Two days went by after the day Sooyoung and Taeyeon witnessed the scene in the vacation house. They had to drove Yuri and Jessica home right that morning, and the mood in the car was not a cheerful one. Actually, it was dead silent during the whole drive. Jessica was too pissed to even say a word, Yuri knew speaking at that moment wasn't helping, and Taeyeon and Sooyoung were simply too scared of provoking Jessica to aspirate a sound.

Sooyoung dropped Taeyeon and Jessica off in front of Taeyeon's apartment complex and drove straight to the company at Yuri's desire. From that day on, Jessica hadn't seen nor heard anything from Yuri. She forbad Taeyeon and Tiffany to tell the girl where her apartment was, so it was pretty much impossible for Yuri to find her.

"Jessi..."

Tiffany and Taeyeon came visiting her today, checking if she was alright.

"You still haven't told us what happened."

They sat onto the couch on each side next to her, giving her concerned looks. But Jessica didn't want to talk about it, she was just angry and hurt and disappointed and didn't want to think of Yuri at all. Even if the girl constantly popped up in her mind, Jessica suppressed it with all her might.

"You kissed her. Did you guys..."

"No!" She snapped at Tiffany.

"So did Yuwree kiss you against your will?" Tiffany grabbed her hand, looking at her worriedly.

Jessica looked back at the girl, raising an eye-brow. What were they thinking?

"Sica, this is really worrying us. Because if Yuri really... you know, then that's like... a sexual assault and--"

Jessica furiously shook her head. Taeyeon and Tiffany were having wrong thoughts. Yuri did disappoint her, but the girl didn't deserve to bear the blame of something this ridiculous. Sighing tiredly, she knew she had to speak. The thing was just, she didn't know where to begin.

"She didn't--didn't do it against my will."

Jessica bit her bottom lip as she remembered how she kissed Yuri back just as passionately.

"I knew it. It didn't look like you were forced." Taeyeon commented.

"So, did you guys..."

"Tiffany, we didn't do anything beyond kissing." Jessica rolled her eyes. "Fortunately, we didn't."

"Then why--"

"She's Jiyong's cousin." Jessica bitterly told the truth, finally.

Taeyeon and Tiffany's jaws dropped on the ground.

"Kwon Yuri!"

"Sica I'm here!"

They released the kissed immediately, hearing the shouts. Jessica froze in shock. Time seemed to stop for a second when thousand things hit her head at instant. Kwon? Kwon. Kwon Jiyong.

"What relationship do you have with Kwon Jiyong?"

She uttered the most important question barely audible.

"Jessica... I'm his cousin, I--"

SLAP.

Yuri knew beforehand. Jessica could tell from the way the girl looked at her. She could read it in Yuri's eyes. Yuri knew exactly who the person breaking her heart in the past was. Yet, Yuri decided to hide it. All Jessica could feel that moment was pain in her heart. She didn't know why - but it hurt her so much.

"Sica... Yuri, she--"

"Don't try to defend her!" She snapped at Taeyeon. "She knew exactly what her cousin and her family did to my family! She pretended to not know anything and even asked me to tell her about it!"

"But what if--"

"Taetae ah, I think I can understand Jessi." Tiffany tossed in before Taeyeon and Jessica could start a discussion. "Listen, Jessi. I know Yuri disappointed you and all, but have you considered the fact that she has nothing to do with her family now? She has her own company and it's pretty much competing with her family's business."

Jessica had thought of it, of course. But...

"Plus, I don't think Yuri knew it right from the start. She possibly realized it afterwards, but didn't have the chance to tell you. Or she's just... afraid. Of the way you would react, Jessi."

She understood everything Tiffany said. Because it had crossed her mind before already. But...

"That's no reason to hide it from me..." Jessica said. "She could of just tell me. Explain to me. Be honest to me."

"People do the most stupid things when they're afraid of loosing the one they love, Sica."

She turned around and saw Taeyeon smiling at her. Jessica didn't know what to think of her phrase about 'the one they love'. Did Yuri love her? As far as she could recall, Yuri only started to like her. Love wasn't much in the game. She wasn't even sure herself what she was exactly feeling about Yuri. But she couldn't deny how happy she was seeing Yuri caring about her, how her heart beat faster each time Yuri touched her, how she felt so blissful with every kiss they shared. She knew she liked the girl a lot, if it wasn't something else, something more than just 'like a lot'. In love... she might even be in love already. But...

