The Bracelet Club [EXO]

EPILOGUE [2.0]

I'm guessing this is what Matthew felt like when he first walked through the door. Excited, expectant of love and joy from everyone around me but I was met with simple silence. Almost calming, as if they weren't looking at me and I had to pause to actually check that they could see me when Mark's voice rang out.

"Sunbae? What? I thought you were dead!"

As Mark's voice served as a trigger, it was the first push towards the domino piece as it all came toppling down. Baekhyun had lunged towards me, Kyungsoo stood rooted on the spot with cookies in his hands, Sehun raised his phone to take photos and to gawk at the screen as to confirm I was actually there.

Matthew was long gone on the ground and this was when I had a lot of explaining to do. There was one light that shot up into the sky, I told them, and that light was me. However, I made the decision to not stay in this universe, bringing back memories of how Hermione had mentioned briefly about there being others.

I would be wiped off existence, like every inter-universe Grim Reaper out there and I agreed. Matthew waking up was with him being all distant, like he still couldn't believe us. Mark was still confused and after a lot of talking and explaining that I wasn't actually dead (which was rather easy since he thought Matthew was once dead, too) and Matthew and I just had a dramatic fight and I fell off the face of Earth (literally, Harin had said), he bought it.

Mark bought everything you fed him; I took another mental note to talk to Matthew about that.

And as I entered the bedroom to have some private time with Matthew, the only thing he could do was stand by the corner very awkwardly as he teared up. It was too hard for him process, he told me. When I died, it was like his world collapsed into crumbs. I sat silently, watching him as he waved his hand around, walking back and forth.

"Do you know what Lucifer did before he left for the underworld?" Matthew asked, exasperated. "He hugged me, Bora. A demon pitied me! Asmodeus tried to sleep with me because she thinks that sleeping with people... destroys their pain or something like that. I went to gym with Beelzebub!"

He took a deep breath.

"I went to China, got a new name! Xiao Zhan, or whatever." He rolled his eyes, still unable to sit down from the shock. "And you're here. You're here. You're finally here."

I'm here, I told him, taking his hands into mine to calm him down. I would be here for a very long time and I was sorry for leaving so abruptly.

"I wanted to obliviate myself but it was against the rules!" Matthew continued and I nodded. I had heard it from Tako and even the Earthlyu Grim Reapers had been caught by surprise when they saw me. I smoothed a hand over Matthew's back, a list of things piling in my head on what I had to do. My father would be registered and I would have to make sure I would be able to go back to make my mark—dead or alive.