Dive Into You

Chapter 10: Kim Youngjo "Ravn"

Ravn and Seo-ho glance around them, trying to find the person. Where did he go? What did he want? They look back down at the envelope in their hands. Should they open it? They share a look and nod.

Ravn holds the envelope, while Seo-ho works to peel the seal open. He soon pulls out a folded note.

"I don't like this," Ravn mutters.

"I don't either...but curiosity is getting the better of me right now," Seo-ho says, unfolding the paper.

"It's an invitation!" Ravn remarks, pointing to the letters. He'd quickly scanned the message for them. Something about a vacation on Jeju Island that was much needed. Well, they had been discussing the need for one.

They both share a look, Seo-ho having read the message now. They spin around once more, looking for the mysterious person.

"How did he--?" Seo-ho manages to get out, his sentence trailing up abruptly with his stunned shock.

Ravn shakes his head. "This is so eerie, Seo-ho-ssi..."

Seo-ho nods, his attention returning to his hyung. "I think we should, um, go home and get out of here."

Ravn nods his head. "I agree. My stomach suddenly feels twisted. Something isn't right."

Seo-ho gets his phone out. "I'll call a cab?"

Ravn brings a hand through his dark brown hair as he looks around them. Where did that person go? Who were they?

Before long, a company car pulls up to the curb. Ravn spins to Seo-ho, who is still holding his phone out. "Did you--?"

Seo-ho shakes his head.

Ravn turns back to look at the car. It is one of their vehicles, tinted windows and all. But he still feels weirdly.

The back door slides open for them.

Seo-ho shrugs. "Such odd coincidences, huh?" He starts for the car, obviously not thinking much about it.

"Seo-ho-ah..." Ravn holds a hand out to him, but Seo-ho is already getting into the vehicle.

Seo-ho takes a seat and looks at Ravn, who is still standing there, blinking and holding the envelope in his hand with the bizarre vacation note. "What are you doing? Come on. Let's go home."

Ravn looks to either side of him and then heaves a sigh and starts toward the van. He climbs in and takes the other seat. Then he pulls the door shut and it clicks into place. Followed immediately by a locking.

Ravn looks toward the front. "Jae-hyun, how'd you know to come and get us? We didn't get a chance to call and we were about to..."

There is silence.

"Jae-hyun...?" Seo-ho gasps out, gripping the arms of the chair he is sitting in.

The engine roars to a start and Ravn and Seo-ho share a look with one another. Then they scream as someone (clearly not Jae-hyun) stomps a foot on the gas pedal and peels off with them inside.

Both jerk forward and then slam back against their chairs. The action is enough to knock Seo-ho unconscious and daze Ravn.

"Whoa! Sorry about that," a foreign voice sarcastically speaks to them. "I didn't mean to stomp that hard."

"Seo-ho-ssi..." Ravn manages to squeak out, his vision blurry and his senses tingling with a strange numbness. He ignores the voice, focused on trying to fight through to be there for his bandmate.

But Seo-ho doesn't move and with the paralyzing tingle controlling his senses, Ravn finds he is unable to move either. Then eventually Ravn's disoriented eyesight diminishes into a blackness.