Complexity

New Witness?

Sohyun Pov

Why did they call me to the warehouse? The people who usually tell me to do my assignments told me to go to the warehouse? What for?

They entered the warehouse and sat in the place where I usually play guitar. Don't tell me they found out that I secretly play guitar?

"So this is where you usually hide? That you don't want to meet your friend?"

"What do you want?" she laughed sarcastically which clearly, I didn't understand what she meant.

"It's simple" she said while taking the guitar that I had hidden well. I was sure that no one knew that I put the guitar there, but it turned out they knew.

"Stop playing guitar and do our assignments. It seems like you don't get enough sleep because you keep playing guitar" what kind of strange reason is that? I was fed up with everything she told me to do. Who they think am I? I have to be able to fight back.

"What if I don't want to?" she smiled lopsidedly and took out a pair of scissors for who knows what.

"It's okay" she said. I felt a little relieved because she didn't do anything strange and only said that. But she immediately pointed the scissors at one of the guitar strings which now I understand what the scissors were for.

"stop"

"you said you don't want to, so I can also not want to stop" she cut him off and continued to another string. I tried to take my guitar, but her friends held me down until I couldn't move.

"STOP IT!!" she didn't listen and continued her actions until all six of my guitar strings were broken because of it. She didn't stop there, she slammed my guitar until the body and neck were separated, or you could say destroyed.

"now... now you can rest more. Do our assignment if you don't want something like that day to happen" they let me go and locked me from the outside, leaving me alone in this warehouse. I honestly didn't care if I was locked in or what, but my guitar? It was my father's legacy and now it's just destroyed. It can't be repaired and I have to buy a new one.

That's why I'm so traumatized by friendship. In the end, they will take advantage of my weakness.

Xinyu Pov

"STOP IT!!" I thought Sohyun would play the guitar because I saw her walking to the warehouse, but it turned out she was being bullied? What's wrong with playing the guitar until she broke Sohyun's guitar strings. I didn't expect her to destroy Sohyun's guitar too. Isn't a guitar very expensive?

"Well... now you can rest more. Do our assignments if you don't want something like that day to happen" assignments? What happened that day?

I saw Sohyun being thrown out like that made me ask myself.

"Who is this jerk?" I was still watching them from the window. Seeing them about to go out, I hid a little away from the warehouse. Seeing Sohyun suffer because of them, made me sure that they were nothing more than bullies.

"What did Sohyun does wrong that they did all this?" after they had moved far enough away, I peeked out the window again. Seeing Sohyun crying over the destroyed guitar, managed to make my heart ache a little.

"Could it be that the Trauma that Kotone explained was the Trauma of being friends? Because she was afraid that her dream would be stopped by them?" It makes sense, but I can't draw a conclusion from one thing I see right now.

The bell for class rang, but Sohyun was still inside as if she didn't hear the bell.

"PARK SOHYUN!!" I shouted her name from outside the warehouse but it seemed like she didn't hear it. I knocked on the warehouse door and she didn't respond. I tried to open the warehouse, but it turned out to be locked. The warehouse's lock system is locked from the outside.

"PARK SOHYUN!!!" I have to find someone who has the key to this warehouse.

"KIM YOOYEON!" Yooyeon looked at me with a confused look.

"What's wrong?" Before I could speak, the next lesson teacher had entered the classroom, blocking my intention to speak. I was very worried about what happened to Sohyun because she was trapped in the warehouse there.

2 hours of class had passed, and now it was time to go home. I immediately looked for Yooyeon to ask if she had the warehouse key.

"Warehouse key? Which warehouse?" Which warehouse? How many warehouses are there in this school?

"The warehouse across the field. Do you have the key?" Yooyeon seemed to think of something then shook her head.

"The warehouse is no longer used. The key should be held by the security guard. But it will be difficult to ask him. What's wrong?"

"Sohyun is trapped there" I said quite loudly which managed to attract the attention of several students in the class.

"Sohyun is there?" Yooyeon asked in a panicked tone. Unlike Nakyung who was now running who knows where. Then Nakyung returned to class only to give a message that she would try to borrow from the security guard. She would let me know by phone, and she ran again.

I was still panicking, but I tried my best to stay calm. So I tidied up all of Sohyun's books to put them back in her bag to take later. Nakyung then called me that she couldn't borrow from the security guard because she said the key had been taken.

"ARGH DAMN" this was the first time I heard Nien curse.

"I'll try to open it using my hair clip. I was trapped in elementary school and I was able to get out with a hair clip. It's been so long; I don't know if I can still do it" I immediately ran towards the Warehouse to help Sohyun as fast as possible.

"Come on Zhou Xinyu"