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"Shotgun!" I yell the second I see the car. I hear a sigh behind me while I wait for them at the car door. Jaesuk unlocks the door and I sit myself in the passenger seat and proceed to buckle my seatbelt before going on my phone yet again. "I'm getting pretty curious about who she might be." ponders Jaesuk. "Rena?" "Who else,the queen of England?" I sarcasticly respond. "Didn't you say you were a student? What year of university are you in?" University? How old does this guy think I am? "I'm 17 years old,I still have about 2 years of highschool left." "17!?" "You're 17 years old? Why would they reach out to a teenager?" "Well,as you can see,I've proven myself more useful than most of you adults in less than an hour. But please,disregard that fact and keep obsessing over my young age." I retort before putting on my earbuds and shutting them out.

I go on my phone and open the groupchat titled ''🤩MUSHROOMS🤩''. It was a groupchat filled with me and my school friends,two of which were my bestfriends – Yoonha and Kangjoon - and the other ones were all friends that I had met through Yoonha.  The guys were being goofs as usual,although Kangjoon was a little snappy. From what Yoonha told me,they got into a fight about something stupid again. These two need to get it together before I take care of it myself. I let out a loud sigh."When will they stop acting like children and just make for onc and for all?!" I could practically feel the stares of the two Jaes on me.

We finally arrived to the studio and these two couldn't be more daft. "Let's go!" said an unknown female voice. We waited by the doorstep to see a few girls pole dancing. "That is so cool.." The woman - who I assumed was Rena - said a few words of encouragement,but didn't seem to be a professional herself.  She finally noticed us when she asked us who we were.

"Hello miss! May I just say,that was incredible. You and your students have real talent" "Ah,thank you beautiful. What's your little name?"she asks me with a smile "My name is Malakai,but I go by Kai. Me and my...older colleagues were wondering if we could come in and ask you a few questions?" She pauses,looking the men up and down before letting us in. "Are you perhaps Rena? We are currently looking for her." Jaewook asks,looking sideways at the ground. "Where are you looking?" Jaesuk chuckles at this,guess he'll be the less awkward one of the two. "Yes,I'm the director of this pole dancing academy,Rena Park. Nice to meet you." "Pleasure to meet you" "Great to meet you,I'm Yoo Jaesuk, this is Ahn Jaewook and you already know Malakai,or should I say Kai." Rena nods before speaking. "Ah yes,the cute one over there said you wanted to ask me a few questions." she says pointing at me. AH! I'm the cute one. Take THAT Jaewook.

We then explain to her what lead to us seeking her. The party,the gunshots and the death of M. she seemed stressed the second we mentioned him. She tells us that C was her ex-boyfriend and that M was his friend. "Hold on"Rena pauses "Why do I need to tell you such private information about my life?" "Are you police officers?" We answer no to her question. Gosh,this is not going as good as I thought it would. "He's a former agent-" "Well, that means he isn't one anymore. I don't have to talk" she cuts off. Yep,definitely not going well.

They continue arguing while I rack my head for anything that could help us. Maybe this could work. "Miss,what if we do whatever you want us to on these poles? It would entertain you,wouldn't it?" I pitch in,this is the best we've got. The boys automatically protest and disagree with my idea. "Alright,why not. But just because you're my favourite." Yes! Talk about quick thinking. The boys continue whining while I take off my shoes and start stretching,hopefully my pants won't rip. I get into splits and hear my fellow detectives gasp in aw at my flexibility.

I stay in my own world of stretching when I suddenly hear my name. "Hey, why doesn't she have to do the same stretch exercises as us?" Rena looks at me,then back at them and back at me again. "Are you seriously asking that question? Look at her! She's a natural." I stick my tongue out at them before making a finger heart to Rena with both my index and middle fingers. "Now,what was your question-" "What,this is it? I thought we were going to do some real pole dancing!" I exclaim,frowning "Well,why don't I teach you a little something before you go?" she offers me. God,I love this woman. "Can we keep her?" I ask seriously to the adults "no" "no" they yell at the same time "And we don't have time for this,we need to solve this case" scolds Jaewook. Why are they such party poopers? Rena gives me a small hug before asking them what their question was. "Where is the real Rena?"

