Revenants and Hallucinations

9 - Lying Will Get You Nowhere

Chan is tired.

No one is surprised.

He'd woken up in the middle of the night to see the creepy ghost boy in his room again, illuminated by the dull light of the moon. Much like before, he passed out - presumably from fear or exhaustion - and when he woke up the child was gone.

He doesn't know where the kid comes from, and honestly it's terrifying as Chan is unsure as to how he gets in and whether he's here to cause harm, or worse.

Lucas caught him looking in all the crevices in the house, causing Chan to make up some bullshit excuse that he was looking for his phone and the boy left it at that, asking no further questions, much to Chan's relief.

The boy was nowhere, there was literally no place he could hide. Chan even went down to the spooky basement and checked everywhere there too, and yet nothing was to be found. No anonymous child, no sign of a person living anywhere and no hints as to what the hell was going on.

When everyone went to bed the night prior, Chan had gotten up to make sure all the windows and all the doors were closed and locked, so he was pretty content when he went to bed.

However, at around 4 am, he was awoken by the boy again, sitting in the same place and looking exactly the same as last time.

Chan sighed and glanced out the dirty classroom window, trying to shake the vivid memory of the little boy from last night out of his thoughts, only to do a double-take to make sure he was seeing right.

Out there, stood a woman, a regular middle-aged lady. She was staring at Chan - which made him uncomfortable, to say the least, but the thing that really shook him, was that she had stab wounds all over the front of her body, drowning her clothes in what seemed to be fresh blood.

Surely she'd be dead? No one could survive that, so how was she there, standing outside just staring at Chan?

"Chan please give me the answer to number 14?" he looked over to see that his teacher had caught him daydreaming, standing with an annoyed mien, arms crossed and expectant. Adding to that, the rest of the class were now looking in his direction, including Jeongin, Felix and Hyunjin, who were - rather vexingly - smirking at Chan's misfortune.

"Um...24" the teacher sighed as his face burned up, ears probably going as red as the whiteboard pen she was using.

"Chan, this is a fractional question, meaning you'd end up with a fraction as your answer. Pay more attention" she scoffed and turned back to the board to write out the correct answer.

Chan breathed out and looked back to the window, only to see that the woman had disappeared with no trace.

"You alright, you seemed pretty out of it today?" Hyunjin asked as they sat down at their usual lunch table, being the first ones there.

"Yeah, I'm fine" he waved him off, not even bothering to take his lunch out like the others had already done.

"Here" Chan heard Minho's voice behind him and suddenly 3 Monster energy drinks were placed in front of him.

"Oh my god thank you so much" Chan spoke as he simultaneously opened one of the cans, and threw a fiver at Minho. He'd asked the boy to buy him a few on his way to school since he walked past a small shop in the mornings anyway, and he'd pay him when he gave them.

He took a couple of swigs of the open one as the others joined the table.

"You know drinking so much of that isn't good for you right?" Seungmin sat opposite him and glared at the drinks.