tiffany grunted in response, trying to remember when her mind was not fully functioning. “Five classes? Two in the morning, two in the afternoon, and one at night.”

“How can you not remember?” Jessica asked with much annoyance, slapping her best friend on her thigh.

Tiffany whined and wiggled away from Jessica, her body now rolled onto the cold, left side of the bed. 

“Fine.” Jessica stood up and Tiffany felt a grin form on her lips. “I’m going to my class. I’ll come by and see if your lazy ass is still in bed.”

Tiffany pouted at the words Jessica had described her. “Look who’s talking!”

Before Jessica could even respond, she was already out of Tiffany’s room. Jessica shrugged it off and continued to walk to her class while Tiffany was snuggling and rolling back to the warm side of the bed.

“I know how Jess feels now.”

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon adjusted her clothes and fixed her hair, grabbing her bag from her study table. She slung it over her right shoulder and started to head out towards the front door. Passing by her roommate’s door, she wondered if the younger girl had gotten ready or left for class yet. Slightly peeking into the opened door, Taeyeon saw Tiffany sleeping soundly on the bed. She giggled at the cute sight amongst her.

“She seems tired,” she mumbled to herself.

Taeyeon reached out for the door knob and slowly closed the door, hearing the soft click. She turned around and slipped on her shoes, exiting the shared dorm room. As she was walking, she adjusted the cuffs of her sleeves, unknowingly bumping into a student which caused them to drop their books.

Taeyeon noticed and bent down, mumbling an apology. She picked up the books and felt the smooth skin of a familiar hand on hers which caused her to look up.

“Y-you,” she choked out and stumbled back to her original posture, trying to keep a straight face to not satisfy the girl’s intentions of startling her.

The girl stood up and took the last of her books from Taeyeon’s small, delicate hands. “Yes, it’s me.”

“What are you doing here?” Taeyeon gritted her teeth, forcing herself to not spat at the girl in anger.

The girl merely rolled her eyes and tilted her head to the side. “This is a university. Am I not allowed to get educated or what?”

“W-when…?” Taeyeon could not help herself but stammer. She at least needed to know how much more of her enemies are around her.

“Yesterday, I got enrolled here yesterday,” the girl replied, understanding Taeyeon’s one worded question. 

Taeyeon looked away from the girl and decided to say no more. She walked past her, purposely bumping her shoulder which let the girl let out a scoff.

“Is that how you treat someone you know?” The girl did not turn around, but Taeyeon did. “You know there are disguised reporters around and security cameras. People are going to take your cold demeanor far too serious.” 

She turned around, a smirk playing on her lips. Taeyeon narrowed her eyes at her. She was disgusted by how the girl in front of her always finds a way to bring her down.

“Does it really matter? Yeah, they already know how I am, but it doesn’t mean I’m going around killing someone,” she replied.

The girl no longer had the smirk. She glared at Taeyeon. “What are you trying to say?”

“You know what I’m trying to say. You’re not here to study, but to spy on me on behalf of your brother. And speaking of Choi Siwon how is he? Finally stopped playing his worthless games?” Taeyeon chuckled at the last sentence.

Sunye clenched her free hand, her knuckles turning white from the pressure. “Do you even know the state he is in? No less his company?”

“That just proves to him to not mess with us anymore. He almost killed me and you have to the nerve to tell me how poorly he and his company are doing?” Taeyeon continued and scoffed, crossing her arms. “You are lucky I didn’t send him to jail or any of you guys. I just gave you guys a second chance, but I think I’m slightly regretting it.”

Sunye was left speechless. After a silence with no words emitted, Taeyeon turned around and started to walk to her class.

“Oh yeah.” Taeyeon stopped walking, but did not turn around. “If I ever hear any if you guys hurting Yuri and Jessica, karma is going to get back at you, but if you hurt Tiffany… You don’t even want to know.”

She then disappeared from the halls of the dormitory, leaving Sunye stranded on the hallway. Sunye clenched her jaw, refraining herself from yelling at the retreating small figure. She felt defeated from Taeyeon’s words and wondered how much longer she could keep this up. Taeyeon was right of her belonging to this university. 

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica walked around the university’s campus alone. Yuri had already informed that she was attending class which was unusual, but Jessica shrugged it off. 

She stuffed her cold hands into her jacket pocket, walking around mindlessly as the cool breeze rushed past her bare skin. 

“What to do, what to do,” she kept mumbling to herself after she had visited Tiffany. She had at least thirty more minutes left until her first class and she did not need to study nor get a snack.

She pouted after a few minutes, her head lowered. She needed to be entertained which was unusual for a peaceful needed girl like her. 

Up ahead was a boy walking on the same sidewalk as her, but on the opposite. He was too busy texting on his cell phone that he did not notice Jessica walking mindlessly. It was then that they both collided against each other, the boy dropping his already scratched up phone and Jessica landing on her bottom. Jessica groaned in pain, her eyes closed tight, and her lips pressed together in a straight line. On the other hand, the boy also groaned, but only to see the battery of his phone falling out from its back.

Jessica stood up, holding onto her side. She opened her eyes and glared at the unknown boy.

“Yah! Watch where you’re going!” she yelled at him which caused him to look up at the girl.

Jessica gasped and recoiled in fear, looking at the familiar looking boy. He smirked as he saw Jessica’s expression.

“Looks like we bumped into each other again, Princess.”

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri walked to her first class of the day unusually very early. She heaved a sigh and dropped her bag onto one of the folded up seats, the bottom part automatically falling down. Looking around the room, she spotted several people in the front, studying for their exams. 

“Ugh, I got here too early…” Yuri groaned.

She patted her pockets to find the cellular device to keep her occupied, but felt nothing. Confused, she rummaged through her bag only to find her notebooks and pencil.

“Damn it! Forgot my phone,” she let out another grunt, clutching onto the straps of her bag before proceeding out onto the halls of the classes. 

She walked out of the mathematics building, hearing the fangirls squealing once she stepped aside. She let out a small smirk, but the squeals of the girls’ were getting annoying already. She walked across the courtyard while making her way to the dormitory building.

From afar, she saw her best friend emerging out from the dormitory building. Rushing towards the shorter girl, she swung her arm over Taeyeon’s shoulder.

“Hey buddy!” she piped up.

“Oh, hey Yuri,” Taeyeon replied.

Yuri frowned as she noticed that Taeyeon was out of the ordinary. “Yah, what’s up? Bumped into someone you don’t like?”

Taeyeon scoffed and rolled her eyes as she thought about the encounter with Sunye. “You have no idea.”

Yuri heaved a sigh. She rubbed Taeyeon’s shoulder as if she was comforting her. “Don’t think too much about it, Tae. It’s not like she is your roommate.”

Taeyeon nodded in response, sighing as she realized she had one more burden to take care of on her chest.

“Speaking of your roommate, why isn’t she with you today?” Yuri asked.

Taeyeon shrugged her shoulders. “She’s probably too tired. Don’t know what she did last night.”

Yuri laughed and tapped Taeyeon on the shoulder. She walked away from the shorter girl, signaling that she could not stay any longer.

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon clutched onto the straps of her bag tightly while walking to her first class. She had ten minutes to spare and decided to head there now. As she was getting closer to the mathematics building, she saw by the likes of a couple arguing. She shrugged it off, thinking that it was just an ordinary argument where the girl finds out the boy cheating on her or vice versa.

She had gotten closer to the couple, but kept her distance to avoid any break out from the girl or the boy. Taking a glance, she abruptly stopped walking and noticed who the girl was.

“What do you want,” the girl coldly asked, yet more in a demanding tone.

“Aish, how many times have I told you I don’t like that cold tone of yours?” the boy said, rubbing the back of his neck in irritation.

The girl rolled her eyes and placed her weight on her left leg, glaring at the boy. “And what makes you think I should change for you? Get out of my way.”

The boy did not listen, but rather kept on the conversation. “Remember what I said last time at the hospital? I’ll do whatever I can to get you back. Screw Kwon Yuri. What makes you think she’s better than me?”

Taeyeon turned her whole body and continued to listen to the conversation. Neither of the boy or the girl had notice her presence which was good. For now.

“What makes you so sure I’ll come back running to you? What’s done is done, Donghae. Now get out of my freaking way before I remove you myself.”

The girl took a couple of steps forward to Donghae, pushing him to the side. Instead of escaping from the boy, Donghae took hold of the girl’s wrist and pulled her back to her original spot.

“You haven’t answered my question. I know you and Kwon Yuri aren’t real. What in the world makes her better than me, huh? She meets up the requirement of every player. She’s a heartbreaker, she’s a girl who wants sex and only sex, and she doesn’t care about any other people’s feelings at all. She’s a cold, heartless b*tch,” Donghae spat out angrily, each and every sentence he said making sure it enters the girl’s mind.

“You don’t talk about her like that!” Jessica yelled, catching both Donghae and Taeyeon off guard. “What makes you any more different? You’re just like what you had described her!”

Taeyeon took a step forward, thinking that she would break off the fight between the two until Jessica’s words caught her off guard once more.

“Yeah, she may be a player, but it doesn’t mean she’s like everyone else. At least from the days I spent with her, she’s much better than what you’ll ever be,” Jessica finished coldly, leaving Donghae frozen and speechless from her words.

She walked off after receiving a chance to escape from the boy, her eyes meeting up with Taeyeon’s. Jessica looked away from Taeyeon and continued walking to her first class. 

After a few minutes of registering the ice princess’s words into his mind, Donghae ran his fingers through his hair frustratingly.

“Just when I thought I could deceive her thinking that Yuri is a player and always will be,” he muttered.

Taeyeon marched up towards the taller boy and shoved him on the shoulder. Donghae was taken aback by the push, widening his eyes at the shorter girl.

“And just what are you thinking talking about my best friend like that? You don’t know her at all by how you had described her. Kwon Yuri isn’t who you think she is,” Taeyeon angrily spat out, obviously angered by how Donghae was talking of the tanned girl.

“Kim Taeyeon, I am already angered enough. I suggest you leave before you end up in the emergency room,” Donghae calmly said, looking to the side.

Taeyeon scoffed and crossed her arms. “What makes you think you could beat me up that easily just because I am a girl?”

Donghae averted his gaze to Taeyeon. He stared down at the girl, placing his hands on his hips. “Is this a challenge?”

Taeyeon smirked and grabbed Donghae by the collar of his shirt. “You bet.”

She threw the first punch.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica stomped into the classroom, sending off a cold aura. She walked all the way to the back of the room and slammed her bag onto the small desk, sitting down on the chair with a plop. Her breathing was harsh and her eyebrows continued to meet each other.

She admits she was furious when Donghae had talked about the tanned girl in such a degrading manner. But, Jessica did not know Kwon Yuri as well as Taeyeon or Donghae which caused some of Donghae’s words to enter her mind. 

She closed her eyes and heaved a huge sigh, some of the stress in her body fading away. As her eyes remained closed, she could hear the students filing in into the classroom one by one. As time flew and her stress continued to build just by thinking of the words Donghae had said, she ruffled her hair in frustration.

“Aish! This is so frustrating!” she whined, clutching onto the strands of her hair. 

Yuri approached the frustrated girl and sat down besides her, placing her bag onto the table she had flipped over.

“Someone’s angry,” she said, chuckling.

Jessica released her hands and turned her head. Her hair was a mess. “That’s not funny, Kwon Yuri.”

Yuri stopped chuckling. “Just stating the obvious.”

“Obviously,” Jessica muttered and took out a brush from her bag, fixing her hair.

“What’s bothering you, anyway?” Yuri asked; her expression completely serious aside from her playful one.

“It’s none of your business.”

“Fine…” Yuri mumbled. “If you say so.”

Minutes later of waiting for the professor, Taeyeon entered the classroom with torn up clothes and a scratched up face. Yuri noticed first and gasped, standing up abruptly from her chair. She jogged over to the lifeless Taeyeon who was making her way towards the two, keeping her eyes on the floor.

