❝𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒❞ [On Hold]

𝟏𝟒➺𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝

Chapter 14
Trapped

Sitting with knees close to his chest in the void of dark, his insides felt colder than artic circle, shivers running down his spine every other second, his lips pale and shivering continuously. It wasn't any sort of snowy surrounding to feel this cold yet it felt as if he could die any other second. The cold surroundings felt all too haunting.

"Sannie...."

The echos started again, his ears perked up to find where they came from. This was the only thing that kept him hopeful of knowing what was happening. He looked around, his arms freeing his knees from their lock. The quivering of his lips wouldn't stop but his ears were on alert as he got up at another echo. "Joongie!" Cracked shout of his weak voice wasn't enough to help but better than staying mum.

Taking a step forward he squinted his tired eyes, the dreamy surroundings turning into a sudden foggy place. His arms worked to move away the fog if possible until his alert ears heard a giggle. It was familiar. He desperately turns around towards it, the scene changing again and going back to the dark void. "Joongie!!!!!" He shouted yet again with as much strength he could muster. No reply.

Frustrated, he clawed at his hair. "Sannieeee" He heard it again. He was frustrated and didn't want to believe it this time only to be fooled but he still turned around. What he saw got him still in shock. Within the foggy atmosphere stood Hongjoong with another man. He was laughing, the man holding him in his arms while he leaned in to kiss Hongjoong's jaw. He couldn't see who it was but San acted right away. Running towards it, San growled desperately shouting for Hongjoong. Hongjoong didn't hear it though.

Just a few steps away from the scene, San was knocked down by a cold hard transparent wall. San's eyebrows came together in creases, his mind full of confusion. What just happened? He got up and tried again only to be knocked down again. Wincing, San got up and looked around to understand what's wrong until he saw it. He was standing inside a four walled glass cage of some sort. San used his bruised fist to punch it to shards to no avail. "Joongiiieeee!" He shouted banging his fists desperately but he wasn't heard at all by the other side.

That's when the realisation of the scene in front of his eyes hit upon him, Hongjoong didn't look unhappy with whoever it was leaning to kiss him. He looked...happy? His eyelids fluttered as his hand came to lean on the cold glass. A sudden dizziness lacing the corners of his eyes got his knees weaker, his head falling back when he saw how the man said in a mere whisper yet audible as it was mumbled right to his ear and not Hongjoong's.

"I love you Joongie." The man's voice sounded too deep and extremely velvety until he got his balance to stay up by forcing his mind out of dizziness to stare. "Joongie...." He mumbled under his breath, his voice almost curious to what his lover would reply the man with as well pleading to hear the right words. The words he deserves for himself. His voice hid behind the desperate tinge of his broken heart which could shatter further in the next second possibly.

He can't let it happen. Hongjoong kissing the man made him almost question his existence yet grow angry as his fists balled up in anger, his knuckles pressure white. "JOONGIEEEEEEE" The shout of a name and the shatter of the restrictive walls mixed together to form the territorising music piercing through the ears of the small guy of the three to startle him into stopping.

"SANNIE!" Hongjoong forced his hands to push away the weightless figure of the demon, his body forcing itself away from the spell caster. His mind felt in better control of himself, his body acting immediately to add enough distance between him and Seonghwa before he got off the bed, throwing the room door open and out of it. Hongjoong could hear Seonghwa's growl from behind but he ran with no idea to where he was running to.

His bare feet did attract the glass shards spread like iron filling ready for a magnet here and there. He winced but didn't care until he found an open room door. Running his way inside, Hongjoong didn't know where to go but there to at least keep himself away from the demon for a mere interval of time if he can't find the way out of this dead house. What he saw inside got him shocked though. He was there.

San was there.....

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"I'm worried sick Wooyoung! You know that San was acting weird and now both Hongjoong hyung and San are gone!" Jongho exclaimed, his hands going to pull at his hair in extreme frustration, his eyes screaming annoyance. Wooyoung furrows his eyebrows, biting his lip at the sight of Jongho going all crazy. Sure enough he was going crazy too but not as much as Jongho maybe. They probably know it's something related to that punishment.

"Jongho, what if we go and check once again? At the apartment?" Wooyoung suggested, his eyebrows up in what seemed minimal but positive hope. Jongho halts in his anxious walk, his head turning to Wooyoung. Jongho registers his friend's words, blinking twice before pursing his lips and taking a minute after which he nodded barely enough for Wooyoung to catch.

Jongho doesn't know why he agreed into going back to Hongjoong and San's apartment when it's going to be more than 2 and almost a half day since the other two haven't been seen anywhere but something within him is just scared probably. Scared about how even reporting the couple missing, may not help much maybe. He doesn't know but there is this sort of dark feeling roaming over his head about how Hongjoong and San are alright yet not alright. That whatever is happening, it's something big.

Getting out of the car, Jongho walks ahead without waiting for Wooyoung who rushes behind barely managing to catch up with the other's fast stride. Wooyoung knows probably suggesting another visit to the apartment is nothing but a time wasting idea but something tells him, that just maybe there is a chance of them being there. Maybe.

The ride through the elevator seemed too long yet too short for the moment they were standing in front of the apartment. Wooyoung and Jongho could feel the bubbling anxiety that was screaming failure sure enough yet they hoped it wasn't so.....

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Hey, ik it's too short for an update after so long but I'm really sorry for making my mental health a reason of this short and late update as well as my exams. I will try writing more for this book but no guarantees of faster updates. I'm really sorry guys.