BLUE HOUR(TXT ONESHOTS)

CURSED RECORDING | TAEBIN

Trigger warning: Mentions of blood, and torture is a part of the story. If ever you find it disgusting or if ever it scares you, please don't hesitate to stop reading.

🎶The abuse was so strong
I almost called "Randy"
For he was seeing the torment
But he did nothing to save me.🎶
-MERCY, Kang Taehyun

"So tell me about the song MERCY. You see I never had this kind of goosebumps with a song's lyrics before. Not now, that I heard of it."

Taehyun is still fixed, seeming intimidating, facing his interviewer.
"I never expected myself to write this either, but I thought I should speak up about it coz it's been shaking my entire life."
"What do you mean? Is it you who experienced this?"

Soobin's eyebrows crossed each other in curiosity as Taehyun started to open up the meaning behind the song he just released. Taehyun faked his smile, slipping his hands into his nape, removing his choker that is about an inch thick, revealing a part of his past that he really wants to erase.

"I wish I could keep it with a choker, well it helped. I mean celebrity status haha but it never helped me forgetting the pain this wound caused me."
"So this is a sensitive topic. You've been abused or more than that, someone tried to kill you?"
"I was alone and helpless when a guy about my age broke in. I wasn't scared for I thought it was my dad at first. I closed my eyes before something cold like a steel started lacerating my neck and rivers of blood are gushing, dripping out of my defenseless body."
"That was terrible."

Soobin reacted to what Taehyun said. He seemed scared, terrified and shocked that a guy younger than him experienced such terrifying experience. His heart is beating too fast and he is forcing to shake his head because his memory is shading him what happened to the poor guy seated calmly in front of him.

"Have you caught the suspect?"

He boldly asked before Taehyun shook his head.
"So the reason why you wrote this song is to ask for justice?"
"I can find the killer with all the money I have. But the song is more of a wake up call that you just can't trust the people around you. I even mentioned Randy to emphasize that."
"Yeah, I think I heard Randy when I listen to it. Who is he anyway?"
"Randy is my dad and he was there the whole time."

Taehyun looked away for he is about to cry, knowing his dad was there that night, seeing the crime but he reacted nothing. He even remembered his dad's drinking his pasteurized milk, looking thoroughly as the guy finishes his job, leaving him lying on his bed, almost lifeless.

"Your dad planned it?"
"I think he did coz he soon left and never went back. I don't know where he is right now."
"You said, you can find the killer. Have you recognized his face?"
"He's still a student that time. While he was cutting my veins, I knew he dropped something and I found out later on that it was his name tag."
"So what's the name?"

Taehyun stood up, drove near Soobin before handing him the name tag he recovered that night from the suspect. Soobin felt like there were butterflies trying to escape his throat.

"Can you read it for me?"

Taehyun calmly said to him. His eyes were brighter than of the last time their eyes met each other.

"Choi..."

Soobin gasped for air, not ready to read the name written on the name tag.
"Choi?", Taehyun asked again.

"Soobin."

Taehyun draw his lips closer to Soobin's right ear.
"Choi Soobin it is."

As if tons of electricity was transmitted to Soobin's flesh as Taehyun confirmed that it was his name written on the name tag.

The blood, the saw he used, the ice pick he thrusted against Taehyun's manly chest, the acid he spilled on the victim's body trying to neutralize the pain with the feeling of burning, the screams that was filling the crime scene, Soobin suddenly remembered it all, leaving his eyes wide open not knowing what will happen next.

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Taehyun turned the recording camera off before seating back to his chair in his own house, turned the tv on with a breaking news appearing on the screen.

"A news anchor was found lifeless in his own condominium at exactly 9:00 AM. The anchor was recognized to be Choi Soobin, who was featuring singers and celebrities in his talk shows on Channel 4. The crime was so terrible and the suspect pulled out the anchor's eyeballs, carved the word "You Suck " with his neck, stabbing his chest 25 times and soak the victim's body in his bath tub with acid. The suspect is still at large and the authorities will look for evidences to track him."

Taehyun just smirked holding the remote control in his other hand while playing Soobin's eyeballs on his other.

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"So tell me about the song you just released. It has the title CURSED RECORDING and in it, you expressed a hideous crime that took place on a large house. You even said in the lyrics that, PITY YOU, YOU SPARED MY LIFE. Can you clear things out with the listeners?"

"It's just, every sin has its payback. And by sparing someone's life when you have the chance to kill him is the biggest mistake in your life. Really it is. So if you ever find yourself wanting to commit a crime, do it at its finest and make sure to have the finishing touches."

Taehyun's interviewer is still confused about what the singer's wanting to say.
"Is cursed recording true to life?"
"I have a recording kept in my place. It wasn't cursed but it's disgusting. I've had my revenge and I am now fulfilled."

🎶Pity you, you spared my life
When you could have killed me that night
Had your name tag on my flesh
And you're caught up.

Never let me make it to your sleep
Coz I'll disturb your sweetest dreams
I'll record my victory
Play that cursed recording, sit down in silence.

I'll be laughing with my demon's gag🎶