KRYSTAL’S P.O.V.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Amber was about to open the door seeing everybody else were eating already.

I stood up ahead though and was the first to open it.

“Special delivery for Amber Li Yu.”

So a package for her huh?

“Here I am. Excuse me, Jung.”

I moved out of her way to sign the papers.

Jung huh?

“Where do you want us to place it?”

“Just near the shed please.”

Whoa! Such a big package.

What are you going to do with a lot of wood Amber Li Yu?

“And there’s another set too. From Mrs. Li Yu. Here.”

WOW! Is this Santa’s bag?

“Err – I will get that.”

What’s in that bag??

After that we went back to the dining area.
 

AUTHOR’S P.O.V.

SOOYUNG: “Whoa! Amber, are those?”

Amber just nodded.

YOONA: “Can I ask for some if there’s some food?”

SOOYOUNG: “Yeah! Me too! Don’t forget the procedure cuz.”

AMBER: “Please don’t start.”

TAEYEON: “Shut it you two shikskins. You two are eating and still you think of food?”

YURI: *Shaking her head in disbelief. “Amber, let’s just eat.”

These five are talking as if the other five are not there.

TIFFANY: *Clears throat. “Excuse us, but we are here too. Mind sharing what you guys are talking
about?”

SUNNY: *Does cute aegyo to Sooyoung. “You are leaving us out of the topic.”

SOOYOUNG: *Dazed. “Amber’s monthly presensts.”

Yoona nudged her to send her back to reality.

Amber is looking at her rather seriously in a dark gloomy mood.

US FIVE: “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.”

TAEYEON: “Now you know. Let’s eat.”

TIFFANY: *Does eye smiles. “But Tae-Tae, how come she has lots of presents?”

TAEYEON: *Dazed. “Fan club.”

Yuri nudged her to send her back to reality.

Amber just can’t believe how easily her unnies are spilling it after an aegyo and eye smile.

She is relieved that Yoona and Yuri were not into giving in that easily.

JESSICA: “Pfft! So what? Like we care on how come she has some fan club.”

YURI: *Smiling goofily. “Cause a lot of people know her.”

SEOHYUN: Innocently asks, “Yet we still can’t get it. She is that famous, then why? What makes it
like so? ”

YOONA: *Eagerly answers, “Since she is somebody famous.”

Now, it was Taeyeon’s and Sooyoung’s turn to nudge them both.

The soshi squad turned to look at Amber’s reaction.

She was silently eating her food amidst the talk.

Not caring if they will spill it all or not.

The squad was still waiting for Amber to say something.

So were the other five.

Amber finished her last bite and gently dabbed with the table napkin.

Noticing how they stopped, she said, “You can tell those five about it. If they spill it to others, we can
always go back home.”

She smirked stealthily and left with her empty plate towards the kitchen.

JESSICA: “You guys seriously have a lot of explaining to do.”

The four were looking at each other.

Communicating through eyes.

YURI – We are so going to be killed by our mothers!

TAEYEON – Let’s make up some excuse.

TIFFANY: "EHEM! We are waiting.”

YURI: “It was nothing. Just a prank we played on her.”

TAEYEON: “ Yeah and it even took us months to do it.”

SOOYOUNG: “We'd just usually play games.”

YOONA: “I think I am full. I will go wash up and go to bed ahead of you guys. Night!”

The five goddesses glanced at each other.

They were not convinced however the four just poofed themselves out of the place.

LATER AROUND 10 P.M.

 

AUTHOR'S P.O.V.

One bedroom through the balcony had their lights on.

Krystal was still up studying.

For math that is.

She had to double her effort when it comes to this subject.

Other classes she can manage but not this one in particular.

The clock was ticking and through the silent night she could hear it.

"What's with numbers mixed up with letters?!?! Why do they even have to make such thing up??"

She was mumbling numbers as if the equation will somehow tell her the answer.

Giving up, she held the book.

