Peek-A-Boo

Chapter 14

"Hello? Jennie? Are you still there?"

Lisa's voice as well as Jennie's whole world became a distant sound. The news has her shaken to the core. The revelation that Jonathan, and not the girls in this house, killed Jisoo. The confirmation of Jisoo's death. It all makes her heart sink to a bottomless pit.

It's getting hard to gulp down when her throat has a massive lump forming in. Her eyes well up and she starts to sob uncontrollably. She covers her mouth in attempt to mask the sound.

'But why is Jisoo's uniform here?' she thought.

Jennie realized that despite the strength each of the girl possessed, it was easy to outrun them. Even the last girl didn't run after her when she escaped.

'Easy to outrun or they let me escape?' another thought came to Jennie.

She's now hiding in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, a terrible place to digest all the information. Jennie broke her trance when her phone buzzed in her hand.

It's a document Lisa sent her about Irene's case. Jennie reads the awful reports even though her eyes are blurred from crying. She gasped when she saw the pictures of the victims; Joy, Wendy, Seulgi, Yeri, and Irene. The grotesque way that they were murdered.

The cabinet door open, Joy drags Jennie by the hair all the way to the living room where the four other girls are waiting.

"She sabotage the delivery tonight." Joy crosses her arms in front of her.

Jennie looks at them at a new perspective. "What did he do to you?" One by one she looks at their faces, stopping at one in particular. "You're Irene, right?" Irene smirks but it quickly fades when Jennie spoke again. "He... he tortured you."

"You're in no place to show sympathy." Irene almost barked the words out. "If you want to know how your lover died, we're more than happy to tell you---"

"I know you didn't kill Jisoo!" Jennie shouted, holding her head between her hands.

Irene steps closer with the four other girls behind her. When she's only a breath away from Jennie, she looked her in the eyes and said, "But we did."

Irene holds Jennie's head, forcing her to not look away as visions start to flood her mind. It's as if she's seeing through Irene's eyes. Flashes of the five girls being killed in the house, then the delivery boys they killed, and the night they saw Jisoo.

She was in a dark alley lying almost lifeless by a dumpster. There are a couple of gunshot wounds on her chest, ruby fluid stains her shirt. The view comes closer and a pair of small hands, which Jennie assumed to be Irene's, took hers. With what little energy she has left, Jisoo cries.

"I didn't want to... so he, he..." Jisoo said in a tremulous voice. Irene's hand cups her cheeks and caresses it while hushing the soft sobs. "Kill me please."

The line of vision looks from side to side, scanning the four girls who looks back in concern.

"I know who you are. I can feel my hands getting cold, my heartbeat is barely there. Please end my suffering." Jisoo's breathing are becoming noisy. She pressed something on Irene's palm and nods at her.

Irene clutches the object, putting it in her pocket. With everybody else's approval, Seulgi hands her a silver dagger. Irene cradles Jisoo into her arms, her head resting on the older girl's chest, and whispers, "I will get him." With a swift motion, Irene stabs Jisoo and all resistance gives in. The injured girl is now lifeless in her arms.

Reality pulls Jennie back when Irene withdrew her hands. Overwhelming emotions leaves her speechless. Irene hands over two rings to the visitor, each one has 'JJ4EVA' engraved on it.