"My parents are going to be here on Friday at night." Lisa informed as she finished packing.
"Mine too." Sara said softly.
"Mine too." Ji Ah echoed.
Juri didn't respond to any of them as she stayed with her head covered.
Lei looked at her for a couple of seconds before looking at the girls.
"Would you guys mind giving this to Ms. Sally? I was supposed to give it to her but I haven't been able to." Lei asked as she passed a paper to Lisa, who quickly nodded her head. "Go all together, it's nighttime."
"Okay." Sara said as she pulled Lisa, along with Ji Ah.
Lei sat down on her bed as she crossed her legs with an awkward sigh.
"So, um, I heard your conversation with Beomgyu. I didn't mean to I was just awake, and I didn't want to interrupt."
Juri chuckled bitterly making Lei quickly look at her.
"Of course, you heard everything." Juri muttered.
Lei rolled her eyes and looked down at her hands.
"Anyways Bitter Critter, how about we call this a truce?"
"Seriously?" Juri said angrily as she removed the blanket from her head. "Cause I would just loooove to be friends with you Lei."
"I never said we should be friends, I said we should call this a truce. It's definitely two different meanings." Lei shrugged as she looked at her nails. "I don't know about you, but I care about Beomgyu's feelings. I believe he would be much happier with less animosity between us."
"He never could even tell there was animosity or- whatever."
Lei looked at her with raised eyebrows as she crossed her arms.
"I thought you cared about him more than I do."
"I don't want to even talk to you."
"You think I want to talk to you? You tried to kill me and then on the way expected to steal my boyfriend."
"You stole my best friend."
"Oh hon, he's still your friend. I don't see him disowning you and telling you 'Hey girl I don't know you anymore.' He's still very much willing to be your best friend. And I'm not the one to stand in your way, you're already doing that yourself."
"How do you know I won't steal him from you?" Juri smirked as she crossed her arms, making Lei let out a small laugh.
"I have nothing to worry about. He likes me. It's something I can be confident with, Juri. He doesn't like you in that way." Lei shook her head as she ran a hand through her hair. "So, truce?"
"Fuck you."
"Well okay then, someone's got their panties all twisted up." Lei chuckled in amusement as she laid down on her bed.
******
"Hey kid! Kid! What are you doing?!"
Lei sat up on her bed as she squinted her eyes at the sun light.
She looked around the room to see the girls looking out of the windows with looks of horror.
Lei took the iniciative and stood up, opening the main door to look through the screen.
Her heart stopped as the first thing she spotted was the same sight she had seen the other night.
A dead bunny.
She looked around as she saw there was a dead animal on every single one of the doorsteps of the cabins.
"Theo! Hey!"
She looked at Beomgyu who was following Theo around.
Lei gasped as she saw the blood in the child's hands, and the animals in his hands.
It was almost like Theo was in a trance as he continued placing the dead animals at the doorsteps.
Beomgyu stared after him in horror as he turned around to face him.
"Do you think he's sleepwalking?" Lisa asked quietly as her hands shook.
Lei shook her head slowly as she furrowed her eyebrows.
The kid dropped the animals in his hands, startling Beomgyu.
Theo glared at Beomgyu as Beomgyu slowly and cautiously approached him.
Everyone felt their heart race at the look the child was giving.
"Theo, are you okay?" Beomgyu softly asked as he kneeled down in front of Theo.
Lei jumped as the child fell over in Beomgyu's arms, his eyes closed.
Beomgyu felt the kid's cold skin as he tried to figure out what was happening.
*****
Lei scrunched up her nose as she threw the bag full of dead animals into the big garbage shoot.
She swallowed down the gags that were coming up her throat as she quickly walked towards the hose to wash her hands.
She spotted Beomgyu walk out of the infirmary.
"What happened?" She asked out loudly, catching his attention.
He walked over to her as he looked down at the ground.
"He doesn't remember anything." Beomgyu spoke as he shook his head.
Lei closed the hose as she looked down at the grass.
"It wasn't like he was sleepwalking or.... anything like that. He was fine. He was conscious. At least that's what I thought in the morning." Beomgyu said carefully as he tilted his head.
"What do you mean?" Lei asked as she looked up at him.
He kneeled down next to her as he looked down at the grass as well.