"Sica, you need to give her a chance to explain."

She knew she needed to. But... Jessica was a stubborn girl.

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Arrived at the company, Sooyoung walked straight to Yuri's room that morning. She was really worried the past few days - Yuri was literally shattered. Her best friend didn't care taking proper meals, refused to go home and just insisted to stay all night and day in her office. Not that Kwon Yuri had cared much about food and sleep ever before - it's just this time, everything was extreme and the reason was not because of work.

Sooyoung opened the door and sighed as she realized Yuri had fallen asleep on the desk while working throughout the night again. However, the sound of her stepping nearer woke the girl up abruptly.

"Sooyoung?"

Sooyoung gave another loud sigh as she sat on the desk, looking down at the tired Yuri.

"Are you alright? Did you stay in the office yesterday again?"

Yuri gave her a brief nod before starting to arrange all the papers on the desk.

"I'm sorry I haven't finished these documents yet. I--I don't know what's happening to me. I can't seem to concentrate. I--"

"Yul." Sooyoung cut her off. "...I'm sorry."

"For what?" Her best friend asked weakly.

"I... I really didn't expect things to turn out like this. I shouldn't--"

"No." Yuri was determined. "This is the last time I want to hear this Sooyoung. I can't thank you enough for making me meet Jessica."

Sooyoung looked at her best friend, not sure what to say. Never had she seen Yuri like this. Did she really succeed in changing the workaholic? But that wasn't what she imagined or hoped for at all.

"Yuri... Do you really like her?"

"I..." Yuri stared into the air. The past two days, her life was sheer torture. Her heart had no peaceful second after hearing from Taeyeon that Jessica didn't want to meet her. She had begged Taeyeon and Tiffany for help, but the girls couldn't betray their best friend (again). There was nothing they could help Yuri with - at least not until Jessica was willing to open up to them.

Seeing no hope in finding Jessica, Yuri decided to lock herself up in her office. She wanted to use work to distract herself from thinking of Jessica. It was ironically the opposite of what first happened when she met the girl - she could clearly remember how Jessica was distracting her from thinking of work all the time. But it seemed like her mind never wanted to obey her will. Every little thing she did reminded her of Jessica.

She could fully understand why Jessica reacted that way and did these things to her. It wasn't her fault her cousin, whom she did not love at all, had hurt Jessica in the past. But she knew her fault was not small either. She wanted to tell the girl the truth after she found out herself, but she couldn't come up with the courage to. Now regretting was too late. But she needed to explain, she needed to tell Jessica that...

"I think I've started to really fall for her. I can't stop thinking about her, Sooyoung. This is... it's like... everything is so meaningless without her. I can't--"

Sooyoung gripped the edge of the desk tighter as her best friend's voice cracked. She couldn't let this go on anymore. She had to do something.

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Jessica sat in front of the TV and frowned. Taeyeon and Tiffany were at her apartment again. She thought after telling them the truth yesterday, they would give her some time alone to relax. But no, the duo had to wake her up eight in the morning and refused to leave no matter how much she threatened them.

"Jessi!" Tiffany came happily into the leaving room with a plate of kimbap. "Taetae just taught me how to make this. Have a try, come on."

Jessica uninterestedly picked one piece and bit and chewed and swallowed. She gave a nod and rolled her eyes at the overjoyed Tiffany and her proud Taeyeon.

"You guys have your own apartment. Why do you two have to do this stuff at my place?"

But Tiffany and Taeyeon completely ignored her. They stood in front of her, feeding each other, obvious to their surroundings including her existence. Jessica gritted her teeth as she was about to loose her patience. Fortunately for the other two, Taeyeon's phone rang a second before Jessica darted the remote upon their heads. The short girl glanced onto the display before swiftly disappearing into the kitchen.

"Sooyoung?" She whispered into the phone.

"Hey Taengoo. Why are you whispering?"

"Shhhhh." Taeyeon glanced into the living room to make sure Tiffany was still bothering Jessica enough to make the girl not suspect anything. "I'm at Jessica's."

"Good. I'll just come straight to the point. Yuri and Jessica need to meet."

"I know." Taeyeon sighed. "But Jessica doesn't want to and she forbids us to tell you and Yuri about her location. I'm sorry, I--"

"Coughsunnycough. Jessica just forbids you to tell me and Yuri. She didn't say anything about anyone else."

