"Please Hana?"
"No."
"Once?"
"No."
"C'mon, it's for Lay!"
"I can send him a selfie myself, thank you very much."
"But Hana!"
"Kai, stop harassing her will you?"
"Thank you Kyungsoo."
"It's not harassment! I'm doing my friend a favor!"
"By harassing his girlfriend while he's away?"
"NOT harassment Baekhyun!"
"Whatever you say," Baekhyun muttered and then pulled Hana to his side.
"C'mon, let's get you home." Hana silently followed him. Kyungsoo tagged along. The rest wanted to follow them too but the glare Kyungsoo gave them made them stop in their tracks. They didn't know where Sehun was. He got off early when Luhan came over to pick him up. Today was the last day. After this Junmi will finally be single again. Sehun, just turning 18 this year, had to attend due to something about custody issues.
"Hana I will only ask this once," there was no flick of amusement in Baekhyun's voice," and you're going to answer me. What did he say to you?"
"Hana," came Kyungsoo's hard voice once he noticed the girl was going to dismiss his question.
Hana had sighed. It had been two weeks since Lay left. Coping, Hana figured, would be hard, especially the first few days. She figured wrong. Things remained the same. She missed him of course, but not in the way she had always read in novels. For one, she didn't feel any 'pain in her chest' whenever she missed him or thought about him. Hearing his voice brightened up her day, but even on the days when he could only slip in a minute long message while she was asleep, she'd be content. She missed him, he missed her, but they both realized that the longer they take to settle in their situation, the harder it would be for both of them. It was pretty different from the time she had been sick. Those three days seemed to stretch on forever. Probably because she knew that he was waiting for her on the other side of the door. It's different, when someone you long for is near you but know you can't reach out for them, than it is when you know that they are miles apart and you couldn't be with them even if you wanted to for the moment.
"I don't want to talk about it guys."
"You can't let him keep getting away with these Hana."
The first week after he left, Hana had some trouble. Not with her feelings, but with a certain persistent being that she wanted nothing to do with. Jaekyung saw Lay's departure as an opening. His attempts to get her attention increased day by day. She didn't tell anyone first. She thought she could handle it. Then one day while Jongdae was on sick leave, Baekhyun saw Jaekyung's hand creep up Hana's arm. He didn't miss the girl's uncomfortable flinch either nor did he ignore the look she had on her face. Baekhyun would, if Baekhyun could, take Jaekyung by the collar then and there and pound the daylights out of him. But he didn't.
Kyungsoo wasn't aware until he saw her silently wiping her tears behind the tree in the school garden. When he saw her clutching on to the wing necklace that Lay had given her, he simply assumed she missed him. Feeling sorry for his friend he went over. It wasn't until he heard her chanting the words "go away" over and over again did he feel like something was terribly wrong. Kyungsoo spoke to Baekhyun, and together they confronted Hana. It took them ten minutes just to get her to speak out about it. Although Kyungsoo wondered if she would've cracked if they hadn't used the 'we'll tell Lay' card. He still remembered how she looked. Small, lost, fragile, like a piece of China. When Hana took Baekhyun to the side for a hushed conversation, Kyungsoo admitted, he felt left out. Baekhyun was looking at Hana with a mix of anger and concern. Hana couldn't even look at him, her eyes were trailed on her shoes.