And this is how we get stuck for one more hour – to my pleasure -  doing pole dancing to get miss Rena to answer our questions. Of course,I was the only one eager to actually do it and succeeded pretty well. We discovered that C was apparently part of a huge project as well that he was a scientist and he worked with computers. He was supposedly very secretive and a nutjob. To say that C was an interesting character was an understatement. The guy practically lived at other people's houses, saying that his life was threatened and he was a megalovaniac. Apart from that,Rena had given us a few clues about C's residence,but still not enough for us to know right out of the blue. We were currently back in the car talking to Kwangsoo and Yeonseok over the phone. Apparently,the gun wasn't fired directly from a person. According to one of the catering employees,someone came in early this morning and they were installing something.

The car ride was long,we kept trying to find C's house with the few clues we were given and it wasn't working. When we finally found it,we met up with Minyoung,Sehun and Jongmin who found keys in C's car. I was lagging behind,focused on my phone and my....special friend. "Hey,stop tapping on your phone and focus on this!" Can't he see that I'm busy? "Jongmin,I think you got other things to worry about. Things that don't involve you asking about my personal life." I could see Sehun trying to hold in a laugh as we made eye contact. He and I were definitely going to get along. We kept walking until we finally reached a factory looking building with the detective mark on its side. This place doesn't seem like a house, a headquarters of some sort,maybe? "Woah,look at this floor,imagine all the pirouettes I could do!" "Pirouttes?" "It's when ballerinas turn consecutively on one foot" Sehun answers for me as I nod in confirmation. At least someone else knows this stuff.

*BAM*

Please don't tell me that was the cliché door slamming and locking on us........and it is. Fuck. "I think we're gonna need to figure out a way to exit using this weird compass thingy" "Compass thingy?" "I SAID WHAT I SAID ALRIGHT"  You know what,this place isn't as fun as I thought it was. My claustrophobic ass can't think straight. ''I think I'll let you guys have this one,alright? I'm just gonna...sit down tight and try not to die.'' I stutter retreating to a corner. I can hear footsteps approaching me but I don't pay attention to them as I hurry to find my earbuds,putting them in and blasting my music once more. I close my eyes and wait.

Why am I being pushed? What's happening? Why is this freaking wall moving!?? I stand up rapidly and run to the other side of the room in panic,trying to hold my tears in. "It's getting closer,any day by now!!" "Well I don't see you trying anything!!" I push them away from the board and analyze it quickly before putting in my answer. Rena. If I'm right,it's that obnoxious prick who's doing this. I hear the door open and immediately rush through it,I can't stay in there for one more second.

The next room has two weird giant wheels,a sort of tank with water, and a bunch of bowls around it,seems as if we have to use them to fill that tank on the other side of the room to get the key. Seems pretty easy,maybe I'll actually help them this time....or not. Taking my earbuds off,I start helping them with the water,when it starts spinning. We're not getting this over with anytime soon. "It's spinning!" "Why is it spinning??" "Oh please,not now" Welp, I'm not helping them now,ain't no way I'll get all dirty for this. The wheel stops spinning and we all get back to the water chain as fast possible when it starts spinning again. "I'm done,I'm not helping until this stops spinning!" I say,joining Minyoung,who now lay on the ground.

"Say,why were you on your phone so much today?" she asks. "Well...there's this boy-" "A boy!" "Yeah,and we've been chatting for a while too. He's going to move here in about a month and my bestfriend is his childhood friend,so we met through her" I explain with a shy smile on my face. "Oh really? And this boy,is he cute?" she cheekily says. "Very cute-" "Hey! Would you two stop and start helping us?" Jaewook yells. Minyoung and I both share a look,before simultanesouy answering. "No" After a few minutes,the wheel stops spinning and we both start helping the boys again. I hear a weird sound and turn around to see jaewook who got slapped in the face by the rubber band tied to the bowl. I start laughing my ass off as I tell him that "It's karma for interrupting Minyoung and I's conversation" We manage to fill the tank up enough that Minyoung can reach for the key.

When we enter the next room, we find a bunch of doors,and it's bound to take a long time with all the keys they brought with them.

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