Chae Rin's POV
As I watched I Sak make her way into the classroom, I couldn't help but look from outside as everyone surrounded her asking for information and just the gossip on what Hyeon Ju could've added to the story about professor Byeong Chan.
With a sigh I made my way inside, Nam Ra turns to me, a glint of curiosity in her eyes before she goes back to her studies.
"Where's On Jo?" Cheong San asked I Sak.
"She got hurt, Hyeon Ju scratched her, her and Su Hyeok went outside to help put Hyeon Ju in the ambulance" I said.
"I think she went crazy. Her temperature was low, but she said she was hot. She tried to bite us when we covered her" I Sak said, I nodded as I finally sat on my seat.
"Does she have rabies?" Wu Jin asked genuinely confused
"Don't be stupid" Dae Su mumbled.
"She did have a strange smell though" I added, Nam Ra turned to look at me as did the others.
"What smell?" Na Yeon asked, I shrugged.
"The same as the science teacher" I Sak replied.
"A rotting corpse!" Na Yeon immediately said.
"Everyone just seems to know what a rotting corpse smells like. I wonder if they killed someone" I mumbled to myself, Dae Su snickering at my comment.
"And she said he gave her a strange shot" I Sak said.
"Did she say what shot?" Nam Ra asked me quietly, I shook my head.
As the others comment amongst themselves, Nam Ra and I were focused on doing our assignments.
"Cheong San, where are you going?" I quietly asked as he moved from the group.
"I'll be back soon, I'll just go check on On Jo" he smiles at me... oh
I nod at him understandingly, and he soon leaves the classroom.
"What the hell? She's studying right now" I Sak comments looking at Nam Ra.
"She's number one in our school" Hyo Ryeong says back.
"It's not like she's a doctor to help Hyeon Ju" I scoff. Nam Ra looks ahead, grabbing my hand from under the table.
"It's not her fault to not want to be gossiping around. I'm not doing it either" I say annoyed.
"Why are you even defending her?" I Sak asked.
"Why are you attacking her?" I asked back, and with a sigh we all went back to what each were doing before.
"Don't fight with your friends just because of me" Nam Ra writes in a piece of paper, I sigh grabbing my own pencil.
"You're my friend too" I could see a small curve of her lips and I smiled back, bumping my shoulder with her as we all began to leave for lunch.
"Go ahead, you and I Sak should talk and apologize to each other" She says as we both put our stuff back into our bags.
"You'll be okay?" I ask, she nods pushing me ahead, I laugh but follow close behind I Sak.
"Ya..." I call out, she looks behind crossing her arms over her chest, I could tell she was trying to be mad, but the corner of her lips were curving upwards as she tried her best to be mad.
"If you were Hyeon Ju I'd let you bite me" I winked at her, she gasped.
"Kinky" she exclaimed.
"Only for you" I raised my eyebrows teasingly, she laughed, lacing her arm with mine.
"I'm sorry for what happened in the classroom"
"I know, me too" and as that was shrugged over, we both headed to the cafeteria to eat, meeting On Jo on the way there.
In the line unfortunately, Wu Jin stole one of my tonkatsu, and devoured it in front me of, so, to make matters equal as me, On Jo and I Sak sat down I got up and with my handy dandy chopsticks stole one of Wu Jin's before going back to my table.
"Payback you jerk" I stuck my tongue out as he glared.
Laughing, I turn to look at On Jo, who sat in the middle of us three, her eyes already focused on the boy's table I had just returned from.
"Ya. You'll burn a hole in Cheong San's face" I Sak says putting her chopstick in On Jo's face to snap her out of her trance.
"I wasn't looking at him" she said, my eyes widen and with the tonkatsu still on my mouth I turn to her.
I might have looked like a crazy person as a "EH?!" sound came out and the two of them looked at me.
"Yea, right. Even Chae Rin is shocked. Everyone in the school knows you two are going out" I Sak confidently says.
"We're not" On Jo says annoyed. I nod somewhat, not believing it as she looks at me.
"I'm serious" she continues, and I simply nod, my eyebrows frowned as I nod faster.
"Actually... you two can't tell anyone, okay?" She starts, I turn to look at her confused as she stares at the both of us.
"Tell anyone what?" I Sak asks.
"You know, I -" she looks conflicted before she shakes her head, "never mind"
"You betch, tell me! I'm curious" I whine.
"Ya!" I Sak knocks her shoulder into On Jo's annoyed.
