Shadows Beneath The Skin | TAEKOOK

Chapter 13

The morning sun cast shadows upon a sleeping boy. The winds fluttered the trees and ruffled his ebony hair. He seemed to be laying peacefully in the serene blanket of the forest. 

One strong gust of wind whipped past him; startling him to a sitting position. The boy's doe eyes flung open and he was met with the green hues of a deserted forest. 

He could hear the trees rustle and the bushes shake with small critters. In all honesty the boy would have thought he was in heaven. He thought he would stay here for a bit longer, before he had to get back to the dorms. 

What time was it anyway? It looked to be around 9. But how had he ended up here in the first place? Strange, the ethereal boy thought. 

Just as he was about to get up and leave the beautiful images of the forest. He could hear muffled sounds coming from his left. With curiosity the doe eyed boy followed it. He didn't understand what it was, but it sounded like shuffling and...thuds?

What in the world was over that thicket of brush? Or who. The raven head would have turned back, but his curiosity won. He swore his curiosity and nosiness would get him killed someday. 

As he was approaching closer to the sound it got louder. The shuffling turned into harsh scrapes against something that most definitely was not the forest floor. And the thuds turned into loud bangs and he was about to pull the bushes away; until a bright light blinded him and he fell to the ground. 

Thump thump

Bang bang

Scrape scrape

A gasp of breath and Jungkook was sitting up straight. The cold concrete was felt under the trembling boy's skin. 

He looked around in confusion. Wasn't he just in that beautiful forest? His eyes squinted and eyebrows scrunched. He could feel a cold metal resting upon his ankles, but he didn't dare to look down in fear he would spiral and pass out again. 

Jungkook stayed stiff as he gazed around the unfamiliar room. But it looked sort of... familiar to him. But he didn't want to think too hard about that. 

In some ways he already knew. He knew the horrors that might happen in these very walls. He knew what monstrosities awaited him outside this solid concrete prison. Jungkook didn't want to think about it. He didn't want to think at all. For the very things he has been avoiding and the terror he has been hiding from, had finally caught up to him. 

A loud bang startled him out of his thoughts. He snapped his head towards the large metal door. He hadn't noticed that till now. Jungkook could feel the atmosphere in the room change. It felt colder, darker. 

The room he was held in was suddenly illuminated by a single light in the ceiling. It casted an eerie glow over his angelic features. 

Jungkook didn't want to see the face of his captor, he already knew. So he casted his gaze towards the dry ground. His bangs covered his eyes and his hands trembled from their place in front of him. 

Millions of questions were running through his head. The pain he felt, the betrayal, it was eating him away. 

Why? Why had he done this? What was the point? What was the reason to deceive and manipulate him? The point. What was it? It was driving him insane. The person he thought he knew, the person he thought he loved, was nothing more than a lier. 

All his anger and all his hurt started to bubble out of him as he heard the slam of the metal door. The footsteps that walked towards his trembling body, and the shoes that peaked through his line of sight. Right in front of him.