Scourge ✝

Chapter 11 ✝

"Hye jin, i have to show you something."

*HYE JIN'S POV*

The room was filled with silence. He wants to show me something? So show me?

"What is it taehyung?" my curiosity got the best of me. He didn't say anything, he just grabbed my hand and pulled me with him. I followed him into what seemed like his room.

"Is this your room?" i asked as i let my eyes wander around the room. There was a picture, when i saw it, i felt very happy and shocked too.

It was mine and taehyung's picture, when we came home after playing, covered in mud, dad took a picture of us, we both smiled sheepishly, we were embarrassed.

I had the same picture in my room for years, which i threw away after mom died in a misunderstanding that he killed mom. I'm so stupid.

"How do you have this picture? You didn't take anything when you left the house."

"Oh this, a day before dad left, i asked him to get several copies of this picture cause i loved it. So he got them and gave me one, i always kept one with me!" taehyung said.

I looked at him. Is he saying he loved this picture and always kept one with him? Like 24/7?

"What? I look good in that picture!" he said and that made me laugh.
"Yeah, sure." i said and kept looking around the room while taehyung took out a box from his closet.

"what is that?" i asked him, "This is what i wanted to show you hye jin" he said and i dont know why, i had a very strange feeling about this. Was i scared? Nope.

"Come here" he said as he motioned for me to sit down on his bed. And i did. He slowly opened the box and there were a few notes here and there, a few pictures and a bracelet.

"What are these taehyung?" taehyung picked one of the pictures and showed it to me. It was a picture of my dad, taehyung and another man.

"These are a few things dad gave me, i thought i should show you." he said and i looked at the picture very carefully.

'Taehyung do you know who this man beside dad is?" i asked and Taehyung shook his head. "I've looked at these pictures for years now and i can't think of who that man could possibly be." he said.

"I think i know him taehyung." i said, trying my best to go back in the memories and figure out who is man is.

"Really? You do?" taehyung asked. I tried too hard but i couldnt figure out who he was. "I think I've seen him when i was young but i can't remember when and who is he."

"that's alright hye jin, don't force yourself, it isn't very important."
Taehyung said back and i nodded still trying to think when suddenly, taehyung pulled out a note out of the box.

"What does that say?" i asked to which taehyung replied, "It's one of the threatening notes hye jin."

"Why did you keep it with the other good stuff though?" i asked, what possibly could be the reason to keep dad's memories and these threatening stuff together?

"i told you right, i feel like its all connected." he said and i nodded, then my vision fell on a beautiful purple bracelet. It was below every note and picture.

"Hey, what's that tae?" i asked pointing at the bracelet.

"Hye jin, i have a very very bad headache whenever i look at it. So the reason i wanted to show you is to know do you also have a headache when you look at it or touch it? Is it an important part of what we're trying to do?" taehyung asked and i picked up the bracelet.

"I don't feel anything of that sort taehyung." i said and i looked up but to my surprise taehyung was already holding his head with both of his hands.

"Taehyung are you okay?" I asked, panicking. Taehyung groaned in pain, i quickly put the bracelet away from his sight and suddenly taehyung fell back on his bed and lost consciousness.

"Oh my god taehyung"

*TAEHYUNG'S POV*

I didn't even look at the bracelet fully but the pain started. It felt like someone was hitting my head with a hammer. I couldn't take it anymore and suddenly everything went black.

Here i was again, in the same strange house where i met my mom everytime and she told me to leave. But this time it felt different.

Everytime the dream would start with the woman calling my name and my younger figure running towards her but this time the house was empty, there was no one.

I wandered around the house, i think this is the house i lived in before moving in with hye jin. The house was very old fashioned. It was made of wood but yet it was classy.

I saw a staircase and decided to see what the 1st floor had. As i made my way i heard some noises there.

"Taehyung hide!!" it was the same voice that my mom had, i think its my mom? I leaned against the door and after a few minutes i heard a loud crash, as if a huge glass was broken. I was about to open the door when i heard someone shouting.

"Where is taehyung!!?" it was a woman's voice but it was surely not my mother's.

"I don't know hyewon!!" the other voice, that is my mom shouted back.

"Oh really aerin? You don't know where your son is?" the woman who i assumed to be hyewon asked.

" I don't, and even if i did, i wouldn't tell you!!" My mom shouted back.

"Well sure thing aerin, i will find him myself" she said and i heard a noise, as if she threw something.

I didn't dare to open the door, i was scared, but i did, i had to find out.

As i opened the door, i saw a woman dressed in black and purple. She was turned to the other side so i couldn't see her face but i saw my mom, she was thrown away on the floor, her head bleeding, she was wearing that bracelet.

I wanted to go to her but i couldn't. My mom stood up and stopped the woman. The woman very harshly grabbed my mom's neck and threw her away again.

Just then i saw my younger self, crying and shaking in fear in the closet, hyewon was about to open the closet when my mom stopped her again.

This time hyewon was pissed, she did something i couldn't figure out and a magical mist in purple came out of her hand and surrounded my mom's body. My mother was begging her to stop, evidently she couldnt breath.

I made my way to my mom. "MOM, MOM, MOM!!!!!!!"