“Taengoo! What happened?” Yuri asked, holding her best friend by the shoulders.

Taeyeon looked up, blood trickling down from her forehead to her chin. She merely smirked at Yuri’s concern. “It’s nothing.”

She shrugged off Yuri’s hands and made her way towards Jessica, setting her bag besides Yuri’s chair. Yuri turned around, a worried expression still worn on her face. Anyone knew better than to pick a fight with Taeyeon.

Jessica placed her brush back into her bag and glanced to the side, noticing that the tanned girl was gone. It was then that she noticed a scratched up Taeyeon who was wiping the blood off of her face with a napkin. 

She shrieked. “Gosh Taeyeon! What happened to you?”

Yuri sat down in the middle of them. Taeyeon continued to look straight ahead, not bothering to look at the both of them.

“Did something that should have been done a long time ago,” she replied, throwing the used up napkin over her shoulder.

“What exactly did you do?” Jessica asked.

“She probably beat up someone or broke their bones,” Yuri said. 

Jessica narrowed her eyes at the older girl who continued to stare at the screen hanged up on the wall. “Was it Donghae?”

Taeyeon finally broke off her stare with the screen and averted her attention to the brunette. She smiled.

“Taeyeon! I know you were trying to help me, but I suggest you stop meddling in our business,” Jessica hissed.

Taeyeon looked away from Jessica and leaned her head on the headrest of the chair. “I wasn’t doing it for you. It was for the better.”

Jessica breathed harshly and slumped into her chair with her arms crossed. During the whole time they were conversing, Yuri was looking at one another. She let out a sigh and shook her head. 

“Taengoo—“

“Broken nose, broken ribcage, black eye, sprained wrist, and sprained ankle.”

Yuri looked at her indifferently while Jessica looked at her astonished. Jessica was obviously amazed by the fact Taeyeon could do that much to a person, no less to someone who she used to love. 

“Y-you did all… of that… to him?” Jessica stammered.

Taeyeon glanced at her and nodded. Yuri chuckled at Jessica’s awed expression and turned her head to face her.

“Sica, you shouldn’t be so shocked. If you ever heard of Taengoo fighting someone, just expect them to have half of their bones broken,” Yuri said. 

Jessica looked away and gulped. Not only was Taeyeon a cold hearted person when she wants to be, she could also beat the living hell out of people. It was no different to the supposed player sitting next to her.

The professor walked into the classroom after what seems to be eternity and stood in front of his desk.

“Okay class!” he yelled out for the students in the back to hear. 

While Taeyeon and Yuri respectively did whatever they normally did in class, Jessica continued to slump in her seat.

Who do I believe now…?

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Chapter 22 - A Deal

“Okay kids. Thank you for coming here as planned,” Mr. Kwon said as he clasped his hands together.

Yuri, Jessica, and Victoria were standing in a line in exactly that order. Although, Jessica was uncomfortable with the presence of Victoria next to her causing her to slightly lean closer towards Yuri’s side. Donghae could not be with the three girls due to having such injuries that only Yuri and Jessica knew of.

Mr. Jung walked from behind and stood next to Mr. Kwon. “As you can see, the workers have built half of the booths and rides since you kids were in school.”

“We decided to let you guys easy on this. Till the end of this week, you four including Mr. Donghae will be helping out. Starting the next two weeks, I’d like two or three of you guys to volunteer and test out the rides,” Mr. Kwon explained. 

“Since you two are already in your uniforms, go to your destinations.” Mr. Jung waved them off, watching the girls depart from their position.

Jessica and Victoria headed towards the games booth with Jessica walking at a slower pace. Yuri walked from the opposite of them with a small smile on her face when she discovered Donghae was in the hospital recovering from his injuries.

Mr. Kwon and Mr. Jung noticed the wide gap between the three of them. Mr. Jung could not help but sigh and shake his head. Knowing how much Jessica could hold grudges on the one she despised, something will definitely go wrong.

“I shouldn’t have let those two work together.”

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri stood in front of a model of a starship ride. A construction worker stood in front of the ride directing of what has needed to be done.

“All you need to do is place in the outer layer of the ride and hammer it in, alright?” the construction worker asked.

Yuri nodded and grabbed a metal hammer from the bucket. She gripped onto the grip of the handle and bent down to pick up one of the metal plates to cover up the starship. Since her partner was not here to help her out, she was sent on this mission alone along with two other construction workers. 

While she was working quietly and efficiently, she could not help but peer off beyond the starship, gazing at the brunette working diligently on the booth. She smiled at the sight of Jessica sticking out the tip of her tongue, trying to hammer in the nails for the wooden board. She chuckled while shaking her head when she saw Jessica hammering in the nail at a snail’s pace.

-*-*-*-*-

Evening greeted the human beings on earth when Tiffany sat up from her bed and stretched her limbs after a quick nap. Lined paper was scatted all over her desk and the bits of the eraser were all over the desk and floor. She heaved a sigh and fell back down onto the bed. She was too lazy to move an inch, let alone cleaning and organizing her desk.

While she was staring at the ceiling and pondering in her thoughts, her best friend walked into her room.

“Hey,” Jessica greeted and closed the door with a click. She walked over to the bed and sat on the edge, shifting it. 

Tiffany averted her gaze from the ceiling to Jessica. She sat up against the headboard. “Bored?”

Jessica shrugged her shoulders. “I guess. Did you hear about what happen to Taeyeon?”

Tiffany shook her head. “No, what happen?”

“Oh,” Jessica was surprised that Tiffany did not hear about the news of Taeyeon being injured and beating up Donghae when it was all over the university. “You didn’t hear about Taeyeon beating up that fish?”

“She what?” Tiffany was dumbfounded.

“Yep, he’s in the hospital now,” said Jessica.

Tiffany awkwardly chuckled. “You’re kidding me. Taeyeon beat up Donghae? What….”

“It’s true!”

“How can someone like Taeyeon beat up a person like Donghae? I mean, I’m not trying to bring her down or anything, but it looks like Taeyeon should have been in the hospital instead since Donghae looks like a muscle man,” explained Tiffany.

“That’s true, but Taeyeon really did it. Even ask Yuri.”

“Okay, whatever you say. Taeyeon and Yuri are best friends so of course Yuri would say the same thing you just said.”

Tiffany lied down on her bed and rested on her side, staring at her best friend. While a couple minutes of silence was engulfing the two of them, her mind could not help but be filled with Taeyeon. No matter how many times she tried to think of something else, Taeyeon was always there to block it out. “I can’t stop thinking about her,” she mumbled.

“Think about something else then,” Jessica stated.

Tiffany sighed and subconsciously drew circles on her blanket. “I can’t, really. I can’t.”

“Tiff, you’re becoming such a fool in love again. I don’t want you to get hurt just like last time.”

“I won’t… I just need to settle my heart. Maybe by then my feelings for her will die out just like the crushes I had on attractive guys.”

“I don’t know, Tiff. You seem pretty serious about Taeyeon.”

Jessica lied down next to Tiffany and they both turned their bodies to face the ceiling. Whenever they found the time to be together alone, they would spill out their problems by lying together on the bed and facing the ceiling. Occasionally they will steal glances at each other to read their expression, but most of the time they knew. 

“I bet it’s just a crush,” Tiffany said.

Jessica rolled her body towards Tiffany and placed a finger above her chest. “Tell that to your heart then.”

-*-*-*-*-

A week has passed which included the finals. The girls were exhausted from cramming and staying up late at night to study for the finals. They could not afford to fail the exams. 

Tiffany walked out from her room and headed towards the living room with a yawn. She sat down on the couch and turned on the television for something to watch. Puffing up her cheeks, she turned off the television and threw the remote on the other side of the room. She sighed and relaxed on the couch for the time being until Yuri and Jessica barged in without permission.

“Finals are over. I’m so happy,” Yuri said with a smile and held up two thumbs up next to her face.

“Yup! I just hope I passed though. I don’t want to be put into lower classes,” said Tiffany.

Yuri and Jessica walked over to where Tiffany is and sat down on the couch next to her. Jessica sunk into the couch until an idea popped up in her head. “Since finals are over, why don’t we take a break? I mean to relax ourselves from all that stress we put into studying and all.”

“Yeah, like a nice, hot bath.” Tiffany smiled at the thought of just soaking into the bathtub and staying there for hours.

Jessica slapped her on her arm. “No silly. I meant a vacation. Finals are over and it’s not until a couple of more weeks till we start class again.”

“Oh!” Yuri abruptly sat up from the couch and pointed at the two of them which gained their attention. “I know where the four of us could go.”

“Where to?” asked Tiffany.

“It’s a private resort that Taeyeon’s family runs. Her father gave the resort to her, but she doesn’t use it as much. Probably at times like this she needs it the most. And she doesn’t care who comes or not, she just want the place to be nice and clean just like when she first got it,” Yuri explained.

Jessica looked at Tiffany for her answer. “It doesn’t sound too bad. What do you think?”

Tiffany shrugged her shoulders. “Hey, I’ll just go whatever you two want to go with. A resort is fine with me. Where is Taeyeon anyway?”

“Tae’s still resting from her injuries. It was pretty bad then how we saw it the first time. She thought she sprained her left shoulder at first since it felt painful, but it turns out Donghae broke it. It’s in a cast right now and she still has her head bandaged,” Yuri said.

Tiffany heaved a sigh. “I don’t get it with you two and fights. Is that all you ever attract besides fangirls? Fights from people? And they’re boys too!”

Yuri shook her head. “That’s not all we do…. Is that all you ever think of us, Tiffany? Just some walking girl magnet and sticking our fists up people’s fists? We have our morals and respect if you hadn’t notice.”

“My bad. You do know that we just met a couple of months ago, right?” Tiffany pouted. “Anyway, let’s get this resort thing down. I really need to relax.”

“Great. Just pack a couple of clothes and some beach material if you want. Shelter and food will be provided, obviously. Meet me in the dormitory lobby in an hour,” said Yuri before leaving the two on the couch. “I’m going to go check up on Tae.”

“A private resort, Tiff. Finally I don’t get to see that fish face ever again,” Jessica said.

Or so, she thought.

-*-*-*-*-

“Tae?” 

Yuri walked into the room and quietly closed the door. She saw Taeyeon sitting at her desk and writing on some documents she had taken from her father a few weeks ago. Yuri sighed and walked over to Taeyeon. She placed her hand on Taeyeon’s right shoulder.

“Tae, we just ended the finals and now you’re stressing yourself over these documents your father gave you? Just do them tomorrow. You need to rest.”

“I can’t. I need to give them to him by tonight,” Taeyeon said.

“Why don’t you just let me do it? You’re injured right now and what you need to do is to rest.”

Taeyeon shook her head. “These aren’t ordinary documents like the ones we filled out as usual, Yuri.”

Yuri rubbed the back of her neck. “I guess. I told Tiffany and Sica about your resort. The four of us are heading there tonight. You’re going to come, right?”

“Yeah, I’ll come. But you three should go without me. I’ll come right after I give these to my father,” Taeyeon said.

Yuri heaved a sigh for the umpteenth time of the day and walked over to Taeyeon’s bed. She sat on the edge of the bed and fiddled with her feet, staring at Taeyeon’s back. “Tae…. What do you think about… Jessica?”

“Jessica?” Taeyeon’s ears perked up, but she still continued on writing the documents. “Didn’t you say the same question the first day we met them?”

“I’m… I’m serious about this,” mumbled Yuri.

Taeyeon raised an eyebrow. She clicked her pen and set it down on the stacks of documents before swiveling in her chair to stare at the somewhat shy Yuri who was mumbling incoherent things. “Are you…” she rolled her chair over to Yuri and sat in front of her. Lifting up the girl’s face with her right hand, she stared into her eyes. “In love?”

