Dreams of Arcadia

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"Yah Daesung hyung... Seunghyun has the electric razor in his hand and sneaks up to Jiyong... " I whispered in the meditating man's ear.

"He's grinning really dirty and the other Seunghyun has the cell phone in his hand and is filming everything..." added Jongho. Daesung opened his eyes and jumped up.

"Yah, Lee Seunghyun, drop the razor... and you hyung, why are you still filming him?" he shouted in panic, then looked around in confusion. The Johnny guy made an annoyed hand gesture and the BigBang member had clothes back on, while Jongho and I high-fived and laughed.

"Where have I ended up now? Is this a new stage of existence?" Daesung asked, irritated.

"No, you're still dead and in the afterlife," Johnny explained to him, bored.

"And how do I get to heaven?" he asked eagerly.

"I know this must be hitting your little Christian heart right now.... but there is no heaven and no hell... everyone goes to the afterlife... and there are countless of them... You don't need to make any more effort, just enjoy it here." he then said and rummaged in his jacket pocket, from which he pulled out three cell phones.

"Here, you can reach each other and me at any time... but please only contact me in an emergency, we have an extremely high number of new otherworldly people and not enough staff, so instead of one, I'm now in charge of five areas." he handed one to everyone.

"Why so many new ones? Is there a war in the world of the living, a new pandemic, natural disasters?" I asked worriedly and he sighed sympathetically.

"Half the Kpop world died in one day, many didn't take it well... that was the 13th reason.... 90% of the newcomers, ask if they can join you in the afterlife and I get to deal with tons of girls calling Yoongi marry me and looking for him everywhere, no matter how many times I say it's impossible to find him since he's spending eternity somewhere else." he told me and I scowled.

"Don't let them here... If I see even one with a sign like that, I'll take it off her and beat her to death with it." I threatened and saw him smirk.

"Don't worry, only close relatives can apply to change their afterlife. But otherwise, hit whoever you want with signs, no one here cares... but always remember, the person can't die, is stuck here with you and has eternity to get revenge on you." he warned me.

"Are the numbers of the others in there?" Jongho wanted to know and Johnny grabbed his forehead.

"Oh yes, I forgot... Wait a minute." he pressed his own cell phone.

"Now... I've synchronized all the phones, everyone's numbers are in there... But now I have to go on and distribute some more..." with that, he vanished into thin air.

"Seonghwa... Hyung? Ewww, I'm hanging up..." I heard Jongho say in disgust.

"What was that?" asked Daesung.

"Well, there was loud music and then I heard Seonghwa puking... he was slurring into the phone, drunk as a skunk. Something about a party at Jungkook's." he explained and I nodded.

"He lives near Itaewon..." Daesung thought.

"Then let's go there." I asked the two of them. I couldn't wait to see Yoongi... and San and Wooyoung too, my little firecrackers.

"We should hurry, it's a long way and it'll be dark soon...." How could Jongho be so strong but then be afraid of the dark?

"Here in the cell phone tips it says that we can take buses, they drive themselves. We just have to sit down at a bus stop and the right one will arrive immediately." I informed the others after I had familiarized myself with the cell phone. We sat in silence on the bus a while later, looking out of the window and admiring how beautiful Seoul looked when there was no smog, the air was so clear you could see all kinds of stars and planets with the naked eye. When we got off in Itaewon and walked towards the residential area, we could hear the music from afar...