? AFTERGLOW ? ━ aouad. [DISCONTINUED]

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Nayeon cleared her throat before talking again. "How are you guys doing?" The girl asked as she started approaching the two.

"Why are you really here, Nayeon?" He heard Nabi asked. Gyeongsu turned to the girl, confused on why she asked Nayeon that question.

They both knew that Nayeon would go in after an hour to apologize to them, why does she have to ask?

"What do you mean? I'm here to say sorry and clean your wounds," he didn't know why but Gyeongsu felt like it was not sincere.

Nayeon held his hand and was about to wipe his wound when Nabi covered it with her hands.

He saw how Nayeon's eyes widened and Nabi looking at Nayeon like she was going to kill her.

The boy froze. How the fuck did he not get it immediately? Why did he ignore what he saw?

The blood in the handkerchief. Nabi covering his hands with her hands, both of them having an open wound.

Nabi's last words to him.

"You motherfucker!" Gyeongsu shouted in rage, rushing to Nayeon and was about to punch her when Suhyeok and Cheongsan held him.

"Dude, what are you doing?! Calm down!" Cheongsan said.

"Oh you're not going to be able to calm down once you find out what she did to Nabi!" Gyeongsu fought back, struggling to get out of their grip.

"I did nothing to her! It was supposed to be you!" Nayeon screamed hysterically.

"Me? It was supposed to be me, huh?! Why the fuck can't you accept that you were wrong?! You didn't have to—" Gyeongsu collapsed on the floor sobbing. "You didn't have to turn her into a zombie..." He weakly said.

Aside from rage, guilt was slowly eating him up. He knew that Nabi would turn into those mindless zombies because of him. Because she wanted to protect him.

That was the reason why the girl did not answer him earlier. Aside from protecting him from becoming a zombie, she also wanted him to not feel guilty.

Gyeongsu cried in frustration. If he was lucky enough to see her as a human again, he will hug the selfless girl tight.

He wants to say "thank you" to her so bad.

"A zombie?" Cheongsan asked. He turned to the girl who was a crying mess.

"A zombie. She wiped her handkerchief on that broomstick with zombie blood," Namra spoke gaining the attention of everyone in the room.

"I said I did not!" Nayeon stood up. Her tone was defensive and it was very obvious.

"You did! If you didn't, pull that handkerchief out and prove it!" Namra challenged the girl. Nayeon glanced at her pocket and hesitantly pulled out the handkerchief.

There was blood on it.

"This is my blood, it's not the zombie's!" She reasoned out. Namra only looked at her before smirking.

"Are you sure? Wipe it on your wound then," she said pointing to Nayeon's wound on her knees.

Nayeon's hand began to shake badly. The others only looked at her with disgust.

If she really did plan on turning Gyeongsu into a zombie, and accidentally turning Nabi into one instead in the process then, what she did could be considered to something almost similar to murder.

"See? You can't do it!" Namra said.

"Fine! I did it! Why do you even care?! Why are you acting like our president—"

A loud slap echoed across the room. Nayeon held her cheek and slowly sat down on the floor.

The information everyone just heard started to process on everyone's minds. Onjo began crying while the other girls immediately hugged her.

The girl lost I-sak earlier and now, Nabi.

"What did you do?! What did you do to Na—" Suhyeok was cut off when they heard a loud noise from the room.

A loud thud.

And another. Until it continuously happened.

Gyeongsu felt his heart dropped as he heard the noise coming from the room. He knew it was her, the girl who swore and did protect her.

Cheongsan and Suhyeok carefully approached the glass window, pretending to be brave enough to see their friend as one of those things outside they wanted to save themselves from.

Cheongsan stopped halfway. His steps slowly retreating.

"I- I don't want to look." Cheongsan whispered, walking back to the corner where Onjo stood, a hand in her mouth, stopping herself from crying loud. Suhyeok shook his head and stopped himself from looking.

He can't see her in that state. It will break him so bad.

They heard another loud bang on the door and it was like a confirmation.

Song Nabi has turned into a zombie.

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xia speaks！

removed the episodes but i will
still follow them! also changed
the book cover because so many
things will change between Nabi
and her friends along with Gwinam.