As you were putting on your school uniform your mom knocked on your door.

"Come down and eat breakfast! Hurry or you'll be late!"

"Okay, I'm comming!"

You pulled your fingers though your hair as you ran down the hallway. You sat down at the table and quickly ate the food that was in front of you. Your dad came out of the room and kissed your mom goodbye.

"I'll see you girls after work."

"Okay! Bye dad!"

"Bye babe. See you later."

Once your father left you resumed shoveling food in your mouth. As you were about to finish you choked on a chunk of it. Your mom quickly gave you a glass of water to drink. You hurriedly filled your mouth with the water managed to swallow everything. Once you survived the event you thanked your mom and said you had to leave for school.

"Okay. Remember to look where your going."

"Yes ma'am."

You stumbled into your shoes and slipped on your backpack. Before you walked out the open door you hugged your mom goodbye.

"I love you mom."

"I love you too. Have a good day!"

As you were walking away you turned and said. "I will, see you later!"

You now groggily started your walk to the bus stop. You always thought mornings were the worst. Especially when you had to go to school, but you hoped that would change now that you had friends. You were thinking about if they would tell you to eat lunch with them today. You only met everyone yesterday but, you had a great time and, you felt like they did to.

As you were walking you had to stifle a laugh as you remembered one of Seokmin's lame jokes. You soon became immersed in your thoughts of your new friends. You wondered how they could be so funny and welcoming.

Your thoughts were interupted when you felt someone tap your sholder. You turned around ready for the worst. You were slightly surprised when you looked up to a handsome face. You noticed that he was wearing your school uniform. He looked familiar but you couldn't quite put your finger on it.

"Can I help you?"

"You're the girl from yesterday right?"

"What?"

"Yesterday you got mad at some fangirl right?"

Realizing that he must've been one of the guys, you answered.

"Oh, yeah."

"I saw you a while ago and I knew it was you."

"Have you been following me?"  You looked at him suspisiously, and leaned away, thinking that you now needed to be careful of him.

"No, my bus stop is up ahead. I was just walking behind you."

You didn't let your gaurd down that easily, and asked him anther question with suspision dripping from your voice.

"How long were you following me?"

"I wasn't following you. I was walking to bus stop and, to answer your question, about two minutes."   He was now starting to get frustrated with your suspision of him when he didn't do anything wrong.

"Oh, well can you walk in front of me now?"  You didn't really want to assosiate with him anymore, and just wanted to get the day over with. You motioned with your hands in front of you and slowed your pace, hoping that he would do what you asked.

"Nah, I would prefer to walk next to you. Can I?"

Your eyes were​ roaming all over the place thinking of your possibilities. You finaly decided that you didn't wanna risk ticking him off and slowly answered him, drawing out your words.

"Uuuhhhhh, I gueeesssss."

"Thanks!" 

He smiled again while you we're thinking through your life choices. 

"Yeeaaa."

You didn't really know him and he kind of seemed suspicious, so as you walked you tried to keep your distance. However your plan didn't work as he suddenly grabbed your wrist and started running, pulling you with him. You widened your eyes and tried to pull away from his grasp. "YAH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

"We're gonna miss the bus if we don't hurry!"

You looked at your watch and realized he was right. You hated being late so you also decided to run. You found it hard to run with him holding you so, you told him to let go so you could run faster, which he did.

Once he let go you sighed in relief, it felt weird to run without pumping your arms. You looked at your watch again and decided to kick it into high gear. You quickly went form behind him to making him eat your dust.

When you ran you liked to sprint for short distances. You could also run long distance, and found you were good at both. Feeling the wind blow through your hair always gave you a calming feeling. Like you were freeing yourself from the things that plagued you. You felt like you might be able to run away from everything, and you wished you really could.

The two of you reached the bus as it was loading up. As you were finding your seat you looked back at the boy who was just getting on and smirked at him. You always loved breaking stereotypes. That's something you found about yourself soon after you cut your hair. You loved proving people wrong when they told you, you couldn't do something. You hated stereotypes and the people that put you in them. You thought of yourself as an individual, someone they couldn't hold down, not anymore.

As he sat down next to you he asked, out of breath."Yah, how're you so fast?"

"Hmph, I bet you thought I was some little princes, didn't you."

He looked at you with a glint in his eye that you weren't sure what meant. 