Yuri pushed Taeyeon’s hand away and frowned. “I don’t know….”

Taeyeon shook her head and rolled away from Yuri. “Tsk, tsk Yuri. You don’t even know if you’re in love or not. Let me tell you the original things. Does your heart flutter?”

Yuri shrugged her shoulders. “I’ll just say it’s like when I met Victoria for the first time.”

Taeyeon gasped and let out her unordinary laughter. “Oh, my gosh! My Yuri is in love with an ice princess!”

Yuri awkwardly chuckled. “I’m sure it’s just a crush.”

“Hmm, I don’t know Yuri. You’re hanging around Jessica a lot nowadays,” said Taeyeon.

“It’s because of the company project.”

“Okay, fine. Let’s just see how the vacation to the resort goes, yeah? If nothing happens then, then I won’t say you have fallen in love with Jessica,” Taeyeon said.

“That’s all?” asked Yuri.

“Why? You want a prize with that?” Taeyeon asked and smirked at Yuri. “Okay fine. If you prove to me that you have not fallen in love with Yuri, I’ll… give you this.”

She stood up from her swiveling chair and walked over to her shelf filled with numerous of books on business and a lone golden mouse. She grabbed the mouse made out of gold and turned around with the mouse in front of her.

Yuri gasped when she saw the golden mouse. It was none other than her favorite cartoon character, Mickey Mouse. Aside from all the rumors floating around of her personality, Yuri could be a kid at times and squeal about when she saw Mickey Mouse. 

“No way,” she said.

“Yes, this Mickey Mouse figure made out of pure gold.” Taeyeon smiled and flashed the figure towards Yuri.

“If it’s made out of pure gold, wouldn’t it be a little heavy to be holding it in one hand?” 

“It’s not that heavy. Believe me.”

Yuri stood up from the bed and grabbed the golden figure. She grinned from ear to ear before it vanished when Taeyeon stole the mouse back. Taeyeon smirked and placed it back onto the top shelf. “So, just prove it to me.”

“Fine. It’s not even that hard to prove that I don’t love her,” said Yuri with a confident stance. “And what if you win?”

“And if I win… you have to be my slave for a year.”

Yuri scoffed and mumbled under her breath, “Aren’t I already your slave?”

“What was that?” Taeyeon leaned in closer with a smile, although she already heard what the latter had said.

“Deal.”

Taeyeon walked over to Yuri and grabbed her right hand. Shaking it while smiling she said: “Deal.”

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Chapter 23 - Mistake

“Here we are!” shouted Yuri.

The three girls stepped out from Yuri’s vehicle as they all decided to take the trip to the resort in one car. Tiffany and Jessica slowly got out the car with their jaws hanging. It was as if they saw a ghost run by. 

“Unbelievable,” said Jessica.

“It’s so pretty,” Tiffany commented.

The resort was of course private, thus it was on a small part of Seoul. Rarely anyone passes by. Actually, only a selected amount of people knew this place existed. Tiffany and Jessica was still looking in awe at the crystal, blue sea water, tall palm trees, and clean cut grass whenever they founded some. A boat, a little bit larger than the usual, was floating against a bridge on the sea water.

The houses located above the water with the help of a base standing with the help of the sand were beach houses. After grabbing their bags and setting them aside, Tiffany and Jessica ran through the bridge and surveyed the area.

Yuri shook her head and chuckled at the sight of the inner children releasing from the two girls. She grabbed her duffel bag and closed the trunk and made her way towards her beach house.

“Are there people living here?” asked Tiffany causing Yuri to stop.

Yuri nodded. “Yes. We also have maids and chefs working here from time to time when there is a customer. And trust me when I say this, the chefs make the best, and I mean the best, food ever in the whole wide world.”

“Where will we be staying?” Jessica asked while looking around the resort.

“In these two houses behind me,” Yuri answered with a thumb stuck out behind her head. “If you need anything just come to those two houses over there where me and Tae are staying at.” She informed with a smile and a gesture towards the said houses.

“Great! We’ll unpack then.”

-*-*-*-*-

A couple of hours after the girls had arrived, unpacked, and rested for a bit, they were called for dinner. Unlike dinner being held inside a shelter as usual, it was being held outside instead. The table was a long, mahogany dinner table with white floral designed table cloth covering it. On top of it were the dishes made by the chefs.

Taeyeon (who had come an hour before) and Yuri sat down in their respective seat nonchalantly as if this happened every single day of their lives. Tiffany had her jaw hanging for the second time of the day from looking at how delicious and mouthwatering the food is. Sure her family is rich themselves, but never has she seen such marvelous food that is worth drooling over for. Jessica was the same, but in the inside. She did not want to look like a fool just like her best friend with her jaw hanging and a strand of saliva trickling down her chin. 

“Wipe your drool, Tiff. It’s not like you seen such delicious looking food before,” said Jessica.

“No, but I have not seen such a variety. It’s varied from American food to Asian food to Mexican food to French food and oh, my god….” Tiffany has never been this hungry before in her life.

Taeyeon smiled while looking at Tiffany gawking over the food. “Dig in, girls.”

-*-*-*-*-

After the dinner which sure had filled the four of them up, Taeyeon decided to take a walk around the resort. She let out a tiring yawn and stood by a rail, staring at the glistening, blue sea with the moonlight illuminating it. As she was standing in the chillness in silence, she could not help but think. Think about her life, her friends, her family, the university, her enemies.

Tiffany.

Tiffany? She thought. When did she ever manage to access my thinking alone time?

She blew her lips and made a sound that most horses do. Sighing, she rests her right elbow on the rail and tapped her cheek with the tip of her fingers. She wondered what was so special about the girl, what was so special that she was thinking about her too much. In fact, Taeyeon never really gave a thought about a person. Her family, enemies, and Yuri are an exception for they could be such a nuisance in her life. 

Taeyeon recalled her moments she had with Tiffany. From the time she witnessed Tiffany as a bubbly, cheerful, and pink loving girl she was now a mature and sad yet happy most of the time girl. She figured the break up with Siwon must have struck her hard. They have been together for years and she knew Tiffany could never expect something so devastating from her ex-boyfriend.

While she was still in deep thought, a figure emerged from the shadows of the houses and stood next to Taeyeon. “Hey Taeyeon.”

Taeyeon slightly jumped but maintained her composure. “Speaking of the devil….” she mumbled lowly.

“What was that?” asked Tiffany.

Taeyeon shook her head. “What brings you here?”

“Just wanted some fresh air and to say thank you.” Smiled Tiffany.

“Thank you for what?” Taeyeon raised an eyebrow questioningly.

The smile was still on Tiffany’s face. “For letting me and Jess come to your private resort and for that fabulous dinner.”

“Anytime Tiffany.” Taeyeon returned the smile in a smaller form. Silence engulfed the two for a long period of time as they listened to the waves crashing and the sound of their breathing. “Can I ask you a question?”

“Fire away.”

“If someone is on your mind, just like nagging your mind that you can’t get that person out of your head, what does that entirely mean? To me, I know it could mean a lot of things, but I’m confused.”

Tiffany was surprised. “What’s this? Taeyeon asking me for advice?”

Taeyeon chuckled at Tiffany’s baffled behavior. “Just answer the question… please.”

“Will do,” said Tiffany. “Yes, it’s true what you said. It does mean a lot of things. It just depends on who the person that is on your mind and what they have done to enter your mind.”

Like you.

“Hmm, I see. Thanks Tiffany.”

“Why? Is there someone on your mind?” asked Tiffany.

The corner of Taeyeon’s lips curled up. “You can say that.”

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica snuggled in her blankets and stretched her body. Sigh after tiring sigh, she closed her eyes to try to catch some sleep, but to no avail. Opening her eyes, she looked out at the patio glass door and saw the moon smiling happily back at her. While she kept staring at the moon, she heard a knock on her door before it busted open.

Rapidly turning her head, she let out a sigh of relief when it was only the tanned girl barging in. After Yuri had closed the door, she skipped towards Jessica.

“Sica~ I’m bored. Mind entertaining me?” she asked without realizing she was bothering Jessica.

“Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep here?” Jessica said annoyed.

Yuri frowned. “You can’t sleep now! We just ate thirty minutes ago. You still need to digest, you know?”

“And how do you want me to do that?”

“I don’t know…. Do stuff?” Yuri mumbled unsurely.

Jessica groaned and turned away from Yuri. Stuffing herself in the white, fluffy blankets she kicked away the tanned girl. “Just go away, Yuri. You can entertain yourself with girls.” That came out a little too coldly.

“What girls? There is only you, Tiffany, Taengoo, and maids here. I don’t want to bother the maids…. Oh wait…. Why would you even think I would do that with them?” Yuri puffed up her cheeks with a childish manner and slapped Jessica on the leg.

“You seem like the type. You are a player, are you? Or is that your cover up? Your image?” asked Jessica with a stare. She rose up from her bed and stared at Yuri suspiciously.

“Why do you need to know?” 

“Because I don’t like people who pretend to be something they’re not.”

“I’m not pretending. That’s for sure.”

“So, you’re not pretending that you’re a player?” Jessica asked once more with a hint of disappointment.

Yuri shook her head lightly. “But don’t worry. There’s no way I would ever play on you.”

“Yah!” Jessica shouted and whacked Yuri on the side of her head with a pillow. “What does that mean? Are you saying I’m ugly?”

Yuri chuckled although she was being attacked by the older girl. “No. If you were, did you expect me to hit on you early in the school year?”

That’s true…. Jessica pouted and huffed. She threw one of her last pillows at Yuri and turned away from her. While Yuri fell down onto the bed by the impact of the pillow, Jessica stood up and walked to the kitchen.

Yuri sat up from the bed and fixed her messy hair. She saw Jessica walking around the kitchen with a glass of water that she had no idea the latter could fill up in less than ten seconds. “Sica, do you like anyone?” she asked out of the blue.

The question caught Jessica off guard. She choked on her water and wiped her lips with the back of her hand. She stared at Yuri and saw the latter staring off into space with a serious expression.

“I don’t know,” she answered. “I might as well do like someone.”

“Do you still like him?” 

“Who?” Jessica asked until she knew who Yuri could possibly be talking about. With a scoff, she could have thrown another pillow at the tanned girl if it were not for her being in the kitchen right now where dangerous weapons are. “Yeah right! You’re talking about that dang fish face aren’t you?” Spotting no reply from the other girl, Jessica sighed. “No, I do not like him nor will I ever like him again for what he had done to me.”

“I see,” Yuri said while fiddling with her feet.

“Why would you ask that question when you know the answer?” 

“There are stupid people in the world. People who still love one another even though they have done so much wrong things,” said Yuri. “I… I kind of felt it… in a way….”

Jessica was visibly surprised. “How so?”

Yuri sadly smiled and shook her head. “It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it. I just want people to know that I’m not really who I am…. They all just think that once they see me, they judge me for who I am.”

It was a first to see a depressed Yuri. Jessica was used to seeing a dorky, playful Yuri and seeing her like this shattered her heart a little bit. She felt as though she should walk over to the tanned girl and comfort the girl by patting her back and saying “it’s okay”, but she had an image to maintain. Yet, she does not know she would do anything to ruin her image for the said girl soon.

Jessica dumped her empty glass cup into the sink and made her way towards Yuri. While she was walking, she made a sharp glance towards the front door and spotted a brown envelope lying comfortably under her door. Instead of sitting down on the bed like she meant to do, she turned towards the front door. Picking up the brown envelope, she flipped it for any address by the sender, but found none.

“Who sent this?” she said out loud.

Yuri turned her head and saw Jessica walking back with the envelope twirling between her fingers. Nevertheless, Jessica sat on the tall stool and cautiously tore open the envelope. What she took out was digital photos with the date printed on the lower left corner.

September 16, 2010 9:36 P.M. 

