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nayeon finally removes the mask of hatred on her face as she comes to a horrifying realization - she loves him? really? gyeong su? the stupid welfie from her class 2-5? nayeon had always struggled for as long as she could remember. the other girls in her class were all pretty, popular and they all shared one common thing nayeon dreamed of- friends. as much as her and her family had a lot of money, no money could pay for friends. she really really struggled with having no friends. so her way of dealing with her pain and loneliness was to be mean to people. if she was horrible to everyone it would be better than getting close to someone and getting even more hurt than she was right? gyeong su was her arch nemesis though - he is popular with tons of friends and is pretty handsome. but why did she hate him more than anyone else in her class? i mean they were not much more popular than him probably even more- why did she hate him so much then? 

she quickly realized her reasons towards her behavior for the beautiful man hovering over her desk in ms kelly's english class. she loved him. deep down all that hatred was love. she could not believe it. gyeong su hovered over her desk. 

"how are you doing there Nayeon-ssi" - Gyeong su mockingly says to nayeon, sparking annoyance.

" buzz off welfie and maybe try to look better for school tomorrow" - Nayeon replies.

"So if i look better for school tomorrow, will you instantly fall in love with me" - Gyeong su says, sparking some looks from their fellow classmates.

"Maybe, but you won't so it will not make a difference"

gyeong su brushes past her causing nayeon to groan. "your an idiot gyeong su"

"but I'm your favourite one, right"

"right..."

nayeon later that night is relaxing in her large bedroom watching some television when she sees a rock thrown at her window. how dare someone? she quickly looks out her window to see the welfie gyeong su has made his way to her neighborhood and is throwing rocks at her  window in her  house someone as poor as him could only dream of living in. how dare he? she was already coping with her feelings and realization that she loved him and he is being an asshole again. 

"leave and go home welfie never throw rocks at my window ever again"

"i thought you might love it its almost like a romance movie right?"

did he feel the same way? was he flirting? or was he joking?

"i hate it"

"oh well i might need to do it until you let me into your gorgeous home"

was he ever going to leave her alone?

"as long as you don't kill me or rob me fine i guess?"

"that's stereotyping just bcs I'm poor does not mean i will rob you"

"just shut up and get inside"

she opened her front door and let him into her lavishing home. she sneaked him up into her bedroom and he sat on her bed. she could not believe this man was so at home in her house already. he quickly pulled her in for a kiss. 

"are you going in first Nayeon-ssi?"

"just shut up and kiss me already" 

nayeon kissed him. it felt like a dream. until it was.

nayeon woke up in the storage room alone, sad and remembering every action she had done the previous day. the zombies. killing gyeong su. ms kelly's death. absolutely everything. and she sobbed. she had realised she loved gyeong su the moment she had killed him. that dream was absolutely perfect and everything nayeon wants and it was all taken away from her bcs of her selfish and evil actions. she was at fault that that dream will never come true as gyeong su was somewhere running about currently with the other zombies. and ms kelly had also joined him bcs of her actions. she had to help the others and make things right or die alone and feeling horrendous for killing her love.

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Nayeon quickly realizes her environment.

there is food everywhere. she will be able to survive at least a couple of weeks with all the food and water around her. thank goodness! nayeon feels the cold autumn breeze hit her and realizes the window located in the room is open. she hears a zombie snarl. is it killing someone from the group out there? nayeon fights back tears and the tears win as she lets the tears fall down her face and she sobs in the corner as she imagines poor, helpless gyeong su among the zombie pack outside. he belongs there now because of her selfish actions. to comfort herself, nayeon turns around to try and retrieve some food but checks the packaging. she is disturbed to realize the food is chicken. she remembers gyeong su mentioning going to cheong san's mothers restaurant "cheong san chicken" the day before the apocalypse. he will never be able to go there ever again because of her.

nayeon sobs.

and sobs.

and sobs.

will she ever be free of gyeong su haunting her forever?

every little thing she touches or see's reminds her of the man she loves. who she will never get. who will never live again because of her.

she hears commotion from outside the window so looks outside to see a giant drone whizzing about the air. is it a police drone trying to help them? trying to track them? even if so she does not deserve to be saved.

she feasts on some food. should she bring some food to the others as a peace offering? she decides against it as she pears out the comfort of the room to see several zombies running around. anyways they would not want to receive food from a monster like her anyways. 

nayeon while peacefully enjoying some food sees gyeong su casually sitting in the corner quietly humming "auld lang syne" to himself. she sits there in disbelief at what she is seeing in front of her eyes. 

