@miimms - :o you found me! And you have butterflies inside of you? YOU MONSTER! Why'd you eat them? ;(

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Tiffany heard loud laughter and found a group of students laughing.

"What happened?" Tiffany asked.

"Oh, Taeyeon played a joke on us, she was pretending she was deaf. She is a really good actor, she came out crying and ran out the school." some random kid said.

Tiffany smiled, but on the inside she was worried about Taeyeon.

After the laughter died down and the kids went their separate ways, Tiffany walked out the school and looked for Taeyeon.

Taeyeon was sitting under a tree, silently sobbing, well, she thought she was silently sobbing.

She couldn't really tell if she was making any noise.

She felt the ground shake beside her and she looked up, through her teary eyes and saw Tiffany looking at her.

She put her head back down into her arms and stopped sobbing, letting tears flow down her cheek without a sound.

"Taeyeon.." Tiffany called out.

Taeyeon kept her head down.

"Taeyeon." Tiffany said again.

Tiffany poked Taeyeon and Taeyeon shooed her away.

Tiffany poked Taeyeon once again and Taeyeon looked up after washing away her tears.

Tiffany gasped at how red Taeyeons eyes were and how pale she looked.

"What?" Taeyeon said coldly, not using her soft, gentle tone.

"Are you okay?" Tiffany asked softly.

Taeyeon scoffed, "I don't know? Am I?"

Tiffany got confused by this.

"Being the main focus of school gossip isn't fun." Taeyeon said sadly as she looked at Tiffany.

Tiffany didn't know what to say, she's never seen someone so sad and hurt as Taeyeon.

Tiffany kept silent.

"You should go back to class." Taeyeon said.

"What about you?" Tiffany asked Taeyeon.

Taeyeon shrugged, "I'll just go home."

"And skip school?" Tiffany asked.

"Yea." Taeyeon said.

Tiffany didn't say anything else as they sat under the tree.

"Do you believe me, Tiffany?" Taeyeon suddenly asked, breaking the silence.

Taeyeon turned her head to look at Tiffany.

She didn't say anything.

Taeyeon took that as a no.

Taeyeon laugh bitterly, "Of course you wouldn't, no one does."

"I don't know who to believe." Tiffany said gently, but Taeyeon was able to read her lips clearly.

"How about believing the person who actually knows." Taeyeon said.

"And it's you?" Tiffany asked.

Taeyeon nodded, "Its okay if you don't believe me."

"You're deaf?" Tiffany asked.

"Yep." Taeyeon said as if it were nothing.

Taeyeons face had finally returned to it's normal color, and her cheeks were cleaned of any tears.

Silence enveloped them again.

"Tiffany, go back to class." Taeyeon said.

"I don't want to leave you alone." Tiffany said.

"Why not?" Taeyeon asked.

"I don't know if you are going to be okay." Tiffany said, looking away after she said it.

Taeyeon chuckled, "I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself. Go back to class, you're already late."

Tiffany hesitantly got up, but she didn't go to class.

She held her hand out to Taeyeon and Taeyeon looked up at her.

"Let's get away from here."