"Don't do that" she says just as annoyed.
"What is it?!" I Sak presses. "Nothing" On Jo mumbled.
"Did you sleep with Cheong San? You did, right? I guessed it, right?" My eyes snap back to the two as I choke on a grain of rice.
"You slept with Cheong San?!?" I whisper yelled.
"Are you both insane?! I confessed to Su Hyeok that I liked him" She finally confesses.
"Huh?" "What?"
"I told Su Hyeok I liked him" she says again, I- *blink blink*
"You crazy -- WHAT?!" I Sak yells.
"YA! Sit down!" I say basically dragging her down as everyone in the cafeteria turned to look at us.
"Are you insane?" I Sak teasingly asks On Jo, slapping her shoulders.
"No, you're insane! Why'd you yell" I laughed, staring at the boys table, mostly at how Gyeong Su was still staring at us, lifting his head as to ask what had happened, but I simply shake of my head with a laugh.
He raises one of his Tonkatsu and I stare at him, questioning his intent, until he pushes the chopstick further.
I open my mouth with a smile, excusing myself off the table as I head over to his table to take on his offer.
"Thank you, thank you. This is why you're my best friend" I say, taking the pork he had between his chopsticks.
"What happened on your table?" he asks, taking the pork fast, so I couldn't get it.
"Are you negotiating a piece of pork for gossip?" I ask, raising an eyebrow, he nods.
"Ya, Lee Cheong San, you're not going to help?"
"You said he's your best friend. Ask him for help" He snickered, I sigh.
"On Jo said she saw a ghost behind you, so I Sak screamed" I smiled innocently, Gyeong Su's face twisted into one of shock and the tonkatsu fell on his place, I hurriedly picked it up and went away.
"Thank you for the free food" I smiled at him as I could see him grumbling to Su Hyeok.
"Curious fucker" I snickered, sitting back down," What did I miss?" I ask, leaning into On Jo, sharing a piece of the pork.
"On Jo, don't stress over it. I'm sure he's thinking about it. If he wasn't then he's an idiot" I said comforting her, she nodded, biting the rest of the pork as I fake cry.
"Ya! My tonkatsu!!" she laughs, now in better mood.
"So, you and Gyeong Su?" On Jo asks teasingly.
"What do you mean, Wu Jin obviously likes her" I Sak corrects her. I scoff.
"Nobody likes me. I'm just that good of a friend" I say, swatting my hair off my shoulder, making the three of us laugh.
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"I'm so full" I grumble as the three of us get up to put our plates away.
"I have a good idea"
"Oh no..."
"Ask Cheong San" I Sak finished.
"Forget it" On Jo she said, her mood deflating a little.
"Su Hyeok and Cheong San are close. Ask him how Su Hyeok feels about you"
"But Cheong San - " I cover my mouth.
"Cheong San what?" I Sak asks, I shake my head with a cough.
"OnJo ya. Listen to your elder. Su Hyeok may have already told him, you never know" I Sak sighs putting her hand in On Jo's shoulder.
"Still, I can't tell him. He'll tease me like crazy" And just as she finished justifying her actions, Cheong San places his food tray on top of hers.
"Put mine away too, Gopher"
"Cheong San! On Jo needs to talk to you" I Sak immediately stops him from walking away.
"Ya... You and Su Hyeok are close, right?" I Sak starts.
"Totally. Why?" He questions, I Sak confidently turns to On Jo with a smirk.
"What is it?" Cheong San asks turning to On Jo, I sigh going to the section where you put the trays ignoring all of their chit chat, mostly just not wanting to listen to On Jo ask about Su Hyeok to Cheong San who would in the end get hurt by it.
And as I watched Cheong San walk away with On Jo,I sighed...
I'm sighing too much lately.
But I waited behind as I watched their interactions and as she walked ahead of him I approached him.
Just as the exit began to flood with people trying to get inside, falling one on top of the other covering the whole entrance and breaking the window.
"ON JO! YA! ON JO! Get back!" I yelled trying to cross over people who ran for the back of the cafeteria.
"Fuck! I said, pushing others away trying to get On Jo who fell down, I could hear Cheong San's yell for me, but it all was numbed.
In front of my eyes, a bloodied person was gurgling, and biting someone's neck before he stood up straight and charged for On Jo who was sitting in the cafeteria floor.
The guy stood on top of her and growled just as I picked up a tray, hitting him in the face with it knocking him to the side.
