I found out Kris was ‘one’ of the mysterious locket boys. Luhan gave me a riddle for the second locket boy. Kris was being the ert he is. Kyungsoo and I kinda sorted out our problem.

The kiss we shared that day felt good. I don't want to tell anyone about it.

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We didn’t want to go. Neither of us wanted to get up from each other’s grasps so when I awoke, I wasn’t surprised to see Kyungsoo hugging my waist like a baby. I looked down to see that our legs are intertwined together. I love the feel of our skin rubbing against one another. But something told me that it felt wrong. That he shouldn’t be in my bed. That we shouldn’t have shared those kisses yesterday. That he shouldn’t come into my room at all. But that was just a small part of me saying that so I ignored it.

I turn over and look at the clock on my bedside table. It’s only seven in the morning. But I should get up and get ready for school. Oh, yeah. Today’s Wednesday and it’s also sports day. Before Kyungsoo could wake up, I quickly change out of my clothes and put the school sports uniform on. But I don’t want to do any sports. I feel like staying in my room and cuddle with D.O.

I blushed at my words.

Cuddle?

What am I thinking?

I heard a groan emit next to me and realised that he was still in my bed. Shaking my feelings off, I push at Kyungsoo's shoulder. “Wake up. You need to get ready.”

I couldn’t help but giggle at his bed hair.

“What?” he said with innocent eyes. My giggle turned psychotic laughter as I pointed to his hair.

After D.O fixed his hair up in my mirror and I stopped wheezing my intestines out, both of us went our separate ways to get ready for school. I went to the bathroom to do my routines in there and D.O hurriedly walked back to his so we won’t get caught. It’s not like it against the rules to be in a girl’s form but it is against the rules to sleep with one. Both ways.

I walked around into the rooms to see if the boys are awake or not. Elvin are still sleeping. JunHoSeop are sleeping too.  Only AJ, Soohyun and Hoon are awake and eating breakfast which is some food a smart guy brought back from the ‘special’ cafeteria for us.

“You don’t mind me eating with you guys do you?” I asked them, standing at the doorway like a little kid peeking at her mother cooking in the kitchen.

“It’s fine with us.”

I happily retrieved a bowl and chopsticks after waking the other guys up― from the kitchen and sat next to Junyoung, stuffing my face with rice and what-not.

"So you guys done your homework yet?” I asked them after swallowing a piece of beef.

At my question, most of them choked on their food, some spat out their drinks and a couple fell off their chairs.

“Did I say something wrong?”

“Since when was there homework!?” Dongho screamed from the floor.

“Uh, yesterday?” I said innocently.

Jun grabbed my shoulders and shoved his face close to min like a total creeper. “Give us your homework.”

I pushed him away lightly and chuckled. “Okay.”

A few curses here and there from copying the wrong thing and a few cheers in honour of finishing, the boys were done except for Kevin; he was the only angel who actually did the homework and properly. We left out dorm and as per usual, Jessica, BAP and EXO were waiting for us. Seriously, they looked like the Host Club members when they stand there, leaning against the walls with one leg bent.

The moment I saw D.O, I blushed inwardly and immediately ran to him. When I was within arm length from him, I was suddenly swept away by a hand around my wrist taking me somewhere.

“What are doing? I want to talk with Kyungsoo!” I winced as the hold tightened on my arm. I was reluctantly dragged far away, nobody noticing our absence. He pulled me into an empty corridor that I would have never noticed because of the dark coloured frames.

“Lay, what is it?”

The slap of the shoes against the floor sounded throughout the walkway, echoing along the walls.

“Yixing!”

At the sound of his real name, he turned to me with blank eyes. “What?.... What just happened? Why are we here? Where’s everybody?” He spoke slowly, emphasising his cluelessness.

I rolled my eyes at his possible amnesia. “Lay, I know that you have a bad memory span, but don’t tell me that you forgot you dragged me a million kilometres into this dark place when were about to go to class.”

