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IM SORRY. SCHOOL HAPPENED FORGIVE ME. BUT NOW I HAVE SOME TIME SO I'LL HAVE ANOTHER CHAPTER UP SOON.

BTW TODAY IS KRIS' BIRTHDAY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YESSSSSS HAPPY BIRTHDAY GALAXY! ‘Is he awake?’ ‘Shut up man, do you think he’s awake?’ ‘Wait guys… His eyes are starting to twitch open I think’‘Hey Kris, can you hear us?’ Kris heard distant voices around him. He squinted his eyes opened a peek, and everything in sight was blurry. The voices he heard sounded far away and it was hard to tell where he was.‘Hey Kris, can you see us clearly?’ ‘You in there, man?’ ‘Are you awake Kris?’ ‘Geez, stop bombarding him with questions, he doesn’t even look like he’s fully conscious.’ Kris shut his eyes again and reopened them, trying to clear his vision. The voices continued to be blurred together and gradually improved as did his vision. Once his sight was clear, the first thing he saw was the worried expressions on his teammates’ faces. He tried to lift his head up to see his surroundings but he felt a throb of pain in his head and was unable to get up.Yixing lightly forced Kris back to lay down on the bed. He grabbed a glass of water on the nightstand next to the bed as Luhan and Tao slowly brought up Kris so that he was sitting straight against the headboard. He brought up the glass of water to Kris’ mouth and motioned for him to drink. Kris parted his lips to allow the cold liquid to flow through his throat. He only then noticed how parched his throat had been. He finished the whole glass before he awkwardly looked up to see the rest of the team members looking at him and each other nervously.He looked frightened at Tao and Luhan trying to send them messages with his eyes. Had the team found out? Was he in trouble? Were they going to kick him off the team? Kris’s mind had somehow morphed each of his team members faces into loathing and repugnant expressions. After reading the expressions of his teammates, he then took in his surroundings and realized that he was in a different room other than his. This wasn’t the school gym; nor was this his bedroom, nor Tao’s.As if Kai had caught every one of Kris’s blank glances around the room, he spoke up. “We’re in my house,” he said. Kris slightly flinched, subtly enough to go unnoticed by most of the team except for Tao; knowing that he was being taken care of in the house of someone who had nearly caused him to die yesterday. Kai cleared his throat, to snap Kris out of his trance, continuing, “Do you remember what happened?”Kris nodded faintly, still unsure where Kai was leading with this. Was Kai going to tell him that all the members knew? Kris tried to force himself not to jump to conclusions, tightly gripping the bedsheets, “Is practice over?”All the members looked at him with astonishment that he was still concerned over practice even though he had passed out for over 3 hours.“It’s been over for almost 4 hours,” Kai said.The members looked at each other concerned. Kyungsoo spoke up.“You hit your head on the floor pretty hard, and there was a bit of blood, so we took you to Dr. Shim. He took care of your head and stuff and made sure you were alright before he told us to take you home. Since Tao told us no one would be at your house until really late, we called your mom and took you to Kai’s house since it was the closest to the school. Your mom was really worried and wanted to come home but we told her we’d take good care of you.”Kris felt terrible. His mom was probably stressed out having so much work and also having to deal with a failure of a son who couldn’t even go through basketball practice without passing out.Weak. No.You’re weak. Stop.Look what you did. You messed up their practice. You can’t even withstand a slight headache and some pain in your chest? Pathetic. I’m sorry…Kris lowered his head and apologized, “I’m sorry for causing you guys trouble. I will try harder in the future so this doesn’t happen again.”“Eh? What are you apologizing for! Look at yourself! You should’ve told us if you were feeling unwell,” Suho said, “you should go back to sleep and rest some more. Dr. Shim said that you have a slight fever. Hell, you weren’t even breathing properly until Mr. I-Love-Kris-Fangirl over there administered CPR on you!” Suho pointed at Tao as he mentioned who had saved Kris.Kris’s eyes moved from the bedsheets to Tao’s eyes, whom quickly flinched away and avoided his gaze.The rest nodded and murmured in agreeance that Kris should go back to sleep.