Chapter 22

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A/N: MUSIC Added!

A/N: MUSIC Added!

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My eyes fluttered open because of a blinding light.

The sun is up.

"No," I gasped.

I got out of the blanket immediately and put my clothes back on. It was still a little wet.

"Did we—"

"Yes. So get your ass up, we gotta get going now." I immediately cut him.

Yuta got up and got dressed up as well.

How could he manage to sleep? He just woke up before our trip. Maybe it was because of the portal.

I breathed out some hot air to warm up my hands.

"Are you okay now?" Yuta asked as he put on his shirt.

I looked away immediately, "yeah. Thank you," the skin of my fingers were chapped, and red. "Thank you for last night."

It sounded so wrong, but I was really thankful anyway.

"Where are we gonna start looking for this kid?"

"His last spot was here." Yuta walked over to where I was sitting and pointed at a spot on the map he was holding.

"That's—" My heart just dropped realising the location. "That's my house."

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"It will be tricky to get into the Safe Zone." I said as we made our way.

"Why? Didn't you used to live there you said?"

"Yeah, it's because the securities and I aren't really... friendly."

I remember when I used to sneak out a lot and they caught me climbing the wall to get back in. They would bring me to the leader of our Safe Zone, Jiyoung.

People who get out of the Safe Zone are considered infected. That's why it's so hard to get out and get back in.

Because Mai had her ways with Jiyoung, I was always accepted back.

"But we can try."  I sighed.

As we got out of the woods, we crossed to the other side of the road and arrived at the front gate of my old Safe Zone.

The guards on top of the gate were pointing their guns at us.

"Is that who I think it is?"

The head of the security, Vernon, jumped down to the ground to greet me.

He was going to be hard to deal with.

"Vernon."

"Well if it isn't our infamous troublemaker. What do you want??" He smirked and lowered his gun away from us.

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