beyondmars
When asked for a wish, they will say that it is for each other's dreams to come true at some point in life. As students who almost graduate from high school, all of them have different kinds of dreams---from Yeosang who wants to continue managing his family's café business, to Jongho who wishes to study music.
It's simple, right? Many people want their dreams to come true; they are no different.
What they do not realise, however, is that their simple wish---as vague as it sounds---somehow also applies to disparate and fortuitous things. You can call it coincidence, but at what cost do they want to keep believing that assumption?
Until there is one dream that would decide for them either to be or not to be dead, none of the eight boys has ever thought that staying alive is such a grandiose wish.
[Disclaimer: Several scenes, narratives, and dialogues throughout this story may be triggering for some (proceed to the content warnings below). Particular scenes involving blood, however, will not be described explicitly.]
*Content warnings: Major character death, blood, suicide, violence and murder, use of mild language.
An ATEEZ short story.
© 2022, beyondmars.
(Photo of night sky used in the cover is by Rafael Cerqueira from Pexels.)