camping trip [Dino × SEVENTEEN]

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'Where the hell did they go?' 'Why is my head playing games with me?' 'Do I go back to the forest?'  'What if it's another game my mind was playing with me?'

The little voices in Lee chans mind were all speaking at once, making his head throb badly. His head started feeling heavy as he was trying to maintain his balance and not collapse due to the pain. Holding his head with his hands to hopefully stay conscious and maybe the pain will lessen.

Falling to his knees, he knew what was coming, and as slow as a rustling leaf, his vision turned black, once again.

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Turning to his left, turning to his right, no position seemed comfortably for the young man. The tiny rocks underneath him were never meant to be comfortable anyway...

Tiny rocks?

Slowly sitting up, eyes still closed, he tried to blindly observe his surroundings with his other senses.

He could hear the wind howling, causing the trees leafs to rustle against each other. He could smell the scent of rained on dirt, still fresh. He could feel his wet clothes hugging his -now cold- body.

Slowly opening his eyes, he found himself in the forest once again. He found his phone that wouldn't switch on, either because its battery ran out or the amount of rain was too much compared to its resistance. Maybe both reasons.

Lazily standing up, he looked up towards the cloudy sky. He could guess it was morning since the sky was barely lit up. And with the amount of clouds that were above him, it won't shine too much even later on the day.

He was here once, or at least he thought so, so he just started his path with no direction, to hopefully reach an exit just like how he did in his short coma -if that's what it was.-

Walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, and more walking, and even more walking, still no signs of an exit of that hell of forest nearby.

Lee chan was then tired of constant moving for hours without a break, so he decided to have one.

Choosing a comfortable tree to sit against was something that didn't matter to him anymore. He was too lost in his thoughts.

Wondering what led his mind to confuse him thins much. It would've been easier if he just knew what was real and what was made up by him.

Did he really just wake up, and all those incidents after he woke up the first time were fake? Could he possibly be passed out in the dorm, and all of this is an illusion displayed in his mind? Did he even ever receive that call, or was it made up as well? Did he actually go camping with the members? Did they even go on a world tour?

Too many questions, too many wonders, it was draining him mentally into this dark, never-ending black hole.

After sitting down with his thoughts for about an hour or so, he finally decided to be optimistic and find his way out, though he was more like trying to do so.

After walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, he could see the trees length shortening as they were starting to seen planted further away from each other as well, a sense of dèja vu hit him as this scene didn't feel foreign to him.

Finally, after a little more walking, he reached a beautiful green scenery that almost took his remainder breath away.
Beautiful green fields that would've looked so lively if it weren't to the dark cloudy sky above him, though the sun hadn't set yet.

After losing himself to admire the field a little more, an old grey-haired man with a long beard approached him out of nowhere.

'You lost kid?' Was what got dino out if his thoughts that almost buried him under the soil of those fields.

Mentally or physically, Dino wondered, though the answer is the same.

'Kind of.' He simply replied, not getting jis hopes too high in case this was a fake reality as well.

'Want me to take you to the nearest town? You should find a place to sleep in before it gets dark.' Suggested the old man, who dino just nodded to.

After earning a nod from the younger, the man started marching his way on the dry path towards the town, leaving the green fields on his left. With a nonchalant Lee chan following behind.

'Hey kid, would it be alright if we passed by the cemetery? I gotta put new flowers for my wife.' Said the old man waving the bouquet that was in his hand in front of the youngers face.

Dino nodded slowly as he didn't want to ruin the mood for the memory of the man's wife. He'd probably do the same for his loved ones as well,

Yet he didn't bring any flowers with him this time.

Following the man into the cemetery, Lee chan started reading late peaples' names as he passed by their headstones.

He was mindlessly reading until he came across a far too familiar name. Then two familiar names, then three, then - wait what?

| [최 승철] <1995.08.08 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [윤 정한] <1995.10.04 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [홍 지수] <1995.12.30 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [문 전휘] <1996.06.10 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [권 순영] <1996.06.15 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [전 원우] <1996.07.17 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [이 지훈] <1996.11.22 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [서 명호] <1997.11.07 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [김 민규] <1997.04.06 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [이 석민] <1997.02.18 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [부 승관] <1998.01.16 _ 2024.03.22> |
| [취 한솔] <1998.02.18 _ 2024.03.22> |

As if he had just seen a ghost, all colors left his face, making him look paler than he already was.

He suddenly couldn't hear the old man greeting his wife anymore, nor could he feel the wind blowing on his face and cold body. He felt numb, lost, and, for the nth time, confused.

Is this another game his mind was playing on him? What even is the date today? Are these actually his members? But weren't they camping in the forest he just came out of? What is going on? And witch reality his mind showed him was actually real?

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A/N
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