Chapter 3: The Forbidden Room
Have you heard about the ghost of the forbidden room?
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Ji Ah's POV:
Our class ended and now it was time for history, which neither of those giants had, so I had to go there alone. I didn't necessarily hate history, in fact i was really good at it and my teacher loved me too. It was just, it could be quite boring sometimes. We were having a test today which I know I was gonna ace just like always. I had three girl friends here. Ryujin, Chaeryoung and Ha Seul. Seul was literally a clown. Like she would always be anxious for everything, and I would try to assure her that everything would be alright, but like the clown she was, she just ended up overthinking.
Speaking of the clown, here she was. Looking stressed as always. She came to sit with me and started blabbering like always.
"Ji Ah! I am so scared for today's test, I don't know what I am going to do" She said anxiously.
"Please Seul, I know you have studied like till 3 am. So there is nothing to worry about. So just relax" I replied.
"Yeah I did but still.... What if I don't know anything about the test?" She said.
"I swear to God if you say that again Seul, I will throw you out this window. Why are you always so anxious? You will ace the test now shut up" I said.
"But wh-" She was about to complain again but got cut off by Ryujin.
"Hello besties" She said as she came to sit on her desk, that was in front of us. Chaeryoung was also with her as she took her seat beside Ryujin as well. Aside from those 5 giants, I had some girl best friends as well that consisted of these three.
"Hey bestie, how you doing?" I said to Ryujin.
"I am doing good girl, but I don't want to take this stupid test" She said.
"But we will have to Ryu, we don't have any other choice" Chaeryoung said. Ah how I loved her voice, it was so calming.
"She is right you know and let's not talk about the test for now as this clown beside me will start complaining again" I said, pointing to Seul, who just puffed out her cheeks in return and started studying again.
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The test went great for all of us and Seul finally stopped whining and started joking around with us. Aside from being anxious sometimes, she was a really great person to be with. I had known the three girls for only a year but it felt as if we had known each other for all our lives.
"Hey, girls! Where are you heading to?" Rosé said, coming towards us with Jennie on her side. Rosé was Ryujin's cousin. She was really nice and so was Jennie. They were a year above us.
"It's lunch time Rosie, of course they are heading to the cafeteria" Jennie replied.
"How I wish my amazing cousin had some brain cells as well" Ryujin said jokingly, earning a glare from Rosé.
"Let's go now, I am hungry!" Seul said, clinging to my arm. We all nodded and headed towards the cafeteria.
"Dwarfee!" Soobin said, waving his hand at us. I just rolled my eyes while the others laughed. We all went to sit with the giants.
"Stop calling me that, you giant!" I said, glaring at him.
"Then you stop calling me a giant as well" He said.
"But it's true" I replied, taking a burger from the table.
"Well then, what I say is true as well" He said, smiling cheekily.
I just sighed and put my head on Yeonjun's shoulder. "Ah I am exhausted, I just want to sleep" I said, putting the burger down.
"What a boomer" Kai said from across the table.
"Shut up, penguin" I said, not lifting my head up.
"Excuse me, but how dare you call me that?" He said, looking offended
"Excuse me, but you resemble one" I said. He looked even more offended and was about to say something when someone cut him off.
"Hey Shorty" Someone said tapping me on the shoulder. I knew who that voice belonged to. My lovely, one and only cousin.
Hwang Hyunjin.
I swear he was as annoying as these giants, in fact he himself was a giant.
"What is it Rapunzel?" I said and the others started laughing.
"Excuse me?" Hyunjin asked while taking a seat beside Jennie.
"What? Aren't you Rapunzel? It looks like you are heading in that direction with that long blonde hair of yours" I said, turning to face him, but still laying my head on Yeonjun's shoulder, who didnt seem to mind it at all. He was used to it.
"That's called style, you squirrel, you won't understand" He said, taking a burger from the table as well.
"Yeah yeah, be thankful that our school doesn't have any rules for these things like the other ones." I said.
"Please, you are just jealous of my long beautiful hair." He said, flipping his hair in a dramatic way.
"Oh please, mine is longer than yours and prettier too" I said, finally putting my head up and flipping my hair as well.
"That's true. She has the most beautiful hair in the whole school" Yeonjun said. I smiled and patted his back.
"That's like my bestie" I said. Hyunjin just rolled his eyes.
"Well then, aren't you the true Rapunzel?" He asked.
"Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment." I said smiling at him, while he just shook his head.
"Look Ji Ah, Mr Deep voice is coming" Soobin said, pointing behind. I didn't have to turn around to know who he was talking about, none of us did.
"His name is Felix, you know" I said.
"Yeah but I enjoy calling him that more. Oh look, looks like he is coming here" He said. This time we all turned around and found him standing near our table. He smiled and waved his hand at us.
"Can I join you guys?" He asked.
"Sure" I said before anyone else could say anything. I don't know why but my friends didn't like him much. They said that he didn't look trustworthy which I say is complete bullshit because Felix is a whole sunshine. He took a chair and sat beside me. Our table was the most full in the whole cafe as we had thirteen people sitting there.
"So, how is your day going so far?" I asked, trying to start a conversation.
"Oh, it's going great. What about you guys" He asked, looking at everyone.
"It's going better than I expected honestly" Seul said.
"Yeah, mine too" Chaeryoung said and everyone just nodded.
"Hey you guys, I have something interesting to talk about" Soobin said.
"What is it?" Taehyun and Beomgyu asked at the same time.
"So you all know about the haunted forbidden room in our school right?" He asked.
"The one that is in the basement?" Yeonjun asked. Soobin nodded and everyone looked curious.
"Let's go there!" Soobin said which made everyone's eyes widen in fear.
"Ah no! I am not going. It's called haunted for a reason" Kai said and Beomgyu, Seul, Rosé and Chaeryoung agreed.
"Come on it will be fun. Do you guys really think it's haunted? I think it's a rumour. We can only find out the truth if we go there!" Soobin said excitedly.
"I don't know about haunted, but I do get weird vibes when I hear about that room. And once I passed by it when I went to the basement to grab something and it was weird as fuck" I said.
"See! I am telling you. We should not go there!" Kai said.
"Oh come on guys, Soobin is right. It will be fun!" Hyunjin said and Ryujin, Felix, Jennie and Taehyun agreed.
Now only Yeonjun and I were left. Everyone looked at us. I honestly didn't know if I wanted to go or not, but then again, I didn't want them to go by themselves. So I agreed.
"Yeah, I will go" I said, nodding.
"I will go as well" Yeonjun said and Soobin cheered happily, while Kai just looked at us pouting.
"Why did you two agree?!" He whined.
"Come on penguin, it's not like we are sending you there alone. All of us will go together" I said, trying to make him feel better. He finally agreed and the others remaining agreed as well.
"Now the question is that, how will we enter, we don't have the key for the room" Jennie said and we all nodded in agreement.
"Don't worry, I know where they keep the keys and don't forget that my uncle is the principle here. I will get the school keys from him and we will come at night, after the school is closed" Soobin said, looking proud.
"At night?!" Beomgyu screamed, making everyone's attention in the cafeteria turn towards us. We apologized and glared at the scared bear.
"Come on gyu, it will be fine. Think of this as an adventure!" Taehyun said, patting Beomgyu's shoulder.
"Yeah, a great adventure!" Soobin said and we all looked at each other.
But what we all didn't know, was that this great adventure, will change our lives forever.
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