"is it you? really you, gyeong su?"

and nothing happens.

nayeon quietly sobs. she would not want to attract the zombies with her sobbing.

  "im going fucking crazy aren't i?"

he is following her everywhere. she remembers the night prior when the zombies were feasting on ms park, how they all looked like him to her. she is most definitely going crazy. does love really drive you this crazy?

a couple of minutes later, nayeon hears a ear deafeningly loud announcement on the loud speaker directed to cheong san from the group in the studio. 

"cheong san we are coming. we know where you are. you just stay where you are and we will come to you" 

but where is cheong san? he must be near nayeon as the alert was for the side of the school the storage/music room nayeon was in was located. should she pack a bag of food for them? they must be nearby soon and hungry. 

nayeon packs a bag full of food for the group. hopefully they won't feed her to the zombies when she comes out of the room when they arrive. as much as she deserves it and intentionally ran out sobbing into the corridor where the zombies walk around, she's terrified to die. is she really going to die in this hellhole? 

a couple of minutes later, she hears commotion from outside the storage room from the music room right next to her. the group must be here now. she shoves her bag full of food onto her shoulder and faces her fear. she's absolutely terrified. what if they kill her like she did to gyeong su? but she puts on a brave face and wanders into the rather large music room and comes face to face with the group. 

"hey, i know I'm not anyone's favourite person right now but i'm here to bring you all some food. i hid in the storage cupboard after i ran out and thought you all might want some food. you sure as hell deserve it more than me"

"where the fuck is ms kelly? did you kill her too" jimin mutters

"she died last night right after i ran off. she told me to hide in the storage room before she was bitten. i feel like absolute shit for being a reason for her death too. aswell as gyeong su. i really want to help you guys. i will do anything even if that is sacrificing my life"

at first the group is shocked by nayeons final comment. the class 2-5 princess sacrificing herself really?

"god she is actually dead. i had a little bit of hope she might have survived." says su hyeok 

"its hard to have hope in such a shitty situation" nayeon says sadly

"but anyways how can we trust you that the food isn't poisoned? you have already killed a member of the group already" namra says

"your right namra- you cannot trust me. but i want to let you trust me. i will do anything. and i can confirm that the food is not poisoned where would i have found the poison for it anyways?

the group quickly all crowd round nayeon and her bag and begin to feast on the food she brought them. it fills nayeon with so much joy to see the others faces light up with happiness while devouring the food she brought.

"thank you nayeon we really appreciate it" says onjo

"my pleasure. please go help yourself to more in the store cupboard if you want, i have already had some food earlier on"

right before one of the others has the chance to reply to nayeon's answer, namra collapses into su hyeok's arms. has she been bitten on her journey here? nayeon has to put on a brave face this time and shut up even if she is absolutely terrified. everyone remembers the last time she freaked out when someone might have gotten bitten. su hyeok explains that namra was bitten on her way to the music classroom by gwinam. nayeon stays as far back as she can from the situation. 

"someone will need to keep an eye on namra until she turns. does anyone wanna do it? if no one else wants to do it i will do it" su hyeok says shakily

the music room is a deadily silence. you could hear a cricket.

this is nayeon's chance. to make it up to a rival. show her bravery and best of all make it up to the group, even if that means a risk to her life.

"i will do it su hyeok"

and nayeon gets tied up with namra. 

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nayeon tied together with namra, look out the window together. how long would it be until she turns? nayeon could not show how scared she was. she had to put on a brave face and spend the final moments of namras life with her before she turns. would do you say to someone who's about to turn into a zombie in a matter of couple of minutes?

to break the silence and awkwardness between the two, nayeon finally speaks up.

"how did you get bitten?"

"su hyeok got into a giant fight with gwinam. it started to get quite bloody so i stepped in to help su hyeok and he bite me"

"if he is a zombie, how could he have a fight with someone? they do not have that human consciousness we have."

"yeah that is pretty weird when i really think about it. anyways, why did you wanna be tied up with me? i slapped you hard less than twelve hours ago"

"i wanna help you and make sure you know how committed i am to this group"

"thank you for the food by the way- you do not understand how many lives you just saved i would've killed for any bit of food before you came out the storage cupboard"

nayeon lets out a smile for the first time since the apocalypse started.

