Cursed - Enhypen FF

Ceiling secret

PART TWO

Sunoo woke all of the sudden and out of breath.
For some reason his hand hurt. He sat up on his bed and looked around.

Niki is still asleep.

He stopped looking at his roommate as he noticed the window, on the right of the room. The sky was getting clear, the night was almost over.

However Sunoo couldn't just go back to sleep so easily. He had definitely woken up stressed because of a nightmare. As he thought about it, his hand, and more precisely his palm, hurt.
He looked at it, but nothing seemed wrong. His skin was as pale and normal as it had always been.

That didn't keep Sunoo from trying to remember his dream. Everything was blurry, but he was sure about one thing, his friends and he were wearing weird clothes.
Sunoo could picture how heavy and itchy they were, the discomfort of wearing them was equivalent to their beauty, though.

Nevermind.

It was just a dream after all.

Sunoo laid down on his bed again and tried matching his own breathing to Niki's peaceful and asleep one. That calmed him well. So much so that soon enough, the two were breathing in unison.

Unfortunately for Sunoo, peace didn't last.

For the second time, he woke up all of the sudden. This time however, his body was covered in unexplainable shivers.

Sunoo scratched his eyes.

I should just get up.

Sunoo slowly stood up, walking as silently as possible not to wake up Niki. His feet seemed to resonate on the cold wooden floor, but the roommate didn't budge.
He left their bedroom, only to enter a spacious room. On the opposite wall, Sunoo could see an enormous library, and comfortable sofas, but they didn't interest him at that particular moment.

The boy headed for the staircase on his right. He went down quickly, unbothered by the beautiful sculpted decorations that garnished said staircase. As soon as he arrived on the ground floor, Sunoo headed to the left, where the coolest room was: the kitchen.

A few minutes later, Sunoo had started a fire and placed a pot filled with water over it. He couldn't remember when, but he knew he had gathered some aromatic herbs and dried them in order to prepare tea out of them.

When the water finally boiled, the boy placed the herbs in the pot, enjoying the warmth spreading from the fire.
As the branches cracked and the flames consumed them, Sunoo didn't even hear someone entering the kitchen.

"Hi!" greeted said person behind him.
"Oh hi Jayoung!" replied Sunoo. "How are you today?"

She smiled at him and he felt peaceful. After all, she had saved them. Sunoo trusted her with his life.

"Quite well, how about you?" she inquired. "You did wake up earlier than usual."
"True" he said. "Just silly nightmares."

Sunoo turned back to his pot and missed the weird expression that appeared on Jayoung's face.

"Making tea?" she asked, even though she could clearly see it was true.
"Needed something warm" he confirmed.

~

The other boys woke up one after the other and joined Sunoo and Jayoung, who were sitting around the dinning table.
Their days always started like that. Then they'd play around, read or clean while two of them cooked the day's meals. The mansion was quite big and each was responsible for their own belongings. The bedrooms could be messy, as it was each person's own business, however Jayoung wanted common areas to be always clean.

The boys didn't always like cleaning, except for Jay, but they did obey Jayoung. Since she had saved them from the fire that had destroyed their previous home and brought them here, they owed it to her. Cleaning the house seemed only normal.

The mansion had three floors. The ground floor had an elegant entrance hall that could lead to four rooms: two bedrooms, currently occupied by Jayoung and Heeseung, to the left, the dinning room in front and the kitchen to the right. The first floor was accessible through the wooden staircase. It opened up to the library on the right and three bedrooms on the right, in which the boys slept in pairs.
Lastly, there was an underground floor, in which Jayoung spent a lot of time.

They didn't question her too much about it. She did live with seven people now, and they could understand the need of privacy.

~

Sunoo was walking outside. The mansion was huge, and so was the garden. There was also a forest all around the property, which Sunoo liked visiting. It seemed that the forest was his sanctuary of calm and peace when he felt overwhelmed from living with so many people.
However, he was on kitchen duty today, and he needed to go back home.

As he walked the path he always used, Sunoo noticed something he had never seen before.

A frown appeared on his forehead as he realized the house had a round window just bellow the roof. Now, this window should have been visible from the upstairs library, however Sunoo was sure he had never seen it.

And that was enough to forget any duty or chore he had to do. In fact, he unconsciously started running towards the entrance door.
He practically flew upstairs and only stopped when he had reached the library.
In fact, he was right.

No window.

For the first time in... Sunoo couldn't remember for how long he had been in this mansion, well for the first time since he had arrived here, he noticed that the ceiling of the library didn't match the angles of the roof.

Which can only mean one thing... there's another room on top of the library!

Sunoo loved adventures, and this was definitely one. He simply needed to find how to get there. 

Easy, right?

"Sunoo" called Jay from downstairs. "Come on, you're late, we need to cook now."

Sunoo looked to the ceiling and sighed.

Soon I'll be going there.