"No, that's why I talked to you."

You were surprised, you didn't expect that answer. You slowly procesed his answer and couldn't help but laugh. No one had ever told you something like that before.

"Are you okay?" He looked at you with curious eyes and leaned forward in his seat.

"You, what's your name?"

"Taehyung! AH, but you can call me V!"

You looked at him for a second before streaching out your hand and looking at him with a light smile on your face.

"Taehyung, I think we're gonna be good friends."

He paused for a second looking at you with disbelief. 

"We weren't already?"

You couldn't help but explode in laughter at his comment. You didn't know why but, the way he said it was just too funny. You were slightly freaking him out cuz you kept laughing with no sound comming out. When he asked you what was wrong that only sent you another wave of giggles. For some reason it felt like you two had been friends since forever. The bus came to a stop and more people got on including the gag trio. It was funny when yesterday you all were talking and didn't realize you were going in the same direction until they had to leave for their stop.

"OH, Haneul-ah!"   Hoshi was the first to notice you.

You were still laughing with no sound so you could only signal them over with your hand.

"Yah, are you okay?" DK acually looked like he was worried, that only made you laugh more.

"Yah, you actually look like your dying stop it."   DK poked your forehead. 

Everything at that point was making you laugh, especially Seungkwans judging-you face.

"Y-your-face!" You pointed at Seungkwan with your other hand clutching your stomach in pain.

"What's wrong with my face!"

You only leaned your head back as a responce.

"YAH! Why is everyone so mean to me!?"

Hoshi then shooed taehyung away and sat next to you.

"Why're you so giggly? Did this guy do something?"

You didn't want them to create any stupid misunderstandings but the whole situation was too funny to you. It the end you could only answer through pained breaths.

"No-I-I-just-he-."

You were laughing so hard you couldn't even finish your sentence. Seungkwan honestly wanted to laugh at your condition. Your stomach was in so much pain at this point, you had to lean your head on Hoshi's sholder for support.

"You've been laughing for like five minutes straight, are you sure your okay?"

Taehyung who had been there the whole time finialy said something. His question made you and Seungkwan start laughing violently.

"Yah-w-why-are-you-laughing!?" You raised your eyebrows at Seungkwan, who shook his head as he responded.

"I don't know!"

Seungkwan was now bending over and reaching out for something to hold onto. You didn't hesitate to take his hand in yours. Neither of you thought anything of it, even though you only met yesterday you two really hit it off. You looked up and met eyes with him but it only made you two laugh more. DK now seeing that someone had to stop this came up with an idea.

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do! You're gonna take deep breaths, exhailing though your mouth."

He then showed the two of you how to calm yourselfes. With a few stumbles you both succesfully looked like you weren't on drugs anymore.

As the five of you walked the rest of the way to school, your first complete sentence gave the rest of them their fare share of laughing.

"I think that gave me a six pack."

You were sitting at your desk in the cold classroom when the homeroom teacher slid in. Once he got to his desk he said in a loud voice.

"OKAY, homeroom is starting, everyone please sit down! Make sure you sit with your and not your face."

His last phrese made several of the teens laugh. His light presence made the room seem more welcoming and his lighthearted way of talking made the kids more comforatable. As he looked at his classroom full of students he put his hands on his desk and leand forward a light smile gracing his lips.

"How's everyone doing?"

The class repied with a monotone 'good'.

"Okay we're gonna try this again. How are you guys doing?"

This time he got a more enthusiastic responce. Especially from the tall boy sitting in front of you.

"THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! Okay, now. Does anyone remember my name?"

Most of the class (excluding you) answered with an enthusiastic yes.

"Wow, some of you forgot me already. By the way, I expect to hear loud answers every time, okay?"

"YES!"

"Good! That's how I like it!"

He then picked up a pice of chalk and flamboyantly wrote his name on the board. Spelling it out as he wrote he said.

"E-R-I-C  N-A-M! That is my name, Eric Nam. If you need to please write it down so you don't forget it again."

You immediatly pulled out your sticky notes and did just that.

He then reached and pulled a clip board from his desk and said. "I will now be taking attendance. If you're here please answer when I call your name."

You patiently waited for your name to be called. While you were sitting your eyes wandered around the room. The walls were a yellow-beige and the ceiling was high with big windows along the side of the wall you were sitting on, pretty basic.

