Seaside ✅

Kevin's Visits

many months after the murders and Hyunjoon's trial...

Things were normal. Things were boring. The buzz had died down a few months ago. It's like none of them ever attended this school. But we knew, we remembered. We had lived through a murderous nightmare that was our friend, Hyunjoon. I had questions that could never be answered. All of them, all 5 of them are dead. Jaehyun only knew so much. Even then, I couldn't contact him. I decided to visit their families and hopefully get to keep a few of their belongings I deemed were worth a look.

"Ah, so you're Kevin." I nodded as Mrs. Sohn let me in. "We already sold the things that were no longer needed and donated his clothes." "Ah, thanks for the heads up." I walked up the stairs then walked down the hall to the last door. I had only been in his room once, and it was short lived as well. I turned the knob and entered. It looked the same as before, except his open closet was now barren and quite a few things around the room were gone. I searched through drawers and shelves for anything that sparked interest. I pulled one book out and another fell to the floor. I picked it up and noticed it wasn't a book he usually read. "Loveless..." I opened it up and saw writing in it. "They really seem to like writing in books..." I flipped through pages then opened up to a bookmarked page. A folded piece of paper was cleverly placed in and I was quick to unfold it.

"If you found this, then you must've figured out my puzzle. Hopefully you could stop me from making a foolish choice. I love...I love who? I don't know who I love anymore." I momentarily stopped reading as I felt confused. There was no date, so who knew when he wrote this. Who were his other options? "I knew it was Hyunjoon. I felt it was Juyeon. I had endured Younghoon. I had desired Haknyeon. I had wanted Changmin. My 5 friends, each gave me a taste of the devil's fruit. I no longer have control of my own life, I'm their puppet now. Could you, possibly stop me from selling my soul to one of these devils? Please...I'm scared." That was it. I flipped it around, held it up to the light, everything. That was it.

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I ended up at Juyeon's home and was let in by his dad. "Didn't think my son had friends. Never brought any home..." I nodded then was directed to his bedroom. "Hope you find whatever you need." I started searching his drawers then ended up in his closet. I found a box and pulled it out. It was filled with pictures of Eric and other random photos. The photos of Eric were either him smiling or him looking up at the camera. I couldn't make heads or tails of the ones of him looking up, but a trend I saw was he had doe-like eyes. "He certainly was whipped, but it's safe to call this an obsession." I dug through and saw folded pieces of paper at the bottom. I took one out and unfolded it.

"I love you Eric. Everyone could see how I drool over you. **** **** **** * **** **** ***** * Your height is adorable, your lips so delectable. **** ********** **** * ** ******** * You excite me in ways I couldn't imagine. Shit." I unfolded the other, but it was just explaining the kind of date they went on one day. I shook my head as I looked once more at his collection. The photos of Eric smiling were pleasing to look at as he seemed genuinely happy. Or was it all a facade?

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I stopped by Hyunjoon's home, but his mom refused to let me in. No matter how hard I begged, she wouldn't budge.

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I sighed as I eventually arrived at Younghoon's. "Huh. He never mentioned you. Oh, he has. Never mind." I mentally face palmed as I finally saw where he got his personality from. I was led to his room upstairs then checked out the room. I found a familiar looking book and realized it resembled Juyeon's. I pulled out the key and felt it unlock. I took off the lock and flipped to the first page.