Snowy Night | a BTS Horror Story

Chapter 8: Password

2:00 AM (5 Hours Till Sunrise)

"...and I hung up my phone," Jungkook continues recounting the events that occurred around midnight. "But the cat noises didn't stop. At first, I thought it was Jin hyung or Suga hyung pulling a prank; then I saw this creepy little cat standing over my new plushie. It just stood there and stared for a minute, and then it... it started to smile. I mean really, smiled. Like, it was grinning from one ear to the other, and its teeth weren't white. They were-"

"Green and pink?" Kyung Soo asks.

"Ne, sunbaenim," Jungkook says. "How did you know?"

"We've run into this creature a few times now," Kyung Soo replies. "But keep talking. We haven't heard this much detail yet."

"I don't have that much more to offer on appearance," Jungkook says. "Like that," he snaps his fingers for effect, "the cat was gone. Then something started moving my bed. Pushing and pulling really fast until I was sick. I fell off the side of the bed and wasn't sure what to do, when suddenly I was just getting covered in scratches all over. I called Jin hyung, but I think he was asleep and didn't hear me. That's when I grabbed my phone and sent that text to Taetae hyung. Then I got a scratch on my hand, and it really hurt, so I dropped the phone. After that I tried to hide in my closet, but I didn't close myself in fast enough. That one silk shirt I had hanging in there was just suddenly torn off the hanger and was being ripped to bits on the floor. I left my room and ran down the hall to the bathroom. I could still hear the cat purring just outside the door, but after a while I couldn't hear a thing. And then I passed out."

"So," Taehyung starts. "The silk tie wrapped around a paper weight that you through out into the common room earlier... you figured out that it would distract them based on the way your silk shirt got ripped up?"

"Aniyo," Jungkook replies. "Taemin sunbaenim did the figuring."

"It cost me one of my best ties," Chanyeol teases.

"But," Kyung Soo starts. "I'm still confused by what Taehyung said he saw in the hallway. It must have been an illusion or a hallucination, ne? After all, he said he felt the whole room shaking, but we didn't feel anything like that here in the computer room."

"There are too many unknowns," Taemin says. "We don't even know exactly what it is we're fighting."

"Sunbaenim," Jungkook starts. "If V hyung was hallucinating in the hallway, or, under some kind of delusion, how do we know that any of this is real either?"

Silence falls.

"I guess," Taehyung says softly. "I guess we don't know, Jungkook."

"And Rap Monster," Chanyeol says. "Why was he bleeding?"

"Maybe it's some kind of forced adrenaline rush," Taemin muses. "It wears you down very quickly, but is effective for the time being. Like a sprinter. You can't run that fast for very long."

"Jungkook," Jongin starts. "You mentioned a plushie? Where did you get it?"

"At a fan-meet earlier, sunbaenim."

"Ah Jungkook," Jongin tsks. "You should never take stuffed animals from fans, no matter how cute it is. Assumptions like that can be dangerous."

"Joesonghabnida, sorry sunbaenim," Jungkook ducks his head in respect.

"We should burn it," Chanyeol says. All eyes turn to him, to which he shrugs and says "All this started when Jungkook got that plushie. Ghosts and spirits get attached to objects like that sometimes." He receives skeptical glares. "What? Yoongi didn't think that was unreasonable." A long, long silence follows this.