Not You. - Daerin/ Newjeans

Chapter 20

jinni.

it cant be.. shes, supposed to be dead. did kyujin not kill her? is yeji still alive then.. but, that means that jinni didnt get removed, so someone else got removed then.. strange.

i have to go to jinni, she obviously needs to tell me something.

"minji, ill go talk to her, we'll be a while so maybe go look for a gift for hanni, shes been missing you!"

minji smiled and nodded.

"youre right, i was thinking of that! see you soon dani!"

minji patted me on the shoulder before walking away, i took a deep breath and made my way over to jinni.

"jinni?.."

she jumped and turned behind me. before i could even gasp a word open, jinni broke down in tears holding my shoulders with her head down, trying to squeeze them as hard as she can but her hands just trembling at the touch.

im so glad shes okay, i miss her, so so much.

her head was looking down, i could even see her tears falling down on the floor, people started to turn their heads towards us and mumble something to the person next to them.

"jinni, cmon please.."

"she- run.. p-please,"

"what, who?.."

she slowly lifted her head and thats when i saw,

she had no pupil in her left eye.

there was a huge scar across her blind eye.

and she has this, metal thing, in her ear?..

"k-"

before she could finish she jolted up. is she talking about kyujin? cant she say her name?..

"the one who took yejis life.."

so yeji really is dead. and kyujin killed her.

"kyujin? youre trying to tell me to run from her.."

she nodded frankly and sighed.

"shes moving into your school, right."

"yeah, who told you?"

her eyes slightly widened and gave me an amused look, what! im just curious, does she know someone from school?

"its nothing. someone i know goes to your school."

i smiled and i took another proper look at her, she looks so different, not in a good way or bad way. just more mature than before.

should i ask her why she never came back to school? or would she just ignore the question.. i mean ive gotta try dont i,

i cleared my throat and took a breath,

"jinni, why didnt you come back to school? not even for graduation."

"because, she had done this to my eye. did our teacher explain that there was a chess piece missing?"

"yeah.. yeah she did."

she then pointed at her eye and made a stabbing gesture.

my heart dropped. kyujin stabbed her eye? i feel myself going sick..

"i.."

"im okay, i broke the rules of the cult. i had a price to pay,"

"youre still in that cult?"