Retelling the Video

Beautiful 3

I.M's Point of View

I was in a room with gold bars and coins on white and gold pedestals when I left the white smoke. The ceiling was made of glass, letting the sunlight in. The sun lit up the top portion of the wall in the right corner farthest from the door. The door had nine small, circular windows with three on the top, middle, and bottom. I saw another door with windows like mine but the room looked empty.

I picked up some of the coins and sat on the pedestal they had just been occupying. I let them fall from my hands, smiling a little at the tinkling sounds they made when they hit the floor and the other coins. I wondered absently if I was going to get to keep all this gold as I let more coins fall from my hands.

I did that for hours until I realized what I was doing. I realized that I was being insanely greedy. I had never needed any of this before. I had really only needed my friends, except recently I had been forgetting them. And that normally wouldn't be very bad but they had really needed me recently.

In that place before the I woke up in the hospital, I had been completely observed with the teddy bears and that game. I had completely forgotten my friends. I had even been able to tell that the fake Jooheon I met was fake until we woke up and he wasn't there with us.

I had even forgotten them when I walked into this room. I only saw all the gold around me. I knew I had walked into the smoke with them, but they weren't here. I'd been obsessed with gold when I should have been looking for my friends in any way I could.

I felt anger at myself welling up inside me. I took it out on the only thing I could; the gold bars all around me. I shoved as many as I could off of the pedestal next to me and grabbed a match that was under them for some reason. A wind kicked up and blew American dollars around the room. I hadn't even seen them before.

I was about to shove more bars off into the floor until I realized that wasn't going to help the others. None of this would. I couldn't do anything to help them now that I knew they could really use some help. The money blew around me and I just stood there, staring up at the ceiling. I saw the great golden orb of the sun. It suddenly winked out of existence like an old television being turned off. I stared up in shock before moving again.

I took the match and grabbed one of the dollar bills. I ran the match along a gold bar, hoping it would light, and smiled when it did somehow. I lit the dollar on fire and put it in the fire place. I grabbed more money and threw it in, throwing gold bars and coins in when all the dollar bills were in the fire.

I sat in front of the fire place and watched everything burn. Someone would come soon. Someone would let me out so I could meet my friends again.

Jooheon's Point of View

Another door opened. I.M's door. He was sitting in front of a fire place, watching things burn in the darkness. The sun above his room had gone out.

Shownu waved at me from behind his door. He still saw it as closed, but he could see things outside his room now. I talked to him and Minhyuk sometimes when I got bored walking the halls. I just told them that they would be able to leave soon and that my name was Jooheon.

I don't think they really trusted me much after hearing my name. I wouldn't either, not after the trick the hospital had pulled with all those copies of me.

I walked to my pile of rope and sat on it, watching as the darkness at the end of the hall got lighter again. I waited for the next door to open.