𝐱𝐱𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢. 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭

Soojin was sitting in the circle with other residents, with her head put on mr. Han's shoulder. She didn't move, talk or even cry anymore. She was looking at the gold bracelet that she was wearing on her wrist all this time, feeling pain in her heart.

With one arm she embraced Suyeong, that stuck to her. She had no idea how long time passed since the boss of gang left with Hyunsoo. Maybe minutes, maybe hours.

After a while, to the lobby came back the man in red suit.

"Where the hell have you been?" asked him, another man, who was watching the group this whole time

"Shut your trap. Your breath stinks"

"What? You son of a bitch"

The man in red suit, bent over Yuri, who was holding her head down. He moved closer to her head, sniffling the girl like a dog.

"You smell like disinfectant. You'd better go over there," he pointed forward, "The patient is in bad condition. I think she might die soon"

The girl pursed her lips, but got up from the floor.

"Yuri, no..."

"No, no," mr. Ahn tried to catch her hand, standing up, but he was pulled back, when the man pointed his gun at him

Soojin felt a lump in her throat, watching the girl leaving with the man. She took a deep breath, holding Suyeong closer.

After a while of sitting in silence, the gunshot sounded, and the man who was watching the group, dropped on the ground dead. People gasped, looking around confused.

Seo Yikyung jumped on the floor from the vent in ceiling, holding her gun. She looked at the residents. Soojin got up from the floor, ms. Cha took the little girl in her arms, and was the first to walk out from the circle with her.

"We need to hurry"

Soojin stayed in the back, making sure that everyone is coming, and followed the group. But then another man confronted them, pointing the gun at the group.

"I knew this would happen!"

He grabbed ms. Cha, pushing away Suyeong. He pointed his gun at woman, who closed her eyes and cried.

"Drop your gun"

Yikyung stood a few steps away from him, raising the gun in his direction. Soojin held Eunyoo's arm.

"Want to bet who could kill more?" yelled the man. He shot the man that was standing close to them. People screamed terrified, when he dropped on the ground, "You're gonna fucking loose! Now, drop your gun! Drop it, you bitch!"

Yikyung stood with her gun up, clenching her teeth. She looked at the man on the ground, and dropped her gun, kicking it away. The man let go ms. Cha, and attacked Yikyung. He started beating her up.

"Ya! Stop it," Soojin let go Eunyoo, wanting to pull the man away from the woman, but the other girl stopped her

"This is just the beginning, bitch!"

He was kicking her on the whole body, also stomach. Soojin's face dropped, when she remembered about the baby in woman's womb.

"No!"

She tore out from Eunyoo's grip, and attacked the man, trying to pull him away from Yikyung. Eunhyuk and two other man rushed to help her. When they started to struggling with the man, Soojin squatted to Yikyung, helping her got up. In the air were sanded a few bullets. People screamed terrified, trying to hide from them. Byeongil was pulling away the man, when Yikyung grabbed her gun. She killed the man, that slid down the column, leaving behind the blood trail. The woman breathed heavily, dropping the gun.

    Soojin looked around to check on the people, when she saw ms. Ahn holding from behind another man, whose head was down and eyes were closed. The girl's face dropped.

"Mr. Han!" she ran to him, taking the man's hand in hers. She felt a big lump in her throat, and tears coming to her eyes, "Oh my God, ahjussi... No..."

The girl lowered her head, sobbing quietly, her body was shaking. Mr. Ahn put the hand on the chest, where the heart is. His mouth opened a little.

"He's alive"

Soojin raised the head and looked at mr. Ahn confused, sniffling her nose.

"He is?"

And at this moment, the blood started dripping from mr. Han nose. Soojin's eyes widened as she took her hand away. The man was infected. She felt a mix of emotions. She was relived, because the man was alive, but he was turning. And that can't end well.

"What are we doing?" she asked mr. Ahn, as the blood was flowing on the floor

"I think there's nothing we can do," the man said, straightening up, "We should give him time to heal"

The girl pursed her lips, and stood up. She put the hand on mr. Han's shoulder, looking at him unsure. The blood was still dripping from his nose.

Soojin walked to Yikyung.

"Do you know about others?" she asked, "We have to look for them. And I need to check on Jisu and Yuri, are you going with me?"

The woman nodded her head. She walked to the dead man that she killed earlier, and took from him the gun. She handed it to Soojin who took it a bit unsure.

"You need it to protect"

The girl nodded her head, "I don't know how to use it"

Yikyung started walking, and she followed her, "It's easy, look"

The woman started explaining how to shoot from the gun to the younger girl, while they both quickly were walking to the laundry, where Soojin left Jisu.

Soojin's mouth dropped a little when she saw a dead man laying on the floor in the blood stain. Yuri was sitting on the couch, covered in blood, inhaling the air from her small inhaler, with Sangwook on the side. The man was looking at the girl worried, trying to calm her down.

Jisu was laying on the ground, holding her hand on the stomach.

"Jisu!" Soojin rushed to her, falling on the knees next to her. She took girl's face in her hands, "Are you alright, did they do anything to you?"

The girl grimaced, "I'm alright. I think"

"Don't move," Soojin stroked her head, "We'll figure out, what to do with you. But now you need to rest"

She straightened up, when Jisu grabbed her hand. Soojin looked down at her.

"I'm happy that you are alive"

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Soojin rushed through the corridors, in the direction of the elevator. On her shoulder, she held her machete. Even tho Yikyung explained to her how to use the gun, it wasn't her thing. But with her weapon, that was with her since the beginning, she felt much better.

