bury a friend. ᵈʳᵉᵃᵐ

☾ 𝖋𝖎𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖓 ☽

Third Person's POV

When the night fell, all the boys gathered around outside Minsoo's chambers. They are now in the first phase of their plan. Renjun, the one who suggested it, hopes this would work out.

"If one of us will start acting weird, slap him or anything.. anything harsh to stop him from being twisted. Is that clear?" The elder, Mark, asked. They all nodded. Not the best plan, yes, but they've got no choice.

They gathered in a circle in front of Minsoo's bedroom door and looked at each other minute by minute, wondering who would haunt her.

Inside the room, Minsoo was still awake. She was feeling sleepy and wants to close her eyes, but she still have to think.

What if one of his friends get hurt? What if it would be their last night.. or hers? Would she survive her night?

She turned to her left side then screamed.

She saw herself staring back at her, a creepy grin on its lips. Its eyes.. we're not there. It was just an empty eye socket. There was blood covering its cheeks.

No.. just the left cheek.

Its right cheek was.. gone. There was nothing. Only the rows of teeth inside.

It choked Minsoo with its filthy, blood-covered skeleton hands. It sat on Minsoo and deepened and tightened its hands around her neck.

Minsoo was slowly loosing her breath. She was gasping for air and that made her other self laugh maniacally. It pushed its hands up and down her neck.

Then it spoke.

❝𝕾𝖆𝖞 𝖎𝖙, 𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖙 𝖔𝖚𝖙.❞

Spit out what? Minsoo asked herself. I have nothing to say to this awful creature, she added.

She gasped and choked out blood.

She just realized that it was burying its fingers in her neck.

It spoke with a thousand voices.

❝𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖙 𝖊𝖝𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖑𝖞?❞

Minsoo prayed on for her dear life. She already screamed but the boys hasn't heard her. "H.." She started. "H-Help..!"

The creature laughed.

❝𝕹𝖔 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖕 𝖞𝖔𝖚, 𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖒𝖘𝖊𝖑.❞

Epiphany hit her.

She's the creature.

She raised her hands and brought it to the creature's neck. She wrapped her hands around it and squeezed it like never before. She can feel her nails bury in its gray skin.

It let out a high-pitched scream.

Its eyes suddenly grew red.

It disappeared.

Her breathing was rapid. She traveled her hands on her neck and can feel the blood seeping out of it. Her hands trembled as she cupped her cheeks.

Then she fainted.

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