shits gonna start happening ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

"you keep making the wrong choices. you know that."

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3 r d p e r s o n s v i e w

as donghyuck and weijung bursted into the hacking office, the girl instantly closed the door behind her and walked up to her desk. renjun was already there, analyzing the clues they were doing awhile ago.

"you were staring at 092117." donghyuck pointed out, nudging at weijung.

weijung nods slowly, "yeah...because... i seemed to have decoded it already."

the two boys snapped their heads towards her direction, only to find her frowning at the clues.

"you have... decoded it already?" renjun croaks out.

weijung nods again, "yeah, it isn't that hard to decode it. the person already gave us a clue to solve it."

"look..." weijung starts off and grabs a clean sheet of paper, alongside a pen.

"it said here that there are thirteen sets. if we count from zero to ten, that gives us with eleven, adding eighteen and two thousand nine makes it thirteen. however, 18 and 2009 stands alone, which means we should ramble them with the other numbers." weijung carefully explained to the two boys.

she grabs the other note, "now..."

"this decode the code note, is our key in solving the code itself. there happened to be thirteen letters present here, and there are thirteen numbers." weijung points out carefully, now grabbing their latest note.

"if we place the numbers in a least to greatest order above the jumped letters... we would get this." renjun seemed to have understood the code and pointed at their now key.

"all we have to do is create something using these jumbled letters." donghyuck clasped his hands together and pulled out the mini notes they had received.

"this first clue." renjun points at it, "092117... this is a date, the date eunji was said to be dead."

"if we arrange the letters according to that order... we'll be getting..."

0  9  2  1  1  7
c  h  n  e  e   l

she wrote down slowly. thought she had already saw through the code, she couldn't help but ponder why they had to say such thing. weijung didn't want to believe what she found out, but she also couldn't help but question it.

"okay, what in the world is chneel?" donghyuck spat and glared at the unknown word.

weijung scoffs and smacked the boy's arm lightly, "stupid, that's not the final answer!"

"then what is?" donghyuck squints his eyes.

weijung bit her bottom lip, "i'll unravel that later." she pushes it aside, "we need to work on the others."

"renjun?" she calls out, causing the boy to snap out of his own train of thought. "do you have anything to share with us?"

renjun hums before nodding, "i have found a note actually,"

donghyuck tilts his head in confusion, "what do you mean?"

renjun pursed his lips, "i mean, when we got out of the club room, there was this note on the ground."

"what does it say?"

"it said that 'there are four "e's" two "a's" and 3 "l's"..." he slowly reads the new note.

"we already used two e's so we're left with two more." renjun mutters.

the trio kept re-writing possible words in order to solve the clue. donghyuck sighed and tried to use the letters above 4, 8, and 10.

"this is getting annoying..." he mumbles and wrote down a word. "wait, holyshit!"

weijung raised a brow, "what's wrong?"

"the numbers 4, 8, and 10 creates the word you." donghyuck proudly stated.

"okay, good!" weijung smiles and pats his shoulder.

the boy was all confident until he slumped his shoulder, "what the fuck is chneel you."

renjun stifled a laugh, "sounds horrible."

donghyuck rolls his eyes, "at least we got something!"

"the only numbers left is tw—"

"wait, i also got something!" renjun raised his hand, cutting weijung off.

"the numbers 18 and two 7's create the word all."

"so, now it's chneel you all?" donghyuck raised a brow and laughed at this. "okay, i'm fine with that."

"still sounds horrible though." renjun frowns.

"don't worry, junnie..." donghyuck trails off, earning both weijung and renjun's attention, "what sounds horrible is when killer chneel's you all!" he dramatically sobs.

weijung deadpanned, "are you trying to create a new word with chneel?"

donghyuck shrugs playfully, "i like the sound of chneel."

"it can be another term for killed. it's more censored and unknown."

renjun scoffs, "you won't make that a thing."

donghyuck smirks, "watch me!" he says with enthusiasm.

suddenly, donghyuck put's weijung in a headlock position, "y-yah! what in the fuckery are you doing!?" weijung struggled.

donghyuck laughs, "lee weijung, you're going to get chneeled by lee donghyuck!" he exclaims and playfully tickled weijung's side, causing her to squirm and laugh out loud.

renjun deadpanned at the sight in front of him. he quickly grabbed an eraser and threw it onto donghyuck's face. "stop that." he sternly said.

"if you don't let go of weijung, i am gonna chneel you." renjun taunted which caused donghyuck to let go of the girl.

"see! you used it!" donghyuck clapped while renjun rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"whatever." the chinese boy muttered and proceeded to write and erase words.

after minutes of decoding, donghyuck finally came up with something. the boy was jumping up and down from excitement. "i knew it! i'm far from being stupid!" he chants, waving the paper up in the air.

renjun clicked his tongue, "i'll be the judge of that! now let me see!"

donghyuck huffs and placed his paper down, "i kinda don't like the word though..." he said and revealed his word.

"betrayed." renjun read aloud.

weijung couldn't help but clench her fists. "okay, now that you guys finally solved it... i'll reveal the word i managed to create."

