TRICKSTER [4/?]
Title : TRICKSTER [4/?]
Author : iluv_wonjaemin
Pairing : Myungsoo/Sunggyeol, Hoya/Dongwoo, Sunggyu/Woohyun
Rating : PG-15 (for disturbing content)
Genre : Angst, Thriller
Summary : It hasn't stopped. Dongwoo's death was the second death after Sungjong. Then, who's next?
SUNGGYEOL’s POV
I see Woohyun figure approaches me; I can tell he fastens his pace to bring his feet faster. I know what he intends to do, and I’m too indolent to bring this matter up to him. So then, I walk pass him when he mutters some words that I cannot really catch and don’t want to hear in any way. I don’t really feel like talking to someone right now. It’s just enough to hear about Sungjong’s mysterious death. It’s not a small matter indeed. But, how could things work without me knowing? I mean, if it’s HIM who caused it all, then why did he bring Sungjong to death? It’s not like him. I know he’s not “something” to do such thing. He doesn’t have power to kill people, unless…he already gained his power. It’s not like that right? Tell me it isn’t!
I let my feet bring me to the yard as I feel the wind breezes through my head. It feels nice. I spread my arms and close my eyes, enjoying the content atmosphere.
But, this feeling didn’t last long when suddenly the winds blows so hard. Once I open my eyes, a high pitch voice rings through my ears, “AAAHHHHHHH~~~”
That’s definitely Hoya’s voice!
I spin my body and run toward the front door. Swiftly, I turn the door knob and push the door to find Dongwoo-hyung stands by the doorway. His face…I can’t really tell that he’s crying or not, but I’m sure I can see tears run down his cheeks. But, why is he crying?
Before I step closer to him, I see him smiling…a sad smile I can say and slowly his body, I don’t know what to say, but I see his body starting to fade away. In the next second, I can’t see him anywhere. As if, his figure is disappearing into thin air. Oh my God, don’t say that he’s the next victim!! Please!
I immediately run toward Dongwoo and Hoya’s room and stop in front of the crowd to see red. A bed sheet stained with red liquid. Instantly, I grab my aching head and walk closer. My body feels heavy when I try to drag myself to the direction ahead.
A light tap in my shoulder brings me to turn my head to Woohyun who’s actually crying, followed by Sunggyu and Myungsoo. Those faces…those sad feeling on their faces, I hate it.
“Sunggyeol…” a voice calling for my name, his sad tone is indeed audible. I look toward the source of voice to see Hoya’s crying face. He’s biting his lips, trying to suppress his sobs.
Soon enough, I lift my head to see Dongwoo-hyung’s body. But, that blood-stained body was the last thing I see before my vision blackens again.
~=OO=~
NO ONE’s POV
…before the dawn….before the dawn…nae maeummaneun jipchagi aniya…
Sunggyeol opens his heavy eyes to see a white ceiling above him. He keeps laying still in that position while hearing BTD song playing in his mind or out his mind, he isn’t sure.
‘It’s just an illusion,’ he thinks, reassuring himself, before lifting his body and getting out the bed. He walks slowly to the door and give a short glance toward Myungsoo who still sleeps soundly on their king-size bed.
The next second, he is already standing on front of Hoya-Dongwoo’s shared-bedroom. Sunggyeol closes his eyes and takes a deep breath as he grips the door knob hard. The image of the sleeping Hoya inside appears in his mind. But that image suddenly changes into the bloody Dongwoo stands before him with his red eyes staring back at his.
Sunggyeol opens his eyes at once, feeling the grip on the door knob tighten. He shakes his head to erase the strange feeling before putting his effort to turn the door knob.
CLICK!
The brown door opens wide along with the song which is still playing loudly, revealing a small yet messy room. There’s no blood. There’s no sobbing sound. There’s no Sungjong. And there’s no Dongwoo either. But, there are three figures that sleep in one bed.
One figure turns his head around with his eyes half opened, “Yeollie?”
His voice is hoarse due to his dry throat, yet he still manages to say words.
“Woohyunnie…” Sunggyeol replies. He takes step forward before stopping it right away. The song…it’s stopped.
“Hey, come here. Want to sleep with us?” Woohyun offers, his smile breaks, his sad smile.
Sunggyeol only shakes his head. He looks at the view in front of him. There are Sunggyu and Hoya’s sleeping figure on the bed. Unconsciously, Sunggyeol furrows his eyebrows, ‘There’s something off with this.’
“What’s wrong, Yeollie?” Woohyun who has opened his eyes completely, automatically notices Sunggyeol’s frowning-face.
Sunggyeol looks back at the puzzled Woohyun before walking closer to him and whispers, “Wake the others up. Then meet me in the kitchen. I’ll wake Myungsoo.”
“What’s wro-“
“Just do it!” Sunggyeol quickly answers before disappearing in the doorway, leaving the dumbfounded Woohyun in the room.
