"Who is that?", Yuri, surprised, asked  Yoona after seeing someone in her arms, apparently tired and... with a shirt stained in blood. She noticed that the unknown blonde girl was not looking fine.

The new and unfamiliar sound of Yuri's voice penetrated Jessica's ears. The latter looked for its owner right away. The blonde's eyes met the stranger's ones and Jessica almost released herself to the floor from Yoona's arms, but was stopped before it happened. Noticing Jessica's change of behavior, Yoona brought Jessica to lie on the bed so she could rest from her tiredness, but instead the blonde kept eyeing the black-haired stranger in a cold way.

"Who are you?" Jessica asked back, a little scared, as she was in no condition of defending herself. "Ouch!" She groaned in pain, holding her wounded arm, after moving it carelessly.

"Hey, don't push yourself that much. Your cut wasn't even checked yet." Yoona spoke, worried. "By the way, her name is Yuri." Yoona turned around to look at her. "Yuri, this is Jessica. I forgot to introduce myself as well: I'm Yoona. We've been living together since it all started." With that said, she went looking for medical items to treat Jessica's wound.

~~/JESSICA'S POV/~~

"So... Yuri." I said after both Yoona and Yuri explained what exactly happened when they met, like an hour ago.

"Hm?"

"I still have some questions for you."

"Go ahead, I'll answer them."

"Listen, I don't know if we can trust you. But I'll consider you did not try anything stupid yet against us. So, what did you do before the outbreak? What was your life like?" I asked her, curious to know more about her past and her possible reasons to end up here.

"Well, I was a hip hop dance teacher. Quite popular in the city, to tell you the truth." Yuri explained, shortly.

Yoona and I raised our eyebrows. That wasn't expected.

"Alright... And, aren't you afraid of us?" Another question for Yuri.

"What I know is that you're not the people who attacked me and my group. I paid attention to Yoona's behavior. She didn't seem careful enough when she broke into the house to confront me. Also, because of the dialogue we had. However, I don't know about your intentions." Yuri replied.

The three of us could hear the heavy rain outside, along with loud thunders to intensify the drama we were living in.

"I suppose we have to make a deal here." I spoke. "You don't try to hurt us, and we don't try to hurt you." I walked closer to Yuri.

"Simple and fair enough. That's okay with me. None of us want trouble." She extended her hand to formally shake mine.

"I suppose you're letting me stay here for a while...?" Yuri asked, a little unsure.

I blinked once before answering. "You shall stay here if you agree to sleep on the floor."

"That's definitely better than the forest." Now she just winked at me. How sassy.

I was gonna go back to sit on the bed when I heard Yuri calling Yoona's name.

"What is it?" Yoona said.

"I'd like to know about your lives before the outbreak too. You know, I've already told you what I did but I still don't know about you." She had a point.

"Basically, I am.. or was... in the 3rd year of Medicine College." Yoona answered.

"So you know stuff about healing, treating wounds, etc.?"

"Pretty much, yeah. I lived for studying and I know some things about various topics of it." I observed Yoona's expression during her answer. She looked so proud knowing all of that. That image made me feel nostalgic for a moment. I missed college times, weird to say that, but I did. That was also when my friendship with Yoona was at its best.

Sigh.

Just friendship... sadly.

That only makes me wonder... Has she ever noticed my efforts?

I quit those thoughts and paid attention to her sentence. Then I looked at the bandage on my arm, made expertly by her.

Yuri nodded her head. She turned to look at me, I was already glaring at her. Before she asked, I simply said "Last year of Design. I was almost getting a job. But you know how life ." Yuri looked intimidated by my fierce staring and she just looked away after nodding.

"Yuri." I said, right after she felt satisfied with our answers. She turned to look at me, once again. "Tell me about your group. Their names, how many, etc. They were your friends, right?"

"Correct. We were a group of seven. Their names are Sooyoung, Henry, Sunny, Seohyun, Seungri and Tiffany." Yuri paused after saying the last name. Can't quite tell what emotion her face wanted to express. "We were friends for quite some time now, even before this mess. I grew up with Seohyun and Seungri, met Sunny and Sooyoung at high school, Henry worked for my father and eventually became close to me and Tiffany is one of my dance 'students'.. though she's kinda fail at dancing..." Yuri had a small smile on her face. The last statement about that girl named Tiffany seemed to be said by Yuri in a lower voice... as if she was just commenting that to herself. I think she might have got emotional talking about them, remembering their friendship.

"I see. You mentioned that all of you were working together to find out more about what the hell happened…" I continued. Yuri returned her gaze at me.

"Yeah. Me and my crew had researched quite a lot about the incidents that have been going on. We suspect the government has been blackmailed, sabotaged, something like that... It looks like a blackout. And it seems that we're isolated from the rest of the world. Because no one's ever heard of any military operation to restore order and peace anywhere. The president never showed up. Actually, most of those unknown men who attack people wear grey outfits, similar to military clothing, beside the masks. Due to their appearance, we decided to call them "the Greymasks".

What a ridiculously creative name. I nodded at the information she gave us.

"Finally we have a 'name' for them." Yoona commented.

"Your theory sounds plausible. I also thought it's something related to the government, but we've never had time to worry about looking for information on that part." I spoke.

"I can imagine what you've