"i noticed the chemistry between you and su hyeok earlier.. namra he is all over you"

"i know i know.. it just sucks this whole situation. i do not wanna hurt him in any way. i love him aswell. i am just terrified to tell him. anyways on the subject of guys, is there anyone your seeing?"

nayeon sits awkwardly as namra says this. should she tell her about her feelings for gyeong su? she felt so comfortable and safe with namra right now even if in a matter of moments she could turn into a zombie plus she was telling her her own boy drama should she tell her her own dilemma? 

"well there is this one guy i like i guess"

"well i hope you get to date him if all of this gets sorted i guess! we could go on a double date that could be so much fun"

"yes definitely that would be so much fun- i have never even been on a date before" that DEFINITELY will not happen but she was glad to be somehow on good terms with namra. it was nice to make a some sort of friendship for the first time in her life.

nayeon looks out the window and she starts to hear namra make some very weird noises which made nayeon feel very uneasy.

"NAMRA" su hyeok screams

she feels namras long hair brush against her face, and nayeon realises this is her time to die. she will die a horrible, painful death during a zombie apocalypse like gyeong su. 

but that never happens.

namra quickly snaps back to reality at the sound of su hyeok shouting her name.

"holy shit nayeon i was totally gonna eat you there. it was like something completely changed when i heard su hyeok say my name for the first time."

"that means your not a zombie but not human"

"namras a halfbie- half human, half zombie" dae su shouts from the other side of the room.

"fuck, gwinam must be one aswell" nayeon shudders

"im scared i do not wanna hurt any of you"

"su hyeok saved you from biting me namra. all you need to do is have su hyeok around you at all times and you will be fine"

"good idea" namra chuckles

"now go and talk to him girl. he would really appreciate that"

nayeon gets untied from namra and as namra walks over to start conversation with su hyeok, the group were passing around a video recorder about. each person was recording a very personal video to a loved one of their choice. nayeon gets the video recorder from onjo and walks away from the group, just far away enough so they cannot make out what she is saying to the camera. she knows the very special person she wants to record the video for. and apologise to.

"hey gyeong su. its nayeon. i am so fucking sorry. and i am not just sorry for you. i am sorry for everyone who my stupid, lovesick actions hurt last night. your poor fucking family. your mum. dad. sister. aunt. uncle. everyone you know. fuck i feel sorry even for your best friends cheong san and su hyeok which is a statement i thought i would never utter into the universe ever"

nayeon chuckles through her crying.

"as much as i have feelings for you i realized way too late. i had already made the worst mistake of my life one which was taking another human beings life just to prove myself right. it is so immature of me and i should have thought straight. i never want you to see me ever again even if you were a normal human currently which you aren't. i am completely in love with you but you do not deserve me. not in this life, my next life or the next. never. and i will forever be haunted by my mistakes for as long as i live."

nayeon shuts off the video recorder and was planning to pass it onto namra, but sees her and su hyeok share a first kiss. not wanting to ruin their moment, she places it on the music room's piano so she can collect it after her kiss. nayeon hopes no one questions her puffy face after crying while recording the video. no one questions it as everyone was emotional while recording their videos. what if they never see their loved ones ever again. that thought makes nayeon feel sick to her stomach.

the group needed an escape plan to escape the music room to the roof as soon as possible.

"what if we used the instruments to create noise for them to follow"

so they gather their instruments and stack the chairs and desks to create a barricade for the zombies to come towards when they hear the instruments. they were prepared for a hard mission to escape to the roof at the top of the school.

"we need someone to stay back the longest to control the barricade while the others leave and when you think there's no chance they will reach the rest of us run. quickly." cheong san repeats to the group.

"fine i will do it"

but it will not be one easy job for little nayeon.

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"nayeon are you really sure you wanna do this? its such a risk. if you do it please be careful" cheong san says pretty concerned. is the group finally forgiving her? i mean nayeon murdered cheong san's best friend less than twelve hours ago and is now concerned about her second potential death in the last thirty minutes.

