RINAE
aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA

RINAE

JENO
may i help you

RINAE
im scared

JENO
of what

RINAE
stream later

JENO
why

RINAE
IM NERVOUS

JENO
why are you nervous we've already
hung out once??

RINAE
bc ive never streamed with other
people and im scared of what all
your fans will think of me

JENO
my fans already love you and i
know everyone else will

JENO
theres nothing to worry about
rinaeee

RINAE
will you hold my hand

JENO
no

RINAE
wtf

RINAE
you are so rude

JENO
how will i hold your hand through
a screen

JENO
you dont need me to hold your
hand

RINAE
idk we'd figure something out and
yes i do.

JENO
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 right okay

RINAE
but seeing as you clearly dont care
about me

JENO
wow what an assumption

RINAE
i bet youd hold yejis hand

JENO
LOOOOOLLLLL

JENO
what gives you that idea????

RINAE
seeing as you have a crush on her
and whatever

JENO
i do not

JENO
are you... jealous🤨

RINAE
NEVER

RINAE
she ships us

JENO
she what

RINAE
yep. its true

JENO
no she doesnt

RINAE
yes she does she told me herself.
you arent the one in a groupchat
with her

JENO
well if she ships us then theres no
need to be jealous

RINAE
IM NOT

JENO
bad liar. bad bad bad

JENO
i dont have a crush on her

RINAE
suuuuuuure

JENO
will you believe me if i hold your
hand on stream

RINAE
yeah

JENO
i was really hoping you wouldnt
say that

JENO
sigh... i guess i'll hold your hand
then

RINAE
😁

JENO
you do know this is just feeding
the rino shippers right

RINAE
whats the problem

RINAE
are you embarrassed by me or
something

JENO
LMAOOO no oh my😭😭

JENO
i dont care about ships im just
making sure youre aware

RINAE
duh

JENO
okayyyy if you say so

JENO
rino is ready to sail

RINAE
ew

JENO
EW YOU

rinaes heart pounded in her chest as she sat down at her set up, putting on her headphones and checking herself in her mirror for the hundredth time. her discord showed a call from none other than the gaming group, and her finger hovered over it hesitantly even though it was already a minute after the time they decided on.

before she could be anymore late, she let out a long sigh before finally pressing answer. cj sat on the other side of her room, lied out on her bed scrolling through her phone silently before her attention was turned to rinae.

she didn't say anything immediately, just listening quietly while the group loudly conversed on the other side.

"i've never even seen friday the 13th," a voice said, "i tried to watch but only got like, 10 minutes in and got bored. boring movie." the voice was quickly recognized as yangyang.

"the closest you've ever gotten to watching a horror movie was watching coraline." hendery jumped in, herds of laughter sounded through the call.

the girl snorted a laugh, hearing cj snap her fingers lightly to grab her attention, to which the friend turned her head. cj had turned her gaze from her phone to rinaes pc screen, seeing the open call and mouthed 'are you muted?'

rinae nodded, and cj continued. "say something! you're already late." she urged.

the other narrowed her eyes and waved the girl off, but she knew she was right. she couldn't have kept mute forever.

"oh my god, he seriously pissed his pants while going through a haunted house when you were 12?" a voice began, talking between laughter and a literal wheeze was heard.

"currently feeling very... emasculated." yangyang responded. rinae realized hendery must have told the infamous piss story that he'd been telling since the day it happened, and people found it hilarious every single time.

"oh, hi rinae!"

the gamer sighed in relief when someone noticed her and she wouldn't have to jump in and interrupt their conversation. "rinaes here? hiii."

she finally clicked unmute. "hey guys, sorry i'm late."

"oh my gosh! kang rinae! i'm such a big fan, can i have your autograph? i love you. love me back." haechans all too familiar voice came through her headset, to which the girl scrunched her face in disgust.

"oh no, it's haechan," she replied, "my worst nightmare."

the boys far too dramatic gasp was heard through the other line, followed by rinaes laugh as she scooted closer in her chair, moving her mouse to another screen and left it hovering over the 'start stream' button. she had no idea who'd already begun there and decided it was now or never.

"alright, doing my intro, stay quiet for a sec," she warned, everyone humming in agreement but she turned down the volume just in case and muted herself.

"hi, it's me, and we're—"

"rinae has a yangyang shrine in her room."

"...no i don't. tonight we're—"

"hey guys! jeno here! today i'm with the gang, plus new people, and we're gonna be playing friday the 13th."

"...welp, i guess there's no need for my intro, then."

the chat instantly went crazy, questions of who exactly was talking and how they couldn't believe rinae was actually streaming with other people. somehow, it really was that hard to believe.

she leaned in closer, trying to read each comment at once. "yes, yes, it's true. for those of you who haven't heard yet, i've been kidnapped by gamer heads and i'm being forced to play a game with them... it's so crazy."

"we're with hendery, yangyang, haechan, xiaojun, sungchan," jeno continued, "and rinae, who's muted."

"hiiii," sungchan greeted to jenos fans.

"my chats going crazy at the mention of new people," mark chuckled, "mostly sungchan. the people love sungchan."

the taller laughed and shook his head in disbelief, though it wasn't hard to believe at all. he was already popular for his good looks, and his charm and bubbly yet introverted personality had people falling for him even more. the camera always loved him. rinae glanced to cj who'd been listening in from her phone, her already grinning at the sound of her boyfriends name.