“No, I seriously feel okay right now,” Kris assured.That’s right. Don’t show them how weak you are. They don’t need to be burdened with your pain. Kai frowned and squinted his eyes at Kris suspiciously. “We weren’t going to bring it up but if you keep denying that you’re not okay…”Kris lifted his eyes to match Kai’s intense gaze. He gulped. He felt anxious hearing Kai trail off. It was only then, did he realize he wasn’t wearing his sweater from practice. He was in a long sleeve shirt that didn’t belong to him. His breath hitched as he looked up at Kai, expecting him to continue his sentence. They couldn’t have seen. He could just cover it up saying he got scratched by something. Or say he twisted his wrist. But twist both of them? They wouldn’t buy that. Dr. Shim knew as well; he wouldn’t let his team members see that side of him, would he?“Did you know you’re 110 pounds?” Kai asked him. For a second, Kris could see a flicker of concern and worry flash through Kai’s brown orbs. “You’re over six feet for heaven’s sake! You should be 140 at the least, to be underweight. But 110? Do you…” The other members started fidgeting, wanting to cut Kai off. They had agreed not to bring it up around Kris.‘Don’t say it.’ Kris thought. ‘Don’t ask me if I have an eating problem. Don’t ask me when you were the one who called me a pig yesterday.’“Do you have an eating disorder…?” Kai asked Kris. The other members shot Kai a harsh look because they had all agreed to stay quiet about it until Kris was ready to tell them if something was wrong.Kai had had enough though. Sure he had called Kris fat or unfit yesterday. But how did Kris find out? Had he heard him? Furthermore, he hadn’t even meant it. Yes he was stubborn for saying something carelessly, but you had no clue how shocked Kai was when he saw how thin and boney Kris’ body was when Dr. Shim had removed his sweater to cool him down and take care of him. He was even more horrified, just as much as the other members of the team, if not more, when he saw the bloodied bandages on Kris’ arms.Dr. Shim had insisted they go out of the room and wait for Kris to be breathing properly but the team had been persistent and stayed by Kris’ side only to be shocked when they saw what their strong captain had been hiding from them. Luhan, Tao, and Dr. Shim only sighed when the heard the shrieks and emotional cries from the other members. Everyone looked at Luhan and Tao, seeing as they didn’t have such a huge reaction and only looked sorrowfully at Kris when Dr. Shim removed the bandages and saw the numerous cuts and scars that detailed his wrist. Dr. Shim was rebandaging his arms while the team members were comforting each other, worried at the fragile state of their leader. “Luhan, Tao, did you guys know about this?” the other members asked them. Luhan and Tao nodded their heads sadly. “I only found out today.  I saw him reopening one of his cuts. I didn’t think it was this bad. But when I look at his skeletal build… I can’t help but feel regretful that I didn’t notice he was hurting earlier,” Luhan said, trying to hold his tears back. The members then looked at Tao expecting an explanation from him as well. “I found him lying in a pool of his own blood at his home yesterday. I don’t know what would’ve happened if I hadn’t found him.” The members were shocked. Had Kris planned to kill himself yesterday? Why did he have to hide everything from them? “No… I just haven’t had much of an appetite lately, and you know how it is, lots of tests and examinations this time of the school year. I guess I forgot to eat,” Kris lied.Smooth. But not smooth enough.Kai recalled what Dr. Shim had told the whole team in the infirmary.“You guys take him to one of your houses tonight if his parents aren’t home. You need to watch over him very closely. He’s suffering from anorexia and bulimia; two eating disorders. That means he starves himself, and when he does eat; he will throw it up later. He also suffers from post traumatic depression. As you can see, he has scars and cuts all over his arms. Those were not by accident. I am telling you this because I trust and believe in you guys to surround him to make sure he doesn’t feel lonely or ostracized by everyone.” The whole team nodded while wiping away their tears, trying to be strong for their leader. Kai continued to stare at the almost lifeless Kris. Seeing his bony structure; his pale greyish toned skin. The dark circles under his eyes.  Every aspect about Kris reminded Kai of himself when he was in middle school. “Let’s not bring it up to Kris unless he tells us himself. We shouldn’t let him know we know about his scars either… He’ll avoid us because he’ll think we’ll judge him and be disgusted by him after. We also shouldn’t tell him we know about his eating disorders. I mean, we can beat arou