scream (dreamcatcher)

four

A burning pain pulsed through Gahyeon's head and the glass ball felt normal and cold again. She breathed heavily and for a second, she had no awareness of her surroundings. Then she was hit with a wave of noise, the scratching of paper turning, and loud sobs. Then she realised she was still in the hospital room. She scratched her head, confused. It had seems like hours had passed since she got to the hospital, but a quick glance at her watch informed her she had only been there for an hour. She strained her head to remember what she was doing before. The three scary girls had appeared in the bathroom, and she walked back to the hospital room, and then what? Hm. Gahyeon shrugged and embraced Minji, who had been crying for a hour straight. Minji glanced up and sniffed snottily. "Gahyeon....d-did you go to the bathroom to put contact lenses in? B-because your eye looks a bit different. Or maybe I'm just h-hallucinating." Gahyeon looked confused. Contact lenses?

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Siyeon still lay spread out on her bed. Her hands were stretched and curled in front of her face, and she shot purple sparks between each hand dully. She needed to find a way to get the ball out of Gahyeon's hands as soon as possible. But it was almost impossible to take it away from someone who was already enamoured by the ball. Gahyeon and the crystal ball were one.  And there was nothing anyone could do about it.

Siyeon stopped studying the sparks that emanated from her hands and groaned. She was never going to get the orb away from Gahyeon. Her mom was going to be  so mad. She didn't even know why the ball even existed in the first place. Her parents just told her 3 things: Don't lose the ball, Don't break the ball, and definitely make sure it stays away from humans. That was what they told her about 2000 years ago, when she still aged like a normal person. After her 18th birthday, she had to stay that age forever, or until she decided to start ageing normally. It was a curse in disguise. She could try all she could to help humanity, but she just messed up. Again and again and again. She had given up trying to help 200 years ago and just let humans do their own thing. Honestly, Siyeon thought they messed up even more on their own.

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Sua knocked on the door of Siyeon's room loudly. "SINGNIEEEE?? YOU THEREEEEE?" Sua unlocked the door and saw Siyeon spread out face down on her bed. "Ughhh," Siyeon whined, muffled my the pillow beneath her face. "It's hopeless... we'll never get the crystal ball back!" Sua sat on the bad and rested her face in her hands. Suddenly she had an idea. "Hey, Singnie, what if I go to her flat while she's sleeping and take the ball from her bag then?" Siyeon's eyes widened and she agreed that it was a good idea. Sua looked at the clock. 6pm. She would leave at midnight.

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Gahyeon spent the whole day slipping in and out of trances. She was pretty scared about it. Sometimes seconds would pass, other time hours. She rushed to the bathroom for the second time that day and looked at her face. One eye was lighter than the other- almost golden. She stumbled back in horror. She wasn't wearing contacts? Or at least she thought so. Her eyes fell on orb, glowing a liquidy, shimmering golden just like her eye. She washed her face with cold water and got contact lenses from her bag. She finally put them on and looked in the mirror. Her eyes were both brown again.

Time pass to 11:50pm-

Sua replaced the laced mask on her face and fixed her black dress. She grumped and thought, "Wearing this dress thrice in the last few days! Uh, I hate it. It's so uncomfortable." She fixed her expression and evaporated in a flash of white light. She reappeared in Gahyeon's shared room. Minji was still awake, working at her desk. "Ah! Who's there?" She slurred sleepily. Sua jumped. "Sh! Don't wake Gahyeon up! I'm here to get something from her!" She whispered desperately. Sua tiptoed quietly to the side of Gahyeon's bunk bed but was stalled bu the sudden bang of Minji's asleep head on her wooden desk. How glad Sua was to not have gone to university.

She waited for about 5 minutes until she was sure everyone was asleep, and reached silently to her sling bag hung at the foot of the bed. She unclasped the buckle as quietly as possible and slipped her hand in to grab the glass ball. That's when everything went wrong. Gahyeon snapped awake and lunged for Sua's neck. Sua could spot that one eye was definitely glowing. There wasn't enough time to ponder on it, as Gahyeon kept reaching for her neck, in a trance but her eyes wide open, which was unsettling. It was like she was sleepwalking but not, at the same time. The ball was controlling her. Sua kept dodging Gahyeon's bony groping hands until one time she wasn't fast enough and Gahyeon held her neck with hands that had an unnaturally strong grip on her. Obviously, it didn't hurt Sua one bit, but in the future it could hurt many people. Sua carefully prised Gahyeon's gripping hands and felt heat emanating from her neck. It was probably bright red and triggered, but she just sighed. Gahyeon sat there on her bed hypnotised by the ball's aura , her glowing eyes, like the sun, staring to nowhere and the golden coloured ball sitting carefully in her lap. Sua almost threw up at the unsettling, creepy sight.

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Sua reappeared in her bedroom and fell asleep without hesitation, still in her mask and scratchy black dress. The day was very stressful. She needed a rest so, so so badly.

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-N