"yes i am sure. fuck just get the plan done already so i can die sooner rather than later"

"that's the nayeon i know- sarcastic and lowkey mean"

"just play the instruments, leave and get to the roof and get this show on the road already"

the silence in the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife. nayeon was pacing around the room, biting her nails while the others were preparing the instruments they wanted to use to attract the zombies. whatever the fuck will happen in the next couple of minutes will be a case of life or death. and she could feel her fight or flight mode switched on. 

the others officially started playing the instruments which instantly drew in the zombies arriving in the music room. they easily fell for their plan and stood directly before the group, only split by a number of chairs and pianos.  

"holy shit what if they manage to climb over?" hyo ryung speaks up.

"that just cannot happen. they cannot be that strong can they?" joon yeong says frantically. 

"whatever the hell is happening i think we need to get out as soon as possible. we need nayeon to hold them back while we all leave. we will all die if she doesn't." namra says.

all eyes were on her and she was feeling the pressure rise in her.

the music the survivors are making finishes and the room is filled of the sound of zombies snarling loudly, which causes a lot of discomfort among the group.

the first people who leave together are onjo, jimin, hyo ryung and namra.

"we need others to stay back and help me. please. at least for another couple of minutes at least"

nayeon's arm was burning as she used her full power holding back the group of savage beasts as one by one, the group departed ultimately leaving the final two people left in the music room holding them back being cheong san and nayeon.

"are you sure you want me to leave right now?"

"yes. just get out i can handle this myself i promise" nayeon shouts, dripping with sweat holding the zombies back with every fiber of her body.

at least two minutes later, nayeon figures it would be best she attempts to leave now. her grip slowly slips as she sprints for her dear life, not looking back and not wanting to think how close she currently stands in front of a large stampede of zombies all sharing the same goal of tracking her down and killing her. she feels her blood pump all round her body, her breath hurting from running so quickly and panicking so much. if she was having a panic attack currently, this really was not the best timing. 

nayeon skips multiple stairs at a time while sprinting so quickly to reach the others, hopefully on the roof at this point. 

while running up the stairs, nayeon looks back to check how close the zombies were standing from her. as much as she could hear them bounding up behind her, she wanted to make sure just how close they were standing from her. much to her surprise, they weren't all that close to her. but much to more of her surprise, all of them had a very much similar face which she recalls very much. gyeong su.

"gyeong su, not the time you idiot. please it is not the time to hurt me like this, i know you are not here. you are just in my imagination."

nayeon suddenly has a flashback from a couple of weeks ago, when their class 2-5 was going to mr byeong chan's science class. they were walking on these very stairs, looking forward to another practical science class. she recalls gyeong su walking up these stairs, beaming with pride while walking with isak and she never understood at the time why she was so mad at this encounter. well at least she knows why now even if its too late. nayeon stays strong and holds back her tears. she pushes through and eventually makes it to the stairwell, directly where the group stands, anxiously. why were they not on the roof by now?

”hey what the fuck are we waiting for? Get us onto the roof before we all die here”

”it’s locked nayeon. I have absolutely no clue on what to do anymore.” cheong san mutters under his breath.

they were so fucking screwed.

”they were following me up here. We do not have long until they come up and eat us all alive. Does anyone know how the roof unlocks?” she says frantically.

”the only way we can get this goddamn door to open is for a fire to start which we have no chance of starting.” Onjo says

”we need something to hold back the zombies when they eventually make their way up the stairs. Does anyone have an idea?” Namra speaks up

Nayeon spots out the corner of her eye an emergency kit the school has in case of an emergency such as now. She quickly sprints over and collects a sheet of tarpaulin from the emergency kit. 

“would this be good enough”

”absolutely perfect. The zombies won’t know what’s hit them when we hold them back with this” namra says holding the tarpaulin like it’s her newborn child. 

nayeon could not even breathe before the sound booming up the stairs sounds frantically closer and the group are once again, face to face with the zombies. nayeon, cheong san, su hyeok and onjo all together hold the tarpaulin trying to hold back the beasts as they snarl at the face of more human blood to feast into. namra pulls a fire hydrant and starts spraying the zombies with it just to keep them away for those couple of seconds. one zombie in particular comes rushing towards nayeon and she screams like a banshee as it scratches her, missing the chance to bite her by milliseconds. that scratch really reminds her of gyeong su, as most things do at this point in time. 

All of a sudden while holding the zombies back with the tarpaulin, a figure begins pushing the zombies amongst the chaos stands the class 2-5 bully yoon gwinam amongst the crowd.

he looks nayeon directly in the eye and continues his witch hunt to collect and kill cheong san. how the hell were they supposed to survive when the roof door is not unlocking? keeping the zombies who have no awareness is hard enough, but holding back a halfbie was way more intense.

