-nightmare on epex street-

chapter 9.

flashback

Mu pov

Minwoo?

"Minwoo? Your friend Minwoo?" I had to be sure, I know he's mentioned that name before. "Yeah, he looks exactly like that! Hold on..." I watched him leave the room, but he back not even a minute later with his phone. "Here, look!" He flipped the device around to show me the screen, and I saw a picture of a boy. I analyzed the photo, and slowly but surely, I knew it was the same boy from my dream. "Th-that's him? That's M-Minwoo?" It felt like my heart was sinking, but I didn't know why. It got hard to breath, so I sat down on my bed. I could tell Yewang noticed, as he came and sat down next to me. "Is something wrong?" I couldn't think of a way to tell him, so I lied. "I'm okay! I'm just.... tired! I'm tired.." I assured him everything was fine, I even faked a yawn to further get the point across. "Okay, then. You should get some sleep, you have school tomorrow. I'll wake you up in the morning, okay?" Forgot about school. Just perfect.
"Uh, yeah, thank you... goodnight!"
"Goodnight, Mu." And with that, he left. I shut off my lamp, and lyed down. I actually was pretty tired. I looked at the time. It's already past 1:00?? That's why I'm so sleepy. I shut my eyes, and counted backwards from twenty, it always helps.

"Twenty"

"sixteen"

twelve

seven

two

I was suddenly shaken awake by someone. It was still dark in my room, so I couldn't quite make out who it was. He told me to follow him, before leaving my room, and shutting the door. His voice, I had never heard it before, but I got up anyway, and followed him until we were outside the house. I could see him a bit more, and that's when I saw that it was.. Baekseung? "Baekseung, what are you doing here? It's 3 in the morning.." He grabbed my hand, and tried to make a run for it, but I stopped him. "What the hell are you doing? Let go! LET GO!!" I tried to pull away, but I wasn't strong enough. After a moment, he finally opened his mouth. "Mu, it's not safe here! We have to go, NOW! Please just come with me. Get in the car, I'll get us somewhere safe, but we HAVE to go, NOW!" I felt panic take over my body, and so I did as he said. As soon as we were both inside, he started the car, and sped off. Out of nowhere, the street lights around us started shattering, and all of the lights went out as they did. It left us with only the brightness protruding from the headlights. And as we sped out of the neighborhood, rain started pouring. This caused us to lose complete control over the car, and we were forced to slow down a bit. Eventually, Baekseung picked the speed back up, driving even faster than before. BAEKSEUNG!! LEFT!! TURN LEFT!!" I practically screamed at him, and he did as I said, making a hard turn to the left. I honestly thought the whole car was gonna flip over. "DID WE LOSE HIM YET?!?" He shouted out even louder than I had, and the moment he turned his head back to face the road, he screamed, the of scream that caused me to freeze, paralyzed with fear. It felt like a glass pierced right through my ears, causing them to ring. I slowly turned my head to look in the same direction in front of us, and that's when i saw it. IT. He was standing there, in front of the car he was staring straight at us, and just before we could hit him, he disappeared into thin air. "OH thank God!" Baekseung said. "Do you think he's gone?" Baekseung wasn't even able to answer my question when we heard a voice echoing from an unknown place outside. IT sang "one, two, Freddie's coming for you.-
As the man was approaching the vehicle, he raised his hands up in the air. Soon, they were right above my head. Everything around us went quiet, but only for a moment. The silence was abrupted by an ear-shattering loud smack above our heads, causing me to jump forwards,
and realize,

I was in bed.

And it was 6:50 a.m.

Oh no...
I quickly rolled out of bed, and pulled an outfit I could where to school right out my closet. I removed my sleep wear, and put the clean clothes on, brushing my hair out of the way.
7:00 a.m. hmm... I don't have to be out the door for another twenty minutes.
I whipped out my sketchbook, and began doodling. Soon, it became something more. I started to draw the things I could recall from the dream, such as the car, and the road. I even got some road signs on there too.
Knock knock          knock knock
I closed my book before the door opened, and Yewang stepped in.
"You ready to walk out, Mu?" Huh? I checked the time, and sure enough, twenty minutes had already passed. "Yeah, ugh..." I looked down at my feet, back to Yewang, and then to the portrait I had drawn. When he looked back at me, I could tell he got the hint. "You know there's an art room at school. No one's gonna mind if you bring a portfolio of two!" "I'm so happy you get me."

Yewang dropped me of at school, and we waved goodbye to each other as he drove away. I figured I could probably find the art room on my own, so I started looking around. Eventually, after an excruciatingly long time wandering down the first hallway I checked, and about three minutes of walking, I finally found the art room.
It was empty. I guess I got here early.
The room was colorful, and bright.
And then I saw someone standing behind an easel, peering out at me.
It took me a second to recognize him.
"Oh, it's you, hey Jeff!" He smiled slightly, and walked out towards me. "I see you found your way. That's good." He paused for a moment. "There's actually a reason we invited you here.." He motioned his arm to the other side of the room, where Baekseung was sitting in the corner. He stood up, and made his way to the both of us and began speaking "so, uhm.. We- I wanted to a-a-ask you something... And I just      was wondering if you know someone named Minwoo? Cho Minwoo. Amin."
He pulled out his phone, and showed me a picture of the boy he was talking about. When I saw it, I felt disoriented, like I might faint. I felt the strongest sense of uneasiness, and I sat down. "I-I don't kn-know him... No." I looked up at the two boys who were now looking at each other. "Well alright then. He was just wondering cause of..... You know what? It's not important. So, um, do like this room? You can use that corner of You'd like!" Jeff changed the subject, Baekseung just simply left the room while muttering to himself. I felt kind of bad, I didn't know why, it's not like I lied or anything. I grabbed my stuff, and made my way to the corner Jeff had pointed out. It was right next to his space. I put my supplies on the small table, and began clearing off the old supplies that were already there. I wanted to ask him if something was wrong with Baekseung, since he seemed really worried for some reason. But before I could even ask, he said "Minwoo is his boyfriend......
He goes to an art school, and he-Baekseung said that Mi-Amin um, talks about you.... A lot.
For years.." I felt uneasy again, and I watched Jeff seemingly try to pull himself together. He pulled out a dusty looking portfolio, and pulled out some pictures he drew. He continued "I um, also dreamed about doing.. something. With you... But it was weird." He pinned an unfinished drawing up on his easel. "I always die" he looked down. Die?
The bell suddenly rang very loudly, and both of us yelped. "We should go. Let's go." He held my hand, and we walked off to class.

I am aware my updates are shitty and very unscheduled. And I'm very sorry about that

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