Chapter 1

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Third POV

Closing his laptop, Jeongin smiles while cheering. "Finally done with school today!" He gets up from his bed putting the laptop aside and goes downstairs to the kitchen. Turning the stove on he gets a tea kettle. He fills up it up with water and puts it on the hot stove. Opening the fridge he sighs "of course there is no food in the fridge, why would there be?" He gets a bag of chips from the counter and opens it up while walking to the living room.

Humming a song, he sits down on the couch. Turning on the tv with the remote he got off the coffee table, he puts a random channel on. Jeongin gets up as hears the tea kennel heating up, but suddenly freezes up.

"Good afternoon and thanks for tuning in to VHL news channel. We will start off today with fabulous news! A tent that we all used to know as children has come back in our town. After the murder of Kim Ji-hyun in 1998 they disappeared from sight, but now as of today in 2020 they have came back!! Let's all welcome Stray kids, we have heard from the Ringmaster that they are opening this Friday, so you better be prepared!"

Jeongin drops his bag of chips that he held and started to remember when he was 12....

7 years ago

"I count and you hide Innie!!" His friend, Jongho exclaimed. "Okay" 12 year old Jeongin went upstairs quietly running as he had only 20 seconds to hide. He goes to his parents room, and in their closet. He goes behind their clothes and looks around. Seeing a door knob, his curiosity took over and he opened it. Seeing nothing but darkness he tries to find a light switch, fortunately he found it pretty quickly. When he turns it on his eyes widened. Newspapers of his aunt were all over the place of the strange room "the death of 23 year old Kim Jihyun" "body of her sister was found in front of her own house" "Mystery of Kim Ji-hyun" "case of Kim Ji-Hyun goes cold".

Jeongin gets confused, was he lied to? His parents told him that Auntie Ji-Ji was in Italy. The betrayal only lasted seconds as he sees 7 oddly familiar faces on photos. He looks closer and sees names below. "Bang Chan, Lee Minho, Hwang Hyunjin, Han Jisung, Lee Felix, Kim Seungmin and Seo Changbin...." 'Seo Changbin that is the guy who is with my apparently dead aunt' He gets confused but flinches as he hears his dad

"I guess you know now huh?" He turns around and sees his dad calm? "What do you mean father?" His dad sighs and goes to Jeongin "you know Jeongin I thought We would be able to hide this from you but obviously we failed. Your aunt is dead she was murder. The police don't know what we know. That day she died she called your mother and gave us those names. We somehow got more info as we kept looking into it.... your mother though, she gave up. She didn't have a choice though , she was getting weak, Jeongin your mother isn't herself anymore. She saw her own sister's body hanging on our front porch. She is afraid of going out of the house, she is scared if she sees her sister's dead body. We never let you go outside without me because of this reason, she is scared if she sees your body next."

That day Jeongin found out about his aunt, that day he started helping his dad more with the case, that day he started taking more care of his mom. That day changed him

Present day

He focuses back on the tea kettle and runs to the kitchen turning it off. He gets out his phone from the back of his pocket and calls his dad.

"Dad. They are back"
"...make sure your mother doesn't see this, hide the remote, and stay with her...son there is something I haven't told you 7 years ago and I need to when I get home, but right now go to your mother"
"Okay dad, I love you and stay safe"

He hangs up and goes upstairs to his parents room. Seeing the remote on the nightstand he takes it and hides it under the folded clothes in the closet. Sighing, he closes the closet door quietly. He goes to the other side of the bed and sits on the chair. Staring at the wall he remembers the first time he saw his mother get a panic attack.

16 years ago

A laughing Five year old Jeongin was running from his mother as she was it in tag. "I'm gonna get you innie!" Jeongin runs downstairs to the kitchen. Having no where to go he opens the back door and goes outside in the backyard. His mother stops running and freezes. Her eyes widened as she sees her baby outside. 'He will be next he will die and you will see his body hanging in front of you' she falls to the ground imagining when she found her sister's body, except it was jeongin's. "NO BABY MY BABY DONT DIE PLEASE NO NO NO NO" she start hyperventilating and sobs.

Jeongin still being outside witnesses all of this. Freaking out he runs back inside. Seeing his mother crying he starts to cry. "Mama nu cry! I'm here! I'm here!" He hugs her fragile body.

Feeling her baby hug her she gasps and hugs him tightly "my angel! They could have taken you! They could have killed you, don't worry baby you are in my arms, no one can take you, no one"

Present

Feeling something touch his face he snaps out of the flashback.

"My baby... why are... you ...you crying" his mother looks softly at him wiping his tears away. he sees his mother scoot over and pats the empty side of the bed. Jeongin then goes on the bed and hugs his mother, cuddling her.

"Mama, I love you"

"I love you too sweetie"

Jeongin hears his mom singing a lullaby she would always sing to him when he was a child. Feeling calm he goes to sleep knowing that everything will be good....right?

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