Your eyes flutter open and you hear yourself gasp. You choke when liquid rises up your throat, forcing its way out.

“Yoon Mi!” IU’s panic stricken face comes into view and you blink. “You’re alive! Omigod, you’re alive!”

“I’m alive,” You croak, wincing. Your voice sounds hoarse and horrible, whatmore your throat feels like you had just ran it over a cheese grater.

Pushing yourself up weakly, you notice that you are now lying down on your beach towel under the blistering hot sun. You feel some sand sticking to your wet, tired limbs.

You see a blonde haired boy kneeling next to IU and you clear your raw throat, trying to sound normal again. “Who’re you?” you ask him.

“I’m Daehyun,” he says, holding a hand out to help pull you into a sitting position. “I pulled you out from the sea.”

You take a closer look at Daehyun and you see that his clothes are indeed dripping wet. He is wiping the trickling sea water off his face with one of IU’s towels.

“Thank you so much, Daehyun-sshi,” you say. *You don’t know how much.*

Daehyun smiles at you in reply, while IU nods her head vigorously. “Yeah, you really are Yoon Mi’s hero!”

Just then, someone calls out Daehyun’s name with a nasally voice. “Hyung! Daehyun hyung, where are you?”

You look up to see the boy with the blue streaks in his hair. The one who winked at you and IU earlier. You wrinkle your nose, remembering.

“Zelo-yah!” Daehyun waves him over when the former finally catches sight of him. *Zelo... what a weird name,* you think. But then again, it is the 21st century...

“This is Zelo,” Daehyun introduces, then turns to the boy mentioned. “Hey, is it okay if we take them to your apartment, since you live around here? She looks like she ne