𝐱𝐱𝐯𝐢. 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫

The doors of the quarantine room got opened, when ms. Ahn confessed to being infected. She even had the idea of leaving the building, but most of the residents talk her out of it. So she agreed to be locked in the quarantine room. Hyunsoo and Soojin appeared in the corridor, as fast as they could, when Eunyoo told them the sad news. Ms. Ahn and two other people turned to them. The older woman walked to the teenagers, smiling sadly, but it looked more like a grimace.

"Ajumma, you don't have to..." started quietly Soojin

"It's gonna be safer for everyone," the woman nodded her head. She grabbed Hyunsoo's jumper, being on verge of crying, "How did you bear it? How did you do it?" she sobbed, "Now I know how you suffered, but I can't do anything for you"

She lowered her head. Hyunsoo felt an uncomfortable pain in his chest, as the tears filled his eyes. Ms. Ahn breathed deeply, trying to calm down.

"I was an awful grown-up. I'm sorry," she let go Hyunsoo, and looked at Soojin whose lips were trembling, "Thank you"

Ms. Ahn stroked her arm, when one tear strolled down Soojin's cheek. The woman turned around, and walked back to the quarantine room, closing the door behind her. The girl looked at Hyunsoo. He blinked, and the tears escaped his eyes, making his cheeks wet. He lowered his head, and sobbed.
    Soojin turned to him, and put her arms around him, as the boy put his head on her shoulder. The girl started stroking his back, as Hyunsoo cried, breathing heavily.

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The boy walked to Soojin, and grabbed her hand. She looked at him surprised, because he didn't say anything, just pulled her, to help her stood up. The girl dutifully followed Hyunsoo, having no idea where they were going. He was wearing a new sweater and jeans, when she was still in the same clothes. And they say that girls love getting new clothes so often.
Hyunsoo took Soojin to the bathroom, and then she noticed that he was holding a pair of scissors.

"Are you going to kill me with them, or cut your hair?" she joked

"Cut my hair"

The girl raised her brows surprised, "Oh. Well then, let's do that. Do you want my help?"

The boy nodded his head. He walked to the mirror, and Soojin stood behind him. Hyunsoo grabbed a string of his hair, and pulled it, moving closer to the scissors. He cut the first string. Then another, and another, and another, until he couldn't reach the hair on the back. He handed the scissors to Soojin. She took them with a smile, and stood on her toes to reach his hair.

"If I'll fuck up something, please don't be mad," she murmured, "But I have never cut a man's hair before"

Hyunsoo smiled, "Don't worry about it"

Soojin bit her lip, concentrating on his back of the head, trying to cut his hair symmetrically. The pieces of them were falling on the floor. After a while, the girl took Hyunsoo's face in her hands, and roughly twisted it a few times on the side, to check if he looks alright with the new haircut that he was given.

"You look very handsome," she stood next to him, twisting his head to make him look in a mirror, "What do you think?"

The boy looked at his reflection. Soojin was holding his face under the chin, squeezing his cheeks with the fingers. She flicked the piece of hair from his jaw. Hyunsoo felt so weird with short hair, like he was back in high school, but he liked them.

"You did great," he said, making Soojin smile

"Thanks," she took the hand off his chin, and placed scissors on the sink. She walked closer to the mirror, and separated her hair in two, "I guess it's my turn now"

Hyunsoo's eyes widened, "Really?"

The girl furrowed at him, "Why not?"

She took the scissors, and chopped her hair off on the one side in less than six seconds. She threw it to the sink. Then Soojin quickly grabbed the other part, cutting it off. Now she had hair that weren't even touching her arms. The girl twisted her head on the side to check if it was symmetrical, and cut off the strings that were a longer than they supposed to be. Hyunsoo watched her amazed. Soojin tucked her hair behind the ears, watching herself in the reflection.

"What do you think?" she asked, looking at the boy in the mirror

Hyunsoo walked to her, wrapping his arms around her waist from behind. He put his chin on her shoulder, as she tilted her head.

"I think you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen"

Soojin smiled widely, and gave him a short kiss on the cheek. When she actually thought about that, no one ever considered her as beautiful earlier. In high school, Soojin never got the attention from boys, even if she tried to, by putting the makeup that she didn't like, or acting like someone else. She realised later that it didn't change anything, because still no one was interested in her person. But now, she had someone that think about her in that way, and she couldn't been much happier. In this new reality, when they're in the apocalypse, people are dying, and they are also on the verge of surviving, the girl was happy, because of this situation, she found the boy that she loves, and who makes her smile just with his presence.

Hyunsoo gave her a kiss on the neck, hugging her close to him. Soojin closed her eyes, trying to enjoy the touch of his lips on her skin. After seconds, she turned around to him, facing the boy.

