One Wish

CHAPTER 28

  Okay, it's 18:12 and Seven is still asleep. How can he sleep for so long? I take out my phone to message Saeran and he says that he will be here soon. Haah, seriously, Seven. I wanted to talk to you some more. Guess we can text each other later too. After a while someone knocks on the door. When I open it, there was Saeran and V. Did they come to escort a sleeping Seven to their place.

"Hello, MC. Saeran told me you're having some trouble with Luciel." Trouble with Luciel? That's a weird way to put it. I invite them in and show them Seven - sleeping soundly, cuddling my big teddy bear. V then says, "Heh, if I was sleeping like that, I wouldn't want to wake up either." "Yeah, no shit he's not waking up." They then start waking him up like you would normally wake somebody up, but he's not. You can clearly see that he's breathing, so he's not dead.

"Why does he sleep so deeply? Does he have insomnia or something?" "Something like that. It's been like this ever since he was little. He would stay up days and then sleep through a full day sometimes. We've tried treating him, but he isn't exactly cooperating, haha." V is so calm and nice. We see that he isn't waking up anytime soon, so they take his body and carry it to the car instead. "How did you put him in such deep sleep? He has never slept like this."

Before I could answer, Saeran steps in, "Obviously, he wants to be next to her. She "relaxes" him or something." We both look at him confused for a moment. "Do I have to say it?" V then realizes what he's talking about and says, "If you don't want to, then there's no need to. I understand what you mean." "I don't. What are you talking about?" Saeran then smirks and comes near my ear. "He would like to sleep with you in the same bed, you know," he whispers to me. My face goes pure red. "What?! N-no he doesn't! We're just friends!" "Think what you want, let's go V."

V smiles and looks at Saeran go, "They both really are something, aren't they? They're so different yet so alike." "What do you mean?" "At home they act totally differently. Life has made them masters of masking their real self." "Huh? What do you-" Before I could finish, Saeran is signaling the car. "Come on, V!" "Well, I hope we see eachother again." "Of course we will. Bye!" I watch as V gets to the car and they drive away. Well that was an interesting New Years Eve. I still don't remember the details of it, but I feel like it was a fun night. I'll remember it eventually anyway.

Few more days pass and it's time for school again. The school is as same as ever, but something is not right. Since the start of the semester Seven is nowhere to be found. It's now been a week, so we start pressing out answers from Saeran. "Where is Seven, we're all worried!" says Yoosung. "It's none of you guys business where he is." "It is! We're his friends so we deserve to know." "No, you don't?" Then says Zen, "Come on, Saeran. We don't want to go through what we did last year. Just tell us." "He told me not to tell you." "Why?" "How should I know? He's fine and you don't need to know anything else! Now leave me alone!" and he rushes away from us.

"Well, we failed today aswell. How long have we been trying to get some answers?" asks Jumin. "Umm.. 3 days," says Jaehee, "Are you alright, MC?" "Huh? Yeah, I just... It's nothing." "If it's about Seven, then please tell us!" says Yoosung. "I don't know. I feel like it's my fault for some reason." "Why do you think that?" "I don't know. I just have this gut feeling, you know." After the school day has ended, we all start going home. Before we get going, Saeran grabs my arm and tells everybody to go on without us. They look confused and Saeran pulls me away with him.

"Umm.. Where are we going, Saeran?" He then stops abruptly and lets go of me. He looks me right in the eye like he did when we all first met him. "MC... I want you to do something." "Y-yeah?" My voice unintentionally starts to shake as he walks closer to me. "I want you to remember something." I start backing down until there's a wall behind me. "Remember what?" He's now right in front of me. He then slams his hands on either side of me, pinning me to the wall.

"What did you two do on New Years Eve? I want to hear every last detail of it." "W-why? Didn't Seven tell you?" "The moment he woke up in his room he locked the door and he refuses to come out now. You did something to him to make his depression worse than ever." "D-d-depression...?" "I want to know what you did, so maybe I can help him somehow." Wait, what is he talking about. "Oh, he didn't tell you yet?" I shake my head. So.. all this time... he's been depressed like I was...? No way... "Well? Tell me!" Saeran yells to my face. He's really mad. "I-I-I don't remember much, just, umm..." "When I looked around, I saw some very weird stuff on the table - honey, sugar, dice. Anything ring a bell?" "Oh right. We played truth or dare together, with rolling the dice." "Uh-huh. What did you do there?" "Umm... Uhh," I start to blush. "I remember some of the stuff we did, but..." "But?" "These are some things I should keep between me and Seven..."

I look up to Saeran. He looks pissed. Very pissed. It feels like his bright blue eyes are just piercing through me like icicles. "I. Suggest. You DON'T. Mess. With. Me." He yanks my chin with he's hand and raises it up towards him. "Right now, I don't care what Seven will do to me if I hurt you. But I will get those answers out of you, right, now." He'll hurt me if I don't talk? What's gotten into him? "I'm not joking. You don't know what I had to do in my past to get what I want. I did this to tons of people. You'll be a piece of cake."

I'm shaking like crazy right now. "A-a-alright, I-I will tell you." He let's go of my chin. That actually hurt a little. I then tell him all the truths and dares that I remember we had, including the last one. "He started to cry?! What did you do then?!" "I asked what's wrong, but he didn't tell me. After that he looked really sad for the rest of the night." "Yeah, no shit he would." He sighs and lowers his head for a minute. He starts to tap one of his fingers against the wall, thinking what to say next.

After a while, he finally says, "Alright, that's it," and he backs off. For some reason I had been holding my breath the whole time, so I breathe out and slide to the ground. "Sorry I had to scare you there." He then crouches down to me. "I hope you won't tell anybody what happened right now, alright? I'm sure you don't want to find out how I can hurt people who have made my life harder than it already is." I quickly nod my head and he gets going. My heart is beating so fast right now. I sit there for a moment and then start going home.

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