When Shelby and Nicole got Jade got back to the house , they layed her down in her bed , and played soft music to ease her in her dreams. Shelby looked at Nicole as she looked down to Jade , and knew she had to be thinking of Yoochun. She grabbed to her hand and with a quiet , "Let's go ," she led her older sister downstairs to the living room.

Shelby P.O.V

I really didn't want to waist anytime asking Nicole what she was thinking about , but I didn't want to be to bold . So I just asked her , " How are you feeling? "

She was staring kind of blankly at the floor. I moved up more on the couch and watched her closely for her expression to be changed . " Nikki " , I said , worried she might have been so into her thoughts she didn't hear me.

I was right.

For when she heard me she kind of jumped and looked shocked as if I yelled.

" You ok?" , I asked.

" Yeah I'm fine " She looked away again . She forced the words out , I could tell.

" Nicole ? " , I looked at her , there was no way in hell she was fine.

" It's just ... I've been dreaming about ... him a alot lately , and now Hyukjae pops up alive. " , she explained.

" Well what were the dreams about ? " , I asked . Then she suddenly had this morbid expression on her face , then she , I guess, thought it away .

" I keep having dreams that he's gonna come back . That everyone that's gone , is gonna come back . And my nightmares are coming true , look Hyukjae just came back !"

I looked at her trying to understand what she was saying . She continued ,

" Look you know how I'm the oldest out of us ? " , I nodded , " You know how I never acted like the oldest , I never felt like I was the oldest. But these dreams , these nightmares that I'm having , they're making me feel like I'm gonna have to protect everyone I love in a way I never have before. " , I finally understood what Nicole meant.

Nicole had turned into the sister who had always needed protection after she met Yoochun . That was 6 years ago. He's been gone for a year now , but in that time , Nicole and Yoochun had a love that no one outside of our big circle of friends understood. Because of that many people hated them both , and tried to destroy them in the most cruel ways . Nothing like what happened to Jade .. but still cruel ..

But now she felt her duty and her place as not a weak Nyx, but a strong Nyx come back to her.

" If he comes back .... then I know for a fact that everything is going to change again. " , that confused me a bit so I asked her , " Wait so you're saying you don't want him to come back ?"

She sighed , and sat back on the couch and closed her eyes. " Do you know why he left ? " , she asked her eyes still closed.

" Jade told me he said something about him saying he didn't want to hurt you ."

" Yea, do you know what he was talking about ?"

" What , about all the stress and problems you guys had from his family and everyone around us? " , that's what I had figured when Jade didn't want to explain everything to me.

" He was talking about everyone . Hurting everyone . Heechul , he was going to kill all of us . All of us as in : me you Jade and Jae Joong. But after his first plan didn't work to separate us , Yoochun said he had to do something more drastic. That was when he sent the hunters after us . Do you remember that? " ,I nodded again , saddness fully sinking into my heart . I wondered what Heechul's first plan was , but nikki didn't look like she was going to tell me.

" After that night ,Yoochun thought that if he would have left, Heechul would think he succeeded in separating us and making the group miserable , breaking us up . He thought that because I was the eldest of us seeing me in sorrow would break us. But even after Yoochun left , we still kept contact , and don't anything to Jade about it because she doesn't know this ; but Hyukjae had been trying to make peace with Heechul for months after mine and Yoochun's incident. "

I was so shocked " But why would he keep this from her, she would have helped him !" , for some reason I whispered angrily .

" Hyukjae knew that Heechul's real hatred was towards Jae and Jade. He hated Jae though for him being gay , and loving Yunho . He hated Jae with a passion because he was gay , and was with Yunho , his eldest son . He hated Jade because she was dark , and because didn't want to .. "

She stopped and ran her fingers through her long hair. I was impatient " She didn't want to what?"

" She didn't want him , she wanted Hyukjae. Jade said she would never date anyone as old as he was . He took it that she'll never date anyone older than her by more than 3 years and when he saw her with Hyukjae , he felt insulted . "

" Wait , wait , wait , how the hell do you know all this and why didn't I know ?" I asked , hurt by everything I was left out of .