Soojin took a step back. The boy looked at her a little confused, while she took out her phone from the pocket along with earphones, putted it. She bit her lip, and picked the song from her playlist. She walked back to Hyunsoo and put one earphone in his ear, and another in hers.

"Let's dance," she said

"I can't dance," murmured the boy

Soojin wrapped her arms around his neck, "Me either. But we should always try to learn new things, right? Come on, put your hands on my waist," the boy did as she told him, blushing a bit, "And you need to be close, so the earphones won't fall out"

He nodded his head. Soojin started swinging her body a little, trying to make a boy join her. He wasn't so eager to it, afraid that he would make a fool of himself. But he looked in girl's eyes, and a smile on her face.

If she wants to dance, they're gonna dance.

Hyunsoo held her body closer to his, starting to swing the same way as she was doing it. He looked in her brown eyes, as she raised her head a little, smiling slightly. The boy felt his heart racing in his chest, when he was looking at the girl. There was something in her smile that makes him feel safe around her. He would never have thought that he could find someone like her. Someone that is trying everything to make him feel accepted, and a decent person, as he wanted to be for such a long time. Soojin was the person that understood him, and didn't try to change him.

The way the teenagers were moving, wouldn't be described as the dance if someone would look from the side at them. They were swinging their bodies so gently, that it wasn't even noticeable. But their heads were tilting on the sides, without breaking an eye contact.

The doors of the bathroom opened, and another girl stood in them. And it was Eunyoo again. She looked at both teenagers and rolled her eyes, grimacing. Soojin took the hands from boy's neck, as he quickly let go her waist. He blushed embarrassed, but the girl didn't seem bothered by her friend who walked inside.

"Aish," Eunyoo clicked her tongue, "Is everyone gonna cut their hair now? Is this the start of some cult?"

Soojin smiled, and took the scissors from the sink, pulling out her hand to the younger girl, "You want to join?"

"Of course not," she scoffed, "I'm not going to follow you, you sad people, and ruin my looks"

Eunyoo walked pass the teenagers, and opened the doors of one of the cabins. She twisted her head to look at them before walking in, and smirked.

"Eunhyuk was looking for you both. We have a guest"

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The group of people stood above another man, while Seo Yikyung was beating his face from time to time. He attacked her in the shower, but the woman defeated him without a problem. They didn't know how he got here, who he was, and what was he trying to do. He didn't want to cooperate with them, only mumbling words, like for example that he shouldn't be in here. Another voice sounded. It wasn't so clear, and it was coming from the man's jacket. He panicked, trying to take out something. He threw on the floor walkie-talkie, that landed in front Soojin.

"Hey, can you hear me? Are you there?" The man crawled on the floor, walking away from it, "Damn it, bastard can hear us, but he's ignoring us again," they could hear laughs of other people, "Come out, come out, wherever you are"

The man tried to got up from the floor, and ran away, but he was caught by Eunhyuk and Sangwook. The man started beginning to give him back his gun. And then gunshots sounded from the walkie-talkie. Soojin took a step back, like as she can get shot, when Yikyung lifted the fire extinguisher, and smashed the walkie-talkie.

"What does it mean?"

"We are not safe anymore," murmured Eunhyk turning his head to Hyunsoo and Sangwook, "We need to take down the sign"

The men nodded their heads, and quickly left the others.

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"WHY DO YOU EVEN TRY?"

Hyunsoo bent in the half, holding his head. He clenched his teeth and eyes, feeling the pain everywhere in his body. Sangwook stopped, and looked at him confused. The number above the elevator showed already the number ten, two levels under them.

"YOU THINK YOU EVER WILL BE APPRECIATED?"

Why it was happening now, when they have to be quickly back to the first floor?

"YOU KNOW THAT NO ONE CAN LOVE YOU"

"Shut up," murmured the boy

"YOU KNOW THAT SHE CAN'T LOVE YOU. NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"Shut up"

"NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"NO ONE CAN LOVE A MONSTER"

"Shut up!" yelled the boy

He put his hands to ears, but he knew that it can't help. Sangwook took a step closer, when the boy looked at him with black eyes.

"You think anyone loves you?" Hyunsoo smiled to him, "Do you even know what love means? Are you able to love?"

The man looked at him surprised. How silly that he actually started thinking about that.

After seconds of the silence between them, he grabbed the boy by the collar of his sweater and pulled him up. Hyunsoo laughed at him, when he got hit in the face. He groaned, placing a hand on his face. The boy looked at Sangwook again, but with his normal eyes.

"Sorry," he murmured

"Come on, we need to hurry," said the man, walking away from the elevator

Hyunsoo rushed after him. The alarm was still ringing loudly.

They walked out from the corridor, back to the staircase. They were rushing downstairs, pulling away the strings that were hung, when the doors opened, and the monster grabbed Sangwook, trying to pull him inside. Hyunsoo turned around, ready to help him.

