Seven | Book 1 (An EXO fiction)

14.

~Chapter 14: From the Outside Looking In~

*2nd Person POV*

"Where the fuck is Tao? What happened? You guys were supposed to be watching her!" Luhan's voice grows louder with each angry word. His aggression being thoughtlessly directed towards his younger friend who has done nothing to deserve it. Luhan's fists clench making the gravity in the area around them start to waver ever so slightly.

You haven't passed out; in fact, you appear to be wide awake. However, it's obvious that you aren't mentally there. Your gaze has frosted over and you continue to stare off into space as if you're lazily watching something in the distance. Kris notices the sudden drastic change in your state, and makes a mental note to keep an even closer eye on you until you come to.

"The real question is how did you know that something happened before they even showed up?" Kris questions. He shifts the weight of your body in his arms and arcs a questioning brow at the angry male next to him. The older of the two had begun running outside before he even knew that you had returned. Kris wasn't sure how he knew you'd gotten back, and by the confused look on Luhan's, he didn't seem to know either.

Luhan's rant halts for the briefest second before he waves Kris off and returns to taking his irritation out on Jongin. Kris exhales and carries you up to your room before lying you on your bed, leaving the two others outside.

"Hey, can you hear me? June? Can you hear me?" His quiet questions go unnoticed. Your eyes are cast towards the ceiling, unblinking, and devoid of emotion. You look as though you've left your body in some kind of buffering mode. He lets out a breath before analyzing your state. He doesn't want to sneak Yixing back here, but if he has to then safety be damned he'll send Jongin immediately.

Your jeans are dirty, and he hesitates before he decides to just take them off himself and remove the sweater he gave to you. They're just clothes and you can't rest in those. After delicately taking off your dirtied clothes and shoes, he tosses them to the side.

"Come on, let's get you under the covers." He whispers. Quickly and quietly he pulls the covers over your sweating body, taking the opportunity to talk you through his steps to fill the silence. "I'm going to put a wet towel on your head. You'll be back to normal in no time. Don't worry." Luhan's voice can still be heard from outside, even from the second floor. He rolls his eyes and prepares a wet cloth to sit on your head while you sleep.

He frowns while looking at your unresponsive form.

What happened to you?

The sound of footsteps and yelling gets louder as Luhan shouts Jongin all the way up to the second floor.

"I don't get how you both couldn't do the one job you were given! Do you even realize what-"

"Jongin, what happened?" Kris says, cutting off Luhan. He closes the door to your room, and faces the two in the hallway. Jongin is nearly shaking in his spot and stumbles over his words searching for how to explain what exactly he saw. He isn't too sure himself.

"I- we- u-um." He takes in a calming breath and shakes his head before restarting. Luhan's nonstop yelling has sufficiently scrambled his thoughts. "Everything was going fine at first, but then we got to one street and suddenly she took off running. Tao and I followed after her, but she was just so fast." Luhan glares at the younger, and Jongin swallows nervously. "U-um, then we stopped at this place, but all I saw was burnt wood and stuff. She started walking towards it, and I was going to stop her, but Tao wouldn't let me.

"We watched her walk around in it, and then she was screaming. I don't know what happened, but one minute she was looking around, and the next she was on the ground screaming at the top of her lungs and crying. We ran over as fast as we could, and I picked her up so we could get her out. When we got her out she-she was still screaming. I tried shaking her out of it, and Tao was yelling her name, but she wasn't responding. He slapped her really hard and then she finally stopped. I...I don't know what she was going through while she was out of it like that, but I...I've seen enough people do similar stuff in the castle to know she really- she...she really..." he grabs his hair frustrated as the words fail to come to him. "She...really flipped out for a minute there." He sighs at his own unsatisfactory explanation and rubs his arm nervously.