Furrowing her eyebrows, she averted her gaze from the date and focused on the image which any other person would have done instead. Her eyes widened in shock and her mouth was agape. Yuri raised an eyebrow at Jessica’s expression.

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

Jessica flipped a picture by picture. All the photos showed the only person who called her “Sica” apparently kissing and touching one another. The other girl had her shirt visibly stripped off with the tanned girl smothering her lips all over her neck.

“What is this?” she gasped and dropped the photos.

Yuri walked over to the photos and bent down to look at them. “What the heck?” she said to herself while spreading the photos. “This was a few weeks ago.” She looked up to spot the ice princess glaring back at her with teary eyes. That, she did not know why. “Sica, you know this is all a misunderstanding…. I was drunk… and possibly drugged….” she whispered the last part.

“Why are you apologizing to me for? I’m not your girlfriend. Besides, drunk or not, I bet you would have done it anyway,” Jessica replied coldly.

“If it doesn’t matter to you, why are you speaking to me in that tone then?” Yuri shot back with the same tone.

Jessica crossed her arms and scoffed. “Does that really matter to you? If you haven’t figured out by now, I always use this tone!” She bit down on her lower lip in frustration. It was a bad time to be angry because she knew she would end up tearing up and a tear will accidentally slip out. And to her dismay, it did.

Yuri watched as the lone tear slid down Jessica’s cheek before it was quickly wiped away by the owner’s fingers. “Why are you crying…?”

“Because I’m angry!” Jessica snapped. “Whatever. I’m going out. Take your disgusting pictures with you too once you leave.”

Panting, she marched her way towards the front door and stormed out. Yuri watched as Jessica left the front door open and swinging carelessly. She sat down on the floor and clutched onto the strands of her hair. Letting out a loud groan, she could not believe she tried to change herself for the better. To change herself for the girl she loved. Yes, she knew. She had lost the bet already.

-*-*-*-*-

“Stupid Yuri. Stupid me. I can’t believe I actually thought I could give her a chance when she changed. Changed? Yeah right! She’s still a player in my eyes,” Jessica muttered to herself and continued mumbling incoherent words as she walked around mindlessly.

She did not know where she was going, but she did not care. She had to be away from the resort for now to clear her mind and to calm her heart. When she thought she was a good amount of distance away from the resort, she slowly walked around on the cool sand under her bare feet. She was shivering while she walked. After all she was in her sleeping wear; a tank top and long pajama pants while she strolled on the cool sand in the night.

Rubbing her arms for warmth, she could not help but feel sad, angry, and disappointed all at the same time. Sad that she once thought Yuri changed for the better, angry that Yuri was still going out and sleeping with others, and disappointed above all.

Jessica could not help but let her tears flow out. She was holding it in all along. The roof of her mouth was hurting and her eyes were starting to get red and swollen. She sobbed with all her might. No one was going to hear her anyway. While she continued to let her tears flow like a river, she felt a drop of water land on her bare shoulder. Jumping in fright at the contact, she looked up at the sky with her blurry vision and felt more drops hitting her face. 

She gasped as she realized what was happening. It was raining hard and she was in no range for shelter. “Dang it! Why did I wander so far off?” she muttered and ran to go find shelter with her right arm covering her head. 

She coughed whilst continuing to find shelter. It was ten minutes and the rain was pouring more and more. She surveyed her surroundings but saw nothing except for mist from the rain. She was like in a desert. Nothing but cold, wet sand.

Jessica felt her body grow weak. The rain continued to attack her and her clothes were sticking to her skin. She took large breaths and felt as though she was hyperventilating. Her eyelids threatened to fall, but she struggled to stay awake. She was going to faint. She knew. 

Like a force rushed by and hit the back of her knees, the limbs fell asleep and gave up on Jessica. She fell down onto the ground and closed her eyes.

-*-*-*-*-

Panting and panting, Yuri ended up outside on the bridge. Two people turned their heads at the pounding footsteps on the wooden bridge and saw a tanned girl bending over with her hands on her knees with a crumpled brown envelope. Concerned and confused, they ran over to Yuri and patted her back.

“What’s wrong?” asked Taeyeon.

Yuri straightened her body. “I don’t know what happened. There’s someone spying on us, Taeng. I just know it. Otherwise why would there be some random photos sent to Jessica’s room?”

“Huh? What photos?” Tiffany furrowed her eyebrows and asked.

“I don’t know…. I’m searching for Jessica right now. She just ran off after seeing them,” said Yuri.

“What are the pictures?”

Yuri handed Taeyeon the now crumpled up brown envelope. Taeyeon snatched it from her and took out the photos. Immediately, both Taeyeon and Tiffany crowded over them. They could easily tell what was happening in the picture despite it being nighttime.

“I don’t understand why she would run off like that. I mean, it’s not like Jess is your girlfriend and she’s the type who doesn’t care what you do,” said Tiffany who was visibly confused of the whole situation.

While Yuri was still recovering herself from the sprint she has been doing and Taeyeon and Tiffany still observing the photos – possibly to search whom could have sent it –, the three of them heard a loud thunderstorm strike.

“Oh no….” whispered Tiffany which was audible to Taeyeon and Yuri.

“What’s wrong?” they both asked in unison.

“A thunderstorm. It’s going to rain and Jess hates thunder and lightning. She’s afraid of them,” explained Tiffany. 

The three immediately ran for shelter. Once they got into the nearest house, Yuri looked outside the windows and saw the rain heavily attacking the grounds of earth. She bit down on her lower lip.

Maybe Jessica is coming back. She hasn’t gone too far off now, has she?

Five minutes has passed and Yuri started to grow worried. Taeyeon was sitting down on a chair comfortably while Tiffany paced back and forth for the arrival of Jessica.

“I’m going to go search for her,” said Yuri.

Both Taeyeon and Tiffany looked up at Yuri who was ready to head out the door. “Are you sure?” asked Taeyeon. “Jessica might be coming back right now.”

“This place is unknown to them. I bet she doesn’t know where she has gone,” Yuri said. “I’m going to go look for her.”

Without waiting for a response, she dashed out the door. Taeyeon sighed while Tiffany took the spot Yuri was standing in earlier. She looked out the window, but it was hard to see due to the rain hitting the windows and blocking her view.

“What are you doing here?”

Tiffany spun on the balls of her heels at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. She was startled for a split second while Taeyeon nonchalantly stares at the person with a stern expression.

“I should be asking you that question,” replied Taeyeon. “After all, it is my resort.”

Amongst the two girls were another two. Two they were strongly familiar to. Taeyeon was staring – or more like glaring – at the girls whereas Tiffany stared at the two in shock. She did not think they would be here. Yuri did tell her barely anyone knew this resort.

“Tiffany,” the two newcomers acknowledged her presence.

Tiffany’s lower lip was still trembling with shock. “Victoria, Sunye."

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Chapter 24 - I'm Here For You

“You know this is my resort, right? And I have every right to kick you outta here to stand in the cold rain,” said Taeyeon. She was glaring at the two intruders, but more at the girl who had hurt her in the past.

Tiffany was standing still with a dumbstruck expression. She did know the history between the two girls and neither has she ever had a real conversation with Sunye or Victoria. Sure Sunye is Siwon’s sister, but she never really got the chance to talk to her and only exchange greetings.

“I’ve talked with your father, Kim Taeyeon,” said Sunye. 

Taeyeon suddenly tensed up when the latter mentioned her father. She did not expect the two to be on good terms even though he knew what she had gone through.

“I have every right to be here in this resort, your resort,” Sunye finished and smirked. 

Taeyeon felt different types of hatred towards her father. Was this his way of getting back at his own daughter for not working for him and causing a scene? She did not know, but she certainly knew that he did not care what kind of history these two had.

“My father doesn’t own this resort anymore, so I don’t see why he granted you permission to step foot onto here. This is mine, I repeat, this is mine. Now get out,” she demanded.

Sunye hissed at the harsh words getting thrown at her. She glared at the crippled girl sitting on the chair looking comfortably, but knew she was burning inside. Then her eyes averted to the girl standing by the window. A smirk appeared on her face. She knew that Taeyeon has been spending an awfully a lot of time with Tiffany lately.

“Taeyeon, you should know that your father owns you, right? Why don’t you just let a normal person, like me and Victoria, rest here comfortably? We were exhausted with the exams too, you know?” said Sunye. With every sentence, she had taken a step closer towards the sitting girl.

Tiffany cautiously looked at the two. Victoria was standing in the back and leaning against the wall with her arms crossed. Her stance looks awfully familiar to her best friend’s. Sunye was just merely a few feet away from Taeyeon. The latter did not move an inch. Whatever Sunye might do now, she will pay for it later, is what Taeyeon thought. 

“Sunye, just leave. I don’t want to deal with you right now,” Taeyeon said and looked away from the girl.

Sunye examined Taeyeon. Her body was filled with bandages and a sling on her left arm; surely the injuries were caused by Donghae. As for the man himself, it was way worse than what she had expected when she heard the two had gotten into a brawl. 

“What would you do if I made it worse?” she asked.

Taeyeon looked back and continued to stare her down with her piercing glare. “What?”

Sunye reached out for Taeyeon’s hand and the latter knew what she was doing. Due to her fast reflexes, she had barely escaped from Sunye’s grip. But since she was in a confined space trapped in between the arms of the chair and Sunye, the latter had successfully grabbed her injured arm and squeezed. 

Taeyeon screamed out in agony. The way Sunye was adding pressure to the broken bone was making the healing stop for quite awhile now. Tiffany and Victoria were equally shocked at Sunye’s actions. 

Immediately, Tiffany broke out from her rooted position and dashed towards Taeyeon and Sunye. Gripping tightly onto Sunye’s shoulders, she pulled her away from Taeyeon which only made the latter scream more since she was tightly clutching onto her. Tiffany did not think she had to take apart in violence. She was highly devoted to God and she did not want to commit a sin, but to Taeyeon she will face the sacrifice. With less experience in fighting, she stepped onto Sunye’s foot with her heel.

Due to the sharp pain, Sunye finally let go of Taeyeon’s injured arm and hopped on one foot to aid her injured foot. Victoria immediately rushed over and held onto her only to be pushed away. 

“I see that only just a squeeze will make you scream like that,” Sunye said and panted. She was walking backwards from the two. 

Keeping her eyes on Sunye, Tiffany crouched down next to Taeyeon and carefully unwrap her sling to check if her wound was bleeding and to her dismay, it was. It was not only just a broken bone, but a few cuts here and there. 

With a groan, Taeyeon held onto Tiffany’s hand and pushed herself up from the chair. She looked over to Sunye and Victoria. With wide eyes, she saw Sunye holding up a baseball bat.

“Tiffany… run. You can’t trust this girl with a bat.”

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica breathed harshly against the cold sand. The heavy rain was still patting against her back. She felt weak, tired, and frustrated, but she needed to survive. Mustering up all her strength, she lifted herself up and started to crawl knowing that she did not have enough strength to stand up. Her eyes were half closed, making her vision worse than blurry by the rain. 

She started to cry once more, cry because she feared that no one was around her to save her. There was only one person that she knew who would always come for her when she least expected it and she hated the fact it was the girl, the player.

Kwon Yuri.

She thought Yuri was her last option. There was no way Taeyeon and Tiffany would be outside in the rain right now. With her half-lidded eyes, she lifted her head up and tried her best to survey the beach, but to no avail.

Dropping her head back down onto the sand, she let out a wail. She did not want to be involved with this mess. She did not want to be involved with Yuri or Taeyeon. She did not want to be involved with the Jung Industries. And most importantly she did not want to love Yuri.

But her heart refused to her commands.

She hated herself whenever it came to Yuri or the mention of the said girl, her heart will start to beat fast. Her face will unknowingly create a shade of red on her cheeks and she had to constantly bite on her lower lip to refrain herself from smiling. 

