Button Eyes | SKZ horror fanfic

Chapter 2

"Seungmin, please wake up," A deep voice pleaded, pulling him out of his sleep.

    Seungmin glanced around the room, expecting to see Felix. Seeing nobody, he turned on the light by his bed to see better but gave him the same results. Confused, he laid back down and tried to go back to sleep, convinced that the realistic voice was part of his dream.

    "Over here," The voice said a bit more urgently this time.

    He looked around, hearing the voice by his head. Since there was nobody else inside the room, the voice had to be coming from...no, that's impossible.

    "Whoever's playing a prank on me, this isn't funny," Seungmin yelled into the dark abyss of his room. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw PuppyM, the name of his plushie, move into sight.

    "This isn't a prank. You and your friends are in danger," PuppyM warned. Luckily, the mouth didn't move when he talked. It was just a strange, disembodied voice.

    "Nope. Not doing this today," He said dismissively, picking up PuppyM who was struggling against his grip but had gone quiet.

    As he ran down the hall, no specific destination in mind, he saw that the light in Chan's office was unsurprisingly still on. He knocked on the door before entering, seeing that Chan was in the middle of watching Fruits Basket. He never struck Seungmin as the one who would like angsty romance shows.

    "Chan, can I borrow the plushies please?" He asked, hoping that Chan didn't ask him for an explanation he didn't have.

    "Of course," Chan replied, covering his computer screen with his body as he fulfilled Seungmin's request.

    With a rushed thank you, he ran out of the room three plushies in hand. As much as he wanted to hide the rest of the plushies away, he knew it would be impossible to steal them from his now sleeping friends. He convinced himself that it was nothing more than his overactive mind playing tricks on him, but he needed the night to forget what he saw.

    Scooping up Dwaekki, who was lying on the kitchen table, abandoned by Changbin who had gone to the bathroom, and shoving the four plushies into the freezer. The freezer was the only place he could think of putting them besides in the trash. When he woke up, he could take them out but in the meantime he would have to figure out an excuse as to why they might have been in there. With half the plushies safely tucked away, he returned to his room for a fitful night sleep.

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    "Oh please god this isn't real," Seungmin said aloud as he stumbled into the kitchen, groggy from a less than refreshing night sleep.

    The four plushies that he had put in the freezer were on the kitchen table, lying face up around Chan's laptop. Before a full on mental breakdown occurred, he reminded himself that anyone who was awake could have found them and put them there.

    "Did any of you find the plushies and put them on the table last night?" Seungmin yelled from the kitchen, peeking his head into the living room. There was obviously an explanation for this.

    Minho, Jisung, Jeongin, and Changbin exchanged strange glances at Seungmin's question, wondering why he found their location so out of the ordinary.

    "We thought you put them there," Jeongin stated before going back to the game he was playing on his phone. They had somehow gotten out of the freezer themselves.

    "I just had the best sleep ever!" Felix cried as he practically bounced into the living room, Bbokari in hand. "I don't know where it was coming from, but someone was singing a lullaby. Their voice was beautiful."

    "Couldn't have been Changbin," Minho said, earning a glare from the victim of his taunt.

    "Did anything else weird happen to any of you last night?" Seungmin asked, feeling that Bbokari had something to do with the mysterious lullaby.

    "If you don't count Minho and Jisung doing the dirty so loud that I'm surprised it didn't wake the whole house up, no," Jeongin said passively, putting the two in question on the defense.

    "We were playing Mario Kart you dipshit!" Jisung cried, his face a bright shade of red.   

    "More like you were playing Smash."

    "What happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom," Hyunjin murmured from the doorway, Chan following closely behind. "I would prefer not to hear of your sex life first thing in the morning."   

    Seungmin left the room to let the chaos unfold, going over what Felix had said upon waking up. The mysterious singing, the plushies somehow escaping the freezer, and PuppyM moving and speaking had to be related. Was it a secret that the lady had known about and hadn't bothered to tell him? It would make sense that they were so cheap if they were possessed somehow. He was being ridiculous. It was all in his head.

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    Jeongin escaped to his room, regretting bringing up Minho and Jisung's private affairs. It was fun to tease them at first, but it had evolved into a full out war. He laid on his bed, clutching Foxiny to his chest and closing his eyes, trying to drown out the sound of the yelling.

After half an hour when he had nearly drifted back asleep, he felt someone tap his shoulder. It hurt. Badly.