Muted chatterbox | Ni-Ki (Nishimura Riki) ff

05 | Silenced hell

We arrived at Lotte world. I climbed out of the taxi, Riki paying behind me whilst the driver yelled with a big smile, "Have fun love birds!".

I looked around the place to see it decorated with spiders, bats, and spooky things. As I'm used to the cute environment of Lotte, I touched the spooky decor in curiosity and signaled Riki to take some selfies with them.

One of my favorite photos from that day is a photo of Riki pretending to be a zombie by standing behind some statues shaped like a herd of zombies while I pretended to be scared. Why did I like this photo in particular? Because Riki looked incredibly funny. His hands were in the air as if he was a dinosaur while his mouth was open so wide it could fit a watermelon, or in this case, a huge human head. His eyes were also super wide. That's not all though. After the stranger helped take the photo, Riki closed his eyes for a while.

I poked him in the shoulder and he opened his eyes to look at me.

"Why were your eyes shut like that?" I typed out to him looking concerned.

He looked at me with teary eyes then wiped his tears, "I tried so hard not to blink and now my eyes are dry as hell."

I bonked him in the head, resulting in a wince of pain. "You idiot," I typed, "the person counted 1, 2, 3 so that you know you can blink until the 3."

"I know but I was scared of making the photo look stupid."

"You look fine you weirdo." I typed, "I'm pretty sure it'd be even funnier if you blinked on accident."

"Ugh, true." He agreed whilst rolling his eyes sassily, "Why didn't my eyes close at the right time?"

"No clue." I typed back then deleted the text, replacing it with "I'm gonna go use the bathroom"

"Alright." He cheerfully answered.

I rushed over to the bathroom, skipping the line while people yelled at me to make an emergency call.

"Hello?" I heard a voice call out to me over the phone.

"Sunoo, K, Lisa. You've got to help me." I whisper-yelled.

"What now, loser" Lisa said in a joking manner.

"It's about Riki."

"Spit it out." Sunoo said in a playful tone.

"Basically, Riki asked me out to this date-like thing and now I'm about to enter a haunted house and you know how I hate scary shit so I'm definitely fucked and I don't know what to do because I'm meant to be quiet because of the whole no talking thing and-"

"Oh calm down you dumbass. Just man up and go into the haunted house. You talk too much." K interrupted.

Sunoo, K, and Lisa then just laughed at me.

"See you later, loser." Lisa said as she hung up on the group call.

"Yea Imma head out too. See ya." K said and hung up.

"Good luck Yuna!" Sunoo said brightly.

"Wait-"