"He was- awake. He was fine. And he said he would leave for breakfast and he did, so I went back to sleep, and then I wake up and h-he's doing that. Right at our door." He said quietly as he furrowed his eyebrows.
Lei looked at the camp site in thought as she wondered how that could've happened.
They both spotted Ms. Sally handing off Theo to his parents as they hugged him tightly.
Beomgyu watched as Theo and his parents drove away.
"Do you think he was doing all of this?-"
"No. I would've known. I'm with him all the time. We share a room. I eat breakfast with him and lunch and dinner. I even take him to the bathroom, he gets scared to go on his own. He's still a child. There's no way he did all of that. It's not him- I don't know who, o-or what, is doing all of this but it's impossible that it's him."
"A 'what'?" Lei asked quietly as she looked at him.
"It's stupid-"
"No, it's not stupid. I-I also think- I'm not sure but, there's something weird going on Beomgyu. Something... not human." She said shakily as she played with her hands.
"At least, most of the children left already and we're all leaving this place, right?" Beomgyu chuckled softly as he looked at her.
Lei turned towards him as she nodded her head with a small smile.
"Come with me?" He smiled softly as he reached for her hand.
Lei chuckled as she looked away from him.
"I'm gonna go to Ms. Sally's office to get my phone back later tonight. Want me to sneak you yours?" He asked as he stood up, pulling her up with him.
"It's fine. I don't want to get caught."
"I'm sure Ms. Sally won't mind, baby."
Lei's heart raised as he kissed her knuckles.
"I-I mean, uh-huh."
"What?" He giggled cutely as he raised his eyebrows. "Do you mean 'uh huh please get my phone?'"
"Whatever you want." Lei said as she shook her head slowly.
"What does it look like?"
"It's an IPhone 11, it has a whale phone case."
"A whale, Lei?"
"Shut up."
Beomgyu smiled as he softly kissed her forehead and walked away.
*****
"Ms. Sally! Your favorite subject is here!" Beomgyu knocked on the door as he waited for an answer.
He slowly opened the door as he peaked his head in.
He walked in as he looked around.
"Ms. Sally?" He called out as he walked further inside to her office.
Beomgyu's heart clogged as he felt the breath being knocked out of his lungs.
He stepped back as he saw the body of his instructor on her desk.
"No." He whispered to himself as he felt the tears fall down his face.
Ms. Sally's body was disfigured as her arm was detached from her shoulder, and her leg detached from her pelvis.
Call the police! Call the police!
He quickly moved to the desk where he knew the phones were hidden and searched through the drawer for his phone. He found it and hurriedly tried to turn it on as his hands shook.
"Shit!" Beomgyu whispered harshly as he tried to turn it on again.
He realized it wasn't going to work and searched through the other phones to find Lei's, trying to turn it on as well but to no avail.
"What the fuck?"
He desperately tried to turn on all the phones he could, coming out with no result.
He looked at the phone on Ms. Sally's desk, right next to her.
He breathed heavily as he tried to calm down, grabbing the phone and putting it to his ear, only to hear nothing.
*****
Beomgyu harshly knocked on the door of cabin 407.
Juri opened the door with furrowed eyebrows. Her gaze changed as she saw the genuine panic in Beomgyu's eyes as he held Ali's hand in his.
"Ms. Sally- Ms. Sally's gone."
"What do you mean she's gone?" Lisa asked quietly as she raised her eyebrows.
"S-she's dead." Beomgyu said as he felt tears in his eyes. "I tried using the phones. All the phones in the entire camp. Our phones, the kitchen phones, the ones in the art room, Ms-Ms. Sally's phones, and there's nothing."
"What do you mean there's nothing?" Lei raised her eyebrows as she walked over to him with shaking hands.
"All of the phones won't turn on Lei, nothing is working." Beomgyu desperately said as he walked inside and sat down with Ali.
"What do you mean Ms. Sally's dead?" Juri said quietly as she looked down at the ground, feeling tears in her eyes.
"I found her, in her office. Disfigured."
"The gate...opens with a code." Lei said quietly as she crossed her arms in worry.
"What?" Ji Ah asked softly as she looked at her.
"The gate opens with a code. The only ones who know the code are the kitchen ladies, who already left, and... Ms. Sally. If Ms. Sally's dead..."
"We're trapped." Beomgyu finished as he looked at everyone.