CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Tears

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- HAN YUNMI

yujin

yujin:
yunmi can i tell you something

yunmi:
yeah of course what is it?

yujin:
okay so someone weird sent me a picture of you and gyuvin on the night of yejun's death

yunmi:
me and gyuvin?

yujin:
uhm yeah
you're both outside of chaeri college

yunmi:
... what
i don't remember
can you send me it

yujin:
*image attached*

yunmi:
oh my god

yujin:
wait but there's more

yunmi:
i don't need it
i'm gonna fucking talk to him

yujin:
...okay

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Yunmi stormed out of the room and made her way to the living room. Surprisingly all three boys were sat there on their phones, which was weird to see all of them together. She had a glance of Gunwook and Ricky's faces, shocked as if they've just seen something on their phones.

The girl stomped inside, her footsteps louder than her racing heart that was pummeling in her body. All of the boys looked up at her in surprise as she came into the room in fury. Yunmi grabbed Gyuvin by the collar and pulled him towards her. "We need to talk." She said with gritted teeth. "Right now."

Gyuvin raised a brow in amusement. "Are you trying to flirt with me? It might be working. " Yunmi scoffed and let him go, just to give him eyes that would probably leave him dead him if looks could kill. "Damn okay what did I do?" He raised his arms.

She scoffed and pulled him by the arm. "You're coming with me." She began to drag him by the arm into another room. The other two just sat up straight in surprise.

She shoved him into the kitchen and slammed the double doors. She turned to him with raging eyes, and it looked as if smoke was about to come out of her ears. "What the fuck is this?" She asked him as she showed him the picture Yujin sent. "Why are we there? At the place of the crime? Together?"

Gyuvin glanced at the photo and squinted in confusion. "I don't know. But who the fuck took this photo?"

"I beg to differ." She rolled her eyes and snatched the phone back. "Did we both see Yejun before he died?"

Gyuvin sighed. "Yes, we did-"

"What?" She shrieked.

"Let me explain" Gyuvin sighed. "You were out of your mind, and you texted him and told me we were going to Chaeri college to meet him because he was going to spread something about you."

"And you never bothered to fucking tell me?" She yelled, her eyes watering. But they wouldn't fall yet, not until she reached her limit. "Gyuvin what the fuck?"

"I thought you knew? You have a fucking phone Yunmi, you're the one who texted him." He yelled back. "Why are you getting mad at me for what you started?"

"Did I kill him?" Her breath hitched and she stumbled backwards. "No." She took one step back. "No." She took another step back. "No no no no no.." She stumbled all the way until her head hit her back on the wall. "Gyuvin don't tell me-"

He managed to pull her towards him. "I swear we - you didn't. We were definitely there but we didn't do anything I promise you Yunmi."

Yunmi tried to break out of his grip and began to yell louder. It was good that the detectives weren't in the house at the moment. "No! Let go of me!" She struggled to get out of his arms and her tears began to race down her face. "Gyuvin what if I did something?" She panicked and cried louder.

Gyuvin didn't know what to do or say; it was bad to even admit, but he doesn't remember anything. He usually acted as if he forgot things he did when he was drunk, but somehow he can't recall anything. Yunmi's cries were beginning to make him worried about what he did. After all, it was the one year anniversary.

Yunmi sobbed "What if we are both are guilty? How am I going to go through life knowing I probably killed someone I was in love with?" Gyuvin knew it was it the wrong time, but her just saying that she was in love with Yejun caused a sting in his heart, and he let her go.

He gulped. "Trust me Yunmi, we aren't. Let's just find out who took that photo okay? We don't know that we did anything, we were just at the crime scene."

The door opened, and Ricky and Gunwook walked in slowly. "We heard everything..."

Yunmi fell to the floor again. "What if I actually did something. Oh my God Gyuvin what if I did everything-"

"What are you talking about Yunmi?" Gyuvin looked at her in shock from how she was dealing with the news, and the other two boys just watched her breakdown without knowing what to do.

