I put a hand into my pocket and clutched the pebble for comfort. It's what i always do when I'm stressed out. And then a thought hit me, my pebble gives off its own light. I had a plan. I took out my pebble.

"JiYin, EunJi, MinJi, i thought of a plan. This pebble has light and since it's almost dark, the light could be seen within a certain distance. I will climb a tree and take out the pebble. JiYin, i want you to do what you did just now and shout for TaeYun and ChaeYun with your mind ask them to find the light and walk towards it, also tell them to shout your name with their minds if they can hear you. EunJi, i want you to listen attentively for their reply. Okay, let's go!"

I was beginning to climb a nearby tree when MinJi suddenly said, "it's no use, they won't be able to come." Everyone's attention was drawn to her. "Why?" i asked her. "Because ChaeYun is injured and TaeYun alone can't carry her and the bags."

I stared at her in disbelief.

I gripped her shoulders and shouted at her, "How did you know? More importantly, why didn't you say so earlier?"

If she said so earlier, we would have found them by now.

"Well, you didn't ask. I only told you now because i couldn't take in anymore of these ridiculous plans you all come up with." she said as she broke away from my grip and glared at me.

"WHY YOU LITTLE BIT--" i was about to punch her in the face when JiYin and EunJi grabbed me from the back.

"MiHi! MiHi! CALM DOWN!" JiYin screamed into my ears. I turn to look at her.

"This isn't a time to have fights. We got to go find TaeYun and ChaeYun. " she said.

I breathe in and breathe out many times to calm myself down. I looked at MinJi and thought, MinJi is really unbelievable, doesn't she even care about TaeYun and ChaeYun? Argh! However, this isn't the time to get angry now.

"MinJi, so where are they? I'm sure you can see them right?" I said to her.

She looked at her fingers and said, "Yeah, you guessed it right. I can see them. They're actually quite close to us. If we walk for about 20 minutes we would be able to reach them. They are a little to the east from us."

I stomped towards the direction that she pointed to. The rest quickly followed. Sure enough, we found them in about 20 minutes. ChaeYun had a sprained ankle because she tripped while they were being chased by a wild boar. Luckily the injury wasn't that serious.

TaeYun and EunJi held onto ChaeYun's arms as she hobbled her way to the campsite while they rest of us carried all of our backpacks.

Finally, all the six of us were gathered and we headed to the campsite. The sun was setting...we're running out of time! Half an hour more to go!

[-Yoseob POV-]

It's going to be sunset soon. I hope the girls are doing fine. Actually giving them a mission at the beginning without training or help was kind of harsh. Even I wouldn't be able to do it. But Doojoon said he wanted to test them out and see what areas they are lacking. Since he's the leader and the upper heads approve of it, i didn't voice out my disagreement.

The 6 girls are important. They are supposed to be our partners. The upper heads said that they have similar abilities to us only they weren't activated yet. And we're supposed to activated and train the girls.

After that, they would pair us up and we would always be working in that pairing. I could sense that something is up but neither Doojoon nor the upper heads are willing to tell me anything. Even my ability of entering a person's mind didn't help out much.

"Yang Yoseob! Stop day dreaming! We're having a meeting here you know." Doojoon scolded me and I pouted.

"Hyung is just worried about the girls. I am too actually." Dongwoon explained while i nodded repeatedly.

"And that is why we're having this meeting." Doojoon said.

"I wanted to ask you about what we are suppose to tell the girls. Should we tell them everything at the start? Or should we try to keep it a secret until they ask us?"

"I think we should tell them a little at a time. Keeping all from them wouldn't help 'cause they would get suspicious and many problems would surface." Junhyung said. Typical of Junhyung, he hates trouble.

"Maybe we can go according to their progress? For example, if their abilities are activated then we could tell them about it and how to control etc. And when they managed to control them well enough we could tell them about Cube and ourselves." Hyunseung suggested.

Doojoon nodded, "That's a good idea. But what if they start asking us before they are ready? Should we tell them or not?"

Silence.

