as if on cue, there was a clap of thunder, the sky quickly turned dark, and rain started pouring heavily.

"aren't I pretty?" Jiyoung asked. she pulled out a flower from nowhere and stuck it in the corpse's hair.

Baekhyun continued to gape at it in horror.

"I haven't opened my coffin in a long time." Jiyoung said, almost to herself. she lightly put a finger on her body's right eyelid and lifted it up, revealing an eye like a dead fish underneath.

this was the exact replica of the Jiyoung who was behind Jongin in the cafeteria.

"you-you're a ghost!" Baekhyun pointed his finger at Jiyoung. Jiyoung looked him in the eye, not impressed.

"about time you realized." she sighed, and let go of her eyelid, which stayed open.

Baekhyun then remembered the way she and other students acted.

"she is a popular student." her voice was clear, but to Baekhuyn, it seemed to echo a bit

~

"um, hello-" he stopped walking.

she was gone.

~

"what-?" he looked around to find that the girl was gone.

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"JIYOUNG DOESN'T EXIST!!!" Youkyoung hollered.

Baekhyun's eyes widened. "what? yes she does."

"JIYOUNG...JIYOUNG'S DEAD!"

~

"Baekhyun," Jiyoung said. Baekhyun looked at her. "what if I tell you I'm a ghost?" she asked.

Baekhyun's eyes widened. his swing completely stopped moving.

"how would you react?" asked Jiyoung.

~

It didn't take him long to spot one particular name, which was the nastiest color of all.

 초이 지영

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"Yeah," Baekhyun admitted. "But howcome you weren't in there?"

Jiyoung glanced at the book, then back at him. "I was gone by that time." she replied and started touching the books on the shelf.

~

"Baekhyun? What's wrong?" she asked. Baekhyun grew confused.

"Huh? what do you mean?" he asked.

the girl gave him a wierd look. "you were talking to no one. I got worried" she said.

no one?

Baekhyun looked around to discover that Jiyoung was gone.

~

"b-but...but isn't she dea-?" Another boy came over and slapped a hand over his mouth.

"We don't speak of that." He told him as he dragged him away.

~

Jiyoung frowned. "Ghosts don't have appetites." she said.

Baekhyun's smile dropped. "Huh?"

Jiyoung let out a breath. "I never get hungry." She rephrased.

Baekhyun, who was oblivious of the fact that the whole class was staring at him, leaned towards Jiyoung. "You gotta be kidding, all living things need food."

Jiyoung gave him an 'I'm-not-kidding' look. she leaned back in her chair. "Baekhyun,"

"what?"

"everyone's watching." she told him.

Baekhyun looked around the classroom. And as Jiyoung said, the whole class was staring at him in silence. they gave him terrified looks and scooted their chairs as far away from him as possible, including Jongin and Luhan.

~

"and what's with all this Jiyoung stuff?" asked Baekhyun. at the name Jiyoung, Sehun started choking on his water.

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"Hm?" Jongin spun his head around. Jiyoung disappeared just in time. Jongin furrowed his eyebrows when he saw that no one was