Revenants and Hallucinations

16 - Confusion

Later in the evening, Chan decided to do some more research on his laptop, although he immediately realized it was a bad idea to do it downstairs.

"I never thought I'd have to tell my son off for studying" his mother scolded, holding that face. The one that said 'you have a minute to finish up and then you're going to do as you're told.'

"I'm not doing homework, I'm just browsing, besides, I got homework off last week and the week before that, not this week" Chan rolled his eyes. His teachers had decided to take off all the homework he'd been given that Wednesday he'd fainted and any he was to be given the following week, meaning this week, he was back on homework.

"Yes well, don't work yourself too hard okay?" She stayed until she was answered.

"Yeah, yeah I won't, don't worry" he didn't even look up from his laptop, his mum sighed and went back into the kitchen.

He went onto the website that his parents bought this house for after double-checking it on his phone. He also subconsciously noted to thank Felix later for his text to the group chat about Chan's anxiety attack.

After visiting Younghyun and the others, it was clear people lived there. So why did his mum say that people hadn't lived there for years?

The description contained the address, whether it had been sold or not (which obviously, now had) and then other details of the house.

"15 rooms and an attic" Chan muttered to himself.

Along with that, there were the details of the rooms: '5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, a study, a library, a kitchen, a dining room, an office, and an attic.' Chan looked up from his laptop in confusion. They didn't have a library? Or an office, it would be handy for his father but he just used the study as an office?

Chan made his way to the front door. Okay, hallway, straight ahead there was stairs, to the right was the living room, which the kitchen and the dining room were connected to. Check, check and check. To the right, a bathroom. Check. Underneath the stairs, was the door to the basement. Check.

He made his way to the second floor. In front of the stairs was another bathroom, check. Turn right, Hannah's room is next to the bathroom. The wall parallel to the stairs was another set of stairs, Chan's room, and then on the wall opposite Hannah's, was Lucas'. Check, check and check.

Chan went up the last set of stairs. To the left was his parents' room, check. To his right was the spare room, check. And then opposite was two doors, one to the bathroom and one to the study. Check and check.

He looked up to see the hatch for the attic. Check. No library, no office, and there was a basement.

"Mum, this house has 14 rooms right?" He asked as he made his way into the kitchen, immediately smelling dinner.

"I don't know honey, I never counted" she laughed at her son.

"On the website, it says there's 15 and an attic?"

"What's your point, Chris?" She looked up from chopping carats.

"I counted and there's only 14"

"We only really paid attention to the pictures and the prices, because we knew that we could change a room into something else if necessary" she went back to chopping the rest of the vegetables.

"It says there's a library" his mum snorted at that.

"Okay love, I think you were on a different website to the one we bought the house on, go and get some rest before dinner okay?"