The fire was finally put off (Author's note: How do you even call that? Haha!) and the boys were taken out of the room.
Hwiyoung's and Chani's wounds were immediately treated properly. They applied cream on Jaeyoon's and Inseong's hands to cure the burn they got after trying to open the door.
"Guys, hey!"
The boys turned their heads towards the direction of the person calling them.
"Nari?"
The lady was smiling widely at them. But you can't deny that she's really worried about them. She wanted to hug them one by one. She wanted to check up on each and one of them but would she be able to?
She looked at everyone and noticed, "Where's Youngbin and Dawon?"
The boys looked at each other. They forgot the two left to look for Nari.
"They left and went to your house." Zuho told her.
"My house?" Nari repeated and Zuho nodded.
"Shall I go with the police?" Nari asked.
"It's up to you, Nari. Would you still need their protection when you're only going to meet the two of them?" Inseong asked.
He's right. If she thinks they'll harm her, then she'll need to be accompanied by the police.
Nari pressed her lips into a thin line before sighing.
While carefully looking at them, she noticed Hwiyoung cheek was covered with a newly replaced bandage.
Nari ran towards him. Naturally, her hands cupped his cheek. His eyes tightly closed for a second, as he silently winced from the pain when Nari's hand touched his wound. "What happened?" She asked.
The end of his lips slightly moved, turning into a smile but it disappeared in less than a second.
She went to the chief police and whispered something to him before leaving the place without saying other words for the boys.
"So... are we going to be arrested now?" Chani asked.
Rowoon smiled weakly at him and nodded. "They've been chasing us since then. I think it'll be better to turn ourselves over."
"How about Sunhee? Were they able to find her?" Taeyang asked.
Zuho asked the police officer about Sunhee.
"We saw a totally burned body in the living room, where the fire started." The policeman said.
The boys hoped that it was Sunhee to stop her evilness but they also prayed it wasn't her or anybody else since they still love her as a close friend.
"The body will still be tested so we could know the identity of it." The police said before leaving them.
"You may now go to the white car, boys. It's time to bring them to our home base."
"Home base?" Jaeyoon repeated. The policeman nodded before heading and leading them to the white car.
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Nari calmly opened the door with her key as soon as she reached her house. It was quiet. But rather than feeling at ease, Nari was worried once again.
"I feel nervous?" She thought.
She slowly stepped inside, and peeked as she opened the door halfway. Little light was entering the house after putting all the curtains down.
"Wait."
Nari remembered she didn't leave the house like that.
She liked the sun entering their house even if she left it empty. Natural light, she thought it was healthy and lovely.
She changed her shoes to comfy slippers before putting down her bag on top of a closest table.
"Youngbin? Dawon!" She called their names. The boys said the two went to her house so might as well check her house herself.
She went to all the rooms to check but they were all empty. Not giving up, she checked all the rooms for the second time.
But upon opening one on the first floor of the house, "Why is it locked? I'm sure this was open awhile ago." She murmured to herself.
A slight pang of fear and guilt hit her. Fear that someone who's dangerous is inside the room; Guilt why didn't she check the rooms better.
Suddenly, the door moved. Someone who's on the other side must be hitting it.
The door was too thick she's can't hear clearly and identify what the noises were.
Sticking her ear on the door, she didn't mind the heat emitting from it.
"Heat?" She whispered.
It couldn't be them. It shouldn't be another fire — in my house.
She hit the door with her fist as she shouted, "Who's inside? What's going on? Who are you?"
No matter how hard she tried, she can't know if someone's actually responding the other side of that door.
But the door's movements became bigger — causing her curiosity to grow.
Nari quickly fished out her phone from her pocket and dialled to call for fire truck and ambulance, everybody that should be called for an emergency.
"Excuse me? Can you come to my place? *Address* There's a fire and plea — "
Then there, her sight became black and she lost consciousness.
•••
"What did you do?" Inseong cried out to the body of Sunhee — her lifeless body.
Flashback
"So this is Nari's house? Pretty big. I didn't know somebody actually lives in this house. Isn't this our big playground?" Sunhee said as she walked around the living room.
Dawon and Youngbin were sitting next to each other.
"I don't want to leave you so let me stay here next to you." That's what the two of them thought.
They won't feel better and safe if they could only save themselves alone so they'd rather stay than abandon one.
Sunhee stopped walking and pointed at a certain room, "Enter that open door and refrain from making noise."
A smile crept up her face as she slowly put down her hand, "I'll lock you up like your friends and start burning down this house to ash."
She took out the match from her pocket before starting to spill the gasoline from the gallon to the floor.
"Goooo!" She shouted at the boys.
Once Dawon and Youngbin were finally inside the room, she immediately followed them and spilled the flammable liquid to the floor.
"Stay inside that cabinet and don't go out unless I tell you to." Sunhee said and continued to empty the gallon.
Half an hour later, Sunhee was done covering the floor and walls, including other furniture in the house, with the gasoline she had in hand.
Sunhee heard the gate moved. "It must be Nari." She whispered to herself.
She quickly hid herself and watched the girl roam around her house.
Lucky for Sunhee, things go on how she planned it to be. Nari stopped by the room where she locked Dawon and Youngbin, where she started another fire.
"Who's inside? What's going on? Who are you?" She heard Nari shouting.
"Excuse me? Can you come to my place? *Address* There's a fire and plea — "
Before Nari could even finish it, Sunhee swung the baseball bat upward and hit Nari's head right on the spot. She swung it hard, causing Nari's head to even hit the door.
Sunhee watched as Nari fell onto the ground, with the blood slowly flowing out from her head.
She glanced at the screen of her device.
"Emergency" she read. Her eyes narrowed as anger started to build up inside her. "How dare you call them early. We haven't had fun yet." She said.
But considering Nari had already called the police's attention, she didn't waste any time and began dragging Nari to an empty room, with her blood trails seen on the floor.
She lit up another match and threw to a corner where another fire started.
"Sweet dream, Nari." Sunhee uttered before leaving the room.
However, the policemen were too fast to respond. They were already outside the site. They've surrounded the house, securing Sunhee couldn't escape anymore.
End of Flashback
"You killed yourself instead of turning yourself in to the police." Rowoon said before pulling up the cloth covering Sunhee's body.
She was not anymore breathing. She killed herself the most tragic way to make sure the policemen won't find her alive and would not be able to make her go through hardship anymore.
"How about Dawon and Youngbin? Were there two men inside the house too?" Jaeyoon asked.
The policeman approached a doctor who was busy writing on his board notes on Sunhee, "They are at the third ambulance that arrived." The doctor said and left without telling them the two men's condition.
"H-how about Nari? The resident of that house?" Hwiyoung asked.
The police's eyes rolled as he tried to remember, "Lady? I guess we didn't see a lady inside the house."
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Hi everyone! Merry Christmas in advance! This is my gift to everyone who has been supporting this book despite it's author being inactive for a long time. Hahaha! Have a blast 💕 Enjoy the holidays 😉
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