Yoohyeon's POV

I woke up to something soft licking my whole face. Of course it was my only friend and housemate, Pie, my dog. She was so small and her fur was white and long. I always love it when my hands caress her fur. And I also love it when she wakes me up. It's so sweet and cute and caring. I sat there caressing her fur like every morning when my stomach growled. That's when I remembered that I was hungry. I wasn't eating too much nor cooking all the time. Most of times I wasn't at home anyway. I was at college most of hours of the day. But I wasn't the type of person who liked eating anyway. I had lost my appetite since a long time ago. Nothing could make me happy, nothing could make me feel complete. So basically nothing could help me have an appetite anymore. Only Pie. So that was the reason I was always looking for when I was at home. Besides her, I was a hopeless, lonely college student.

I stood up from my bed and walk lazily to the kitchen. I took her bowl and put some food in it. Then I watched her eating happily and peacefully and I smiled spontaneously. She could just sit there doing absolutely nothing and I could be happy. Just by that. I shook my head and then left the kitchen. I needed to get ready for college.

In less than half an hour I was ready. I took Pie in my hands, I gave her a kiss and then I left my apartment. She started crying again cause I left her again alone. My heart always sank when that moment came. I was leaving her alone every day to go to college. She had got used to it. Me too. But yet... it was always hard. I grabbed my backpack and started walking to the bus stop, when suddenly, it started raining. Great! I didn't have any umbrella with me so I just put my hood on. But still... I was going to be really soaked. It was going to be a long day...

I was walking to the bus station when the bus passed by me. I run to the station to catch up the bus. But it was already too late. The bus was ready to leave and also, luck wasn't on my side today... As I was running the floor was freaking wet and slippery, and as a clumsy person I slipped and fell with my face on the ground. My head was throbbing, and I couldn't see anything for some seconds. I was more than wet, and now I was also soiled. I was there, fallen like a statue for at least some minutes. Everything was spinning around me. Then, after a little while, I stood up slowly, not feeling my face and legs. I went to sit on the bench in the bus station and then I looked at my knees. Fortunately I just had some small scars on them. Then I took my phone out to look at my face. It looked pretty badly. I had a big bruise on my forehead. My bangs couldn't hide this thing for sure. And I was freaking soaked! Great! I started yelling to no one to be exact. I was alone anyway. The next bus was going to come in about ten minutes and I was going to be late for class. My professor was going to scold me badly for this. Was it really there any point going to class today actually? I couldn't tell. I just knew that it wouldn't be good if I skipped class. Mostly for me.

As I was sitting there all alone and helpless waiting for that damn bus to arrive a group of girls appeared. I knew them. It was Dami, Handong and the Lee sisters. And two other girls, Minji and Bora. Siyeon and Bora was always together with Minji and sometimes Gahyeon too. She was Siyeon's sister anyway. Handong was friends with Bora so she knew the girls too. Dami and I didn't know them that well. We were younger than them anyway and we were fine as we were. We both trusted only each other and we both didn't talked that much to others.

I didn't know what they were doing here. Most of times they would go to school by car. And they weren't living anywhere near my apartment. Then I remember that Handong had a pajama party yesterday. So that could be. Handong lived near my apartment so it was logical.

"Morning Yoo. Hey what happened to your ugly face? It wasn't that ugly before!" Dami teased me while laughing. She sat beside me leaving the other girls.

"I slipped and fell, my face straight to the ground. I am just unlucky today. Cause I missed the bus. I was trying to catch up with it and that was when I slipped and then you know the story." I told her uninterested. I wasn't in the mood anymore. I was frustrated before, yes. But now I was just back to my normal self. Feeling lonely and helpless and... empty...

"Ouch! That must have hurt! Are you alright? Are you feeling any smarter than before?" she continued teasing me. I smiled at her. She could always make me feel better. Even just by teasing me.

"Nah... I'm still the same Yub. Thanks for caring though."

"No need to thank me silly. Hey, I'll ask the girls to help you cover this up. And with your clothes too. We are six girls here. I think, at least one of us must have something to help you!" she said and then went to ask the girls. I kept looking far away in the road lost in my thoughts when blond hair got in my way. And then a whole face. I automatically moved my body back. Then I focused on the girl in front of me. It was Minji. And beside her was the Suayeon duet. I looked around and everyone from the girls were looking at me. Great! The least thing I needed now was everyone's attention!

"It seems bad." Minji said and came closer to me. I felt weird being this close to her. I wanted to move back but there was nowhere else to move or go. She was trying to help anyway. Why was I feeling uncomfortable? Well, I always felt like that when people came close to me.

She moved my bangs away and looked at it. I looked away trying to avoid her gaze or face in general. My eyes fell on Siyeon. She was looking at me intensely. I think, she never liked me from the very first time I came to her house as a kid to play with Gahyeon. I never knew why. Or maybe I did. I never asked or tried to make her like me. I have learnt even as a kid that not everyone could like you for who you are. And I respect everyone's opinion and liking. So, no. I just let her be.

"Bora do you have some makeup on with you? I have tissue."

"Why do you need a tissue? She just have a bruise, not a scar." Siyeon mumbuled.

"She's bleeding. I also have a bandage with me. But no makeup." She said worried while she was looking at both of her friends.

