Girl Who Cried Wolf

Autophobia

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" Yuju immediately slapped Umji once she put her down on her feet.

"I saved the both of us because you were acting like a baby about the water!"

"Yeah I guess..." Yuju looked away shamefully.

"Don't you have to get back to Eunbi and Jimin?"

"No. I can just text them and say I haven't found you or Cao Lu. You need to go home and take a shower. Just lay low for awhile, I don't want Eunbi to do something to you out of spite."

"Where are you going then?"

"I'll go home. My mother needs me anyways because my cousins are coming over." Yuju frowned. She hated her cousins. None of them were around her age and she didn't get along with them well.

"Call me when you have time." Umji was about to take off towards her house.

"Umji wait. What happened exactly? Did you actually do something to Cao Lu?" Yuju had to ask. It was the question they were all waiting to ask.

"No of course not. I just talked to her a bit and let her go." Umji shrugged. She didn't want Yuju to think she was a bad person either.

"Ok." Yuju didn't seem to fully believe her. "I'll call you later then." She watched Umji walk away until she couldn't see her any more.

Yuju slowly walked back to Sowon's house and waited for the officer to leave. By then it was already dark outside. She grabbed her phone out of her pocket and turned the flashlight on. She knew Umji was lying about Cao Lu. She could smell something around here that lead her to believe Umji had done something bad to get rid of Cao Lu.

Yuju followed along the river with her flashlight pointed directly down at the water. She saw the girl they had dumped in here awhile ago, but she was unfazed by it. Normally she would've stopped and stared at it, filled with guilt and regret. But this time she skipped right pass the lifeless body.

She continued on until she got to the waterfall. She carefully made her way down the rocks next to the waterfall until she got to the small body of water at the bottom. She was about to go back up until she barely moved her flashlight and saw a head sticking up out of the water resting on the shore.

"Shit..." Yuju looked down at Cao Lu's body in shock. She knew Umji was lying, but what was she supposed to do with her body now? For some reason, the first person she called was Umji again.

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"Did you do it?" Yuju immediately questioned once Umji got down to the end of the waterfall.

"You really would accuse me of such a thing?" Umji looked offended.

"I know you did it. I can smell you on her. The skin under her nails is yours from scratching you while you killed her. Why would you do that?" Yuju backed away from Umji. At this point, she didn't know what Umji was capable of doing.

"Yuju please...don't tell anyone." She had a pleading look in her eyes that Yuju couldn't ignore.

"Don't ask me to do this for you. I can't. I already helped you hide the other girl. I can't do this again. I can't keep doing this." Yuju was overwhelmed. This wasn't her. She didn't act like this. She usually would've gone and got help but this time she helped Umji hide a body.

"I admit that it was me, and I'm sorry for doing it. Someone had to do it eventually. I was helping us." Umji was obviously delusional.

"You weren't helping anyone! You killed an innocent girl! And for what?! Why did you do it?!"

"Didn't you see? She was going to tear us apart. She was going to ruin the pack. She already split us up. First Sowon and Eunha leave, now me and SinB hate each other. Don't you see what she's trying to do?" Of course Umji was putting the blame on Cao Lu. She had to find some way to make Yuju think she was the innocent one. She had to manipulate her.

"Sowon and Eunha didn't leave because of her! They left to see if they had a better opportunity in America. Why can't you understand that?"

"Because Sowon didn't want to leave until she came along."

"That's not true. Cao Lu didn't even know about any of this until Sowon bit her, so it's technically Sowon's fault because she exposed Cao Lu to all of us."

"Don't blame Sowon! She has always taken care of us!"

"Why did you do it? Just answer my question! What makes you think Cao Lu is tearing the pack apart?"

"She kissed SinB to obviously drive a wedge between us!"

"Umji, you're just jealous so now you're starting to make up all these theories, you're trying to make it sound like killing her was a good thing when you know it's not. What happened to you?" Yuju got closer. She just wanted to hug Umji. All Umji needed right now was someone to love her.

"Nothing happened to me." Umji looked confused now, as if she just snapped back to reality.

"I have to call SinB and tell her what happened." Yuju reached for her phone in her pocket. She was about to dial the number when Umji smacked her phone out of her hand. It fell on the floor right next to the water, but fortunately it didn't break.

"You're not going to tell anyone! Do I make myself clear!" Umji had her hands wrapped around Yuju's throat.

"Clear." Yuju choked. She couldn't breathe with Umji's tightened hands around her neck. A tear rolled down her cheek as her face turned red. That was when Umji let go.

"I'm sorry. I don't know why I just did that. I didn't mean to." Umji slowly backed away. It was like she was also scared of herself.