12.Ghost Stories

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When my hand is finished being wrapped and aided to i hop off the table and walk across the room, out through the large metal doors.

I scanned the common room, Hyunjin not there but it has started to rain.

"Are you okay?" Jisung says hopping off the couch and quickly coming to my side

"I'm fine" I say as he grabs my hand and examines my bandaged palm.

"I didn't think they would actually burn you" he says and I nod in agreement

"Did he really light the whole room up?" Minho then says from behind Jisung on the couch.

"Yes" I say as Jisung turns around and directs me towards the couches

"He's never done that" he says "It took all my energy to put that out"

I look at him as he has concern clear across his face

"What?" I say confused

"They didn't know he could get that big, he could burn this whole facility down" he says softly clearly concerned.

He's never done that?

"Where is he?" I say confused

"Showering" Minho says simply and I nod. He was covered in ash and gasoline It was quiet after that, I sat on the couch watching the rain pelt down hard outside hitting the glass. The storm has been picking up a lot over the past hour.

Suddenly the tv switches off and the lights in the room go out just seconds after? I look over Jisung as he swivels around in his chair by the art table and looks at me then the tv.

"Did the power just go out?" Jisung says standing up

"Looks like it" I say standing up from the couch as Minho stands from the opposing couch where he was reading to go check the TV.

Suddenly I hear Hyunjin as comes around the corner into the common room in his normal shirtless, sweats combo.

"What now" Minjo says confused when suddenly the big metal doors open to Dr.Choi standing with a guard.

"Hey everyone, the storm obviously took the power out, is everyone okay?" He says

"Yes" Jisung says quietly

"We brought blankets and candles, you can ask Hyunjin here to light them" he says as the guards beside him set the supplies on the table we set our dirty dishes on.

"Is there any other concerns?" He asks but no one responds. He then nods and leaves out the door with the guard, locking us in again behind them.

I move slowly across the room and grab the blankets and candles before placing one blanket down on each couch and the candles on the table in between

"Oh this could be fun! We can tell scary stories" Jisung says coming around the couch and sitting down, pulling Minho's arm down onto the couch beside him "Hyunjin" he says looking up at him hinting to the candles

I see him roll his eyes and seconds later the candles spark to life as they burn in the middle of the table, just hardly illuminating Jisung and Minho's faces.

I shake my head at the childishness of telling ghost stories before turning to the couch and crawling under the blanket, leaving more than enough room for Hyunjin.

A few seconds pass before he finally sits down beside me, opting out of sharing the blanket. Not sure if it's because it's with me or if it's because he runs hot with his element already. I look over to Jisung as he's cuddling and giggling as he whispers with Minho a while longer. I wish I knew what that was like. They genuinely seem happy.

"Okay" he says finally facing us. "I'll start, and this is a true story, I was there" he says and I see Hyunjin lip twitch up in amusement.

"So like 3 years ago I was with my sister and we were camping with my family and she wanted to go on a walk, so naturally we do. Anyways we are walking and we stumble into this random abandoned house out in the forest with the door taken off so naturally we went in and inside in the living room was one wooden chair and on it was an engraving the said "demons" and then my sister said "do you hear that" and when I turn back to her there is a man outside the door that wasn't there before. I scream and he tells us that he lives nearby and we aren't supposed to be trust-passing so we leave and there are no signs anywhere posting private property so the next day we bring our dad and we can't find the house AND we can't find the 'neighbours house" he says and i instinctively move my feet off the floor and in under the blanket with me. Not to say I believe in ghosts and demons but it still makes me uncomfortable.

"Seriously?" I ask and he nods.

"Alright, I'll go" Minho says now ready

"I was alone so you'll have to trust me but one time I was driving on a backroad and I heard this girl yelling for help so I stopped the car and rolled down my window and it was silent like not even a cricket and  like you hear things and there was nothing. I look up and there are no stars in the sky and it just feels off and I suddenly hear the sound again from the other side of the road directly across from me and something feels off so i roll up the window and drive home. Turns out that next morning I was watching the news and there was apparently a massive meteor shower. I swear there was nothing and i wasn't even near light pollution, everything was black" he says and I can feel my hands start to go clammy as I'm clearly now spooked.

I notice now that I've somehow moved closer to Hyunjin as I'm almost directly beside him, even parts of the blanket are on him now. Shit.

"Note to self, don't go in outback at night" I say softly and Jisung laughs

"I see things here sometimes" Hyunjin says after a moment

"What?" I say looking up at him quickly now truly scared.

"Yeah, like out my window, at night I'll see figures standing outside. I woke up and went to the washroom in the middle of the night and saw things move and I could feel something following me" he says and now I'm shaking and my heart is racing. Are you kidding me?!

"Your lying?" Jisung says and he shakes his head with no sign of humour on his face.

"Happened like 3 days ago" he says and I find myself as close to him as I possibly can without touching him, finding myself scared of the dark for the first time since I was a kid.

"Why haven't you told me, we should do a Ouija Board!" Jisung says smiling as he hops off the couch and walks over to the art table?!

"Or we could not?" I say and Hyunjin grins slightly. The hell to this idea I ain't looking to die.

"We should" Hyunjin says after looking at me now scared. Screw you. I move away from him now draped in the blanket, no exposed limbs."Agreed" Minho says grinning before laughing at how scared I now am.

A few moments later Jisung returns with a piece of paper and a sharpie as he starts spelling out "A..B..C.."

"Guys we aren't serious?" I say as Hyunjin and Minho lean forward around the table moving the candles to make space. My heart starts racing as I now frantically scan around the room.

"Come on" Jisung says now finishing up the numbers, yes, no, and goodbye. Before cutting a piece of paper into a planchette with a small hole to see the letters through

"Guys" I say leaning forward into the game out of peer pressure

"Live a little" Minho says as Jisung finishes up and places the planchette down in the middle.

"I'm trying to" I say

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