𝗧𝗮𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗙 ☾︎𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬☽︎

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞

2 months ago,

"Ray, go to the forest and get some firewood. We're running out if you don't get some you won't get the food you want anymore."

"But mother, I was going to meet Seori-"

"Will you go or not?"

"Ah geez fine I'm going."

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The middle aged woman knelt on the forest floor, shoulders trembling, tears dribbling down her now red cheeks.

Whispers and mumbles surrounded her as she clutched tightly onto, well what was once her son.

His skin a ghostly white, body ice-cold, eyes shut tight. Sleeping, never to wake up again.

The forest was not too dense, sunlight falling on the heart-wrenching scene.

A pile of sticks tied by a rope fallen beside the unfortunate boy's corpse.

Seemed like a pretty normal death, probably from a snake bite was what everybody thought based on the two dots of red on the boy's neck.

That is, until everybody started noticing the bluish, abnormal complexion of the body, the absence of blood.

He was sucked dry.

What on Earth happened here?

There was one person in the crowd though, the new boy with blinding white hair and stunning features.

He was new to village Kingston. He looked very concerned but somehow, it didn't quite look genuine, didn't quite sit right with selective people.

Then again, he lived alone, having lost all his family he had nothing to fear about. If he was the next prey, he could let go of the worldly affairs and ascend to a greater place without any sense of responsibility holding him back.

A month had passed since then. The strange murders continued. By this time, about a quarter of the village was wiped out.

Saying that people were scared out of their wits would be an understatement. At least once in a week, the monster visited them, the night was the time it chose to quench it's thirst.

When the villagers tried to ask outsiders for help, they were made fun of and told that it was just anaemia. That they were overthinking a crystal-clear situation.

People losing blood and becoming pale are nothing but symptoms of anaemia, was what they said. They were lost, they didn't know who to ask for help anymore.

So they decided that they'll entirely stop going out at night. Despite that, it's not exactly possible for everybody to stay inside from evening till the next morning.

Whoever went out, fell prey. It seemed that this predator's bloodlust kept increasing with time. There was no way out of this.

Since people are refraining from leaving their houses, the 'thing', as people described it, started going thirsty for days. It wasn't recieving it's life source every week in adequate amount.

Till then, nobody knew, what grave fear was going to occupy their minds from that night. And so, began the ordeal.

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐯

"Ah I'm exhausted."

It's really difficult trying to cope myself with the norms of the city, especially due to my lack of friends. Nobody wants to be friends with a gay man like myself it seems. But I had no other way, I have to be here if I want to keep my family happy.

Father is sick, mother can't possibly take care of father and the crops by herself. After all, she's not exactly ageing backwards either is she? From doing roomservice in a hotel to babysitting , I have four jobs.

I just returned from the hotel when someone knocked on the door of my run down, one room 'apartment' if you could even call it that.

I sighed, getting up and going to the door only to be greeted by the local postman.

I smiled at him,
"Hey Taeil, long time no see!"

He smiled at me and reciprocated my gesture. Then he handed over a envelope, saying it's a letter for me.

I was a bit surprised because I don't recieve letters usually, if not from my family. I don't even get any from my childhood friends or relatives.

So, this was rather new at this time of the year.

I took the letter from him and gave him a tired smile.

"See you later then. Take care Taeil."

"You too Chittaphon."

He gave me his ever so friendly smile and left.

I closed the door after him and went back to my bed and sat on it to open the letter.

"It's from...Jaehyun?!"

I..this is not at all what I expected. It's near impossible for Jaehyun to write to me. He was my neighbour in our village. He hated my guts because I'm gay and still does I'm guessing.

Why would he write me a letter?

I opened the letter only to feel cold sweat trickle down my forehead and a chill run up my spine.

What is this?

The letter said,

' I know you don't plan on coming back anytime soon unless you get a fixed job but I thought I should let you know about this since you're still one of us residents of Kingston and your family lives here.

Chittaphon it pains me to let you know that Ray, your best and only friend passed away two months back.

Hyung was taken and dad had a heart attack and left us by ourselves in this world.

You remember Jaemin? His family has been wiped out completely. Jaemin and his family's corpses had not a single trace of blood.

People from outside the village say it's anaemia but we know it's not.

A healthy, strong person leaves home to go to the nearby village to sell some crops and the next morning their dry, shrunken corpse is found in the middle of the fields.

Deprived of any blood.

Do you think this is anaemia too?

Anyways, your parents are too scared to tell you to come back and stay with us in Kingston since they're afraid it'll put your life in danger as well. But I think you should come back and stay with them.

Protect them from this nightmare otherwise they'll be gone too in no time.

Half the village is gone already.

Come back fast and take your parents away. I hope you don't think we are being delusional as well.

-Jaehyun.'

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What is this supposed to mean?
What's going on in Kingston?
Ray...is gone? Jaehyun's father and brother too?

Jaemin was never kind to me but nobody likes hearing death news, even if it's of their worst enemies.

Oh god I need to go back right now.
Please let everybody be safe this can't be happening.

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