Meanwhile, Sunggyeol is running toward his bedroom with his mind screaming like crazy. He opens the brown door to find Myungsoo’s figure standing by the bed, folding the blanket neatly and put it on the well-arranged bed sheet.
Myungsoo turns his head around and automatically put a smile on his bright face. This familiar face. Familiar scene. Familiar surrounding reoccurs over and over again in Sunggyeol’s current life. But, this time, Sunggyeol is used to this kind of thing already. With his cold face, he says, “Go pack your belongings. We’re getting out of here.”
Myungsoo widens his eyes at the statement, but his wide eyes change drastically into a slit, “What do you mean? We’re only here for one day or less, you kn-“
“Just do what I say!” Sunggyeol cuts his lover’s words with a sharp yet firm tone. He walks up to his closet and starts to pack all of his belongings.
Myungsoo only sees Sunggyeol walking back and forth between his closet and the luggage on the bed, with a frown on his flawless face.
“What are you doing? Just pack your things!” Sunggyeol who notices Myungsoo uncomfortable stare, stop packing and scold the latter. But, Myungsoo just stands still, without words, looking back at the angry Sunggyeol.
Sunggyeol suddenly approaches him and brings his lips closer to his lover’s left ear, “Myung-ah, you won’t make this hard for me, right?”
Myungsoo looks back with unreadable emotion but Sunggyeol just shrugs it off. He goes back to continue packing his stuffs. In no time, Myungsoo starts putting his belongings to his suitcase, packing as well.
~=OO=~
“Tell me what happen to Dongwoo-hyung,” Sunggyeol says those words through his clenched teeth, trying to restrain himself from exploding. He looks around, puzzled faces are visibly seen. They exchange confused gazes toward among themselves.
Woohyun brings his hand to caress Hoya’s back while Hoya only hangs his head low for some reason.
“No one can tell me about it?” He asks again, his tone changes.
Myungsoo is the first who begins to act to break the tense atmosphere, “Come on Yeollie.”
He drags Sunggyeol backward, keeping him away from the others. But, Sunggyeol is just too stubborn to just obey what Myungsoo does to him. He struggles to break away from Myungsoo’s grasp.
“Let me go!!” Sunggyeol yanks Myungsoo’s arm off him and goes back to his previous place, dealing with those perplexed faces once again. While Myungsoo stands in the back, giving up.
At the same time, Sunggyu opens his mouth and says, “Sunggyeol-ah, we aren’t supposed to talk about this matter. We all know that Dongwoo is de-“
“Yes, I know he’s already dead-“
“Then why do you bring that matter up again?” Woohyun yells, stopping the instant chaos at once.
“Sunggyeol, you’re not in the place to say those words. We have Hoya here. Don’t you see he’s hurting because of you??” Woohyun continues. His words somehow feel right. Sunggyeol ends up hurting Hoya, instead of making things clear for himself.
“Do you know how Hoya refused to eat that time?? And tried to kill himself??” Those statements, is that true? Sunggyeol’s mind seems to deny all of the reality he barely knows. It’s not like he’s been living with them these past few years already but things change. And the problem is he cannot bring the real fact about this monster to the others. None will believe him anyway. But that’s not the only reason Sunggyeol hides the entire monster thing with him. There is this reason. The hidden reason of why Sunggyeol keeps this as a secret.
Hoya is now crying in Woohyun’s arms. His shoulders shake hard. This is just too cruel for Sunggyeol to see, but what he can do for others is this way only.
“Woohyun, it’s not like I don’t care about Hoya but-“
“Then stop being a badass!” The latter shouts even more, before taking Hoya to the bed room, calming him down.
“Wait!” Sunggyeol runs after the retreating figures before a hand prevents him to do so.
“Let them be, Sunggyeollie,” it was Sunggyu, his face shows sympathy. Sunggyeol doesn’t know whether Sunggyu gives that looks to him for being like a madman or Hoya.
“But hyung, there’s something you don’t know. We have to get out of here,” Sunggyeol insists. His eyes glaring the older’s. Sunggyu looks back before taking a sigh in defeat.
“Okay. We’re going out of here.”
With a nod, Sunggyeol takes his leave to the bedroom to bring out his belongings.
~=OO=~
It was empty. The road was oddly empty and quiet. Not a single car or bus passes by, only the sounds of wind whirling around them.
“Why is it so quiet?” Woohyun speaks up, breaking tentative silence.
“That’s why we have to get out of here as soon as possible, Woohyun,” Sunggyeol responds without looking directly at Woohyun. He keeps on turning his head to the right and left to see sign of vehicles or whatever to pick them up and give a ride.
After a long waiting, Sunggyeol’s eyes sparks as an old-looking bus comes into view. Sunggyeol frantically waves his hands to grab the driver’s attention. And it works.
The bus pulls over and slows down. It stops in front of the starving boys, opening its door. Sunggyeol is the first to enter, followed by Myungsoo, Woohyun, Sunggyu, and the last Hoya.
He looks at dirty seats covered in dust as he scrunched up his nose. This bus is indeed smelly, he thought.
