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Chapter 11 - Chapter 10 - I won't let him die

3rd Person's POV

As the boy climbed on the window ready to depart, Chae Rin was a little behind him, sulking. 

On Jo calls out to him, but he doesn't turn around to look at her.

"Stop being so stubborn" she complains, he finally turns around but ignores her words.

"The teachers' office is two rooms across and one floor down" he says.

"Don't go" she ordered him, Chae Rin eyed the two... jealousy bubbling up inside.

"I'll come back if I can't make it all the way. Don't worry" He says.

"I'm not worried about you, but she is. I'm just angry." She says turning to look at Chae Rin, eyes widened as she looked at Cheong San's eyes wander to her face... the girl's face heating up.

"Sure, who else would worry about me if not for Chae Rin" he grumbled, the girl taking slight offense as he got up on the window to leave, Su hyeok grabbing his coat to follow his friend.

"Ya, where are you going?" Chae Rin asked, confused.

"I'm going to make sure he comes back" he replied.

"Let me come too then, I can fight too!" she tried to reason with the boy.

"Stay here and think of ways out. Don't worry, I won't let him die." He assures with a smile.

"Nobody ever listens" The girl huffs, moving back to sit at a chair, Joon Yeong patting her shoulder.

Su hyeok glances back at Nam Ra who looks at him cautiously, Chae Rin watching the interaction and as the male leaves, she kicks her foot under the table raising her eyebrows.

"What was that?" she mouths.

"What do you mean?" she replied, the other, rolling her eyes with a smirk on her face.

"Ah, of course, our Bare Su is a man of loyalty" Dae Su comments getting up to head to the window, somewhat going to follow them before the others interject.

"You too?" Wu Jin asked him.

"Me too" he confirms, starting to get out the window.

"Stop it. Come down" Joon Yeong hollered.

"Why?" The taller one asked, confused.

"You can't go out there with that body, fatso" Wu Jin told him.

"Hey~ We're accepting of all bodies, what do you mean a body like Dae Su, he's handsome like that" Chae Rin scolded hitting his shoulder.

"See, Chae Rin likes it. What's wrong with my body?" He asks the two.

"What do you think?" Joon Yeong replied rhetorically.

"Give up, come here Dae Su, sit down" The girl patted the chair, getting up to sit on the desk by the window to peek as the other two climbed around the window frames.

The brown haired girl called out for Nam Ra, who stood up, making her way to her friend sitting down together.

"Look at Su Hyeok's ass. Kinda pretty, huh?" She asked the black haired girl who punched her in the shoulder.

"Did you call me here for that?" The other nodded, using her hands to grasp Nam Ra's face, turning it to look at Su hyeok.

"Admit it, he's got a pretty ass" She whispered.

"Ok, fine. He does" She admitted, the other cheered silently, hitting her shoulder.

"So you like him?" She quietly asked,  Nam Ra was quiet, pondering on the question, her too unsure of her feelings, but she nodded without knowing.

"You two would look good together" I encouraged, she bumped her shoulder to the brown haired girls, although a small smile, hidden to everyone else tugged at her lips.

Chae Rin was clueless, she didn't know that she, in a way, was setting up her childhood best friend up for a heartbreak. Having completely forgotten that On Jo had told her about her confessing to Su Hyeok.

On the outside, the two friends clung to the edges of the window frames, walking to the side before Cheong San noticed Su Hyeok's presence.

"Why do you keep following me?" he questions the taller one.

"Who else do you have?" he replied, making the other chuckle.

"Stay close" he instructed with a smile.

Closer to the other window was a bit bulge of the building, which they had to cross to get to the side they had to go down on.

"Careful" He remarked, Cheong San did his best to comply to his request, crossing it  soon after before he leaned down to look at the window. Zombies swarmed the place.

"Can we go in?" Su Hyeok questioned, the shorter one shaking his head, displeased.

"Come back" He said, going back a little, enough for Cheong San to have space to get to his previous place.

"What are you going to do?" Cheong San asked.

"Let's hang by our hands and go" the taller one proposed.

"No, I mean... I heard that On Jo told you she likes you. Are you going to go out with her?" He asked, looking at his friend.

"Is that important right now?" he grumbled pushing his back, pushing him slightly over the edge, if only Cheong San hadn't been careful.

"I'm asking because It's important" He sassed, hitting him.

"I'm just curious!" he finished.

"Why? Should I go out with her?" he teased.

"Ya. Why are you asking me? Do as you wish" He replied, the back of his mind telling him to push his friend over the edge...

"What do you think?" Su Hyeok pressed, kicking his leg.

"I thought you liked Chae Rin, though" he shrugged, Cheong San hissed.

"What do you mean?" Cheong San asked him.

"What? Gyeong Su said that she wanted to confess, but he liked her, so he ate the candy" he explained.

"Candy?" the shorter one asked.

