"I'm so excited you guys!" N smiled at the breakfast table with the rest of the crew. Leo rolled his eyes and tried hard not to explode from excitement as well. "We still have one more day. Calm down" Hongbin laughed. 

"It's too early to be all excited" Ravi yawned and continued to read his book.

"It's never too early to be excited for N hyung" Ken laughed

"I mean, don't you think it's exciting?" N asked the rest of the students at the table. Hongbin smiled and nodded, but his smile dropped when he looked over Ravi's shoulder and saw a group of male students laughing at them. Hongbin looked back at his friends. "There are kids laughing at us" Hongbin let them know. Ravi turned around and saw the same thing Hongbin saw. "Wow.. How immature" Ravi giggled

"N hyung.. Calm down" Hongbin tried to hush N. "Am I really being too loud?" he asked

"Uuuhhm, yeah?" Leo finally spoke up

"There's people staring and laughing at us" Hyuk hissed. 

"Let them laugh. So what if we're different" Ken smiled and continued to eat. Leo nodded, agreeing with Ken. The table grew rather silent, until...

"What are you laughing at?" Ravi turned around and shouted, not being able to hold it in any longer. "Ravi.. Stay out of it" N put his hand on Ravi's shoulder. "...Dorks" one of the students muttered 

Hyuk gasped and stood up. "We may be dorks! But we're proud!" Hyuk declared, earning shrieks of laughter. Ken laughed nervously and pulled Hyuk back down to the table. "We are the bigger people, so just deal with it" Leo sighed and looked down at his food as he began to lose his appetite

"Kim Wonshik! Since when do you read??" one of the boys called out to the table. Ravi looked up from his book and clenched his fists

"I thought you had an IQ of 30!" another student taunted, making other kids, who weren't even involved, giggle to themselves. But Ravi had heard enough. He stood up and turned around. "YAH!" Ravi shouted. To this, Leo stood up and grabbed his arm. "Ravi, that's far enough" Leo warned him

"Yes, RAVI. Listen to your retarded friend" one of the bullies shouted, Leo looked up and saw that it was the kid who picked on him on the first day of the semester. Leo sighed as he took the abuse. Of course, it made him angry, but what could he do? Fight?

Ravi broke free from Leo's grip and stomped over to the bullies. "You don't know anything about me, so why don't you back off?" Ravi said through his teeth

"Or what?" the kid asked. 

"I may read more now than I used to, but at least I'm smart enough to back away from little pricks like you" Ravi hissed. Before another word could be spoken, one of the students pushed Ravi into one of the cafeteria tables. 

Hyuk gasped as he felt rage build up inside him. "When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!" Hyuk delcared and ran up to the kid and threw a punch with his skinny, boney hand

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"Wow.. You guys are amazing" Ridley let out a humorless laugh as she walked in on her bruised students, sitting on beds in the nurses office. "I don't know what to say"

"We're sorry, noona.." Hyuk sighed. "I know you are. But sorry is not gunna get you anywhere. You've ruined all of your chances to go to the shuttle tomorrow" Ridley scolded them. 

"Do they know this..?" Hongbin asked

"Probably not. But they'll get the hint sooner or later" she said as she put her hands on her hips.

"Are you gunna tell on us?" N asked

"I wish I had a choice" Ridley looked down at the ground 

"Will we get another chance to go?" Ravi asked

"We can only hope. But you'll have to wait.. And judging by your faces, you don't have much patience" Ridley scolded. Just then, Jungsu ran in. "I heard what happened" he panted. Ridley turned around and walked out of the room.

"Care to explain yourselves?" Jungsu asked and crossed his arms. "What is there to explain? We got our asses beat" Ken scoffed, making the others laugh. "Well, I can try to talk to the board about your trip to the shuttle. I can only TRY" Jungsu informed, sparking a little hope in the six students. 

"I feel like an idiot" Leo sighed. Jungsu heard this and walked over to him. "It was a dumb move, I'll admit that. I know that this isn't the real Taekwoon" Jungsu said.

