haunted // nct.dream [1]

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"Mi-Cha," my voice came out just barely audible. "Your... Your nose is bleeding again." I noticed then how freezing the basement had become. I could see my breath coming out of my body in puffs like fog.

Mi-Cha's hand slowly wiped at the oozing, thick liquid the streamed down the lower half of her face. Her hands were covered in it now.

"What's wrong with you?" Johnny questioned. "Did you lock the door?"

Mi-Cha's head drooped to the side, her eyes staring coldly at us. It was like she was seeing into our souls with a look of pure stone that could rip it right out of your body.

I slowly took a step back. "I-If you're just trying to get back at us for bringing you to this house, I think you're going on for too long." I began to shutter all over.

"Long?" She scoffed. "You know nothing about things going on for 'too long'!" Mi-Cha started walking in our direction. Our footsteps matched hers, but backing up. "It really becomes a long time when you've been beaten, you've been bruised by members of your own family for your entire life." Mi-Cha's pupils seemed to have expanded to fill her whole iris.

"It's not Mi-Cha," Renjun gasped.

"What are you doing to her?" Jaemin demanded.

"You don't know long until your body has been hidden in the walls of a house for almost forty years! And no one bothered to look for you! You don't know what a long time is like!" The spirit's voice left Mi-Cha in shrieks.

"Stop it!" I screamed.

"I'll show you what it's like to experience something for a long time."

My foot crept behind, looking for more room to continue stepping back, but only found another foot there. I looked back to see Haechan standing right behind me, not about to move any farther. A concrete wall blocked us all from going anywhere else. The decreasing space between us and 'Mi-Cha' forced me closer.

"Mi-Cha's still in there," Johnny whispered. "I don't know how to get her out."

The door jiggled from behind 'Mi-Cha'.

"What's going on?" Hana yelled out her question from the other side. "Are you guys okay?"

"No!" Johnny replied. "You have to get that door open!"

Mi-Cha's face twisted with rage. "Stay out of this!"

"Mi-Cha, what's wrong?" Hana questioned, her voice starting to shake.

Mi-Cha's body doubled over, as if she was in immense pain. Her head shot back up in our direction, but her eyes were back to her normal color. They squinted as tears ran out and her eyebrows pulled together. Her hair was sticking to the blood, sweat, and tears, but I could make out her teeth clenched in pain.

"South end of the house!" she was able to cry out before her whole body was pushed back. She let out a scream, and her back made a loud pop noise.

Johnny and Jaemin ran to her side and pulled Mi-Cha to her feet.

"Go away!" Mi-Cha tried to push them off, all her limbs twitching like crazy. "You can't be around me! She's still inside, and I can't fight her out!"

Jaemin held Mi-Cha's spazzing body close to him, wrapping his arms tightly around her. "Mi-Cha, when would I ever leave alone in a time of trouble?"

"Enough with the sugar and spice," Haechan demanded, taking a step closer to the group. "We have to burn that skeleton!"

Mi-Cha's body was a living earthquake. She let out painful noises, before falling silent... and completely still.