Ghost Chasers

10

On the way to the abandoned hospital, I felt quite queasy. Would I see ghosts there too? Why was I the only one seeing Taemin? Was he just showing himself, or was I actually a medium? I would ask him, but I couldn't do that in the car because the others would hear.

Like last time, I rode with the "nerds", Namjoon drove, Yunho was in the passenger seat while I sat in the back with Hongjoong and Yoongi. Taemin sat with Yunho this time, who was constantly trying to regulate the air conditioning because he had goose bumps, which made Taemin giggle with amusement.

If things go well, we should buy an old minibus so that we don't always have to drive three cars.

The first two jobs alone gave us enough for the equipment, which was important because we would graduate in two months and would then no longer have access to the media club's equipment.

The hospital building looked creepy from the outside. Formerly quite impressive when it was still in use, most of the windows on the lower floor had now been smashed, the walls were covered in graffiti and there was no light coming through.

It was just dusk and the setting sun was still reflected in the upper windows, but that wouldn't provide us with light for much longer. The front door was bolted and firmly locked with chains.

We would have to enter through a window, but that would be too conspicuous at the front and we didn't want to be seen.

So we walked around the building and quickly found a window with no pieces of glass hanging from it. Yunho was still filming the hospital from the front, but then quickly followed.

As soon as we were all inside, Wooyoung grabbed his head and said he felt sick. Jungkook laughed amusedly at his friend.

"The camera's not even on yet, babe."

Wooyoung gave him a dirty look.

"It's not an act, I'm really sick."

"Maybe the air is bad here." Namjoon speculated, shrugging his shoulders

"Let's turn on all the cameras from now on. We should split up." Taehyung suggested. I wasn't entirely comfortable with that, as it never ended well in horror movies. But it made sense, as we had three cameramen and enough people.

My team consisted of Hobi, Hongjoong and Taehyung. Mingi went with Yoongi, Namjoon and Jongho, while Wooyoung and Jungkook went with Yunho.

The atmosphere in the dark corridors was oppressive, cupboards had been ripped open everywhere, old papers, scrubs and broken medical equipment that was no longer needed lay on the floor, beer cans were scattered around and the walls had been spray-painted.

There were nice slogans everywhere, such as: we are cursed or you will all die. Hongjoong filmed the slogans and even though he seemed to be very scared himself, he often filmed Hobi, who also looked pretty scared and was frightened by unexpected noises.

We stopped before every turn-off and carefully peeked around the corner while Taehyung illuminated everything with a large flashlight.

Taemin obviously enjoyed knocking over the odd beer can, which is why Hobi kept muttering to himself "it's just rats, just rats... there are no ghosts", to which Taemin replied with a giggle.

At some point, Hongjoong had taken Hobi's hand, which seemed to calm them both down a little. Taehyung shone his light into all the rooms we passed and every now and then Taemin would lie on one of the beds, waving at me or pretending to be dying.

I couldn't help giggling a little, this ghost was so extra.

"What's so funny San?" Hobi asked irritably, to which I gave him an apologetic look.

"It's just nervous laughter... so I don't shake with fear."

If Taemin didn't distract me like that, I'd probably be just as scared as the others, sneaking through the corridors.

At some point we discovered a staircase and decided to go all the way to the top, as we would at least have some light there.

We slowly climbed the steps in the dark stairwell, with only the two beams of light from the camera and the flashlight to illuminate us.

The sound of our footsteps and our panting breaths was all we could hear. When we reached the top, we entered the hallway and looked around when Taemim suddenly looked at me with concern.

"Stay here, I need to check something quickly." he called to me and then hurriedly disappeared around the corner.

I looked at the others expectantly so we could plan where we were going to go so I could buy Taemin some time. Just as we were looking around, an ear-splitting scream rang out....