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"Remember that cat girl that was always with Minji?"

"Haerin?"

Hanni glanced over from her phone, staring at the back of Dani's head in confusion as she kept cooking.

"You know her name?"

The taller girl took a quick glance back before going back to the stove, "I've passed by her a few times in the grocery store, sometimes she has her uniform on since she's working."

Her eyes dropped as she turned off the stove, staring at Hanni with a rather annoyed gaze.

"And I wonder who sucks at stealing yet still tries to steal at the grocery store for her to be patrolling around there."

Hanni flinched at the insult, waving it off, "anyways, she's a witness."

"What?"

"She's friends with Minji, what if Minji told her that she was coming back to town? And now she suddenly disappeared?? What if she's worried about Minji."

"You question me about this like what... a week and a half after you fucking kidnap her???"

Dani shook her head, "if she hasn't been suspicious now, she won't be later. And besides, what are the chances that she's suspicious of anyone in this town? Until you did it to Minji, there were no cases of kidnapping here. Like, maybe Minji got into an accident heading back here from Seoul."

"Okay but what iffff, what if she was texting Minji and realized her messages weren't going through because I turned off her phone?"

Hanni's eyes brightened, "wait... I can just-"

"Don't."

"You don't even kno-"

"I know what you're thinking, don't. And even if it isn't that, don't."

"Do you like her?"

"What no! I don't even know her, I just don't want another person that's the police involved. And besides..."

Dani glared off into nothingness, "falling in love is cringe."

"I'm gonna ignore that jab but okay."

'It wasn't a jab... But you wouldn't know would you, I'm the only family you have and you know I love you to death as a sister. I hope you don't lose anyone else again.'

Dani placed a serving on a plastic tray, "you know what you always tell Minji when you leave?"

"Huh?"

The girl pointed at Hanni before walking away to the basement with the food.

"Be good."

"Bruh."

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"Oh shit- Fuck why do you have to be taller than me."

Minji shifted in the bed, her eyes slowly fluttering open as sleep fled from her.

'What's all that noise...?'

The sound of slow, dull footsteps going down the stairs could be heard with a bit of heavy breathing.

"Hello...?"

The walking turned to shuffling as soon as they reached the ground, "shhhh go back to bed, Minji-yah. It's late."

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