"Yea... did Chae Rin not tell you?" he pondered, confused, as the other shook his head.

"Then, I wasn't supposed to say this" he coughed.

"Hurry and go" He rushed him.

The two were soon enough hanging by the hands on the window frames, slightly using their feet to move, although mostly their hands. Looking down, Cheong San could see I Sak, but he grimaced, looking just for a way to get to the room below them.

A pipe just perfectly placed there which they used to go down on, standing behind the curtain to the teacher's office watching the zombified teachers before Cheong San could hear screamed.

He hurried back up onto the pipe Su Hyeok stood on, the other questioning him, but Cheong San hushed him.

Su Hyeok finally hearing the screams of the poor girl.

Cheong San went back down to watch, slowly and quietly opening the window to make his way inside when he heard the office door open and close, the zombies all rushing to the sound.

Using it to their advantage, the two slid into the room. Crouching on the floor as they walked to the very corner of it where the phones were, a few smashing sounds were heard, and the two stopped moving, questioning it, but neither of them knowing what it was.

The sound was nothing more than the girl who had been bitten in the corridor smashing up all the phones, her body was all bloodied and her body twisted and turned as if she was going to turn.

As she smashed the phones, one fell onto the floor, Cheong San used it to his advantage and tried his best to sneakily grab it.

But the girl, who was now back on the floor smashing the phones that were on the ground sensed it, turning around seeing him grab it, her demeanor screamed anger, pain but most important she felt like killing him.

"I'll kill you!" She yelled, crawling to him, but Cheong San was faster, grabbing the phone, but she pushed his back into the side of a desk standing on top of him.

"Give it to me, fucker! I'll kill you!" she yelled at him, Su Hyeok grabbed her by the shoulder, pushing her against the lockers.

The commotion caught the attention of the zombies that now rushed to the 2 of them.

The two ran to the window, Cheong San checked the phone before leaving, but once seeing it broken he runs back to the desk, dodging a zombie and sliding under a desk.

Su Hyeok gets down from the window, kicking a zombie who rushed for him.

Meanwhile, Cheong San grabbed a phone that wasn't broken using a chair to defend himself as Su Hyeok used a desk instead, protecting himself from 3 zombies.

"Go first. I'll catch up" Cheong San yells to the other, he doesn't wait for an answer jumping over the desk he was behind of and pushed a zombie away from him before leaving the classroom through the door.

Su Hyeok having no choice but to go back up to the radio room by himself.

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"Are you sure they're fine?" Chae Rin asked Nam Ra, who sat by her side.

"Of course, don't worry. They'll be back soon" she assured the smaller one who nodded, her head was a ruckus, she couldn't stop playing scenarios in her head of them getting bitten, or one of them gets left behind.

Her mind had betrayed her so many times that the girl didn't even want to stick her head out and watch as they came out, afraid to not see them both.

"Chae Rin, want to play, rock paper scissors?" Wu Jin asked her, wanting to raise her spirits, and it did, slightly, her mood lifting as a smile breaks out.

"You always cheat though" she said.

"You just always lose, don't blame me" he shrugs teasingly.

"Fine, let's play a game then" The girl said, standing up and sitting on the desk that had the radio equipment, Wu Jin turning his chair around to look at the small girl.

And as the two played, the others made small talk, trying to distract themselves from thinking of their friends.

"On Jo, why don't you try to talk to her? You know her better than anyone else here" Hyo Ryeong suggested looking at the girl sitting on the desk, the other nodded getting up and reaching Chae Rin she grabbed her hand, making it a rock....

"On Jo! You made me lose the game" The girl whined.

"Let's have a talk" She says softly, the girl is confused, nevertheless got up, ready to hear what she had to say to her.

"Are you feeling okay?" On Jo asks, the other blinks slowly, nodding, unsure of her own feelings.

"You hesitated..." On Jo stated looking down.

"Is it because of something I did?" she asks the friend, Chae Rin was shocked, On Jo just knew her well, a little too well to know whenever she was and wasn't okay... 

"Are you hurt about something I did? Or... or that I didn't do?" She asks her again, Chae Rin's eyes fall to the floor as she meekly nods, the other letting out a breath of air she didn't know she had kept.

"Do you think you can explain? I know you created a distance between us recently, but I don't know... I don't understand why" On Jo asked the girl, who looked back up to meet the friends eyes.

"The day I-Sak died..." she began, On Jo's memory recalled, as the girl used her strenght to push I-Sak out of the window, but afterwards, her memories are all of how long and how much she had wanted and had held onto her friend.

"I got glass on my cheek... I said your name, but you didn't even look at me, even after. Nam Ra took the glass out of my cheek, I was in so much pain... I thought that you hated me. For pushing I-Sak out. That, me doing that, was the reason why you didn't look at me, for me" Chae Rin mustered up the courage to speak.

