Yoohyeon's POV

When we got inside Handong and Dami were in the kitchen. They were the only ones awake. I made some coffee for me and sat at a chair around the table while drinking my coffee in silence. The girls were talking about something but all I could think of was how warm was Minji's hug. I couldn't understand why I was thinking about it that much. But it felt good. It felt like home. It felt...

"Yoo? Are you still alive?" Handong brought me back to reality.

I nodded my head.

"I was saying if you want to stay here today as well. I'll stay. And the rest of the girls will stay too." Dami said.

I thought about it. Minji was looking at me waiting for my answer. I shook my head and her smile disappeared. What was she expecting me to say? That I was going to stay? I had already come to this sleepover, something I usually didn't do. So this was too much. Staying for two days I mean. For a person like me, who wasn't used to socializing and doesn't like it that much, this was too much. I stood up and went to get ready. After some minutes I was dressed back to my clothes.

"So you'll leave?" Minji asked me looking at me straight in my eyes. I looked back at my phone trying to avoid her gaze.

"Yeah." I said simply.

"Why don't you stay?" She asked almost pleading me.

"I can't. I had a great time, thanks Handong unnie." I said to Minji and then to Handong who just came to the living room.

"No need to thank me pabo! We are friends!" She told me. I smiled. A small one.

"So, see you on Monday Yoo?" Dami asked me. I nodded. I said my goodbyes to the girls and then left the house. I had to go to my mother anyway. I couldn't just fool around everyday.

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It was Monday morning. I was heading to my first class when I suddenly heard someone calling my name happily.

"Yoohyeon!" It wasn't Dami's voice, or in general none of my friends. I turned around a little and then I saw Minji running to me with a big bright smile in her face.

"Good morning! How are you today?" She was so happy. I couldn't tell why. And I didn't understand why she was talking to me all of a sudden. We weren't friends. We had Handong as a mutual friend but that was it. We were talking whenever we had to. So what changed now? Was it because I had gone to that sleepover or the fact that I was crying in Minji's arms? Damn it! Now that I remembered it I felt my body going weak again. I couldn't understand what it was. But Minji had an effect on me. And I wasn't that happy about it.

"I'm fine." I told her softly trying to avoid her gaze. Always. So antisocial, I know.

"Have you seen Bora or Siyeon? Or are they busy like Handong and Dami?" she asked me. So that was the reason she came to talk to me. I shook my head.

"Anyway. Have you found someone to pair with in the vocal club?"

"The teacher said she will make the pairs, so no." I said.

"Oh yeah right! I got confused! I wanted to ask you about the acting club! Handong had chosen Dami, Bora had chosen Siyeon. So, I was wondering... if we could be together." She said as she was looking at her feet and then she looked at me with a really cute and small, shy smile. She was adorable. I couldn't believe my ears actually. She was asking, of all the students, me? I decided to not make it hard for her so I quickly nodded my head. She smiled happily and clapped her hands together.

"Great! Ok, so let's meet at the break and sort things out. Are you ok with that?" She was so excited. I couldn't understand why. She was always so happy and excited about everything. She was indeed a sunshine. I nodded my head again, this time smiling at her. She smiled back, a really big one, from ear to ear, and she then ran of to her class. She was acting like a little child. I couldn't blame her. I would be the same if I could. But I wasn't a child anymore. I had grown up really fast and I couldn't even remember when was the last time I played with the other kids without caring about anything.

When it was break time I gathered my stuff and went outside. I was searching for Minji. Then, she went out of her class too and when she spotted me she smiled again and came to me running.

"Hi!" she greeted me happily. I smiled at her and mumbled a 'hey'. She took my hand and she led the way telling me she knows a really peaceful place where we could discuss about the play we were going to show to the students at the end of the semester.

When we reached the rooftop we stopped there.

"Here." she said smiling. I was going to the rooftop quite often. Especially when I wanted to be alone. So I was curious about something. How did she know this place? Famous kids like her didn't know these places. They were too lonely and quiet for them. And how come I hadn't seen her here yet?

"How do you know this place?" I asked her. She raised her eyebrows, her eyes wide and her lips parted. She had done this facial expression again! When she was trying to clean my clothes. It was last Monday. I guess it was her way to show that she didn't expect something to happen. What wasn't she expecting to happen though? Me asking her something? Did she really believed I was mute or deaf? Were all the other kids really trying to break through her and convince her about that? Aish Yoohyeon... It didn't matter anyway. Why do you want her to be different than everyone else?

"I come here whenever I want to be alone. Whenever I want to think. Or whenever I'm stressed." She said simply. I nodded.

"Why do you ask?" She asked me.

"It's just... I come here too. Most of times. And I was wondering why I haven't seen you here yet." I said silently and looked at the sky.

"Well, I come here only when there is no one. So that means you too. I don't want to disturb others and I don't want others to disturb me either." I nodded my head. I could never imagine this though. Minji feeling a burden to others and wants to leave them alone. She wasn't a burden. To anyone. She couldn't be even if she wanted to. Cause everyone wanted her. Thinking that you are a burden was something I always did. It was something I was used to, something that I had grown up with. So it was hard to believe her. But if she really meant that, and felt that way, then I could feel her completely.

"Isn't it beautiful?" she said looking at the sky, referring to it.

"Yeah,... it is." I whispered. I could feel her eyes on me though. I never turned to look at her. I couldn't. I was too afraid. I only looked at her when she started talking about the play.

