"Are you feeling better now?" I asked while patting Jay's back softly. She was still sobbing and it hurt me seeing her like this.

She nodded a little, trying to inform me that she was okay but her voice cracked and it made me worried even more. Tears still flowing from her eyes and seemed wouldn't stop at all. I pulled her into my arm and placed her head on my shoulder, caressing her hair lightly. "It's fine. Take your time." I added, hoping that it would made her feel better.

It was the same bench that we used to sit last week. When both of us agreed to be friends without others' knowing. But it completely failed when Jay hugged me earlier. Rumor must had been spread among them, or maybe even worse, Hari, Jay's best friend heard about it. 

But it wasn't the main problem here. Jay wouldn't stop crying and it somehow made me anxious.

Seriously, what happened to her?

After 10 minutes of hearing some sorrow sobbing and whimpering, I felt empty in my arm. She released the hug and wiped her leftover tears that landed on her cheeks. "I'm okay now."

I helped her wiping her tears and looked at her right into the eyes. "It's fine if you don't want to tell me." I said while smiling bitterly, it was still heart breaking to see her like this. 

I gave my full attention to her as she began to speak. "H-Hari came to my h-house l-last night. S-she k-knew about u-us and she gone m-mad. A-And... S-She l...—"

"Hey, it's fine." I voiced and after noticing she seemed to calm down a little, I held her hand and squeezed it a bit. 

"She spread the news about us at the whole campus. She said that I let you do bad things to me so that I could have you back. She told about it to my club members and now they hate me. All my classmates refused to act even a single scene with me." 

"Hyungwon too?" 

Jay shook her head. "He's not here today."

I paused for a long time, trying to digest all of them at once. Did Hari really do that? To her own best friend? What triggered her to spread some bad yet fake news about her own best friend? 

There's must be something that Jay didn't tell me.

"Jay." I called her name softly while cupping her face, making her beautiful eyes met mine again. "Do you know what's the main reason she did all of this things?" I asked in such a faint voice but still there was a sense of demanding to make her answer. 

She suddenly avoided my touch and looked away nervously. Her actions just made me curious even more. I held her hand again and forced her a little to look at me. "Jay, I need answer." 

Realizing that she couldn't just avoid me forever, she sighed. "She likes you." 

What?

"Come again? Hari likes me?" I held her hand tighter, never intended to let it go. 

All of sudden she hugged me again, sobbing into my chest unceasingly, hands clutching at my jacket. I held her in silence, rocking her slowly as her tears soaked my chest. A tiny lapse let her pull away, blinking lashes heavy with tears, before she collapsed again, her howls of misery worsening. The pain must have come in waves, minutes of sobbing broken apart by short pauses for recovering breaths, before hurling her back into the outstretched arms of her grief.

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"Yah Lee Hoseok! Where the hell are you?!" 

"Garden rooftop, with Jay. Hyunwoo didn't tell you?"

"He did tell me you met Jay but I don't know you didn't go to the club at all."

"K