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TXT- In Your Dreams- Part Four

Hyuka stepped through the door and found himself as a ghost. He floated behind the crowd. The priest dismissed everyone. His parents walked right through his body. "Hello? Mom? Dad? I'm not dead!"

"You basically are."

"Taehyun?"

The blonde looked somber as he waved. "Hi baby."

More people passed through him. His best friend seemed to be the only one who could see him. Hyuka floated over to examine his grave. The day of death was marked for today. He looked at Taehyun then looked back at that date. "Why am I dead?"

"I told you. You basically are."

"Only in your dream."

"No..." Taehyun pointed towards the cloudy sky. "Up there too. I don't know how to wake you up but I'm not leaving until I can figure it out." The blonde snapped his fingers. They were back in the theater holding hands. "I thought it was just me. Your place looks different than mine. I like yours a lot."

"How long have you been able to do this?"

"Since I hit puberty."

"Same!"

Taehyun wanted to smile but he couldn't. "I'm guessing you've never been injured in someone else's dream before?"

"I was in a car crash in Beomgyu's head and then I got sliced by raining ice in Yeonjuns'. Why?"

"I meant before that."

"No. None of them were that violent."

"I figured." Taehyun hugged him tightly. "If you get injured in someone else's dream, you get injured in the real world. It's like a punishment for invading people's privacy."

"How do you know that?"

"I almost died in my sister's dream when I was 15. She was having a nightmare that I thought I could fix. When I woke up, I was choking. It was so scary. That's why I don't go into other people's dreams anymore."

Hyuka looked up towards the ceiling. He had no idea what he was hoping to see but he continued gaze at the black roof. "So when I almost died in Beomgyu's dream, I actually almost died?"

"Yeah. I think that's why you can't wake up. What exactly happened?"

Hyuka snapped his fingers. They were transported back to the race track. Both were sitting in the bleachers watching the race go down. Hyuka pointed to which car he was in. "Give it a second. You'll see that car crash into me."

The impact looked worse from the outside than it did on the inside. Taehyun cringed watching his best friend crawl out of the driver's seat. He squinted hard to make sure he was seeing correctly. "Are... did you not have a helmet on?"

"No."

"Hyuka! Why?!"

"I didn't think I would actually get hurt!"

Taehyun rested his head on the taller's shoulder. He snapped his fingers to change the setting to his living room. Instead of seeing all five of them, it was just him and Hyuka. He pointed to the spot where Soobin was supposedly in real life. "You're currently sleeping there. Soobin hasn't let anyone touch you since you bled."

"Which time?"

"There was more than one?"

"Yeah. My arm was cut pretty badly in Yeonjun's dream."

"Jesus. Soobin is probably a mess right now."

Hyuka got really sad. He didn't like the thought of being the reason Soobin was upset. "I didn't know he actually liked me."