Sweet but Psycho

SIX

Minji yawned as she walked up her apartment steps, fumbling for her keys in the dark. She arrived right on time, and seeing as it was eight in the evening... Hyein should be home.

'Huh?'

Minji glanced down, trying her front door's handle.

It was unlocked.

The bear sighed, 'Hyein really left the door unlocked? In the middle of the city too???'

Minji pushed the door open, slipping off her shoes as she called out to her sister.

"Yah Hyein why did you-"

Minji froze, at first glance the apartment was clean, nothing out of the ordinary except it was a bit too quiet.

But as she took a step inside, black paint on the wall was what first caught her attention.

"What the fuck..."

Minji walked over, abruptly pausing in her steps as she read what the sloppy painted handwriting said.

2Nz

'Oh fuck-'

Minji's heart skipped a beat, "fuck- Hyein? Are you here???"

She ran into their shared bedroom, "HYEIN??"

The room was empty, but Minji quickly noticed that some of the photographs the bear had up on her side of the room were missing. It was as if whoever was inside looked through all her stuff, yet still tried to put everything back to normal afterwards.

But who would take her photographs?

"Hyein!"

Minji ran down the hall to the bathroom next, rattling the handle to see that it was locked.

"Fuck fuck fuck-"

The police officer grabbed a nearby towel as she unsheathed her gun, using the thick fabric to suppress a gunshot noise as she used it to break the bathroom's lock.

Minji dropped her duffle bag and her gun as the lock came off, gasping as she slammed the door open.

"Oh my God Hyein-"

She was immediately on her knees at the bathtub where her younger sister sat, squirming around to try and get a bag off of her head.

The lean girl was all tied up, barely able to move.

Minji quickly took the bag off of her head, being greeted with frightened eyes and black paint smeared across Hyein's cheek.

"Hey hey... It's okay, it's okay, unnie's here, Minji-unnie's here."

She gently peeled the tape off around Hyein's lips, the younger girl coughing as a plastic bag fell out of her mouth.

Minji ignored the bag for now, making quick work to untie the clumsy knots that tied Hyein up.

"Who did this to you?"

"I-I d-don't know... S-she sounded like a girl though. U-unnie I'm scared."

'This motherfucker is gonna pay.'

Minji reassuringly kissed Hyein's forehead, "it's okay, you're gonna be okay."

'I won't let them hurt you.'

Minji gave Hyein a tight hug, "you'll be okay."

"S-she s-said that y-you should make the better choice a-and come back to her."

Minji raised an eyebrow, "come back... to her...?"

She wiped off the paint on Hyein's cheek, mumbling to herself, "who's 'her'...?"