I was at school, my eyes barley able to stay open. I wanted to ask to go to the nurses office just so that I could sleep, but I know if I ask to leave the room any more then I already have, the teacher will ask me to go to the principals office since I've asked a great amount of times.

The more the teacher was talking, the slower my eyelids started to shut. I was about to drop my head and fall asleep right then and there, until I heard someone slam open the door to the classroom, which got everyone, even me up.

As I looked up to see who had agressivley opened the door, I saw it was Kris. "Kris, are you coming late?" The teacher asks, looking at Kris as he was standing in the doorway of the classroom.

"Uh, no I'm actually here to pick someone up." Kris explains, now walking into the classroom.

"Here to pick someone up? Kris, you can't take someone out of this classroom without their parents calling, or without a legitimate reason." The teacher tries to explain, watching Kris walk into the classroom, but she didn't physically try stopping him in any way.

Kris walked up to my desk, putting his hand on my desk and says while looking down at me "grab your backpack, come with me."

I looked up at him totally confused...Kris came to school to come...and pick me up? For what, what does Kris want with me? Maybe something happened at work and Heechul asked everyone to come to the cafe? That's the only reason I can think of. I listened to Kris, throwing whatever was on my desk into my backpack and swinging my backpack over one shoulder before following Kris outside of the classroom.

"H-Hey, you two, come back here!" I could hear the teacher call out to the two of us from down the hall, but Kris and I both ignored her.

As we finally got off of school property by jumping the gate, I looked at Kris confused and question "so...what do you want?" My words were slower than usual just because I was tired.

"You need to talk to Minseok."

"Wait, wait, wait, that's why you pulled me out of school? Because you want me to talk to Minseok? I can't do this, I have to go back and get to class. I need to graduate, you do know that right?" I ask him, stopping in my tracks as I looked up at him seriously.

Kris stopped once I did and threw his head up at the sky, staring at the clouds as he let out a loud groan. Once he was done letting out his huge 'over dramatic' groan, he looked back down at me with an un-amused expression on his face. "Not everything is about you, Luhan. Minseok is really worried about you. You have to talk to him, he didn't even come to school today because I guess he didn't want to face you."

"I thought I worked everything out with him yesterday, there's nothing wrong." I say, trying to reassure Kris that he had it wrong, and Minseok was most likely upset about something else.

"No, he's upset about you...Luhan. He thinks you're not telling him something, or you're hiding something. If nothing is really going on, then go to him and tell him that he has nothing to worry about." Kris says in a serious tone, now crossing his arms over his chest.

"Why do you even care about my relationship with Minseok? Ever since you transferred to our school I've been seeing how you've been eyeing Minseok down. What, do you have a crush on him or something?"

"Matter of fact, I do. I actually really like Minseok. The first time you brought him to the cafe to show him to all of us, to show him off to Sehun, I knew I liked him. I care about your relationship with him so much because I don't like seeing him upset. I don't know, I'll support your relationship with him, but if you ruin things with him...I'll be there for him, and I'll make sure he falls in love with me before you can even get the chance to get him back." Kris says in the most serious tone I've ever heard him speak in.

"Is that a threat?" I question, looking at him in anger.

"Take it however you want to take it."

"You know I could easily tell Minseok who you really are, illegal, right? Your parents aren't even in this country. They're in Canada, they left you behind, didn't they?" I ask, I know I'm touching on a sensitive subject...but he started it.

Kris glared at me before turning around and walking away. "Whatever, come and talk things out with Minseok if you want to save your relationship." He says while his back was facing me. Wow so he's not even going to look at me?

"Kris...Kris, I'm sorry" I say, walking behind him.

"Whatever Luhan" Kris says, now walking faster and I decided to just walk behind him from there on. I shouldn't really try prying into his thoughts right now.

Once we got to what looked like Kris' house which was inside an apartment building, I saw Minseok sitting down on the edge of the couch. He looked like he was concerned. "Minseok" I say as I entered the house, taking my shoes off at the front door before walking towards him.

Minseok's head jolted up when he heard me call out to him and he looked slightly embarrassed. "L-Luhan...you actually came."

"Of course I came" I say, sitting down beside him on the couch and looking at him concerned. "Minseok, what's bothering you?" I ask, putting one hand on his thigh.

"I know something is going on Luhan, I'm not stupid I have eyes. Is something going on, do you not love me anymore? Am I too ugly for you, what's going on?" He asks, looking at me upsettingly. I could see he had visible tears in his eyes that were about to pour at any moment.

"Of course I love you Minseok, why would you ever think I didn't? I love you so much I can't even describe it. Why, why do you think I don't love you?"

"Because you've been doing everything to ignore me lately. You got rid of your phone and we can't even contact through text. You're always gone after school, I can't hang out with you when you finish work either. You even got rid of your car to drive, so of course I think you're trying to push me out of your life." Minseok explains, sounding very upset just explaining it all.

I let out a faint sigh before explaining "no...Minseok you're not the reason why I did all those things. You're not the reason I got rid of my phone, got rid of my car, took up more jobs...you're not even the cause as to why I quit soccer."

"Then....then why?"

I continued to look at Minseok seriously for a second before looking down, biting on my bottom lip. "It's because...of my dad."

"Your dad...what did your dad do?" He asks, looking at me concerned. With him knowing how my father is, of course I can already picture him thinking the worst case scenario. Which in my situation...it wouldn't be too far from.

I explained to Minseok how my dad owes a lot of money to a lot of people, especially multiple loan sharks because of his drinking addiction, he takes money from everyone just to drink. Now that his lease is up, and the loan sharks are coming for his neck for the money, to keep my dad 'alive' I have to pay them off myself, because hell I know my dad won't do it.

Minseok continued to look at me seriously and grabbed a hold of my hand tightly. "Luhan...why didn't you tell me?!"

"I didn't want to worry you..." I reply, looking down into my lap with a frown on my face. "I'm...I'm embarrassed of my dad just talking about it."

"Luhan, you don't have to feel embarrassed around me... I want to help."

"No, no, no I don't want you to help, I don't want to drag you into this, please." I say, looking at him seriously.

"Please Luhan...I want to help." Minseok says, continuing to stare me at with the same serious expression on his face and I slightly smiled.

I leaned forward and hugged him, having him tightly hugging me back. "Thank you, thank you Minseok" I say, lightly crying into his shoulder.

"You helped me Luge...now I want to help you. I would do anything for you." Minseok says in a comforting tone, rubbing my back gently as he continued to hug me.

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Hey guys, thank you so much for being so patient with these updates. I'm trying to update my fan fiction today cause school starts tomorrow for my grade twelve year and it'll be hectic. Next chapter will be the next day of school and some drama happens in that one but not a lot. I think in the next few chapters this book will be done!