Snowy Night | a BTS Horror Story

Chapter 9: Unseen

2:45 AM (4 ¼ Hours Till Sunrise)

Out in the dark common room once more, Taehyung notices a vague line against the windows. Snow is piling up outside. A full foot of snow has buried the bottom of the window, and snow continues to fall. If this goes on for much longer, they could be trapped in here.

Heart pounding, Taehyung finds himself twitchy, constantly shining his phone-light back and forth and checking the window reflection obsessively.

The sound of a cough sends a jolt of terror straight to his core. "Did you hear that?" He whispers to Kyung Soo.

"Hear what?"

"There it is again," Taehyung says. "That."

"Yeah," Kyung Soo says. "Yeah, I hear that. Where's it coming from?"

Chanyeol steps closer to Kyung Soo and Taehyung, listening intently. They hear the coughing again.

Taehyung recognizes it, and nearly chokes. "Yoongi hyung," he says.

"It's coming from the back hall," Kyung Soo notes. Taehyung takes off slowly in that direction, creeping down the hall as silently as he can.

The light from his phone shows him that there isn't just one door- the manager's. There are two. One on either side of the hall. The one to the left should be the manager's bedroom, but the other one... what was it, a closet? Or maybe it was a basement? Taehyung couldn't remember having ever opened the door.

Perhaps the door had never been there to be opened. Swallowing his fear, Taehyung sneaks up alongside it and puts his ear to the cold wood: nothing. Another coughing fit starts, but it's clearly not coming from behind this door. Stepping away from the right wall, Taehyung slowly goes to the other door. When he puts his ear to it, the sound intensifies.

Suga's cough sounds dry, and strained. But after a moment it becomes soupier, as though he's puking, or bleeding, or both.

There's a nippy growl on the other side of the door, and the lights blink on without a hint of a flicker, bathing the entire interior of the house in white light. Taehyung jumps back, and a hand grabs his arm. He whips around to see Kyung Soo.

"Run, Taehyung!" Kyung Soo says, pulling Taehyung along behind him as he and Chanyeol start running toward the computer room. Fear instinct says go with them.

Go.

Go!

Run!

But another instinct penetrates.

"Sunbaenim." He stops dead in his tracks, yanking Kyung Soo to a halt.

"What are you doing?" Kyung Soo growls.

"We can run forever," Taehyung starts, remembering the words spoken to him in the hall...

You can sit in there forever and go nowhere, or you can open the door.

You run when I chase you and scream and cower when I scare you.

"...Or we can take a risk now that we'll have to take eventually anyway. My hyungs and Baehyun and Xiumin sunbaenim might not have much time left if Taemin is right about the forced adrenaline. We have to do something or do nothing."

Chanyeol and Kyung soo watch him carefully for a moment. Then, Kyung Soo looks to Chanyeol. Chanyeol shakes his head and swallows nervously.

"Alright," he says. "We'll back you up. Let's go."