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🙃Yeonkai- Sleep Paralysis

10pm. A time Yeonjun dreaded because it meant it was time to go to sleep. He purposely stayed up the past 24 hours so he didn't have to. His mind was exhausted. The bags under his eyes were large and dark. A cold glass of water and a sleeping pill lay on his nightstand. He decided to give in and take it. Now Yeonjun just had to wait for the pill to kick in.

It's not that his paralysis demon was particularly scary. He was just creepy. The "demon" was a guy about his age. He had seen him around before at their college. They did a project together once but that was the most interaction they ever had. His name is Kai.

In his dream, Kai always did the same thing. He just sat in the corner, staring at him until Yeonjun snapped out of it. Sometimes he would ask weird questions like "if you had to choose a limb to lose, which one would it be?" Most of the time he just sat silently. He lacked the ability to blink too. That was the weirdest part.

At first, Yeonjun thought Kai was actually sneaking into his dorm to be a creep. That was quickly disproven when the guy dyed his hair from black to mint green. The demon still had black hair.

He avoided Kai like the plague while he was awake. Sure the guy was very sweet in person but that didn't matter. The image of Kai's dark eyes just peering into his soul, prevented him from engaging in any interaction.

The sleeping pill finally kicked in. Nothing happened for a while. Yeonjun did his best to lay on his side. Like most people with sleep paralysis, the trigger was laying on his back. Unfortunately, he ended up on his back when his left side didn't feel right.

His eyes popped open and there Kai was, in the corner, doing nothing but staring. Yeonjun was locked into place. His breathing was fine but his eyes wouldn't leave the demon.

Kai asked "why are you so afraid of me? I could be worse! Wanna see?"

Yeonjun absolutely did not want to see. He tried yelling "no" but he still couldn't move. He watched Kai's eyes disappear. His skin turned paper white. His lips turned black. Black blood started to drip from his eye sockets, nose and mouth. He began to smile. The corners of his mouth began to tear into his cheeks as they reached for his ears. Black blood went from dripping from his lips to pouring out of it. The smell was like burning tar. Kai let out a blood curdling scream. Some of the black liquid spit onto Yeonjun's face.

He still couldn't move. Tears slipped out of his unblinking eyes. His mind was trapped inside of his body. All he felt was pure terror.

In a single moment, Kai went back to his usual self. He childishly giggled "see? I'm not like that! Awe Yeonjun! Don't cry! You're so cute!"

That made Yeonjun cry more. He could feel the back of his neck becoming wet from his tears. Now he knew how scary Kai could be.

The black haired man in the corner stood up. "Yeonjunnie why don't you talk to me?"

His mouth wanted to say "because I literally fucking can't" but his body was frozen.

Kai arched his eyebrow. He began to laugh. "Oh! No Junnie! I meant in class! I'm not scary!" He didn't say anything else after. The rest of his paralysis was filled with the usual uncomfortable staring.

Yeonjun woke up the next morning very confused. He went to go to his classes like always. His friends asked him if he had a rough night. He looked very tired. "Yeah. Just had a bad nightmare. That's all."

Kai walked in with his mint hair, all giddy like always. He sat in the back corner to talk to his friends. They began gaming together until the professor walked in.

Class was really boring. Yeonjun fell asleep. A friend had to wake him up just before it ended. He sat up quickly and looked around. Everyone was staring at him. "What?" He turned to look at the professor. "Oh. Sorry sir."