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Hueningkai's P.O.V
Both Yuna and my eyes were closed, only seeing pitch black from the inside. Our arms were embracing each other in a tight hug, ready to face death behind us. Trust and friendship were what blossomed inside of me, that I am ready to sacrifice my life for my dear friend Yuna.
Behind the fake acting we have to portray everyday at school, deep within the surface is true friendship that had already grown inside the two of us. Yet, not everyone started building a real friendship with each other. I smelled a different type of gas particles floating around the air.
My sense of smell confirmed that it was smoke released by the lava. I can even feel the heat circulating us, passing our position of hugging each other whilst kneeling. A few seconds had already passed yet we were still clearly breathing, so I finally opened my eyes to see.
The lava passed us and it did not touch our weak and tired skin, as if our presence was invisible. Yuna looked at me then on her side and behind her. We were both plastering a shocked expression from the unusual sight we were seeing.
The scorching hot lava split into two and passed us without hurting nor killing us. And with this, I just had a realization, accusations and judgment were next after this. Once the train had passed the erupting volcano, someone shouted from the other side of the compartment.
"Kai and Yuna are the liars!" Chaeryeong shouted and pointed her index finger like she was not accused a while ago. "No we're not!" Yuna yelled back with all her might, defending not just herself but including me as well. "Then how come you didn't die???" Soobin asked us with a hint of anger in his voice, as my nerves were starting to fear his authority.
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"Guys wait! There's only one liar!" Ryujin shouted, correcting all of us from Taehyun's theory. "What do you mean?" Yeji asked her softly to ease the tension between everyone. "The clue we found is grammar. Do y'all remember what the voice speaker said? Find the LIAR, not LIARS." Ryujin emphasized those two words and I sensed that Yuna was shaking from fear and nervousness just as I am.
"Then one of them is a liar." Taehyun said seriously with a glare on his eyes, switching his stare between me and Yuna. "Are you forgetting about Chaeryeong?? I told you! The way she destroyed the drones was exactly how the cctv cameras were destroyed back in the hallway!!" I shouted, almost rapping out the words from my mouth. "Well Taehyun- Believe me or not but I have no idea how come the book has a different cover." Taehyun cut Ryujin off in which the blue-haired girl reconsidered his statement.
"And for Yuna- You still don't believe that I was at the rooftop??" Yuna annoyingly interrupted Yeji who was still accusing her as a liar. "I can't believe nobody thinks Soobin is suspicious!" Taehyun added to help everyone of us to be open-minded with each of our actions. "We have Chaeryeong for being in detention at NIGHT." Beomgyu emphasized the last word which made Taehyun give him a deadly glare, yet this boy was not affected by the stare he was receiving.
And what I had been waiting for finally happened, the last suspicious person from among us was me. Everyone was giving me that same look of judgment, not letting me breath even for a second. My hands started sweating as I do not know exactly what to do.
"Guys I'm telling the truth! I'm not a liar!! I'm innocent!!!" I shouted whilst jumping a bit and moving my arms up and down aggressively. My head was meeting another frustration inside as my body aggressively moved. With too much movement that I exerted from my arms, something fell out of my sleeve and I knew, it is over for me.
Ryujin immediately took the bracelet that fell off on my side as my hands were too slow to stop her. "Give that back!" I shouted yet she did not listen, now everyone was peeking, trying to see what the bracelet looks like. As Yuna looked at me with worried eyes, I still tried to show her that I can handle this.
"IDDQD. Taehyun what do you think it is?" Ryujin half mumbled her question to Taehyun yet I still heard their conversation. I gulped from nervousness on what was about to happen next, and it will surely not be good. Taehyun's big eyes widened with anger as he shouted the thought out of his mind.
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"Kai you cheated the missions???" Beomgyu was surprised and asked me with anger on his face still covered with blood. "I-I- How did you know that the scissors is mine??" My stuttering was cut off by Ryujin with her question. "How did you have this cheating code on a bracelet??" Chaeryeong added her question that made me uncomfortable as I breath unsteadily.
"And most importantly, how did you know that the cctv cameras in the hallway are broken??" Yeji ended the interrogation with an impactful question that made me speechless. "K-Kai... A-are you... No it can't be." Yuna half mumbled whilst her eyes started to tear up with her nose becoming red. I looked at her as she stared back at me with sad eyes, I knew she felt betrayed for trusting me as her friend.
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My mind was lost and my body was controlling itself from making a long line on the ground with chalk in my hand. I am currently waiting for Soobin to come here to the back of the school as we planned to vandalize the walls. As troublemakers, this is nothing new anymore for most people inside the premises.
Minutes passed and Soobin finally came tiringly from running. A smile curled up on my face for seeing my one and only leader that I trust. That Yeji can just drop out of school so that I will never see her irritating face ever again.
"I'm not saying sorry for being late since I'm a bad boy so let's start vandalizing now." Soobin just directly said those words which surprised me. Since when did he have the confidence to call himself a bad boy? I just shrugged that question off my mind as I took the spray paint and gave one to Soobin. After minutes of designing the wall however we want to, we heard the guard stopping us as we hurriedly ran away.
Soobin and I only took one direction, but I purposely went the opposite way to distract the guard. Entering inside the building, my temper was slowly rising again, 'Why can't that annoying guard just let us be??' that was the question inside my heated head. The walls in the hallway echoed the tapping sounds of my shoes, I am now all alone by myself.
My mind just could not forget the fact that the guard was willing to chase us earlier, and now my bonding with Soobin is ruined. My hands clenched into a fist as my eyes wandered around me, anger controlling my body. Reaching what I think is Soobin's classroom, I saw something inside which hypnotized my sparkling eyes, on top of Yeonjun's desk was... A lighter.
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The building was already burning which caught everyone's attention as they instantly ran away. Dark smoke made the surroundings darker despite the bright light of the fire. It was obvious and reasonable to think that Txtzy, the famous punks of Hanlim did such a crime.
And from a specific building, a masculine silhouette ran out to catch his breath. Guards panicked as they called for firemen to come and rescue the burning reputation of the school. The male figure who was now walking away from the messed up scene had no idea, that a dear friend witnessed his condition.
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"Stop staring at me Soobin." I spoke seriously in front of my co-leader, giving me that uncomfortable stare I hate the most. I was surprised when he obeyed and diverted his attention to Lia. Now my attention diverted to Chaeryeong and Taehyun staring at each other.
My senses immediately judged the sight as it is not a habitual manner for the two to be close. A fight occurred forming chaos on the side, instead of continuing my search for weapons, I paid attention to Beomgyu and Hueningkai fighting over the chains. "Let go you penguin! You belong to the south pole, not here!" Beomgyu shouted as I chuckled at his sentence.
Hueningkai did not manage to handle Beomgyu's strength as he let go of the chains in defeat. Before continuing my search for weapons once again, I noticed on my peripheral vision an object dropped from the chains as Hueningkai took it. It was more like a trash kind of accessory that I just brushed off the thoughts of him being suspicious, yet I did not know what was coming for us.
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