Tiffany POV

I vented out everything to Jessica. We were left alone by our friends in the same room throughout the moment. I told her everything, even the pain I felt for the past years. I surrendered myself into her arms, cried myself out. I couldn't stop crying for so long, probably more than an hour.

"I am still needed here, Tiff. I am." Jessica proudly stated as she patted my back while I'm side-hugging her on the couch.

"Yah. I already said sorry, okay."

"Come on. Just say it."

"Yes." I buried my face in her neck. "I needed you so much."

"Gosh." She giggled. "That sure sounded so gay, Tiff."

"But, it's true." My voice cracked up and, again, I shed tears.

She faked a sigh, "Alright, alright. I won't anymore make jokes about it. Stop crying, okay? You might get dehydrated with that." I broke away from our hug. She then cupped my face, "Are you already calmed down?"

"Yeah, I guess." I wiped my tears with my thumb.

"Alright. Let's do what we have to do, okay? Apologize for your iness, Tiff."

"Yes, yes, I know." I answered in annoyance as I removed her hold on me.

"Yah. Now, you're back ing on me?"

"You're treating me like a little child! Who wouldn't get annoyed with that, huh?"

She laughed, "You are like a child, Tiff. Can't help." She stood up and headed out. "Come along."

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The rest of our friends were there at the dining hall. Jessica firstly went inside. I took a deep breath first, then, I entered. They were all seated with lots of food already served at the table. Sooyoung and Taeyeon have already started eating, though.

"Everyone." Jessica called. "Tiffany has something to say."

They all focused their attention on me. I breathed deeply then uttered, "I'm sorry."

...

I looked at Hyoyeon. "I'm sorry for insulting you throughout the weeks passed." I looked at Tae, "And you too, Taeyeon. I'm sorry for calling you pathetic. I never meant to insult you two. It's just... Well, I meant them a little, though. I just tried... like, you know... experiment on that kind of lifestyle...? Freely babbling about anything?"

Hyoyeon sighed then smiled, "It's all okay, Tiff. I understand. Well... if that helps, you can try insulting me once in a while. But, not too much like what you did, okay? Else, I will definitely file a libel against you."

Taeyeon then uttered, "Apology accepted. You were just telling the truth, anyway." He briefly looked at Jessica then back to me. "I mean, slightly. Just slightly." He then cleared his throat as he went back on eating.

"Well, how about me, huh?" Sunny butted.

I answered her, "Err-- I uhhmm... half-meant sorry."

"What?!"

"Yah! You half-deserve all those insults, okay! Over the years, you did nothing but call me stupid, crazy, and even insane. I had enough of silly nicknames from you too!"

"Aisshh-- fine! I accept your apology!"

"And me?" Sooyoung snapped in.

"I'm sorry for triggering a fight between you and Hyoyeon. Your relationship doesn't deserve to be destroyed because of my... uhhmm... because of me, I mean."

"Craziness, you mean?" Sunny butted.

"And that's why you really do deserve just half of my apology."

I redirected back to Sooyoung and Hyoyeon, "But, really, you guys deserve nothing but happiness in the World, especially with your daught---"

"Just to clarify!" Hyo immediately shouted. "Sooyoung's not the father of Hyoyoung, Tiff."

I looked at her disbelievingly and so is everyone else. She rolled her eyed in annoyance. "It was not Sooyoung!"

"Yeah, right. It was not me." Soo stated then winked.

"Yah!" She slapped his chest.

"I said it was not me, I know!" Then he looked at us and winked which earned chuckles from the rest of us.

"How about me?" Yoong butted in, pertaining to me.

"Well... I'm sorry for not including you on my decisions recently and not telling you about them. I know I shouldn't be hiding anything from you but, I don't want you to jeopardize your business meetings during that time. You still have seven percent more profit to generate for the last two months of this year, you know."

"Right. Now, that felt like reversed. I should be thankful to you then, right?"

 I smiled, "Right."

"Okay, how about me, bestie?" Jessica snapped.

"I already said sorry to you, okay. It was even more personal."

"No, no. I want them all to hear it clearly."

"No."

"Pweeetty pwease?"

"No."

She then glared at me and I returned the same.

"Alright, that's enough, kids." Sooyoung butted. "Have a seat, Tiff."

I complied and sat beside my fiancé. Sooyoung then announced to everyone, "Alright, people. It's almost midnight. It's almost the birthday of my pretty little lying girlfriend."

"Is that really necessary to add on my name Soo?" his girlfriend asked him boringly.

"Yup." Quickly, he continued, "So, I would like to make a toast." He raised his glass of champagne. We all followed along. "For my girlfriend's birthday. For this emergency reunion of our gang. And…" He looked at me and smiled ertedly. "For the hot, y, pretty es all over the World."

"Really, Soo? Really?" I reacted in annoyance.

He breathed deeply, "I want to thank you, Tiff, oh so much for giving us a really great cat fight earlier. That was actually a dream come true for us four 'flower' boys. Yes, even Yuri. You know… You and Jessica, wrestling each other… gosh, it sure was heaven." He closed his eyes and nodded. Taeyeon did the same too.

Aiishh-- these erts.

I snapped, "Yah, Yoong, do you think I don't see you bobbing from the side my eye, huh?"

Yoong quickly cleared his throat and scratched his head. "Soo was right, slightly-- But, anyway--" He raised his glass higher and cheered loudly, "Let's make a toast!"