After a lot of staring, the papers on the book felt a hole through that.

Yeah, you heard me right.

This math book has some emotions.

It was hurt since Krystal's eyes were boring at its pages.

Then her ears caught some noises.

Something or someone was rustling outside, below the balcony.

KRYSTAL'S P.O.V.

IS IT A GHOST?!?!?!?!

Or worse . . .































THE CUCUMBER MAN?!?!?




UMMA!!!


I want to wake up Sica unnie!

She and I must join forces!

But she will kill me before we could kill the cucumber man!

I guess I have no choice but do it on my own.



KRYSTAL HWAITING!



Picking up a hot dog pillow since I don't have a baseball bat with me, I went out to the balcony.

Oh – there were potted plants here.

Maybe it's Amber's potted plants.

Better this than that hotdog pillow.

I will show you no mercy cucumber man!

Seeing the ladder I dropped the pot.

"Wait!"

*CRASH!!

That didn't sound like a scary cucumber man.

Looking below the ladder, I saw familiar someone being unconscious.

Grabbing a flashlight, I lighted that person's face.





"OH







MY






GOD!"




In crazy panic mode, I went downstairs.

This is definitely NOT the cucumber man.


Simply too hot to be a cucumber man.


I carried this heavy person upstairs and hopefully have not damaged much to Amber.

AMBER'S P.O.V.

I woke up in the room.

Not my room, someone else's room.

In my shirt and boxer shorts.

"Where's my - Argh. . . "

My head, it hurts.

Last thing I remembered was something crashing unto my head.

Luckily it didn't do much damage such as cutting a deep gash on my head.

I just went unconscious.

Maybe.

Observing the room, I think I am in our dorm.

Getting up was such a hard task.

Every time I try to do so, my head would go dizzy.

The bathroom opened and out came whom I assume is the culprit on why I had this bump on my head.

"Mianhe. I didn't know it was you."

She bowed her head down in shame.

I just shot her a glare.

Yeah, right.

Like who would be stupid enough to sneak in the tight security of this school?

Most of the students are daughters of prominent families.

I want to go to my room.

AISH! I am still dizzy.

"You shouldn't force yourself to get up."

Thanks but no thanks. I don't want to be near anywhere to a disaster prone person like you.

"Thanks. I can manage."

Standing up for a few seconds and then I was about to drop on the floor.

Suddenly a pair of arms held unto me.

*LUB DUB

What was that sound?

"You know you are quite heavy and this time I don't accept 'no' as an answer."

How come I am not fainting –

AMBER BLACKS OUT.

AUTHOR'S P.O.V.

Seeing Amber black out in her arms Krystal dragged her to the bed.

"AISH! I don't want any biceps or triceps forming."

Yet remembering the incident awhile ago, she felt guilty.

But where will I sleep? It's not good to let her sleep on the floor though. Guess I have no choice.

Krystal switched off the lights and went to sleep beside Amber.

NEXT MORNING
 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"


The shout caused the eight unnies to run into the room where the shriek came from.

They all stumbled after frantically opening Krystal's door.

"What has happened Kryssie???" Her Sica unnie asked.

"Did some –" Yuri asked in hopes to defend the distressed girl.

"AMBER?!?!" All of them shouted.

They saw Amber crouching in the corner of the bed covering herself with a blanket.

She was scared.

Literally, scared out of her senses and her cousins know why.

"What did you do to Krystal?!?!" Jessica yelled.

As the anger was building up inside, Krystal woke up.

"Who shouted so early in the morning?" The maknae said as she rubbed her eyes.

TIFFANY: "Why is Amber here, Krys?"

SEOHYUN: "What happened?"

SUNNY: "Did Amber you or what?"

TAEYEON: "Yah! Don't talk as if it was Amber's fault!"

YOONA: "Can't you see the obvious?"

SOOYOUNG: "Amber is afraid and that is because of Krystal."