Lay furrowed his eyebrows and his eyes had that blank state again. “I don’t remember.”

My eyes pooped out of my sockets when the realisation hit me oh, so hard. “Don’t tell me you have social identity disorder.”

“I'm sick!?”

“Sadly you are showing signs of it.” I just wanna mess with him more. It’s fun to watch Idols freak out at the likeliness of a fatal disease that would ruin their lives even if it’s not true.

Lay clutched at my arms and looked up with tear-filled eyes. “Is there a cure for it?”

“I don’t know.” I shook my head sadly as I stared at the ground.

Lay suddenly crushed me against his chest. I gasped at the force of his arms going around my waist. He buried his face in the crook of my collarbone. I could feel his breath ghosting over my skin. I could feel his heart racing against my heart. Everything about him as hot. His skin was hot. His breath was shot. It was so warm that it started to spread to my body. I swear I can hear sniffling sounds coming from him though.

“I know you’re lying.”

I pushed his chest away from me to look in his eyes. They were dark. His voice was abnormally deep and husky don’t forget y but now isn’t the time to be thinking about that. “Who are you?”

Lay chuckled emotionlessly as he held a hand to his mouth. “I'm Zhang Yixing. I have always been Zhang Yixing. I have always been here.”

“No, you’re not! Yixing is not like this!” I backed myself up to the nearest wall and door, making sure not to twist my head this way and that. But I had no choice to snap my head around when I heard a sound at the end of the hallway because my senses were all heighted.

“Bomin?”

His face was once again the soft one it is. His eyes returned to normal. His sight smile was curling his lips, forming a small dimple. I felt my whole body relax and I held my arms out and I, in turn bury my face in his collarbone with more than a tonne of relief. "Holy , Lay. Don’t scare me like that again.” I heard my voice shake as I hugged him tighter in my arms. It wasn’t long before I felt his arms snaking around my waist.

“I don’t know what happened but you sure need a hug,” he said, laughing. His voice sounded so good as it travelled down my ear.

It took me a while to let go of him which was only 30 lone seconds. My hands were shaking when I retracted them to my sides.

“I think you really need that visit to the doctor,” I joked along with him in hopes of forgetting what happened before.

I think it worked because not a minute later, both of us were making our way to the classroom and we arrived just before the bell rang; thanks to my brain that unconsciously memorised the path that Lay took us on.

“Where were you, Bomin?” Jessica asked me as Lay and I quickly sat at our seats.

“Lay had a problem we had to take care of.”

Every single person whipped their heads around to stare at me and Lay.

“Why are you guys staring at me?” I started to get uncomfortable under the gazes of everybody. I thought back to my words before that would trigger such a reaction. I nearly face-palmed myself and I flushed madly when my head thought the other way. “Oh gosh! It’s not like that! Oh my God! We just got lost! It’s not what you think! Why would we even do that in school!?”

Lay’s head was on the desk and covered by his arms in embarrassment, muffling unheard things to the wooden able that would never answer back.

“Uh huh.” Jessica cocked her eyebrows at me and I could feel Luhan and Bowan going through my thoughts which I happily obliged to.

I knew Luhan can go much further than my thoughts so I clamped down an imaginary wall between my memories and thoughts. I knew I was too late when I saw the look on his face.

Come with us to see the Principal. Was all he commented.

Okay.

When I swivelled around in my seat to face the front, I caught Kyungsoo's gaze. It was tense with a hint of a fiery fury. I smiled at him to hopefully calm his rage down.

“Shall we start our third lesson of the year!?” Mr. Yun shouted excitedly as he entered the classroom and clapped his hands together.

The tired groans and I mean tired― could be heard next door, but the thing is that there is no next door classroom. Well, that’s how loud we were. But I do wonder what’s up first seeing as we don’t have our schedule.

“Alright, first up is Music.” At that, those groans soon turned into cheers. Mr. Yun held up his hand as he waited for everybody to finish. “I have not been taught to be a Music teacher so, class, you will have another teacher and you will be in one of those music classroom in the main building.”

