The Nightmare
The howling of the wind brought Taehyung eyes to open. Where was he? Last thing he remembered he was sleeping on his hospital bed while cuddling Jeongguk.
Focusing in the dark of night, confusion washed over him as he came to realize that he was in a forest. Distant landscape of dark and dense forest surrounded him, he felt like he knew this forest. Beneath his bare foot, he felt the dry fallen leaves which created a lot of crunching noise whenever he moved.
He was surrounded by dark forest and yet as he scanned the somber forest, it seemed never ending.
The irony of night time in a dark forest suddenly sat into his body, that ghastly wind moving right through him and chilling his bones to that of splintering ice. The pitch black night, cold and foggy. The only thing that kept his body warm was the sweat dripping along the sides of his face.
The need to move started him forward through and he felt a sharp ache all over his body, maybe because he didn't moved his limbs in last two days, trying to fight against the change. Was he lost?
His heart began pounding fast in his chest, the blood pumping through his veins felt like it vaporized into nothingness, the colour of his face turned pale as he came across an abandoned house in the middle of forest after walking some miles.
He didn't wanted to go in the house, all he wanted to do was run away as far as possible, because the look of the house was more then enough to give him creeps. But he didn't know why his legs were taking him towards the house. He felt like his body was not in his control at all.
As he came close to the house, he smelled the old musty redolence stench of the house along with smell of something else which he couldn't recognize. When he steps on the front porch of the house, he heard a creak from underneath the floorboards. With every step, it seems like the creaking gets louder. He wrapped his hand around the rusty and almost broken door handle and slowly pulled open the unlocked door, door creating a creaking noise while opening.
The inside of the house looked like anybody would expect an abandoned house to look. Cobwebs lingers in every corner of the house, an antique furniture layered with dust sits perfectly arranged in the living room, infested with spiders and small insects.
Cautiously and unwantedly he walked farther into the house to explore. With every heavy step and pressure on the floor boards, it felt as if the house would collapse on top of him. He came across the kitchen as he continued walking farther.
An old wooden table sits in the corner, along with matching chairs. Fruits and vegetables on shelf and table rotten and insects could be seen on them. He then saw the faucet in the far corner of kitchen, dirty water drops dripping from him creating the only noise in the house other then his footsteps.
Soon he felt as if he is able to control his body again, he is master of his body again. Anxious to get out of this place, he started to walk back to the door and planned to exit, but was forced to stop in his tracks.
His heartbeat increased as he intently listened to a hard pounding noise, that appeared to be getting louder by every passing second.
Bang, Bang, Bang.
With every bang his heartbeat soared. He turned around and crouched behind a nearby staircase as the volume of pounding increased.
After sometime pounding stopped and a creepy silence was again prevailed in the house. He slowly came out of his hiding place. And soon he heard another noise, this time a very familiar voice, his Ggukie's voice, which seemed to be coming from upstairs, calling for some help.
Without thinking anything Taehyung just rushed upstairs, hoping and praying for his Jeongguk to be safe. He hurriedly reached the floor and opened the door of the room where the voice was coming from.
The room was empty, nobody was there, not a single living being just the sound of rustling of leaves was heard. Taehyung was about to turn and leave when his attention went to the wall on his left, it seemed like there was something on the wall. He slowly went towards the wall to see clearly and soon he saw what was on the wall.
He stared in horror. The wall was stained with gruesome blood stains. He finally recognized the other smell, the smell of blood. The smell had now became too obvious and he felt the need to vomit. But that motion was put away and forgotten in instant when the shuffling of feet rustled behind him.
Panicked, he turned around in blur, his eyes huge and watering.
His stomach stirred in slightest. A lamp, a small table lamp on the side of bed had fallen down on the fluffy blanket which was thrown on the ground. The lamp radiated a warm light only a few meters in front of him.
Was it real or a figment of his abused and exhausted brain? He didn't know.
Curiosity got the best of him, lending him a tiny spurt of courage and energy to boost him on his feet. Cautious footsteps led him forward, random tremors reminding him of his weakness. The lamp was close enough to touch, he slowly picked up the lamp and placed it on the stand, its friendly warmth seems the only hope in the world to him.
Basking in it for some slow seconds, he wondered, maybe there were more things in the room that hadn't been revealed to the naked eyes. But he wasn't going to explore the house as he planned to leave from here as soon as possible.
Turning sharp on his heels after he felt some movements behind him and a breath near his neck, he let out a blood curdling scream as he came face to face with the most horrific thing he had ever seen or a scene which he never wanted to see again.
Jeongguk's body covered in blood.
And in horror he opened his eyes, his heart pounding against his chest as if it will come out soon. He looked around and saw he was in his hospital room. His eyes watered and he soon started crying.
He suddenly felt a movement beside him and he finally realized a weight on his chest. He looked down and saw the sleeping face of Jeongguk. He wiped his tears, kissed Jeongguk's head and tighten his hold on him.
His gaze fell on the calendar and saw it was the day when Jeongguk was murdered. He now knew why he got that nightmare. He would always get this particular nightmare, related to Jeongguk's death on this day. It seems like even after coming back in time, it was still there. He hoped with time he wouldn't get this nightmare ever again.
The nightmares, as the demons of dreams, come to educate you if you are brave enough to look into the dark recesses of the brain.
And Taehyung was never brave when it comes to this particular nightmare of his.
After that he couldn't sleep, so he kept admiring Jeongguk and caressing his hairs when the hospital door jolted open and in came Jimin.
"Hey Tae." He said enthusiastically and loudly.
"Shh... don't speak too loudly. Ggukie is sleeping." came the reply to his hello.
Jimin rolled his eyes and sat down on the stool kept at side of the bed.
"Yeah I can see. I have two eyes." Jimin replied as he took the chocolates kept there and started munching on them.
"Those chocolates are for me." Taehyung pointed out.
"So? You don't like those. They would get waste and how can I waste food." Jimin said as he shrugged and put one more chocolate inside his mouth.
Taehyung just rolled his eyes and asked,
"So what is happening outside?"
"Your planned photoshoots are postponed because of your health. And except that A LOT of things are happening mainly because of this human." Jimin answered as he pointed at still sleeping Jeongguk.
"What did he do? He is just sleeping peacefully." Taehyung protectively said as he tried to hide Jeongguk's face more into his chest as if protecting him from Jimin's almost accusing's gaze.
"Yeah Innocent. Look what this innocent bunny of yours did." Jimin said as he handed him his phone while rolling his eyes.
Taehyung just ignored and looked through social media and saw his name trending. He clicked it opened to see why was he trending.
Taehyung just ignored it and looked at Jimin with eyes questioning 'What did my Ggukie did in all this?'
Jimin again rolled his eyes and said
"Look at business news idiot."
Taehyung eyes widened as he saw the business news. He looked at Jimin with shocked eyes who just rolled his again and ate one more chocolate.
Taehyung's eyes went to Jeongguk who was now nuzzling into his chest and couldn't believe that this innocent bunny of his could do something like this.
Well, he did.
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