JESSICA: "Why the hell would she be the one to be afraid??"

YURI, TAEYEON, SOOYOUNG, YOONA: "She faints whenever a girl touches her for a prolonged time!"

The five goddesses-like girls were all in shock.

YURI: "Not to be rude but Krystal please move away from Amber."

Krystal dumbfoundedly obeyed Yuri seeing how terrified Amber is.

DINING TABLE

They were gathered to discuss

TAEYEON: "No one else must know this. We were here to help her condition."

TIFFANY: "But how it came to that??"

YURI: "Something happened in the past in which we cannot just simply story-tell you guys about."

JESSICA: "Why would she even faint? She is a girl herself."

YOONA: "We don't even know that. All we do know is that besides us and family, any girl who touches her for a long time will make her faint."

SUNNY: "So what should we do now?"

SOOYOUNG: "Keep it a secret and you guys are going to help us protect Amber from fainting in public."

JESSICA: "Why would we agree to that?"

KRYSTAL: "Let's do it unnie. Besides, I have to tell you guys the reason why she ended up sleeping in my room."

After narrating the sequence of events, Jessica scolded her sister.

Tiffany, Seohyun and Sooyoung felt pity towards Amber.

YURI: "Let's have you checked out later after class cuz."

AMBER: "I am fine unnie."

TAEYEON: "We just have to make sure. You have insisted on going to class. I already called your doctor for a visit here later."

AMBER: "Do I have a choice?"

YOONA: "No especially with that bump on your head."

AMBER: "Who are you guys anyways?"

Silence.

Eyes wide open.

The soshi squad in panic within themselves.

Their ummas are going to skin them alive.

Then Amber snickered.

SOOYOUNG: "Oh very funny cuz. Playing selective amnesia huh? HA! HA! HA!"

They all faked a laugh and turned serious.

AMBER: "You should have seen your faces. Priceless!"


*WHACK!


*WHACK!


*WHACK!


*WHACK!



The four smacked the back of Amber's head.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR? MY HEAD ALREADY HURTS AS IT IS!"

"To let your senses come back. You ungrateful dongsaeng of a cousin," Yuri retorted.

"We should have left her in Krystal's room awhile ago," Taeyeon suggested.

"Yeah, with Krystal's arms wrapped around her," Sooyoung said.

"So that whenever she wakes up, she would shriek then faint, wake up then shriek and then faint. HAHAHA! Imagine her doing that over and over again," Yoona added.

The four laughed as Amber just groaned in complaint.

CLASS

KRYSTAL'S P.O.V.

What the heck is she doing?

Leaning back, I saw her reading and giggling at –

A MANGA!

What the - ?!?

And here I am, dreading myself with this last subject we have called 'math'.

"Since no one could get this problem right how about we let Amber give it a try?"

My classmates all turned towards Amber who was still reading the manga.

Noticing how she so did not hear our teacher, I kicked her leg.

"Ouch! What –"

AMBER'S P.O.V.

This is really funny.

Hahahaha!

"Ouch! What –"

Oh why are they all looking at me now?  ._.

"As I have said, Amber could you try solving this problem here since no once could get it right?"

"Uh – okay."

I went to the front.

Urgh – chalk.

"Hmmmmm – The length, L, of a spring is given by L= 3/4 F +8, where F is applied force. What F will produce a length of 10?"

Easy.

"It will produce 8/3."

Before I could go back to my chair, the teacher asked, "How were you able to get to the answer?"

"By eliminating the other factors until I can go to the end of F=8/3."

It's really simple.

"Care to write and explain please Amber so that your classmates can get it?"

"Sure, but I need to borrow a handkerchief first."

The teacher was confused.

All of them were.

KRYSTAL'S P.O.V.

Why would she first want a handkerchief?

"Chalk dust allergy."

They were now all 'ohhhhh' to her response.

Now our classmates were looking into their bags including Sulli and Nicole who are trying to act cool but with their hands beneath the table and scrambling to get it.

