I couldn't have possibly opened the door faster, the sobs becoming heavier as each and every one stood before me, all alive and well. Chan, Minho, Changbin, Hyunjin, Jisung, Felix, Seungmin, and Jeongin. All looking at me with a mixture of emotions, just as we were in the beginning. "You... but..." I cried out, my legs barely keeping me standing. Everyone kept quiet, even some of them letting tears falling quietly as well. Chan was the first to speak, yet again taking the lead. It felt like deja vu, only with many more memories and emotions involved.
"Do you remember the tunnel you and Hyunjin took underground in the zone you lost me?" Lost him. I so vividly remember the fall, so how... "As soon as one of us 'died', we fell into an underground tunnel just like that one, where an entire team was waiting for us to fix us up, making sure no one could get seriously injured. After that, we each reunited again, being able to follow you along through another a transparant tunnel, hearing and seeing everything you did." I couldn't believe my ears and eyes, all emotions I had felt when losing them all coming up again. "You're all still alive..." I cried out.
Though I could see Seungmin struggling, trying to come up to me, Changbin stopped him. "We could have been without struggle if you hadn't betrayed us all along," he answered coldly, the warmth he radiated before now nowhere to be found. My eyes fell on him, only then realizing most of them had no warmth in them at all anymore. It took me too long to figure out for my liking, until I realized why they all seemed so hostile. Each and every one of them had heard my lie I told Hyunjin. That I'd never cared for any of them at all. And yet, all I had said before, in the small white room? That got lost, only for me and my father to be heard.
"Wait, I can explain everything," I tried, but the scoff Minho let out was enough to know that no matter what I said, they wouldn't believe it. "How could you possibly explain that every time you showed us what we thought was your true self, had been a lie? The important things we shared with you, our dreams and deepest fears, and all along you didn't care about any of it? You had just been planning on killing every one of us, and I'm guessing only pretending to get closer to us so you could get rid of us when it hurt the most."
My eyes fell on Seungmin, who despite looking incredibly hurt, still didn't look as mad as any of the others. "It's not like that, I promise!" I tried to convince him. After all, he was the one that made me believe in second chances at happiness again. "Everything was real! All of it! If you saw everything, you must have seen too that I never meant for any of it to happen! You guys truly made me believe I could have a life again. Please, you have to believe me." Seungmin, who before kept looking at me, now turned away. "Just like how you never meant to kill Hyunjin as you pointed the gun at him, and pulled the trigger?" he muttered.
I could feel my heart shatter all over again upon hearing him say those words. It was over for me. They were never going to believe me, let alone forgive me. I started laughing, much to the displeasement of the eight boys in front of me. It was all over for me. Any hope I had of ever having a life with any of them in it was now once more broken. "You know what? Fine, believe what you want to believe. I don't need any of you!" I called out, walking up towards the table the boys were all standing in front of. The money must be behind them. I lied to them yet again, but if that was what I could do to convince myself to leave all of our memories behind and start anew, so be it.
Still, as I came in closer, Chan got up, pushing me back. It took me a second to realise, but it didn't take too long to know what they were planning. "Hey, whatever you do or say, I earned that money! With or without any of you in my life, that money is mine!" It hurt bad enough to see them all again, let alone hating me, but I couldn't give up on my freedom. Not when it was right in front of me. I tried to get up, this time feeling Minho pull me back, holding onto me tightly as Changbin took a card out of a box. "Maybe you're right. Maybe you officially earned it, but you don't deserve it. You don't deserve to live a happy life, if all you are is a liar, a cheat, and a murderer."
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✔️The funhouse of murder • Stray Kids X reader✔️
Fanfiction*trigger warnings at the end* -completed- Funhouses, they should be fun right, like the name suggests? well, this one can be, it just depends on how you look at it. If being tortured to death is your thing, go for it! Many have tried it, always wit...
