Tenth (1/1)

A few weeks passed, Marie regularly going to her “lessons” which basically meant hanging out with the boys. Sometimes she would just go to library by herself, but most of the time she was with the boys. The best thing was that Marie’s parents never suspected a thing.“How was school today?” her mother asked, when she once got home. Marie’s smile faded away slowly. She shrugged.“It was, you know, school. Maths and chemistry and stuff” she mumbled. She shrugged again.“Nothing special.”“Do you think you’re improving?” her mother continued. Marie nodded.“Oh, yes, mother, I think I’m much better now” she gave her a faint smile.“Well, that’s wonderful” her mother smiled. But then it went away.“Considering that I called your school today to ask how you are doing. It’s funny, they said that they have no lessons during the summer, and nobody named Mr. Jang worked there as a student counselor.” she said calmly, taking the kitchen knife from the cutting board. Marie’s eyes widened in shock. She started to take slow steps backwards as her mother approached her.“Y-y-you’re telling me that Mr. Jang doesn’t really work for the school?” Marie tried to save situation desperately. Her mother had scary smile on her face.“Don’t, honey. I know you lied. It’s okay. We can fix this. Don’t worry, mommy won’t hurt you. Just give me your cell phone and you’ll be fine.” Marie hesitantly handed her phone over. Her mother took it to the table and stabbed the knife through it. After the phone was in millions of pieces, she turned back to Marie.“So, from now on, you will not be allowed to come out of your room. You have your own bathroom, and someone will bring you food every now and then. I don’t how you lied to me before, but if I ever, EVER catch you with those boys again, I’ll make sure that you and they will be hurt in the worst possible way. Understood?” Marie nodded with teary eyes.“Off to your room, then” her mother said. Marie slowly walked to her room with her mother behind her.  Marie laid face down on her bed, and started to sob her eyes out. She heard the door click from outside, which meant that there she was, locked in to her bedroom, with no possible way out. With her cell phone destroyed, there was no possible way to contact the boys. She missed them already.～ A week later in the DMTN dormitoryJeesu walked to the living room where the rest of the members were sitting. He looked through his recent calls and messages with a concerned look on his face.“Guys, I’m really worried about Marie” he stated.“She hasn’t responded my messages or calls at all. Not to mention that she hasn’t been here lately” he sat down next Daniel.“She hasn’t responded my messages either” Inati said.“Mine either” Daniel continued. They all looked at each other.“What if something happened to her? Like something really bad?” Simon asked. Daniel shook his head.“I don’t know. But we can’t go find out. Not with her parents around” he said sternly.“We should go tomorrow. When her parents are at work. They work, don’t they?” Jeesu looked at his fellow members. They all nodded in unison.“Tomorrow it is.” Simon said.～Daniel knocked on Marie’s house’s door. No one opened. He knocked again, this time harder. He looked at his members, puzzled. He knocked once again, still not getting an answer.“I’ll go check the back door” Jeesu said as he ran to the backyard. The back door was locked, but he saw an open window and climbed in. The downstairs was empty, so he ran to open the front door.“The window was open” he explained to his confused-looking members. They all went inside the house and closed the door behind them. They searched downstairs, and as they got to the upstairs, they saw a door, that was locked from the front. Inati grabbed the key from the nearby table and carefully unlocked the door. He opened it and peeked inside the room. It was empty.“This must be Marie’s bedroom” Daniel said as they all entered the room. The wall was covered with pictures of Marie as a little kid, her idols, panda bears and drawn unicorns. Daniel smiled when he looked at them. Simon, on the other hand, found the bathroom door. He carefully peeked in.  “Guys, I found her!” he yelled in shock. The others followed him to the bathroom, and saw Marie laying on the floor, in a white dress, her hair flowing down, her wrists cut open. Simon dashed to her and pulled her into his arms.