𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 / sae-byeok✓

𝟎𝟏𝟐

"If you win the money and get out of here, what's your plan then?"

get a house where I could be with my sister first. Then I'll find a way to get my uncle arrested" 240 scoffed. "Hey, with a price that big, you can do a whole lot more than that. You gotta want something else too. Is there anywhere you wanna go?"

"Jeju Island"

"Jeju Island?"

"It's my sister's dream. She always talks about it to me before I put her to sleep every night."

"Hey. Don't you think you should dream bigger, huh? Do Hawaii. Hold on, go to the Maldives for a while instead. And have a mojito too."

"Mojito?"

"Like the movie. Lee Byung-hun's in it. "Go to mojito and have a glass of Maldives." Really?"

"Oh, no, we gotta fix that then. Well, once we're out of here, we'll have a girls' night out and make mojitos and everything, okay?" She chuckled. Her facial expression changed really fast.

"Oh. We can't both get out of here."

We both sat in silence for a while. Gunshots were being shot. Numbers were being called. Thank god none of them were 67.

"You ever have to see anyone die before those?"

"Once, we have this plague go through my town when I was a kid. As time went on, more and more towns got sick and died. Soldiers started carrying the dead into piles and lit them on fire.  They burned together."

240 bit her lip."Damn. Your stories are a bit too dark even for me." She scoffed.

"And you? What have you seen?" The girl hesitated to answer me. "First body I saw... my mother's. One day, I came back from school, and my mom was lying there, dead on the floor."

And next to her " She paused. "was my so-called dad with a knife. The next body that I saw  that was my dad's. An"d the person standing there holding the knife...that was me. He was a goddamn pastor too."

My hand flew over my mouth. I felt bad for her. We had something in common. "And when he hit her and... did the things he did to me, he would talk to God. He'd always ask for forgiveness. He didn't pray on that day after he killed her. I was too mad he even forgot, I guess."

"What are you gonna do if you win all that money and get out?" I tried to change the subject.

"I don't know what I would do." She began "Someone was waiting at the prison the day I got out. I thought he was a creditor who came to collect my dad's debt. But he pulled out a card. That weird card. I had nowhere else to go, so I... never thought about what I'd do if I got the money."

"Go with you to Jeju Island?"

My eyes lit up. "Sorry. I forgot again."

"You have three minutes until the game is over. Three minutes remaining." I sighed.

"Let's do this. Whoever throws one over there and makes the shot that comes closest to the wall, wins. How's that?"

"It's Y/n"

"What is?"

"My name. Y/n."

"y/n. Pretty." 240 smiled. "And you?"

"Ji-Yeong."

"Who should go first then?" I asked, looking at the floor. "It should be your turn. Since your number is lower."

I went first. My marble was close to the wall. Now, all we had to do was wait for Ji-Yeong's throw.

She dropped it. She dropped it by her feet. Nowhere near the wall. I had won.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I pushed her around to face me. "I lost. You won."

"Stop. Why the hell would you try to do that?" I pushed her against the wall. Tears formed in my eyes. "Hey, butterfingers, what else can I say?"

"What you said making sure that I won. Is that what this is? You think I'll be thankful that you did this, huh? Take another throw." I sobbed.

"And I still wouldn't be able to win. Ugh. Just let me lose this thing in style, okay?"

"Ji-Yeong, that's bullshit! Stop acting cool and just do a real throw!" I yelled. Tears fell from my eyes. I sobbed.

"I have nothing. You got a reason to get out of this place, but I don't." My breath was shaky. "I thought hard about what I'd do. If I were the one who got out since you asked me earlier."

"No matter how hard I thought, though, I got nothing"   sobbed "The one who should have a reason to get back out there that's what's right."

Tears were now streaming out of my eyes.

"You can do it. Don't die in here, okay? And go get with Sae-byeok and get your sister. Get revenge on your uncle" She sobbed and chuckled all at once "And go to Jeju Island."

Her voice broke.

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"Y/n L/n!" I stopped walking. I heard a sob from behind me. "I'm honored"

"... that we were partners."

Bang!

Ji-Yeong was dead.

"Player 240, eliminated"

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I'M SORRY EVERYONE. I'M SOBBING WRITING THIS