Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

-William Shakespeare

Sulli was trying to earnestly study her Biology topics for tomorrow’s class but she was distracted by visions of a smiling Minho. Rather than looking at the anatomy of a dissected frog’s heart, she was more interested about her own heart that seemed to be palpitating more than usual when she thinks about her handsome neighbor. She sighed for the hundredth time that day and trained her eyes back to the pages of her textbook.

Then somebody opened the door of her room rather violently. It was Sohyun and she was on her school uniform. She must have just come back from studying at school. Sulli smiled at her sister but the scowl on Sohyun’s face seemed to warn her that a storm was brewing. She could guess the reason behind the storm.

“Unnie … I can explain”, she started but Sohyun slammed the door and came towards her. Her sister pulled her right arm and dragged her to the bed. When they were face to face with each other, only then Sohyun spoke.

“Explain then”, she said.

Though Sulli would rather discuss this with Minho first but she figured Sohyun was family. So she explained what was actually going down between Minho and her. How the boys came to a conclusion that the both of them would pretend to be in a relationship for now in order to protect her from further bullying and harassing incidents. She also told her about what Yuri and her friends did to her on the second and third day of school. But Sulli left out the part what happened behind the closed classroom doors. That was her secret to keep and cherish forever.

Sohyun’s face lightened and she held Sulli’s hands.

“I’m sorry baby sis for being angry at you just now. I was just jealous you see. The girls were saying that he walks around holding your hand, patting your head and what not. He never does that to the other girls.” she said.

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