When she woke up, she found herself in a similar situation as Saturday morning, except this time, she was held tightly by three boys that looked desperate to cling to her, even in their sleep. Her heartbeat quickly sped up but she stayed still. They were all clothed fully thankfully. Well, shirts were left ed but it was better than nothing. The presence of clothing was probably one of the least of her worries at the moment. Her muscles tensed.

"Please don't wake them...," Onew whispered softly from the chair beside the bed. She turned her head to the side and looked at him. It wasn't a command, but the voice seemed so sad that she had to listen to it.

"Those babies...," Key grumbled. He switched the song on his mp3 player. He ignored the fact that he complained an hour ago to the other boys for not leaving him any good body parts to hold on to. He was currently sitting up on the bed but off to the side. There was still plenty of room on the bed left for Onew if he so chose to lay down. "They're afraid that you'll leave them forever, and they can't handle that."

She took a deep breath. Minho breathed deeply in his sleep and exhaled cool breath against her bare midriff. Her shirt had rode up a little in her sleep. She shivered at the odd but not unpleasant sensation. "Okay...what are you guys and more importantly, are you evil?"

Onew answered, "We're what you would call demons I guess. We have the abilities that you already saw. Well, you didn't see Taemin's but you can just imagine how that works. There are plenty of demons out there. A lot less than humans but there are still a good number of us. Most demons do hurt people in some way. We would never hurt you though."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I...don't think I should be here right now...This...is a lot to take in." She opened her eyes. She spoke carefully, "I don't think we should spend so much time together anymore. I really do want to be okay with this. Like I really really do want to just say, "It doesn't matter that you're demons" or whatever, especially since you guys are so nice to me. But...I'm only human and I can't just easily accept such knowledge. People are reluctant to change and when their beliefs are shattered, like mine are kind of right now... Well, it's not a great feeling. Maybe I just need some time." The words sounded rehearsed and too careful. The guys were sad and so was she. She already felt wary of them enough to not speak to them normally.

Onew and Key looked at her closely. She shifted and tried looking at anything else besides them. "I'm sorry....," she whispered. Forcibly but gently, she pulled her arms out from other the two boys' heads and moved off the bed. They instantly woke up and pushed themselves up with their forearms. She stared back at them and then turned away. They watched her with sad eyes. She grabbed a sweater off of the end of the bed and walked towards the door. With her hand on the knob and her head looking down, she said softly, "I don't know what love is...but if the heart is supposed to hurt when you lose love, then I think I might have loved you." She opened the door but it was immediately pushed closed. Surprised, she looked at the fist that was up against the door. She turned her face to look up at Minho.

"You said you loved us?" He asked her.

She heard sniffling and turned around. Her eyes widened as she watched tears slip down Taemin's sweet face.

In a cracked voice, he cried, "But we love you too! And now you're going to leave us! And you aren't going to come back and we won't ever see you again!"

Jonghyun sat at the edge of the bed and looked down at his hands. He bit his lip. His hands fisted and his shoulders trembled.

Key looked away but could still see everything in the reflection of the mirror.

The girl started getting more distressed.

Minho watched her and then made a sound of distress deep in his throat. He turned away from her and put his forehead against the fist that was on the door. She saw this and started crying. "Wait!" She tried to pull at Minho's shoulder to get him to turn back around but he didn't budge. Taemin started really letting the tears fall. She ran over to the bed and hugged him. "Don't cry!"

"But you're going to leave us!!!!" He cried into her bosom.

Onew stared at the scene with serious, sharp eyes.

"I'll come back! I promise! Just! Just give me a little time!" she cried while hugging him tighter. Her camisole slowly soaked with his tears.

He cried into her chest, muffling his voice, "No! You won't! You hate us now!"

"NO! I don't!"

"Yes, you do! You won't come back! We'll never see you again! You hate us!" Taemin's hands gripped the back of her shirt. "We love you! And you hate us!!!!" His nails dug into her skin but Taemin's crying distracted her from the pain.

Onew warned the younger boy, "Taemin...."

The youngest member just cried harder.

"I WON'T LEAVE! I WON'T LEAVE! I PROMISE! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU ALL!" she cried.

Taemin quieted quickly and was down to just sniffles in less than two seconds. Two seconds more, and he wasn't even sniffling anymore. He still held tight to her.

"You promise?" Onew asked.

"YES! Yes!" she sobbed and wiped her eyes.

"That was dirty guys." Kibum said as he picked up a damp towel. He didn't really sound like he was scolding them though. It was more of an indifferent statement. He walked over to her and wiped Taemin's hands and her back. "For demons, a blood promise is a very important vow. It's all about the blood." Onew stated. Kibum walked away to dispose of the towel. She saw that the towel had some red blood on it. It wasn't much, but it stood out against the stark white towel.

Confusion shone through her wet eyes. Her eyes then widened as she felt something rough slide against the skin of her chest right above her camisole. She pushed Taemin away and looked at him incredulously. "Did you just me?!?!?!"

The cute boy didn't respond to her question and just smiled brightly. "Nuna! I'm so glad you're going to stay with us!" He kissed her on the cheek and then bounded off the bed just in case she came out of her shock quick enough to slap him.

Jonghyun's trembling broke out into shouts of joy. He took her hands into his and kissed them before moving away. Minho smiled as he leaned against the door and Kibum smiled too.

"You...you guys....you guys are just BIG ERTED BULLIES!" She stood up and stormed towards Minho. He was leaning with one foot against the door so the enraged girl more easily pushed him off balance. Minho stumbled away from the door to catch himself. She promptly yanked the door open and stomped out of there. Shouting at the top of her lungs, “I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANY OF YOU EVER AGAIN! I’M LEAVING AND I’LL WALK HOME IF I HAVE TO!” New tears flooded her eyes. She furiously rubbed them away and grumbled, “Stupid idiotic demon boys…Stupid Minho. Taemin, you … Idiotic Jonghyun... I hate Kibum… Jinki, you bastard….”

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THEA's Corner <3
I hope I'm not rushing things too much. My fears are 1) making them too out of character and 2) rushing things so that there isn't development.
Well, as you see, a poster is up courtesy of Aika. Thank you, Aika! ^_^ Maybe I'll end up rotating posters or something if anyone else feels like surprising me with a poster. I like surprises!
And apparently all of you do too since choice B is winning by a whole lot.
Next chapter will be short and will be posted up when this story reaches Main Index page 2 because it is so short. Since it's the weekend still, at least where I live, the stories should be moving fast.
Oh! And all your reviews for last chapter... T_T *tears of gratitude*. Really. I've never received so many reviews per chapter, and a lot of them were long comments too, which I enjoy reading.

Kibum-ssi! My best wishes to you! I know you love your grandmother a lot. It made me really sad to know that she's gone now.
And I type as if he actually reads this -_-

I went from like 12 subscribers 7 hours ago on Asianfanfics to I think 27 now O_O wow.... You people are amazing!
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Posted: 2010 24 Jan. (Winglin)
Posted 2010 July 19 (Asianfanfics)
Approx. 2.3 out of 45 pages