THE SECRET - THE PETRALONA CAVE

James is having his nightmare, and he wakes William by talking in his sleep about being hot and clutching his throat. He wakes up and asks for water, telling Williams that his throat is burning, so Williams heads to the kitchen.

Williams changes direction when he thinks about the treasure supposedly hidden in the school and heads back up to the Petralona cave. But instead, he finds Helen crying and drinking outside alone, it seems weird.

He seems ready to leave her alone, but when she begins to sob in earnest, he says that people will start to think she's the ghost.

Helen denies that she was crying, but Williams just says that everyone cries now and then. After a moment, Helen lets go with a loud wail. Williams looks like he doesn't know what to do at first, then pulls her head to his chest to comfort her.

James starts to wonder if Williams went to dig a well, and goes looking for him. He finds Williams holding Helen as she cries, and he turns to leave.

Once Helen cries it all out, she asks Williams to pretend he didn't see anything. He asks dryly if she gets a prize if nobody sees her crying — she should cry whenever she needs to. Speaking as someone who would know, he tells her that it's hard to try to hide your feelings, especially since nobody even notices.

Helen pulls herself together and asks if he enjoyed his party earlier, then she admits how happy she was when he said he wasn't going back to the city. She asks him why he changed his mind, and he says thoughtfully that he was too busy training to be an idol and a superstar, to go to school like most kids. He never thought of college as fun, but he feels like Kingston College may be different.

Helen agrees that he'll like studying here and besides he has a plan to get his ear treated here, and says that's why she works so hard to be able to attend. Williams walks her to her room, but stops her and tells her to get her hand treated. Somehow I don't think that's really why he stopped her.

James is in bed with his back turned when Williams gets back to their room, but he's not asleep. He lies awake, upset at seeing Williams holding Helen so intimately.

The students all have to practice the next morning, including the new college boys but Williams and James Patrick are late getting out of bed. Williams then notices James hiding his face under the covers since he did mention that the morning sun was intense on that bed which reflects on his face.

The other four teachers cringe at breakfast when Dean Micheal shows up making broad statements about setting a good example for the college kids. He feeds them a spicy breakfast as punishment, and they all turn a little upset.

Williams assumes James' grouchy mood is from drinking too much at the party, but James only says that Shi-woo shouldn't have acted like that. Then he snaps himself out of it and smiles that he's going to see his Kitty.

He finds Helen in the kitchen, but she turns down his offer of help. He pulls her into a sudden hug and tells her to cry in his arms if she ever needs to. Helen assumes it's the hangover talking, and shoos him away. James again goes back to find Williams and tells him the score is now tied one to one.

Helen's Aunty gets that job working as a housekeeper for James' mother and marvels at her giant closet filled with designer clothes and accessories.

James' mother shows her how to brew tea for her husband, and Aunty fake-apologizes for assuming that she was that foxy girl she went to school with, but she cares less about that.

Patrick's mom later swears it's not her, but Aunty isn't buying it. She says that girl pretended to be so innocent, but would fight with girls from another school, and borrowed money from Aunty without paying it back. Patrick's mom overreacts and says she probably had good reason to run off.

Aunty mentions a cafe she used to go to with that girl, and Patrick's mom blurts out that it's still there. She's busted, but Aunty lets her pretend for now.

And somehow, it's already time for midterms. Matthew seems to be the only Kingston student looking forward to them if only to see Williams and James show their true potential and what they've learned so far, after their ups and downs. Too bad they haven't learned anything yet, but Teacher Jonathan assures them that help is on the way.

Helen explains to Williams that kids are graded differently here and that the final comprehensive exam is the worst — it assesses your comprehensive development.

Dean Micheal administrates this test randomly, at any time and place, which stresses everyone out.

Meanwhile, Mary who cares more about James starts teaching him some theory in biochemistry but stresses more on practicals, and James crows with happiness to get such a great mentor… until he hears that Williams was paired with Helen. That has him running to find them.

Helen is teaching Williams to pull energy on his concentration first and he has an adorable mini-freakout when she moves in close behind him to guide his hands. We see that James is watching from a short distance, silently seething.

That night Helen looks online for a new part-time job, but nothing out there is as good as the chicken delivery job she already had. James sits on his bed and thinks about seeing Williams and Helen together during their practice, and pretends to be meditating when Williams comes in.

But he's too petty to keep his upset to himself and tells Williams that he plans to win him in the mid-term examination. Williams just counters that he doesn't like losing either, reminding James that the bed is the only thing he plans to concede.

James applies himself seriously to Mary's lessons, and her surprise, he's a pretty quick study.

He's extra motivated and stays late to practice alone, which impressed her. The other students also study diligently, some with better results than others.

Helen goes into town to job-hunt, but James calls her, and his scared voice is alarming. He followed her and is now in some sort of trouble. But when she gets to him, he's just waiting at a restaurant to treat her to dinner.

Helen is understandably confused since he tricked her to get her here, and she gets angry when he says he rented out the whole place. To a girl who's frantic to find a cruddy part-time job so she can stay in school, that would seem pretty frivolous though.

She tells him that this one meal cost more than a month's pay for her, and he just grins like it's no big deal.

Helen says, without anger, that it's good that he has a rich father and can just take life easily. But he cuts her off and says it's just dinner, and rather than pick a fight, she agrees to stay and eat. And she does enjoy the meal — to a point.

Williams thinks about what the guys told him about the mid-term examination, where they're supposed to reveal their best potential in terms of meditation, which was the first test. He thinks of the buried memory he's been dreaming about, and looks nervous.