" Because we know your temper , and Yoochun and Jade told me everything , along with Yunho . Mostly Yoochun though , cause he was closest with Yunho , and wanted me to know everything incase anything happened . "

All this time I was upset with Yoochun for leaving Nicole .. but now I understand why .

He was trying to protect us.

" But it's still stupid because after he left , Heechul got to Jade and Hyuk anyway ."

She shook her head , " You can't blame him for that , he didn't know that was going to happen.... That day was a shock and a heart break to everyone .. "

THe memory of it made me shed a quick tear for my sister Jade . " Especially for Jade ... But then how the hell is he alive !? I don't understand that ! " I said kind of loudly . Hopefully not too loud to wake Jade. Nikki shushed me.

" Hyukjae was only shot in the chest. I was speaking to Yoochun up until that time , so I only knew what Jae told me , and that was ' Hyukjae is still alive ... His parents had him sent to America.' That was the first and last update I had about him ... " She looked down again into a daze.

" But why would he then treat her like he did ? " ,I asked remembering what Sooyoung told me.

" Honestly I don't know . I didn't hear anything about him losing memory . He could have done it to keep his posture in class. He's not supposed to be dating students you know . "

The fact that Hyukjae was 22 and a teacher always went over my head whenit came to him and Jade , they were alwayson the same level. Jade was always mentally and spiritually older than herself though.

3rd P.O.V

Nicole and Shelby nearly jumped out of our skin when they heard Jade say , " That doesn't justify the fact that he didn't come after me! "

Nicole's eyes were wide open with fear , and shock , when she heard " He doesn't want to risk your life again " , fall from her old lover's lips . She shot up from the couch and turned to the front door . " Just like I didn't want to risk yours Jelly Belly . " Hearing her old nick name , and seeing her lover for the first time in 3 months , hearing his voice for the first time in 3 months ... was all to much for her . It showed clearly when she passed out after choking a tear , " Yoochun "


Yoochun P.O.V

We ran through the night . We ran through the rain . We ran for our lives . For our love.

" I can hear them behind us." I heard my lover say . His voice was trembling . He was scared . And cold.

We brought nothing with us but the clothes on our backs . I cursed myself for it . How can I promise to protect him from the very hunters behind us when I hadn't even brought a simple blanket or coat to protect him from the harshness of nature?

Mother nature.. she made this night just for us. She opened the skies to let the rain fall down upon us , and make our run harder . She too hated the idea of us .. the fact that there was an "us".

But I would not let her take him away from me either.

I pulled him closer to me as we ran and looked up to the sky just for split second . I had to curse her

" Damn you !!!" , and as if to swear back at me , thunder roared through the woods.

Then I heard it ....

He was right ...

They were right behind us .

The hunters .

I felt my lover beside me weakening , slowing down .

"'re not stoping now , we're almost there." I said holding him up , pushing him to run. Almost where? Who am I fooling ? We are running in an everlasting maze of trees that are known as the forest , the woods. But I know who I am fooling ... Myself. Running I am trying to convince myself that there is a place that we can hide , and be protected from the hunters.

The hunters. Heechul's hunters .

He hated us because of our love for one another. How could I have been so stupid though ? To let things go this far. Heechul was never supposed to know about us . He was the unofficial spy for my friends' parents. When he got information of us , he went to my parents and they immediately told him to go for the kill ... and this was him going for the kill .

They wanted my Nikki dead.

My Nikki was barely able to stand , she had been bitten by the dogs climbing the gate that closed on us , when we ran trying to escape from the mansion .

She kept running nonetheless .

' Please God help us . ' I though to myself .

And immediately my prayers where answered when I saw a gas station at the claering of the forest .

" Hurry up they're getting away !" I heard a man shout behind us .

They started to shoot .

My love screeched out of fear . She fell again . I picked her up , had her on my back with her legs and arms wrapped around me. I sprinted as fast as I could , desperate to save our lives.

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I couldn't see myself without Nicole Jania , and the thought nearly killed me . So instead of allowing another incident like what happened in the forest , so I decided to physically remove myself from her picture . I thought it would keep her and our family protected... But when Heechul got to Hyukjae .. I couldn't do it ... But I still couldn't stay away from the love of my life . I had to go home . I had to hold her in my arms , tell her I love her .. make love to her ..

I couldn't stay away .