Trouble in Hyosan (All of Us Are Dead)

Chapter 8: Rest/Risk

Everyone in the broadcasting room was dazed by the fact Na-yeon and Ms. Park went outside, adding their risks of being bitten by a zombie. They were all silent for a reason until someone hold the door once more, but she was stopped.

"I-sak, please don't do this.," Jin-ji pleaded, teary-eyed from all the commotion around her. For sure she've been like that for minutes, but she don't want a breakdown right now, in which it can be the worse thing that it can happen to her.

"I don't want to lose you too.," the vice president added.

I-sak then looked at the rest of the survivors, knowing she would have risked another decision, but Na-yeon and Ms. Park are already had enough risktaking. What more if she can risk herself, letting alone to the fact that she had zombie blood now.

"Please, I-sak, you're not going out there to follow Ms. Park and Na-yeon, right?," Jin-ji said, still looking at her best friend with pleading eyes.

I-sak internally rethinked about her decision while looking at everyone. Knowing from her instinsts, she remembered what the vice president told her earlier.

"Jin-ji, I know you don't want this, but listen, I don't want you to get hurt. That's all I care about.," she then explained. "I don't want you guys to get hurt."

Everyone was frutrated from this. Surely, they don't want to lose another person important to them. Letting alone On-jo and Jin-ji.

The former then looked into I-sak's eyes. Her lips are curved into a sad smile, while holding her wrists, scared to let go of her best friend.

"I-sak, don't go. Jin-ji already had enough emotion out of this.," the girl pleaded.

"It's not gonna help if I stay here any longer.," I-sak explained. "At least I can help you guys safely."

"You're not one of them, I-sak. Just don't go.," Nam-hyun said. Although he was told about what happened to her, he can't believe the fact that the girl have zombie blood now. At least he can help her survive with it. "We'll just help you to survive with us."

"I know but you guys might lead to more danger if I stayed.," I-sak said then smiled. "I'll just bring them back here if I can, okay?," she then asked, but no one answered. Then she looked back at On-jo and Jin-ji. Her two best friends who have been with her the most.

"Don't worry, I'll be back, okay?," she whispered to the two. On-jo nods while Jin-ji was just silent. "If I turned into one of them, the last thing I'll remember is you guys and the last thing I'll say is that it's a pleasure to meet you two."

I-sak then looked back at the rest of her classmates.

"Again, as Ms. Park said, just stay safe.," she said and then opened the door. She then halfheartedly closed it and ran away to leave everyone behind.

"Why??!! Just why??!!," Gyeong-su shouted and kicked the table behind him. He didn't even have a chance to stop I-sak from following the two girls outside, same goes for the rest of the people around him.

They were silent after what happened. It's for a reason that they don't want to lose another friend and survivor. That silence stayed the same until someone whispered.

"Is it all my fault?"

Apperantly, the one who whispered turns out to be Jin-ji, and that turned out to be loud enough for the rest of the students to hear. The vice president have been teary-eyed for minutes, even before Na-yeon left, thinking of breaking down. But doing that during a zombie apocalipse isn't a great idea for her, until now.

She couldn't take it any longer. The once smiling and friendly vice president turned into an emotional and broken version of herself. The version that she had when she left her father alone. Heck, even before in Hyosan in the first place.