✔️ Predicted 𓆩♡𓆪 | y.jw

01

Yumin POV

TW: Graphic; bl00d and murd3r

A/N: guys i'm being fr right now; it's VERY graphic in one scene
also for those that didn't read the first author's note, this is a reminder that the concept is based on the anime "The Promised Neverland" so please stop assuming i didn't give credit to that anime 🤧🤧

I hate this place.

What I used to consider my home was now my prison. It was as if my entire perspective of this place shifted. Instead of seeing what I saw only yesterday - only focused on the bright blue skies, the games I would play with the other kids - I could now see the slight, dull imperfections of what this place was really like.

Walls with cracks snaking up the building, dark corners holding things beyond my imagination. What really was this place?

Of course, I wasn't complaining about everything. I had been given a lavish life; nutritious food, a warm bed, even a family. However, it took me sixteen years to realize why I was receiving this special treatment. Surely I had not done anything to deserve it.

Recently, there was word of many orphans escaping another orphanage. The entire group was named "insubordinate, rebllious children that don't consider the love they've received". This gave me some glint of hope.

My best friend, Yun Seo, and I had grown up on what we thought was an orphanage, along with fifteen other kids. It was only natural that we considered the others families since we basically grew up alongside each other. We were all of different ages, Yun Seo being seventeen while I was still sixteen.

Yun Seo was seventeen. Not is.

Every half year, the orphans at our location had to take a series of tests: physical tests, academic tests, even social tests. We thought nothing of it, even when kids who scored either incredibly high or incredibly low were taken the next day to their new "families".

That was what happened to Yun Seo yesterday. She was the oldest of us, and so it was an emotional farewell to every single orphan. I now doubt that Yun Seo was dumb enough to not understand what was really going on at the time. Even so, Yun Seo kept that smile that I was so fond of plastered on her face the entire time, so well that I didn't notice a single thing was aloof. I was beyond happy at the thought of Yun Seo being able to spend time with a real family.

By the time I noticed Yun Seo's precious locket abandoned on her night stand, she had already made it half way to the bridge with one of the maids. I was determined to not let her go without the most important thing to her, so my naive self had grabbed it and ran right after them, towards the boundary that we were not permitted to cross.

When I got to the boundary and entered the tunnel, I had lost all sight of Yun Seo. It wasn't until I walked further down the tunnel that I saw the my dearest friend. I was frozen at the sight of her, the forgotten locket dangling loosely from my fingers.

Yun Seo had been tied upside down on her wrists and ankles to a large blood stained slice of wood, her moon colored hair tumbling in a mass of knots down into a large bucket. Each wrist and ankle bore a wide cut, blood spilling down her bare body and into the bucket. I lowered my gaze to catch a matching cut on her neck.

Her eyes were the worst part. They were opened wide, face left in a permanent state of pain and shock. However, it was what happened next that would forever implant itself into my mind.

Yun Seo's eyelids fluttered at the sight of me, tears forming along the bottom. All I could do was continue taking in the scene in front of me, my body and mind completely shutting down. Yun Seo's last action towards me consisted of one word forming on her lips.