Chae Rin's POV
Everyone was quiet, not a single person muttering a word, afraid to, maybe, say the wrong thing and hurt Ji Min more, but mostly because no one knew exactly how to console the poor girl.
On Jo had her hand on her arm, quietly consoling her, but she took it off, I watched as Ji Min got up, headed for the window before climbing onto the window as if she was going to throw herself off, everyone rushing to pull the girl back.
"Ji Min!"
"Pull her back!"
"What's wrong with you?"
"Let go. Let go of me." The girl begged, but as they tried to grab her non successfully, Su Hyeok rushed in grabbing at her arms clinging onto the window.
"I want to die! Leave me alone!" She cried, finally being pried off.
"Don't be like that"
"I don't want to live!" she grabbed onto the post on the window, clinging to it with all her strength as she cried.
"I want to die. Leave me alone. Please" she cried harder, everyone still grabbing onto her arms as she trashed around before giving up and sitting on the floor.
"My mom and dad both died. What am I supposed to do alone?" she silently cried, but no one replied to her, unsure on how to support her and console her. On Jo took the poor girl into the recording room, so the two could talk.
"What can you say to console a girl who just became an orphan..." I asked mindlessly, exhaling tiredly.
"I don't know either..." Wu Jin replies, his hand on his hair as he looked at the turned off camera.
"You're still thinking of the arrows?" I softly questioned him, he nodded, licking his lips.
I sighed, moving closer to him and putting a hand on his arm.
"The arrows don't mean she's dead. They might mean she fought them and ran away" I consoled him, his hand dragged his hand over his face before he leaned onto my shoulder.
A loud screech coming from the microphone made us all jump as we turned to look at the recording room, the voices of On Jo and Ji Min booming through the whole school.
"And we have nowhere to go anyway" Ji Min sniffed.
Nam Ra walked into the recording room.
"Let's go" I softly told Wu Jin who got up before grabbing onto my hand and pulling me up with him, the rest of us walking into the recording room just as another screech from the microphone was heard, all of us covering our ears.
"Gross" Dae Su said disgusted as he covered his nose, Wu Jin doing the same as I gagged.
"Can't you people smell? It stinks" He continued.
"It was fucking you" I gagged again.
"Breathe through your mouth" Wu Jin instructed me, I did another face turning to the side before fully covering my nose.
"What are you doing?" On Jo asked Nam Ra as she turned the mic off again.
"I think we can get out of here" she stated, my ears perk at her statement.
"She looks so hot when she has great ideas. Let's get out of here and hear them" I smiled, almost running outside the recording room.
Nam Ra grabs onto the white board and a pen for it before drawing the school's layout, where the stairs were, exists and where we, and Cheong San, were.
"This is where we are. This is where Cheong San is. If we play music only on this speaker, the zombies will go left. Then we'll take the stairs on the right, get Cheong San, and got to the rooftop using the center stairs" she explained.
"Oh! I like that idea" I exclaimed excited.
"Why the rooftop?" Su Hyeok asks.
"Ya... do you think a helicopter can see us in this room? Plus, they need a place to land. That place is the rooftop" I sighed.
"If we light a fire, they might come" she completed.
"Will the zombies really go toward the speakers?" Dae Su asks curiously.
"I think she's right that they're drawn to the sound" Joon Yeong crosses his arms.
"That's right. They come running whenever they hear us" Su Hyeok spoke.
"Can we just turn on certain speakers?" On Jo asks.
"Yes. We'll turn on the ones in the cafeteria, yard, and library too and draw them there" Nam Ra said.
"That's right. You were in the broadcasting club in tenth grade, right?" Hyo Ryeong mentions.
"Yes, because my mom made me" Nam Ra replied.
Without anyone noticing my back was already by the door, Cheong San was alive and the run to that room was not that bad, I think I could do it.
"Chae Rin, what do you think? Huh? What are you doing?" Joon Yeong asks.
"Ha...Ha Ha. I'll meet you guys there" I smiled.
"What do you mean?" he asked confused, I chuckled nervously before turning serious, everyone's eyes widening as I open the door and wave at them before closing it and dashing through the corridor.
"Ya!" I hear Wu Jin yell, the door slightly open, I stop in my tracks shushing him before winking and going back to my dash.
"Who wants to do it?" Joon yeong asks.
"Iv'e never done it before" Dae Su replied
"Somebody do it. Anyone." Hyo Ryeong commented.
