Trouble in Hyosan (All of Us Are Dead)

Chapter 19: Hard Confessions

As Dae-su's song came to a close, everyone smiled. They are relieved. Despite the troubles they had and the bad effects that virus caused to everyone, they still stood strong with their friendship.

"What a nice song.," Hyo-ryeong complemented. "Didn't you said earlier that it sucked?," Dae-su replied, eyes furrowed.

"Now that after I actually listened to it, I think it was nice.," the short haired girl then explained. "That was encouraging, Dae-su.," Wu-jin added.

"How long have you been smoking for?," On-jo then asked Nam-ra. Jin-ji smiled, confident enough because she thinks they would be good friends.

"Since eight grade because I had no friends and a lot of stress back then, even if hyeongje would do anything about it.," the class president answered. "But ever since I got closer to Jin-ji, I tried to stop or a least not smoke around her."

On-jo slightly looked down as Nam-ra's answer makes Jin-ji smile as she slowly opens up to the group. Su-hyeok, on the other hand, looked somewhat supportive.

"You really know that jamae really hates the smoke of it, right?," he asked.

Nam-ra nods. "She really hates it. She never asked me to stop but due to the fact that she hates it, I tried to stop.," she added.

"Do you ever need a friend?," On-jo asked the president again. She is intended to have complete interest of being friends with her.

"I'm not sure and I can't really tell.," Nam-ra answered while making her eyes still at the fire. "But as long as I have Jin-ji and hyeongje with me, I can tell that I'm very happy with it."

Nam-hyun, being a open sibling among the two, smiled as well, knowing that his sister is now trying to make more friends.

"You always put up a wall. You would always wore headphones and never said any word, but Jin-ji and Nam-hyun were the exceptions to it.," On-jo admits, trying to voice all her thoughts towards the class president. "Wasn't because you didn't like us?," she then asks, sparking her even more curiousity further.

The rest of the students were also curious, knowing who she is if she really hates her classmates or she just don't want to talk, except her partner in class and her only younger brother.

Nam-ra then locked her eyes into On-jo. "I never disliked nor hated you guys. It's just that Jin-ji is my only friend and I really have a close relationship with Nam-hyun, and I love him with all I can as an older sibling.," she answered.

Everyone looked concerned to the class president's answer. Not because of her but because all throughout her life, her sibling love to the council president and her friendship and, as recently done, romantic love for the class vice president was always shown.

"Noona's right. She was never been that close to you guys, even before Jin-ji came.," Nam-hyun then said, explaining how things went down for his sister. "She never done anything but to study because while I was okay with grades, she was scared about what will happen if her grades would drop and if that happens, our mom would have scolded her."

Nam-ra was happy that her brother helped her to open up her feeling to their classmates.

"And with that, she was too scared to make friends while I was easily doing it. Our mom would have ask her, or if not, me how they were rank in class and how they were doing in school, and how big their house was among things. When we think about it, only Jin-ji and Su-hyeok would have her approval off.," he added. He even mentioned how the vice president got their mother's approval.

Nam-ra smiled. She's very thankful that her brother helped her confess her situation.

"I never thought that I would have get a chance of sitting around a campfire with all of us like this, and it's very nice of it since it's my first time doing it with all of you.," she said. "Nam-hyun and I usually have those with lights when we were young and I just hope we can make this and hang out like this again if we somehow escape from this.," she then added.