CHAPTER SIX: who is Z?

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- Z

Z opened their laptop with a sigh. They made sure to find more information to dig up on one of the four students. This time, the suspect was Yunmi. All of their hard work had luckily been completed as they managed to reload deleted messages between the Yunmi and one of her friends on the night of Yejun's death.

They then smiled to themself as they downloaded the file, ready to use this as blackmail for her. This meant that there was more evidence on the students, but less clear evidence on who was actually behind the crime.

loading deleted messages.....

conversation loaded!

4:03am

wonyoung

yunmi:
wony

wonyoung:
hi love i'm awake
what's up? it's 4am
yejun's texting the groupchat

yunmi:
no don't mention that i haven't talked to him
i just made a huge mistake though

wonyoung:
okay...
what did you do yunmi?

yunmi:
i argued with yejun
and then i did something bad

wonyoung:
okay first what did you argue about
he told us you two argued

yunmi:
he found out what i did last summer so i got scared that he would tell everyone so i just did something thinking it would make him keep his mouth shut

wonyoung:
oh no what did you do to him now?

yunmi:
everyone's gonna hate me
i hurt yejun so so so so so bad

wonyoung:
yunmi calm down
what happened

yunmi:
i don't even know how to explain it
i dont know what to do and gyuvin ran away

wonyoung:
u were with gyuvin?

yunmi:
yes im so out of my mind right now i dont know whats going on and im dizzy

wonyoung:
oh my god yunmi
why are you getting high or drunk or whatever with gyuvin and wtf did you do to yejun

yunmi:
i dont even know anymore
ok before i sleep i'm deleting this conversation before i read this in the morning

wonyoung:
okay
so you're going to delete it so you don't feel guilty if you find out what you did in the morning

yunmi:
yes, please act like i never said anything just act clueless do whatever

wonyoung:
okay fine i will
did gyuvin do anything to you though?

yunmi:
he threatened me not to tell anyone what we did to him or else he'd tell everyone himself

wonyoung:
where are you

yunmi:
i ran back home i'm ok now

wonyoung:
okay fine
go to sleep yunmi

yunmi deleted this conversation!

4:27am

wonyoung:
fuck yunmi why did you delete the messages
yejun's hiding in his school and he's unsafe
yunmi
wake up
your boyfriend is in danger
yunmi????

wonyoung deleted this conversation!

The person licked their lips as they finished reading the whole thing. "Yunmi does look very suspicious here." They tilted their head and chuckled to themselves. "Ruining an innocent boy's feelings... she wouldn't dare."

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- Z

later.

Z sighed in relief after finally finding deleted conversations between Yejun and Gunwook on the night. This surely made Gunwook to be the one who was guilty, as it showed a series of texts that indicated that Gunwook did see Yejun that night.

loading deleted messages.....

conversation loaded!

3:46am

yejun

gunwook:
what the fuck is wrong with you

yejun:
i'm sorry

gunwook:
no you're fucking not
we haven't talked in so long
why are you doing this to me now

yejun:
i had to do it gunwook

gunwook:
no you didn't. you weren't supposed to tell anyone that i was dating her

yejun:
well it was wrong

gunwook:
where the fuck are you
i need to talk to you about this in person
i need to understand why you would do this

yejun:
why would i tell you
are you going to attempt to kill me like last time i said something about your relationship

gunwook:
oh i don't even know anymore
just don't piss me off
meet me outside your school

yejun:
i'm already there
i'm not going to talk to you
don't come near me or i'll tell her what you did

gunwook:
yejun i'm on my way please meet me outside
i won't do anything i promise
i just want to talk to you

yejun:
i already have some company right now

gunwook deleted this conversation!

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present time.

- SHEN QUANRUI

Ricky had decided to talk with Hao in the living room. Fortunately for Hao, they were from the same country, meaning it would be a head start on creating a bond with the boy before finding out other things about him.

For the past two hours, Hao and Ricky had just been talking about anything. Waiting for the message from Jiwoong, Hao avoided asking questions about the others. It was just some wholesome relatable conversations and the two became friends in that very sitting.

Hao's phone buzzed and Jiwoong texted him a thunbs up emoji, indicating that he should start to ask questions. And thankfully, Ricky had just laid down and asked him "What should we talk about now?"

