DOLL [vmin]

12: heart

Jimin got up feeling shaken form the shock. He bent over to look into the box on the table. He didn't see it wrong, it was right there....a heart...a beating heart...

"a-a heart?" he mumbled and lifted it up, he could see it beating in the box. The heart had grown itself against the walls of the little space, the muscles attatched...no, grown against the walls on some points like a spider's web. A person would feel sick seeing this but Jimin didn't, he had seen worse things in his living years here in the mansion that it didn't make him feel sick, just...shocked. How was a heart here beating in a box? it didn't make sense...well a lot didn't make sense in his house. but this was really topping everything. Jimin closed the box again and held it in his hands securely while he ran out of the library.

His heeled boots clicked on the polished floor of the hallway when he headed to the stairs. He felt and saw that all the doll's their heads turned to him, their heads shaking when they locked the little orbs on the bigger doll.

Jimin had to stop his steps when suddenly all the dolls ahead of him fell off their planks to the ground. They shook their heads violently, turning round and round, their eyes rolling into all directions, their little hands grabbing the floor to crawl their way to Jimin.

"No!" Jimin shouted and turned around but behind him there were more. He clutched the box tightly against his chest, he felt it was very important and he couldn't lose it or drop it. "leave me alone!" Jimin was being lead into the wall the do9ols coming closer and closer.

"Doll?" a voice said from up the stairs. Jimin looked up seeing taehyung look down at the railing from the first floor. his eyes seeing the scene, taehyung sighed and walked down the stairs seeing the doll's now frozen in place at his arrival.

"There evil! they hate me...they hate....what did i do?.....throw them out...break them, hurt them!" Jimin said in a demanding tone. his eyes staring with hatred and fear at the frozen dolls on the ground. no more moving or showing any sign of life, they were just empty shells, just dolls.

"No Jimin...I am not going to do that. Come, let's go to my room" Taehyung said and grabbed Jimin's hand, guiding him through the dolls safely to the stairs. while they walked through them jimin looked behind him seeing their heads turned to look at him. Jimin quickly looked away, walking closer against taehyung.

It didn't take long as Taehyung's room was close to the stairs. The man closed the door behind them and motioned Jimin to sit down on the bed. Which the doll did, sitting down on the bed the box placed on his lap.

"I don't like them"

"I know," Taehyung said, his eyes lowering to the box on the doll's lap. his eyes moving up to lock with jimin's. "where did you find that" he asked sounding stern.

"In the library behind a shelf. It was hidden inside a wall. The key I found belonged to this.... but there is something strange inside," Jimin said and peeked under the lid.

"what do you see?"

"Its...its a heart. a beating heart"

"I see...it seems I'm not dead after all." Taehyung mumbled with a chuckle.

"What do you mean?"

"It's.. it's my heart Jimin."

"Y-your..heart? but how, how are you not dead?!" te doll asked surprised and looked into the box where the beating heart was still beating steadily, then back to taehyung who just looked dead serious about this.

"My father did it, i should be dead but the curse of the house is keeping me alive, as long as it beats im fine....my father hid it away so nothing could get to it. He wanted me to live forever, he wanted me to continue his work, he wanted me to become better than him. but before we got that far he was killed." Taehyung said, his eyes looking at the beating muscle in the box.

"who...who killed mr.Kim?"

"the doll did."

"Which one?" Jimin asked, confused. There were so many dolls. How was he supposed to know which one Taehyung was talking about?

"One I keep in the glass container in the doll room, it's quite talkative. but I don't want to talk to it, I hate her." Taehyung said he had forgotten about that doll a long time ago. but now he was reminded that it was still here. it was still waiting for him to return to her window.

"She...can I see her?" Jimin wanted to see what Taehyung was talking about but he didnt like to either, but his curiosity was bigger than him so he wanted to go there.

"I locked the room. I think Sunhee got the key. But lock it right after you leave. I don't want that door to be unlocked at any time" Taehyung said and then stood up. He pointed to the box. "and that. Keep it safe for me."

"me?" Jimin was surprised that the man allowed him to keep this safe. He was just a doll.

"i trust you more than myself. Now if you will excuse me. I will go to the garden for a moment. Meet me there before sunrise" the man said and left the room. Leaving Jimin with the box, a strange feeling inside of him, a pleasant feeling. He smiled and closed the box, locking it with the key. He will keep this safe Forever.

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