𝓟𝓼𝔂𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱 |ᵉⁿʰʸᵖᵉⁿ ⁿⁱᵏⁱ ᶠᶠ| 🄲🄾🄼🄿🄻🄴🅃🄴🄳

0.8

3rd person POV

All 8 kids were sitting inside the restaurant. Jing had closed the restaurant early just for this. It was silent. Jukyeon was too scared to speak.

"Happy Birthday Jukyeon." Jing said quietly.

"Thank you."

"Anything you guys want to eat." Jing asked everyone. The boys ordered and Jing went to the kitchen. Jungwon and the boys talked while they waited, but Jukyeon went to her aunt to apologize.

As she entered the kitchen, Jing turned around.

"Are you Jukyeon or Harin?"

"W-what?" Jukyeon was surprised by her question. 'How does she know about Harin?' She thought. At that moment Harin showed up next to Jukyeon.

"I see it's both of you." Jing said with a smile. "The birthday girls."

"How can she see you?" Jukyeon whispered to Harin.

"Auntie has gifts that let her see spirits."

"But you're not a spirit. You're a hallucination."

"No, she isn't Jukyeonnie. She's a spirit. Born the same day as you, but her life ended 16 years ago due to a dumb nurse."

"What?" This was so much for her to process. She wanted to ask more questions, but Jing went to serve the food.

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Jukyeon's POV

"I really wasn't planning on telling you little sister." Harin told me. I felt as if I've been lied to my whole life.

"I thought I was crazy!"

"You are a bit, but that's ok because we both are."

"You killed your own parents Harin."

"No, we did it together."

I'm done with her. I walk to the table and sit down. She just stood there behind me and Auntie Jing brought her a chair. The boys looked at me and the chair next to me.

"Auntie Jing can see ghosts." Jungwon said. Was I the only one who didn't know?

"What's the name of the ghost auntie?" Sunoo asked.

"Her name is Harin." I looked at Jungwon and he looked sad, but scared. Did he know her?

"She's not evil right?" Riki asked. I wanted to tell him yes, but I think that would be too harsh on Harin.

"It depends." I said.

"Wait you can see her too?" Jungwon asked. I didn't know what to say.

"I-"

"She can't. I just told her about Harin." Thanks auntie. I give her a smile and she does the same. We were all eating when I noticed that Harin was just looking at us eating. Why doesn't she get some?

"Auntie, is Harin able to eat?" I asked.

"Oh my! I forgot!" She ran to the front desk and brought back a paper with something written on it. "I'm so sorry sweetie." She said and placed it infront of her. Harin quickly began to eat and I smiled. I didn't know that she wasn't able to eat unless we allowed her.

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We were back home and it was time to cut the cakes. Two cakes. One was red velvet and the other was what ever flavor Riki wanted. They sang to us and we blew out the candles.

I was eating my cake in the kitchen while everyone else was in the livingroom. Then when I was about to leave, Riki came to me.

"Can we talk?"

"Yeah, about what?" He seemed nervous.

"I know it's barely been 3 months, but I really like you Jukyeon." Oh shit. "I've asked Jungwon and he has given me permission."

"Permission to what?"

"Would you like to go on a date with me?"

I was surprised. Hear me out, I knew he liked me, but I never knew he liked me to a point where he would ask me out. Don't get me wrong I like him too, but- no. I'm going to enjoy my life now. Fuck all of that other shit. I never wanted to do it anyways.

"Yes"

-

4 months have passed since I've been out of the hospital and it's a new year. I think I want to be good this year. I've already gained everything I wanted. My brothers love, support and his trust. Everyone has been so nice to me the past few months, especially Riki. I can't believe that I played with his feelings in the beginning just to get out of that hospital. Of course I didn't tell him about that. He's so nice and sweet. I don't know what I did to deserve someone like him.

Something that hasn't been gone my way has actually been the voices and monsters. They've all come back. But sometimes they don't look like monsters. They tell me to do the same thing the monsters do, but in a kind way. How can I say no to my own parents?

I know it's not them, but they feel so real

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