❌Warning! Violence/triggering themes!❌

*Rina POV*

"....You've changed." Taehyung ran his fingers through my hair, his soft voice flowing to my ears as he stared at the blue color. 

"It was Anya's idea…" I mumbled back quietly, trying to focus as the sun set. Curse this school…curse these men…curse everything that caused pain to me and Kyung-hee. 

"Rina…..I don't mean your hair…I mean, you've changed, your heart changed." Taehyung pushed my hair away from my neck and ran his fingers over the fresh tattoo that was etched into my skin.

How dare he touch me.   

"Always loving…never loved. What a sad thing to put on your body." I soon felt the heat of his breaths as he kissed my neck. The dying light, tangled with the bitter cold made me feel light headed and Taehyung's lips on my skin was the only thing that I could really feel. 

Disgusting.

"It is sad, that inscription on my neck. The only thing sadder is your mouth on it." He froze at my words and I scoffed sarcastically.

"If you wanna take advantage of someone……do it to yourself. Scum." I stood up and turned to him. He stared at the ground emotionlessly, his long hair blowing in the wind gracefully, the opposite to the emotions we were both feeling.  

"Imagine ruining my life just to later save it and try to use me, you should've let me drown." I turned and walked onto the ice that was stronger due to the low temperatures. Taehyung remained leaning against the tree in silence as I made my way to the frost-covered riverbank in the dewy light of dusk.

Namjoon was leaning against the school sign, dressed in warm clothes, staring at me with an earnest expression. Fake.  

"Are you okay, did Taehyung do anything to you?" He walked up to me and embraced me in his arms. My head began to hurt at the turmoil that plagued my mind. Half of me wanted to break down in his arms, to stay there where it was safe and warm but half of me knew the truth. The ugly truth that Namjoon hated me and made up every single thing I thought we had. The love, the passion, the safety.

"I'm fine, where's Kyung-hee?" I forced a smile, an easy task for someone like me. I looked him dead straight in the eyes as he smiled back to me, oh look at us….now we were both lying. 

"Anya took her back to her apartment, she felt that Kyung-Hee shouldn't face your dad after going through….that." He brought his hand to my face and gently kissed my cheek, I felt revolted but didn't show any sign of it. 

"Namjoon…..Yeeun did this, didn't she?" I pulled his hand away from my cheek and gave him a serious look, this is one situation I would not play around with. 

He sighed heavily and remained silent for a few seconds. "Yes." Was all he responded with and it was all that was necessary. I smiled once more to him and began walking to Anya's dwelling. My heart stung with pain after being touched by Namjoon. Normally I would've loved it…but it just just made me feel empty and cold now.

The dim, mellow street lights cast a hazy glow on the sidewalk as I made my way to my sister. I felt so mentally exhausted, so tired, almost to the point where I couldn't feel anything. The building loomed ahead of me and I exhaled in relief as I walked up to Anya's apartment and rang the bell.  Kyung-hee opened the door, tears running down her face and her hands trembling like leaves. 

"What happened." I knew that look, something terrible had occurred and it wasn't the ordeal at the lake. I looked around the empty room and felt my heart racing. "Wait...where's Anya?" 

Those words made Kyung-hee begin to sob and cry like never before. "Yeeun showed up with two girls and dragged her away somewhere. I couldn't find a phone, and, and…. I didn't know where to go..it was so, so dark….I didn't do anything, Rina." She fell to the ground and I could feel her pain, it was heartbreaking to see her like that.   

"We'll find her, don't worry." I wrapped my arms around Kyung-hee only for her to shove me back onto the floor. My eyes widened in shock at her brute action….she had never used force before, I didn't even know she was capable of mustering up that much strength.  

"You don't understand….I didn't help her…..even though I'm in love with her!!" Kyung-hee screamed at me with so much emotion in her face that I was at a loss for words. There was no longer a little girl in front of me….Kyung-hee had become a woman and I was too preoccupied with dad to even see it. 

And she also fell in love…

"Stay here…" I stood up and turned around to the door, Kyung-hee stayed still and I locked her in as I stepped out to the harsh, freezing elements. It was now midnight and almost pitch-black. 

I won't let Kyung-hee lose the person she loves so quickly…not like how I lost Namjoon…

I began running to the one place I could think Yeeun would take her. The school. It was the last place I wanted to be, I never wanted to see it again and yet I was racing to it, my breaths turning white in the air then disappearing in a split second as I ran through the silent darkness. The dark monstrosity ahead of me was terrifying but the unlocked doors opened easily as I ran to the dance auditorium. I flung the doors open and felt my stomach drop at the sight in front of me. Yeeun was standing over the still body of Anya…the energetic, beautiful Anya who was now covered in blood, her fingers broken and legs covered in vile bruises and cuts.  

Yeeun looked up at me, her face growing serious as she stared me down. I walked backward and closed the doors, locking the two of us in.  A chuckle left Yeeun's mouth as she stepped over Anya and walked to me. I didn't move as she approached which was stupid on my part, I didn't underestimate her, I just couldn't understand how one person could be so...evil. 

"Hi Rina….before you get mad, that was because she refused to listen to me." She pointed at Anya's body and then looked back to me and shook her head. "And this, this is for coming in between me and Taehyung." Before I could react she pulled out the same knife she cut my neck with before and plunged it into my stomach, forcing it in till it couldn't go any further. 

I looked into her eyes with no physical or emotional reaction. I felt….nothing, just the blood seeping down onto my leg. Her eyes widened in fear as I stood there, no show of pain or terror to having a knife in my body. I smiled slowly at what I had become. A numb, emotionless, broken girl.

"Yeeun….you're pathetic." I looked up at her with a hysterical smile and punched her in the throat, making her choke and scream like some sort of tortured animal.  She fell backwards onto the floor, grabbing her neck as tears formed in her eyes. I felt weak, and was only getting weaker, the knife was firmly lodged in my stomach but that didn't stop me from walking up to her and grabbing her by her hair, forcing her to look at me. 

"You're worthless." I brought my knee up and smashed it against her face, making the crunch of her nose echo in the massive hall as she squealed in agony and started scrambling away like a wounded creature faced by a horrifying predator. 

I grabbed her leg and pulled her back, sitting on top of her and holding her down with my weight. "If I die….you die too." I grabbed the knife and pulled it out of my flesh, more blood bubbled out from the wound but I didn't give a shit anymore. 

"No! No, no, NO!!!!!" She tried to scramble away, screaming as blood spurted out from her mouth and nose. I rose the knife above my head and forced it down into her abdomen, making her shriek in terror and agony. "THAT, was for Kyung-hee." I tore the blade out of her exposed flesh and drove it down into her again. "And that….was for Anya!!!" I ripped the bloody steel out and stabbed her again.  And again. And again. 

Till she no longer made a sound. 

She was dead……I killed her.