"We're the only ones who saw him at Chaeri that night, Gyuvin. And I was the properly drunk one-"

Ricky and Gunwook locked eyes with each other before Ricky began to speak. "Guys, listen to me." His voice was raised a little bit and Yunmi and Gyuvin turned to the boy. "You weren't the only ones who were at Chaeri that night.." He showed them a picture of him at the college. "Yujin sent this to me," He pointed at the picture. "That's me, and that's Gunwook." He took Gunwook's phone and pointed at a picture of Gunwook at the college.

"All of us were there."

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- KIM JIWOONG

Yejun's house. This was where everything happened. Every single event that lead to the friend group breaking apart. If Yejun's father hadn't bought the summer house, there was no way they'd get a house in the richer neighbourhood.

Yejun's house was the summer house, it was ruined physically at the time they bought it, but Ricky and Yunmi had insisted on helping the repair of the house by paying doe the repairs.

Jiwoong found that really nice, since he knew his mother and his step dad were probably going through a lot; Yejun was still attending an expensive rich person college, and Jiwoong was still living in the house last year before he moved out. He hoped that him moving in with friends would make the money situation better.

"I haven't been here in so long." Jiwoong said quietly to himself. Him and the boys were currently searching Yejun's bedroom to find anything helpful - and obviously searching for Yejun's phone too.

Hao heard Jiwoong and chuckled. "I'm just surprised you and Yejun were actually close considering you didn't live together anymore."

Jiwoong opened a draw and sighed when he saw it was empty. "I know, I miss him." He went through every draw and cabinet doors in the room but it was all just empty.

"Don't you think it's weird he had nothing in his room?" Taerae asked in confusion. But Jiwoong shook his head. "Pretty sure this room was the room where Ricky and Yunmi were roommates."

"I found something." Matthew announced to the others, averting their attention to what he was holding. "And it's weird."

Matthew picked up a piece of paper that was in one of Yejun's notebooks. It read 'You'll be in Chaeri by October this year." It was clearly printed out and Jiwoong acknowledged the meaning behind it.

"Yejun was sent to Chaeri in October of last year," Jiwoong explained, "But why is it printed out? Or maybe this was from a teacher?"

"Why was he sent to Chaeri?" Hao raised a brow suspiciously. "It's like this person knew he was going to he moved there."

"He destructed the house apparently. Like this house. Which is why it was so broken when we first moved in." Jiwoong shrugged. "He did admit to doing it, so I doubt it's anything suspicious. Keep looking."

"Wait." Matthew said, "This notebook..." He flipped through a few pages and stopped on a page with some creepy writing on it. "I'm freaked out."

"What?"

"It says March 20, 2024, break up with Yunmi." Hao read before taking the notebook into his hands. "Then it says that he isn't safe."

"That's fucking creepy." Hanbin said, reading from Hao's side. "Was he planning to break up with Yunmi?"

"But.." Jiwoong took the notebook this time. "It was their one year anniversary, and that was the same day he was murdered." He gulped when he realised something. "Someone must have told him to break up with her, hence why it says that he isn't safe."

All of their minds went to the same person: Gyuvin.

"Okay, we need to interview them on thwir whereabouts that night soon.." Hanbin said, "And I'll focus on Gyuvin, obviously."

Jiwoong nodded. "Okay, let's just keep searching this room." Well he hoped that they could keep searching - the place was basically empty.

"It's so plain here." Taerae scrunched his nose, noticing the weird emptiness too. "It's as if he packed everything, do you think he knew he was going to be killed?"

Matthew sighed. "Maybe, but shouldn't we search for his phone? Jiwoong's parents said someone had probably stolen it."

Jiwoong nodded, remembering the terrifying text messages between him and someone called Z. He doesn't think he's ready to tell the others that Z had found Jiwoong out too.

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- HAN YUNMI

"All of us were there." Ricky confessed, earning a loud "What?" from Yunmi and Gyuvin who looked at them in shock.

"Long story short, Yejun told Yunmi something that only Yunmi and I knew.. so then I talked to Yejun and he told me to meet him at Chaeri to tell me info about you guys..." Ricky sighed. "I saw Gunwook there, but I didn't see Yejun." He then turned to Gunwook. "Then Gunwook spoke to me and told me that Yejun told someone who he was dating.."

