Duality | Monsta X [√]

36: Eternal darkness

Please stop
This endless nightmare

-eternally, txt

It was as if living in a nightmare only it wasn't a dream, but a tragic reality.

Living in Gaphae I certainly knew what was going around, though in bits and pieces. The clan club was still far from me, and the boys even further.

Murmurs were drifting in the grim neighbourhood, rumours floating in the air and in the news. That a lot had heard a gunshot. That two casualties were injured, one being in such a critical condition that they were hospitalized.

All I knew was that Shownu was hospitalized. I did not know anything else and nothing really mattered.

I had spent the whole day from morning to evening on my bed, not even able to go outside in fear of what I'd hear.

My phone was tightly clutched in my hand all day. Occasionally, I'd scroll through the contacts, read their names aloud. Shownu, Wonho, Kihyun, Minhyuk, Hyungwon, Jooheon, and Changkyun.

I would check the volume of the phone in case I would miss a call, or a simple text but nothing came. Kihyun promised they would contact me but when?

It was killing me being in the dark. What if something really happened to Shownu?

What if he...

Who did he shot? What was happening in the club? Were the boys safe? What was going through their head? Were they alright?

Hundreds of questions circled around my head and it was making me nauseated. A lot of the reasons pointed to not eating much the whole day too, pretending to eat just so my mom would not notice. Telling her I was sick and missing university with that excuse.

"Daisy, have you heard?" Lying on the bed on my side, I saw my mother putting down grocery bags on the dining table. "I heard things outside. Something horrible happened here."

Slowly I sat up on the bed using my hands as support. More than physically being weak, I was tired mentally and emotionally.

"A man got shot. Another got stabbed. The police came and since then they have been ransacking the whole place, what was it called, a clan club, I think. They're saying that a lot of illegal things has been happening there. It all came out to light because of those two men trying to kill each other."

"No! Mom, crimes don't happen there now, it used to before. W-when-" I managed to barely croak out before my voice gave up. It was like a punch in the gut.

I was scared of facing the incident but it walked right into me itself and I had to face the reality now. There was no denying anymore.

Shownu really was in a critical condition. The clan club was really vanishing.