Everyone was thinking about it. I personally feel that we should tell them. Sooner or later they would have to find out. So what's the point of hiding? Anyway, if they couldn't accept it Cube would have their memories erased and it would be like nothing had happen.

"Tell them." all of us said at the same time.

"Yah~ we're like a team, we even think on the same wavelength. kekeke." Kikwang laughed.

"Babo! We ARE a team. What did you think we are?" questioned Doojoon.

"Oh right~" Kikwang said.

And the rest of us burst into laughters, Kikwang and his silly comments.

The car turned left and we were at the entrance of Silent Woods.

JiYin and I got off and went to the boot of the car to take out our backpacks. I looked into the woods and chills were sent down my spine. It was really creepy, as though somebody had sucked the life out of this place. JiYin was way too excited to bother about anything and stepped into the woods. I quickly caught up with her, I was afraid to be left alone.

R-R-R-R-Ready Go! Ready Go! Ready Go!

JiYin's phone was ringing. She answered it, "Yes...yes...okay, hold on a moment." She put her phone on speaker mode.

"Hello everyone, this is the leader of Camp Space, I would like to thank you for participating in our camp. This would be the first activity of Camp Space, or rather a mission, that is to find the other participants of Camp Space and to report to our headquarters which is our campsite. The campsite can be easily found, you just have to follow the signboards you see while you roam in the woods."

What?!?! How does he think that we are able to find our way in the woods when it is our first time here? This is crazy.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. In total there are only 6 participants. I'll tell you their names, JiYin, MiHi, TaeYun, ChaeYun, MinJi and EunJi. I'll even tell you who's with who. JiYin and MiHi are together, TaeYun and ChaeYun are together, MinJi and EunJi are together. You have until sunset. If by sunset you have not found each other and reach the campsite, don't move about. Because we would head out to find you. Have fun!" and he hanged up.

This is unbelievable! How could they do this to us? I looked at JiYin to find her burning up with excitement. She really loves a challenge. I, on the other hand, was shocked beyond words.

"Come on MiHi, we have to find the others, let's go." she said cheerily.

True enough, there really were signboards that pointed the way to the campsite. JiYin was leading the way and it seems as though she knew the way around here.

Once, I nearly stepped into quicksand but she shouted my name suddenly and i stopped in time. It was queer because she wasn't even looking my way that time in fact her back was facing me.

So during our break i asked her, "How did you know where to move about here?"

She just stared at me for awhile and said, "Don't you find this place familar. I feel like i've been here before. It feels like home."

I sighed, there she goes with her crazy talk again.

"Okay, whatever, I just want to quickly find the others." I bend down to retrieve my water bottle in my backpack when she suddenly said, "MiHi! I know where where EunJi is! They're close by. Come on! They're waiting for us!" She quickly grabbed her backpack and ran.

I tried to run as fast as I could and I was panting and breathless when i finally caught up with her. She was grinning and waving at me and behind her, stood two identical twins.

JiYin said to me, "MiHi! I'll introduce, this is EunJi and this is her younger twin sister, MinJi." EunJi smiled at me and i nodded at her. MinJi just ignored me and continued putting stuff in her backpack. My guess was that they were also having their break.

I turned to JiYin, "How did you know where they were? I mean it was impossible to spot them from where we were resting."

JiYin shrugged and replied, "I don't know, I sort of knew they were there. I felt EunJi's...presence? and i was calling to her in my mind."

EunJi added on, "Yeah! I felt someone calling to me. I heard someone shouting my name and telling me not to move about." I was speechless. Their explanation was not logical or rational. I didn't know what to think.

After that, the four of us wandered about the woods for hours and hours. JiYin and EunJi both said that they couldn't, according to them, 'feel' or 'hear' anybody. TaeYun and ChaeYun was still missing.

I was getting more and more anxious. What if something happened to them? I nearly walked into quicksand, what if they also fell into one? My brain played all the worst possible scenarios that could happen, making me more worried. As if that wasn't enough, time is also running out, an hour more.

We have to do something, but what?

