A/N:-

Hey guys, I apologize for the awfully late update, been busy with projects and stuff plus I'll be having exams in a week or two... So please bare with me at the moment, I'll try to update more often, hopefully I can do more frequent updates after my exams. :) So I just wanted to say, thank you to all the subscribers and readers (silent or not) as it means a lot to have you guys read my story. I hope you enjoy the chapter, though it may be a little bland cause it's just starting but , yeah, I hope you still enjoy it none the less. I actually cut it short a little, so I may repost it as longer or the part that I cut out will probably just continue off in the next chapter. One more thing, I'll also be posting this other fanfic that I've been working on but don't worry, that doesn't mean that I'll be abandoning this fic or paying less attention to it. It's just that I've been working on both at the same time, so I kinda wanted to post it as well. You could check it out if you'd like. :) Thank you for reading, and do leave a lot of comments/critics/feedback. Will read them and try my best to improve my writing!

Chapter 1

          “Nooooooo!!” Kibum shook his head and sighed upon hearing the loud scream coming from the bedroom furthest away from the kitchen. “Oppa!!” in just three seconds, the person who had screamed earlier was right in front of Kibum. “Why didn’t you wake me up? Now I’m going to be late!”.

          “I did. I woke you up every fifteen minutes starting at 6.30am and as usual, you didn’t respond at all,” Kibum chuckled as he watched her fumbling around in the livingroom, stuffing things into her bag as she kept going on about how she couldn’t find her socks and her comb. “Here, let me help you,” Kibum got off his seat by the kitchen counter and proceeded to pass her both her socks and her comb which he was able to find within seconds. “Please, Sunyoung, you know how much I hate it when you make a mess around the apartment,” Kibum sighed looking at the condition of the room after his sister was done getting ready.

           “I’m sorry oppa, I had a lot of work to do for my presentation and so I just had to finish it up here. I’ll help you clean later. I promise,” she put on her shoes, ran and gave Kibum a hug and was out the door in seconds, leaving Kibum no time to even respond to her and to tell her to have some breakfast before going for her classes.

           “Wow. Let me guess, another important group presentation and she willingly decided to do the rest of her member’s works, and so that meant staying up and getting up late. Am I right?” Minho asked as he walked into the room and watched Kibum clean the coffee table.

          “As usual. I don’t understand why she can’t grow a backbone and tell the others to do their work themselves. I swear, it’s like she’s immune to saying no or something,” Kibum muttered. “Oh and your coffee and sandwich is on the table,”.

          “Thanks hyung. Late class today?” Minho was already munching on the sandwich before Kibum had even told him about it. Kibum nodded. “I have to go early cause Yoona wants to practice before we act out our scene for the drama in class today, so I’ll see you later, yeah?” within seconds, just as Sunyoung had, Minho was out of the door.

            “And then there was one,” Kibum walked to the kitchen and cleaned up the plates that contained bits of the sandwich that Minho had finished. Being the ‘mother’ of the house, he was used to cleaning after the other two. ‘Hey, maybe I should take Amber out for lunch since her class is late in the evening as well’ he thought to himself. Smiling happily, he walked to his room and took his phone dialed his girlfriend’s number.

“Hey baby, wanna go out for lunch today?” he could hear his girlfriend chuckling the moment he spoke.

“I dunno, ‘boo’. Are you treating me?” she asked.

“When do I ever make you pay? You know I hate it when you spend your money on me,” he frowned and he could hear her laughing. Amber would never let him forget about the one time that he had forgotten his wallet during one of their dates at a rather fancy restaurant that Kibum himself had chosen. He tried paying her back but she refused to accept it.

“I was just kidding. Of course I’d love to. Pick me up in an hour or so?”

“Alright, see you then. Love you,”

“Love you too,” he heard her mumbling softly and he smiled. Amber was never one to express her feelings easily. She hated acting all cheesy and showing her affection towards him in front of others and he respected her for that, because he loved that she was different from other girls. Sometimes, she does hug him or kiss his cheek in front of their small group of friends and he can’t help but feel happy that she’s willing to do that for him and it makes him fall in love with her more and more. He loved that she only acted that way around him.

Meanwhile at the campus…

           “Excuse me!!” Taemin was just about to turn and see who the voice belonged to when he felt himself fall back on the floor as a figure fell on him. “Oww,” he heard the figure groan as she slowly got off his chest. “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to……..Taemin oppa?” his eyes shot open the moment he heard her say his name. He couldn’t help but stare at the girl who he had been in love it with for awhile now. Seeing her right there, the both of them face to face, with her staring back at him and saying something he couldn’t seem to be hearing. “Uh… oppa… Are you alright?” he snapped out of the daze the moment she waved her hands in front of his face.