“Meh. Better than this piece of classroom,” Bowan said, shrugging his shoulder smugly.

“Bowan!” I yelled at him like how parents yell at their child when they say something wrong to their friend’s kid.

“What!?”

“I love you!!” I wrapped my arms around him as I laid my head on his shoulder, much like a cute couple.

I heard him sigh before his long arms held my waist and his head rest against mine. “Love you too, sis.”

“No time for affection. Get out of my classroom.” The teacher playfully shoved us out of the room and led us to the main building where our music classroom lays in wait.

I couldn’t help but notice how Luhan and Xiumin stuck close to me the whole way to class and Lay shotting me apologetic looks plus Jun was staring at me.

The second we arrived at the classroom with Mr. Yun, the door swung open to reveal a tall female teacher with brown hair and eyes that were behind a pair of red framed spectacles. Her face was so beautiful and had soft facial features like Kevin. But the thing I already love about her is the crotchet and semi quaver tattoo on her left cheek and of course her young aura. How did she even get away with the tattoo in the first place? The Principal must be really fond with her.

“Good morning my lovelies and Mr. Yun.” Her voice was as soft as silk; just like her face. She must be great at singing.

“They’re in your care now Ms. Un.”

“Oh, please call me JeongLi. How many times do I have to remind you?”

The rest of us were in silence, observing the conversation between the two teachers.

“Are they a handful?”

“There are a few that would make smart-tart comments here and there. Exclude them and they’re all fine.”

I half scoffed half chortled at the cover word for smart /arse. Wow. Smart-tart. Who would have ever thought of that?

“Ooh, that’s good. Who are they?”

Something snapped in my head when Ms. Un turned her head to look at us and the mental picture of our Principal appeared in my head. “Ms. Un, are you the Principal’s twin sister?”

“Finally! Took you kids long enough!” she exclaimed. “Yes, I am the Principal’s twin sister.”

Mr. Yun chuckled as he walked away to who-knows-where. We must have showed perplexed expressions because she added, “It’s a game that my brother and I like to play with the newbies. Since every student would have met him for an interview, I talk with a teacher in front of the students until they ask me if I am JeongKi’s twin sister. You don’t need to worry, it’s just a game.”

“Okay, Miss.”

“Now come in. Do you want to do music or not?”

“Yes.”

“Then hurry up and the last one closes the door.”

We all rushed in the classroom. Everything was well arranged as a music classroom should be. The keyboards were placed side by side at the far corner of the room. And of course there is a grand piano sitting next to the teacher’s desk. All the percussion instruments were stacked along the back wall and there were both acoustic and electric plus semi-acoustic guitars line up on the walls around the room. It just seemed very…. musical and cool because there’s an A/C.

“All right! I know that most of you are experienced in music so you won’t mind if I ask you all to perform a piece of music for me? It can be singing or playing an instrument,” Miss. Un said when we all finished ogling the room. She didn’t even need us to answer. It’s already been decided at everybody will play.

Kevin raised his hand up like the obedient student he is. “May we perform in groups?”

“Ah, yes! You can all perform as one group or as an individual. So as long as you have a part to perform. And by seeing you all perform, I can get a rough idea of where everybody sits in terms of practical music. One more note, your performance has to be over a minute long.”

My face paled when Miss asked us to play a piece of music. It’s not like I can’t play any instruments, it’s more like the fear of performing in front of your friends. I think most of you know that feeling. The horrors of when they start laughing or pull faces at you. But luckily I will be playing the piano so I can’t see their derp faces.

Everybody dispersed to their own spots to organise a performance. Jessica went towards the direction of BAP. Too bad EXO was left alone. But I would have loved to perform with them but my U-Kiss feels got the better of me. Of course Bowan and I stuck close to each other. We both waddled towards U-Kiss in hope of playing for them.

I tapped Soohyun’s shoulder as the other members were still talking. Once he turned his head to look at me, I opened my mouth. “Can we play for you?”