"That goes for all of you" he added as he scanned the room with his eyes. The rest of them looked down

"Don't take advantage of the oppurtunity I gave you. I didn't give you my scholarship so you can fight" Jungsu scolded Leo and walked out, leaving the six to sulk. Leo felt his blood boil as he took his book bag and threw it down on the ground. "DAMN IT!" he screamed

"Leo hyung. Calm down" Ken said, his eyes glued to the ground. 

"We all screwed up, okay?" N raised his voice. 

"Imagine how our parents will react.." Hyuk shivered. 

"Who says we have to tell them?" Hongbin shrugged

"The administration will most likely call them when they find out" Ravi shook his head. "My parents will have another reason to be ashamed of me"

"Ravi hyung. Why are you still worrying about what your parents think?" Hyuk asked

"They are his parents! How is he supposed to feel?" Leo shouted, still yet to calm down. "I'd just ignore their opinion.. They don't seem to care since you have yet to even speak to them. You're wasting your energy on them, Ravi" Hongbin said.

"So what? Am I just supposed to pretend they don't exist?!" Ravi shouted, clenching his bloody fists

"Don't see why that would be a bad idea" Hongbin muttered loud enough for Ravi to hear

"YAH!" Ravi stood up, walked over to Hongbin, and smacked him. Hongbin got up and punched Ravi upside the head, getting them into their second fight in one day. "Break it up!" Ken shouted and pulled Hongbin away. "We're already idiots for getting in a fight with those kids, now we're fighting each other?!?!" N shouted. 

"You're the leader, no? Fix this" Leo pulled on N's shoulder. "What do you want me to do?" N shouted

"You're Shuttle Commander! And you told me yourself that you have good leader ship" Leo yelled in his face. Sure, N and Leo were buds, but Leo still had a bone to pick with him since he stole his dream job, even though it wasn't N's choice.

"We're not on the shuttle, Taekwoon! We're on Earth! This is reality!" N felt like crying. 

The rest of the group froze to the sound of N's voice cracking. "I'm not a good leader! I barely consider myself a good person!" N sobbed and wiped his black eye. 

"All I want from everybody is to stop fighting. Not just each other, but everyone! I don't c-care if we're-e different! I don't care if we d-don't *sniffle* I don't care, if we d-don't fit in! I love you guys-s! I don't care if-f I've only known you-u for a f-ew weeks. You're like brothers to m-me now and I can't stand to watch you all fight each other! So please, STOP!" N rambled, then fell to his knees in a sobbing heap. 

"Hyung... S... Stop crying. Get up" Hyuk felt a lump in his throat as he looekd down at N. 

"He's right.. We need to stop" Ken piped up, feeling his own eyes water up. Ravi finally backed away from Hongbin and into the corner of the room to scold himself while Hongbin scooted closer to Hyuk to comfort him. 

The six boys took a short moment to cry with each other

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"We can't tell them, Jungsu" Ridley paced back and forth in his office. "We have to. This was their mistake. If we don't tell them, we'll make it our mistake. We'll share the blame. Trust me, I don't wanna tell them either" Jungsu explained his thoughts. "Those boys provoked them. My boys have been so excited for the shuttle.. But it just seems like..." Ridley started

"Like what?"

"It seems like there is always something standing in their way" Ridley started to cry. Jungsu saw this and rushed to her side to hold her.

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"Idiots"

"Dorks"

"Freaks" the six boys heard their other roommates talk smack about them amongst themselves. Ravi sighed in frustration as he made his bed and applied pain killer to his black eye. "Don't let them get to you, Ravi. We've learned an important lesson today.." N said and organized Ravi's things with him. "Thanks hyung. But don't we already learn something new everyday?" Ravi smiled and laid down, cringing at the feeling of pressure on his bruises.

"I guess you're right.. Goodnight" N smiled and swallowed a few pills to help with his pain.

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"Hongbin.. Tell me about your friendship with Ken and Hyukkie" Leo said as he sat at the edge of Hongbin's bed. 