”well well if it isn’t cheong san and his little gang”

”shut the fuck up gwinam. Do not hurt him or any of us”

”the little class princess there is giving me attitude?”

”and what are you gonna do about it”

”trust me you will see what I will do about it”

and gwinam full force launches his body towards nayeon, making her fall to the ground, causing even more commotion from the zombies. Gwinam viciously scratches nayeon’s arm and her skin is bleeding heavily. she is completely covered head to toe in scratches. He punches nayeon’s eye not to the point of her having a black eye but it hurts her intensely. She had never even been in a proper physical fight up until this point. Why the fuck did she get herself in this situation? She just wanted to defend the group and make herself tolerable again to the others. Much to shock he doesn’t even attempt on biting her. He has bigger and better plans. 

“I’m not even gonna waste my time on fighting this little bitch” 

and he grabs cheong san by his school uniform. Nayeon jumps gwinam from behind and starts scratching him with her nails and punching him full force. At this point, he doesn’t know who to fight. 

Gwinam goes in to bite nayeon and nayeon sees her life flash before her eyes. 

this was really how she was gonna die. passing away after a traumatic 24 hours, in a school she hated and surrounded by a bunch of people who despised her. she really really wanted to make it right with them. maybe in another life.

just as she closed her eyes to at least not see herself get bitten choi namra swoops in and saves the day, using her halfbie strength to push him down the entire stairwell sending him screaming in pain. that will not be for long though. nayeon is shocked to see such viciousness from namra.

she barely has anytime to process what has just occurred until the door to the roof flings open, sending a chill down her back. what could have possibly got the door to open? nayeon does not even wanna question it and counts her blessings.

the group sprint onto the tower and quickly settle down. as much as it sounds childish to admit, part of nayeon hopes that the military notice them on the roof. they cannot miss them at this point. 

"when we were holding them back with the tarpaulin i swear to god i could hear a helicopter- i really think we should try and let them know we are here" wujin mutters.

for once, they had a bit of hope.

for a good few hours the group get together and gather the resources they can find on the roof to create an sos sign for the military to see in case they came back and wood for a fire to warm themselves up from the freezing cold autumn air. to light up the fire, namra uses her cigarette lighter and nayeon could feel the heat bounce off her. it was getting dark now and she felt warm and safe, something she took for granted pre apocalypse. the group crowd together and instantly start sharing stories.

for a little while it felt like everything was back to normal. it felt like they were normal  teenagers confessing their feelings for one another, laughing and giggling like school kids and bonding, as if a zombie apocalypse was not occurring as they spoke. nayeon had never bonded with people so quickly. she had never bonded with really anyone in her seventeen years of living. she felt very welcomed and almost part of their group by now. she felt comfortable around them.

she saw the others confess their feelings for one another. cheong san confessed his feelings tonight for onjo, even if that did not go down very well. dae su confessed his feelings for hari even if that caused a few mumbles from wujin, hari's younger brother. nayeon saw this as her chance. she knew this would never end well and was terrified  to admit this to the group. but this was her one and only opportunity. she took a great sigh before she dropped a bomb on the group.

"since everyone is so comfortable tonight and admitting things i kinda see this as my chance to admit some things i have never admitted to anyone before- not even myself until not long ago. please do not hate me"

"why would we ever hate you nayeon? you have saved our asses all day and we did not even thank you" cheong san says, still pretty upset over the whole onjo love confession. 

"i have never had friends really- i have always been alone in life. my way of coping through that was always to be mean to people. If I was mean to people they wouldn’t wanna get close to me and hurt me right? And I took that out in weird ways. Fuck, like gyeong su- i fucking love him. I realised that so late and it hurts me and is eating me alive knowing I killed the man I love. How could I? Why did I? Well it’s because I need to change. I almost feel like the apocalypse has brought everything I needed. Something to happen for me to wake up and realise my actions and gave the consequences. And has brought the thing I wanted most. Friends.” 

“so your fucking saying you needed to kill someone to wake up and realise your a shitty person right? You murdered my fucking best friend and now you’re saying bullshit like you loved him? And trust me he will not love you back. Ever.” Cheong san shouts, sobbing. 

and now nayeon was sobbing. She was shocked to see him switch up so quickly. The entire group looked about in complete shock at what nayeon had just admitted.

