Chapter 8: Find Us—Library Part 1

|Chaerin's Perspective|

            Our screams echoed throughout the janitor's closet as we held onto each other for dear life. I can't believe that I was going to die before I graduated or went to a SHINee concert. I squinted my eyes shut, waiting for the impact of pain or something like in the movies, but nothing happened. I opened my eyes, Dara was still screaming frantically and I felt my blood rush to my cheeks as I realized who our 'killer' was: Jiyong.

            I gulped and immediately shoved Dara off me. "Dara! Dara!" I said in whisper-like shout, but Dara just kept rolling around, tears coming to her eyes as she continued to wail. Oh my god, how humiliating is this. Well, since we already seem like retards I couldn’t care less. I went up to Dara and placed my hands on her face making her face me.
            "CL! Run! The killers got me!"she screamed at me clenching her eyes shut as if she was in pain. I sighed in frustration. 'Will this girl ever open her eyes' I thought and started using my fingers to pry them open. This reminded me of a typical moment when we would get together for sleepovers and we would watch scary films. Dara was always the scary cat. I on the other hand loved them. Dara screamed one more time until she saw me in front of her.           
            "What happened? CL did you scare him away? Who was he? What did he wan-" I cut her off. "You idiot, it was Jiyong" I said while pointing my head towards Jiyong's direction.
            Dara looked towards him and hid behind my back in panic. "This. Is.