Dreams of Arcadia

46

"Oh no, you better not do that... Jungkook wasn't far behind us... He might beat you up if he thinks you're a ghost. We shouldn't risk that." Yeosang said, urging us to keep walking.

"Unnie... your shirt is open at the back... and you only have panties underneath..." I pointed out to Sunmi that she was almost naked.

"Why do you have to arrive here in the clothes you died in?" she complained. San took off his hoodie, wearing a shirt underneath, and then handed her the garment. She gratefully accepted it and put it on. As it reached down to her thighs, it was more like a dress and covered everything that should remain covered. I smiled at the gesture and took his hand.

He looked down at me in surprise, but then squeezed my hand lightly and showed me his dimples, which almost made me melt. God he was cute...

"Yah, come on, I want to get out of here, it's creepy here." Jin demanded and simply walked between us, separating our hands. San looked after him, annoyed, but immediately reached for me again and this time intertwined our fingers. After the hall of mirrors was the exit, but unfortunately we had to cross the room via turntables. These were round floor plates that rotated when you stepped onto them. If you stepped on the wrong one, it turned in a different direction and you ended up somewhere else, but not at the exit. It was like a labyrinth where you had to choose a new path every time you took a step. After we kept ending up against a wall, we all stopped where we had come out and looked around.

"Do you think there's a trick?" asked Wooyoung.

"There must be, otherwise you'd never get out of here." Yeosang remarked.

"Maybe just run through." suggested Jin and rushed forward. But when his feet touched two different plates and started spinning, he was on the ground within seconds, touching even more plates and his body was sent spinning across the floor. I had tears of laughter in my eyes and the others were also giggling as Jin danced around the room lying down.

"Yah, stop laughing, you'd better help me," he complained in a panic.

"Who told you to just start running without thinking about the consequences?" Sunmi scolded, laughing.

"What are you doing?" asked Jungkook, who had arrived with Taehyung.

"JK... save me!" Jin, who was still twirling around, shouted and then looked perplexedly at Taehyung, who was hopping on different plates and was now standing at the exit door.

"How did you do that?" asked Wooyoung, confused.

"Well... look up." Taehyung said with a grin and they all looked up at the same time. The floor was marked on the ceiling... with arrows above all the tiles, showing where they led. San slapped his forehead with his hand, Yeosang groaned annoyed at our stupidity and Sunmi giggled. I stepped onto the tiles and followed the arrows to Jin, whom I then helped up. San was right behind me and held me so that I didn't fall with Jin. When he was finally standing again, we found our way to the exit just as quickly as Tae and were glad when we all had solid ground under our feet again. Mingi and Han were standing outside waiting for us.

"What took you so long?" Han asked, and then froze when he saw Sunmi.

"Noona... I thought you were safe?" he exclaimed in horror.

"Well, at least I lived for a while, but well... it doesn't look too bad here." she said, shrugging her shoulders.

"How did you make it out so quickly?" asked San.

"We jumped... Just don't stop, it's easy to hop over it." Mingi explained and we grimaced.

"I feel a bit stupid right now." said Wooyoung and we were no different.

"Come on, there's a funhouse. Maybe there's a ball pit." Han said and ran off.