scream (dreamcatcher)

One

Gahyeon walked in the forest, the same path she took every day to get to school. She lived in a rural area, so it wasn't unusual to have forests and trees everywhere. She placed her earphones in her ears and started humming. She stumbled down the muddy track and came face to face with a building. It was never there before, and she knew the route to school like the back of her hand. The building looked new, and most buildings in the forest had taken the toll of nature. Being the curious girl she was, Gahyeon ambled to the building and opened the black wooden door. She stepped in  and gasped. The walls were painted a creamy yellow colour and there was a circular stained glass painting on the opposite wall to which Gahyeon was standing near. The coloured glass made the sunshine filter beautifully onto the floor, projecting an array of pretty patterns onto the white tiled floor.

Right in the middle of the lit room was a podium with a pinkish glass ball laid on a burgundy velvet pillow. Naturally Gahyeon's eyes fell on the orb and she had a strange urge to steal it. Now, normally Gahyeon wasn't the type to steal, but the orb was so eye catching that she knew she needed to take it. She inched closer to the podium, her eyes never leaving the pink ball. Her hand was cupped over the ball, ready to tale it, when it started to glow purplish, as if there was a  fluorescent liquid inside triggered by her warm hand. The light suddenly faded, and the room grew heavy and dark with a dark red glow that seemed to come from nowhere. Gahyeon gasped and grabbed the ball but a wave of cold air hit her and she shivered from the freezing cold. She ran before anything else out of the ordinary could happen. She knew she had messed up by going into the building.

She ran as fast as she could to her university, as she was very late, but was stopped by a branch piercing her flowery dress and stalling her for 5 minutes. It was almost as the universe didn't want her to get to school! She chuckled at the idea and rushed to school.

When she arrived, she was reprimanded severely by her Maths professor ( she did maths in university, as that was her best subject) and managed to pick up a detention. When she sat down at the auditorium, ready to learn, her best friend, Yubin, giggled. "What made you so late?" she whispered. Gahyeon shook her head and replied, "It's a long story."

It was near lunchtime when Gahyeon felt a sharp pain in her forehead. She looked in her bag and saw the glass ball was glowing liquidy purple, the same as when Gahyeon first found the ball in the early morning when going to school.

At lunchtime, she walked to the exit of the school, as she was buying her lunch elsewhere, with Yubin in a cafe down the street. She pushed herself to the exit and sighed with disappointment as there was a huge commotion around the door and it would take ages to weave herself through the crowd. She stiffened when she heard the grating siren of an ambulance. She pushed herself to the front of the crowd and screamed when she found out why there was a commotion. Her friend, Yoohyeon, lay lifeless in the middle of the path, dark red blood surrounding her. "Y- Yoohyeon.." Gahyeon choked weakly. How could this happen? Yoohyeon was one of the happiest, most outgoing person she ever knew. It pained Gahyeon knowing she was probably never going to see her again.

Yoohyeon's POV

Yoohyeon was working diligently when the door to the auditorium rattled open and Gahyeon's ashamed face poked through, along with a severe looking professor. Yoohyeon hardly ever saw Gahyeon looking ashamed and shy, and was curious as to what had happened.

When Gahyeon was settled and ready to do her work, Yoohyeon decided to ask Gahyeon what had happened. Gahyeon sighed, scratching her head she replied, "Uh, It's a long story, but since you really wanna know, I'll tell you. So basically, I found like a weird building in the woods, and since I had never seen it before, I was curious and wanted to know what was in it. So I went in, and it was really cool and there was this pink orb thing in the middle of the room. I took it and it's in my bag now. I also ripped my dress on a branch, so that was annoying haha." Yoohyeon's eyes widened. "That's super cool. Can I see the glass thing?" Gahyeon nodded. "Here." It looked beautiful and delicate. Yoohyeon raised her eyebrows curiously and went back to her work.

When they finished their lesson, a few hours after Yoohyeon saw the orb, she climbed up the several steps to finally get up to the roof, where she sat peacefully munching on her sandwich. She looked at the sky and tracked all the clouds travelling across the sky. Her calm thought process was quickly stopped when a translucent grey.. thing landed in front of her. It slipped of its hood to reveal a girl, not much older than Yoohyeon herself. The girl jerked her head ever so slightly and Yoohyeon stood up and dropped her sandwich. As if she was hypnotised, her feet kept walking toward the edge of the roof. She screamed, and a few people looked her way concerned, but looked away after a few seconds. She tried desperately to stop the track of her feet, but to no avail. Every second she was inching closer to the edge. The girl looked on, glaring and with an unreadable expression, until Yoohyeon was teetering on the edge of the roof. The girl slowly lifted her index finger up to her red lip and cooed, "Hush. You know more than you're supposed to. This will be better for everyone. Good night." Yoohyeon choked, attempting to speak. "What did I ever do....is it because of that ball thing G-Gahyeonie showed me in maths?" The girl nodded. "You and your friend were never supposed to know about that." "G-Gahyeon. Why did you show me the ball..." Yoohyeon croaked. She didn't want to die. She didn't want to-

Crash. Deep red translucent blood covered Yoohyeon, turning her vision a cloudy shade of red. Glancing up, she saw the girl, with a somewhat proud expression on her face. She looked down and disappeared. She sighed and shut her eyes.

Gahyeon's POV

Gahyeon trembled with grief. How could Yoohyeon- Yoohyeon, of all people!- just leave her like this? She would probably never see Yoohyeon again, and a nagging feeling told her it was the ball to blame.

Hi! Hope you enjoyed! I'm going to update this more frequently than bookshop or at least i'll try lol, I hope this was long enough for a chapter :) it keeps deleting so i had to rewrite some parts. but then i found my old chapter but i feel that I like the rewritten one better lmao 😅
-N