And she knew. She knew there was a side of Yuri that no one knows, that no one will be able to get that side of her to the world. But she had caught a glimpse of that side. She knew hiding deep inside Yuri was the real Yuri, not the image the younger girl had created for herself.

But now she cannot help but break down into tears to remember the fact that Yuri was a player. Someone who had not experienced love, someone who is not satisfied with one partner, someone who did not express their emotions clearly enough. 

Someone that Jessica did not want Yuri to be anymore.

While she was breathing harshly against the cold sand, she heard faint footsteps approaching her. Not bothering to lift her head up, she continued to lay there, lifeless. The footsteps were getting heavier and heavier and eventually the person had caught up to where Jessica lay.

“Jessica?” the person asked.

Due to almost fainting, Jessica could not distinguish the person’s voice, but she knew all too well it was not Yuri. She did not care who the person was. All she cared was getting under a shelter and recover at least. She felt the person shaking her lightly with one hand and the person repeating her name. Her eyes gave up on her once more. She finally fell unconscious.

*-*-*-*-

Yuri dashed through the beach with her right arm covering over her eyes. Squinting through the mist, she stopped for a second before continuing to run once again in search for Jessica.

“Jessica! Jessica! Sica!” she yelled out, hoping she would at least hear a faint sound.

But she did not.

She continued to run until she knew Jessica could have not gone any further. Panting for air, she spun around at least twice to check her surroundings, but there was nothing. Just mist and sand.

Jessica, where are you?

Knowing where she is standing right now, she decided to sprint towards a lone shelter which is further from the resort. 

Please Sica. Just be okay.

-*-*-*-*-

It has been an hour since Jessica had fainted and due to the heat, she woke up. She felt like her flesh is burning inside and she could feel the sweat trickling down her forehead to her neck. Her lips were parted and what escaped were short, little breaths. 

She felt her bang swept to the side and tucked behind her ear. She wanted to open her eyes, but something forced her not to. Not yet. The person’s touch was familiar and somewhat gentle, but she just did not know the owner. Her eye twitched when the person started to caress her face and causing them to retract their hand for a good amount of time. Slowly and finally, she opened her eyes as her vision tried to get used to her surroundings.

She sat up from the bed and groaned. She was still feeling hot under the covers and she knew she had a fever for staying in the rain for too long. She looked around the room. It was unfamiliar to her and she did not know where she was. Turning her head to the right, her eyes tried to focus on the person who looked seemingly injured. 

When her eyes finally adjusted to the light and to the person, it widened in shock of who was sitting in front of her. It was the same pair of eyes, the pair of eyes that stole her heart, ripped it into pieces, threw it onto the floor, and stomped on it.

“Y-you….”

-*-*-*-*-

Tiffany screamed and ducked for cover. Not only did Sunye have a bat, Victoria has one too. Where did they get it? They do not know. Taeyeon wrapped her good arm around Tiffany’s waist as they ran around the room to dodge the swings from their two enemies. They both had tried to exit earlier once Sunye was approaching them with a bat in hand, but Victoria had somehow blocked the exit. 

Tiffany felt as if her heart was going to burst out of her ribcage any second. She feared for getting hit and she feared for Taeyeon to get injured more than she is now. Taeyeon noticed her fearful, worried expression when she threw a glance to check on her condition. Escaping is now her top priority. 

They both skillfully jumped onto the bed and rolled off of it. Tiffany was surprised that a person like her could even do such a thing, but to Taeyeon it was normal to do so. Ducking besides the bed, they heard a crash right besides them. Sunye had smashed the lamp into pieces. 

“Oh, my God.” Tiffany panicked and began running again with Taeyeon. She spoke in small breaths, “Yuri better hurry up and find Jess so she could help us!”

“Don’t depend on Yuri right now,” Taeyeon said in a rushed breath. “I’m pretty sure she is still finding Jessica and trying to reconcile with her.”

She threw a glance over her shoulder when they were running out from the bedroom with their two enemies following closely behind. Luckily for the both of them, the exit was clear. Tugging onto Tiffany’s waist, they both dashed towards the exit with the latter reaching out for the doorknob.

“Yah! Get back here!” yelled Sunye.

Before they knew it, Taeyeon and Tiffany already sprinted into the rain. Victoria ran after them, but ran back into the house when she realized Sunye was still rooted to the ground. 

“Sunye-ah, why aren’t you chasing them?” she asked and panted for air.

Sunye shook her head and threw her baseball bat onto the couch. “It’s no use. If we can’t get them in a small house like this, what makes you think we can where they can run outside wherever they want?”

Victoria exhaled a huge amount of air before closing the door. She threw her baseball bat right next to Sunye’s. “That’s true. Where is Siwon oppa?”

“He’s with Donghae.”

-*-*-*-*-

Taeyeon and Tiffany barged into Taeyeon’s room since it was closer. Tiffany ran more inwards towards the room and collapsed onto the couch after sprinting for a large amount of time whereas Taeyeon closed the door and locked it. She was looking outside the window to check if Sunye or Victoria were still chasing them.

A few minutes later, Taeyeon turned and walked to Tiffany when she did not see an enemy in sight. “We are safe. For now.”

They were both dripping wet from the rain and since Taeyeon was wearing bandages and a sling she had to change them into a new pair before they get molded. “Tiffany, can you help me get a white box under my bed?”

After catching her breath, Tiffany nodded and stood up to get the white box. Moments later, she emerged from the room and handed it to Taeyeon. That is when she noticed blood trickling down from Taeyeon’s injured arm. 

“You’re still bleeding! Let me help, Taeyeon,” said Tiffany.

They both sat down on the couch and Taeyeon let Tiffany carefully unwrap the bandages around her. Taeyeon admired Tiffany’s facial features as the latter threw the wet, slightly bloody bandages to the side. After baring Taeyeon with her bandages and sling, Tiffany picked up the white box and grabbed cotton balls along with a rubbing alcohol bottle. 

“Why didn’t you do anything while she was hurting you?” mumbled Tiffany as she poured the alcohol onto the cotton ball.

Taeyeon did not reply, but only looked at Tiffany’s face. Realizing that the older girl was not replying, Tiffany went on to wipe away the blood on Taeyeon’s arm. Taeyeon saw the confident expression on Tiffany’s face to clean her injuries. She remembered the time where she panicked and all she saw and felt was fear. She hated herself for being in a weak state and for not protecting the younger girl.

“Tiffany… I’ll promise to protect you better,” she blurted out.

Tiffany stopped in the midst of cleaning Taeyeon’s arm. She slowly looked up and felt Taeyeon staring right back at her. It was as if she was staring into her soul. 

“What are you talking about?” she asked.

“I’m injured and I felt I was the weakest person back there. After this one time Yuri got injured badly, I promised myself to always protect myself and others I truly care about. And that includes you, Tiffany.”

The words Taeyeon was spewing out were filled with determination and the confident expression she was wearing was a plus. They were both in their own little worlds, lost into each other’s eyes, and most definitely only thinking about each other. Tiffany did not know how to respond, not when who she thought the cold – which could be on par with Jessica – daughter of the owner of the Kim Enterprises would care about a person like her. 

By those words, Taeyeon earned herself a beautiful eye-smile which made her heart flutter. One she has not seen since the dispute between their fellow enemies. “It’s been a long… time… since you’ve last smiled like that….”

Tiffany’s smile dropped to a small, calming smile. “It has, hasn’t it?”

Without waiting for the older girl’s exchange of words, she began to dress her wounds starting with her head. Once she was fully done bandaging Taeyeon’s head up, she began to bandage her left arm. 

“I’m sorry you and Jessica were dragged into this mess,” Taeyeon said after a long period of silence. She watched as Tiffany’s delicate fingers wrapped the white bandage around her forearm.

“It’s okay. As long as I’m by your side knowing that you will protect me… I’m fine.”

Taeyeon’s eyebrows rose up at Tiffany’s words. Ever since those words were blurted out from her lips, Tiffany has not risen her head up. She was still messing around with Taeyeon’s bandages although she had already done dressing the girl. Taeyeon smiled. She knew Tiffany was probably blushing by then. 

I think I like you.

-*-*-*-*-

With one of the two men that were her enemies along with three others here, she knew this was not going to go so well. Not caring about her fever and headache, Jessica immediately slipped out from the bed on the opposite side of where the man sat.

“Why… why did you bring me here? Why are you even here?” she questioned.

“Princess… I’m sorry for my behavior.”

“This isn’t a time for apologizing! You have no right to apologize. An apology can’t fix up what you have done to me,” Jessica spat out angrily.

He stood up and began to walk over to the fragile girl until the latter reached over to the nightstand and unplugged the lamp. She held it like a weapon pointing towards her enemy and just like she wanted, he back down.

“Princess, I’m not going to hurt you….”

“I told you not to call me that!” she screamed and threatened to throw the lamp at him.

She did not care if he was injured already with a bandaged head, left arm in cast, bandaged right arm, and possibly a bandaged abdomen, she will still hurt him. She did not even know why he has escaped from the hospital with the detailed information she received from Taeyeon.

“I don’t want to deal with you anymore,” said Jessica. “I don’t even want to see you, but you just had to keep coming back to my life and try to get me back, huh? What we had is over, Donghae. Over.”

Donghae did not know why, but he felt as if his heart just shattered into pieces by the girl’s words. All he ever wanted was to get her back, but his player instincts and his faults had to get into his way and above all, Kwon Yuri.

He obviously knew the tanned girl was the problem, the wall, the blocker in between the two of them. With Yuri by Jessica’s side especially her being her roommate and a girl was a disadvantage to Donghae. The majority of the people knew that when girls held hands, hug, kiss each other’s cheeks, and playfully tackle each other, they all take it as they are best friends. But when guys do that or girl and guy, they were either homosexual or a couple and Donghae could not just run up to Jessica and do one of the four things listed. Especially when it was at his fault for breaking up with the latter and he would just seem pathetic for running back to her.

“Right now you just seem pathetic, Donghae. Did you ever think you could take me back with what you have done in the past and now?” asked Jessica. “I don’t think you do because all you ever think of is feeling satisfied and I’m not your little toy.”

She was still holding up the lamp threateningly. Donghae opened his mouth to retort to Jessica’s words if it was not for his partner in crime for barging into the door.

“Is she awake?” he asked in a rush until he looked to where Donghae was looking at. “And holding a lamp, I see. I’d put that down if I were you.”

Jessica did not oblige. She was still holding up the lamp like a weapon and with Choi Siwon, who was healthy, muscular, and strong as ever, here she knew she lost the upper hand in this game. 

“I don’t see why I have to listen to you just because you’re here,” Jessica replied with her usual cold tone. 

“And I wouldn’t rely on anyone saving you right now. Especially that Yuri of yours,” Siwon retorted. He took a couple of steps forward and Jessica began to threateningly hold up the lamp once more, but to her dismay, he did not back down like Donghae have done.

Siwon sinisterly chuckled. “You think a lamp is going to hurt me? It’s going to take more than that.”

But it did not stop Jessica from keeping her guard up. Her head was starting to throb once more and she began to cough weakly. Her fever was acting up now and Siwon knew she was in her vulnerable and fragile state. 

“Someone needs to visit the bed to rest,” teased Siwon with a dark smile.

“Shut up!” Jessica screamed angrily with a cough following right afterward. Her chest was in pain after every cough escaping from her mouth. 

Yuri… please save me. I’m sorry for my words, just please come! 

-*-*-*-*-

From meters away, Yuri could finally see the lone shelter coming into view. The shelter was not a part of the resort and Yuri knew all too well who it belonged to. She began to run and finally standing under the roof, she started to catch her breath. With her hands on her knees, she heard screaming from inside the shelter.

“Stop! Stop! You’re hurting me!”

Sica. 

Immediately, Yuri shot up from her position and barged into the door, but to no avail. It was locked. With a few steps back, she began to run and knock the door down with her right foot just like cops does and fortunately for her, she broke the door open.