When it was that time of the day, when we had acting class, our teacher said that plays in pairs got cancelled and he said that it would be good if we found a good play to show at the end of the semester as a class, as a whole. So we started discussing. In the end, we decided that the best play we could show was Odyssey. Our teacher started asking and picking up the students and the roles. So, in the end, Minji was going to play Nausicaa, Bora was going to play Calypso, Siyeon was going to play Circe, Handong was going to play Penelope, Dami was going to play Antiklia and me, I was going to be one of the sirens. Odysseus was going to be Bobby. 

Well, I couldn't expect more. I had a role which wasn't important and I didn't care. Though, Minji came to me and told me that even if my role wasn't that important, it was a really beautiful role. Sirens were creatures that were really beautiful and had a really really beautiful voice. She told me that both of those things were true with me. I was beautiful and I had a beautiful voice. At least that's what she said. I couldn't stop my heart from beating so fast. Why did she had such an effect on me?

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Later that day, we had vocal class. The teacher was going to pick up pairs. She wanted us to learn about teamwork stuff and she also wanted us to learn how to sing together with others. She picked Handong with Minji, Bora with Elkie, Dami with Doyeon and me with Siyeon. Siyeon did her best to change that. But the teacher told her that she had to know how to work with everyone and not just her friends. She looked at me, and I could tell she had already killed me just by staring at me. The teacher went to every pair and told them some stuff they needed to know. She then came to us too.

"So, you two. I know Siyeon that you don't like Yoohyeon. But I can tell that you two are my favorite voices in this class. That's why I paired you two. You can both have powerful voices and I'm sure that it would be really good to hear them together. So I suggest you girls to pick up a really powerful song that can show your voices to the fullest." She said and waited for us to pick up a song. Siyeon looked at the songs in the list that Mrs.Choi gave us. She then looked at me.

"I want this one." She said pointing at Heart Attack by Demi Lovato.

"Girls. you have to pick three songs. Like everyone else did. One for you Siyeon, one for Yoohyeon and one that you two will sing together. So pick wisely. And also, you have to pick together for the song that you both will sing." Out teacher said. Siyeon said she wanted the one she had already picked for her. I told our teacher that I will sing Secret Love Song by Little Mix. We started looking at the rest of the songs when my eyes fell in one that I had to sing for sure.

"I want this one." I said. Siyeon looked at it and then she looked at me. She thought about it and then she agreed. It was Hurt by Christina Aguilera.

"So that means we need to meet up to practice about it?" Siyeon said and looked at me in disbelief.

"We can meet in my apartment. There is no one except me." I said. She thought about it and then nodded. It wasn't going to be easy to work with Siyeon. But I had to try. Minji came to us happily and asked us what was our song. Siyeon was about to tell her when the teacher said that the song that the pairs had chosen to sing would be a secret to the rest of the teams.

"I still wanna know!" Minji grumbled. Siyeon laughed at her.

"Be patient bunny. Why are you so excited today by the way?" She asked what was on my mind all day.

"Because it's a really beautiful day." Minji answered looking at me. Siyeon looked at both of us and then she looked at me pissed.

When the day was finally over me and Siyeon were heading to my apartment. We had to show our song at the end of the semester. Which was before Christmas. And it was November. We didn't have much time left. But our teacher couldn't tell us about this earlier. We had phonetic class all this time and we finished it last week.

When we got into my apartment Siyeon was looking at it for a while.

"What were you expecting actually? Me living on the streets like most rumors say?" I asked her sarcastically. She looked at me shocked. She wasn't expecting me to talk. And especially to say something like that. She quickly looked away feeling embarrassed for believing those rumors.

"I wasn't expecting something. And I didn't believe that you lived in the streets! It's just... it's too empty." She said.

"Yeah, I live alone so... I don't need many things." I said and that's when Pie showed up. She was barking happily until she saw Siyeon. She froze for a second and then she started barking at her angrily.

"Don't be afraid pabo! She is... a friend. She is a good girl." I told her and hugged her tightly. She calmed down a little. Siyeon was looking at me awkwardly.

"You weren't expecting me to have a dog either. And you weren't expecting me to talk or listen, am I right?" I asked her softly. She looked elsewhere than me.

"I don't know why you prefer to live in your lies." I mumbled softly. She looked at me intensely but didn't say something.

"Do you perhaps need anything? Some water or something to eat?" I asked her and let Pie down on the floor again. She shook her head. I went to the kitchen and Pie followed me. I gave her, her bowl with her food and then I went back to my living room. Siyeon was sitting there still feeling awkward.

"Well... I actually... don't bring people here. Except from Dami and sometimes Handong. So... I feel weird too." I tried to tell her so she wouldn't feel that weird anymore. She didn't say something. I took a deep breath.

"Look, Siyeon-ssi. We need to work together for this task. So... stop feeling weird. I'm not telling you to stop believing whatever you believe about me. I don't care about your opinion about me. I'm just asking you to cooperate with me. And when this is over, there is no reason for us to talk or meet. Do you agree?" I told her exactly what was on my mind. She never expected me to talk that much even if she knew deep down that I was like every other human being.

"Yes. I agree." She said coldly.

"Ok. Let's start."

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Author's note:
Aghh! I hate school! I was sooo bored writting about school stuff in this chapter. But I had too, unfortunatelly :( For those who are wondering what kind of college is that, that the girls are going to, well... it's an art college. So, except from the ordinary classes, they have other special art classes. Sounds cool, right? 

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!!!  Sorry for the delay! Again... Bye! See you on Tuesday! Dream of Dreamcatcher!