The Dark Board

Jongho

I was peacefully sleeping when I felt a light tap on my arm, I rolled over a little just so I can see the persons face. When I open my eyes they met with Mingi hyung's eyes. Slightly shocked by how close he is to my face I jump and moved a little to the back. "What's wrong hyung and why are you so close to my face?" I ask him with a confused tone. "Nothings wrong, Seonghwa hyung just told me to come wake you up and to get ready because we still have college today." He says as he stands up off my bed and leaves. "Well I guess I should get ready then." I say as I lift up the covers and get out from the bed. I made my way over to my dresser draws and opened it up and took out the clothes I had set aside for me to wear today. I head out of my room and make my way to the bathroom when I see Yunho hyung heading towards the bathroom also and he sees me, and we immediately start sprinting towards the door. Him being taller than me and having longer legs didn't put him to much of an advantage because me being more athletic I easily beat him to the door. "Ha, I'm first sorry hyung I guess you need to wait your turn." I say teasingly with my hand on the door handle. "I don't understand why we have to do this every single morning." Hyung says turning around on his heels and walking back to his room. I open the bathroom door and head inside. I put my necessary toiletries down on the shelf next to the mirror. But I see something on the shelf as I put my toiletry bag down, it was a neatly folded piece of paper. I pick up the small page thinking maybe one of my hyung's had left it there. I unfold the page and the was something written on it. It said:

When sands of the hour glass run out you will understand Jongho

I was confused. "What does this mean?" I say turning the page around. After a good 2 minutes of trying to think what the sentence meant I just gave up and put it in the pocket of my jean. I finished my morning routine and head back to my room. As I walk across the hallway from the bathroom to my room I see this shadowy figure walking down the stairs but it stops midway and turns back to look at me and sinisterly smiles. I was to the least to say shocked, I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me. I rub my eyes and look back in the direction of the stairs to see the figure gone. Freaked out I rush back to my room, walk in and close the door. "What the heck was that!?" I say aloud totally stunned.

Its currently 7:40 and I'm busy pacing around my room still trying to understand what I had just seen like ten minutes ago. With that freaking weird image in my head of that guy, or shadow or whatever the thing was, was starting make me think if it was a person and how did they'd get in if half of the guys where downstairs? I put my hands in my pockets as I was about to have a seat on my bed and I feel something in my pocket. "The note." I say as I pull it out of my pocket hoping that it could give me some clarity. While reading this ominous sentence I got a scary thought. "What if that thing was the one who left this letter for me?" I say as I look at the note in my hand. "Nope, no way, I am not gonna think about all this early in morning, uh ah." I say as I walk over to my book bag and throw the page in there and sigh. Next thing I hear a knock on my bedroom door. When I turn around I see the door opening and Mingi hyung stuck his head inside. "Yeah hyung?" I say I zip up my book bag so the piece of paper won't fall out. "Seonghwa hyung told me to come and get you because we have to leave soon and we need to eat breakfast." He says. "Okay hyung I'll be right down." I say picking my bag up and walking over to the door making my way out with Mingi. As we make our way over to the stairs everyone just came rushing out of their rooms and down the stairs all at once. We some how in a miraculous attempt we end up all going through the kitchen door. After we all finished breakfast and Seonghwa hyung reminding us to be early we made our way to the door. I was just about to pick up my bag and walk out the door when San hyung who was walking behind me grabbed my arm and pulled me back. I was a little taken aback by the sudden action and turned around to look at him. I look at him with a questioning look at first. "What's wrong hyung you look like you saw a ghost?" I ask him while he stares back at the top of the stairs. "Did you see that, at the top of the stairs?" He asks looking paler than usual. I just smile at him. "Stop playing hyung were gonna be late." I say making my way past Hongjoong hyung who's holding the door open so we could see the rest of the guys outside who are waiting. What a weird morning I think to myself. We started walking down the road towards our campus. The moment we stepped foot in the campus ground Hongjoong hyung was already going on about us not being late. "Don't forget, straight home this afternoon otherwise if your not there we'll leave everything that belongs to you there and the new owners can throw it away." Hongjoong hyung tells us with the most cheekiest smile. "Then where should we meet after school so we can make sure where not late so you guys don't sacrifice our belongings?" Yeosang hyung asks eyeing him head to toe while he just stands there and smiles smugly back at him. "How about by the benches, outside on the field close to the gate?" Mingi questions looking around for acceptance of his suggestion. "Perfect! Then we'll meet there. Well I kinda have to go cause I'm late for my first lecture, see ya." Wooyoung says and scurries off. "Guys." Hongjoong hyung says. "Yeah hyung what's wrong?" I say tilting my head to the side. "I think we should get going before we're all late." He says looking at his watch. "Yeah hyung we should really get going or else we might be late, see ya later." Yunho says dragging San away with him since they have the same class first.