Haunted

Late Night Arrival

 Its 11:40 by the time Chanyeol gets back to EXO’s dorm. He’s soaking wet and very cold. The only thing he wants the moment he gets back to the dorm is a hot shower. He has no idea that it was going to rain. If he’d known, he would have driven his car instead. His stomach growls telling its owner that it wants to be fed.

‘Ok, a light snack after the hot shower.’

As he walks by the kitchen, he swears he hears someone singing.

‘Impossible.’

Everyone is supposed to be sleeping at this time. They have to be up by 6 and ready by 6:30AM. Suddenly a flash of lightning illuminates the kitchen. Chanyeol swears he sees a figure standing by the window. As soon as the flash disappears, the singing stops. There’s another flash and then the kitchen is empty.

Chanyeol rubs his eyes, “Ok, getting caught in a downpour is making me see and hear things”.

He literally freezes in mid step when he hears the singing again. It seriously sounds like someone is singing MAMA, their debut song. When another flash went off, the kitchen is empty again and the singing has stopped.

‘Fuckin hell.’ There is no way the members are up, not after the grueling practice they went through.  Yixing and Jongin were practically dead on their feet by the time they got back to the dorm.

Chanyeol decides to head to his studio because he finally has the inspiration to finish the song he’d been composing. Their manager is already asleep since they have to be up by 5:30 to make sure no one overslept.

Then who the fuck is singing at  he quickly checks his watch 11:50 at night, its 10 min to midnight.

The singing starts again and his heart feels like it’s trying to running away from him. Chanyeol decides to hightail out of the living room, heading straight to the room he shares with KaiSoo. He grabs his night clothes, towel, and underwear and disappears into the bathroom for a hot shower. He prays along the way that it’s his imagination playing tricks on him, that the dorm is not haunted.

“Great, I have become like Tao. He is jumping at everything when there is nothing there to begin with. “

By the time he finishes showering he realizes it’s midnight.

‘Might as well grab a drink and light snack before I sleep.’

He rubs his hair with a smaller towel while tossing his dirty clothes into the hamper at the same time.

Chanyeol gets out the shower, humming Fire by BTS as he makes his way to the kitchen. He has completely forgotten about the singing in the kitchen or the figure standing by the window. He opens the refrigerator to see what there is to eat. Finally he decides on a nice cold can of chilsung cider. He opens the can of chilsung cider and is about to take a drink from it when he hears the singing again.

Chanyeol literally freezes and slowly turns around. He swears the singing is no more than a few feet away from him.  This time the song is Monster, the line that’s sung by Jongdae- creeping, creeping. Now Chanyeol is fuckin scared.

Fuck who is singing at midnight. Suddenly he notices the stove light is on, softy illuminating the lone figure that is standing right next to stove. He notices the figure is not the one that is singing. He’s too scared to even squeak or scream. Suddenly flash of lightning illuminates the kitchen. He sees something reflecting, like a mirror. He realizes it’s a butcher knife that the figure is holding. When the flash is gone the singing begins again. When another flash goes off, the singing stops, and the figure is missing. He’s too scared to run for his life, his feet feel like they’ve been super glued to the kitchen floor.