The smaller girl had eyes brimming with tears, On Jo had no idea that such thing had happened, no one had told her, and neither had she been paying attention, nor looked.

"I'm sorry, I've been a terrible friend, huh?" She chuckles, taking Chae Rin's hands.

"You were busy, and you were hurt. I understand it, On Jo. I'm your best friend but I often times forgot that your friend circle was not just me and Cheong San" she laughed.

"Don't worry, you know I wouldn't be able to live without you. You'll always be my sister. I still stand by the fact that our parents will get married" On Jo teased, Chae Rin laughed with her as the two hugged it out.

"From now on, tell me right away when you have concerns. I'm your best friend. I'm here to help you" She assured squeezing her hand.

"I will" Chae Rin smiled.

"I'm close to tears too" Dae Su said from the back, the group all falling into laughter at his sudden emotional state.

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Cheong San raced through the building's halls dodging at incoming zombies, getting out through an open window into an open outside space, but it wasn't any better, as the path we was going to take suddenly flood with zombies coming his way.

Thankfully a brick wall was there so he didn't fall onto the ground and used it to support himself leaning back against it.

He waited for the zombies to get close before he dodged under it's arm, running ahead but going back and entering through another window, the force making him hit his back against a wall, but although the impact had been strong he didn't slow down, getting up just as quickly as he fell running away and into the director's room.

It was an image that he never thought he would see.

But then again, this was an apocalypse, and apocalypses were supposedly a thing from the movies.

Gwi Nam, the infamous bully of the school was on top of the director's body, tying his hands.

"Sir?" Cheong San called out confused.

"What are you doing? Grab this psycho!" The director yelled at Cheong San scared.

Gwi Nam leaned down grabbing the back of the director's collar shushing him.

"Ya, Yoon Gwi Nam-"

"Cheong San, come here and tie his arms. He won't stay still" Gwi Nam instructed the shorter male as he tied the knot around the directors hands.

"ya. What are you doing?" Cheong San questioned him cautiously.

"Come and tie him up" Gwi Nam repeated.

"You're finished. You're expelled! Untie me" The director yelled, Gwi Nam simply raised his knife back up, putting it near the man's neck.

Cheong San stepping forward calling out to him.

"Don't do that" Cheong San asked of him.

"Don't do what? This principal bastard tried to kill me. He told me to go out and get his car" He cussed, standing up only for a second before he's back into pressing the tip of the knife close to the man's neck.

"Is that okay?" Gwi Nam asks sarcastically.

Cheong San pulls out his phone, hitting record almost immediately as he puts the camera on the scene before him, Gwi Nam stands up, hiding away his knife.

"That's it. Good Job" the director praises.

"I'm filming everything" He states "Let him go or I'll send this to the police"

"I'm goin to kill you" He stutters.

"Please stop acting like human trash. No one respects you just because you act tough"

"I'm the head boss of the school now, Don't you get it" He smirks confidently standing up.

"Don't make me laugh, You're just a loser scumbag who'll spend his entire life seving bullies" Cheong San taunted him.

That snaps something inside of Gwi Nam who slowly makes him away closer to Cheong San.

"Say that again" he dares.

The director gets up, trying to run away to safety but It's too late, as Gwi Nam jumps on the table, slicing the director's neck open, all... getting caught on camera by Cheong San who still had his phone pointed at the two.

A shocked expression on Cheong San's face as the camera lowers down, his eyes and mind still not believing what had happened.

"You fucking..." he drags out, Gwi Nam stride towards him once more, messily wiping the blood of the knife on his shirt.

"Am I still a loser? Am I?" He asks Cheong San who is too shocked to say anything.

"Everyone who doesn't listen to me dies. Give me the phone" He threathens.

"You just killed - "

"Give me the phone!" Gwi Nam yelled angrily, moving to strike Cheong San who quickly runs for the door. Ducking just in time as the bully slices his knife in the air.

Pushing himself back but Gwi Nam turns around, kicking him in the stomach sending him down to the ground, phone dropping on the floor besides him.

Gwi Nam walks to pick up the phone but Cheong San stops him by jumping on him, pushing the two into the coffee table.

He gets up faster, hurriedly grabbing the phone before opening the door and once more dashing through the halls.

Leaving an angry, very pissed off Gwi Nam behind to chase him. 

Running through the seemingly empty halls, Cheong San hurries to run faster, Gwi Nam getting stopped by a single zombie that leaves the classroom,  but he quickly stabs it before returning to the mentality of

'Gotta kill that dude'

Zombies now rush from behind him, but the two are absent-minded, each with their own thoughts of running away and kill him.

Gwi Nam quickly realizes that he won't be able to reach him anytime soon, and in a way to stop him or slow him down, throws his knife at his back.

Thankfully, it only really hits him, and doesn't stab.

Leasing a bruise, but not a pucture hole.