What happened next surprised me.

"Uhm – Jung can I borrow your handkerchief please? I will return it after washing it."

Why me??!

She then flashed a coy smile at me and I don't know what have happened to my hand but it gave her my hanky.

Amber said her thanks then went to teach us about that linear equation.

Her explaining it is way more understandable than our so-called-math teacher.

It was y too.

y smart – ARGH! No way am I turning into a girl who likes toms!

I don't know!

It's just not normal.

My parents.

Jonghyun oppa.

. . . . . .

Looking at her back and her hmmm – Amber oppa.

AISH! Why am I like this?!?!

But I got to focus on the math problem or I will have to stay up all night again to study just one subject.

Oh wait – she could tutor me at home.

Or would she even agree after what I have done to her.

It doesn't hurt to try though, right?

As she finished the explaining, the bell rang to end the day and girls were starting to swarm near her.

Again?

Oh no – she might faint.

AMBER'S P.O.V.

CLASSMATE #1: "Amber-sshi, can you tutor me?"

CLASSMATE #2: "How about you tutor me instead? It would be fun."

CLASSMATE #3: "No way is she going to go with you. She will only say yes to me."

CLASSMATE #4: "How about we ask Amber-sshi that?"

ARGH!! Their ramblings! God, why me???

They were getting near me!

Umma!

Help!

Give me the number to 911!

I closed my eyes with my back against the board.

"She already agreed to tutor me," a cold voice echoed through out the room.

That voice.

Krystal Jung.

I opened my eyes.

She winked at me.

*LUB DUB

That sound again.

Krystal eyed me hinting to go with her plan.

"Err – yeah. Mianhe."

The girls still did not budge though.

"You heard Amber. Disappear all of you."

With that the girls walked away defeated by this ice princess.

Seeing my almost fetal postion, she said, "Here."

She offered to help me get up.

This is the second time she held out her hand to me.

Should I try?

Or not?

However, her smile turned my body into a puppet obeying her gestures.

I look at her hand.

Would I faint?

Inch by inch my hand acted on its own.

*LUB DUB.

That sound.

Can it only be me who hears that?

Not restraining her hand was a centimeter away.

I again looked at our hands then her.

How come she is now glowing?

Are there some lighting effects at her back?

Shortening the gap she stepped forward and hauled my hand gently in hers.

It was gentle.

Is she having a fever?

Because her hands were getting warmer every second and my body was supposed to faint any moment now.

How come I am not fainting?

KRYSTAL'S P.O.V.

Amber seemed like a lost puppy after the girls left.

"Here."

Why am I being kind now?

I'm supposed to be the strict disciplinarian but loving friend of this school.

Maybe Amber will just reject it like the first time.

As I was about to pull my hand back, her hand moved.

*LUB DUB

What's that sound?

Time seemed to have stopped as my outstretched arm was waiting for Amber's clasp on it.

Moving a step forward, I held her hand.

Soft.

It was softer than any hand I ever held.

Softer than a baby's skin or my skin.

As I pulled her with more force than expected, Amber's face was just a small step away.

It made me look closer into her eyes.

Her eyes were gazing into mine and it was as if I saw a trapped person inside it.

Sure her features were handsome but her eyes talked to me.

Talking to me in a different sense and way.

In which I am somehow able to understand.

She has so much soul kept inside.

"EHEMM!!!!"

Sulli and Nicole were waiting for me.

I snapped out of the intense eye to eye contact I had with Amber.

They looked at me and then I traced it to something I have not noticed.

We were still holding hands.

I quickly let go.

After letting go, I could still feel Amber's gaze on me and its sending my blood up to my cheeks.

GOING HOME

YURI'S P.O.V.

How come I feel like a goof whenever she is around?

I know I am aloof but why when she is near I am nervous?

She is unlike any other girl.

She is kind in the inside, strong and beautiful through and through.

Her glares are nothing.

