next to call the cops was seulgi, sometime after seungwan was killed. she called the cops and told them to come to the school because one of her friends just got murdered. however, the cops thought this was a repeating joke and told seulgi that a repeat offense of pranking the police department would land her in jail. at this point, she knew that she could get away with more murders by the time the police traced their phones to arrest them for "false claims."
before yerim went about to solve the mystery, the first thing she did was call the police. at this point, the officer picking up the calls was seriously concerned. if these girls were telling her the truth, that they were alone in the school like sooyoung said and people had been murdered as seungwan and seulgi said, then there was a reason to go investigate. it took some convincing, but the some cops left the station to investigate the deaths at the school.
the only one who didn't call was juhyun - irene. she stuck with her opinion that no one would believe them, which was partially true, and that they would suffer the consequences. when the police investigated, all the girls except her had calls to the police station from the room except juhyun. this further confirmed their proof that juhyun had killed the girls.
[ WAS SEULGI THE ORIGINAL KILLER? ]
actually, no. i wanted to make this fic after imaginary friend, my other horror fic. i intended for the killer to be yerim or juhyun, but thought that it would be too obvious, especially because of the turn-out of events in imaginary friend. i just had to think of the least likely person to do the killings, which turned out to be seulgi.
[ HOW DID YOU THINK OF SEULGI'S REVENGE? ]
i honestly thought that the story ending with juhyun being killed and seulgi being arrested would be a little too cliche or expected. however, framing juhyun would inflict the worst punishment upon juhyun, where she would have to live with being called the murderer while knowing who actually did it and grieving her friends at the same time.
best revenge? yes. recommended? no.
[ WHAT DID JUHYUN DO THAT WAS SO BAD THAT SHE DESERVED TO DIE? ]
the biggest fault that juhyun had done was neglect to see the things around her. she lived in a sort of high step where see didn't see anything except what concerned herself. on top of that, her ignorance led her to believe that yes, she was the top dog. this meant that she unintentionally caused lots of people to be unheard, neglected, hated. if she opened her eyes, she would've seen the damage she caused.
[ WHY WAS IRENE SO CALM AT THE END? ]
juhyun (irene) was only that calm because she gave up. she knew that she didn't do any of the murders. she knew that her friends were dead and their families blamed her. but, she has no one else to blame but herself. she played right into seulgi's trap and was put at fault. there was nothing to fight for except for her dignity, something that disappeared once she realized what seulgi's revenge was. she honestly thought she was safer in prison, away from the families of her friends that already hate her. how could she have faced her parents and siblings afterwards?
[ WHY WERE WE LEAD ON TO THINK THAT JUHYUN DID THE MURDERS? ]
i honestly love seeing my readers trying to interpret what the heck was happening. i saw some of it in imaginary friend, where the murderer was heavy implied and told throughout the story. except, the story was structured so that it was honestly a little skeptical about the killer. i wanted happily ever after to be different in that sense.
[ WHAT WAS SEULGI'S BETTER MOTIVATION? ]
obviously, killing a bunch of people because you were ignored and neglected seems a little far-off. what formed from all of this neglect and resentment was the need to prove herself. seulgi's motivation for killing and getting revenge was to show juhyun that she was not a puppet without words anymore and she would not be pushed around. seulgi's situation of her ideas being pushed away was something she couldn't escape from. in return for juhyun being its biggest encouragement, she wanted juhyun to be in an inescapable position of self-remorse as well.
was it extra? yes. but was it worth it for seulgi? definitely.
[ WHO KILLED WHO IN THE ALTERNATE ENDING? ]
seulgi killed sooyoung
juhyun killed seungwan
seulgi killed yerim
yerim killed them both (sort of) whilst she was dying
[ WAIT, SO WHAT HAPPED AT THE END OF ALTERNATE ENDING CHAPTER TEN? ]
yerim took advantage of seulgi and juhyun's anger towards each other and her own anger towards them. adrenaline pushed her through to shove them to the balcony, where seulgi was pushed off. to avoid the sudden and unexpected death, seulgi grabbed onto juhyun's hair to keep herself from falling. juhyun, who was suddenly blinded with pain, was easily toppled over the railing after yerim lifted juhyun's feet off the ground.
[ HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YERI TO BE ALIVE IN THE ALTERNATE ENDING? ]
when juhyun was at the kitchen, she only saw yerim slumped over the kitchen sink with a knife stuck through her abdomen. however, simple knife stabs in the abdomen do not kill you. but, will it injure you? yes. yerim was the one to piece everything together and was the first one to piece together, making her a high target for both seulgi and juhyun, who both murdered someone. once it was clear that juhyun had left, yerim followed juhyun up to the balcony, where she fought with seulgi. in her last moments of strength, yerim's goal was to get her own revenge and end juhyun and seulgi. however, the stab to her lung also caused her to cough up blood and choke :-)
[ HOW DID JUHYUN NOT DIE IN THE ALTERNATE ENDING?]
it is very possible for juhyun to have survived. though her head must have hurt like hell from having her head pulled, she probably would've landed on top of seulgi and would have been cushioned from a very quick death. it just looks like her luck is not working out for her.
[ HOW DID YOU GET THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK? ]
okay, so i was watching red velvet's russian roulette music video (because i'm lowkey really obsessed). and i was like, "whoa dying." but i also thought, "dying...in a school?" and ta-da, there's a book about dying in a school.
[ WILL I BE WRITING MORE HORROR? ]
perhaps, when i think of a non-cliche idea? i like to read horror books to give me ideas but then i get scared when i think of an idea because i think i'm stealing off of someone.
[ MY GREATEST ANNOYANCE WHILST WRITING? ]
honestly it wasn't actually writing the book. wattpad actually annoys me because i! want! this! book! to! be! a! horror! book!
[ MY RED VELVET BIAS? ]
kang seulgi! i honestly don't know what to think of this book anymore.
[MY FAVORITE COMMENT? ]
my favorite comment by far was in chapter 4 (iv) and i was wheezing.
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