"CHEERS!!!"

We proceeded with our meal and as usual, my friends never stopped on chatting about the events of the past, especially the funny ones.

"Sure that detention was the most peculiar thing that ever happened to me." Hyoyeon snapped and chuckled. "Why on Earth our college even practice detention process?"

"Yup. It's too much Elementary." Sunny responded and chuckled too.

Sooyoung butted in. "Yup. You and Jessica had a kiddie fight inside the campus when you can just go out instead of going inside the Gym. Like seriously, you two were like really looking for punishment."

"Hey, it's part of our reconciliation process, okay."

"Wait." Jessica snapped in. "So, technically, we didn't reconcile, right?" she asked, pertaining to Sunny.

"Err----"

"Well, you said earlier, if it wasn't for Tiffany's lie we wouldn't be friends again."

"Yah! Why you sounded like you want to fight again?!"

"Well, it just means you haven't apologized to me yet!"

"Why should I be apologizing?! You're the one who did something to me in the first place!"

"Okay, that's enough. Just forgive and forget, okay?" Taeyeon then snapped in. "You, Yoong, any funny moment you remember?"

"Hmmm. It was during my birthday six years ago… when we were super drunk and drugged?"

"Uhuh. I remember that." Then, the both of them looked at each other in so much widened eyes and laughed.

"THE YULSOO KISS!!!" they both shouted gleefully and laughed. The rest of us followed along except for Sooyoung.

Soo complained, "Yah, stop it! It's not like Yuri and I really did want to kiss each other! We just happened to dream of sweet dreams that time! Tiffany was supposed to be there in between us too, you know!"

"Wow. And you exactly remember that moment, huh? Was it really that special to you?" I teased.

"Of course! It was one of the most horrible moments of my life!"

Taeyeon then asked me, "So how about you, Tiff? Do you have a funny memory back then?"

"Uhmmm... The time when you peed on your pants?" I answered which earned chuckles from our friends again.

He looked quite shocked of my answer. He cleared his throat then responded, "Another one."

"Hmmm... Let's see... I think it was the time when Seohyun kidnapped me?"

They all looked at me in disbelief. Jessica then snapped, "How could that be funny, bestie?! You almost died!"

I chuckled, "Well, the whole time I was kidnapped sure was very, very entertaining. I seriously remember all the delusional thoughts regarding Yuri which Seohyun told me back then. Also, she told me about her failed plans too. Remember guys the fake bomb incident at the Science building of Se-Kyung? She put that fake-bomb to trigger panic in the University. She wanted me to die in a stampede!" I laughed, "It was really so, so funny. She should have put it in my college's building for it to be more intense, like hell seriously."

...

"What? It sure was funny, okay."

...

"Okay, how about this? She was the one who started the fire at the abandoned building of Se Kyung where I stayed when I was homeless."

...

"Aisshh- it is funny, okay! I always thought my stow-away brought me nothing but bad karma. But then, plot twist, Seohyun was the one who has been doing those bad happenings on me."

"Alright." Sunny answered boringly. "But, how could that be funny, huh?"

"Err-- it's funny because I was not really unlucky after all? It was Seohyun, not me. She's my bad omen. Get it?"

...

I sighed, "Never mind."

Sooyoung snapped, "Mine was when I was madly jealous of Taecyeon. Hahaha. It turned out I don't have any reason to be jealous at all. He's freaking gay!" The rest of us laughed along with him except for Taeyeon. He looked a little shocked over it with his jaw dropping from the information he just heard.

Sunny then giggled and added, "Yeah, who would have thought a large muscled man like him turns out to be gay?"

"Wait. What are you guys talking about?" Taeyeon butted. "Taecyeon's gay?"

"Yup." Sunny answered. He looked at me. I answered too, "Totally." He looked at the rest and they nodded too.

"Since when did you all know?!"

"Since I met him?" I said.

"Since Hyoyeon told us the reason for their break-up five years ago?" Jessica snapped in too.

"That long?!" he shouted in disbelief. He then banged his head on the table. "Why no one told me?!"

"I thought you already knew about it, Tae. I'm sorry." Hyoyeon said and grinned awkwardly.

"We bathed together... in that public bath... We went there twice during the Japan project of Dream Sky... Together... together..." He ran his hands on his arms. "Oh dear... oh dear... I feel so used..."

"It's not a big deal, hyung." Yoong snapped. "Me. I just knew about it now."

Tae glared at him, "That's because you were not the one together with him at that public bath, okay!"

"And what exactly did you two do there again?"

And he went dumbfounded with the question. He ended up just staring over Yoong for few seconds. Afterwards, he just ignored it and continued on eating his meal.

Yoong looked at him sympathetically, "Now, that sure is heavy."

Hyoyeon then butted, "Err... So, why don't we talk about something else then?"

"Right." Sunny uttered. She quickly redirected to me, "So, what are you gonna do with Sunkyu now?"

I closed my eyes as I sighed deeply. I answered, "Sunny, please, let's not talk about that topic again."

"What the--- I thought we're cleared up now?!"

"Yeah, I'm back to somewhat a little normal state of mine but that doesn't mean I still want to talk about my son. Besides, you guys already know he's safe, anyway."

Jessica then butted, "So, you don't have plans to take him back under your custody?"

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