"I hate you, Sae Byeok."

𝕃𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟.

Opening my eyes, I felt the harsh light hit them, I quickly closed them to maybe help me slowly ease into it. Ji-yeong already beside me prodding at my waist. "Come onnn, it's time for breakfast! I don't know about you but I'm starving!" I sighed and slowly sat up, I rubbed my eyes before opening them again. "I'm not hungry, but you go ahead!" I groaned giving her a nod of acceptance. She gave me a worrisome look, "You didn't eat last time either, are you sure you can't just eat a little bit?" She questioned tilting her head a little bit. "I'm sure, thank you though!" I said giving her another quick nod. She sighed before walking off to the big line.

"You really should eat, you can't go without food for long, especially if the next game involves running or something energy consuming." I looked in front of me to reveal that 067 girl standing over me. "I guess, I just don't really have an appetite right now." Without warning she shoved her milk into my hands and walked off. "Hey! Don't you want it-" I called, but it was too late, she was already out of sight.

Ji-yeong came running over to me and plotted herself beside me, she looked at my hand and tilted her head. "Who gave you that?" she pointed towards my hand. "Oh, that 067 girl, I don't understand, I thought she hated me? Why would she give me her drink." Ji-yeong looked back up to me with a cheeky smirk "maybe she likes you." My face went bright red before I whacked her across the face with my pillow. "Stop speaking nonsense!" I hissed hitting her with my pillow again, "ur blushing!" She chuckled before grabbing the pillow from my grasp.

"Ugh, I hate walking, don't tell me we have to do this for every game!" Ji-yeong whined while holding onto my arm. "Quit complaining, it'll do us good! We're mainly sitting down; when not playing games of course. Sitting down all day makes maintaining a healthy body and mind even harder." I announced dragging her behind me. "You're such a killjoy, you know that y/n?" She chuckled while rolling her eyes.

When we reached the game room we were met with four shapes, a triangle, square, star and umbrella.
"Choose a shape and stand in front on it immediately" the feminine voice demanded.
"I'm going with the star, how about you?" She said looking back at me. "I'm going with-" before I could even finish I felt a hand on my shoulder. "She's going with the triangle." 067 confirmed. "Hey! I get to make my own decisions! Plus since when did you give a shit?" She rolled her eyes and dragged me over to the triangle line with her. I wanted to say something but I decided not to, obviously if she's picking triangle herself it mustn't be too bad.

"The time to select your shape has ended, I will now explain the rules of the next game.
The doors then opened, revealing a dozen small grey tins. "All players please each take a case in front of you." Everyone stated walking forward and grabbing the tin the mask had given them. Finally it was my turn, I took a tin from the mask and opened it, there was a needle and a dalgona it suddenly all clicked, sweat dripped from my forehead as I fell into a trance like state. I was quickly awoken as 067 placed her hand on my shoulder and shook me a little before letting go.

"Please open the case and check the content."
Well it was a little late for that, but I still acted shocked to avoid causing any trouble. "The next game is sugar honeycombs. The shape you have chosen is the shape you must piece out. The time limit is ten minutes. You will pass if you trim out the shape within ten minutes let the game begin." The feminine voice finished.

I sat myself next to 067 as I  began scraping at the shape. I looked over at her for a second, it went unnoticed I then began scraping again. How did she even know what to pick? I mean maybe it was a wild guess but she saved my ass so I should thank her after this. "Stay focused!" She hissed before grabbing my arm, I looked down to see I was about to stab it through the middle. I gulped slightly before nodding, she sighed and took her hand away. Just as I became focused again I  heard a loud bang, I jumped before averting my gaze to the body slipping down the slide with a trail of blood behind it. After that there were more gunshots but I was more prepared for them after that.

Time flew by and I was almost done, one last side to go. I looked next to me and saw 067 wasn't there anymore.
"67 pass" I heard the feminine voice call out. I  sighed in relief before continuing to scrape at the dalgona.
"240 pass"
Happiness filled me after hearing that, Ji-yeong was okay, she was okay! I finally felt motivated enough to break off the last piece of the dalgona. I handed it out to the mask man.
"410 pass." I jumped for joy as I were lead out of the room and back to the main area.

Before I walked over to Ji-yeong I decided to go over and thank 067 for helping me back there. "Hey! 067, I just wanted to thank you, if I wasn't for you, I would have picked a much harder shape." She chuckled before messing up your hair a little. "Looks who's suddenly being nice." She said with another faint laugh. I scoffed before beginning to walk off, but just then I felt someone grab my arm, I turned back to 067. "Don't go dying anytime soon alright?" I gave her a faint smile "the same goes for you-" I  stopped realising I never got her name. "Kang Sae byeok." She answered hesitantly. My smile grew bigger. "Y/n l/n." I finished before walking back over to Ji-yeong.

"Ji-yeong" I groaned throwing myself face first into her bed, she looked over at me a giggled slightly. "Tired are we?" I nodded as she patted the top of my head trying to sooth me. "You're so cute!" She chuckled wiggling next to me. We both just sat there staring at the bed above hers. "We both have to make it out of here, together!" I declared sitting up and looking her in the eyes. She gave me a quick nod "Fine, but you have to shout my dinner!" She joked sitting up and nudging me.

Everyone who had managed to survive had finally returned, I was was still laying with Ji-yeong in her bed, we both sat there silently only it wasn't an awkward silence it was more a peaceful kind. "Out of 187 players, 79 were eliminated" the feminine voice called as more money was dropped into the piggy bank. I pulled Ji-yeong up as we both watched until no more money would fall. "The prize money accumulated this round is 7.9 billion won. The prize money accumulated so far is 34.8 billion won."

"Your mealtime begins now. All players please form a line in the center" Ji-yeong pulled herself up and looked down at me. "Come on, meal time!" I looked up at her while still sitting down and shook my head. "I'm still not hungry-" before I could finished Sae byeok was already in front of you. "You're eating." She declared pulling you towards the line.