Voice | choi hyunsuk

12

Choi Hyun Suk

"What are you spacing out for?" I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I turned to see the person, it was who I though it was, Midam hyung.

"Nothing, just thinking of the test coming next week." I scratched my nape, the amounts of projects that's due this week is already too stressful.

"Stressful being in highschool, huh. You'll receive more of that in college." He swung his arm around my shoulder and let out a little laugh.

"Ah, don't make me think about that." He laughed again in response of my statement.

"Wanna eat? Let's get some tteokbokki." He offered, "Your treat?" I raised a brow, "As always." He winked and a little smile slipped out.

"Thank you for the food!" After I opened the package, yup, its incredibly spicy.

"Didn't know you could handle spicy food already, I remember last year you couldn't even stand one second of eating spicy food without drinking water."

"I have to get better! So even the younger ones can't mock me, don't even get me started with Jihoon." I shook my head.

"Hey, Hyunsuk, you know that next year I won't be able to hang with you like this right?" His expression softened. "One thing im afraid of, is when the others forget me."

His eyes became gloomy, can we really forget him? Is it best if we forget him? Have we...

"What is it tomorrow?"

"Its his death anniversary."

"You really forgot?"

"Come on you made it tense."

If we forget about him... the pain and guilt will go away right? If we forget him we would be...

"HYUNSUK!" A shout, it came ringing back and forth in my head and ears.

"Don't let them get into you!!" She shaked me multiple times, "Don't you dare lose your consciousness. Get your shit together! Wake up!" She was desperate, its evident in her voice.

But what's even happening. My vision is blurry and I could barely hear her clearly.

"Don't lose yourself. Wake up!!" As if it wasn't already, I felt my eyes open and I feel like myself again.

I found myself sitting in the middle of an alley. The alleyway looks more brighter than it was before, not to mention the ghosts are gone.

"Fucking finally." As I regained my balance, Soyoung rested her back at the wall and looked pretty worn out. I feel a little nauseous too.

"What happened?" Im surprised that I even had the energy to ask.

"A lot happened." She sighed.

"The others, ghosts, were trying to get in your head.", "Wait, ghosts can get into someone's head?!"

"Yes, they can, we can. Why do you think people get nightmares and die from them? Yours was especially bad though, they got far into your head that they didn't just reach your personality and fears but also your memories from way back. Not to mention that a lot of them tried to conquer you, and they were pretty hard to fight back you know?"

I scratched my head, that was a lot to process. Once again I learned something new about ghosts, I guess there more than just what stories tell and what I see.

"What...why would they do that?" I asked in confusion and—fear. A bunch of ghosts just fucking tried to mess with my soul.

"Hyunsuk, have you ever thought of questioning why you are the way you are? Why can you see the undead?" Soyoung furrowed her eyebrows.

"N-no. I mean, no one really knows that I can see ghosts. God, not even my own mom." I answered.

"The thing is, you have this energy around you. This ability attracts ghosts to you, they want to possess you, they want to live Hyunsuk. They want to use you because of who you are." Soyoung explained, "That's what I felt when I tried to fight them off." She later added.

"Right now, to them you seem like under my protection. But it hasn't been long since I died, Hyunsuk, i'm not as influential as the other ghosts who's been here way longer than I have."

What Soyoung said brought me a whole deal of realization. It's true, I never thought of figuring out why I have this ability. Me, out of billions of people in the world.

Why me?

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