Deranged | Jimin

Gimmick

"Oh my god Yerin is that you?" Yunji whisper-shouted when she opened the door.

I put a finger to where my mouth was underneath my black mask to shush her and quickly stepped into her apartment, closing the door behind me.

I quickly showed her my face before pulling the mask back up. "Yunji, hi."

"Yerin!" My best friend that I haven't seen for so long stared at me with wide eyes.

I took the liberty to go and sit down on her sofa. "Aren't you going to welcome your best friend after not seeing her for so long?"

She didn't run to hug me like she used to. Instead she carefully came to sit by my side. "Are you... Are you really the Busan Killer?"

I scoffed, "Of course not."

She seemed to have been relieved by those words. "Then why would the police think you are?"

"I have no clue." I shrugged.

She hesitated, then asked, "Are you going to turn yourself in?"

I sighed, "I don't want to go to jail."

"I don't want to see you in jail for something you haven't done either," Yunji said. Suddenly she seemed to have made up her mind. "Do you have a place to hide? Do you want to hide here?"

I chuckled at how much Yunji was being herself right now; the girl who would do anything for her friends. That's why I became friends with her back in our University days. She was kind and came to talk to me when I was being a bit of a loner on the first few days.

I shook my head, "No, I have a plan. I just came here to see you... for what might be the last time." I glance at my wrist watch, "It's time."

"Wait what-"

I interrupted her by hugging her suddenly, squeezing the life out of the thin girl. I then abruptly stood up and walked back out the door. I could hear Yunji running out after me but I kept on jogging down the stairs. I bursted out of the building into the busy urban area where Yunji lived.

I slowly walked to the center of life, and took a deep breath to calm myself. I was scared, I didn't want to do this. But I had to. I then removed my mask.

Straightway, I could see people doing double-takes when they walked past me. More and more people started crowding a distance from me, some of them on their phone, presumably calling the police to see if they could get the millions won bounty. The rest had their phones pointed at me, taking picture of the most wanted criminal in the country for later showing off to friends of how close they came to me.