“Sica!” 

I’m here for you.

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Chapter 25 - Won't Let Her Go

It was one of those days, one of those days where she felt like she was going to die. Where she felt like she was going to watch every single human being on earth from above. Where she felt like she was going to visit her ancestors. But it was also one of those days where her fear dispersed all because of one person. It was one of those days where she was waiting for her prince riding on a white horse coming to her rescue. It was one of those days where Kwon Yuri happened to find Jung Jessica.

After Yuri had successfully kicked the front door down and yelling out the older girl’s name, two – three heads snapped towards the direction of the loud voice.

“Of course. Kwon Yuri coming to the rescue once again….” Siwon muttered under his breath through gritted teeth.

For the reason why the auburn haired girl was yelling out in pain, it was obvious enough that Choi Siwon was fulfilling his satisfaction in watching the girl crumble down. He is sadistic and he knew that for a fact.

As for his partner in crime, he calmly sat on a chair watching the torturous scene between his used-to-be lover and Siwon. There were times where he wanted to jump up to his feet and push Siwon away when he saw tears forming on the corner of Jessica’s eyes, but he knew the older man was doing it for his sake. 

As if her timing could not be any more perfect, Yuri busted the door open just like she had done to the front door. “Jessica,” she whispered.

The image in front of her had shattered her heart completely. Inside, she was burning in anger, burning in hatred. Tears were streaming down Jessica’s face, red marks were found on her neck, her shirt was torn, and a bruise was forming on her abdomen. 

“Choi… Siwon…!” she yelled out in frustration.

Due to her anger, she could not control her aim and swung freely. Siwon had blocked her fists multiple of times and jabbed her in the abdomen without even trying. He scoffed at the pathetic state Yuri was in.

“Yuri, Yuri, Yuri. Whatever happened to calming yourself down before fighting?” he spat out before giving a kick to the side of her body, smashing her ribs.

It did not calm Yuri down, but only made her anger rise up bit by bit. All she cared was getting Jessica out to safety, but Choi Siwon had to be in the way. She slowly stood up, but was immediately pushed back down to her original position with another kick to the ribs.

“Stay down. No one asked you to come here and since you did, I think you should get a little beating, if not more,” said Siwon.

Yuri gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. She did not know why she could not beat Siwon alone where she had beaten twelve guys before and it had included him. She stood up and stumbled backwards when Siwon swung a fist to her right cheek. She was exhausted, exhausted from all the running she was doing and she felt like fainting for staying in the rain. Not only was she uncoordinated, but the wet clothes on her back was holding her back due to the added weight from the water.

Brushing her wet bangs to the side, she saw Siwon swinging another fist at her. Using her quick instincts, she ducked and dodged the swing successfully. Caught off guard, Siwon could only stare dumbly at Yuri with his hand in mid-air before he felt her hands on the back of his neck and a strong knee coming in contact with his stomach. Siwon coughed a disgusting cough and fell down onto the floor. The impact from Yuri’s knee had hit him hard more than anything else. Before he could even stand up and counter Yuri’s attack, Yuri had kicked his family area.

“Serves you right,” she spat out and watched as he groaned in pain while holding his groin.

Panting and making sure Siwon could not stand up anymore, she averted her gaze towards the sitting boy. She was surprised that Donghae did not move an inch to help Siwon nor did he bat an eye. And just when Yuri thought Donghae was going to march forward and make her pay for her assault, he ran out the door with a phone in hand. 

Yuri cursed silently under her breath. It was either Donghae had snapped pictures or he was making a call. She snapped her head around to the fallen girl who was silently sobbing into her hands. Rushing over to her, she held Jessica by her shoulders only to receive a slap to the face.

Holding onto her red, stinging cheek, she stared at Jessica who still had her head down and tears streaming down her cheeks. “Jessica….”

Jessica looked up after noticing that it was the tanned girl, her savior, who she had struck. Shocked, she stood on her knees and held her face. “I’m sorry Yuri! I didn’t know it was you.”

Yuri could only weakly smile at the auburn haired girl. For the very first time, Jessica was concerned of her well being. 

“Sica, let’s get you back to the resort,” Yuri said and held onto her wrists.

Jessica nodded and stood up. She stared at her assaulter and watched as he continuously groaned in pain. “Yuri, I don’t think he’s going to have a family now.”

-*-*-*-*-

Yuri barged into her room with Jessica in tow. She wrapped her right arm around the girl’s slim waist and the latter’s left arm was around her neck. “You idiot. Why did you wander so far off?” 

During the run back towards the resort, Jessica had slowly starting to fall unconscious once again and due to her health right now, she fell against Yuri. 

Yuri dropped Jessica onto her bed and immediately began ********* off her shirt. Even though Jessica was subconscious, she was startled and grabbed Yuri by her hand.

“Don’t worry, Sica. I’m not going to do anything to you. Your clothes are wet and it’s only going to make you sicker if you keep them on,” Yuri said. 

Jessica lazily let go of Yuri’s hand and let it fall down onto the bed. Taking that as a yes, Yuri resumed onto removing Jessica’s clothes. She discarded her clothes onto the floor and covered Jessica’s bare body with her blanket. Rushing towards the kitchen, she grabbed a bucket from under the sink and filled it up with warm water. 

Moments later, she returned to the room with a bucket of warm water, a cloth, a bottle of water, and medicine for the both of them. Sitting down on the edge of the bed, she soaked the cloth into the bucket and wringed it before placing it on Jessica’s forehead.

After making sure Jessica’s forehead was warm, Yuri began wiping her face. She could feel how cold Jessica’s body was and as she moved on from her face, she examined the red marks on her neck.

“Sica… what did he do to you?” she asked softly. She knew there was only one way the red marks are on her neck.

Jessica whimpered and slowly shook her head, signaling that she did not want to remember the assault she faced with Choi Siwon. She knew she was naked under the covers and she badly wanted to push Yuri away before she could see any more, but it was not like the latter was going to take advantage of her in the state she is in. She hoped. Feeling the covers slowly slide off her body, she let out a soft sigh when Yuri began wiping her chest and stomach. 

Yuri tried her best to not focus on Jessica’s assets but focus on making her body warm. Who could when there is a beautiful, naked girl in front of you? Few, torturous minutes later, she was finally done wiping Jessica’s body. She frowned when she saw the latter’s eyes closing and abruptly opening a few times. 

“Sica, you can’t sleep now. Take medicine first,” she said. 

Jessica shook her head, but then she realized Yuri was still in her wet clothes. “Yuri-ah, you need to change your clothes.”

“I’ll do it after you take your medicine.”

“No, your fever may worsen.”

“Sica, I’m fine. I have a strong immune system, okay?”

“Still!” Jessica forced herself to sit up on the bed. Lunging forward towards Yuri, she started to unbutton Yuri’s shirt with her head leaning on her shoulder. 

Yuri immediately caught her hands when she was halfway through unbuttoning her shirt. With much struggling and coaxing, she managed to push Jessica down onto the bed with the help of her weakening body. 

Jessica slowly and fully opened her eyes, staring at the tanned beauty in front of her. They were both staring into each other’s eyes with their faces inches away. 

“Sica….” Yuri began. “You look… beautiful even when sick.”

Jessica could only blush and turn her head away to avoid the tanned girl’s eyes. She was so sure she was going to fall in love with the girl, but she already knew deep inside she already was. 

“Yuri… I’m sorry I yelled at you like that,” she mumbled.

Receiving no words as a response from the younger girl, she felt a hand brushing away her bangs instead. Jessica turned her head back and looked into Yuri’s eyes, feeling drowned into the pool of darkness. Without realizing it, Yuri subconsciously leaned closer towards the auburn haired girl. Their lips were inches away and their eyes were locked together.

“Jessica,” Yuri whispered.

“It’s been awhile since you last called me that,” Jessica whispered back.

The corner of Yuri’s lips tug upwards until her eyes drifted towards the latter’s lips. “Can I… can I… kiss you?”

Jessica saw how Yuri was focused on staring at her lips. She saw the sincerity in Yuri’s eyes and her voice. Never would she have thought the latter would have asked permission to kiss her. Slowly, she began to nod. 

They both closed their eyes and Yuri began to lean closer and closer until they felt the tip of their lips touching each other. They both felt sparks shooting up their spines until Yuri leaned in even closer to deepen the kiss. 

Jessica felt it. The kisses they had previously were forced and aggressive, but this time it was gentle and passionate. She felt how slow Yuri moved her lips against hers and felt as though the latter may really change; change into the person she wished she was from the start. 

-*-*-*-*-

The next morning greeted the four and they all decided to meet in the kitchen to have breakfast. Taeyeon and Tiffany arrived first. They waited for the other two to arrive until they both felt a vibration in their pockets. As if they were in sync, they both took out their phones and read the text message.

From: Yuri

Time: 9:34 A.M.

Date: October 2, 2010

I’m sick so I won’t be able to join u guys… sry! ^^

From: Jess

Time: 9:35 A.M.

Date: October 2, 2010

Fever.

“Sick?” Taeyeon asked Tiffany to which the latter nodded.

“We should get them some porridge then,” said Tiffany.

-*-*-*-*-

Jessica groaned and stirred in her sleep. After texting Tiffany about her health condition, she quickly went back to her slumber. She snuggled closer to the warm body next to her. Yes, she knew it was not a pillow this time. Yuri fluttered her eyelids open and her eyes downcast to where Jessica laid at. She smiled at the sight of the sleeping princess. At least this time, none of them would wake up shocked.

Half an hour later, the princess decided to wake up after many attempts and struggles of going back to sleep. She slowly opened her eyes and smiled in return when she first saw the smiling black pearl.

“Morning,” she said and yawned.

“Morning,” Yuri replied softly.

They both began a staring contest; the both of them drown into each other’s eyes. It was not until Jessica decided to break it by giggling and snuggling even closer towards Yuri, placing her face in the crook of her neck.

“Sica, am I dreaming?” Yuri whispered.

Jessica closed her eyes and softly giggled against Yuri’s skin. “Why do you say that?”

“Who could have known I’ve captured the ice princess’s heart? Let alone actually have her as my girlfriend.” Yuri grinned and kissed the top of her head.

A smile formed on Jessica’s lips. “Let’s just say… I’m tired of denying my feelings for you.”

“Well then, I guess I’m tired of denying my feelings for you too.”

After a moment of silence, Jessica said: “Yuri… what were those pictures about?”

Yuri immediately frowned. She thought the latter had completely forgotten about the pictures, but how could she not when basically the whole event last night caused the problem? “Sica, please believe me. Those pictures were a few weeks ago… they mean nothing! I mean sure we shared a few kisses… but she didn’t steal my heart unlike you.”

Jessica slightly smiled at the last sentence. “Then, why did you get drunk?”

“I was stressed, so I thought a couple of drinks would help me clear my head, but I knew someone drugged my drink which resulted to the pictures. You do believe me, right?”

Jessica let out a sigh and nodded causing Yuri to finally relax her tensed body. Though deep inside, she still has her suspicions due to Yuri’s past behavior. They both shared a quick kiss on the lips until the door busted open with Taeyeon and Tiffany. With the other two walking closer towards the bed, Tiffany let out a sigh of relief.

“There you are! I was in your room searching all over for you and turns out you were in bed with Yuri,” said Tiffany before she realized what she had said. “Wait! In bed… with Yuri?! And you’re not even like… screaming or anything like that?! What happened last night?”

“Aigoo, here comes annoying Tiffany,” said Jessica.

“Well, we made porridge for you guys. While you eat, maybe you can tell us what happened, yeah? And I guess Jessica needs to put on some clothes too,” said Taeyeon, smirking.

Jessica blushed when she realized her back was not covered. Taeyeon and Tiffany placed the porridges on the table next to the balcony window while the other couple went to wash up.