"is chneel finally gonna mean something?" renjun raised a brow.

donghyuck kicks renjun's foot causing the chinese boy to yelp in pain. "yah! chneel does mean something!"

renjun scoffs, "what does it mean anyway?"

"it means ki—"

"it's chenle." weijung revealed, cutting donghyuck off.

both boys were in the state of shock. their mouths were hanging and they couldn't process the information right in front of them.

renjun was absolutely disappointed. his heart clenched, the boy he spent hours tutoring and helping... was the boy who happened to be the traitor amongst them.

"w-wait..." donghyuck's mood also seemed to have decreased. "that arranges to something else, doesn't it?" he looked at weijung, trying to find something else. but he saw nothing, but pain in her eyes.

"fuck..." renjun cursed and slumped onto his chair. he shuts his eyes tightly and supported his head with his palm. "i never expected this to happen." he murmurs.

donghyuck couldn't help but smile bitterly, "chenle betrayed you all..." he slowly read the pieces together.

"but... why would he?" he questions.

weijung, who was silent the whole time, couldn't help but cry. tears slowly flowed out of her eyes as her clenched fists loosened.

"h-hey, don't cry." donghyuck mumbled and reached out to hug the poor girl. "i don't want the both of you crying..." donghyuck sighed.

the boy knew how much chenle meant to renjun and weijung. he slowly let go of the girl and gently dragged her towards renjun, who was also sobbing.

donghyuck sighed and leant a hand towards renjun.

the whimpering boy looked up and took the hand. donghyuck pulled the boy up and suddenly, he wraps both of his arms onto renjun's right shoulder the weijung's left shoulder, instantly hugging both of them.

"don't cry!" he whined and hugged them tighter.

"we're going to figure this out, okay?" donghyuck said softly and let them go.

"but, how? the truth is already in front of us! someone within the dream is a traitor. do you hear that donghyuck? a traitor!" renjun raises his voice.

"i get that!" donghyuck retorts, "but this is wrong..."

"what if chenle was forced to do it."

renjun grits his teeth, "there is always a choice, hyuck."

"whether you like it or not, there is a solution to every problem. he could've thought about that before he chose to do this." renjun points out, annoyance was evident in his tone.

weijung sighed and took a seat, "renjun's right."

"but, i don't know. it all depends on how chenle's gonna start acting now." weijung shrugs.

"what do you mean?"

"we need to catch chenle during the act." weijung simply said.

"can't quite understand." donghyuck mumbles.

"it's easy," weijung starts off, "we need to let chenle reveal himself as a traitor instead."

renjun furrows his brows, "what? he's right outside, why don't we just come up to him, interrogate him, then put him into some high patrolling or whatever."

weijung shakes her head, "that would panic him. we need to do it slowly. doing it slowly might buy us time to figure out who has been controlling him."

"or... it could be hyeri." weijung shrugs.

"it definitely could." renjun mumbles.

"or maybe she actually is."

"huh?" donghyuck raised a brow.

"for starters, hyeri doesn't seem to be afraid of the fact that we're suspicious of her."

"she's trying to get herself caught." renjun gasped.

weijung nodded, "in that way..."

"the actual person behind it could get away." donghyuck finished.

"killer seems to have many allies." weijung pointed out and walked over to her hologram. "we have eunji, yerin, and hyeri."

"triple e's huh?" renjun noticed.

donghyuck sighs and takes a seat, "i'm gonna chneel that fucking killer."

renjun grimaced and shot a look at donghyuck, "don't you hate that word now?"

"chneel itself is a masterpiece, the masterpiece remastered is horrible." donghyuck said in a mocking tone.

"anyways, we just need to make sure that hyeri is actually apart of killer's plan. if so, we may be a step closer in finding out who killer actually is."

"not just that, i found a way to track the unknown numbers." weijung proudly stated.

"then it's settled, mission chneel hyeri in action!"

"i guess freaky friday is gonna get more freakier."

"to more freaky friday's and milkshake monday's!" donghyuck raised a hand.

"to more freaky friday's and milkshake monday's!" the other two chanted.

"okay, but seriously, i'd rather have more milkshake monday's than freaky friday's." renjun shivered at the thought.

"who would even rather that?" donghyuck scrunches his face.

"some idiots, i guess?" weijung shrugs.

"let's go carry out mission chneel hyeri then."

. . .

"they are freaky..." the smallest girl stated as she carefully checked her nails.

"not really, they're just that smart to solve cases." the girl in a black cloak mumbled as she flipped through the black book.

"what am i supposed to do now?"

"get caught."

the new girl flinched and widened her eyes, "w-what?!"

"get caught with him." the girl said like it was nothing.

the other girl, who was leaning against a pillar chuckled bitterly, "what? you agreed into getting involved with this mess."

the new girl felt uncomfortable, "i won't get hurt, right?"

"if you stick to plan, that is." the cloaked girl said.

"okay, fine."

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oHnO

i guess trouble's coming then

aAaaAaa i hope y'all still enjoy this story since the story itself is quite freaky and um... weird?

idk i've never seen anyone write the same kind of mystery, school whatever type of story that's why i was quite excited to do it?

yeah, anywayS!!

i'll be back sooner or later ;)

-jibin