𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

🎃 𝖲𝗎𝗇𝗈𝗈 | "𝖼𝖺𝗋𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗅"

“if you guys don’t hurry up, I swear to god that I’m buying the tickets on my own” areum whined at her friends that were still napping inside the van, shrugging her off.

Areum along with her other 4 friends and her boyfriend, sunoo, had eagerly decided to visit the carnival that was located in a town two hours away from their own. The university students after arriving at the parking lot had continued napping, ignoring her whines and cries as she wanted to enter the carnival already.

Patience was one thing that she definitely did not have.

Areum was about to reach for a rock when sunoo quickly stopped her with wide eyes. “i’m kidding” she chuckled before turning to her friends once again. “mostly”

“yah! Wake up! We came here for the carnival, if you wanted to sleep you should’ve stayed at your own house” sunoo scolded the group as he reached inside to pull heeseung’s hair.

“we’re going! Jesus!” heeseung sighed as he sat up with irritated look before it quickly turned into amazement as he looked at all the lights.

Soon following him, sunghoon along with the remaining two, niki and jungwon, hopped out of the car. Taking their belonging in their hands as the group finally began nearing the entrance.

Paying for their tickets, they made their way inside the carnival, looking around with bright smiles on their faces.

“don’t you think it’s a little weird that there’s only like 4 cars outside, yet the place seems very empty? We should at least be able to hear like chatting or something.” sunghoon mentioned, feeling uneasy about the quietness coming from the carnival that’s supposed to be filled with cheers and joyous screams and not the gloomy atmosphere it had.

“it’s probably because it’s a small town” niki shrugged before pointing to the house of mirrors that had a clown inside a case displayed outside. “let’s go there”

Though there were protests coming from areum and jungwon who shared a fear of clowns, they all walked towards the creepy clown. As the group stood awkwardly in front of the clown, they jumped back at the sudden sound coming from the doll a couple of seconds later.

“want to play a game?”

“I mean- that’s kind of why we’re here” areum snorted, she had a habit of making jokes to temporarily forget her fears. She bit her lips as she tried to stop herself from bursting out laughing but she quickly shut up when she was lightly elbowed by sunoo.

“come inside everyone! Have fun” the clown chuckled, it’s eyes seemingly following the 6 teenagers as they made their way inside the house of mirrors.
“i’m scared oh my god” she whined under her breath as tried to adjust her eyes to the purple light from inside.

Turning around to hug her boyfriend, her breath was caught in her throat as they were nowhere to be seen.

“stop fucking around!” she cried out, trying to leave through the entrance but now it was replaced by a concrete wall, the only way out was going out by the exit, which meant having to complete the whole maze.

As areum began freaking out, tears beginning to spill from her eyes, her friends were just as spooked as her. Sunghoon had the luck of being with his friends heeseung and niki but jungwon and sunoo didn’t share that same luck as the others as they were alone just like areum.

“I knew something like this would happen, but you guys insisted on entering!’” sunghoon groaned, panicked as he began leading the way out, one hand in front of him, preventing him from bumping into the mirrors.

Heeseung had both his hand occupied as he held hands with his friends, afraid that if he let go something would happen. In here, they now knew anything could happen.
They were already lucky enough to be together, they didn’t want to risk anything.

As the trio finally advanced, there was one who still couldn’t move a single muscle, jungwon.

Like mentioned, he didn’t have the same luck as sunghoon, in fact, he had something ever worse. Jungwon stood frozen in front of the scary gaze of the clown. He had a feeling that it would move in any moment.

‘I need to move’ he thought as he took a deep breath, slowly taking a step forward before deciding to make a run for it, not caring if he bumped into a mirror, he just needed to get the hell out of there. Jungwon bumped into mirrors endlessly, yet he kept running, just like how his “cool” was also running out.

he wanted- no, he desperately needed to get out and he needed to get out now or else he would go crazy.

Sunno on the other hand was already half-way through. He had noticed a pattern in the mirrors, and he found it easy to walk through. Unlike the others, he seemed fearless and concentrated. Which he was, he had only one thing in mind which was getting out of there with his girlfriend and his other friends.