He takes the front seat on the right. Myungsoo automatically follows Sunggyeol and sits beside him. Woohyun seat on the left side, the same row as Sunggyeol. While Sunggyu and Hoya sit behind Woohyun. And the bus started to move.
~=OO=~
Sunggyeol sighs in relief as he looks outside the window. The view of the town flashes in blurry image.
‘Dongwoo died in the factory he worked in. I don’t know how that happened but, some said it’s because of his own fault that the machines didn’t work properly and damage his body,’ Myungsoo’s statement still lingers in Sunggyeol’s mind. He now knows how Dongwoo died in the first place. The other workers in the factory said that Dongwoo’s body was rotated and torn apart in such a tragic way. Sunggyeol closes his eyes, trying to erase the horrible images.
He turns his head to the left to find Myungsoo sleeps with his head tilts to the side. Sungyeol manages to put Myungsoo’s head to his shoulder before the bus shakes hard, making his heart beats even faster.
‘What now?’
The boys are all awake as those panic expressions are clearly visible on their faces.
“What happen?” Sunggyu shouts. He can feel that the bus is out of control.
Sunggyeol throws his sight to the driver seat to find no one’s there. His eyes widens.
“What the hell!”
All the boys notice that the driver’s gone. But, how did he manage to escape from the speeding bus? And for what reason he went out? The boys are sure the bus hasn’t stopped for even a second since it moved.
“Sunggyeol!” Myungsoo yells loudly when he spots his lover is trying to take control of the bus. Sunggyeol takes a strong grip of the steering wheel and stomp on the brake strongly to stop the bus from moving. But to no avail, the bus is still moving in full speed.
A drop of sweat falls to his temple. Then followed by another one. And another one. Sunggyeol’s face is full of dripping sweat.
‘What are you going to do now?’
Then, this feeling, the feeling to give up, invades in his aching-head. The salty tears starts to pour down his cheeks.
‘Who do you intend to erase this time?’
The bus is still heading forward.
‘I don’t want to lose my friends anymore!’
It’s heading toward the endless road.
‘Please just stop!’
But, the road ahead seems to have an end.
‘Just leave me alone, please!’
Yes, it has an end.
‘Get away from me!’
And the dead end seems to get closer.
‘Please….’
Before Sunggyeol screams, the bus finally hits the borderline and goes through, flying down to the deep cliff.
Muffled sounds are echoing in the way down before everything goes black.
Sunggyeol’s POV
“Sunggyeol…”
“Can you hear me?”
Sunggyeol flutters his eyes open. The pain in his head is excruciating.
“Hey! He’s alive! Thank God!”
He winces before forcing himself to get up.
“Come on, let me help you up,” Myungsoo stretches his hand to support Sunggyeol’s weak body to stand.
“Wh-what happen?” Sunggyeol asks as he rubs his bloodied temple.
“The bus went down the cliff. But we’re all fine, except…” Myungsoo lets his words trail off. Sunggyeol frowns. “Who?”
Myungsoo drags Sunggyeol to the back of the bus to find Sunggyu and Woohyun squat down on their knees, facing down. Their shoulders are shaking. Are they crying? But where’s Hoya? Those questions floods in Sunggyeol’s complicated mind.
“Hoya, he….” Myungsoo continues.
Don’t tell me he’s dead.
“….I don’t know.”
Sunggyeol fastens his pace toward the two squatting figure before realizing that Hoya is lying on the pool of blood.
“H-hey,” Hoya forces to smile after seeing Sunggyeol went in to his line of vision. Sunggyu and Woohyun look up. Sunggyeol let himself being dragged down when Woohyun pulls him, dropping to his knees.
His tears start to fill in his eyes as he looks at the image before him. Hoya’s body is stuck by some heavy steel wires on his chest, shoulder, and abdomen. More blood coming from his mouth as he coughs.
“Howon-ah…” Sunggyeol take one of Hoya’s hands and rubs it together with his. Hoya’s hand feels strangely cold.
Hoya’s mouth twitches, as Sunggyeol presumes that he’s smiling. He knows Hoya is holding back the unbearable pain right now.
Woohyun and Sunggyu fall silent, they don’t even move, only stare at the dying Hoya. Just their trembling breaths can be heard.
Hoya opens his mouth slightly while scrunching his eyebrows with a pained expression on his face.
“Sunggyeol…” Hoya talks, blood starts to spill out from his mouth. Woohyun has to shush him for not talking. But, Hoya is just too stubborn.
“Be…careful…” Hoya continues before closing his eyes. Sunggyeol widens his eyes in fear. Fear of losing another friend.
But Hoya opens it after a short moment, leaving Sunggyeol exhale in relief.
Hoya looks up, unfocused. His eyes are already so lifeless. A tear escaped from his eyes as he opens his mouth once again and let out those words, “Thank you,” as a farewell before closing his eyes completely.
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: This story is quite confusing right? I know >.< But don't worry. The answers will be revealed in the end of the story :D
So just stay tune okay! :D
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