"I have. Don't worry too much Ji." Bora said calmly. They both seemed so cool. I always admired them and wanted to talk to them. Well, not now. Not in this state. And not now in general. As a kid I liked the idea of talking to cool and famous kids. But now.... well, no. I didn't need anyone else beside my friends. That was enough for me. Cool kids were just... to empty for me anyway. I was empty myself anyway, so why need more empty people around me?

Minji took a tissue from her bag and looked at me in my eyes. I got shivers for a second and I thought my heart was going to explode or something.

"I'm warning you. This is going to hurt. But I have to stop it from bleeding. Ok?" She asked me. She was looking at me waiting for an answer. She wasn't going to move till she would get an answer from me. I just nodded looking again far away, on the road. She pressed the tissue on my bruise and I immediately felt so much pain in my forehead. I wanted to scream but I held myself from doing it. I have been to worse anyway. A little bruise was nothing than everything else in my life.

"Well, I expected her to scream or something." Handong said.

"Yeah this must have hurt a lot." Bora said. Dami looked at me and smiled. She knew me more than anyone else of course.

"Not everyone screams when they feel pain guys. Some people are tough and a little bruise won't make them feel any pain." Minji said while she was still pressing it. Now I was feeling numb to be exact.

"Yeah. Especially those who have already suffered a lot in their life. They can handle the pain." Dami said looking at me. She knew exactly what she was talking about. I smiled at her weakly. After a few minutes Minji took away the tissue. My forehead wasn't bleeding anymore. At least that's what she said. She then put a bandage on it and then she covered it with some makeup. She then looked at her work carefully and then she smiled proudly to herself. She then fixed my bangs back to each previous place and told me:

"Are you feeling any pain?" She was looking straight to my eyes. I could never handle much eye contact. I just shook my head. She smiled brightly at me and then said:

"We should fix your clothes now." She then started cleaning my clothes with some tissues. I grabbed her hand and tried to stop her. She looked at me, eyebrows raised.

"I can do it myself." I almost whispered at her. She smiled at me with that bright smile that melted my heart and told me:

"It's ok. I can do it. I'm used to it anyway. My mom is a nurse so I know how to do it. Plus, my little brother slips and falls and soils his clothes all the time. So I know. Don't worry." She told me happily. How could she be so cheerful? Plus...she told me she was doing those things to her little brother. Was I that clumsy and idiot like a little child? Of course I was! Pabo-yah!

She was trying to clean my clothes when she reached my knees. That's when she saw they were bleeding too. Not that much. But for Minji, it was bleeding and she couldn't just let it be. She did the same thing she did to my forehead and then she cleaned my clothes.

"Are you fine now? Do you feel any pain somewhere?" She asked again. I shook again my head. She smiled at me and for the first time I smiled back. A small one. She stood up and was about to go to the rest of the girls when I told her:

"Thanks."

"It's nothing... Yoohyeon." she said and then smiled at me again. She then went to her friends and I couldn't stop my heart from beating rapidly. She had just called my name! And it sounded so beautiful for some weird way!

The bus came and that was the time I woke up from my daydream. I stood up and was about to walk again in the rain when Dami and Minji both looked at me. Minji was walking with her umbrella a few steps in front of me and she was about to go inside the bus. Dami was looking at me and she was beside me. She offered me her umbrella. Minji smiled to us and got into the bus and then we got in too. I overheard Siyeon saying to Minji that she was being too much to me. She actually called me mute girl. Some people called me that cause I wasn't talking that much. Bora said that she was surprised when she heard me talking actually. And then she started imitating Minji.

"Do you feel any pain?" she imitated her with a funny voice and the Suayeon couple started laughing. Minji didn't say much. She was just smiling at her friends and she just said that it's bad to criticize people. Especially behind their backs.

I put my earphones on not wanting to hear them anymore. I didn't care about what they were saying about me anyway. People will always find something to criticize you. Even if you are perfect at everything! It's important what your loved ones think about you and what you think about yourself. Everything else didn't matter.

When the bus came I got out with Dami not looking back to the rest of the girls. They weren't my friends anyway. They were just... Handong's friends.

"You should have come yesterday. We had so much fun! Why do you always say no to a little fun? It won't hurt you to have some good time for a while. You deserve it anyway." Dami told me. We were heading to out class. The rest of the girls still following us. Their class was near us if I remember correctly.

"I know. But I had to study. You know how I work. How I am."

"Yeah I know. But it's good to have some fun too. I'm just... worried about you. I know how you feel every second that passes by, and I feel so useless Yoo. Friends should help each other. And I feel like I don't. Even if I try everything!" She was worried.

"I'm sorry. I will not worry you again. I'm really fine. It's just... you know how I feel when Christmas are close. I just want to be alone. People don't help. Not at all."

"Ok. I understand. But at least let's go out this weekend. The two of us. And maybe Handong."

"Ok..."

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Author's note:
So.... That's the first chapter. Yoohyeon seems a bit mysterious doesn't she? And Siyeon is a bit harsh. I'm not spoiling anything, I'm just mentioning some stuff to trigger your curiosity XD

Anyway! Remember that English is not my first language so there might be mistakes. I hope you all liked it! Don't forget to like the chapter, and comment, if you want. It helps me A Lot, and don't forget to vote for Dreamcatcher on Soribada on Choeaedol app!!! Bye! Dream of Dreamcatcher!