As he walked past another little entry, he noticed a note laying on the floor. Curiosity made him stop in his tracks as he bent down, picking up the piece of paper.

‘if you make it out of here, don’t ever come back and warn everyone.
don’t let anyone else come here or it could end up badly’

hearing a noise from behind him, sunoo dropped the note, preventing him from reading the rest.

“are you not scared, little boy?”
His breath hitched as he stared at himself in one of the many mirrors, his reflection was smirking, an intimidating aura surrounding him.

“your girlfriend is really scared” he chuckled deeply as he moved to the side, behind him was areum who had puffy eyes, tears running down her cheeks as she desperately crawled across the floor, trying her best to find a way out.

Sunoo clenched his fist tightly at the sight, his blood boiling. “why are you doing this to us?”

“you guys wanted to play. I simply let you guys inside my game”

“BULLSHIT”

in a quick motion, sunoo landed his fist on the mirror, surprisingly shattering it into piece. The loud sound of the glass breaking and making impact with the ground echoing throughout with ‘house’.

-

As areum continued crawling on the floor, she began feeling hope once again as she saw the exit of the maze.

Quickly standing up, she ran towards the exit, sighing in relief as she met heeseung, sunghoon and niki outside. She quickly pulled them into a desperate hug, sighing deeply. “Oh thank god, you guys are okay”

“where is jungwon and sunoo” areum asked quietly, she really needed to know if they were okay.

Heeseung shook his head sadly, shrugging his shoulders. “haven’t heard or seen them”

“guys!”

Snapping her head towards the exit, jungwon came running out, a smile on his face as tears streamed down his cheeks. “you’re here!” he jumped into their arms, breathing heavily. “let’s get the hell out of here”

“wait, sunoo is not here yet..” areum said quietly, her worry beginning to grow as her boyfriend was nowhere to be seen.

Five minutes passed and still no sign of him.

Areum was shaking lightly, desperation filling her chest once more as she wanted to run inside to look for him, but her friends held her back, telling her that if she entered once again that they had no idea what could happen.

Ten minutes passed and finally they heard footsteps nearing them.

Standing up from the ground, areum stared at the exit anticipating her boyfriend to come out. Which he did. He was full of sweat, his sweater was ripped from one side as he leaned on a wall, panting heavily.

“what happened to you?” areum gasped in shock, like the others.
Sunoo shook his head, standing up straight. “no time to explain, let’s get out of here”

-

Now sitting inside the van, heeseung quickly started the engine and stepped on the gas, wanting to get himself and everyone else out of there as soon as possible and safely back to their homes.

‘what are you planning on doing when we get back home, sunoo?’ areum asked despite the weird sensation remaining in her chest, though she tried to shake off the unsettling feeling by initiating a conversation with her boyfriend.

Why tough? Everything was going back to normal now.. right?

‘I don’t know, I’ll probably go hang out with my brother’ he shrugged nonchalantly as he continued looking out the window with a small smile growing on his face.

Everyone visibly froze in their seats and even heeseung, who was driving, slammed on the breaks as he heard the words that had left his mouth.

Sunno didn’t have a brother.

Taking in his own words, sunoo looked down, his smile slowly turning into a creepy smirk before he raised his head once again, revealing a pair of glowing neon purple eyes.

What in the hell was going on..?

“GET OUT OF THE VAN NOW” heeseung warned quickly as he unlocked the door and quickly tried to get everyone out and away from the guy sitting in their van. Whoever this was, one thing was clear, and it was that it wasn’t the real sunoo anymore and they needed to get away from him. quickly.

“the games aren’t over! They never end once you agree to play” sunoo laughed hysterically, throwing his head back as he had the time of his life while the others ran for their life.

“they’re getting away” the voice in his head warned and sunoo smirked as he tilted his head towards the window, seeing his friends running away from him.

“ah, let’s give them a head start, they’re not making it that far anyway”

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ahh im so sorry for taking forever with the series😭i've just been rlyy busy with school work :') i think i'll be able to write the last imagine tomorrow and finally close this series though!

thank you for reading and dont forget to vote & comment pls!🤍🙏