[bxb] the forgotten promise | yeosang / ateez

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      IN the eighth of June, Yeosang decided to fuck it all up and return to his hometown. He can’t help but feel uneasy because his grandparents aren’t responding to any of his messages and his parents are too busy working overseas so he’s left alone with this anxiety that he couldn’t just shrug off.

His grandparents usually responds to him but this time, he waited for days until a week passed and Yeosang couldn’t just stand still anymore. He have to confirm that his grandparents are alright or else, he won’t be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of the days that’ll pass until his parents are back.

The cab that he rented is listening to an old song that Yeosang's grandparents used to hum and it’s making him so uncomfortable. He wants to see them now and for them to assure him that he’s just alright. In order to distract himself, he took his sketchpad out and drew random sketches while listening to his playlist.

But he suddenly stopped when he realized that he drew a toy, something that made him flinch as if he can recall seeing this before. He kept on staring at it until he can hear a faint laugh on the back of his mind that made him shrug the thought at all. It’s creepy.

Yet the cab seems to stop in the middle of the road and Yeosang has to put his headphones off to look at the driver, the driver seems to be hesitating if he should continue or not. And Yeosang realized that there’s a fog that’s blocking the view of his hometown from here.

“Sir, it seems that we couldn’t proceed from here.” the driver stated.

“Oh.” Yeosang muttered before putting his sketchpad in his bag and took some money from his wallet, “Here you go, sir. It's alright. I’ll just walk from here then.”

“The fog is too thick, sir. I think that it’s best if you’ll just return on some other day,” the driver replies.

Yeosang tilted his head a bit in confusion, “But I’m already here so what’s the point of returning just because of a fog?”

“It’s not just a fog, sir.” the driver kept on insisting.

“Well, might as well continue on walking. Here you go,” Yeosang said as he gave the fare to the driver, “I understand that you’re concerned but I really have to go past this.”

“T-That's impossible, sir.” The driver said as his face paled in fear.

“I am from this place so I can still roam around with a few memories,” Yeosang stated as he smiled.

“I-If you'll insist then, remember that I’ve told you to turn back while you can.” The driver said before turning the back and driving away from the road.

Yeosang just sighed as he looked around and proceed on walking his way up to the town, unaware of what might be in the fog as long as he’s walking on the ground. He’s lowkey regretting his decision because of the thick fog yet it seems that his whole body knew how to get in it and after twenty minutes of nonstop walking, he arrived at the town.

“What?” Yeosang muttered as he looked around.

There isn’t enough fog but the whole place seems to be deserted, there is no one around and the cloudy weather isn’t helping at all. His grip on his backpack tightened as he started to roam around the place, wondering why it looks like a ghost town right now instead of the lively town that it usually is.

“Where’s everyone?” Yeosang muttered to himself once again as he looked around.

He went to the centre of the town and looked at the bulletin board, there are posters that were plastered in it showing the wanted people that is still currently on the loose. It was weird though, there aren’t even a word about their crimes so why would they be considered as ‘wanted’ ones? He took a good look of the pictures in case that they’ll probably be running into each other so he can protect himself at the very least.