"JiYin! What were you thinking packing all these useless stuff for a camp?" I screamed at her. High heeled shoes, dresses, make-up kits, magazine and comic books filled almost 80% of her backpacks.

"What?" she murmured.

I shook my head and sighed, "Never mind, I'll repack them for you."

We were at JiYin's room, I stopped by an hour earlier than expected because I knew something like this would happen. She's such a baby. I sat on her bed and slowly took out all the useless stuff while she was looking inside mine.

"Oh wow! MiHi, can you give me this sparkling pebble? It's so preeeeety!" she exclaimed.

I froze, sparkling..pebble? I quickly got up on my feet, snatched the pebble out of her hand and kept in my pocket.

"Sorry, I can't," I replied. After that, I couldn't concentrate. I was hoping that JiYin never found out about it. Because everytime I opened my heart to others about it, i got teased and laughed at, some even said I made it up.

It was clear that she was shocked at my reaction, this was the first time she saw me so flustered. Curiousity was burning in her and when she couldn't take it any longer, she asked.

I hesitated a little, I was really afraid she wouldn't believe me. But I know if I don't tell her now, she would know I'm hiding things from her and it would ruin our friendship. I made my decision, I told her.

"It happened 10 years ago, when I was living with my parents. One day, mom brought a boy home and said that he would be my friend. I was very anti-social when i was young. So mom thought that maybe he could help me. He was a very bubbly person; a very hyper person; nothing seemed to be able to bring him down. He tried many ways and means to get to me. Eventually, an anti-social person like me also opened up my heart to him. He stayed at my house and we had lots of fun together. Life couldn't be any happier." Without realising, I smiled remembering the fun times we had.

"But one day, he said he had to go, and he gave me this pebble, saying that he would come back for me. And then, he left me. I felt so helpless and lost. My only friend was gone, i was all alone again. I cried day and night. My mom couldn't take my crying so she brought me here to live with Mrs Yang and the rest you should know. Until today, there's no news of him, I didn't even know his name, he wouldn't tell me." My vision was getting blurred and tears started trekking down my cheeks. I really missed him. He was the only person who tried so hard to be my friend, i was touched by him.

Even though JiYin was always abit hyper active and couldn't sit still, she managed to. She really listened to my story and didn't even interrupted me once. She got up and hugged me. "I sorry for making you tell me such sad things, I didn't know it was like that. I also thank you for telling me, I feel closer to you now."

I smiled. I guess at times JiYin does take the role of an unnie after all.

"So if you didn't know his name, then how do you call him?"

[-flashback-]

I finally gave up repelling him. I just couldn't. Seeing the way he tries so hard to get my attention and the effort he put in, I just couldn't bear it. I'm anti-social but not cruel. So my first friend in my life, what an interesting boy.

"Erm, so what's your name?" i asked.

"You can me anything you want."

"Eh? I don't know...Why don't i just call you oppa? Since you're older than me."

"No, no, that's so typical. Hmm..why don't you call me....seobang?"

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"Err.. It's a..name! Call me seobang."

"Ye~ Seobang oppa."

"Aniyo aniyo. Only seobang."

"Huh? Okay. Seobang."

He looks nervous when he suggested that name. I wonder why but I better not do anything to upset him. I'll ask next time.

[-end of flashback, btw seobang means husband-]

I couldn't help it but giggle. JiYin raised an eyebrow, "What's so funny?"

"Seobang, i called him seobang." then i couldn't hold it any longer and laughed out loud. JiYin kept asking me why i called him that.

I avoided her question by distracting her, "Okay, we're ready to go!" and we left JiYin's house.

The person at the registration counter said to meet at the entrace of Silent Woods. I was surprised at the choice of place because it wasn't called Silent Woods for nothing. It was said that sounds can't travel in there, even if you scream, no sound can be heard.

During the ride there, JiYin couldn't stop talking about how exciting the camp would be. And I too, joined in her craziness. I was relieved and feeling extremely elated that finally someone believed me. Little did we know that this marks the end of our peaceful and normal life and we were headed to a place so much different from now.