Chapter Thirty-Seven

When we all get back home, I know Mark must leave soon because his mom will worry. "Mark do you want me to drive you back to your house since it is so late and so we can make sure to talk to your mom so she doesn't worry you were out doing something crazy since she likes me?" I say smiling at him and he agrees. Yunho comes with us and on the way there we are all singing and being completely ridiculous. When we get to Mark's house I park and walk with him to the door and once he opens the door with his keys his mom is sitting there worried and starts yelling at him about how late it was but then she sees me. "Oh Hirami, he was with you. Still should have called me or texted me to let me know you were okay!" She says flicking him on the head. "Sorry Mrs. Lee, we got a bit distracted with unpacking and food. It will not happen again! I wanted to apologize in person!" I say respectfully bowing to her. She pulls me into a hug. "It is okay. Be safe going home" she says to me after hugging Mark and leaving us. "Sorry for getting you in trouble" I say to Mark. "It's fine. It is not the end of the world. I am glad to finally meet your friends you talked about. They are cool. See you tomorrow?" He asks looking at me hopeful. "Of course, do you want me to come picks you up or what?" I ask him. "Its fine I will drive over and we will figure out what to do from there." He says smiling at me. "Okay well night giant" I said hugging him. "text me or call me when you get home safely klutz." He said kissing my head before shutting the door behind me. I get back into the car with Yunho. "Sooo that took a long time." He said to me while I was driving. "What do you mean? I was just talking to Mrs. Lee trying to keep Mark out of trouble." I say nonchalantly. He mumbles a "Mhmm" then puts on music and we jam out on the way back.

When we get back to the house Yunho is giving me a piggyback ride all the way to the door and we are being silly laughing and what not when we enter is a whole other story. They rearranged my stuff. It looks good in here now. There is still much to unpack but it looks almost not so bad. They even unpacked my room so I could sleep in it. I quickly shoot Mark a selfie with Yunho while I am on his back that said 'We made it back! Goodnight tall giant!' I send him. "Well that's amazing. But I am going to sleep wherever you guys are! I missed you all so much!!!" I say my eyes brimming with tears again. I am immediately engulfed in a hug by Yeosang. "Don't cry Hirami!" he said as everyone else joined in the hug. "We'll let us go ahead and get everything set up. Since you guys have all had your showers already. I am going to go ahead and get a shower and change and meet you guys out. Thank you for all your help today!" I say as I walk to my room and get ready for sleep by showering and doing my nightly routine including taking off my make up. I change into a bralette, some shorts, and a sweater over the bralette and slide on some socks and head out and see them all gathered like normal. I grab my camera and secretly take photos of them before they notice after a few minutes. I go over to them and Hwa takes my camera and starts taking photos of everyone including me and some of the boys grab me and take some selfies. Afterwards I show them some photos I took since I last saw them. "Hirami you should pursue some art career, you can draw, you take amazing photos, you can dance, you can sing. There truly is not anything you cannot do." Hong Joong says to me all serious like. "I don't know about all of that. It would be cool to do something I enjoy, like helping people or teaching something, or something artsy would be nice." I say smiling at him. We all sit around in a circle on our mats talking about everything that they have been doing and how tough it is but how much they want to succeed so they are trying super hard for me and how they are taking care of themselves. Suddenly Hwa looks at me "Have you been taking care of yourself? When I hugged you earlier you seemed to be skinnier than usual." He said narrowing his eyes at me. I looked down. "I tried for a while to really take care of myself. I just got so sad being all by myself. I could not find it in me to eat. Then one day Mark noticed that I do not eat lunch at school and would not leave me alone till he saw me eat something until every day I ate like a normal person. So, I am slowly regaining myself back well when Mark, Lucas and Rose are not murdering me at dance practices." I say laughing at the last bit. I feel a flick on my forehead "OWW" I say rubbing my head "You promised" Hong Joong stated. "Its fine now. I mean you guys have seen today how much I ate, and you can even ask Mark he wouldn't lie because he cares too." I say matter of fact like. "You better" Says San who is looking sad over there. We talk some more about random things and then we all lay down. I am in between Yunho and San as always. "Rami please take care of yourself. We cannot be there for you that often anymore so I cannot be like go eat. So, it is up to you to make sure you are eating. I understand things happen and what not but just do that for us. We all care about you. You know we would do anything in the world for you. "He says looking me in the eyes as we are both on our sides. "I promise okay. I will even remind Mark to make sure and give you all his numbers in case for any reason you cannot get ahold of me." I say making a group chat with all of them including Mark in this new one. "I know I have said this a lot today, but you guys have no idea how happy I am to have been able to have this time with you guys today." I said sniffling feeling myself about to start crying again. San opens his arms and smiles at me, so I snuggle closer. "We missed you too Rami." He said patting my head and rubbing my back calming me. Soon after we all fall asleep.

The next morning, I am woken up to someone snickering and then a flash. "Ahh what?" I say squinting my eyes. Then I hear giggles. Yunho and Mingi are up to something. I open my eyes and see San glaring at someone behind me. "Well that is a scary face to wake up to." I say giggling. He immediately looks at me and smiles. "Was trying to keep these pabo's from waking you up." He said cutely. "Well it was a nice gesture, but it did not work." I say sighing and attempting to move out his grip. "Noooo I know we have to get up but just a few more minutes." He says pouting at me which just makes me giggle at him "okay a few more minutes." He smiles happily and we talk for a few minutes and then he huffs and releases me. We get up and by that time Wooyoung, Hwa, and Hong Joong are back with breakfast. We get up as Yeosang and me put up the mats, pillows, and blankets then gather at the table for breakfast. We all eat and then brush our teeth. "Want to just hang out here or do you guys want to do something else?" I ask them all. They choose to stay at my place, and they offered to finish help me unpack but I would rather be with them doing anything else enjoying the last 2 hours I have with them. We spend the time talking and goofing off being like normal times before they must leave me with sad goodbyes and hugs. Of course, there was a "You better eat" from Hwa. I am eating normal now I mumble at them as they leave. After they leave, I start unpacking what is left which is still a bit of stuff like kitchen stuff.