“Yeah, it’ll be cool. So what songs of ours can you play?”

“I can play 0330 on the piano. Chorus version.”

My brother put a finger on his head, tapping it in thought. “I play the drums. I don’t know your songs but I think I can get enough practice maybe even improvise.”

“Ey~ Don’t worry. 0330 is very easy to play on instruments,” Jun said.

“Okay.”

As the guys were preparing the instruments and my brother was listening to 0330 on my phone, I ran to Jessica and hugged her neck. “What’s Bling doing?”

“Me? I'm playing the keyboard to BAP’s Angel or 1004.”

“Really? I'm piano-ing to 0330 and my bro’s drumming.”

“Another note! I will be calling out the groups randomly. Personal feelings won’t get in the way! And aegyo doesn’t work on me!” Miss Un yelled from her desk.

“Who does aegyo?” Jun said. It was weird for him to say that because being the youngest one he would be expected to be the most cutest.

Eli hit him on the shoulder playfully.  “Well, you do aegyo all the time.”

“And I’m the ullzang.” Kiseop flipped his hair. Like literally in Hoon's face.

“Pig,” Hoon shot back as he scoffed.

“Excuse me?” Oooh. A y Kiseop is always worthwhile to see. I should get comfortable in a chair.

“You mind repeating that piece of word again?” Kiseop hovered over Hoon’s taller frame by going on his tip-toes. Seriously, it’s so funny to watch.

Without his eyes and expression ever wavering, Hoon repeated that one word(s) again. “Pig goes oink in your face.” With that, he ran away while laughing like a maniac with Kiseop close on his tail and everybody who witnessed the showdown, laughed hysterically and clutched their stomachs in pain but still laughing all the way.

“Kids! Enough playing around! You need to practice,” Miss yelled from the middle of the room, crossing her arms to look more imposing.

“I think I can play it now!” Bowan who didn’t hear nor saw anything that happened in the past minute because of his noise-blocking earphones― shouted right when the whole room went silent.

“I missed something didn’t I?” he deducted from the looks everybody was giving him.

“Yep. Possibly the most hilarious showdown ever,” Hoon told him, still showing signs of his maniac laughter.

Bowan shrugged his shoulders rather coolly. “Let’s just practice.”

While the guys continued getting ready with vocal warm-ups and what-not, I just sat on the piano chair, thinking about all my problems. You guys would know them by now.

Somebody grabbed my shoulders and spun me around to face them.

“Bomin!”

I probably had a blank face at my brother’s sudden outburst.

“I've been calling you for the past 30 seconds! What's gotten into you?”

I shook my head, telling him to calm down. “Sorry.”

“Let’s get practicing now!” Soohyun shouted behind me.

I stood up from the grand piano and walked to one of the keyboards at the back where all the guys were surrounded around the poor object. It could be claustrophobic.

They made way for me to get to the keyboard. My brother was already sitting comfortably at the drum set next to me but far enough so I can hear the keyboard being played. It’s so weird. I don’t feel nervous or excited.

Soohyun being leader and all tapped his foot to a beat. “Ready? Come in on the fourth beat. One… Two… Three…”

And I started to play the intro with Eli rapping or improvising (A little bit of both). Bowan came on the second repetition of the intro before Hoon started singing, playing with the cymbals and bass drum softly. Because we weren’t in a recording room, Soohyun had to make his ad-lib slightly softer at the end but that didn’t ruin the members from going up a seventh. It all fell into place, the melody of the piano, going up and down on the keys, the high voices of U-Kiss and my brother’s drumming. We sounded so great together.

“That was perfect!” AJ, the composer of the group, clapped his hands in approval with the teacher.

***

I sat at my desk, my pencil tapping away on the piece of paper with the words written haphazardly in lopsided letters. The answer is supposed to be a person. But this riddle doesn’t seem to appeal to their personality. Like seriously, yaks?!

Little yaks runs away.

