Once Upon A Time (Twice's Nayeon X You) ✓

Chapter 6: The Doll

Nayeon's POV

"KYAA!"

My chair is falling backward on what I saw. I am falling. I am going down not until I felt that my body was floating in the air. No, only the chair fell. I was being held. She caught me. If Jihyo heard the sound again, I'll be surely doomed.

"Why does it seem like you've seen a ghost?", she was sitting on my desk, yes she was. "Why are you awake this time? Huh? It's midnight. You always wake up at midnight. What's wrong with your sleeping pattern? Shouldn't you sleep at 21:00?"

She was still holding my hands with my back bent. Yes, she was strong enough to maintain on holding me like this. I can not let go or else I would fall down. I tried to stand now and pulled my hands away from her when she wasn't looking at me.

"Huh?"

"Kya!", I couldn't keep calm when I saw it in my two eyes that my porcelain doll transformed into a human. "Wake up, Nayeon. This is just a dream, okay?"

A powerful slap on my face was all I could do for me to go back in reality. I hope this is effective. Maybe Jihyo is right. I'm going crazy. I should volunteer to go to another doctor tomorrow.

"Stop hurting yourself."

The palmar surface of her hands grasp the dorsal surface of my hands. No, she isn't real. Why can I feel her hands then? What made this feel so real?

"Kya!"

"Are you mute? You keep on saying 'Kya' as if it's the only word you know. Have you been watching horror movies before bedtime? You know it's not good."

Scanning her from up and down. Indeed! She was wearing another set of pajamas that I recently changed for my doll! With a tiny strength coming from me, my hands leaped its' way and pushed the person in front of me using my index finger. The latter flinched with my sudden action.

"Kya!"

"Nayeon unnie?!"

"Faster! Hide!", I pushed her away from my desk.

"Hide?"

"Stop asking questions! Just hide anywhere you want!", the latter moved as she was ordered.

"Is there something wrong, unnie?", the spare key Jihyo kept was used. "Unnie!"

My face showed drowsiness making Jihyo worry again. I'm back at it again. I'm on the floor again. Jihyo hurried towards me as she assisted me.

"Unnie! Why do you always fall?!"

"Maybe this bed is too small for me? Don't worry I will request a king-sized bed tomorrow."

After our schedules today, the doorbell alarmed all of us and I went there immediately. New bed. A larger one. I hope last night would be the last time that there would be a noise in my room. Still, the worry on Jihyo's face never left. The workers start to fix my new bed inside my room. An upgrade. After they left, I closed the door for a moment and opened my closet. There she was sitting well like an innocent doll.

"Yah. Talk.", I begged the doll to talk. "Was that really you coming every night? Or am I going crazy?"

No answer. It would be creepier if the doll would talk in its current form than it would be for a human to open its mouth.