My Vindicators

Chapter 33-Bonds

Two Years ago

I am in the dark—it is pitch black. Something is wrong. I can hear my soulmates in my mind. Their thoughts are chaotic, and I can't make sense of them.

Tae, what is going on?

I hear his thoughts stop.

Amy

I'm here. Why can't I see anything?

Amy, that can't be you. You are unconscious.

It is Tae. I need help to get out of here.

He stopped responding, and I saw a small light coming from my right. Turning, it looked like the window in my room. On the other side is my bedroom in Bangtan's house. I rush toward it and climb through. I am in my room, and it feels so real. I called out, but no one answered me. Wandering around, I see that everyone's rooms are as they should be, and all the cars are home.

Amy, why won't you wake up?

Kook?

Amy?

What is wrong? This feels like home, but something is wrong.

Amy, please come back to me.

Kook. I need you to keep talking to me. I can't find you.

Silence again. I feel like I have been home alone for a long time, but every time I check the clock, it has only been five minutes since the last time I checked. I tried to find my phone to call someone, but I couldn't find it. I know if I could only find the front door, I could get out. I could get to them. Every time I go to where the door should be, it is missing. I tried to climb back out of the window, but I ended up back in the room again. I keep calling out to the guys, and occasionally, they answer, and when they do, it is almost like a faint outline of a door appears where it should be. But then, one day, it all stops. I try and try with no answer. Slowly, this place starts feeling right, and I stop trying to leave. Convinced I had woken from a weird dream and they would be home any minute.

I can't keep track of time. It feels like so long since they have been home, but time isn't moving fast, so that can't be right. I am sitting on the couch, flipping through the same book for what feels like the millionth time. When I hear it. It is very faint.

Amy, god, I fucking miss you. Why won't you come back?

It's Hwa.

Hwa?

Amy? I wish it were really you I was talking to.

It is.

Okay. Just this once, I will play along. Where are you?

I am at the Bangtan house. I want to come to you, but there is no door to get out.

As I say that, the faint outline of a door appears.

Wait, keep talking to me.

You look so beautiful lying here. I miss you so much.

I miss you, too. Hwa, where are you?

I'm watching you sleep.

The door solidifies, and I walk towards it. The only thing missing now is a doorknob.

Hwa, I love you.

I love you, baby.

That's it. That is all it takes to create the knob, and I open the door to complete darkness.