"But... I..."

"Taeyeon, this is a matter of life and death. I gotta go. Please."

And with that, the line went dead. Taeyeon stared at her phone, still having to process Sooyoung's bold request. She knew Jessica wouldn't be happy if she told Sunny; and in the end, the girl would definitely find out that she, Kim Taeyeon, was the culprit once again. But Taeyeon also knew things couldn't go on like this and she had to do something against Jessica's stubbornness.

"Sica's so gonna kill me..." She mumbled while dialling Sunny's number.

Meanwhile, Tiffany was talking to Jessica about the kimbap receipt in the living room. She knew the girl wasn't a bit interested, but she had to do something to keep her occupied. Tiffany saw the look on Taeyeon's face earlier and knew immediately who was calling. They were together long enough for Tiffany to understand Taeyeon that well.

"Tiffany... I think I'll go home."

Tiffany stopped babbling at once. She stared at Jessica unbelievingly.

"Seriously?!"

As the girl on the couch nodded, she fell onto her and hugged her tightly.

"Oh my god Jessi! It's time, seriously. Uncle and aunt were so worried about you and kept asking us about you all the time. Do you know how terrible we felt not being able to tell them what happened?"

"Yeah right." Jessica scoffed. "You guys just couldn't possibly tell them you locked me up with Yu--"

Silence entered as soon as the forbidden name was mentioned. Tiffany was dead nervous as she saw Jessica's complete change of expression. It wasn't the harmless uninterested one anymore, but an icy, cold, scary look. Luckily, Taeyeon came back again.

"Taetae guess what? Jessi wants to go home!"

Against her expectations, Taeyeon froze dead in her tracks, her eyes widened in shock. Little did Tiffany know Jessica's decision just came in such bad timing.

Yuri, hurry up!

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Sooyoung pushed open the door to Yuri's office.

"Get up get up!" The shouted, earning herself a weird look from Yuri. "Here." She handed Yuri fresh clothes she had brought with. "Go change Yuri. We have no time to spare!"

"What's gotten into you?"

The dark-skinned girl asked as Sooyoung forcefully pulled her up.

"You're gonna see Jessica."

Immediately, Yuri stopped struggling to get out of Sooyoung's grip. She widened her eyes, not wanting to believe it's true. But as Sooyoung gave her an assuring nod, Yuri became just as hectic.

"How much time do we have?" She asked, already in the midst of changing clothes.

"I don't know. But the sooner you meet her, the sooner the problem will be solved. Or so I hope."

"How did you--"

"That's not important. Ready? Let's go."

And the two girls dashed out of the company, getting in Sooyoung's car. On the way, Sooyoung explained to Yuri everything. She would drive Yuri directly to Jessica's apartment and it would be quite hard for Jessica to refuse hearing Yuri out then. Fortunately, Yuri didn't need much time to think of an apology. She had thought of Jessica so much in the past few days that she knew exactly what she wanted to tell the girl. However, the nearer they got to their destination, the more nervous Yuri got. What if Jessica still wouldn't want to forgive her? Could she handle that?

After a short stop at a flower boutique, Sooyoung and Yuri finally arrived at Jessica's apartment complex. Yuri stepped out of the car while her best friend waited inside. Inhaling deeply, Yuri entered the building. She was going to see Jessica again. She was going to hear the sweet voice again. She was going to smell the strawberry scent again. All the days when they were stuck in the vacation house, Jessica was always running after Yuri and tried her best to make them get along. Now it's Yuri's turn to chase after the girl. To make them get together again.

Before Yuri knew it, she was standing in front of Jessica's door. Pulling herself together, she tried to calm her racing heart down. She was still scared of Jessica's reaction. What if the girl would just bang the door shut in front of her? Sooyoung told her to slip her foot in as soon as the door opened, but still... What if Jessica would slap her again? She told Sooyoung she didn't mind as long as Jessica would get to hear her explanation, but still... What if Jessica would yell at her? What if she would make the girl cry again? What if Jessica already hated her? What if--

Too late. She had already knocked at the door. There's no going back anymore. Yuri waited and waited, tension rose each second. But no one came out. Just when she was about to turn around and leave in both disappointment and relief, the door opened.

"Yuri..."