School Days

[13] Hurt

The days in school flew by and YuXin continued with her usual jovial attitude with everyone in the class and everyone was soon won over by her positive and caring personality. She had been trying to include Kun in her interaction with other classmates as well and Kun was slowly improving from his one two word reply with others to replying in a sentence, shedding some of his cold persona.

As his interaction with YuXin increased over the days, he found his feelings towards her developing more and more. It was irrefutable that he was falling for her but he did not know how to bring his feelings across. It was the first time that he ever felt this way with anyone before. But for now, just having her by his side and interacting with him in a friendly manner to him was more than enough for him.

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Jiaer, "Meimei, this bruise on your knee looks bad."

YuXin looked down at her knee that had a nasty purplish bruise that was peeking through as her knee guard slipped and immediately pulled the knee guard over it. "Ah, I got it while practicing recently, don't let my brother know."

Jiaer hesitated for a brief moment and nodded at her with a worried frown. He knew that Yibo would definitely make a big fuss if he saw the bruise and decided to keep it a secret for YuXin. Luckily for them, Yibo was busy cooking in the kitchen and didn't catch their conversation.

Jiaer, "Xue Er has been busy hanging out with the Zhengting boy huh.. I guess they are really getting together soon?"

YuXin, "I heard she is studying with him in school.. Guess I am not a good enough study partner."

Jiaer scrunched his face and looked at YuXin in disdain, "You don't even study, what are you talking about."

Yibo, "Stop bickering already and help me set up the table."

YuXin stuck out her tongue at Jiaer and went to the dining table to help Yibo out. During dinner, Yibo noticed YuXin taking lesser food than usual as she munched on her food slowly with a troubled look in a daze.

Yibo," Xin, are you alright?"

YuXin came back to her senses and nodded at Yibo with a smile, "Yeah.. Just feeling a little tired today, probably from the dance training."

Yibo nodded and glanced at YuXin worriedly, "If that's the case then you should sleep earlier today."

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YuXin hopped off Yibo's bike was about to wave him goodbye when she felt something warm trickling down from her nose. Yibo eyes opened wide in shock and immediately pulled out a packet of tissue, "Lean forward." YuXin took the tissue to wipe the blood off her nose and leaned forward for a few minutes, waiting for the nosebleed to stop.

Yibo's eyebrows creased with worry and handed the helmet to YuXin, "Let's get you to Dr Zhang."

YuXin placed the helmet on the back of Yibo's bike and muttered, "No need.. I'm alright."

Yibo raised his voice in frustration as his eyebrows creased with worries, "You are not alright, you just had a serious nosebleed! Look at the blood and the amount of tissues you've used." He pointed to the wad of tissues stained with blood. 

YuXin bit her lips that was quivering, "I know.. I know I'm not alright.." her voice broke as she felt hot tears brimming in her eyes. She sniffed back her tears and continued, "I went to Dr Zhang last week.."

Yibo held YuXin's shoulders with a pained look and mumbled, "Is it back?" He badly wish for YuXin to disprove his prediction. Please tell me you are alright YuXin.  

YuXin nodded her head. She looked up and tried her hardest to contain the tears but the overwhelming emotions in her resulted in tears streaming down her face.