SIDE EFFECTS | skz

+ PRIDE +

"I swallow pills called baseless confidence. Maybe I took them so many, now I'm feeling worried than confident. Everything is being changed, from 1 to 10. The side effects kicking in against my will."

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I looked at Jisung with the widest eyes. I couldn't believe it was him. I remember a talk I had with Hyunjin where he mentioned that the worst sin's victim suffered longer than everyone else. Goodness, how long was he suffering for? A month? Three months? I didn't know. I wished he told me beforehand. We could've fixed this mess sooner. I just thought he was having mood swings, but this? I would've never thought at all.

I could hear more gasps from the rest of the guys. I looked around the room, noticing that- wait was that Felix? I looked around, seeing all the shocked faces on my friends. I checked my face shape, hands, and hair again. I... was me again.

"Seungmin... you have a lot of explaining to do once we get out of here." Changbin told me. It was true. There was way too much that happened in a span of only a few days.

"I know..." I only mumbled. I wasn't comfortable being back and hearing my own voice instead of Felix's. I looked back to Jisung as he glared at me. I couldn't recognize him anymore. Yes, he was of course with the same body, but I couldn't see the Jisung I remembered. The Jisung I knew was hilarious, kind, and just had a loving personality. The Jisung I was looking at was completely different. He was now cold and was someone who only seemed to care for himself and nobody else. I was intimidated to say the least.

"What the hell happened to you, Jisung?" Minho commented. Jisung broke off the intense glare finally. He walked his way to Minho, not breaking any eye contact.

"What do you mean? I'm the same." He replied in a baby-ish voice. I could tell Minho wasn't having a single bit of it. He looking into Jisung's now menacing eyes without a care in the world.

He groaned. "Why do you need us anyway?"

"Oh, I don't need you guys. They need you guys."

"Who the hell is 'they'?" I asked myself.

"The sins. You guys are special, so am I, but we didn't get to explore that." I rolled my eyes. "Anyways they needed me because you're the truly special one, Seungmin, and I'm the person who's closest to you. I observed every single thing you did, the people you talked to, how you acted, how they acted, the list goes on. But Seungmin, you're the glitch in the system. That's why you didn't get any sin. That's why they made you take over Felix's body." Jisung looked me dead in the eyes as he explained. The sin taking him over knew what it was doing. And it knew how things would play out. Pride was brutal.

Jisung smirked at me, knowing the state of shock I was in. He came closer to me, now sitting right in front of me. "Jisung..." I said after a moment of silence. "How do I get you back?" Jisung looked at me like I was psycho.

"Hm.. unless you get a little bit of pride, I don't think you can even try getting to the less better version of me."

I thought about it for a while. Was I going to really risk it all for my friend?

Well...

of course.

"Fine." I huffed.

"Alright." Jisung gave an evil smile. Jisung got up, grabbing a syringe filled with some sort of purple liquid. For some reason, I noticed Jisung slightly hesitating. Was he trying to tell his sin something? Jisung quickly ignored it though and got ready to inject it. "You'll be out for about half an hour or less. Should be enough time." He looked back at me one last time, with me just looking away.