"hold onto my hand tight. i promise, i won't let you go."

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h u a n g r e n j u n

"aish, i'm glad you woke up once chenle slept." i muttered as i walked around with weijung. weijung chuckled, "why?"

"chenle's being so clingy—he wanted you beside him." i told her. weijung rolled her eyes, "typical chenle."

i pressed my lips into a thin line as i watched her stroll around the school grounds. chenle was back at the hospital with kun-hyung, chenle was also busy studying for the test on thursday. today and tomorrow—we need to finish studying and preparing for the test.

i kept my word with weijung and taught her the subjects she didn't understand. "renjun." she called which made me turn my attention to her. "yeah?" i answered simply. "i have this feeling.. that we need to go back to the catacombs." she mumbled lowly.

"catacombs? again? when and why?" i bombarded her with questions. to be honest, i do feel like the answer to our theories and questions are just really close by. i hope we solve these cases real quick.

"because.. i just feel like there is something we missed." weijung muttered. i nodded and continued walking, walking along– that's when i felt something invisibly stab me. i dropped to the ground as i clutched my stomach. "it hurts! i feel like someone is stabbing me." i cried in pain as weijung grabbed onto me.

"stabbing you? but there isn't any—fucking voodoo shit!" weijung suddenly snapped. i continued to yelp in pain, where's everybody? oh right, they're studying either at their dorm or the study hall. i saw weijung looking around, "fuck! show yourself!" weijung shouted.

"weijung no.. it could hurt you." i mumbled and tried to stand up but i felt like i was being pulled down, being pinned onto the ground. "AHH!" i screamed as i felt a knife going through my thigh. it hurts so much.

"hang in there, renjun." weijung grabbed my hand and squeezed it gently, "just relax, fight back whatever you're thinking. it's controlling you." weijung whispered. tears were already falling down my face, "w-what do.. you mean?"

"whoever has that voodoo doll of yours, she's also using some sort of black magic to control you." weijung stated. "just calm down and think of anything else to prevent that black magic from getting to you."

"but it hurts!" i whined.

weijung stood up again, "yah! didn't i tell you to show yourself?" that's when weijung was lifted into the air and was thrown towards the fountain. her back roughly bumped into the brick fountain. "weijung!" i shouted and was about to stand up when pain covered me again.

i saw a black figure walking closely with a knife in its hand. "you see this renjun sweetheart? it's a replica of you and weijung." the girl chuckled. i saw her wrist! she had the same metal wristlet. "let's see what happens? enjoy the pain." she laughed and squeezed the weijung rag doll. weijung screamed in pain, i weakly covered my ears not wanting to hear.

i don't want to see her hurt, i don't want to see her in pain. i cant let this creepy woman hurt her! i used all my strength and pushed the black cloaked girl against the bushes as she fell.

i gasped when i saw her face. i quickly grabbed the dolls with me. "WEIJUNG! WE NEED TO GO NOW!" i said and hurriedly went to where weijung was. i quickly helped her up as we ran out of the huge garden.

"renjun, i can't hold it any longer! i feel like i was crushed." weijung yelped in pain as i settled her on the ground of the hallway. i was about to speak when someone cut me off. "renjun?! weijung?!" i looked to my right and saw jaemin, heeyeon, donghyuck and nayoung running to us quickly.

"what happened?" donghyuck asked and carefully lifted weijung up.

nayoung slowly lifted weijung's shirt up and saw a purple bruise starting to occur. "how did this happen?!" jaemin questioned as he supported me.

"it's fucking voodoo shit." a new voice spoke.

"y-yerin?!" heeyeon exclaimed.

yerin pulled down her hood, "i'm glad that cctv's in this school barely work and i managed to shut them off." she chuckled. "i said i'll do whatever it takes to get renjun and to retrieve my photographer position in dream team." she said through gritted teeth.

"no one wants you back after what you have done!" jaemin told her.

"excuse you? don't blame everything on me. i'm just doing my part and share." she scoffed. "this isn't the end of this, there's more where that came from."

"i did everything and told her to stay away, she warned her already." yerin spat.

"and renjun? if you ever tell anyone about who you saw awhile ago, she will die and your reputation as a member of dream team will go down once i reveal that recording of yours." yerin laughed. "i'm not really the desperate one here, but she's making me look like i am."

"do me a favor, stop investigating her case."

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l e e    j e n o

hearing about the news, i sat up quickly, packed my things and headed out of the study hall. as i was running, someone called me. i turned around and saw mrs. yoon who is one of our teachers here at hanyul academy.

"is there a problem, mrs yoon?" i asked her. she handed me a note, "this fell form your book, jeno." i bowed, "oh, thank you, mrs yoon. i'll get going now!" i said. "don't run in the hallways!" she scolded as i slowed down.

after she was out of sight, i quickened my pace again as i headed towards the clinic. i bursted into the room and saw renjun and weijung both in one room. "how did this happen?" i asked.

"voodoo shit happened, not only that but black magic. that's what renjun said." jaemin sighed.

"where's mark-hyung and jisung?" i took a seat next to donghyuck.

"they're on their way." donghyuck mumbled.

"does taeyong-hyung know about this? he'll go crazy!" i said. renjun who was busy reading a book and was writing down notes. "what are you doing? didn't i tell you to rest." jaemin deadpanned.

"but look! the journal! it wrote things about the event today! about our accident, about black magic, about voodoo." renjun pointed out. jaemin rolled his eyes, "you need rest, renjun. after all the things that happened to you."

mark came in the room with jisung. "not jungie-noona again." jisung pouted and sat down. "noona? since when did you call her noona?" donghyuck raised a brow. jisung crossed his arms, "starting now."

"oh look, chenle's calling!" heeyeon said and answered the call.

"heeyeon-noona? how's it going over there? i'm getting discharged tomorrow!" chenle said through the line.

heeyeon suddenly handed the phone to nayoung, not knowing what to answer. "u-uhh chenle we're doing fine! this is nayoung-noona by the way." nayoung answered. "really? but i saw the school news online.. it stated that two dream team members got sent to the clinic?"

"wHAT? who wrote that shit?" nayoung suddenly furrowed her brows and fished her phone to check the news herself. she gritted her teeth as she saw the one who wrote the article. "kwon fucking jaena." nayoung grumbled.

"noona, just tell me the truth!" chenle exclaimed.

nayoung placed it on speaker by the way.

"it's nothing to worry about, chenle. everyone's fine! just a simple headache." jaemin answered for nayoung.

"ah, okay then! i'll see you guys tomorrow afternoon then." chenle said before dropping the call.

minutes passed we continued doing our school work here at the clinic. that's when i saw the sticky note that fell earlier stuck onto one of the pages. "oops, i still haven't read what this is." i muttered before grabbed the sticky note and unfolding it. my eyes widened at the note i read quietly.

i hide very well don't i? the note read.

—

"we were bestfriends."

lots of updates because why not?
shits about to get down in the next few chapters ;)