"Fire, When I looked around I saw the entire room was engulfed in bright flames"
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For her dreams are no more just an illusion. They were trying to tell something. She is going to find what that story with help of Jeongguk. When destiny cross th...
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“This place, it's cursed”
Myung-He's POV
We were soaked by the unrelenting rain. The water was falling just like it had the night before. Jeongguk looked good even though he was wet but I was more like wet chicken.
“Hey, let's not slow down anymore. Come on Myung”
As we walked past the building I saw a light in one of the windows.
"I wonder if we can stay there until the rain calms down!," I shouted at Gguk's back.
"I don't think we should!"
Jeongguk let out a short laugh.
“But the mansion is good enough to provide us a roof”
"That's not a good idea."
"Why?" I asked, enjoying the laughter.
“Okay let's do it then,” Jeongguk jumped inside the boundary. He pulled me to the broken part of the gate and gradually inside of the building area.
I ran to the spot where Jeongguk rushed. We were standing under the porch of the building. The roofs were broken here and there and water dropped from the gaps.
Lightning flashes accompanied a big thunder. I jerked my head and Jeongguk hugged me comfortingly. While I was resting my head I looked at the open arched window.
Through broken pieces I got a glimpse of the chequered old mosaic. In the dusty floor lights danced in different shades. From black to grey it varied and another flash light scattered throughout the building. The light reached further than the inside.
In that moment of heavy beighteness I saw a man on the grand staircase that ran in the centre of the big hall.
My heart had an electric shock. I quickly shut my eyes. I reopened and frighteningly glanced at the same direction. It was empty and dusty. Nothing was there other than the years old cold silence.
And from there my eyes travelled to the second floor. On the fourth window I find a red flame.
“Gguk, should we get inside?there is somebody inside”
“Impossible. Myung, Nobody's used this building for at least forty years."
The one used forty years ago. Oh, what's wrong with me these days?
"But there's a light on there." I pointed to the window.
He stopped suddenly studying the building that was shrouded in darkness.
"There aren't any lights on," he turned towards me, upset.
I was about to tell him that sure there was but then I was frozen. My body went ice cold with the sudden wave of terror.
Gguk was right. There weren't any lights on.
I narrowed my eyes against the heavy rain. "That's weird. There was..."
There was a man and a light.
"It's not weird that something must have been reflecting off of the window glass."
"But there was a red light coming from inside the fourth window from the right on the second floor. I thought someone must be there-"
"...Fourth from the right?" Gguk looked at me closely.
I nodded my head despite the creeping fear and urge to hide my face on his board chest so I could forget what was just happening around me.
"There's no way that room in particular had a light on."
"Why?" I gulped the lump in my throat.
"There are no light fixtures in it. Forty years ago there was a fire at the building that started in that room. Everything burned and was unusable."
"But they must have fixed things since then..."
"They didn't."
"Is that true?"
I didn't understand how the rich thought sometimes.
"Anyway after that people stopped using that building altogether. It's abandoned"
"Just because there was a fire?"
The buildings were so far apart out here that it wasn't likely that the fire had caused any problems for any of the neighbours so I didn't see any reason to be so against the building.
Strange.
"There were reasons." Jeongguk's voice was heavy.
"Something bad happened?"
"The only son and heir of a family died in that fire."
"Ohh!..."
"A few years after his son died the old man did too. After that the whole family fell apart including the school which was once run by this particular family."
"That would make it strange for there to be a light on in that room."
It was probably strange but the whole window had glowed red. It was too vivid to be an illusion.
It was kind of creepy.
"That's right" Gguk's eyes were asking if I understood.
“So, which was this family?”
"I will tell you on the way but first let's run!" Jeongguk broke his promise and took off alone into the ever-harder falling rain.
"Ah! Wait Gguk!" I hurried after him. “Tell me the family name!”
“The Kim family!”
Jeongguk shouted back at me and at the same time I glanced back at the building as I chased Jeongguk and it loomed over us as though it were bearing down on us. Like a horror in the dark.
In my frightening state I overtook Jeongguk for the first time. I ran as fast as possible and away from that damned building.