My mind went through all the books I’ve read about mystery and riddles and I tried hard to use those tactics to crack the riddle in front of me.

Light is the title of life’s enemy.

What if I take every first letter on each word out?

Light is the title of life’s enemy.

That would spell out littole.

“Littole?”

I repeated that word out loud for a few times.

“Littole. Littole. Littole. Little!”

That’s it!

Anybody nor others next to you shall move out from the shadows.

That grammar mistake though. It’s neither anybody! Gosh. Anyways.

Anontysmous.

Anonymous.

Wow. Luhan, you clever little .

…Because you are knowledge’s source.

Take out B and it becomes yaks.

It’s little anonymous yaks. But what’s with the runs away? Maybe it has no meaning in the riddle.

And when I take out the first letters of that sentence, it would ma―

I in a sharp breath when I saw the acronym scribbled on the paper.

No way.

Is it Lay?

There is no possible way.

Why did that just rhyme, eh?

But it’s Lay. Is it?

I reached out for him and felt the familiarity of his aura in no time.

Luhan?

I see you’ve figured out the answer. Surprised are you?

So he is Lay?  Even my voice sounds so soft in my head.

Yes.

It took me a while to calm down but I still wasn’t over the discovery. I could still feel Luhan’s presence in my head.

May I ask you a question, Luhan?

Go ahead.   He sounded so encouraging so I went and asked with no hesitation.

Why did you show me my memories?

I felt him slightly reel back from my head but I grabbed him before he could pull out completely.

I like me some drama. You know it’s quiet. Plus I want you to remember your childhood memories.

Good enough excuse. So does Lay even remember about the locket?

Maybe not, given that he has a very short memory.

He actually does.

What!? Really?

He only remembers the things that are significant to him. In this case, the girl who left was a significant memory for him.

Does he remember my face?

Unfortunately, no.

Why does that sound like an offence?

Are you saying that I should prompt him into remembering?

Well, yeah.

I sighed, slacking in my chair and running my fingers through my untied hair, the locks slipping through like a snake swimming in water. I could feel the heaviness of my eye lids, the tiredness weighing down my body.

I'm going to sleep. Good night, Luhan.

Good night. Sweet dreams.

After I felt his presence leave my head, I took a quick shower and dressed up for sleep, making sure that in the process I wouldn’t collapse of exhaustion.

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I was in a black room with micro lights on the floor, making the room seem like space. There was an air of familiarity floating around me. I didn’t feel scared or nervous. I only felt the rapid beating of my heart and the sparks igniting pleasurably in my chest. But I had to ask myself one question.

Where are they?

I looked around for any signs of them and sure enough, multiple silhouettes appeared in front of me.

“Who do you choose?” A voice reverberated in the vacuum of space.

Who I do choose?

I stared at every black figure. I can’t see their faces but I know who they are.

Jun, D.O, Lay, Kevin, Kris and Soohyun.

I choose…

“Bomin!”

At the sound of a distressed voice, I sat up immediately in my bed.

“What is it?”

“It's Lay! He’s turned wild!”

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Hellooooo Conlfictorss. (Ahaha I made that up.) I'm back very soon. I have like two tests today and
here I am updating for you. haha. 
I'm not much of a cliffhanger person but is that cliffhanger up there good?
I can certainly say from when I first started this fic, my writing has improved dramatically.
Thank you, it's all you Conflictors that gave me inspiration and motivation to coninue writing and improve. THANK YOU!!! (Comments will be lovoh, so much)

One more thing. Have you guys heard that U-KISS has finally won their first Music Show Award? That day is now so precious. Plus it was my friend's birthday who is also a KISSME. BTW Kevin has started acting in
a new drama called Milky Love. I know very cheesy. Hahaha. It's good tho. Wish somebody
can sub it. T^T
Also EXO's demo song. Like seriously!? Call Me Daddy!?!? That's some serious stuff right there.
Well, that's all for now. hahah Bye Bye!

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