”I get your grieving and stuff cheong san but please. Don’t mess this friendship up. You can’t do this I’ve done so much. Please I’m begging” nayeon sobs. She knows she isn’t a pretty crier and hates crying in front of people but at this present moment she could not care less what anyone saw. 

“I love onjo but you don’t see me pull shit like killing her because I love her. Be serious for once. “ Cheong san sobs

he wanders over to nayeon and punches her in the face in front of the entire group. Nayeon wanted to crawl into a hole and die at this point. Both were sobbing and the entire group looked on in horror. How could she ever recover from this socially in the group? She had put herself out and sacrificed herself for the group all day and now she was back to square one as if it all meant nothing, and she would need to regain their trust somehow.

Nayeon stomps off to the corner and looks out at the field from the roof and sobs. What has her life came to? That’s why she was always mean. So she wouldn’t make friends and get hurt by them. Well look where we are now. It’s hard hearing someone say your an asshole when you have been saying it internally for a while now. nayeon looks at the group. cheong san is on the other side of the roof, sobbing alone like herself and the rest of the group is sitting together, giggling and laughing like nothing ever happened. nayeon continues sobbing and daydreams while looking out onto the field.

until yoon gwinam suddenly appears out of nowhere and comes straight for nayeon.

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Gwinam's body topples over nayeon, grabbing her shoulder and dragging her to the ground, ready to bite her. the group never notice this as the wet and rainy night is also dark, meaning their vision is very limited.

he utters a sentence while nayeon processes what the hell has happened in the last ten seconds:

"little bitch, as much as i hate you i need to take cheong san more than you right now. that is the priority. either help me take him down, or die in my hands right now."

she debated her inner demons. cheong san and she had nothing but bad blood the past hour, and he said some pretty shitty comments about her. even if she deserved it. but she could never do another wrong action which she would get haunted by for life. even if she is not in love with cheong san, she could never do what she did to gyeong su to another human being. and the group would especially not want to forgive her, acting like they forgive her now. but she really did not wanna die at the hands of gwinam. and she came to her conclusion.

"GUYS HELP. HELP, GWINAM IS HERE AND IS GONNA ATTACK ME"

The survivors instantly sit up in terror and start looking around the rooftop, alarmed by what nayeon is shouting.

"OVER HERE, AT THE EDGE"

Gwinam quickly takes matters into his own hands and sees right through her little plan and quickly puts his fist into her mouth and repeatedly punches her in the stomach. She was growing increasingly worried that she would become seriously injured but she knew the risks of her plan. What if the others didn’t care about her?

cheong san, gwinam’s number one target seemed most terrified out of the group. As much as he hated nayeon, that doesn’t stop him from coming and helping nayeon. That was not a cheong san thing to do.

”gwinam so we meet again.”

”Cheong san you motherfucker”

and gwinam full force launches onto cheong san, letting nayeon out of a headlock and she feels the fresh air fill her lungs. It felt amazing to feel the fresh air after being in a headlock for a couple of minutes. But fuck, cheong san that jerk really saved her. 

Nayeon sees gwinam try to go for his eye, and leave his nose bleeding, bruised and beaten, all in a couple of seconds. Just as she watches this brutality go down she jumps in and pushes gwinam off, ready for a round three. 

much to her delight, su hyeok also helps cheong san and all three of them combine the strength they have together to go against the bully of Hyosan high as he stands before them in the freezing rain. 

just before gwinam gets in a punch, namra shoves in and pushes him off the roof. They were safe, but not for long.

”thank fuck for that”

”your welcome”

Nayeon had gained a leg injury. It was a large scratch which was bleeding, but could easily be treated with a plaster. She just had to find a plaster. 

“thank you for that back there cheong san, namra and su hyeok. I know I’m not anyone’s favourite person right now, but I really needed the help there. He was threatening to kill me if I didn’t help him kill cheong san but I was never gonna do that to you. Not to any of you”

the group exchange multiple confused looks as nayeon says this which made her feel anxious- were they starting to realize she is not the weirdo they think she is?

just before the group get a chance to recover, a helicopter whizzes above their heads and seemingly comes closer and closer to the roof. 

it eventually lands on the rooftop and multiple members of the military step out from the helicopter. could they really be going home now?

but they do not seem the empathetic heroes nayeon had thought they were. they demand they go on their knees and put their hands up, and if not they will get shot. the group exchange worried looks among themselves.

the military go around scanning the groups temperature with a thermometer. nayeon feels worried for namra, who she has formed some sort of bond with since the apocalypse started. how will she go to the camp with them all if she is a halfbie?

eventually, nayeon is next to be scanned. she whispers to the military personal.