Hao smiled and shrugged. "Well since I'lll be living with you and your.. friends for the next few weeks, how's your relationship with the others?"

Ricky gagged and rolled his eyes. "Bad. Next topic."

Hao frowned. "You really don't want to talk about it?"

Ricky shook his head. "No. All you need to know is that we aren't friends and I hate him." He took a pillow and put it beneath his head where he was laid down. "We can talk about anything besides them. I do not have a good history with any of them."

Hao sighed and knew that this was going to be a struggle. But obviously he didn't want to beg for information because that would be too suspicious. "Okay well... can I ask about Yejun?"

Ricky shrugged. "There's nothing to say about him." He yawned and turned on the TV. But ironically, news about Yejun was on the news right away. "Oh my days..."

Hao looked up at the TV and sighed. "I'm sorry for your loss." He said softly to the younger boy. "And I'm sorry that you would be seen as a suspect for him."

The news showcased many photos of Yejun and started to talk about many articles. The main suspects were never revealed as having four students who come from powerful families would cause a huge problem in the media. People's speculations on his death was that it was actually a suicide instead.

"They really think he killed himself because he had no friends?" Ricky scoffed at the articles and crossed his legs. "I'm not gonna lie, the news is focusing more on Chaeri being shut rather than his death."

Hao nodded. "I get that Chaeri is a prestigious college but they don't really focus on the death." He went silent to watch the news more but squinted when he realised something. "It says that the internet thinks that his step brother is a suspect."

"Who? Jiwoong?" Ricky asked. Hao went completely silent and then Ricky turned the TV off and rolled his eyes. "He seems like a better suspect than me. Like I know he's in my house right now but I would never kill someone, especially him. Like I never really enjoyed his presence but I wouldn't want him to end up like that."

Hao stopped zoning out and brushed away the idea. The boy hummed. "Do you think anyone is suspicious? Out of you and the others or some new people?" The older boy tried to get information a different way, hoping that he could get something to report back.

"I mean Gyuvin is very obviously suspicious, and I bet you think he is." He turned to Hao who just shrugged. "Well, he's always hated Yejun but I don't think he would murder him. The hate he shows now is just the same as it was back then."

Hao hummed. "So Gyuvin's always acted this way about Yejun?"

Ricky nodded. "Anyways, I don't want to get into that because I really don't care. All I know is that none of us are guilty and we just hurt him in the past."

Hao clicked his tongue and read a message from Taerae that read 'Mention weird text messages, if he mentions someone named 'Z' let us know later.' The boy cleared his throat and Ricky raised a brow. "What's wrong?"

Hao turned his phone off and looked at the younger. "Nothing, just saw some weird number texting me things."

Ricky sat up. "Yeah, I've never received weird messages before." He then turned to Hao. "I'm asking this out of pure curiosity, do you know anyone whose name starts with a Z?"

Hao felt weird just by the way he immediately started to talk about it, and how Taerae knew. "I don't, why?"

Ricky shook his head. "Nothing, I'm just curious. I've never met anyone whose name starts with a Z."

"I mean my name's Zhang Hao." He laughed awkwardly. "But besides that no." Ricky laughed too but didn't think weirdly of it. Hao looked down again and sighed. "I have to go, I'll come back to talk to you later."

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- Kim Gyuvin

Hanbin was sat on the kitchen counter with his arms crossed and eyes closed in frustration. "Gyuvin stop being a dickhead. I'm trying to be nice to you."

Gyuvin glared at him. "You know you can't just ask me how I feel about the situation." He crossed his arms back. "I'm a fucking suspect for something that probably-" The boy stopped talking and tried to find better words for the next part of his sentence. "For something that probably had little to do with me."

Hanbin sighed. "Okay, I'm sorry. I don't want to be in your business but you can't slap me in the face after I asked a question on something that is the reason why you're stuck in a mansion with people you dislike."

Gyuvin scoffed. "Well I'm not fucking telling you anything. I'm not telling anyone anything. No matter what I say you all assume I had something to do with it. It's what they did."

"It's what who did?"

"Yunmi, Ricky and Gunwook, of course." He rolled his eyes. "I think they're toying with me. They're just using me as a the main suspect. I bet they've already told their friends and family that I'm the suspicious one."