"On Jo! Come on!" I said, grabbing onto her arm and pulling her up as Cheong San got to us.
"Ya! Snap out of it!" I angrily whispered at her, grabbing onto her hand as Cheong San put her under a table
The whole cafeteria was a chaos with people biting into each other, gurgling sounds were heard everywhere and there were people everywhere, up on tables, under tables.
And the entrance was covered with other people already bloodied up.
As the three of us tried to find a way out when the sprinkler system went off wetting everyone and worse... making the floor wet and slippery.
"Get up" Cheong San instructed On Jo as I looked around, a girl around them already seemed weird.
"I think she's infected. Let her go!" I said, a guy running through pushed Cheong San and On Jo and a female jumped at me, separating us.
As I tried my hardest to keep her mouth away from me, someone hit her in the head with a tray and helped me up.
"You good?" Gwi Nam asked me, I nod panting.
"Thank you" He pats my shoulder, his back against mine as he fought another one of those biter, as I look towards Cheong San who was with On Jo on top of some tables.
"I'm gonna go for the door" I told Gwi Nam, hitting another one on the head.
"That's suicide" He groaned stabbing another in the neck.
"There's no way out" I yelled annoyed.
"I'm going on the kitchen" he said turning around to look at me.
"Ya! How could you turn around like that!" I yelled hitting a zombie that charged for him.
"If we make it, I'll find you" He said with a wink, I scoffed, a small smile making it's way to my face and with that he sprinted to the back as I tried to move to the front of the cafeteria.
I fought my way around with a chair for a while trying to get to Cheong San and On Jo, but there were too many there and I quickly gave up on that plan, returning to my first one.
The door...
It was crazy, seemingly impossible, but it was either that or try to follow Gwi Nam into the kitchen, and become a possible sacrifice for his own life.
"Chae Rin-Ah!" I hear Cheong San yell, I wave at him but shush him.
"Go! I'll meet you in the classroom! Hurry and Go!!" I screamed using a chair to push a guy away.
"Hurry and leave!" I yelled, he nods meakly but leaves as I return to protecting myself nearing the door and finally I run out, a single tray on my head as everyone is distracted fighting inside.
For someone who hated running I don't think I had ever ran this fast or this much in my entire life, I could see a few people still running from the zombies, it was all a chaos as I passed by the back of the school I was pinned down on the ground.
"I'm sorry" I groaned using a fork to stab it in the neck before pushing it off my body and was turning into the school field, ahead, I could see someone running hand in hand , a guy and a girl, I did think it was Cheong San and On Jo but that would be impossible because Cheong San isn't that tall nor does On Jo have black hair...
black hair?
"Nam Ra!" I called out trying to be quiet, thankfully she turned around and it was her with Su Hyeok so I raced over.
"Are you okay? Did you two get hurt?" I ask, inspecting Nam Ra"
"I'm fine, and you?" She asked, I nodded sighing with relief grabbing her hands.
"Cheong San and On Jo are headed to the class room" I told them.
"Isn't it infected?" Su Hyeok asked, I shook my head panting.
"I don't know, I just ran out of the cafeteria. They're everywhere" I said looking around noticing the ladder Su Hyeok was looking at.
"Hurry up, let's take it before they get up" He said, grabbing back onto Nam Ra's hand as I ran a bit behind them.
As I hear the commotion but finally they pull Su Hyeok up.
"Nam Ra go!" I said helping her up the ladder as the zombies begin to run to us.
"Prez! Hurry!" Su Hyeok says, head sticking out while he extends his hand for her to take which she does as I begin going up the ladder.
"Ya! Let go of my shoe, you fucker" I say kicking at a zombie who had a hold of my leg.
Nam Ra is pulled up and Cheong San takes Su Hyeok's place in putting his hand out as I jump to grab it another zombie knocking the ladder out of place.
"Ya. You're so heavy" He grumbles.
"I have a zombie on my foot hold on" I whine as I kick harder, the Zombie grumbling before i kick it's hand and it's hold gets loose, Wu Jin takes my other hand pulling me up.
"Holy fuck. That bitch was strong" I pant falling into Wu Jin's arms as Su Hyeok falls onto the floor panting.
"It's that, isn't it? Zombies" He says,
"Ya! I said that first. Stop stealing my lines" I kick his foot straightning myself and leaning on the window.
Zombies or not I don't know but if it is Zombies I expect my
"You were right and I was wrong"