Not all of us | Aouad

𝟏𝟕. | 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞

"I heard that in some countries, they mourn adults more than they do with children." Namra started looking at everyone , standing before the window with yu-jin beside her. "And in others, children more than adults."

"Which do you think our country is?" Yu-jin asked leaning on the window panel. "What do you mean?" Dae-su asked confused on what both girls are saying. "When kids die, you lose hope but when adults die, you lose their wisdom." Joon-Yeong answered as everyone settled their gaze on him.

"Hope and wisdom." Joon-Yeong answered for confused looks of other students except yu-jin and namra. Helicopter whirred in distance. "Which do we value more?"

"Hmm?"

"They have been flying all over the place since yesterday, They would've already saved us, if they really wanted to." Yu-jin spat looking at sky where helicopter flies. "But even if they do come to save us, we won't get out first. We're just not important enough for that." Namra looked down sadly after telling about sad truth. "We're students, that's it." Jia eyes met yu-jin as she nodded.

"If i have the phone, i can call assembly woman. She is my close friend. Then we would rescued first?" Jia looked at everyone, every student looked up at jia with hope. "Park eun-hee would sure help us."

"You can miss lim?" Dae-su asked hopefully, "yes." That was it the word that calmed the group of students.

Suddenly they heard footsteps on the edge of window as everyone stand from their place and looked at opened window. "bare-su! Cheong san!"

Everyone immediately helped both taking them inside. "Are you okay?"
"Did you get the phone?" Su-Hyeok looked at front in haze. Dae-su leaned outside the window waiting for taehyung to come. "where is taehyung?" Yu-jin asked softly pushing everyone aside and looking at the two boys. Both stayed silent as yu-jin suddenly ran towards the window looking out frantically. Her breathing increased.

She turned back slowly, "su-hyeok, Cheong san. Where is he?" Su-Hyeok looked at yu-jin with tears in eyes. "we got seperated in teacher's office. I'm sure he will be fine." Yu-jin's eyes started to pool again as she choked with the gulp. "Are you serious? Oh shit!" Dae-su frantically looked outside checking if they weren't joking.

"I'm sorry, for coming back alone." He said as guilty expression turned on his face, whilst yu-jin looked away and sighed with tears.

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Yu-jin looked outside controlling her tears whilst jia patted girl's back with sadly. Yu-jin pursued her lips controlling her tears which were tend to flow. "What do we do now? Taehyung and yu-jin were really close." Su-Hyeok looked at both conversing girls.

"They were going out." Ji-min said to Hyo-ryung as su-hyeok frowned. "But yu-jin told, they're not." Hyo-ryung said looking at ji-min. "I'm telling you, they are." Ji-min looked at yu-jin before adjusting her gaze at Hyo-ryung again. Su-hyeok looked down. "They're always together."

"Really?" Hyo-ryung asked as su-hyeok pulled out his name tag, which he wanted to give to yu-jin before all this apocalypse started. Looking at sobbing yu-jin, his heart ached. Walking towards yu-jin he stand beside her and gesturing jia to let them talk alone. Jia walked away patting her daughter's back last time.

Yu-jin felt second presence beside her as she took quick glance and sniffed looking ahead. "I'm sure, taehyung is fine." He assured her looking at her side profile, immediately feeling butterflies. "You know, how fast he is."

"I don't know why he never listens. Ever since we are friends, he never once listened to me. I told him not to go but, of course he did." A tear escaped from her eyes. "I'm sorry, i should've brought him back here."

"Where do you think....he is now?" Yu-jin looked at su-hyeok who quickly looked away. "I'm pretty sure, he's in safe hiding spot." Yu-jin looked at whirring helicopters in sky sighing.

Namra frowned watching as the pair talked to each other. She quitely pulled her name tag before sighing shakingly.
On-jo's eyes anyway found both pairs watching sadly as Cheong san told what happened. Suddenly her eyes landed on helicopters whirring far away in the sky. "Joon-Yeong, didn't you mentioned that your science club made a drone?" Everyone turned towards her as she walked to him.

"Yeah." He pushed his glasses on his bridge again. "And you want to look for taehyung with it?" Yu-jin's snapped her head and quickly walked towards both.
"Could we?" Yu-jin asked voice desperate.

"Well, yeah. But it's in science lab." He looked down. "We can go get it?" On-jo asked taking glances at her crush, feeling internally happy now that she is helping yu-jin.

"How do we get it? It's crawling with zombies out there." Everyone looked around before yu-jin's eyes found the hose. "with that!" She pointed at the bloody hose but still dangling. "You want me to climb that?"

"But, there are zombies in science lab too." Hyo-ryung said looking at three. "There weren't any in supply room, right?" On-jo was quickly to come up with answer. "That's true. But..." Joon-Yeong shifted in his place nervously. "We have to find tae." Yu-jin looked at him with pleading eyes. "There's no else beside us to start looking and rescue people." Everyone sighed.

"Yeah." Namra said agreeing with yu-jin. "It would good if we have drone. We can find taehyung and then we see how things are outside." Jia told the students. "We might even be able to send an emergency message and ask for help."

"Sure, that would be really great!" Hyo-ryung agreed with namra. "But who's gonna go?" She looked around. "I wanna go!" On-jo came up quickly. "I have took a fire rescue class, And I've climbed the ropes before."

Cheong san stand from his place, "no you're not!" She completely ignored him.

"No, I'll go." Yu-jin said looking at on-jo and Joon-Yeong. "Me too." Su-Hyeok again came ahead. "Then me too." Cheong-san looked at on-jo. "No, su-hyeok and Cheong san you already went out there. You can't keep putting yourself in danger. And yu-jin, you're not stable. Not physically but mentally." Yu-jin weakly smiled at the girl.

"The drone isn't finished yet, we need to find few more parts to run it." Joon-Yeong informed. "Do you know what to get?" He asked everyone but they all stayed silent, he sighed. "Then i have to go anyway, i guess. I'll go with On-jo."

"No way!" Dae-su interrupted him. "I'm actually going this time so, stand back." He stand infront of window with chest highed. "But you can't." Wu-jin again insulted with disbelief expression. "He can't." Wu-jin chuckled. "The rope won't hold you," Dae-su looked at him annoyed. "It was fine when i came down but it'll snap if i climb up?"

"Yeah right."

"Yeah, it will snap." He sighed plopping again at his place. "Right. Good boy." On-jo turned towards Joon-Yeong, "Joon-Yeong come with me." He nodded. Suddenly su-hyeok held on-jo's forearm. "It's too dangerous, I'll go." Behind them Joon-Yeong tried to dangle on hose but failing and breaking little glasses as he groaned.

On-jo looked down at his hands as su-hyeok followed her gaze before abruptly leaving, looking at yu-jin. Who immediately looked away. "Thank you."

"Take care on-jo!" Cheong san patted her back with small smile as she pushed him back.

" I'm going." Joon-Yeong informed climbing up. "I'm really going." He informed again now really climbing up as on-jo followed him taking last glance at Cheong san and yu-jin.

"Be careful on-jo." Yu-jin helped the girl as on-jo blushed and climbed upwards. "We'll be watching you, go safe okay?" Jia asked helping her as on-jo nodded. "Do you really think... it's safe for us to go out?" Hyo-ryung asked coming beside Jia with ji-min. "I'm sure it is."