One by one the names were being called, yours was called the second to last. When you heard your name you looked up so the teacher could see your face. You said in (what you hoped was) a loud voice. "Here." The people around you turned to see what you looked like, and you slightly shied away from thier stares.

"Yoon Sanha."   The boy sitting in front of you then loudly answered. "HERE!"

The rest of the class went by surprisingly fast. You were glad that Mr. Eric tried to make it as fun as possible for his students. It already made a world of a differance for you. At all your past schools the teachers never liked you. You got good grades but they must've heard the rumors kids spread about you. You were starting to remember some of the things they did to you. You felt the anger boil in your stomach. You were angry at the kids, at the teachers, and at yourself. You wondred why you never tried to explain the situation to anybody. You wondered why you didn't tell your family. Why they had to find out when it was too late. You knew it was your falt for not standing up for yourself back then. You hated yourself for it. You should have stood up for yourself, before it had gotten bad, really bad...

It was lunch break and you were getting your stuff ready to go eat when you realsized you didn't know if you could eat with the boys yet. You didn't wanna walk all the way up there to have them tell you you couldn't eat with them. You got nervous when you thought of it. You never ate lunch with anybody at the other schols, so you didn't if they would let you or not. You then decided to pull out your phone and text Seokmin. They had given you their phone numbers last time.(more like forced)

​"Hey can I eat with you guys?"

"Of course you can! You sure you wanna be here when Seungkwan is though?"

"Hahaha! well now that you mention it, I'm not so sure anymore. JK, I actually don't have anyone else to eat with soooo."

"Then just eat with us from now on!"

"REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh ur so nice to meeeeeeeeee!!! I mean... I guess I have to exept ya know. Don't wanna be rude or anything."

"Just get ur skinny  over here."

"K!"

You put your phone in your pocket and was about to get up when you heard a voice behind you.

"Who was that?"

You spun your head around and your eyes landed on the one who had spoken. It was the boy who sits in front of you. He was looking at you with curious innocence in his eyes.(you thought that was cute). He had turned around in his chair and was facing you with a curious pout on his lips. You blinked at him a few times. A little surprised that he might actually be talking to you. You pointed to yourself as you clarified he was.

"Are you talking to me?"

His round eyes then looked straight at yours and said. "Of course!"

"Oh... Why?"

He then looked at you questionly, and gave a simple answer. "Because I want to be friends, can we?"

You eyes widened. No one had ever been so staightforward with you like that, not in a nice way.

"Oh... Okaaay."

He then gave you a goofy smile. You actually didn't really want to be his friend, but you thought it probably wouldn't last long anyway. And even if it did, it wouldn't hurt to have another friend.

"Why do you look sad?"

You looked up at your new friend and lifted your eyebrows. You didn't like when people asked you that question, you weren't actually sad. But for some reason at home you had gained the reputation of being the grumpy sad one. But that was when things were normal, a long time ago. It wasn't the first time someone had asked you that. People from your first highschool that tried to be your friend and failed all asked the same question. You answered the same way every time.

"Why do you look happy?"

You stared at him blankly waiting for his answer. After a few seconds he smiled and said.

"Because I'm happy."

You nodded your head and raised your eyebrows at him once more before walking away. They never followed you or talked to you again after that. Which is what you expected him to do, until he didn't.

"Hey, where are you going!?"

You spun your head around with widened eyes. He had followed you. You didn't know whether you should be happy or not. As he caught up to you with a smile still on his face, you could only stare at him with confusion.

"Why did you follow me?"

"Because we're friends."

You scrunched your eyebrows together and looked up at him. You then decided that if he followed you then he wasn't like most people, which you liked. You smirked at him and then asked him if he was okay with eating lunch with your friends. He replied with "Of course!" and then you two were on your way to the roof.

You stopped at the top of the stairs with your hand on the knob. You didn't know if you wanted to make a grand entrance or not. You weren't sure if that would make things awkward or not. You stood there for another 10 seconds, brfore taking a deep breath and twisted the door knob.

"THE FUN HAS BROUGHT HER NEW FRIEND WITH HER!"

Thirteen heads turned your way and all were about to welcome you when Hansol decided he wanted to be a party pooper.

"Yea."