Hanbin cleared his throat, knowing that he is absolutely right. "Okay well... I don't doubt the idea that they think you're suspicious but do you see the way you're acting?"

"Yes. Yejun's dead. I know. I never liked him." He paced around in anger. "But just because of that how am I the guilty one? Why is everyone ignoring the fact all three of them also did shitty things to him?"

"Like what?" Hanbin asked with a face of disbelief. "What exactly could they have done that would make you less of a suspect?"

He gulped. "Well I can't really say-"

Hanbin smirked. "See? You're lying." However, Hanbin knew that all four of them had to have done something bad to Yejun to be suspects. But to test Gyuvin like this was a perfect way to make him reveal things. "You have no proof."

Gyuvin huffed. "Why would I tell you what they did? We aren't close enough for me to tell you our friendship business. I just don't think I'm the only one who's suspicious."

"Can I at least have one example?" Hanbin raised a brow.

"No." Gyuvin refused and closed his eyes. It was now silent and Gyuvin opened one eye to see Hanbin still looking at him with a look of amusement.

Gyuvin took a deep breath and smiled a little before opening his eyes and looking at Hanbin. "Okay, if I tell you ONE thing, will that make you think of me less as a guilty criminal?" He sat on the counter next to the older.

Hanbin smiled. "Yes, tell me that one thing."

Gyuvin sighed. "Okay so basically, there's someone texting me with the name of Z." He looked at Hanbin whose eyebrows were knitted together. "And I believe that one of them is the one texting me. "

"Okay well what is this person texting you?"

"Threatening me about my past, telling me things about summer that ONLY our friend group would know. They want to hurt me. They know what I did. But they're doing it to scare me. They're worse."

Hanbin nodded his head in acknowledgment. "Interesting." He was happy that he at least got that out of him. Before he could answer, Taerae had texted him saying 'Mention weird text messages, if he mentions someone named 'Z' let us know later.'

Hanbin chuckled to himself knowing he didn't even need this message to get that weird messages information out of him. Hanbin then looked back up at Gyuvin. "Okay. I do think that's suspicious and that you're less of a suspect a LITTLE bit."

Gyuvin just smiled in relief and yawned. "Okay well, thanks for listening to my rant. You can leave before I end up rambling more about how it wasn't my fault. Which it isn't."

Hanbin nodded and got off of the chair. "I'll see you later, I'm going to meet the other staff members for our break."

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totally spies
6 members

jiwoong:
okay we can't discuss this in person in case they hear us so let's talk about it all here

hanbin:
okay

jiwoong:
can we confirm that they have all mentioned that someone called Z has been sending them weird text messages

hanbin:
yes

taerae:
yes

matthew:
yes

hao:
yes

yujin:
wait
i know i'm not really involved but someone called Z is also texting me, well they texted me once

hao:
wait what
what did they say to you

yujin:
the day they were all leaving someone sent me an image of gyuvin and yunmi

hao:
is that it?

yujin:
yes it was just a photo of them two together that night, oh and then they said 'i can hear them planning something hurtful'

taerae:
okay wait that's really fucking weird

matthew:
okay well whoever Z is, knows a lot and sees a lot kind of like a stalker

hanbin:
do you know what gyuvin said to me earlier

matthew:
what did he say

hanbin:
he said that the Z person was threatening him with things that only the friendgroup would know about, and that he thinks that it's one of them

jiwoong:
wait that's really smart
one of them could just be texting everyone to make them scared and admit they did something

hao:
that is smart
but who would it be

taerae:
what if one of them is lying and sending each other fake messages but purposely trying to make gyuvin be the guilty one

mathew:
wait that makes so much sense

yujin:
but we don't know that if it is actually them
but at the same time it would make sense if they were just texting each other and faking things

jiwoong:
yeah that is weird
well let's discuss the friend group problem details tomorrow and focus on finding out who Z is

hao:
okay that's fine but let's not really believe everything gyuvin says though, he could just be setting them up because he's scared

hanbin:
i mean to be honest he does seem very afraid and frustrated that he is seen as the most guilty

yujin:
no idc i believe he did something to yejun

jiwoong:
we all do
good work today, don't ask any more questions about it for now since we luckily got a lot of information in the first day

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double update who this

guys i'm enjoying writing this sm

who do u guys think it is🌚🌚🌚