Likely Story ~ Seventeen

Chapter 26: Dream (Nightmare) Land

Jeonghan wakes up with a startled expression. He looks around but is confused. He's still where they last were but, the others aren't there.

"Guys?" He calls out.

Nothing; No sound, no air.

"It's not funny," He says quieter this time.

He stands up from his spot and looks around. He freezes as he feels a chill behind him. He turns around and immediately regrets his decision.

Behind him is the tree he was leaning on but, with dead bodies hanging from it. It wasn't just any bodies, the bodies of the others.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Suddenly asks one of the hanging bodies, it's head slowly turning towards him.

"What do you mean?" Jeonghan stutters, he had no idea why he was responding to them.

"You know exactly what we mean." Says one of the other bodies.

He couldn't tell who was who. All of their faces were hidden in the shadows of the tree.

"This wouldn't have happened if you told us the truth!" Yells one of them. "Now we all died because of you."

"No," Jeonghan whispers quietly, barely audible. "This is all just a dream. Right?'

"Oh, you wish this was a dream. Everything comes true at one point." Says a different voice this time.

"You betrayed our trust, yet we still listened to you." A different one says. "Now look what happened to us. Dead."

A bright light comes out of nowhere and shines on the dead bodies. He wished he could unsee it all. The bodies were heavily bruised, the skin as white as a ghost. Their clothes were tattered and bloody. But the thing that bothered him the most was their eyes.

It was always the eyes. But these eyes had something to them. They were a completely different color: indigo. The eyes all had the same emotions portrayed: anger, hatred, betrayal, frustration, distrust, regret, lost hope, but what most stood out to him was the love in their eyes.

He was confused, he knew they all loved each other, but this was a different kind of love. Almost as if it was all directed at him.

"You did this to us and you should pay!" Yells one of them. He quickly realizes it's Seungkwan.

"We never should have trusted you!" Yells the person he could easily recognize as Jihoon.

"Why didn't you tell us of the darkness?" Asks Mingyu in a creepy way.

"This is just a dream," Jeonghan mutters to himself again. "None of this actually happened."

"That's what you think." Scoffs Soonyoung.

"This is the future Jeonghan; you made this happen," Joshua says.

"No," Jeonghan denies. "This is just my mind playing tricks again."

"Think again." Says a voice from behind him.

He quickly turns around and is met face to face with Seungcheol's indigo eyes. He wants to turn away from the gruesome image but, something won't let him.

"I trusted you, I defended you, and you did what?" Seungcheol yells at his face. "You let me and the rest die."

"No, I didn't!" Jeonghan yells covering his ears with his hands

Cold hands remove his hands from his ears and hold them at his side.

"You did this because you were selfish and weak!" Yells Seungcheol.