Heart Beats 💙 Choutarou Ootori

14 ✶ Murder

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"Let's go check it out," Shishido announced, grabbing his coat and slipping his shoes on.

"A-Are you crazy!?" Gakuto grabbed onto the back of Shishido's shirt to stop him from leaving the cabin.

"None of us are gonna be able to sleep until we know what it was. So, we go and find the source of the gunshots, come back to the cabin and then go to sleep." Shishido shrugged, sliding the door open. "Come on, Gakuto."

Gakuto gave a strangled whine, grabbing his jacket and sliding into his shoes before running out the door after the brunette.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Choutarou asked, glancing at Yuushi.

His blue eyes were filled with worry as he watched them disappear into the woods. "We can only hope so,"

Choutarou nodded, his own eyes filled with worry at the thought of the danger his two friends could be entering. He could only pray that they came back safe and sound.

Some people search their whole life to find, what I found.

"Are you sure about this?" Gakuto whispered, grabbing onto the sleeve of Shishido's shirt. His eyes were darting back and forth, searching for any sign of movement.

"This is the direction it came from, right?" The brunette questioned, glancing at his red-headed friend. He held his pointer finger out in front of him towards a small clearing a few feet ahead. "There's light there, see? We're almost there. There's no point in backing out now when we've come this far."

Within a few minutes, the two boys had reached the clearing illuminated by the moon that hung low in the velvety black sky. There they found a cabin, just a little bit smaller than Atobe's. The sliding glass door was cracked and the lights were on, but it was impossible to see inside due to the maroon colored curtains that hung over the door.

The two boys exchanged glances before slowly creeping up the stairs, wincing when they creaked loudly under their weight.

Shishido knocked softly on the glass. "Hello? Anybody here?"

Hearing no response, he slid the door open farther and stepped inside, freezing almost instantly at the sight before him. Blood covered the wooden floor, splattered on the walls and even the ceiling. In the middle of the room lay two bodies, pale and lifeless, which were lying in pools of the crimson liquid. A bloody knife lay by the man's head. A gun inches from the woman's hand.

Gakuto gulped from behind him, taking a shaky step back.

"W-We should go..." Shishido took a step back, his eyes wide with fear. Shishido was a hard person to scare, but seeing two dead bodies... he was terrified.

As if on cue, the two boys took off running as fast as their legs would carry them. It didn't matter how many times they tripped or fell, they got right back up with the thought of getting as far away from that cabin as possible and back to the safety of their own. Their lungs burned and their bodies shook with fear, but they kept running.

When they returned to their cabin, the rest of the group – minus Atobe and yourself – were sitting around the living room waiting for them. They each wore a startled expression when they saw the two boys leaning against the now closed and locked glass door, breathing extremely heavy with pale faces and wide, fearful eyes.

They didn't have the chance to question it before the two boys pushed away from the door and ran, frantically, down the hall until they reached your room. Choutarou tried to protest, to stop them from waking you up, but they were too fast and had slammed into your bedroom before he could stop them, their bodies hitting the floor.

They could only watch the two as they scrambled to their feet.

"Y/N!" They chorused, both on either side of your bed. They were shaking you repeatedly, yelling your name and doing whatever it took to wake you from your slumber. You were the oldest person in the cabin, other than Atobe's butler, and they needed comfort that only you could provide them.

Finally, after what seemed like hours but was actually only a mere few minutes, you finally woke up, tired eyes narrowed into a glare at the two boys. You were ready to kill them for waking you up, but that was the last thing they were worried about now.

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