"Go ahead," said the man, pushing the monster back, "I'll take care of this"

The boy nodded his head, and went forward. He knew that the way to the first floor is too long, and he couldn't make it on time in this speed. Also, he tripped over some boxes and pillows on his way.

Hyunsoo quickly got up from the floor, and then jumped above the railing. He started falling down, trying to land safely as much as it was possible.

When he touched the ground, he heard a loud crack, and pain in the leg, seeing the bone sticking out of it.

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Soojin froze at first when she heard an alarm. She looked down at Kim sibling, then at mr. Han. The kids looked at her scared, when she gave back the dinosaur toy to the boy. She told them to stay in the room with the man, and ran out, quickly grabbing her machete.

The first thing that she thought about, was running to check on ms. Ahn. What if the alarm went on because of her? Soojin opened the door of the quarantine room, to notice the woman sitting, while Yikyung was standing above her. Ms. Ahn was holding her hand, trying to stop her from going.

"She can't go," said the woman, looking at Soojin

"Ms. Ahn..." sighed the firefighter

Soojin was confused. She can't force anyone to go and risk their lives, but why was it Yikyung, who was the first person to fight? What changed now?

"Em... alright, if so..."

"She's pregnant"

The girl's eyes widened, hearing those words. She looked at Yikyung, who lowered her head. This woman was pregnant all this time, and she defeated the big ass monster alone?

"Well... Congratulations?" Soojin tried to sound happy for the woman, but pregnancy in this time was not the best thing, and she wasn't expecting this at all, "Then I agree with ms. Ahn, you both stay here. We'll take care of it, whatever is happening"

"No," Yikyung snatched out her hand from the woman's grip, "I'll go"

"You should really stay...."

"Soojin, you can't stop me. Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine"

The girl pursed her lips. She can't stop her, but in the same way she thought that couldn't stop Nayeon, and now she is dead. And Yikyung has inside her another human being, so she should just sit on her ass and rest. The woman passed Soojin, so she took a deep breath and followed her. Before leaving the room, she mouthed "sorry" to ms. Ahn.

Soojin and Yikyung ran through the corridors, trying to locate the danger. The firefighter was holding in her hand an axe that she found.

The residents of Green Home were standing in a semicircle, while in the middle was standing Jaeheon, struggling with someone. He had his katana stabbed in the another man's chest. It was the security guard of the building. He was holding his lawnmower. Around them were flying flies, buzzing loudly. Soojin's eyes widened, and her mouth dropped when she saw on the floor a cut off arm. She looked at Jaeheon terrified. The man's eyes were slowly closing, while from the hole on his side was dripping blood.

"No!"

She rushed forward to help him, as he was slowly losing it, but someone grabbed her. She started screaming, trying to release from the grip, hitting this person on the hands.

"Jaeheon!"

"Soojin..." the man wheezed, "Please... tell Jisu that I'm sorry"

He smiled, but tears strolled down his cheeks. Soojin nodded her head, choking on her own tears. Jaeheon growled angry, and pushed the monster to elevator with himself. They started fighting inside. The walls got covered in blood. They both dropped on the floor. Soojin lost her strength to fight with the person that was holding her. She sobbed, when Jaeheon yelled at them:

"Throw it!" no one moved at first, "Throw it now!"

Eunhyuk snatched one Molotov cocktail from Seungwan's hand, walking forward. He stood there, with his arm up.

"Throw it!"

The boy took a swing.

"No, Eunhyuk!" yelled Soojin

The bottle fell to the elevator, setting it on fire. The door closed, and the person that held the girl, let her go. Soojin rushed there, falling on her knees. She started hitting on the doors of the elevator, as they would magically open. And she didn't stop, until she lost all her energy. The blood came out from the slot between the floor and doors of the elevator. The girl put her hands on the ground, sobbing loudly.

Why she lost another person that she cares about?

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On Jaeheon's funeral, people either cried, or stood with their heads down in silence. Hyunsoo and Soojin were holding each other, being in the first group. Mr. Ahn put another origami flower on the grave that had a wooden cross pounded in.

"You died when you should have lived, and I lived when I should have been one to die"

Soojin sniffled her nose, and took a deep breath. She let go Hyunsoo, and on shaky legs she walked forward. She fell on her knees in front of the man's grave, and put her hands together to pray. The girl closed her eyes, and tears strolled down her cheeks. She asked for the same thing as like for Nayeon. And if Jaeheon believed in Heaven, he for sure went there.

"Amen," whispered Soojin, opening her eyes. She put her hand on the grave, "I'm so sorry"

a/n

I'm adding this chapter only two days after the last one, and I feel like it took me forever😭  A lot is happening in here, and well, another person died.... Next chapter is the almost whole ninth episode, and it is so close to the end of the book, and I'm not ready, to be honest, I love writing it :(

I hope that you guys liked this chapter, and are looking forward to the next one! Thank you all for so many views, it's amazing <3