Hostage [jensoo]

origins

[Trigger warning: this book will contain graphic scenes, harsh language, gun violence, and more. If you are unsettled by that, please exit and you can check out some of my other, more mild stories. Thank you for understanding]

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Seoul Newspaper
May 23rd, 2018
Breaking News
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My name is Jennie Kim and I wasn't always like this.

I used to be a singer.

A very famous singer.

I grew up in a nice home with nice parents and a nice neighborhood, however I was a little different. My parents said I used to talk to "spirits" and play with them in the attic. I have no memory of that anymore.

Therapy was useless, every kid at school was afraid of me because one day I cut off little, troubled Johnny's mullet. But that's only because he was making fun of my scarf my grandma sewed me.

So I wrote songs.

I wrote songs for Johnny, about how horrible he is.

I wrote songs about the boy I liked who rejected me because I was too "creepy".

I wrote songs about the friend who told my parents I went out drinking one night.

South Korea was in love with me and my music, however.

For the first time in my entire life, people listened to me and cared about me.

But the music industry has its setbacks.

So I killed five people.