"Why do you need to know, you should leave." Luhan says, looking at Xiumin like he was okay, but he really wasn't.

"You're hurt though... We should at least check your wounds!" Xiumin exclaims, still very worried about Luhan.

As Xiumin was about to pull Luhan's shirt up to see any other wounds on his body, so he could help, Luhan pushed Xiumin away forcefully.

Xiumin fell onto the ground, looking up at Luhan with a confused expression on his face. "I'm just trying to help you..." Xiumin says, looking at him seriously.

"I didn't ask for your help! I don't need help from someone like you! Leave me alone already, you're nothing to me, you're not close to me like a friend or like a family member, you're just a guy I do it with! Get that through your thick skull and stop trying to get closer to me! I know you like me but we'll never be together so stop thinking we will! Leave already!" Luhan yells in an angry tone and Xiumin couldn't help but still look at Luhan surprised.

Xiumin then looked at Luhan with tears in his eyes, then looked back down as he got up and left Luhan's room through the window.

Xiumin was walking down the road with only his socks on and people were looking at him weirdly all the way back home.

Once Xiumin got home, he was still really depressed and couldn't stop looking down, it was hard to lift his head.

Xiumin unlocked the front door and walked inside where Lay was there to greet him.

"Xiumin, what was up with that earlier....why didn't you show Chen and I your wrists, huh, do you have something to hide?!" Lay asks, looking at Xiumin seriously and a bit angry.

Xiumin shook his head meaning no while still looking down, he was on the verge of tears. He knew if he looked up and let other people see his expression he'd for sure burst into tears.

"Xiumin, look up at me, are you feeling guilty!?" Lay asks angrier.

Xiumin shook his head no once again and walked to the bathroom and locked the door behind him, then started to cry.

Lay was surprised with Xiumin's sudden crying and didn't know what to do. He knocked on the bathroom door a couple of times as he says "Xiumin, are you okay...I'm sorry I yelled at you..."

Xiumin didn't say anything, he could speak, words were clogged in his throat like he couldn't talk. He knew if he tried to talk, he'd cry even more.

Lay was still serious as he knocks on the door once again as says "you better not be hurting yourself in there Xiumin...come on, let me in" Lay says in a serious tone.

Xiumin didn't want Lay to think he was hurting himself, but he didn't have enough strength to speak up and say 'no, I'm not.' And he loved Luhan too much to tell Lay what actually happened to him. He still wanted Luhan by his side, but his friends didn't know about it because he lied to them earlier.

Meanwhile with Luhan he was fuming in anger and sadness. He threw books off the book shelf in his room, he ruined his bed, he was ruining everything.

After ruining most of the things in his bedroom, he sat down on his bed and lifted up his shirt to see cuts and bruises.

As Luahn saw the marks on his body he chuckled a bit and pressed down hard on one of the bruises, feeling the pain rushing through his body.

People wondered why Luhan had such a bad relationship with people in general and with relationships...but how can you love someone properly when you've never felt love yourself.

The next day came and Luhan entered the classroom while looking around, trying to find Xiumin so he could apologize for yesterday but he was no where in sight.

"Where is he?" Luhan thought to himself while looking around.

"Why's Xiumin not here?" Luhan could overhear Chen asking Lay.

"I don't know what happened yesterday but when he came home, he locked himself in the washroom and wouldn't stop crying. He hasn't come out since... I hope he's not...you know, hurting himself." Lay answers while looking down.

Luhan heard that and ran out of the classroom, running all the way to Xiumin's apartment.

Midway there, Luhan thought to himself "why...am I running all the way to his house...just to apologize?"

Luhan stopped running and turned around as he says to himself "this is stupid" looking down.

As Luhan was about to walk back to school, it was like he was stuck in one place, he didn't know what to do.

Luhan ended up turning around once again and running to Xiumin's apartment.

Once Luhan got in front of Xiumin's apartment door, he knocked on it a couple of times.

As Xiumin heard the knock, he was still in the washroom but got startled. "Did Lay forget his key?" Xiumin thought to himself.

"But if I let Lay in, he'll ask me about the marks on my wrist again...he can just get an extra key from downstairs...." Xiumin thought to himself while looking down.

Three hours past and Xiumin was confused on why Lay hadn't entered the room yet and hesitantly left the washroom as he opened the front door and looked from side to side.

"You finally opened the door" Luhan says, getting up from where he was sitting and Xiumin was surprised.

"Y-You waited three hours for me to open the door!?" Xiumin asks.

"Yeah, next time just open it when I knock" Luhan says pushing through Xiumin to get inside and closing the front door behind the two of them while locking it.

"Xiumin... I'm sorry about yesterday, I know how much you like me and it was wrong for me to say that without thinking about your feelings." Luhan says in a stern voice.

Xiumin looked at Luhan surprised and says "u-um...it's okay..."

Right then and there, the two boys could hear voices coming from outside and Xiumin got surprised.

"Come!" Xiumin says while grabbing Luahn's wrist and bringing him into the washroom while locking the door behind them.

"Xiumin I'm home, and Chen's here too." Lay says, calling out.

"What're we gonna do!?" Xiumin asks in a tiny whisper, looking at Luhan with a concerned expression on his face, but Luhan was looking at Xiumin in a smile.

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Another chapter is done, thank you for reading this fan fiction so much, means a lot!! (: <3 more drama happens later BTW.