𝐱𝐢𝐢. 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐫

Soojin walked through the corridors alone with earphones put in her ears, but without any music playing. She had her hand in one big pocket of the hoodie she was wearing, inside holding the candy bar, while in the other hand she was holding her machete. She was walking everywhere with it, feeling then much more confident. The girl even started to thinking about naming it.
  Behind the corner was another corridor in the end of which was the room when Hyunsoo was locked.

When the girl was walking there, she could hear voices talking about something.
When Soojin entered there, people stopped talking. They all looked at her. It was a woman with her dog, some young girl next to her, two boys and one weird man, that's has all his face beaten up. He was giving her an odd stare.

"Don't stop yourselves," she said, scanning people on the corridor, "I'm here just for a second"

The girl walked pass them, feeling their stares on her back. She wasn't there for a second, actually. Without looking back at them, she started lifting the kind of gate made of bars. Behind it was the doors to the room.

"Ya! What are you doing?" asked one man

Soojin ignored him, taking the hands off the gate, when she finally opened it. She put a hand on the handle, and opened the doors.

"Ya!"

Then she pulled down the gate. The people behind her were even more confused.

"Don't worry," she twisted her head to them, "If anything happens, the gate is protecting us. And I'm first to get attacked, so you have nothing to be scared of, alright?"

But others didn't look very convinced. But the girl didn't care about that.

"Hyunsoo" she tapped on the gate

The boy walked to the doors even earlier, when he heard someone trying to get to the room. He stood on the other side, looking at Soojin.

"Hey"

"Hey," she noticed the look he gave to people behind her, "Ignore them, and sit down"

The girl sat on the floor, and Hyunsoo followed her. She looked back, and when she did that, people rapidly turned their heads, acting like they weren't watching her. She rolled her eyes.
Soojin put the machete next to her on the ground, and from her pocket she took out the candy bar.

"Here," she tried to push it through the aperture in the gate. Hyunsoo took the food from the other side, "I thought you are hungry, because it's been hours since our last meal"

"Thank you"

The girl smiled. Hyunsoo looked down at the candy bar. The teenagers sat in the silence, and that was okay. It wasn't uncomfortable.

"So, how are you feeling?" Hyunsoo raised his head to the girl

"I'm alright," she murmured, "Nayeon, my friend, is alive. It was the one with wavy, black hair, I don't know if you noticed," he nodded his head, "She told me what happened here, since the first day. Outside there's a monster that in his mouth have very long kind of hand? I'm not sure how does it look like. But I think it might be similar to the blind monster. You know, his extra long hand," the girl pulled out her hand, curving the elbow and fingers, trying to imitate branches. Hyunsoo chuckled softly, "Today, before we arrived, this monster killed the woman's daughter, and the soldier who went to help her. I think she was left alone outside, and her mother opened the main gate without permission, so she had a fight with Eunhyuk. But I don't know, Nayeon isn't the best person to tell the stories," Hyunsoo was listening to the girl interested, "And actually, that's the biggest thing that happened here. It's pretty boring"

Hyunsoo nodded his head. He looked down at the candy bar that he was holding in his hands. Soojin noticed that on the corridor were left those two boys, chatting with each other.

"What about the kids?" he murmured. Soojin twisted her head back to him, "And mr. Han. We said we'll come back. And if I'm locked here..."

The girl pursed her lips, "I know. If so, I can go for them, it's not a problem"

Hyunsoo raised his head, "I don't want you to go there alone"

"I didn't say I'll go alone, you moron," the girl smiled, "Jisu and Jaeheon would probably go too. Maybe even this firefighter lady, Yikyung. There are some people that want to help"

"Oh...alright"

The girl tucked her hair behind the ear, "It's not okay that they locked you in here. Especially with this motherfucker," she grimaced, meaning mr. Kim, "Where even is he? He's surprisingly quiet"

"He's sleeping, that's why," the girl nodded her head, "And it's okay. I can't hurt anyone, by staying here"

Soojin furrowed, "You wouldn't hurt anyone, anyway. Don't let them convince you, that it's otherwise. Have some faith in yourself"

Hyunsoo looked down. How can he have faith in this situation? It was 18th August, a week until his planned suicide. He tried not to think about that, when he was with Soojin.

"What are you listening to?" he asked, noticing earphones in the girl's ears. She took them out

"Nothing actually. But wait..." from her pocket she pulled out her phone, "Here"

She handed him one earphone, putting it in aperture. Hyunsoo took the earphone and put it in his right ear, moving the head closer to the gate. Soojin was scrolling through the songs on her playlist, biting her lip focused.

"Alright..." she clicked on the song that she picked, as she put the left earphone to her ear, "I don't know if you're gonna like it, but..."

"Don't you have yellow headphones?" asked Hyunsoo, imitating putting on the headphones

The girl nodded her head, "I have two, it depends on my mood. But listen to the song, don't talk"

The boy nodded his head, mouthing a quite, sorry. The music played for a few seconds, but there wasn't any words yet.

Hyunsoo was watching her hands, when she started tapping on the knee with her pointing finger. Strands of brown hair fell on her face again, but she didn't do anything about that. The boy looked at her pink lips, which were moving, mouthing the lyrics of the song. He didn't even realise that he starred at her for a whole three minutes, until the music stopped playing. Soojin twisted her head to the boy.

"And? What do you think?" the girl asked, waking up the boy from his thoughts

"It was good"

Soojin turned to the gate, facing the boy, sitting on her knees, "Good in the way, I don't want to be rude, or, good-good?"