"Hey! Can't you give me a more enthusiastic reaction?" You looked at Hansol with an unimpressed expression and crossed your arms over your chest, deciding to go all out sass mode.

"wooooo!"  He continued to be unenthusiastic and sassy, but you weren't going to lose.

"Thanks Hansol, you're such a good friend."  You faked a sweet happy voice and smiled very cringe for extra effect.

​"Your welcome." You gave up and flared your nostrols at him before you turned away.

"You two speak English!?" Sanha shouted/asked you with bulging eyes.

"Yeah." You looked at him and had to hold back a laugh.

Jeonghan with his motherly voice got your attention when he asked. "Haneul-ah, who's that?"

"Oh, he's my friend from homeroom. We just met like, 5 minutes ago."

"Hello my name is Yoon Sanha!" He politely bowed 90 degrees when he introduced himself.

"Come sit down and eat with us!" Joshua, the gentleman gladly accepted him into the group.

You looked at Sanha and noded your head in their direction with a light smile. He smiled back widely and grabbed your hand and pulled you towards the group.

Everyone quickly gave their introductions and continued eating and joking with each other. Seungcheol asked Sanha the most questions, being the dad he was. When he asked how old he was you covered Sanha's mouth with your hands.

"DON'T TELL HIM! DON'T TELL ANY OF THEM HOW OLD YOU ARE, OR WHAT CLASS WE'RE IN!"   Sanha pried your hands away and asked.

"Why can't I tell them?"

"Because then I would have to call them o-o-  elgh, I can't even say it out loud!"

"Why don't you want to?"

"BECAUSE IT'S EMBARRASSING, THAT'S WHY!!!!!"

"Why is it embarrassing?"

"Stop asking questions and eat your food!"

 Sanha just pouted and quietly obeyed.

"Seriously, why is it so difficult to call us oppa!" You didn't respond to Jihoon and just kept eating, only sparing him a glance. He met your eyes and after you turned away he stabbed his food with his chopstick and chewed it visiously.

Everyone enhailed their food as did you. All without noticing the glare Jihoon was sending you. After eating you all laid down in satisfaction. Mingyu burped loudly and you being next to him, slaped his tummy and sent him a judging-you face.

"What, eveyone burps."

"I don't."

"What do you mean you don't!?"

It was true, you couldn't make yourself burp. You had tried many times but always failed. There had actually been a few rare occasions when you were completely stuffed with soda and food, but those were always like hiccups. You explained it to those listening.

"I just don't burp. There've only been a few times when I do."

"Then you do burp!"

"No, it only happens when I'm really full. And they don't even count, they're like hiccups."

"Aish, whatever."

The rest of the day went smoothly, nobody got hurt this time. You had quickly recovered because you devoted the rest of yesterday to not moving from your bed.

So, you walked to the bus with the gag trio (you had made the name official) and V. It was the same as that morning, you laughed and joked the whole ride.(the group had to be shushed a couple times but, u know...) The boys offered to walk you home but you declined saying Seungkwan needed it more. After the other two quieted  him, the boys got off and you all went your own ways. You were now walking the block of your street and picked up the pace. You never liked walking home, to your neighborhood, to the house that made you feel lonely. You saw your house and pulled the keys out of your pocket. You never felt safe like this, you didn't tell anybody about it though. How the neighborhood scared you. It was too similar to the other one. You impatiently jabbed the keys into the hole and twisted your hand. You turned the knob and steped into the house. The familiar scent filled your nostrles and you couldn't help but relax. The house was empty, quiet, lonely. It felt like home, that's what scared you. You needed to get your mind in the right place so you dropped your bag and laid on your bed. Your empty, cold bed. Deciding to be in a good mood before it was too late, you called your best friend Kadee.

She lived in the states, and the two of you skyped often.The ringing went on and on, you were glad to hear her pick up.

"Hello?"​

"Kadee, I need you to talk to me."  There was a breif scilence on the other end.

​"Okay...I get it."

You spent the next who knows how long talking to her about stupid stuff. She usually talked about her life, what happened that day, boys at her school. You tried to keep up the conversation but you just couldn't get into it. Sensing your feelings, she urged you to tell her about school.

​"Have you made any friends?"

​"Yeah, I actually made alot you should be proud of me."

"Hmph, well tell me about them!"

