imaginary friend - red velvet

viii

park sooyoung (joy) and kim yerim (yeri)

yerim sat on the couch facing sooyoung's mom, who sat on the couch in front of her. they both clasped a glass of iced tea in their hands, but neither of them drank from it. 

"i'm kim hyoyeon, park sooyoung's mother. my husband, park leeteuk, died a few months before. sooyoung's younger sisters, yuna and jinri, are at boarding school," hyoyeon explained to yerim, telling her of sooyoung's family background. 

"sooyoung wasn't a normal child. people would call her a freak for things she would do. she became envious of other girls, especially these three girls. i don't know their names, but she hated them. she came back from school and became unusually quiet."

"so what happened to sooyoung?" yerim asked, the uneasiness in her stomach rising. 

her senses were on edge, as if she shouldn't have asked the question she just did. a chilly breeze swept from behind her, even though no windows were open. the ominous feeling that something bad was going to happen overtook her other emotions. 

"well, sooyoung-"

hyoyeon was cut off by sooyoung, who swung a toaster at her mother's head. her mother immediately collapsed, and blood trickled from the part of her skull, where it caved in. yerim scream got choked in her throat. 

sooyoung threw the toaster in front of the couch and sat on the rocking chair next to the couch where her mother bled to death. "i wanted to be able to speak for myself."

yerim nodded, not wanting to say anything that could offend sooyoung. 

"i was bullied by your friends. juhyun, seungwan, and seulgi bullied me. they cornered me one day while i was walking back from the drug store. they murdered me in cold blood. i remember it so clearly. seungwan pushing me into the wall, pulling my hair with her glove-covered hand, and calling me nasty things. she even punched me a few times. then, seulgi stabbed my abdomen. it was one of the most painful things i have ever experienced. juhyun came along and finished the deed. she stabbed my heart, my eyes, my lungs."

as sooyoung talked, her murdered form began to appear on her. chunks of hair went missing. black and blue bruises formed on sooyoung's fair face. blood trickled down her nose. blood blossomed on the left side of her chest, right where she was stabbed by seulgi stabbed her. more blood pierced the white school uniform shirt. lastly, her eyes were torn, as if someone dragged a knife in them. 

yerim's hand flew to her mouth as she cried for her friend, who she now knew was brutally murdered by the group she had trusted so much. 

"yerim, i'm going to murder your friends. i'm going to murder them all. starting from seungwan, then seulgi, and lastly, i will get juhyun. you can't stop me because i'm a ghost. no one will believe you. after i murder them, i will murder you. you have 24 hours to say good-bye to seungwan."

and right before her eyes, sooyoung vanished. 

yerim couldn't bring herself to do anything but run away, crying. 

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