The Dark Board

Mingi

I stir a little out of my slumber with the early morning sunlight peeking out from behind my closed curtains. Stretching I open my eyes then grab my phone off the night stand to check the time. "06:55 well I guess it's time for me to start my day." I say as I lazily make my way out of my warm bed and towards my closet to take out the only pair of clothes hanging inside. I examine it, it was a white oversized dress shirt and a pair of blue jeans paired with my white high top converse. I make my way outside my room to see one of my T-shirts on top of one of my boxes of shoes. "How did this get here? " I say as I pick it up and place it inside the box.

I just finished up in the bathroom and was making my way to the door. Whipping the door open to be face to face with a very taken aback San. "Oh, morning San." I say walking out of the bathroom just looking at his amusing expression. "Morning Mingi, are you done?" He asks pointing to the bathroom. "Yeah go ahead." I say gesturing him towards the door. "Thanks." He says smiling and closes the door. I make my way back to my room. As I get back to my door I look at the T-shirt hanging out of the shoes box. I was just gonna ignore it and walk inside but something hanging on the shirts sleeve caught my attention. I pick up the T-shirt up again and see a small piece of paper folded neatly and taped to the sleeve. I remove the paper from the sleeve and place the T-shirt back in the box and head inside my room with this folded paper in hand. As I close the door I start examining the paper as I make my way to my bed to sit down. I start unfolding the piece of paper but something about it just felt off while trying to find out its contents. As I unfold it and see what it says, there just one sentence placed on the page:

And the challenges you will face because of this Mingi

I reread the sentence 3 times but it still doesn't make sense. I examine the page one more time trying to make sense of the mysterious paper and sentence. I just gave up deciding that I will just ask the guys if they left it there as a prank and what it means. I stand up and put the paper in my jeans pocket making my way towards my desk to pack my bag for class. I get all my necessary things together and make my way out of my room and towards the stairs. As I was about to walk down the stairs I see a dark shadowy figure starring at me from the kitchen doorway then slowly backing away inside. I hastily place my bag down by the door with rest of the guys bags and bolt into the kitchen only to see Seonghwa hyung eating some cereal calmly by the kitchen table. "Morning Mingi I hope you slept well." He says smiling at me taking another spoonful of cereal. I try to play my shock off coolly by just answering his question. "I slept well thank you hyung. " I say returning the smile but I wonder what was that dark shadow. "So hyung has anyone of the others guys come down yet? " I ask hoping that he will say yes. "Nope I have been sitting here alone for about 20 minutes now, why? " he asks curiously while finishing his bowl of cereal. "No reason I was just wondering why it was still so quiet. " I say with a fake laugh even more stunned now. "Mingi, would you mind going to wake Jongho up and tell him to get ready for class. " Hyung says snapping me back to my senses. I push this whole ordeal to the furthest part of my mind and tell hyung I will.

I make my way up the stairs and towards Jongho's door, I knock softly to see if his awake before opening the door and peeking my head inside to see him still sound asleep. I make my way to his bed and gently sit down trying to wake him up in fear of being pummeled. Gently I poke him to see him stir a little then open his eyes. "What's wrong hyung and why are you so close to my face?" He asks making me smile in amusement. "Nothings wrong, Seonghwa hyung just told me to come wake you up and to get ready because we still have college today." I say and stand up off the bed and exit the room. As I make my way back down I see Seonghwa hyung banging on Yeosang's door screaming for him to get up. I laugh at the sight cause it never gets old, every single morning the same thing. I make my way back down the stairs into the kitchen and make myself some toast before I starve. While standing by the counter munching at my toast Seonghwa hyung comes back in and asks if I woke Jongho I nod and then he says I should call him for breakfast cause we're leaving soon. I nod and place my plate of toast down on the counter and make my way back up the stairs to Jongho's room. Gently I knock on the door again. "Yeah hyung?" He says I peek my head inside again. He zips up his book bag and turns to me. "Seonghwa hyung told me to come and get you because we have to leave soon and we need to eat breakfast." I say. "Okay hyung I'll be right down." He says picking his bag up and walking over to the door making his way out with me over to the stairs. As if God sent them we all managed to stampede down the stairs and though the kitchen door by a miracle. Picking up my plate of toast making my way to the table I sit down and continue eating. Seonghwa hyung starts talking and says we need to be early so we can leave on time and stuff.

We make our way towards the door, get our things and start walking to college. While walking I look next to me to see Yeosang hyung just vigorously shaking his head I give him a weird look before he turns his head and sees me looking at him. "What are you doing?" I ask him confused. "Nothing just a fly buzzing around my head." He says. "Well instead of shaking your head like an idiot swat it with your hand next time." I say walking away. I start walking in between Jongho and Yunho hyung I look at Jongho to see him messing on his phone, I turn the other way to see Yunho just looking up to the sky walking and smiling like an idiot. "What's with you today?" I question him and his happy mood. He looks back at me with the same smile on his face. "Today is just such a nice day and I'm simply just appreciating it." He says earning a silent 'oh' from me. "Carry on then." I say gesturing him to carry on with what his was doing.

What's with everyone being so weird this morning. I think to myself, must be something in the air. I mentally shrug and carry on walking. 10 minutes later where at the campus. We make our way to a bench and sit down. We where barely properly at the campus and 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 says eyeing Hongjoong hyung.  A thought pops into my head. "How about by the benches, outside on the field close to the gate?" I say looking around at everyone if they agree on my idea. "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. I laugh at him and his weirdness. "Guys." Hongjoong hyung says. "Yeah hyung what's wrong?" Jongho asks tilting his head to side. "I think we should all 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 along with him and San wasn't even struggling just letting it happen. I get up along with the others and make my way towards my lecture.

*Time skip*

My 2 hour lecture flew by which I was so happy for. Its currently 14:00 and I bought me a juice and made way over to the benches. I spotted Yunho sitting alone by one of the benches so I made my way over to him. He seemed in his own world cause he didn't even seem too acknowledged my presence. "What are you thinking so hard about that you can't even acknowledge my presence? " I say while I rest my chin on the back of my hands. He looks up to see me staring very intently at him. "O-oh when d-did you get here, nevermind, I was just thinking about some topic we discussed today that I was confused about that's all sorry I didn't pay attention to you." He said. I just nodded and took my juice out started scrolling on my phone.

I was in the middle of playing a game when I felt Yunho tap me on my arm. " Do you see that over there behind the trees? " He asks me a little dazed. I was a little confused by his question and I turn around. I scan the area he pointed at. I spot something small moving in the distance. "Oh you mean the cute little black cat over there." I say turning back to him pointing at it. "Yeah it's really cute isn't it." He says. That must have been a bad lecture if his acting so weird. I think to myself and just go back to my game.