Follow me || Red Velvet & Seulrene

Chapter 30

The next days flew away like nothing. Seulgi basically couldn't even breath because of the amount of classes and homework. But this was normal for the beginning of autumn. Now the students got tested if they payed attention or not.

Nevertheless, they had to talk with Jisoo. This mysterious girl was still a puzzle that had to be solved, and they couldn't loose time.

The plan had actually been that Wendy and Seulgi should interrogate Jisoo without letting Irene know so no emotions would be involved. But apparently her best friend had a busy schedule and a important meeting with her 'library club' -you can count the members with one hand- and couldn't acompany her.

"I'll ask somebody to replace me", her words echoed in Seulgi's ears as she made her way to Wendy's dorm. Obviously this substitute would be Chae since Mina was a library club member too.

But Chae was not formal at all. Either she wouldn't take this whole conversation serious or she would yell at Jisoo like there was no tomorrow. Both options weren't ideal.

On the corridor, she met Jisoo, probably having the same destination as her.

"So I guess you are going to Wendy too?", the girl spoke out with an undefined expression.

"Ehm yeah", Seulgi replied, feeling uncomfortable around the latter.

They stayed silent until Seulgi opened the door for Jisoo. And of course, Chae was late. What had she expected? This crackhead was ALWAYS late.

Instead she found to other girls in the dorm. And yeah, that was how everything changed. She ended up with Jihyo and Irene.

"Why are you here?", Seulgi whispered to Jihyo as she took a seat at Wendy's bed. "Not so rude! I am your partner in crime now. Forget about Wendy."

Seulgi silently sighed and rolled her eyes. She was still mad at Jihyo. And why the fuck had Wendy asked her to interrogate Jisoo? Jihyo would beat the hell out of both girls.

"And why is she here?", Seulgi continued.

"Oh, I thought we could use Irene to get the truth", Jihyo simply stated and shrugged.

Aha. Because of the truth. Not that Seulgi felt so awkward just looking at this beautiful girl. She hadn't talked to Irene since four days now. Since this fricking incident. Yeah, she felt uncomfortable.

And nervous.

And  mad.

And overtaxed.

Why?

Because she stayed here with these three persons she didn't want be with at all. Thanks for nothing, Wendy...

"So Kim Jisoo... what have you done in this complex? And why? And how long did you already know about this. I swear if you don't tell us the-"

"Jihyo...", Seulgi warned her friend and grabbed her arm to pull her back to her seat.

"Just start at the beginning of everything", she pleaded.

"It isn't as exciting as you maybe think. Half a year ago I read a silly article about mysterious schools in Scotland. I thought that most of the stories were invented by bored thriller authors, but somebody commented under the article something about an Arnold Priston and some weird emblems." She paused.

"When the fuck have you done all this. I thought you almost died because of your school stress?", Irene asked and furrowed her eyebrows.

"Yeah... That wasn't the truth. At first I wanted to annoy you and tell you to do more for school but I ended up doing investigations about this Anold Priston."

Seulgi noticed that Irene was obviously mad at her, but she hold herself back so Jisoo could continue. That was indeed something that Seulgi could never manage...

"I found some articles about this school, but that wasn't something exciting. Until I saw this pic of the glass cabinet. It wasn't really interesting to be honest, and at the first sight I didn't notice it. But after some seconds I saw a small emblem behind one of the goblets.

I started some more investigations, but I couldn't find the actual meaning of this things. Honestly I almost inspected every picture of this school and found some more emblems. That's why I got curious and asked our parents to sign me in this school."

"You little hoe! You haven't told me about this plus forced me to go with you... I'm speechless." Irene crossed her arms in front of her chess.

"Sorry but I didn't want you to acompany me. I wasn't very excited to have you the whole day around me too", Jisoo said and lifted both of her arms.

"Discuss that later. What happened then", Jihyo said with a pissed subtone.

"Chill. I haven't killed somebody...", Jisoo laughed.

"I am not sure of this", Jihyo stated seriously.

"So you mean-" Jisoo's voice lowered and she narrowed her eyes. Seulgi sighed.

"Can we please have a normal and calm conversation?" She looked at all of them once but then fixed her hands as Irene's gaze met hers.

"After we arrived at this school, Seulgi guided me around. And this pics didn't lie. I saw this emblems again. I started to search after information in the library- without success- and studied this school like an exam. But I found nothing more than this emblems.

The key point were the goblets. I knew that something was strange about them, so I visited them at night. And I somehow opened this complex."

"That was the night we saw you", Seulgi stated while Jisoo looked at her confused.

"You saw me?"

"Just Seulgi. And Mina. It was a big coincidence, but Mina saw you exactly before you entered the column and Seulgi after you exited it." Apparently Irene cooled down from her madness since she smiled now.

For a short moment, Seulgi just stared at her. Or to be honest admired her...

Until she noticed that she should better stop that.

"You are a bad sister, really. I thought you tell me everything", Irene continued.

"Hey, I wanted to tell you. If this stupid students hadn't set the fire to the northern tract, I would have showed you everything. But I hesistated after I saw you being so close with them", she pointed with her head in Seulgi's direction.

"For your information, this 'stupid students' were some innocent pupils who became victims of this shit games", Seulgi blurted out with spiteful tone. Okay now her relationship towards Irene and Jisoo  was even more ruined. But right now, Jisoo was even more annoying than Jihyo.

"Calm down bear." Seulgi hesistated and looked at Jisoo irritatedly who glanced at Irene. And yeah, Seulgi noticed that the latter was blushing.

"Was that everything?", Jisoo asked after they finished their story too.

"I guess. And from now on, you tell us everything. Every detail, every incident. Got it?", Irene instructed.

"Yes Joohyuniee!"

"Don't call me like that!", Irene yelled, but Jisoo just laugh. "I love you too dumbass."