Her sleeping habit is cute.

First person to look at another beyond the face unlike so many girls who just fell for this face I was blessed and cursed with at the same time.

Cursed since I am not able to love someone who would not simply tell me she loves me for the sole reason because I am good looking.

What does the sergeant Jessica Jung like? Her dislikes?

Hmm – how about I get close with her best friend to know?

JESSICA

Stupid grin!

Stupid smile!

Babo! Why can't you stop sending me positive comments and looking at me like as if I am the only one in your eyes?

AISH! Babo! Babo!

You are no one!

You are just a troublemaker with brains.

Why is she going towards Tiffany?

What are they talking about??

TIFFANY

What does this little but hot when serious shorty like in a girl?

Can she like me?

Aish! Why am I like this?

But I can't help it.

She didn't fell for my eye smiles first until I made her to look at me.

When I cried one night because of what my parents planned to do with my life, she was there to notice it.

Differently prepared my lunch than Sica's, Seohyun's, Krystal's or Sunny's each day.

How and why did I know?

Because she would mold the rice into a heart shape then send me little notes daily with it to cheer me up.

I know my family will go against it.

But I can't help it anymore.

What does this Taeyeon Kim like or dislike?

Hmm – how about I get close with her cousin Yuri who seems like her best friend to know?

Speaking of the devil as if she read my mind Yuri walked towards me.

TAEYEON

Tiffany Hwang.

A delicate girl ever since I caught her crying one night.

I hope she cheers up.

Her eye smiles are cute but when it comes from her heart, she outshines the sun.

Her attitude and personality just stands out the most.

She is way beautiful especially when she cared for that stray cat I fed in the park daily.

I must know her.

Wait! What is Yuri doing??

I thought she likes Jessica?

It can't be –

YOONA

Have you ever heard an angel playing such melodious notes?

Have you seen someone so good-mannered even against a beast?

Have you ever seen such innocence at times like these?

I did and I think my heart needs her to capture it.

Signing up for this music class was all about to befriending her yet it turned out to be something that it could be the closest thing for me to be near such an angel.

She has a lot of fans though.

I sighed and got up from my chair.

Music class ended, although this was practice time but this Junho guy came again and I just wanted to go home.

SEOHYUN

It was my practice for a piano recital and as usual Yoona would always be glad to accompany me.

She is fun to be with.

She lets me see how she would prank others.

Although I am against it still her ways do make me laugh.

She encourages me to continue playing and it kept me sane against the pressures.

My unnies are already busy and so is Krystal so no one was there to be with me through my troubles much.

Only Yoona kept her presence and understood it all.

She is a shikskin and I like the way she eats her food.

Oh –Junho oppa came by again.

He asked me if he could walk me home but Yoona is waiting.

Yoona? Where is she now?

SUNNY

How come she could devour such large amounts of food in the iest way?

Ever since we are classmates, she would call me 'her bunny'.

I don't know why but it is cute.

It all started after our classmates were bullying me about height one time and she came like 'my superman'.

As I was still crying at that time, she hugged my sobbing self and told me, "I don't usually bring a handkerchief or tissue so cry unto my clothes until your tears dry up. Don't mind their words. They are just words. For me, you are just vertically challenged."

She smiled and I chuckled a bit as I wiped my eyes like a child while pouting.

As I was observing her eat, someone shouted, "Sunny-yah!"

Oh no. The folding screen again.

SOOYOUNG

She is more than aegyo.

That's what I can say.

Her presence could energize you more than any cola drink.

Her touch is hotter than any kimchi around.

Her generosity is unrivaled.

She had not eaten her lunch yet she gave me food.

I caught her being brave against those bullies who joked with her height.

She let me see her serious side.

It was more than y and hot.

It was 'her' true self.

She was a hard working girl.

Not like most spoiled rich brats here.

She depends on herself and more.

"Sunny-yah!"

Oh no. Don't tell me it's her again.