Hyunsoo smirked, "Good-good"

He actually didn't pay enough attention to the song to rate it, but he didn't want to be rude or make Soojin sad. The girl smiled. She pulled the string of earphones, so they fall out from their ears, and she put them back to the pocket with the phone. The girl brushed her hair off the face.

"How is it to be immortal?" she asked after a few seconds

Hyunsoo shrugged, "There are probably things that can kill me"

"Like what? You collapsed on the ground from 9th floor and nothing happened"

"Shot in the head? I don't think I would survive that," suggested the boy, "Or getting stabbed many times?"

"I don't know, but we can try," joked Soojin, looking at her machete

"Okay"

The girl looked at him, and grimaced. Hyunsoo raised a corner of a lip.

They sat for another half hour, when on the corridor ran this creepy man, like he was running away from someone. Soojin stood up, picking her machete, and so did Hyunsoo, putting his hands on the gate. The man had a face dirty in blood as he was breathing heavily. The three boys that were sitting on the bench on the another corridor, got up, walking to the man.

"Ya! What happened to you?" the girl pointed at the man with a machete

He was breathing heavily, looking around, thinking about the words to describe what happened. He put a hand on his face, rubbing it, and pulling the hand in front, showing how dirty it got from blood.

"I think... I think I'm turning," he said, making Soojin furrowed, "You should lock me here"

He looked at the room where were Hyunsoo and mr. Kim. The man went to pick up the gate.

"Wait," Soojin took a step to him, "Hyunsoo move," the boy said what he was asked for, "Did you have a fight with someone? It looks like someone beat you, and not just typical nosebleed"

The creepy mam shook his head, "No, no... I feel... I feel that I'm gonna turn. Please lock me in here"

Soojin was looking at the man, blocking the gate. This man was suspicious. Why he wanted to get isolated with others so much?

"Maybe you should..." started the one of the boys, but Soojin hushed at him, looking at the creepy man, squinting her eyes

At the end of the corridor appeared Jaeheon, who was passing by, holding his sword close to him. The girl noticed him.

"Jaeheon!" the man turned head to her, and after seeing the crowd, he walked to them, "He says that he is infected"

The man looked at the creep, "What happened to you?"

"I think I'm turning," he said while panting loudly. He showed him his bloody hand

Jaeheon didn't look convinced. From the other side appeared Sangwook. When the creep noticed him, his face dropped. Gangster pulled an arm to catch the man, but was stopped by Jaeheon, who blocked his way. Sangwook caught his arm, looking at him surprised. Both men were staring at each other. The creep walked in the room, and closed the gate behind him.

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Eunhyuk walked to the Soojin who was sitting in one of the rooms with Nayeon. He was holding Hyunsoo's spear. Girls turned their heads to him, when he stood above them.

"Who made that?" he asked the girl

She looked at the spear, "Han Dusik, the man from apartment 1408. We left him with two kids and another woman. He also made this" she lifted her machete. Soojin put it down, and stood up, taking from the boy the spear, "Look"

She pressed the button that was on the handle, and the spear release a few trickles of electricity. Eunhyuk and Nayeon flinched surprised, while Soojin smiled amused.

"He can make a lot of useful weapons," she said, "That's why we should come back to them as quickly as possible. I can go"

Eunhyuk thought about it for a while. He took the spear back in his hands.

"Alright, if you want to. Hyunsoo will go then too"

Soojin raised her eyebrows surprised, "He can? That's cool"

"Since he can be hurt badly, without saying he can't be killed that easily, he can do this kind of dangerous things," said Eunhyuk, crossing arms on his chest

The girl furrowed, "You're saying this, but he's not some kind of weapon. He's still a human"

Nayeon stood up, putting her hand on girl's arm, "I'll go with you two. I'm sick of staying here all the time"

Soojin turned to her friend, and took her hands in hers.

"You shouldn't," she said, "You don't have anything to protect. When we get mr. Han, he can make something for you"

Nayeon rolled her eyes, "I can fight"

That was true. Since she was an eight years old kid, she was attending tangsudo classes, where she learned to fight. The girls had a lot of situations, while they were in the city, coming to home late, and some dudes were bugging them, Nayeon always beat them, until they would give up. She was amazing at this. But this situation was different.

"Nayeon, outside there are fucking monsters, not people that you can easily beat, trust me," the black haired rolled her eyes. She didn't want to stay here idly, worrying about her friend, she wanted to help. Soojin turned back to Eunhyuk, "When can we go?"

"Tomorrow morning," he said, "Now get some sleep"

The girl nodded her head. Eunhyuk turned around, and left the room, taking Hyunsoo's spear with him. Soojin looked at Nayeon, who was clearly pissed, with her arms crossed.

"Sorry," she said, smiling awkwardly

Nayeon rolled her eyes, "Just say that you want to be alone with Hyunsoo, you asshole"

Soojin's mouth dropped. She looked confused and surprised at the black haired girl.

"What are you talking about?"

Nayeon smiled, "You like him"

Soojin didn't know what to say.

"I mean, yeah, he's okay, but it's nothing more, he's a friend," she furrowed, "Stop smiling so dumb, jeez"

But Nayeon didn't stop. She was looking at her friend, smiling with her arms crossed on her chest, and stood like that all the time. Soojin turned around, and walked away.

"Just admit it!" yelled Nayeon

Soojin raised a hand, and showed up the middle finger, without turning around to her.

"Fuck you!"