-*-*-*-*-

“… So you guys finally figured out your feelings for each other, huh? It’s about time,” Taeyeon said with crossed arms. Her gaze averted to the tanned girl innocently eating her porridge. “And you, Kwon Yuri. I need to speak with you afterwards.”

Yuri was about to place another spoonful into her mouth until she realized what she had gotten herself into. Oh great, the bet.

“Yah Yuri! If you ever hurt Jess again, you’ll be seeing this!” Tiffany playfully said with a fist raised up.

The four chuckled at her gesture. After a gleeful breakfast, Jessica and Tiffany remained inside while the other two best friends walked out into the slightly wet bridge. They both walked side by side until the older stood by a rail.

“So Yuri… I heard you fell in love,” Taeyeon finally said with a teasing smirk.

Yuri placed her arms on the rails and held onto her head. She let out a sigh. “Okay, when do I start?”

“Whoa, whoa… you’re actually giving in?” Taeyeon asked with her eyes slightly wider than usual. Usually at the end of the bets, either she or Yuri would try to talk their way out of it, but not this time.

“Yeah, sure. Why not?” 

“Quite surprised if you ask me. I mean, I would of thought you would talk your way out of it,” said Taeyeon.

“True… but not this time,” Yuri replied and subconsciously smiled.

Taeyeon narrowed her eyes at her. “I think Jessica has really gotten into you. You know what? Forget about the bet.”

“Eh? Why are you suddenly cancelling it?”

“Because you got Jessica in return. I really hope she teaches you a lesson,” Taeyeon replied with her usual, arrogant smirk.

Yuri scratched the back of her head in confusion. “I still don’t know why you cancelled the bet, but okay…. Anyway, how are you and Fany?”

For some reason Taeyeon did not know, she suddenly tensed up at the mention of the girl’s name. Looking away so Yuri could avoid signs of her tension, she began to tap her fingers nervously against the rail.

“What do you mean? We’re fine,” she replied.

Yuri observed Taeyeon’s fingers and smiled to herself. Walking over to the rails, she leaned against it. “Okay Miss Kim Taeyeon, you and I both know you tap your fingers when you are nervous. There’s something going on between you and Fany.”

“If you think that I may have feelings for Tiffany, I don’t, okay? At least… I don’t know,” she whispered the last sentence to herself.

“I really think Fany likes you and you seem suspicious yourself.”

“Suspicious?”

Yuri nodded in response. “The way you act around her, the way you get nervous when her name is mentioned, the way she talks to you, the way you look at her. Gosh! It’s just like Sunye all over again.”

Taeyeon clenched her jaw at the mention of her enemy’s name. “Tiffany will never, never be like Sunye. So, don’t ever compare her to that thing,” she spoke through gritted teeth.

Yuri felt guilty for mentioning Sunye, but she got something else in return. “What was that? You suddenly felt protective over Fany just because I mentioned that ‘thing’. Taengoo, you’re getting too obvious now.”

“Okay fine! I like her! So what of it?!” Taeyeon finally exploded out of anger towards her best friend who was still interrogating her.

Yuri grinned triumphantly and jumped around the shorter girl. “You finally confessed! I’m going to go tell Fany.”

Snickering, she began to run away until Taeyeon shouted after her. “No Yuri! Don’t you dare! I’ll tell her myself when the time is right.”

Yuri skidded on the floor and turned around with a calm smile. “Really? I really hope you don’t blow this up then.”

“I won’t because I have a feeling Tiffany may be the one and I won’t let her go.”

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Chapter 26 - She's the One for You

The four girls returned back to the university with an uneventful ride for Tiffany and Taeyeon, but eventful for Yuri and Jessica. It is as if Yuri and Jessica were keeping their raging hormones inside them all along before their official relationship, for they could not keep their hands off each other. Even though Tiffany came to the resort with Yuri and Jessica, she left with Taeyeon knowing what in the world Yuri and Jessica are going to do. 

The whole ride home for Taeyeon and Tiffany was silent. They had casual conversations here and there and it was killing Tiffany for she always like to talk a lot, but for some reason she could not make a conversation longer than a minute with the older girl. 

Even though Taeyeon looked calm on the outside, she was flipping like a fish running out of water on the inside. Ever since that talk she had with her best friend, she could not keep calm around Tiffany after realizing her feelings. She hated this feeling. It was like déjà vu all over again.

After a short, peaceful rest, Jessica got up from the bed and stretched her limbs. She let out a yawn and rubbed her eyes as she made her way towards the living room. Spotting no Kwon Yuri around the dorm, she figured the former might be sleeping.

Plopping down on the couch after another long yawn escaped from her mouth, she grabbed the remote and lazily pressed the button before colorful images appeared on the television screen. Realizing that the news were on and since she had no interested in what is going on around in the world these days, she was about to turn the channel until she spotted a familiar man in handcuffs while being pushed by two police officers. This woke her up to reality. Backing off from the couch, her eyes widened at the caption at the bottom. 

Choi Siwon Arrested for Sexual Abuse towards Jung Jessica 

Here she was resting back at her dorm with the marks of evidence on her and she had no idea someone had turned Siwon in. It was only her, Siwon, Donghae, and Yuri at the scene and she knew for sure that Yuri could have not done it since she had no footage or evidence of the abuse. There was not any way for a by-passer to catch the scene for the droplets of rain were furiously attacking the windows back then, making it blurry to know what was going on.

“Donghae couldn’t have done it… could he?” she mumbled to herself as her vision was on the television screen of Siwon trying to struggle against the two police officers, yet her mind was somewhere else. 

She was finally snapped out of her reverie when she heard the connecting door bang open with Taeyeon and Tiffany popping up. “Jung Jessica! How come you never told us?!” Tiffany shouted. 

She never realized the marks on Jessica’s neck for her hair was covering the majority of it. She rushed over to her best friend and brushed her hair aside. That is when she noticed the faint red marks on her neck. 

“Oh, my gosh, Jessi!” she hugged Jessica tight, squeezing the air out of her.

“Tiff, Tiff, I’m fine! Gosh, Yuri was there to help me!” she tried to say as she struggled to break free from Tiffany’s grip.

Tiffany finally let go while Taeyeon walked towards the two. “It’s good that Yuri was there, but how did this come out if neither of us told the police?”

“I don’t know…. I know for sure Yuri hasn’t done anything since she was with me the whole time. There is no way in hell Siwon will turn himself in. The only choice I could think of is Donghae, but I don’t know why he would do that,” explained Jessica.

“Well,” Taeyeon began and crossed her arms, “it’s about time he got arrested when I could’ve done so myself.”

It was then the three snapped their heads towards the news anchor explaining the situation. 

“The heir of Choi Incorporations, Choi Siwon, is seen in handcuffs as he is being dragged away from a beach house. It has been reported that Choi Siwon was spotted sexually abusing the daughter of Jung Sungmin, Jung Jessica, last night at approximately 10:23 PM. I’ll turn it over to you now, Park Jungmin,” said the news anchor.

Jungmin was seen holding up the microphone for the news channel standing next to another familiar guy. Jessica’s eyes popped out. “D-Donghae?”

“Thank you, Park Gyuri. Today, I am here with Lee Donghae who is also another heir to Lee Enterprise. It has been reported that Donghae has turned Choi Siwon in over to the police with a video footage of the sexual abuse. Donghae, do you have a say in this?” asked Jungmin.

Donghae was still in his pitiful appearance with his injuries. “Even though I am best friends with Choi Siwon, I thought it was wrong of him to do something to a person I truly love. I couldn’t do anything to save her in the state I am in, but I am truly thankful for Kwon Yuri for being the hero of that night. Kwon Yuri, if you are watching this, you officially won. I have given up and you deserve to be with Jessica. I already had my chance and being the stupid man I am, I blew it. Jessica, I will not bother you anymore.”

“There you have it. This is Park Jungmin from channel nine news. Back to you, Park Gyuri.”

“Thank you, Jungmin. Other than that, we—“

“So, Donghae did it, huh?” 

As if turning their heads was not enough, they snapped their heads towards the hallway to see Yuri leaning against the wall. “It’s funny how much he changed in so little time.”

-*-*-*-*-

That very next day, vacation was finally over. Yuri and Jessica walked side by side with their hands interlocked as they made their way towards school. Taeyeon and Tiffany were not that far behind, but they kept a distance between each other. 

As soon as the four exited the dormitory building and walking towards the mathematics building, they stopped at the sight of a young man on crutches who was making their way towards them. Yuri’s grip on Jessica’s hand tightened although they all knew the good deed he has done. 

Donghae stopped a few feet away from them in fear of getting more injuries. He let out a sigh and looked at Jessica. 

“May I talk to you privately?” he asked. 

Jessica looked away from the man and up towards Yuri. She smiled as a sign of relief towards the taller girl. “Don’t worry. Just go first and I’ll meet you guys later.”

Yuri nodded and reluctantly let go of Jessica’s hand. She motioned Taeyeon and Tiffany as the three of them slowly walked past Donghae before staring sternly at him. Donghae was staring at the floor the whole time in fear of showing his cowardly side just by a person’s eyes.

As soon as the three were out of sight and range, Jessica spoke up first. “Why did you do it?”

Donghae looked up. Letting out a sigh once again, he made his way towards a nearby bench and sat on it, setting his crutches aside. Jessica slowly followed behind and sat on the other side of the bench, leaving space in between them.

Donghae’s heart pained at the distance between them, but he managed to make himself look strong. “I had enough.”

Jessica scoffed. “After all these years of torturing and suffering me, you finally decided to stop?”

“I know what I did was wrong, Jessica. Every single minute we spent together was not a lie. I was honest and truthful towards you with my feelings, but I am naïve. I didn’t trust you as much which caused me to listen to the lies from Siwon. He made me believe every single thing about you. Sometimes I will tell myself that it isn’t true, but Siwon provided evidence. Fake evidence. 

“I thought that was pretty stupid of me. When he told me that you were cheating on me by kissing others, he had pictures of them. I was pretty surprised, but then in the end it turned out to be photoshopped. I looked them over for the last time and it looked so fake to me now. And then he still managed to get me onto his side. He knew you were best friends with Tiffany, his ex-girlfriend. I still don’t know the reason why he played with such an innocent girl like her. He made me his servant, his slave, his dog. And all along I fell for all his traps because he was so good to me. He was like a brother to me, always pampering me with things I wanted.

“He took advantage of me when he found out my dad died. I thought he was just doing these things to me out of pity and sympathy, but he made me believe him that he was doing it out of his own will. I couldn’t say I hated him though. I hated myself for believing him. He was manipulating me to the point where we were partners in crime and where I almost trusted him with my whole life. 

“What I really wanted to say is that I will finally give up on you. I saw the way Yuri looked at you and held you just now. Her eyes were filled with love and her hands gave off the aura of protection. Something I couldn’t give to you… at least in this state I am in. I really wish you the best with Yuri. This relationship you have with her doesn’t seem fake anymore. I just hope she doesn’t hurt you like I have done to you.”

He bitterly laughed and wiped the forming tears in his eyes. He had to be strong. No longer did he want to show his weak side to anyone. 

The whole time Jessica was listening, tears started to form in her eyes. Everything Donghae said was true to her ears. Biting down on her lower lip, she prevented herself from sobbing and tears falling down from her eyes. 

“I’m sorry I thought so wrongly of you,” she finally said.

Donghae smiled sadly. “It’s no big deal. You should get to class now. I finally said what I wanted to say.”

Jessica stood up and wiped the rim of her eyes. Looking at Donghae, she mustered up a smile that she has not given to him in a long time. “Thank you, Donghae. I just hope you won’t go out of your way again. I really want you to be the person you were when you were with me.”

Donghae slowly nodded. “I’ll try. Thank you for listening and talking to me, Jessica.”

After a moment of hesitation and looking at the crippled Donghae, Jessica walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him. Donghae’s eyes widened. Never has he thought he would be in the arms of Jessica once again after the dispute they had. He felt so warm and he returned the hug with his good arm. 