"Then, I'll do it. Ah, mic test, one two, one two, Cheong San are you there? We-"
"What are you doing?" Joon Yeong asks him, annoyed.
"Check. Cheong San, can you hear? It's Su hyeok. We'll come to you, so stay put. Got it? I know what you'll say, but we can't hear you from here. So don't go anywhere. Wait for us. You really can't go anywhere, okay? We'll come now. Also, Chae Rin. Please don't be stupid and just come back. How could you even think to go alone?!" Su Hyeok's voice scolded through the speaker, I snicker.
"Anyway, let's get out of here. The smell of poop makes me want to barf" Dae Su's voice sounded.
"It's the smell of your poop" Wu Jin snarled
"It's not just mine!"
"It's just yours!" He snapped.
"Really?"
"Yes"
Going down the stairs instead of up as I go to use the bathroom, which was thankfully zombie free. Finally, I could pee in peace.
"Cheong San. Please stay still. I know you never listen to me, but listen this time. Chae Rin is also outside, so please, both of you just..." I heard On Jo's voice. I leave the bathroom just as the sounds of a meditation cd played.
As I go around the corner I end up knocking into someone and preparing to fight I raise my fist but am surprised to see Gwi Nam standing in front of me.
"You're alive" I exclaim, smiling at him, his eyes widen.
"What are you doing outside?!" He whispered yelled at me, zombies were not getting attracted to the voices, you could hear them run and their gargles.
Gwi Nam took my arm before dragging me off, running into a room, making sure there were no zombies around as he closed the door.
"I could ask you the same, you were also outside" I pointed at him, squinting my eyes.
"It's different. I'm different" He said annoyed.
"Sure, sure. I'm glad to see a familiar face" I said sitting on a desk, he rolled his eyes looking around before he looked at me.
"What happened to your eye?!" I ask, shocked at the missing sight of it reaching to his face, but he grabs my hand.
"Your friend, Cheong San, happened. Where were you headed anyway" he questions me.
'Definitely not on my way to see Cheong San' I thought.
"I'm hungry, and I need to pee. So I was going to wander around" I smiled, he huffed.
"You're one dumb girl. Who the fuck just wanders around during a zombie apocalypse?" he fumed.
"Me. Why are you so mad about it? Jeez, anyway. I think the zombies are gone. I'll be on my way now" I said annoyed, getting off the table.
"Ya. It's dangerous outside" He warned.
"So are you. Just because this is an apocalypse doesn't mean I will forget that you bullied people" I interrupted him.
"This is different! Those things out there could kill you!" He shouted.
"So can you!" I shouted back.
"Fine! Do whatever the fuck you want. Die, see if I fucking care" He sneered.
"Like you ever did. Bye Gwi Nam" I scoffed, looking on the door's window before opening it and dashing outside.
Going up the stairs, but suddenly heard the zombies rushing to the side, so I hid back in the bathroom as they all ran to the sides of the speakers.
Finally, quiet, I peek out before exiting the bathroom, sighing in relief.
"Jeez, I think they just might make it there faster than me" I huffed, walking towards the stairs.
I hear fighting upstairs and peek through the railings, seeing Gwi Nam's coat as well as hearing his and Su Hyeok getting choked.
"Ya!" I yell, rushing in as Gwi Nam put his hand around Su Hyeok's throat, cutting off his airway.
"The fuck are you doing here?" Gwi Nam questions annoyed, as I rush to Su hyeok, throwing Gwi Nam off him, when he bites at my wrist as I wince, holding in my scream.
'Is he infected? Why is he biting me?' she thought to herself.
As he gets back up, Nam Ra comes from behind, putting him in a headlock when he bites down on her. The poor girl screaming in pain as I stand watching as he throws her off.
"Ya! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" I yell at him as Su Hyeok gets up.
"Su hyeok! Get to Cheong San! I'm dying anyway" I smile assuringly at him nodding as a single tear falls, throwing myself at Gwi Nam, the two of us falling off the window as he holds onto my waist.
I watch as Su Hyeok's head watches me from out the window, but I close my eyes, as the impact hits me, I feel my back hitting onto Gwi Nam's before I hit the floor and everything goes black.
I'm not afraid to die. I'm afraid of leaving them behind.
Please make sure they all survive.
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3rd Person's POV
As Su Hyeok helped the class president up onto her feet, the two were in a state of shock standing up and looking outside, staring at the body of their friend.