Gunwook then took over. "I got mad at him and told him to meet me at Chaeri so we could talk, but he said he was already there." Gunwook gulped. "But then we were walking around the back of the college and we saw you there." He looked at Gyuvin and Yunmi.

"What? Both of us?" Yunmi asked in panic.

"Yeah, well we saw only Gyuvin actually." Ricky scratched the invisible itch behind his ear. "We suspected it was him from the start, trying to meet us at the college. But it's obvious it was actually Yejun.."

"So he intentionally told someone our secrets that day?" Yunmi sat up and her brows furrowed. "Then intentionally made us all go to the same place. Did he think we were going to fucking kill him?" She scoffed bitterly. "Was he thinking one of us would do it?

But then after realising everything she said, Yunmi gulped. "Oh my God, so did all of us kill him?" The three boys looked at each other and didn't answer Yunmi, making her fall backwards without saying or hearing anything.

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- KIM GYUVIN

hyeri

hyeri:
hey
everything okay?

gyuvin:
yeah why?

hyeri:
your mother told me to tell you to answer her messages as soon as you can, she said it's really important

gyuvin:
is she not downstairs from you?

hyeri:
she left the house just now, just text her i think she doesn't want to be seen rught now

gyuvin:
oh
okay

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mother

mother:
gyuvin?
gyuvin please answer me
hello?
gyuvin??

gyuvin:
yes?
sorry i didn't see the message

mother:
it's okay

gyuvin:
what's up?

mother:
i need to tell you the truth gyuvin
and i don't want to tell you in person

gyuvin:
...what?

mother:
i always knew your father was sleeping with the vice principal , and i do know who hyeri is. of course i know she's the daughter.

gyuvin:
what.

mother:
i've supported mrs han being with your father ever since they first got together

gyuvin:
what the fuck
why are you letting this happen?? letting your friend or coworker or whatever sleep with dad??? your husband???

mother:
your father and i fell out of love a long time ago gyuvin, we weren't planning the divorce until you were nearing the end of college

gyuvin:
im so confused

mother:
your father and i have new people we're in love with, and we're just friends don't worry. we didn't argue or anything it was just a mutual feeling and we wanted to keep the business of the schools together

gyuvin:
you're seeing someone???

mother:
gyuvin
have you never heard any scandals about our family before? do you really know nothing?

gyuvin:
i know nothing about my family
and i never fucking did

mother:
okay, let's just say.. i was in a relationship with one of the students a while ago

gyuvin:
what the fuck
you are fucking disgusting

mother:
i know, you can hate me because he was one of your classmates too

gyuvin:
don't tell me you're still dating him
and don't tell me who it is
you'll ruin school for me

mother:
okay i won't
but no, he's got a new girlfriend now

gyuvin:
i don't want to fucking know who it is

mother:
i know it sounds bad gyuvin

gyuvin:
you dated someone my fucking age
i don't even know what to say to you
i don't even want to call you my mother

mother:
i understand

gyuvin:
i hate you
i don't want you in my life
both you and father are fucking liars

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He dropped the phone and he doesn't know why, but his misery had made his feet drag him to where Yunmi waa, sat in the cinema room by herself on the pillows watching kdramas again.

"Yunmi?" He called out to her softly, she looked up from her phone and noticed his glassy eyes.

"Are you okay?" What a stupid question. She watched as he slowly walked towards her and sat next to her on the pillows. She paused the kdrama and looked at him. "What's going on?"

Gyuvin didn't say anything and just pulled Yunmi into a hug, and he was already crying. He didn't know that he was crying, he didn't even realise he was crying on his way.

Yunmi was taken by surprise to even get some sort of nice gesture from the boy. But considering he looked hurt and was crying, she carefully hugged him back.

It was a bit stiff at first as they hadn't hugged in almost two years, but Yunmi grew comfortable quickly. "It's okay, cry it out. I'll be here." She spoke softly and began to rub his back gently. "Shh, it's okay. Just cry."

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awwww i think
gyunmi though!!!

ops on gyus mum... and the everyone at chaeri thing...