         “Uh, Sunyoung, I think you should umm get off of me now…” he mumbled awkwardly as he realized the stares they were getting from the other bystanders. It was only then that Sunyoung realized the position they were in and she immediately got up and apologized to him. “It’s alright, no worries,” he said as she kept going on and on about how she didn’t mean to bump into him and how sorry she was.

          “Sunyoung? Taemin oppa?” Sulli made her way towards them, noticing all their things sprawled on the floor and the two standing in front of one another awkwardly. “What happened?” she asked, bending down to help them gather their things. Sunyoung repeated the whole story of how she was in a rush because she had woken up late and accidentally bumped into Taemin in the midst of running. “Oh, so why are you in a rush?” Sulli asked as she helped Sunyoung shove her things into her bag.

         “Oh right… Why am I in a rush?” Sunyoung frowned as she tried hard to think……… “OH MY GOD!! MY PRESENTATION?” and was gone in a split second.

          “Well, that was……,” Taemin trailed off.

          “Typical Sunyoung,” Sulli shrugged. It wasn’t a surprise that she was feeling a little bit jealous about the incident between the two as she knew that her feelings for Taemin were pretty clear. She liked him, more than as a friend and she knew that he knew of it but somehow always seemed to avoid the topic.

          “Hey Taemin, Sulli,” a new voice greeted them and they both turned to see Victoria standing right behind them. “Why are you guys staring at the hallways?” she looked straight to where they had both been staring at since Sunyoung ran a few minutes before. “Oh my god, did you see a ghost?!” she exclaimed, rather a little too dramatically.

         “Very funny noona. It was nothing, we were just staring at someone running that way,” Taemin said as he hit Victoria lightly on the shoulder while Sulli stood still watching the two hitting each other playfully.

         “Oppa, you’re so childish,” Soojung and Jonghyun walked towards them with his arm around her shoulder. “Still playing around like kids at this age?” she raised her eyebrow.

         “Oh come Soojung ah~ Lighten up, they just want to have fun,” Jonghyun pat her head and kissed her forehead as the others made disgusted faces and Soojung blushed. “What? Can’t a boyfriend express his love freely anymore?”.

          “Sure hyung, but not in front of us. That’s my cousin you’re dating. Of course I’d feel a little uncomfortable watching you two like that. I’ve known her since she was a child. Since she was a baby, in fact,” Taemin said.

          “You’ll get used to it. Someday, you’ll find someone and you’d probably do the same thing,” was Jonghyun’s answer. “Oh right, Sulli, I met Minho just now and he told me to ask you if you could meet him before lunchtime, like at around 11? He’ll be waiting for you at the back garden,”. He didn’t seem to notice that his girlfriend had suddenly gone stiff.

           “Oh really? I wonder why…,” Sulli was surprised that Minho would actually want to meet her personally all of a sudden. Although they spoke to each other quite a lot, they were actually the ones who were least close to each other in the group, so it was quite strange that he suddenly wanted to meet her, alone.

           “Oh well, guys, I gotta go. I told Jinki that I’d be helping him out with his assignment before my class starts. I’ll see you at lunch, and uh, Sulli, please give away those chocolates he left on our doorstep. Or you could have them, whichever,” Victoria said as she walked away.

           “Who left chocolates?” Soojung asked.

           “Her ex-boyfriend, I think he’s trying to ask her out again,” Sulli said. “Well, I guess I’ll be going to then, my acting classes starts soon, so I’ll see you guys while lunch alright?” she turned towards her classroom. “Bye Soojung, Jonghyun oppa and…… Taemin oppa,” she said his name a little quietly.

           Once Sulli had left, Soojung turned to Taemin and punched his shoulder. “Oppa, you’re such a jerk. She clearly likes you yet you never seem to respond to her feelings. At least acknowledge them,” she glared at him.

          “Yah, Jung Soojung! What am I supposed to do if I don’t feel the same way? You can’t just force yourself to like someone else, right? I mean, what if I forced you to break up with Jonghyun and date someone else, would you be happy?” he rubbed his shoulder where she had punched him. “I need to get some books from the library, I’ll see you guys later,”.

          “He’s right Soojung, you can’t force him to like her back. He has his own feelings to think of too,” Jonghyun said. When she didn’t respond, he pulled her into a hug as he comforted her and said “Hey, don’t worry. I’m sure he’s not actually mad at you or anything. He’s just a little upset, that’s all,”.

          Soojung nodded as she hugged him back, but the truth was, she wasn’t thinking about Taemin being angry or even Taemin at all. She was thinking of her own feelings, and of how she was beginning to feel attracted to Minho. She knew it was bad, considering that he is her boyfriend’s best friend, but she couldn’t feel the way she did. ‘I can’t do this, I have a boyfriend, and I love him. Besides, he probably likes Sulli,’ she thought as he walked her to her class.