taehyun: "Ready?"
y/n: "No."
taehyun: "Are you scared?"
y/n: "Yes."
taehyun: (laughs) "Don't worry, I'll be with you the whole time."
y/n: "Okay."
hueningkai: (mumbles) "I said the same thing."
cousin: "Suck it up."
taehyun: "Welcome to Porcelain."
cousin: "Holy shit. There are so many--"
hueningkai: "Eyes."
y/n: "Smiles."
cousin: "I was going to say dolls but all of that is true, too."
taehyun: "The owner leaves the store open until midnight. He lives here."
y/n: "Who would ever want to live here?"
taehyun: "It's a family owned shop so the living space is just upstairs. They're generational doll makers."
y/n: "Add that onto the list of jobs I could never handle."
hueningkai: "What about a mortician?"
y/n: "That, too."
taehyun: "Have you heard the stories about this place?"
y/n: "Who hasn't?"
cousin: "I heard about a young mother that came here and she disappeared. Her parents never found her until years later, when their granddaughter bought a doll from the shop. She talked to it and called it Mommy."
y/n: "That's not as bad as the one where a little boy took a picture next to a doll. When his mom looked at her phone later, all of her photos had been wiped except for the photo of her son and that doll."
hueningkai: "Bogus."
y/n: "Is not."
hueningkai: "Is too."
taehyun: "Do you want to meet one of the dolls?"
hueningkai: "...what do you mean?"
taehyun: "One of the dolls that's supposedly been possessed by a human soul. Don't worry, it's inside a locked glass case."
hueningkai: "Sure. I'm not afraid unlike some people."
y/n: "Go on and get possessed then."
hueningkai: "It's already possessed, dumbie."
taehyun: "It's that one over there wearing the green dress."
hueningkai: "This one?"
taehyun: "Yep. Get closer."
hueningkai: "Okay... jesus, her eyes look so realistic...."
taehyun: "People say if you look at her for more than five seconds, her eyes will start tearing up."
hueningkai: "No way. Seriously?"
taehyun: "Try it."
hueningkai: "F-fine..."
taehyun: "5, 4, 3..."
[scream erupts]
hueningkai: "AGH!!!!! What the hell was that?!?!"
taehyun: (laughs)
hueningkai: "Did anyone else hear that scream?!"
taehyun: "Look where you're standing."
hueningkai: "What about it?"
taehyun: "The more steps you take towards the glass case, a sound alarm is triggered."
hueningkai: "A sound alarm that sounds like a scream? Are they trying to scare people to death?"
taehyun: "It brings more customers."
cousin: "Hey, where's [y/n]?"
hueningkai: "Right... oh. Very funny, come out now, wherever you are."
cousin: "[y/n]?"
taehyun: "Maybe she got scared... I'm sorry, I didn't think she would."
cousin: "Let's split up and look for her."
hueningkai: "Let's split up are the three words people say in horror movies before they die."
cousin: "We're not in a horror movie."
hueningkai: "Are you sure about that?"
taehyun: "I'll go this way, and you guys check in the back."
hueningkai: "Fine. My cell phone's on blast so just give me a ring if you find her."
cousin: "Got it."
[COUSIN leaves]
hueningkai: "Where did she go... and why is this place so damn big?"
[creak]
hueningkai: "[y/n]? Is that you?"
[creak]
hueningkai: "I swear to god, if this is a prank..."
[creak]
hueningkai: "I have a black belt! It's from H&M but still!"
y/n: "H-Hueningkai?"
hueningkai: "[y/n]? There you are... are you crying?"
y/n: "No."
hueningkai: "Why are you shaking, then?"
y/n: "I-I don't really like this place. Can we leave?"
hueningkai: "Let's stay here and I'll text [cousin] that I found you."
y/n: "Okay."
hueningkai: "Hey, sit down. Breathe."
y/n: "I'm breathing."
hueningkai: "Lamaze breathing."
y/n: (takes deep breath)
hueningkai: "Better?"
y/n: "Yeah."
hueningkai: "You okay?"
y/n: "That scream."
hueningkai: "What about it?"
y/n: "Nothing."
hueningkai: "You're gonna have to let it out sometime."
y/n: "The scream just reminded me of my sister, that's all."
hueningkai: "Your evil little sister from the pizza place?"
y/n: "She's not that young. She's only a year younger than us. And she's not evil."
hueningkai: "She sounded pretty evil to me."
y/n: "She's just angry."
hueningkai: "Why?"
y/n: "Because I don't live with her and my parents anymore."
hueningkai: "But you did?"
y/n: "Before, yeah."
hueningkai: "What happened?"
y/n: "A lot of things... it all led up to one thing, I guess."
hueningkai: "I'm sure it wasn't your fault."
y/n: "I think it was."
hueningkai: "Don't think that way."
y/n: "You don't even know what happened. How can you say that?"
hueningkai: "I can just tell. I'm pretty good at reading people."
y/n: "Oh, really? So what's your reading of me?"
hueningkai: "That you're a scaredy cat."
y/n: "Hey!"
hueningkai: "But seriously, you seem so scared to go for what you want. You're always worrying about other people."
y/n: "I'm not."
hueningkai: "You really are. I've seen how you try to be a good influence for [cousin]. You help out around the house a lot. Your uncle and aunt really like having you there."
y/n: "I feel like I'm a burden."
hueningkai: "Well, you're not. If anything, I am. I'm the one who crashed your place when you wanted a girl foreign exchange student."
y/n: "That's true. We got stuck with you."
hueningkai: "Hey--"
y/n: "But you know what?"
hueningkai: "What?"
y/n: "Even though you got stuck with us, I'm kind of glad you came."
hueningkai: "You are?"
y/n: "Sure. I'm sharpening my bantering skills."
hueningkai: "They're not sharp enough."
y/n: "They will be the longer you stay with us. I don't mind how long that is, surprisingly."
(silence)
y/n: "What?"
hueningkai: "Um, nothing."
cousin: "There you guys are! Hueningkai, you said you were by the 1950's doll section!"
hueningkai: "We are!"
cousin: "This is the 1960's section!"
hueningkai: "Oh. It's not my fault that 6 is faded."
cousin: "Come on, let's get going."
[Y/N, HUENINGKAI, COUSIN, and TAEHYUN exit shop]
taehyun: "[y/n], are you okay?"
y/n: "Yeah."
taehyun: "I'm really sorry. I had no idea you would get that scared."
y/n: "That's okay. It's not your fault."
taehyun: "Still, I'll make it up to you somehow. How about pizza next Friday?"
y/n: "Really?"
taehyun: "Really."
y/n: "O-okay."
taehyun: "Cool." (frowns) "Are you cold?"
y/n: "Hm? Oh, yeah, I didn't bring--"
taehyun: "Here, wear my jacket."
cousin: (whispers) "Oh my god. Hueningkai, are you seeing this?"
(silence)
cousin: "Hueningkai. I said are you--"
hueningkai: "Yes, I see it. Let's get back to the inn already. I'm exhausted. And if I have a single dream about creepy dolls, I'm blaming you."