Lose

5

'please stop this recurring
nightmare every night'

5 

"놀이토"

"Playground"

His eyes slowly opened, only to see darkness surrounding him. "Hello?" The boy said, looking around as he hesitantly stepped forward. There was no answer, yet he felt somebody else's presence. He then heard the sound of rain and felt that he was standing on a puddle. 

 Why do I hear the rain but I'm not getting wet? 

He thought. Then suddenly, there was a spotlight. He saw that he was standing in the center of a wet crosswalk. As he looked around, he saw a familiar figure standing on the other side of the crosswalk, her back facing him. 

 "Gyeoul?" 

He called as she turned around to see him. Gyeoul had a smile on her face, making him smile as well. "Hurry up before many people arrive!" The girl said excitedly as she pointed to the café. When he was about to cross, something bright was moving towards him. The loud honk made Gyeoul look back at him.
"Beomgyu!" The girl screamed as she ran towards him but it was too late. 

"No!"

 ♢

He felt something was choking him which woke him up. He saw Yeongwon was trying to lay down on his face, its front legs were stepping on his throat while its butt was on his face. 

Fuck. 

He immediately removed the black cat from his face and wiped his face with his palms. "Aish, Yeongwon! I don't even know when was the last time you wiped your butt!" "You might be the reason why I have that nightmare!" He added as Gyeoul entered the room. 

"What's the rant all about?" The girl said as she chuckled and sat down beside him on the bed. "Yeongwon sat on my face and choked me!" Beomgyu said as he shot a glare at the cat who was looking at him like it did nothing wrong. His reason and how he looked at the cat made the girl giggle. "What?" He said, annoyed. 

"She just wanted to sleep on your face." Gyeoul said as she continued laughing. "But what if she sat on my face with her butt full of poop?!" The boy said, Gyeoul imagining the scene made her laugh even harder. "But her butt's clean though." She said as she giggled, wiping off her tears. "I'm tearing up." She added as he got up from his bed. "I'm leaving." Beomgyu said, jokingly as he went out of the room. "Yah, I wiped her butt last night!" Gyeoul said as she saw his figure disappear.

"Look who got conscious about her butt." Gyeoul said as she giggled, looking at the cat who was wiping its butt.

"You might need to apologize to Chestnut."

♢

The afternoon breeze greeted him as he got out to the backyard and sat down on the white swing. He couldn't stop thinking about the dream he had.

Why did I have that nightmare?

Beomgyu thought, trying to remember a memory that might be related to his nightmare. 

Maybe I should just brush it off.

He thought as he failed to remember. "This is Yeongwon's fault for sure." He whispered to himself as he saw Gyeoul walking towards him. "You okay?" The girl asked with a worried look on her face as she sat down next to him. "Is it about Yeongwon again?" She asked as a grin crept on her face which made the boy chuckle as he remembered what he had said to the cat earlier, the tips of his ears tinted red. His smile slowly disappeared after, which made the girl worry.

"Let's go outside and walk around." Gyeoul said as she stood up and offered a hand to the boy. Beomgyu smiled as he held her hand and stood up and they went. The neighborhood was quiet, it felt like it was only the two of them were there.

"Where are we exactly going?" He asked as they walked. "To my favorite place when I was little." Gyeoul said excitedly.

The place where I spend my time mostly alone.

She thought as she reminisced about her childhood memory with her so-called 'friends', making her excited tone and smile disappear which Beomgyu noticed.
"I haven't been here for a long time that they fixed the chipped off paint and everything." The girl said as they arrived, looking around the place she had missed when she was away.

It was the playground.

"Come on, let's play!" Gyeoul said excitedly as she ran to where the swings were. "The swings are my favorite." She added as she sat down on one of them as Beomgyu went and sat on the swing beside her. "Something's bothering you."

Gyeoul said, looking at the brown-haired boy who was playing with his fingers. "It's nothing." He answered. "Then why is your face like this if it's 'nothing'?" She said as she mimicked the boy's face, making him chuckle. "I don't look like that."

"Yeah you do." The girl jokingly argued as she mimicked him again. "You look like the 'annoyed' (-_-/눈_눈) emoticon." He said as he laughed. His windshield wiper laugh made the girl laugh with him.  As their giggles died down, the boy decided to speak about it. "I've been dreaming about this nightmare these past few days."

"It was me getting hit, while you were standing on the other side of the crosswalk and saw everything." Beomgyu said as he played with his fingers, looking at the ground. He couldn't look at her. He couldn't bear to see her face.

Because it reminded him of the nightmare, making him feel uneasy.

The girl was lost for words. "I'm scared that it might happen."

"It felt so real."

He added as he felt her fingers intertwining with his. "Hey, remember when we ate at the café, where you almost got hit? I saved you, right?" Gyeoul said as she held his cheek, making him face her. "As long as I'm here, I won't let that happen."

"I'll always be with you."

"I promise."

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A/N
*insert hyuka's voice* ThAt's KiNdA sUs ThO

i suck at comforting people :')

also, it was november when this happened :> [said this cuz the date matters :>]

Ps: yeongwon sitting on bg's face and choking him happened to me :')
it lowkey felt like getting stabbed on the neck/throat :')
my cat pooped afterwards, when i didn't let her lay down on my face(ya gOrl has asthma-but has 4 cats, 2 kittens, 2 dogs and a puppy) :')