"I became good friends with Hyuk.. And Hyuk and Ken hyung have been besties since they were babies. So I was sorta forced to be Ken's friend too" Hongbin explained. 

"Is he a good friend?" Leo asked

Hongbin scoffed. "Does he seem like a good friend to you?"

"He might be annoying as hell... But he's there for me when I need him" Leo shrugged. "Well, that's pretty much how I feel" Hongbin rubbed his aching shoulder.

"Want me to put some ointment on your shoulder?" Leo asked

"Please.. You want me to help with your eye. It looks bad" Hongbin offered, to which Leo giggled. "That's what pain pills are for, my friend"

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"Hyung.. Tell me a story" Hyuk said to Ken as he laid on his bottom bunk bed. "What kind of story, darling?" Ken asked. "Don't call me that!" Hyuk raised his voice.

"Sorry. I say stupid things when I'm tired" Ken sighed

"You say stupid stuff whether you're dead tired or wide awake" Hyuk giggled

Ken rolled his eyes and covered himself with his sheets once again to fight the cold weather. "Just go to sleep, Hyukkie" he sighed before he cringed when he put pressure on his black eye. Hyuk pouted and attempted to fall asleep again.

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"So.. It is my understanding that your students, six simple students that you promised me that you'd look after, have gotten into a fight?" director Choi asked, to which Ridley only nodded her head at the other side of his desk. 

"Well, that's just great" Choi sighed. Ridley knew this wasn't going to end well

"Sir, my students are very sorry for what they did and they wish they could take it back. I was really hoping you could change your mind and let them visit the shuttle tomorrow" Ridley pleaded

"Why should I do that, Jaehee? They have broken school rules" Choi raised one eyebrow

"Punish them the day after tomorrow.. You can do whatever. Just don't excpel them.. They've been so excited for this trip.."

"But they keep getting into some kind of trouble and it's irritating us all"

"This trip to the shuttle will change them. I know it. If they don't get to go tomorrow, we'll have to wait until next semester, or maybe even next year"

Director Choi sighed, looking down at the boys' files on his desk, thinking about what to do with them. "You really think this trip will help them?" Choi asked. Ridley nodded her head slowly

"Here's what I'll do.. Tell them they can still go tomorrow. I'll be calling their parents the day after they get back.. Other than that, I don't know.. I'm truly sorry you had to be stuck with these misbehaved kids" director Choi said. Ridley smiled as the director made his final decision, but felt insulted after she heard what he had to say about her students

"No disrespect sir, but those boys are like sons to me.. I'll fight for them no matter what" Ridley raised her voice

"Well of course you would. Why else would you be here at such a late hour?" he smiled and put the students' files away once again. Ridley felt that the next words out of wouldn't be the right ones, so she bit her tongue after a short 'thank you', and left

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Hongbin opened his eyes to a liquid being poured on his face. As his eyes widened, the liquid got into his eyes and burned like blue blazes. Hongbin screamed to the top of his lungs, waking the rest of his roommates. All he could hear was yelling and, what sounded like it was right next to him, laughing. 

"What's going on in here!?" Hongbin could hear director Kim's voice from afar. Suddenly, he could smell lemons

Someone was pouring lemon juice on Hongbin's face. 

He could swear his eyes were sizzling, as if pouring salt on a snail, when he heard N's voice and Leo's voice, pleading with other boys to stop. Then soon, he could hear Ravi's, Ken's, and Hyuk's voices, begging for the bullies to end the torture inflicted on poor Hongbin, who was so proud of his friends for not fighting.

"Well, we're not going to the shuttle tomorrow anyway, so I don't have that much to lose" Hongbin thought..

Thank you to all the people who waited so long for the next chapter. I've just been a little busy this summer. 

As for ya'll who are going to kcon, let me know in the comment box so maybe we can meet up and talk about VIXX :D lol anyway. things are going to get interesting, just wait :P LOVE YOU GUYS