"Hyung..."

"What?"

"N-nothing..."

They both sat there together in silence.They knew for sure not to give up hope. But Mr Kwon's strict restriction on not being able to visit Yuri after discharging from the hospital wasn't helping at all. What could they possibly do? They'll just have to wait.

"Hyung... I was so close..." Taemin said,breaking the silence once more while Minho just shook his head and smiled

"Stop thinking too much and get back to class now!" Minho ruffled the pouting boy's hair

So close to asking Yuri noona out...

"Hyung, that's unfair! How come I have to go while you get to stay here?" Taemin whined while Minho just shrugged it off as he got up and drag Taemin inside

How could I possibly concentrate in class when I'm thinking of her?

"Just be a good boy Taeminnie," Minho waved the latter off

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"Why can't we visit her?" Onew asked for the nth time

"I am amused you could ask that exact same question for 31 days," Kris replied, not bothered at the fuss the latter was making

"I'm going crazy, seriously..." Onew grumbled as he plopped down on the table;head first

It's not only you who is hurting...

"Come on, class is starting. Don't be such a whiny kid," Kris sighed at the pitiful sight

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Key continued staring out the window. Are they doing well there? Key felt a pang of guilt rush through him. If it wasn't for him,Sooyoung wouldn't have did something so silly and Eunhyuk would not be pulled down into it and Yuri... she would not have to go through so much pain

If it wasn't for him, all of them would not have to suffer like that

He clenched his fist tightly and through gritted teeth, he pushed away the plate of food laid by his tableside as he let a tear roll down .It was time to let go. He wasn't meant to be with Yuri after all

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"She's back ! Have you heard of that?"

Onew peeked curiously at the constant chatters the girls behind were having and decided to prop

"Hey girls! What's the matter?" Onew flashed his infamous pearly whites and the girls started swooning over him

"She-Senior class B ,Yuri shii..." one girl spoke as though it was a extreme top gossip on the planet

Onew swore his eyes almost popped out as he grabbed Kris and dashed out , ignoring the loud screams coming from the teacher

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"Oh my God Oh my God Oh my God..." Onew chanted his way through as Kris tried to catch up .Who knew such a short person could brisk-walk so fast?

"Calm down..." Kris almost choke on his salvia when he said that because the next second he knew, he saw a fairy-like girl standing not far away from them. Now he knows why Onew was so frantic . He,himself,too ; his heart was thumping so hard that if Kris moved another inch,he would really just collapse and faint right there, infront of her. Onew soon released his grasp on Kris and rubbed his eyes frantically. Was he seeing things?

Yuri turned to look into their direction and Onew widened his eyes. His heart stopped when Yuri's face turned pale and hid behind a pretty well-built guy. Was she being scared? He felt like he thunder had just strucked him because he was very sure Yuri just turned away at the sight of him. He took catious steps towards her and when he was pretty much close,he was abruptly stopped by the well-built guy

"Who are you?" his voice was very demanding and he did not like it at all . He still decided to keep his cool though.

"We are people she knows" Onew faked a smile, not wanting to reveal too much to the stranger

Onew can feel Kris fidget beside him and nudged him to keep still ,which worked, much to Onew's relieve.

"She doesn't know him!" he turned to face the intruder, which was no other then Yuri's best friend. Onew sighed as Jessica continued glaring at him. Was he really that detestful last time? Onew remembered the guy next to Jessica . The guy that got Yuri's attention. He gave him a polite smile as Jonghyun as looked curiously at him. Oh right, he hasn't told Jonghyun he knew Yuri

Jonghyun swallowed a lump in his throat. He was so glad Yuri came back,but his nervousness just couldn't get a hold of itself.He wanted to kill himself for not speaking up,for just standing down there like a dummy,for not understanding the situation at all. He wanted to tell Yuri how much he missed her all these while and how he actually took down notes for her everyday,hoping it will be easier for Yuri to study the things she missed out.

Yet he just stood there,heartbroken at the clueless look on her face when she met eyes with him

Jonghyun wanted to say something,to say anything, to say anything for Yuri to acknoledge him.

 Yet he couldn't fight off the burning feeling his his chest when Onew looked at Yuri that way.He could only just stand there .

"Yuri, we ought to return home now"

"R-right!" Yuri stuttered "Bye Jessica!..." Yuri mumbled and gave the guy named Jonghyun a slight nod as she briskly walked off, with not-so-mute-guy following behind

"Bye..." Jessica replied,still in a daze as Jonghyun bowed as a signal that he was taking leave , completely dejected

"Don't you ever dare get close to Yuri again," Jessica coldly said

"I can't promise you that"

"If you still have a heart then tell your friend to back off, Kris shi," Jessica glared at the two as she walked away to catch up with Jonghyun. There was surely something amiss...but what was it? 

"You heard her loud and clear didn't you?" Kris exhaled a loud sigh as he recovered from the shock before. He couldn't exactly tell what was wrong due to the complete distraction Yuri herself was.

"I did," Onew's sighed as he stared at Yuri's retreating figure

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Yuri gaped throughout the walk out of school.

"Is something wrong?" Yuri couldn't possibly tell the stranger that she was scared, ty scared in fact, that Onew appeared right infront of her eyes when she longed thought he will never come back.

"N-no! " Yuri stuttered

She couldn't fight off the feeling that it was not their first meeting after that incident... but why couldn't she remember? Maybe it's all due to the after-effects of her coma. She shook off the thoughts and sighed. First day back and there he stands

"Trying to divert the topic, Yuri insisted not-so-mute guy to spit out his name or else she was going to plop down on the floor and not go home ; which she eventually did and cackled as not-so-mute guy gave in

"I'm Kim Jong In, now would you please get up?"

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