My Downfall | Killers List #3

Instinct

Yerin knelt down and pretended to tie her shoe so that Eunbi could beat her to the car. She was feeling a bit generous today. Besides, it was the least she could do for Eunbi saving her back there a few minutes ago. She smiled as she watched Eunbi get in the passenger seat up front.

"Looks like I'm a rotten egg" Yerin snickered as she got in the car and passed her bag to Umji so she could put it in the trunk.

"Yeah..." Eunbi mumbled as she glanced over at her. She felt a bit strange—actually no—Yerin was being strange.

"Eunbi why the fuck would you give me a blurry lens?" Sowon asked. She wasn't angry, she was genuinely concerned for Eunbi's mental health and eye sight.

"Hey I said I'm sorry. I was in a rush I guess. Yerin said it was our first mission back together so I was stressed" Eunbi shrugged. She really had no other answer to give.

"Hey relax will you? Cut her some slack" Yerin looked at Sowon through the review mirror. Sowon couldn't explain the expression Yerin gave her.

"Yerin is turning softer inside" Umji teased.

"No. We just don't have much time left" Yerin suddenly became serious. She started the engine and hoped the others would ignored what she just said but she knew that wouldn't be the case at all.

"What does that mean?" Eunha questioned. She thought of leaving the comment ignored but she couldn't get it out of her head. She just needed to know what Yerin was talking about and then she'd be fine.

"Listen. Now I'm not saying this is true, it's only an assumption. Kyung hasn't been trying to play games with us since the fire in May. I have a feeling that something is coming, she is coming. Lately I've had this weird and anxious feeling in my stomach. I trust my instinct" Yerin calmly explained as to not freak out the other girls. The last thing she needed was a group of girls yelling and asking questions.

"So I wasn't the only one? Good" Umji sighed.

"You felt it too?" Yerin turned around. She was fairly surprised.

"I think we all have. I think some of us just chose to ignore it" Sowon commented.

"So then something must really be going on. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long. I'm dying to know what is happening. I really can't handle this feeling anymore" Yerin sighed. She had tried multiple coping strategies and looked up many things that can help a stomach ache but none of them helped. Her anxiety was overflowing yet she didn't have an exact reason to be so stressed, but maybe deep down she did.

She has multiple things to worry about, number one being Eunbi and two was the whole Kyung situation. She also had to stress and Sowon and Eunha's little secret while also worrying about everyone else like Umji and Yuju who was supposedly dead. That's right, she had also just lost Yuju and her brother a year ago. Maybe she really did have things to worry about but she kept them low key so she didn't look like she was overreacting.

"I don't mean to sound weird or anything but I feel like someone is going to get hurt, I feel like one of us is going to get hurt in the end, or worse." Sowon had worry written on her face. They all knew something bad was going to happen in the end, but they knew that's not what Sowon entirely meant.

"I think one of us already has" Umji sadly responded, thinking back to what happened back in Europe.

"What do you mean? Who?" Eunbi turned around in her seat to look at Umji. She already had a guess but she didn't want to say it since Yerin was around.

"First it was Zen...then Yuju" Umji stared out the window, holding back her tears.

"That's what I thought" Eunbi mumbled. Her guess was originally Zen, not Yuju or even Yerin who she planned to kill in the end. She still felt bad for what happened the night he died. She knew Yerin was never going to be the same since then.

"Yuju? What do you mean?" Sowon could feel her heart racing. The thought of something happening to her "little sister" sent her to panic mode, she would kill for Yuju.

"Sowon" Umji looked over at her with the most sympathetic eyes. She felt so bad that Sowon had to listen to what she was about to say. "Yuju died back in Europe yesterday" Umji still didn't know that Yuju was alive, and she wasn't going to, at least not for a very long time. Maybe even her feelings will be gone by then. But Yuju and Umji both knew they could never forget each other.

"Haha real funny, Umji. Good one" Sowon laughed as if it were a joke. If only it were. She sure hoped it was only a joke.

"Sowon" Eunha looked up at Sowon. She had a very serious expression. Sowon then looked at Umji who was wiping a single tear off her cheek.

"Wait you're kidding right?" Sowon became tense.

"She's not lying. Umji was there with her. It happened, all we can do now is get over it" Yerin responded. Yerin wasn't mean or cold-hearted, she just didn't like wasting her time dwelling over something that happened in the past. It was the same situation with her brother, she just had to get over it. It was the way she was raised.

"Are you fucking joking? Do you know how heartless you are?" Sowon tightened her fist. She was so close to grabbing Yerin's head and smashing it into the window.

"I'm not heartless" Yerin coldly responded.

"She was like a sister to me!" Sowon shouted. She knew she couldn't cry, not now, not in front of everyone. She didn't even think she could cry, she was more filled with anger than sadness.

"Who killed her?" Sowon said with a threatening voice. She was prepared to kill anyone who even dare think about harming someone she loves.

"No one killed her. She did it to herself" Eunha tried not to sound rude while saying it but she wasn't sure how to phrase such a sentence.

"What do you mean? Was it suicide?"

"No. She overdosed. I walked into the room and found a dozen empty beer bottles on the table. I thought there was no possible way she was able to drink that many unless she was with someone else or had drank that much in the span of two or more days. I went into the living room and found her unconscious on the bed with needles and more bottles surrounding her body and scattered all over the floor. Her face was so pale...and her skin was cold..." Umji choked up towards the end. Recalling the night was her worst nightmare. She knew she would never be able to get rid of that image of Yuju laying on the bed.

"Fuck" Sowon mumbled and covered her face with her hands. She felt like she was losing everyone around her. Who could be next?