scream (dreamcatcher)

eight

This is a flashback.

"Gahyeon!" A voice shouted playfully. Gahyeon turned her head around and saw Yubin waving energetically from a few metres away. "Come over here!" Gahyeon ran to Yubin and embraced her. Minji appeared behind a tree and gestured. "Come on guys, class is starting soon." They all groaned. Boarding school was really boring.

They walked to the large building and pushed open the railing locking the house. When they opened the door to the classroom, they saw Yoohyeon already there, smiling at them. Her pink highlights reflected the orange sun and looked almost angelic in the light. "Come sit down!" she said sweetly. They all sat down and opened their scruffy textbooks. Their only teacher had gone on holiday, leaving the four to study on their own. That was something the teacher did often. Disappear, as if the students he was teaching and housing were afterthoughts. Afterthoughts. The teacher was also the person who kept all the food in a locked cupboard, so when he had left they had nothing to eat. Thankfully when Minji was exploring in the forest, she found some edible flowers to eat, so that's what they had for lunch that day. It was hardly enough to eat, but it satiated their hunger for a short while.

Gahyeon remembered how they ended up in the school. She was 13 and had just finished middle school. Their parents had wanted Gahyeon and her friends to be together at school, so her and her friends' parents had found this boarding school in France fro them to go to. It seemed to have good reviews, so they applied for it. They arrived in France. They went to the school and said goodbye to their parents. It had been 3 years since they had ever seen their parents now. The only way the kept contact was through voice calls and emails, which the teacher supervised. It was quite an old fashioned school and Gahyeon hated it. She couldn't wait until she finally left the school.

The textbook was making Gahyeon's head ache. The text was tiny and she had been staring at it for 10 minutes. It didn't help at all that it was all in French, which she had a very limited knowledge of. Gahyeon knew Yoohyeon knew French very well, and tapped her shoulder. "Hey, what does this mean: La guerre a commencé en juillet?" Yoohyeon turned her head and replied, "It means, that the war started in July." Gahyeon nodded and went back to her work. Now she knew one sentence out of hundreds, but she didn't want to bother Yoohyeon asking for the translation multiple times. Gahyeon glanced at Yubin, and saw she was fast asleep, the textbook splayed on the table. She laughed, she would also have slept if she had the chance. But she forced herself to stay awake, but never got any further with the textbook. Yoohyeon was the only person in the room getting anywhere in the work, Gahyeon realised with a smile. Minji was staring somewhere into space, Yubin was fast asleep on the table and Gahyeon was just sitting there. Yoohyeon was looking at the book and studying quietly.

Minji suddenly ascended from the table and announced, "I'm going to the forest to get food. Anyone coming?" Everyone got up and followed Minji curiously. They thrust the heavy wooden double doors open and stepped into the garden. "Gahyeon, stay here. You're too young to go to the forest." said Yoohyeon.  Gahyeon pouted. "What about Yubin? She's young too!" she complained. Yubin heard what the youngest had said and laughed. "Gahyeonie, I'm two years older than you." This silenced Gahyeon, as she couldn't think of a valid counter argument and just sat on the bench sulkily as the others disappeared into the dense forest to get food.

"Minji, is this edible?" Yubin called. "Unnie, is this the flower you picked today?" Yoohyeon asked. "Guys. Just let me show you what to pick." Minji laughed. She noticed a bunch of white flowers at the foot of one of the trees surrounding the three girls, and plucked several of them. She walked to the younger girls and showed them the flowers. "This is the flowers I picked today. If you could find more of them, it would be great!" Minji smiled kindly. Yubin and Yoohyeon's eyes widened in curiousity and they immediately started to look around for the flower. "Ugh." Yoohyeon groaned. "I would literally kill to have a pizza right now." The others nodded. Minji suddenly realised something. "Wait. I think there's pizza in the locked cupboard. Do you...want to try to get in?" she asked. The others looked at Minji, intrigued and bobbed their heads up and down in unison. "I think Gahyeon has bobby pins in her room, we could try to use those to pick open the lock?" Yoohyeon said.

They all weaved themselves out of the green forest and Minji found Gahyeon sitting cross legged on the grass with her head resting on her hand. "Hey, Gahyeon, come with us. We're going to try and get into the locked cupboard. You wanna join?" Gahyeon's face lit up at the thought of finally being able to participate in the older girls' adventures.

They all carefully climbed up the creaky wooden stairs to the airy loft, where the cupboard and a small freezer was kept. Yoohyeon slowly clicked open the door and saw the huge cabinet standing in a corner of the room. Gahyeon gasped in happiness and realised she was really close to having a warm pizza, or whatever else was kept in the cupboard. She pulled out her bobby pin from her hair and slotted it into the lock hiding the food away from the girls. After a few minutes of adjusting the pin in the lock, there was a satisfying click and the lock slid open, leaving the cupboard door slightly ajar. Minji tugged the door open with a grating screech and inhaled sharply in joy. They were in front of all the food they could dream of. Huge bags of crisps, foil wrapped chocolate, and pizza. "Wow." Yubin whispered under her breath. They immediately started grabbing as much food they could from the wooden shelves and left the cupboard almost empty. They locked the cupboard behind them, and ran downstairs to their dormitories.

Some time later, they sat on Gahyeon's bed, with all the snacks they could manage to get out of the loft splayed on her bed. They were chatting delightedly and stuffing their faces with crisps. Yubin lay snoring on the bed, a little bit of chocolate and spit dribbling from the side of her mouth. Yoohyeon and Gahyeon seemed to be on a food marathon, eating as much food as possible. The only sane mind in the room was Minji, who seriously stated, "We should save some food for later. If we eat everything now, there won't be much left for the future days." Yoohyeon laughed sloppily in a food induced daze. "C-come on Minji, better enjoy the fun while it l-lasts." she slurred with a mouthful of crisps. Soon Minji gave in and joined the others. This was the most fun they had had in years. Gahyeon's bed was covered in crumbs and god knows what else, but she didn't care. Not at all. She thought, this time would never come again. She just wanted to be right there, having fun with her friends forever.

lol this is so wholesome

instead of people killing each other you can enjoy sleeping yubin

also yOOHYEON TATTOO????????/?? i cant be the only one who was shocked wjhnrfg

im planning for yoo to get nicer over the chapters and yubin the opposite so yeah :)

like yoohyeon gets nicer to dongie over the chapters but yubin,,,,, haha nope

sad considering that they were bffs :( thats just how the story is

also this is not proofread so theres probs going to be a million mistakes