𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗖𝗞↷엔하이픈 (en-)

𝘅𝗶 : 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀

'Jungwon, are you okay ?' Jake questioned, noticing the pale colour on the face of the younger boy.

'After having expired cupcake ? Definitely not, hyung' the boy replied blankly.

Jake sighed, 'come with me, I'll give you some medicines which might help'

'aaah, you're a saviour, hyung !' the younger boy happily said.

'yeah, as if you were not the one to rant about me carrying a huge backpack' Jake chuckled to himself.

*

Sunoo was staying up in the living room near the front door while Jake was the one to have a good sleep that night.

By midnight that day, almost everyone was asleep, well, everyone except Ni-ki who was being kept up by the sound of mumbling and the rotation of a lock pad.

Well, it would be an understatement to say Ni-ki wasn't sleepy. Vampires might not need to sleep but that doesn't mean they don't feel sleepy and after a few exhausting days, Ni-ki was definitely not okay with the disturbance. He and Sunoo were the only ones on the couch and he tried shifting his positions and covering his ears but it didn't work.

'9,6,8,1... no, no, 2,1,6,7,nah,2,8―why did I just agree to do this-0,7,1,9―gosh,this will take away my sleep-2708 oh no...'

Sunoo was mumbling and trying to open the briefcase all night and it was starting to annoy Ni-ki.

'hyung, please stop and take some rest' Ni-ki tried to convince the older one but it didn't work. 'hyung, you're wasting time. You can try it tomorrow'

'can't talk now, Ni-ki, I'm working'

'hyung, please stop, you should take a break'

'no Ni-ki, I have to crack this thing, you can go to sleep.'

Ni-ki sighed out, taking out a flashlight he had borrowed from Jake and he got up.

'where are you going ?'

'I'll just stroll around, until you finally decide to sleep'

*

And here was Ni-ki, walking around the old house with creaking floors with a flashlight (because he didn't want to waste his night vision) in an attempt to keep him away from that annoying clicking of the lock pad of the briefcase.

He quietly crept into the bedroom which which the other 5 were sleeping. Getting into the room, he turned off the flashlight and crept in quietly without making a noise.

Three people slept on the bed while two occupied two armchairs and he found it quite amusing to see his Heeseung hyung and Jake, holding hands, while being on the two armchairs. He surely was going to use the opportunity to tease the two for being scared cats.

Jay slept like a still statue while Jungwon occasionally moved in his sleep when his hand stinged.

But what surprised Ni-ki was that Sunghoon, who was not really a fan of sleep, was off to his dreamland.

*

Sunoo was absolutely frustrated at the suitcase. He had been sitting for hours and had tried numerous patterns but none of them seemed to work.

He wanted to curse so badly or to just break off the lock (not to mention how he threw the dismantled head of the statue on the briefcase but it didn't work) but then he felt sleepy but this was quite a responsibility for him and he had this feeling within himself that he had to crack the lock.

Something else to note was that Sunoo himself wasn't quite of the daredevil. He wasn't often scared, but when locked in a strange house with weird sounds going on everywhere and being alone in a pitch black, he wasn't quite in favour of it.

He constantly felt as if he was hearing voices and no matter how much he tried to ignore them, he couldn't. He wished Ni-ki would return early.

*

Ni-ki had this eere feeling and decided to leave to go back to downstairs again but something caught his attention. Mumbling.

He turned round to see Sunghoon mumbling in his sleep.

'Ni-ki, don't leave...' Sunghoon must be having a nightmare of the same incident which had caused him to become cold towards the youngest boy.

Ni-ki stood frozen, not knowing what to do, and he quietly went to Sunghoon's side and held his hand to while Sunghoon's grip was warm and tight.

Ni-ki sighed realising that his hand will be occupied till the next morning and so he gave up and sat down by the side of the bed, resting his head on the edge, not letting go of the elder boy's hand.

*

Jake was the first one to wake up the next morning and blinking to stable his eyesight he glanced at the others and realized the presence of Ni-ki and chuckled.

He slowly got up from the armchair, the sun rays hitting his face from the window and and went out of the room to see if Sunoo was awake or not.

He walked down to see the briefcase lying on the couch, but where was Sunoo ?

He looked around trying to find the missing boy and then his eyes came to a halt when he noticed Sunoo lying on the ground beside the statue unconscious, blood covering his arms.

'SUNOO !' the boy let our a shriek.

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