"Where are you going?"

Soojin stopped. She took a deep breath and turned around to Eunhyuk.

"What do you think?" she scoffed, "I'm not gonna sit here, and wait until they bring his dead body, and later kill us. I have to do something"

"And what? You're gonna go there, and defeat a group of grown men with your machete? You know, that you don't have a chance"

Soojin clenched her teeth, and held her machete closer. She knew that he was right.

„So do you want me to do, huh? Sit around and do nothing?"

Eunhyuk clenched his jaw. He looked at the elevator, and his face dropped when he saw numbers on it going down. Soojin saw his expression, and turned to the elevator. It was already on fourth floor.

The ring went on, and residents of Green Home gathered quickly around the elevator, holding their guns, pointing it at the doors. They waited for a dozen seconds, when it opened. From the inside walked out some man, who stopped right after he noticed people around him. He raised his gun.

"All alone now, huh?" murmured Eunhyuk

Soojin took a step closer to the man, pointing her machete at his neck, when the gun was touching her stomach, but she wasn't that scared as earlier.

"Where the hell is Hyunsoo?" she hissed

"We don't have time for this! If they come down, we are all dead"

"What do you mean?"

"Ya!" the man turned his head from Byeongil to look again at Soojin, "I asked where is Hyunsoo? What did you do to him?"

"You don't understand!" yelled the man, "They are gonna kill us!" he put his both hands up, "I'll put it down, okay? Just... take a look at this"

He put down his gun on the floor, and put his hand to the pocket, taking out the brochure. He handed it to Soojin, who took a step back, so others could look at it.

"What the hell is this?"

"Special Infectee Reported Guide," read ms. Son from above of her arm, "We guarantee the safety of anyone who reports a special infectee. You will be transferred to a safe camp"

"What does it mean?"

"They want us to report them"

Soojin clenched her teeth, "Well, we obviously can't do that, right?" she looked around the residents, and from the looks on their face she could say that they aren't so wiling to agree with her, "Right?"

"Take him," said Yikyung, looking at Byeongil and other man, "We're gonna wait, for Hyunsoo to come back"

But are they even sure, that he will?

The both men took the man that came out from the window, grabbing him by arms and dragging away, while he started screaming angry. Soojin put down her machete, and rubbed her forehead irritated.

They had to wait, but no one knew for how long. Eunyoo was squeezing Soojin shoulder, who was sitting on the floor, trying to comfort her.

"They're coming!" yelled some man

Soojin felt a gulp in her throat, but grabbed her machete, standing up, and joined others who stood in front of the elevator, some of them pointing any type of weapons from the fork to machine gun. The numbers on the machine were going down, when the girl felt the stress eating her alive.

The elevator stopped with a quiet ting. And the doors opened.

Hyunsoo was inside, standing on his legs, without any noticeable injuries.

Soojin felt relived, and smiled to the boy, wanting to run to him and give him a big hug, but the look on his face was odd, so she didn't do that. He didn't even look at the girl when he walked out.

"Hyunsoo..." she got his attention, lowering her machete, "Are you alright?"

"What condition are you in?" asked Yikyung, pointing the gun at him

"Did I win?"

Soojin looked at another man who spoke. He was standing in the elevator behind Hyunsoo, with the hood put on his head, covering the face.

"Hyunsoo is okay," said Eunhyuk

The man walked from the elevator, putting down the hood. Soojin clenched her teeth and raised her machete again, seeing the man that earlier helped the other one "kidnap" her from the laundry room.

"Is that so?"

He put the finger on the end of the girl's machete, trying to lower it, but she didn't let him do that.

"Don't move," said Sangwook

"You know those things can't kill me," Uimyeong looked at him

"Don't worry about that. I'll find a way to kill you when I need to"

Uimyeong was still standing in front Soojin. She turned her head to Hyunsoo.

"Hyun, are you okay? What happened?" she licked her trembling lip nervously

The boy looked at her, but he seemed weird. And as she never thought about him this way, now it was something different. The look in his eyes was cold.

"Come here boy, quickly," said mr. Ahn waving his hand at him

Hyunsoo walked closer to  Uimyeong, facing Soojin who looked at him confused.

"Put that down," said the boy, "He saved my life"

The girl's mouth opened a little, when Seungwan spoke up, "Think about what they did"

"He killed his own men," said Byeongil, "Do you really trust him?"

"Do you trust me?" cut him off Hyunsoo, as he looked again at the girl in front him, "Soojin, do you trust me?"

The girl took a deep breath, pursing her lips. What was he doing? He put her in a difficult situation. Of course she trusted him, but she didn't trust the man who was standing behind him, at all.

She looked in the Hyunsoo's eyes, but it was uncomfortable. He made her feel weird. Residents were waiting for her answer, as she was trying to put it in the best words she could.

"I do trust you, you know that, but..."

"He's like me," interrupted her Hyunsoo, "So put your gun down"

He said it harshly. Soojin felt a lump in her throat, and as she had no idea what to say, she did what the boy asked her to do. She saw that Uimyeong smirked happily.

"Hyunsoo..."

The boy looked at other residents, when they put their guns down. Soojin wanted to grab his hand, worried about him, having no idea what happened to him, but Hyunsoo moved his hand away. The girl looked at him surprised.

He turned around and walked away from them, leaving confused people behind. Uimyeong looked at the residents, and put his hands behind his back, following Hyunsoo.

Soojin turned to others, with her mouth open slightly. Sangwook put his arm around her, patting her shoulder.

She looked again at Hyunsoo leaving her.