Nam Ra's only friend.
She composed herself, her too, not wanting to show emotion as the two ran to the classroom, dead of emotion.
Inside, the other's had already arrived, Dae Su immediately grabbing Cheong San into a hug.
Of course, the smaller male had to ask about his childhood best friends, and as On Jo walked in, he broke the hug rushing to her side with a call of her name.
"Are you hurt? Are you okay?" he asked, grabbing onto her shoulders.
Dae Su sat on the floor cussing his friend, hurt by the fact he chose girls over him.
Cheong San walked further into the classroom knowing On Jo wasn't going to reply to him, probably mad at him for not having returned to the classroom.
"How did you know I was here?" he asked the group, just as On Jo neared him, kicking him in the back on the knee.
The boy fell onto his knees, the table in front of him preventing him from not fully falling onto the floor.
"I told you not to go! Why don't you ever listen? Do you even know how Chae Rin was when you didn't come back?!" On Jo questioned him angrily.
"Ya, save the quarrel for later." Dae Su told the two, helping Cheong San back onto his feet.
"Where's Chae Rin anyways? Wasn't she supposed to be here already?" Wu Jin mentioned, Cheong San looked at him confused.
"What do you mean?"
"When we made a map of where you where, she dashed away, she went on her own" he explained.
"What?!" He screamed.
"We have to get to the roof. Before the music ends" Joon Yeong mentioned.
"Maybe she went ahead to the rooftop" Ji Min proposed.
"Before the music ends. Let's go. Hurry" Dae Su continued.
"Wait. Where's Su hyeok? Su Hyeok isn't here" On Jo pointed out as she rushed back out the door they had come in.
"Ya. Where are you going?" Cheong San asked standing up and running out to follow her, Dae Su and the others running behind.
Outside, in the corridor, Su Hyeok had Nam Ra's hand in his as he ran to them.
"Go in! Go inside! They're coming!" The taller male yelled at the group from a distance.
The whole group rushed back inside as the pair reached the classroom, hurrying to close the windows.
"There's a zombie there. It's caught under the piano, so it can't move" Cheong San told Nam Ra who was closing the curtains to the exterior windows.
"Where is Chae Rin? Did you see her outside?" Wu Jin asked Su hyeok.
"She's dead" He hesitated.
Everyone halts what they're doing staring at him as he licks his lips looking away from everyone's eyes.
"What do you mean she's dead?!" Wu Jin yelled at him.
"She threw herself out the window... to save us" He trembled.
"What..." Cheong San muttered.
"She was supposed to come here, meet you first. But she came from downstairs, I think she might have gone down to do something and then came up. She got bit" Su Hyeok explained as he fell down into a seat, Wu Jin trashed, kicking a stool onto the floor.
"We said we wouldn't sacrifice any more people. What the fuck was she thinking" He said angrily.
On Jo stood quiet staring blankly at the door, her best friend had sacrificed herself to save others, she had done it to save them.
She let herself go, as she silently cried.
Cheong San was the same, he rubbed his hand over his face utterly confused as to why she hadn't simply come up to see him.
He was utterly confused about the feeling he had inside his body, he was sad, but most importantly his heart hurt, he felt like it was getting ripped out of his chest.
Wu Jin was mostly angry, he knew he should've chased after the girl, but he hesitated, losing his only chance to possibly save her.
Dae Su had his head between his arms covering it, Chae Rin had been the one to always protect him and involve him in her every activity, despite what everybody said or what it involved.
But Nam Ra... she was hurt, beyond explaining. She felt like she had lost her everything. Having not been fully loved at home, only dedicating herself to school she felt like she had lost the only light in her life. Her only friend.
She did it to save her, as the bully bit her.
"We can't get outside now, right? We can't go to the rooftop" Hyo Ryeong broke the silence between the group.
"Therw are zombies outside, so... Let's think a little" Su Hyeok meakly said.
"This is so annoying" Nam Ra muttered sitting on a chair, eyes looking down.
Hyo Ryeong's eyes go to Nam Ra before they land on her arm, seeing her bite mark, outing her out to everyone in the room.
The group stands up, moving to stand closer to the windows near the door, only Su Hyeok getting up to protect the girl he loves.
Chae Rin is already dead. We can't lose any more people, that, was his only thought.
The end.
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Word count- 2500
So... she's dead?