At that moment one person's face popped into mind and you immedietly smiled. But your smile imedeatily faded when you realized what you just did.

​"Get ready to stay up all night then, cuz there's already alot to tell."

​"No problem! Speak, tell me everything about them!"

​"Well, don't scream but, there's thirteen no. Fifteen of them..."

​"Dude what have you been doing? What happened for me to scream?! Did you do something!"

​"Good. Okay, well they all happen to be...guys."

"ARE THEY CUTE??!!!!!"

​

"WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP SO I CAN TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!"

​"OH, sorry I forgot... please, do tell!"

​"So, thirteen are my lunch friends. One is in my class, and the other I met on the bus. And to answer your question, I don't know."

​"What do you mean, YOU DON'T KNOW??!!!! ARE YOU BLIND!!!! I'M ASKING A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!"

​"Just come visit me and find out for yourself."

​"IF I COULD VISIT YOU RIGHT NOW DON'T YOU THINK I WOULD!!!!!"

​"Then just hurry and visit me when you have a break or something! I'm gonna be surrounded by the opposite gender! I need a girl to keep me sane! So hurry and send your sister!"

"WOW... thank you sooo much... and yes I will visit you as soon as I can."

"Good!"

​"OKAY! SO, back on topic. There's a group of thirteen guys who are all friends at your school and you eat lunch with them... how dare you."

​"Can you stop interupting me, I'm trying to tell you a story!"

​"Sorry, I won't interupt until your done. I promise!"

​"You better! Anyway, as I was saying."

​"I can't believe it... How did you get so lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

​"I don't know! It just all happened after I bumped into one of them!"

​"WHICH ONE!! WAIT LET ME GET MY NOTES READY!!!"  You heard scrambling and thuds on the other side of the line asn could visualy picture Kadee throwing her books across the room.

​"WHAT?! WHY ARE YOU... you know what. Nevermind. I give up on you."

After another hour or so of talking, you had finished telling the story of how you had bumped into Jeonghan, and how things played out after that. Kadee had thoroughly embarrassed you though the conversation, and you kept telling her that you were just friends, with all of them.

​"Okay, so, which one do you like?" ​With blushing cheeks you replied with.

​​You stopped talking and waited for Kadee to realize what she had said. When you spoke again, your voice had dropped an octive.

There was scilence on the other end of the phone and you immediately felt guilty, you didn't mean to lash out like that. Especially at Kadee, she's your best friend and she didn't deserve that. You knew she just wanted the best for you, and wanted to help, but she was far away. It's not like she could just fly over and be with you the whole time.

​"I'm so sorry Kadee, I didn't mean to yell at you, I just... It just happened, I'm sorry."

​"No, I should have been more sensitive about it. I just wanted to help but, I should've been happy for you. Well I am, I was just too exited I guess, sorry."

​"I guess it was both of our falts then. Thanks for listening, and I appriciate your efforts. But, I just want to live in this moment and smile."

​"Okay, I get it."

​"Thanks."

Your heart ached at the thought of your brother. He had run away several times but this was the longest he had been gone. The first time he was gone for the day. The second, he didn't come back until morning. You worried about him alot, you had seen him on your way home from school a couple times. The boys he was hanging out with, you didn't like them. It scared you to think about what kind of influence they might be having on him. You confronted him about it once but it didn't end well. That was the day your family found out about the bullies. The day everything went bad, really bad. You wiped your eyes at the tears that were threatining to fall. You had to be strong and wait for him to come back. You had to talk to him, you didn't want him to do anything he would regret. The last time you saw him was two days ago. He was already hurting and you didn't want him to blame himself anymore. It wasn't his falt and he needed to know that, you had to be the one to tell him.

You wiped the tears that were silently dripping from your chin and folded the blankets over your body. That night like many others, you cried yourself to sleep.

​Hey guys! I'm just gonna let you know that, the chapters will not all be the same length. (you could probably already tell) Like with this one, it turned out to be alot longer that the first.

​Could you tell that there were some little clues in this chapter?~~   I would love to hear later what you guys think Haneuls story is! You probably can't really guess now, but later when I post more chapters, you can tell me any theories you have!!!

By the way, thanks for reading this story!   If you like the story and wanna know what happens next,  please SUBSCRIBE and leave some comments for me to read down below!   (I do read them)​

- sky_dreams

p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEONGHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!