Jessica released her hold and she smiled at the man. “That’s my apologetic hug to you for giving you the cold shoulder.” And with that, she walked away from Donghae with a small smile. 

-*-*-*-*-

It was as if time flew by quickly that the girls’ classes ended quite quickly. Taeyeon was the first to leave, saying that she had important matters to deal with. She did not see the worry on Tiffany’s expression, but neither did she think she would be concerned for her.

Barging into her room, she carelessly threw her school bag onto her bed and began to rummage inside her walk-in closet. Flipping through each article of clothing hanging onto the rack, she finally picked out the perfect business attire for her as she checked herself out in the mirror.

“Perfect.”

********* out of her clothes quickly and trying to avoid touching her injured arm, she threw the attire on and fixed her hair (although she messed it up a little bit). She rushed out the door and glanced at the clock sitting on her nightstand. Worried that she might be a little late, she rushed out of the dorm room and ran down the hall, passing by her three friends who she ignored when they were calling after her.

“I can’t be late.”

-*-*-*-*-

Mr. Kim silently sat at his desk. The upcoming meeting with all of the staff of the Kim Enterprise was just twenty minutes away and he badly needed his daughter to attend this meeting. With sullen eyes, he knew of the girl’s behavior. She was stubborn and wanting things to go her way. She never liked the fact to be ordered around even if her parents were doing so. 

Looking down, he sighed. He wasted ten minutes thinking about his stubborn daughter. Standing up slowly and stretching his limbs with the same pace, he limped his way towards the double doors. It was time for the meeting.

As he walked past the couches, the double doors bursted open, almost startling him to death. There stood a panting Kim Taeyeon.

“Taeyeon?” he questioned, not believing the girl in front of his eyes was his daughter.

“I know this is weird for me to suddenly pop up, but I’ve decided to officially come back for good and what I mean is that I will never abandon you,” Taeyeon breathed out and managed to say. 

Mr. Kim stood there with his slouched back. Eventually, a smile appeared on his wrinkly face. “I’m glad.”

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Chapter 27 - A Kiss to End the Night

The development for the amusement park has finally finished. Donghae was not present once again since today was the testing for rides and he was still injured. Surprisingly, Victoria was not present either and that angered both Mr. Kwon and Mr. Jung. Though, Yuri and Jessica were present and it eased the older men’s heart a little.

“Okay Yuri and Jessica, come over here,” said Mr. Kwon. The couple walked over hand in hand and raised a questioning eyebrow at the older man. “Today is the day where we need test riders and you two are chosen. I was thinking all four of you could have done it, but Donghae and Victoria did not come today.”

“We need to ride on all these rides?” gawked Yuri. There was too many to choose from.

“Well, no, not exactly. Choose at least five rides you guys want to ride here. The rest will be tested by our construction workers,” said Mr. Jung.

“Five rides, huh?” Yuri looked around the amusement park and smiled as she spotted the ride she wanted to ride for a very long time. “Sica! Let’s go on that ride!” 

Jessica turned around and saw a spaceship ride that Yuri was pointing at. “Well, it’s not a rollercoaster so it shouldn’t be that bad….” she mumbled to herself.

-*-*-*-*-

“Ready Sica?” 

Yuri and Jessica lied against the seats. They have never been on this ride, so they did not know the outcome of it. Jessica was slightly regretting stepping onto this ride. There was no straps, no belts, and no nothing to keep you attached to the ride.

The entrance and exit door shut and the operator man sat in the middle of the ride. He looked at the girls for a split second before starting up the ride. The ride started off slow for Yuri and Jessica.

“What is this ride going to do?” asked Jessica.

“I heard that it’s going to push you back against the seat and that you’re not going to move at all. Or… unless you try very hard to,” Yuri said as the ride spun faster and faster.

Finally the ride was at its maximum speed. Jessica shrieked when the ride seats slid up. She feared she was going to fall and she tried her hardest to push her arm up to grab Yuri’s hand for support. Fighting against the pressure placed on her head, she slightly turned her head and spotted Yuri crawling over towards her ever so slowly.

“There’s so much pressure!” Yuri screamed out. 

The rides slid up once again and Jessica shrieked. By the time the rides were staying put, Yuri lied down next to Jessica. Jessica opened her eyes (she closed them earlier because she was scared as hell) and spotted Yuri lying on the ride sideways. It lightened up her mood due to her girlfriend’s posture.

Yuri continued to move her body and eventually she was half lying on top of Jessica. Jessica widened her eyes at the close proximity and how Yuri managed to crawl over towards her with all this pressure the ride has placed onto them.

“Hi there,” harshly breathed Yuri.

The ride was draining out their oxygen. By the time Jessica lifted up her left arm to grab onto Yuri, she was pushed down onto the ride with so much force. The operator man chuckled at their position. Yuri was lying sideways with her top body lying on Jessica and Jessica was lying on her stomach with her left arm hooked around Yuri’s waist. Yuri’s face was practically right next to Jessica’s ear and the latter could hear her harsh breathing.

“This ride is killing me,” screamed Jessica.

Finally, the ride was slowing down. It came to a stop and they both dropped onto the steel plating of the ride. Yuri and Jessica wobbled off the ride and held onto their heads.

“Oh, my gosh. That ride is going to give me a headache when we get home,” Yuri muttered. “But it was so fun!”

Jessica giggled at Yuri’s childish nature. She hooked her arm around Yuri’s right arm and they both skipped towards the next ride to test.

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Taeyeon entered the company meeting with her father. It was placed in any ordinary conference room where only the higher ups of the company were present. Many were surprised at the sight of Mr. Kim’s daughter when they had heard the latter had rebelled against the old man and went for her studies instead. Some might have thought Mr. Kim forced Taeyeon to come against her own will, but others had thought otherwise due to the smile on her face. 

Mr. Kim took a seat at the head of the conference table and Taeyeon took a seat to the right of him. Organizing the documents on the desk, Mr. Kim waited till everyone was quiet to officially start the meeting.

“Today we will hold our conference meeting about the stocks, sales, work ethics and so on. But, instead of me, we will have my daughter, Kim Taeyeon, to do the main speaking,” he announced.

Taeyeon stood up in the conference room and everyone turned to take a quick look at the young heiress. “First up, how many sales have we made so far this year, Mrs. Kang?”

Mrs. Kang, the one who counts up the sales, stood up and announced the amount of sales. From there on, Mr. Kim looked at his daughter and smiled. It was nice to see his daughter to come on her own will and perform effortlessly just like he would have thought she would. 

-*-*-*-*-

After the conference meeting, Taeyeon and her father stayed after in the room after everyone had left including his secretary. Once the door shut, Mr. Kim darted his eyes towards Taeyeon who was turning off the electronics for the PowerPoint presentation that she had held up just a few minutes ago.

“Taeyeon, what made you come back?” Mr. Kim asked.

Taeyeon pressed the button on the projector and watched as it vanished into thin air from the screen. “Well, I’m back. That’s what matters, right?”

Mr. Kim folded his hands onto his table and nodded as Taeyeon walked to the front of the room and pulled up the projection screen. “I guess that’s true.”

With his back facing Taeyeon, she could not help but frown. There was only one reason to come back to work for her father. She needed to keep her minds off of things and she hoped the work overload she had received before would make her mind temporary blank and only focusing on the work itself just like last time. She just needed to get her mind off of Tiffany for now.

-*-*-*-*-

“Oh, my gosh, Yuri! That was so fun!” Jessica grinned from ear to ear as she skipped around in the dormitory halls. 

It was past ten o’clock, the designated bedtime that they were supposed to be in their rooms by then, but they could care less. Yuri smiled at the sight of the inner child in Jessica slowly releasing. It was as if Jessica temporary forgot all the problems in the world and let herself be free for now even if she is a university student. 

Yuri’s smile only got bigger as she ran down the halls and caught up with Jessica by swinging her around with her arms around her waist. Jessica shrieked and giggled right afterwards, letting her girlfriend swing her around lightly. After a few twirls, Yuri placed Jessica back down onto the ground and hugged her tightly.

“We should go on the official day,” whispered Yuri.

Jessica smiled in returned and hugged Yuri back with the same amount of grip that the latter had put in. “We should.”

A door bursted open and Tiffany ran into the halls. She spotted Yuri and Jessica hugging in the middle of the halls and as much as she hated to break their intimate moment, she ran over to the two and yelled out their names. Yuri and Jessica broke off the hug and watched Tiffany run over to them with a worried look. 

“What’s up, Fany?” Yuri asked.

“Have you guys seen Taeyeon? It’s almost twelve and she isn’t home….” worriedly asked Tiffany.

“Ah, you’re worried about Tae?” Yuri smiled and patted Tiffany on the shoulder. “Don’t worry about her for now. She went back to the company and during times like this where she doesn’t come back after ten; she usually stays over at her house and come back to the university the next morning.”

“Oh, she does? Then I got worried over nothing?” 

Yuri giggled and turned Tiffany around. Placing her hands on her shoulders, she guided the worried Tiffany back to her room with Jessica trailing behind. “Yes, you did. Now go sleep. If you need anything, we’ll be in our dorm.”

Tiffany smiled and bid the both of them goodnight before closing her door shut and a click following afterwards. Yuri turned around and spotted Jessica marching towards their room with her arms crossed. With an eyebrow raised, she followed Jessica and saw how she carelessly left the door open and started to make her way to her room with pounding footsteps.

“What’s up with you? Why are you getting mad all of a sudden?” asked Yuri.

Jessica whirled around towards the front door and pouted at Yuri. “What was that?”

“What was what?”

“Touching Tiff like that,” Jessica said with a pout following afterwards.

Yuri cocked her head with a dumbfounded look. Then she realized what was going on. “Could you be perhaps… jealous?”

“J-jealous? W-who said anything about me being j-jealous?” stammered Jessica. She had completely blown her poker face cover. 

Yuri giggled. “Jung Jessica is jealous! Oh, my. That’s a first!” She rushed over towards Jessica and gave the former and loving kiss on the cheek. “Don’t worry, my love. You’re the only one for me and you should know that.” 

“Then you should give me something in return.”

“Anything for you,” Yuri said and smiled.

“A kiss on the lips,” said Jessica with a wide smile.

Not noticing the intention behind it, Yuri stepped closer towards the brunette and placed her hands on her hips. Leaning closer towards the latter, she closed her eyes and tilted her head. Jessica’s eyes were still open and she giggled lightly before placing a slip of paper in between their lips.

Yuri’s eyes shot open when she felt the rough texture on her lips and thought it was Jessica’s. Frowning, she looked at Jessica who was doubling over at her shocked expression.

“That’s not funny,” she pouted.

Jessica clutched onto her stomach and laughed to her heart’s content. “You should’ve seen the look on your face!”

Yuri crossed her arms angrily as she waited for the older girl to catch her breath and calm down. After a few minutes or so, Jessica straightened her body and fanned her hot self with the slip of paper. Spotting Yuri’s angry look, she walked over towards the latter and cupped her cheeks.

“Aw, is my baby Yuri angry?” Jessica pushed Yuri’s cheeks towards the center making her looked like a blowfish.

“Yush, I arm,” Yuri said with much difficulty but Jessica understood her nevertheless.

She let go of Yuri’s cheeks and before Yuri could have the time to soothe the pain that formed on her cheeks, she felt something soft on her lips. With her hands still lingering around Yuri’s cheeks, Jessica had captured the latter’s mouth and kiss her.

Yuri’s mind finally came to realized what had happened. Closing her eyes, she wrapped her arms around Jessica’s waist and pulled her closer, deepening the kiss. The two shared a passionate kiss for what seems like eternity.

Jessica broke off the kiss and placed her forehead against Yuri’s. “I like this. I can kiss you whenever, wherever, and however I want.” 

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