Gracie never showered and got dressed so fast in her life. She doesn't know why but there was a bad feeling that kept bothering the back of her mind as she got ready.

She went out of her apartment and went down the flight of stairs, not wanting to wait for the slow elevator. Thank goodness she only lived on the scond floor.

She got out of the building and waved her hand around like a maniac, looking for a taxi.

It was hard to find one considering the time. It was 5:30 early in the morning.

After a couple minutes, a taxi finally halted in front of Gracie. She wasted no time getting into the vehicle and closed the door.

"Where to, miss?", the driver asked her politely.

"Changsha Hospital", she replied.

"And make it quick please", she added.

The driver nodded at her through the rear view mirror and drove off to the required destination.

Gracie slumped her back in the seat as she tapped her feet impatiently. She was worried if something bad really happened to Chengcheng.

"Why today out of all days..."

She feel into a daze as she worried about her lover's situation. They were supposed to go on their first date together today, but now Chengcheng is at the hospital. Tsk, such cliché tragedy.

Gracie thought about all of the possibilities on why Wenjun called her early in the morning to go to the hospital.

"Did Chengcheng get into an accident? But it's the middle of the night..."

"Or did something happen to his family?"

"Or-"

Gracie snapped out of her daze and thoughts as her phone began to rang.

"We want a pa pa party in the house~

Just shake your bo bo body on the floor~"

She took out her phone from her handbag as she heard the song, expecting to see Wenjun's name as the caller.

But no, it wasn't Wenjun nor her boyfriend. It was–

"Nongnong?"

She mumbled his name questionly, before answering his call.

Right after she placed the phone right next to her ear, she could here the sound of sobbing.

Clearly it was Linong– crying.

"Nongnong? What's wrong? Why are you crying?", she asked her best fr-, no, her classmate, worriedly.

Linong tried to answer properly but kept choking out a sob.

"G-Gracie... M-m-my lit-tle sis-sister..."

"His little sister?"

"Lihua? What about her?", Gracie asked feeling more worried.

Lihua is Linong's 9 years old little sister. Whenever Gracie went to Linong's house, the little girl would always be there and played around. She loved to tug at Gracie's clothes, wanting attention.

Linong took a deep breath in to calm himself.

Gracie just waited for Linong's news. She let the guy calm himself, as she figured that something really bad had occured towards his little sister.

He took another deep breath before continuing–

"Lihua came back home with bruises on her body and face yesterday. I just found out that she had been bullied by her classmates. They beated her up... I treated her wounds and bruises but my parents aren't home and she keeps crying, saying that the bruises hurts... What should I do? I'm scared... And I don't like seeing her in pain... I'm the worst older brother..."

"H-hey... Don't say that... It'll be alright", Gracie said. She didn't know how to comfort Linong right now.

Gracie took a look to see where she is now. The driver stopped in front of a red traffic light.

"C-can you come here.. and help me? Plus Lihua likes you a lot... she misses you", Linong said and pleaded to her.

She was suddenly stucked in mixed feelings.

Gracie wants to go and see Linong and Lihua– take care of the little girl and try to get back things right with the boy.

But she also wants to see Chengcheng and know what happened to him, that made him end up at the hospital now.

She was torn between Linong and Chengcheng.

Gracie had to choose fast, before the traffic light turns green. Turn left to go to Linong's house, and go straight to reach the hospital.

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Linong?

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Or Chengcheng?

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Gracie thought fastly. But then, she remembered her priorities.

—"friends comes first before lovers"

"Mister, change of plans. Turn left and bring me to house number 2, Yixing Street, please"

Anyone knows a good NCT fanfic? Recommend me some please :)