"will we finally be safe sir?"

and just as she says this he gets an incoming call and wonders off, hesitatingly.  

and the helicopter steals all the officers and they head off, leaving the wet teenagers in the rain. alone and abandoned.

they must surely come back, right?

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They really just left them. Abandoned, in the rain. Nowhere to go and abandoned to die from starvation or bitten by a zombie. 

everyone had lost all hope. Could they really have any remaining hope when adults which they had looked up to their entire life just leave them abandoned to die? 

no one has any clue on how to continue or what to do. Even cheong san the self proclaimed group leader had no plan on how to come back from this major defeat. Jimin wanted to kill herself earlier as there was no point on living without her parents but did she really have a point? What is the point on continuing in life without a purpose? no hope in sight? 

Namra after saving the group from gwinam was sitting in the fetal position after a close encounter with the military nearly finding out her halfbie identity. Thank goodness nothing came with that. 

She was complaining about the rain hurting her ears. The zombies senses must be affected by the rain then, like Namra was complaining about. 

wait.

“Namra, do you think we would be able to escape in the rain right now as the zombies senses would be affected?”

“I assume? I’m not quite sure but it’s our best bet right now sadly”

Cheong San also butts into the conversation.

“Why don’t we partner up with eachother so we all have security in a partner?”

nayeon and namra partner up and the others sort it out as they plan their escape really anywhere. Anywhere away from this school, that’s for sure.

they take off from the roof through the rain and splash through the school grounds, running towards the schools auditorium until they are stopped by a group of seniors. 

Park mijin, jang hari (wujins older sister) yoo jun seong and jung min jae stood before them, hair drenched in the plumping rain the night holds before them. Jang hari was clenching a bow and arrow. Nayeon was aware hari was an archery princess of the school and had always been apart of the archery team of the school. She would be a perfect member of the group as she would be perfect to shoot arrows through the zombies.

but yoo jun seong was bleeding out. Badly. 

Hari’s group rushed inside to deal with the situation while nayeon remained with the current group while they faced yet another hurdle. Cheong sans mother was standing behind a car, face to face with her son. 
As a zombie.

Cheong San, as expected starts sobbing to death his entire body going into shutdown mode and collapsing onto the floor. dae su starts fighting his mother off the group as she is running towards her son, unaware if for affection reasons or to eat her son alive. Nayeon holds Cheong San back with Onjo and namra so he doesn’t need to see his mother’s final zombie moments. No person ever needs to see that. Ever. Dae su eventually kills her off.

the group rush through the rain, splashing through the puddles and holding the hands of their partner sticking by their side so nobody is lost in the dangerous darkness of the night. 

The group head inside to the auditorium to meet up with hari’s group to be greeted with mijin sobbing over jun seong’s body who obviously didn’t survive the previous wounds he suffered and a bunch of zombies which hari attempts to shoot all alone. 

“hari why don’t we kill them in the morning and hide in the storage cupboard and kill them while we are leaving the auditorium? We can’t stay here forever” wujin says to his older sister. He seems relieved to see his sister again. He must have been so nervous to think his sister might have died. Nayeon always wanted siblings. She was jealous to death seeing the friendship between siblings which she was deprived off. She would have killed for an older sister to speak her thoughts to.

the group looked around and realised one member was down after the escape through the rain to the auditorium.

Kim Jimin.

she never loved nayeon. She absolutely loathed her guts. But no girl deserved such  an horrible death as she must have had. In the rain, alone. Nayeon even if she didn’t show it at the best of times was an empathetic person. 

”who was partnered up with her?” Cheong San mutters. The whole group was gonna feel this loss hard.

“Me. She abandoned me to die in the rain when she saw zombies coming towards me after I fell in the rain. The last I saw of her was her running away from them freaking out. I’m pretty sure she must have headed towards the front of the school where the zombies lie.” Hyo ryung says to the group 

Sympathy’s revoked