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"what are you trying to say here?" i questioned haechan, jaemin and renjun. they've been talking about weijung-- the mysterious unknown in weijung's contacts. "i'm serious hyung! what if she's being watched? what if we're being watched?" haechan said. i rolled my eyes, "we'll solve that later, once everyone is finally here in the headquarters."

"speaking of that, where is chenle?" jeno asked

"with weijung, i think he's taking care of her." jisung said.

"good." i nodded before realizing something. "wait, didn't i tell him we had a meeting today?" i raised a brow and they all just shrugged. "you know the boy, he's too whipped for weijung." nayoung shrugged as heeyeon chuckled.

"i'm gonna go find them– if that's okay with you." jisung suddenly said.

"just stay here, let's wait. i think that boy's on to something." i told them. after a few minutes of waiting, the door bursts open revealing chenle. i was quite disappointed, i was expecting weijung to be with him. "what took you so long?" jeno raised a brow and looked at him. chenle grinned, "i brought a friend!" he pulled someone from behind him and my frown suddenly turned into a bright smile.

"weijung!!" jisung exclaimed and ran towards her. oh gee, he likes her a lot hm?

"you're back?" renjun stated quite sounding it as a question.

"hmm, only for now– i guess." weijung awkwardly mumbled.

"so, chenle dragged me here to tell you guys about this.. eunji problem." she faked a cough. so there is something between her and eunji.

she then closed the door behind her and began to tell us everything. we were
shocked, as expected from eunji. "you once draw?" renjun asked her and she nodded, "yeah but.. i never drew again after she wasted all my drawings for her."

"what a bitch." jaemin spat. "how could she waste such drawings made with love? hmm she's really good at manipulating people isn't she? even we fell into her tricks." jaemin sighed.

i couldn't speak, i just didn't want to bring up the past. it was as horrible as weijung's. but i guess i need to let the past go and move on.

i cleared my throat as everyone's attention turned to me, i took a deep breath before speaking, "eunji– she kinda played with our feelings. she lead us on, thinking she was some boss or yeah. heeyeon met her first since they were both in the same class– we were recruiting new members for the team and she was one who tried for it. her work wasn't really the best that we were looking for at that time but we saw the potential she had so we accepted her." i told her.

"we all fell for her charms yet she used us for her fame, money and such. she got so caught up with all the fame, she became someone–"

"more like a famewhore ehem attention seeker." nayoung cut me off. "let me finish." i glared at her as she raised both of her hands in surrender.

"but then one day, we got a messaged that she was found dead at the rooftop. we didn't know why but it hit us hard. chenle.. became inactive. now, we were really cautious on who to trust and add to the team. minyoung– sadly left us due to her parents making her change into a new school." i finished.

"we then received notes about eunji that she was just playing with us– there were records of her voice ranting and ranting about her hate for us." heeyeon stated.

weijung nodded, slowly taking in all the information that she had received.

"then, if she did all those to you guys, why would you want to know who killed her and how did she die?" weijung looked at all of us one by one.

we all fell silent, why did we want to know? we hated her so much but why do we want to know?

"w-we don't know." i mumbled and fiddled with my fingers.

weijung tilted her head and pressed her lips into a thin line, "there must be a reason– everything has a reason."

"maybe you guys still miss her?" weijung raised a brow and renjun scoffed, "how could you miss such a person? i hate that i fell for her trap– all those sayings that she loves me were all fake, weren't they?" renjun looked at me and the others. chenle bit his bottom lip and looked down, jaemin did as well.

"see?"

weijung looked at us in amusement. "i'll
help you in three conditions." she stated.

we all looked at each other before looking back at her. "and what is that?"

"one is tell me things about the school." she listed.

"that's easy—"

"it's backstory and such. i wouldn't be shocked if i was told this place was filled with such accidents– they were all too good to be accidents." weijung cut haechan off.

"we're listening." i uttered.

"second is, i need all of you to tell me the real reason why you want to solve eunji's case. that will be quite hard so i'll give you the whole month to think about it." she stated.

"lastly, answer my questions." she finished.

"questions?" chenle was dumbfounded.

"why are there hidden passageways– secrets rooms and a catacombs here in your school." weijung was serious, she looked very serious.

"deal, as long as you join the team again." jeno agreed.

soon, one by one, everyone started to agree with her condition. it was all left to me. "hyung?" jisung looked at me. i bit my lip, "you're not a bad person aren't you?" i was really doubting her when i shouldn't.

she scoffed, "you know– you shouldn't ask someone that when they have good intentions. no, i'm not someone who would ruin your team. i'm here to help you aren't i?"

i rolled my eyes at her statement, "alright then."

she grinned, "then let's start."

but after that, we heard something go off, we heard a loud a crash. it seemed to be just close.

weijung was shocked to hear the crash. she then ran towards the door to lock it. "get inside my office." she instructed. "why?" haechan asked her. "just go." she whisper-shouted. i grabbed haechan's wrist as we all scurried to her office. woah, i've never seen this place before.

she then walked in. "i have already locked everything so i guess we'll all be staying here for the night." she mumbled and walked towards her desk. she opened something and started pressing some buttons.

"did you see that? i have complete access to the school's surveillance cameras and right there.. you can see that someone's trying to break in into a club room." weijung pointed at one of the screens.

"that's the west of the building though.." jisung tilted his head.

jaemin pointed at the screen, "can you zoom in?" he asked weijung.

weijung nodded and zoomed in. i gasped, "the person is breaking into the occult club room."

weijung furrowed her brows, "you guys have an occult club? seriously?"

i shrugged, "what do you expect from this school?"

"geez, minyoung was right, this school has tons of surprises. by that, secrets." she mumbled.

she then walked towards to this some sort of digital wall or yeah. i have no idea.

"here is a map of the school– i'll check on that intruder in the occul– hold up. the person is stealing!" i flinched as weijung shouted suddenly. she ean towards her computer as we heard fast typing, clicking and computer noises. "scanning person.. it will take 2 minutes for this to process." the computer said.

"do you want to continue and open this
profile?" the computer then said.

renjun furrowed his brows and walked towards her to check what she was doing. his jaw dropped, "no way! you found who the person is!" he pointed out.

"it's called scanning and facial recognition." weijung answered him. she then transferred the profile to the digital wall she had. "yoon jaerin?" she tilted her head before looking at us. "who is this.. yoon jaerin?" weijung asked us.

i shrugged, i seriously don't know anyone named yoon jaerin. "never head of her." jeno shrugged.

"maybe.. some girl from another grade?" heeyeon mumbled.

weijung knitted her brows in confusion. "her profile is confusing.. born in 1998– a graduating student. so she's in her
12th grade." weijung stated. "but what the fuck is she doing?"

"look! she has a bag with her! she heading towards– the old dorms!" jisung exclaimed.

"old?"

"you see, the dorms we and you live in now are new built dorms, those dorms are the old ones– students have said that living in those dorms were creepy and dangerous." nayoung explained.

weijung nodded and turned back to her digital wall thingy. "what are you doing?" chenle questioned her.

"i'm thinking." weijung mumbled.

"thinking about what?"

"is nam eunji really dead?"

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