"this game is violent," jisung began, "i don't like the idea of killing people. i just want minecraft. i could make you all in my minecraft world!"

"jisung, it's really time for you to move on. we're literally about to start the game." said renjun, everyone almost sensing his blank expression from the other side.

rinae couldn't keep her eyes off the comments, who were confused mostly because the screen was entirely different and there were voices other than her own. a lot of viewers seemed to have join from the other people of the groups' streams, curiously viewing the game from her perspective. in other words, there were much more views than she was used to and her heart was beating our of her chest. she looked to her down a bit, seeing her phone light up with a message.

JENO
still need me to hold your hand?

the girl grinned subconsciously, shaking her head lightly but didn't respond, thanking herself silently that she decided to film without a webcam that time because she knew she'd be questioned for her smile.

"is everyone ready?" winwin asked.

collective 'yes's and 'lets go's were heard around the call, and finally the game began.

muted, rinae spoke to the chat. "sorry if i don't talk a lot, i'm very nervous. bare with me. baby's first collab."

she'd also never played the game before and decided she was far too cool to do some research, that it couldn't have been all that hard but now she was regretting it. the game started and she and her character were left alone in what seemed to be the middle of the woods, which only left her further in confusion.

"what the fuck.." she mumbled, pressing 'w' on her keyboard to move forward. her confusion must have been noticeable because the comments under her stream were attempting to explain to her what to do. she didn't listen though, just went further and further until a cabin came into sight.

the blonde let out a sigh of relief once she was no longer lost, but still had no idea what to do, until another person showed up. "oh, hi. who's this?"

"it's me!" jungwoo replied happily, to which rinae gasped.

"jungwoo! my fave! i don't even know what i'm doing, honestly. help me." she pleaded.

"i got you, follow me," he ordered, "i told winwin i'd team up with him but he was being annoying, so i left."

rinae chuckled in response and the chat suddenly got louder at the sound of winwins name, the number of viewers growing by the minute. jungwoos character lead her inside the cabin and to a table of weapons, to which he picked one up himself.

"survival of the fittest."

rinae laughed again, unable to take anything seriously and jungwoo seemed to not have been able to either, stifling a laugh himself. "okay, grab a weapon."

she wasn't picky on which to grab, and it happened to be an axe. "wish it was a glock, but whatever. coulda been strapped up."

now it was jungwoos turn to laugh, "you're genuinely the funniest person i've ever met."

rinae smiled. "so how do we know who the killer is?"

"we don't yet, not until we run into him or someone tells us. actually, we're probably supposed to be shutting the fuck up right now but it's fine because proximity is turned on, anyways, yeah we just have to survive until the timer runs out! simple!"

the girl forced a smile that came out only as a half one, sighing dramatically and muttering a 'fuck me,' because she knew she was screwed. "jungwoo, don't leave my side, i'm dead without you."

"i'll never leave you my lover!"

"who goes there?" another voice joined, rinae slightly jumping out of her skin when another character approached, finger on the swing button to toggle an attack but it luckily wasn't the very feared killed.

"name yourself."

"i asked you first."

"...haechan."

"FUCK."

"your voice changer doesn't do much, dumbass," she snorted.

"your voice changer doesn't do much, dumbass," he mocked, switching off the voice changer yet making his voice as high-pitched as he possibly could.

"bitch, i don't sound like that. we're leaving you to die, let's go jungwoo," she replied, turning the other way and walking out of the room with a laughing jungwoo behind and a whiney haechan who still followed even after indirectly asked not to.

"we should stick together."

ignoring haechans suggestion, rinae slipped a finger and clicked a button that opened what looked to be a task bar. "oh, shit, we have tasks?"

"oh my god, we do, i completely forgot," jungwoo gasped, "ew, though. tasks are boring."

"i'm too pretty for jobs," haechan sighed, but it was likely he was just too lazy to do them anyways.

"jobs are too pretty for you."

"manifesting the killer gets you first."

"this is why you're not verified—"

"are we partying in here?" yet again another voice joined, and rinae guessed it was officially a party, because there was far too many people in one place.

the two boys seemed to have recognized the voice immediately, cheering loudly once it came through their headsets and it didn't take long for rinae to either. another grin fell to her lips and she listened silently while the three went back and forth on badly they wished for the game to get interesting.

"boys.." she muttered, mainly to her chat.

"miss rinae? is that you?" jeno asked teasingly.

"it's me, don't get starstruck."

"okay, since you're all here, i have a secret to tell you," his voice got quieter, "jisungs the killer, and he has no fucking idea what he's doing. i don't think he's killed anyone yet."

haechan busts into laughter so hard they swore they could hear him hit his desk, whereas rinaes mouth fell open in shock at such irony. "of course it's him, oh my god, poor jisung."

"no, like, we could survive if he's the killer. thank you universe!"

"alright, can we get moving? we've been in here for like 20 minutes," rinae insisted and the rest agreed.

the universe seemed to have changed its mind at the last minute, because jisung came strolling in as jason voorhees and took a swing at jeno before anyone could even processed what was happening. "I'VE BEEN STABBED."

another gasp fell from rinaes lips but was cut off with laughter as she turned around and ran the other way, while haechan and jungwoo let high-pitched screeches out. "sorry jeno!" jisung apologized, yet without a single hint of actually sympathy in his tone, just making it even funnier.

"it's always the innocent looking ones," rinae spoke to her chat again, "the game has officially begun, ladies and gentleman."