The Bracelet Club [EXO]

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The effect of The Midnight Man hit me hard. Just as Kyungsoo said, the shivers started and the nightmares began. It would always start around 3 am in the morning and I would wake up with cold sweat and gasping for breath. Sometimes, I would find myself crying; my heart aching for a demon that terrorized the living.

Kyungsoo said it was normal but I wished it wasn't.

Matthew tried his best but even he couldn't do anything; the ghost would be rush towards me and try to talk to me to distract me and pull me out of my head. It got so bad that I refused to sleep and missed a few days of school. Matthew and Baekhyun worried for my health when one day they disappeared.

I hated worrying my dad and I knew he wondered about the bandages on my skin. He asked me if everything was okay and I knew what he was thinking. Was I self-harming? Was I depressed?

I wasn't. I was just tainted.

Minseok's church had burned down and I knew that Kyungsoo's father had decided to rebuild it, moving to Seoul with Kyungsoo's mother in his little apartment. I refused to see anyone for a few days because I knew I wasn't in the right mind to when suddenly there was a knock on the door and I saw Matthew announce to me that he was home.

My dad greeted someone who wasn't Baekhyun and there were sounds of wheels against the ground. I wondered who had come and when I pushed myself up, my bedroom door opened and Kyungsoo stood there, luggage in hand. He stared at me and my eyes went down to his bag that looked like it was packed. I blinked tiredly and Kyungsoo had walked into my room, placing the bag by the door.

"Where are you going?" I asked, Kyungsoo giving a grunt and pushing the door close with his feet. I thought he would go back to his home town but I knew the semester was still going on and I wondered why he would do that.

"Here," he said simply, pointing at the floor and I frowned. What did he mean? Baekhyun peeked into my room with Matthew. "I know about the nightmares."

"Of course, you do. I told you about them." I groaned, falling back onto the ground when I saw Kyungsoo, hands on his hips and deep in thought. "No, seriously. Where are you going?"

"Here," he repeated.

"Bora, your old man is trying to cook for you but he's ruining the fried rice!" Matthew could be heard from the kitchen once more and Kyungsoo whipped his head around. "Too much vinegar! Too much vinegar!"

Kyungsoo silently moved out of my bedroom, leaving me very confused when Baekhyun bounded towards me.

"Kyungsoo's parents are in his apartment so he decided to stay here until you get better, Noona," he said, pressing his lips against my hand. "And maybe you can stop screaming at night. You scream very loud."

"Sorry, Baekhyun." I apologized but my brother shook his head and said he understood. "Come here and give me a hug."

He scooted in and rested his head on my shoulder when he told me that maybe it was best that I go handle Kyungsoo and my dad. It was obvious he would be bombarded with questions as to why he brought a suitcase and was treating my apartment like home and with Kyungsoo's blunt personality, there was a lot of space for things to go wrong.