It Was Always You

Chapter 3: Heartbroken

It's been a few days since the accident, and my mood has not lightened up. I guess when your heart aches, it takes awhile for it to heal. Sigh, I knew that it wasn't me, but why did it hurt so much when he confirmed it?? I was broken out of my thoughts by the bell to lunch and two pairs of arms dragging me to the willow tree.

"Yah! Let me go!" looking at my kidnappers my eyes widened, "YAH! JR oppa, Minhyun oppa, let me go!"

They sat me down at the trunk of the tree, "There!" Minhyun said.

"What the hell you guys?!"

JR shushed me, "Quiet, I don't want him to hear."

"Who?!"

JR shushed me again, "Aaron hyung, duh."

"Why would you not-"

"Because we know you like him (Y/N)-ah," interrupted Minhyun.

I blushed and looked down, "Ahah! So we were right!" They said in unison.

"Shush! O-okay...so say I did, it doesn't matter. He can't know, got it!"

"Umm, no. You HAVE to tell him!" Minhyun insisted.

"Are you insane? He doesn't like me, it'll end in a train wreck!"

"Pfft, have you seen the way he looks at you? Or the way he acts around Baekho, since you've become so buddy buddy with him??" JR pushed.

"W-what?" Does he really?....But what about that day? "But I heard him say he didn't like me when his ex attacked me..."

"He was trying to protect you duh!" Minhyun continued.

"It's up to you now, you have to tell him!" JR chimed in.

"Tell who what?" Just then Baekho opened the willow tree curtain, and we all jumped.

"N-nothing," I muttered.

"If you were talking about Aaron, I just saw him walking to the courtyard with a rose," Baekho recalled.

"W-what?" I blushed. I was supposed to be in the courtyard.

I got up and made a mad dash towards the courtyard, leaving a very confused Baekho, and a smirking JR and Minhyun, who also took off to see what was about to go down. I sprinted fast to the courtyard, and when I could see the tables I started to slow down. My smile was huge, as I took a few deep breaths to calm my beating heart. I saw Aaron coming through the double doors of the building, and he waved and I was about to wave back, but then I saw another girl waving back. Now I was confused. W-what?

He approached the girl, hand behind his back. He slowly pulled the rose out from behind his back and showed it to her. She gasped and smiled, before nodding her head and hugging Aaron. I recognized her as Kim Sungmin, I've had classes with her, but we never really talked outside of class. I knew it....why did I ever listen to them? It could never be me....

I was suddenly embraced by a pair of arms, and their shirt got soaked with tears I didn't know had started to fall. I felt the wetness and realized I was crying. I pulled away only to see a familiar face, Tuan Mark. I pushed a bit, but he only embraced me harder. He's a part of L. Joe's band of hot shots....why?

"Why her?" I whispered.

"I don't know, but it'll be okay..." he said awkwardly.

"W-why are you helping me?"

He blushed a bit pulling away, "You helped me once, I don't think you would have remembered it, but I thought that this could be my way of repaying you, heh. I know it's ridiculous but-"

I laughed a little, wiping away my tears, "No it isn't. Thank you. And I do remember. We were very young, and you were being bullied until I stepped in. Haha, I thought you forgot, and I'm guessing that's why you become apart of the popular crowd?"

"Heh, I didn't want to get picked on anymore....but I'm still scared to do much about the bullying that I have to witness..." he sighs.

Soon he takes my hand in his and leads me away from the courtyard. At the sight of this, there became a very confused Aaron, who had been silently observing from afar, after his confession. It was also seen by the bewildered eyes of JR and Minhyun, who had witnessed everything.