Ravenwood Manor ӏ ATEEZ

CHAPTER

TW: You may get triggered by the topics mentioned (I can't say more in order not to spoil). But be advised.

The youngest twisted the doorknob, entering the room along with Seonghwa and Wooyoung. Once inside, they quickly shone their lights all around the room. Every dirty table, every cobweb were revealed by the beam of their flashlights. Once or twice Wooyoung's heart threaten to sink as he mistook the silhouettes of the furniture for something else until the shadow of a man, hiding behind the bedframe appeared, right under the flash of Seonghwa's torch who screamed at the same time as the shadow did.

The three boys ran out of the room, closing the door behind them.

"Oh, my god!" Wooyoung exhaled, bent over with his hand on his knees.

"What happened????" Yeosang frantically asked, looking at the three.

"There's someone in there!!" Seonghwa was still pale from the fright of seeing the strange man.

A shower of questions and freaking out later, and a faint voice could be heard followed by a knock on the door. The friends looked at each other with a mixture of fear and apprehension until once again, Jongho twisted the knob and opened the door. In front of them, black wavy hair with a white stripe, two cat like eyes, a thin nose and pretty pink lips.

Wooyoung couldn't pinpoint it yet, but the boy in front of them looked vaguely familiar. Not as familiar as another student of their high school, yet he was sure he had already seen him somewhere.

"What the hell is going on here???" Yunho barked.

"Why are you yelling at me??? I should be the one asking you that" the other boy shot back with disdain.

"We're here to get a file" Hongjoong said, making his way to the front of the line. "You're the one who's sneaking around inside a dark room"

"And what was that loud bang we heard?" Everyone had forgotten about the sound that had brought them all here until Jongho mentioned it.

"The window closed shut" the ravenette explained. "Which makes no sense because those things are heave as fuck"

All the while the boys discussed window weight and agility in order to even get inside the manor without using the front door, Wooyoung kept trying to figure out where he had seen that face before. 

It took him a couple of minutes but eventually he had it.

"I know!" he exclaimed, startling the rest of the group. "Your name is  Choi San and you just moved here"

Said boy slowly turned to look at him, eyeing the ravenette up and down. "And how do you know my name and face?"

Mingi raised an eyebrow, looking at his friend. "Yeah, you stalking him?"

"No" he replied, rolling his eyes. "My father handled the renting of the house and everything, I saw his mother's contact picture on his phone. It was a picture of her and her son. That's her son" he finished by pointing at the stranger, still one step inside the room.

"Very well, then. Yes, I am Choi San and me and my mom got here two weeks ago"

"Yeah, I remember now. She's a coroner, right? You moved into the house behind the old market place"

"Right" he answered, nodding his head, seemingly bored with the introductions.

"Dude, seriously, how do you know so much about him?" Yunho asked, looking at his friend sideways.

As they were talking, Wooyoung had noticed Jongho going inside the bedroom, taking a look around with Seonghwa. After some time, he slowly came from behind, crouching down before taking out his father's handcuffs and in a quick motion, he secured the handcuff around the ravenette's wrist.