Chapter Four

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Before anyone can move a mussel, the lights flicker three times overhead and then cut out, plunging the lobby back into eerie darkness.

Sunwoo screams. "PLEASE STOP THIS!! I DON'T WANNA DIE!!" He whirls around and throws his arms around the first person he feels, squeezing tightly.

There is a loud blast and a gasp. Then someone hits the ground with a sickening crash as the lights flash back on. A sinister cackling echoes around the room, before rapidly fading away.

"Sunwoo-hyung, get off of me!" Eric whines.

Sunwoo shakes his head vigorously, panic alive in his big brown eyes and his lips parted slightly, agape with horror.

Haknyeon's hands shoot up to his mouth, the pencil weapon in his hand barely missing poking him in the eye. His eyes rest on another limp body. This time, he is right in front of him. The bow and arrow weapon is scattered on the ground and the remnants of a grenade can be seen all around the newest victim.

"New!" Juyeon shrieks, staggering in place and grabbing the table for support. "No..."

Sangyeon rushes to New and drops down to him. Blood is smeared all over his front and his body looks horribly disfigured.

Q clasps his hands and looks at the scene with glittering eyes, full of mischievousness. "Wow. Look at all the blood. If it weren't New who was dead, I'd say this whole picture looks rather--"

"--let me guess?" Hyunjae growls with a roll of his eyes. "Cute?"

Q gasps. "You think so too, hyung?"

Hyunjae groans and rolls his eyes again. "OF COURSE NOT, YOU LITTLE HORROR-LOVING CREEP!"

Q chuckles. "Your annoyance is also cute."

"SANGYEON!" Hyunjae screams.

Sangyeon, hopeful, touches two fingers to New's neck. But he withdraws and closes his eyes.

Sunwoo makes a gagging noise and leaps off Eric, charging for one of the trash cans in the corner of the lobby. His hand is over his mouth, covering it. He slams into the can and bends over it, hurling into the container. "GROSS!! SANGYEON TOUCHED A BLOODY DEAD BODY!!"

Haknyeon can see the inner battle of his leader. The poor guy is trying his best and someone is having way too much fun. His eyes flick up to see Q poking Hyunjae, who glares at him.

But he didn't have a gun and he didn't have a grenade. If it was him, it'd be too easy. We should keep an eye on the horror lover.

Sangyeon lets out an audible sigh and snaps his eyes open. He looks around the room, his eyes burning with fury into Sunwoo (who is still at the trash can, throwing up), to Younghoon, who is comforting and trying to help Juyeon out, to Hyunjae and Q and then to Kevin, who is standing staring down at New's mirror, shattered glass littered everywhere. He studies each person.

Haknyeon realizes after a few seconds that the leader is staring him down, distrust evident in his selcas. The Jeju Island native feels his heart accelerate in his chest. He rubs his arm nervously.

Sangyeon squints at him, studying him for a few more intense seconds, before he finally relaxes and looks at the two members who'd chosen grenades as their weapons: Kevin and Sunwoo, who walks back over from the trash can, wiping his mouth and trying to shield his sight from the bloody corpse.

"You two have grenades, anything to say for yourselves?" Sangyeon scolds, getting up to his feet and eyeing them both.

Eric brushes himself off, shaking his head and making a low-sounding tsk tsk tsk noise with his teeth.

"Are you pointing fingers at us?" Kevin questions, his eyes up from the mirror and focusing on the leader. Surprise and a touch of hurt sparkles in the depths of his brown eyes. "I can't believe you..."

"So we're going to just forget about not pointing fingers at one another?" Hyunjae inquires, flicking a strand of loose hair out of his face.

Eric leans down and picks up New's bow and arrow. "This becomes mine, in other words! I agree with Sangyeon, you two are acting more...guilty as of lately. Kevin, you've barely said anything and you were just staring daggers at the broken mirror." He spins to look at Sunwoo. "And you keep hugging people."

Sunwoo frowns.

"He's a chicken shit, Eric," Haknyeon chuckles, flipping the pencil in his hands. "That's not abnormal."

"Have you thought that maybe the killer is...none of us...?" Juyeon suggests, rolling his sleeves up to show off his arms.

"Actually, he's got a point," Kevin remarks.

"At the same time," Q sneers, "It's kind of...interesting that you have no weapons, yet two hands to steal things with. How do we know you didn't take the rifle off the table and shoot Jacob and then take a grenade from Scaredy Sunwoo or Kevin and off New? It's ALSO interesting that you took out two of the smartest people here!"

"Says the horror-loving freak!" Juyeon snaps.

Q slips up to him. "You want to fight, JuJu?"

Juyeon holds his ground.

Younghoon steps in with Hyunjae and they both pull Juyeon back. "He's not worth it."

Sunwoo looks at Haknyeon. "You said you were going to protect me..."

Haknyeon shrugs. "That was before you decided to murder New and Jacob."

"I didn't do it though!" Sunwoo gasps. "I swear I didn't!"

Haknyeon lifts his pencil up and sticks it to Sunwoo's neck, threateningly. "Still...no chances. I can't trust anyone here. Not even, Sangyeon." He spits the words out of his mouth, surprised by how vile and cruel they sound.

Sunwoo shoves Haknyeon's hand away from him. "I'm going to find a way out of here!"

Haknyeon watches as Sunwoo storms off, disappearing into shadows on the far side of the enormous room.

"Follow him and take Younghoon and Q with you too!" Sangyeon remarks. "Juyeon, Kevin, Hyunjae and Eric, come with me."

"YES!" Eric does a fist pump of excitement.

Hyunjae rolls his eyes. "Kiss ass."

"Looks like you get the Horror-Lover and the Gullible Pretty Boy," Q exclaims, smiling largely. "We'll have lots of fun together, right, Pencil Boy?"

Haknyeon nods at Sangyeon, ignoring Q's sassiness and starts after Sunwoo with Younghoon and Q closely behind him. In all honesty, he'd really wanted to protect Sunwoo, thinking that he is innocent, but now he isn't so sure.

He's walking off to find an exit, he said. But I know better. He's really making plans to attack his next victim.

Haknyeon turns to look at a grinning, excited Q and a nervously distraught Younghoon.

And it won't be me! I'll get to him first! 

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