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When Jinki, Taemin and the managers got back, they were rather surprised to hear the quiet in the dorm. Usually when they left it with the two noisiest members as well as the true Minho, it would be noisy enough that even the neighbours would hear. The quiet was refreshing, yet worrying at the same time because it meant that the trio still needed their rest and had yet to recover.“What the—” “Jonghyun-hyung!”
It was the scream of pure terror that roused him quite rudely from his otherwise dreamless sleep. Was he even sleeping before…?“Jonghyun-hyung?”
The managers hurried in after the two youngsters and gaped at the sight of a carelessly sprawled Jonghyun on the floor. Junsu leaned over his form to tap lightly on his cheeks even as Tae Kwang hurried over to the other two slumped over on the sofa. It was strange that they had not woken and grown alarmed when their friend had collapsed. And it definitely worried him now when they too took a while to regain their consciousness.
Jonghyun spun around to meet Minho’s wide eyes. He frowned. “The heck- Are you even real?”Minho continued to blink widely at him. “Is this even real? It’s all a dream, right?”Before Jonghyun could retort with a witty comeback – which usually turned out corny, really – a blur of black flew out the bushes to slam into him. Jonghyun swore high and low with as much creativity as he could—
Jinki watched in worry as Jonghyun’s eyes opened in a daze. The blond groaned and clutched at his head with a wince. “Ugh…hyung…? Eh, welcome back?”Jinki repressed the urge to grin at his poor confused friend and instead helped him up as manager Junsu demanded, “What in the world happened?”
“Ohmygodwhythehellarethebothofyouhere?!”Minho, who had leaned over to pluck a stunned Kibum from his winded blond friend, wrinkled his brow in worry as Kibum began to hyperventilate in his arms. “Kibummie, you okay?”“It got you too! Oh shit. Shit shit shit shit shit—”
Just slightly behind them, Minho too came awake in a flustered daze and gripped the still limp body by his side tightly. “Ugh, hyung, Taemin-ah, you’re back?”Taemin grinned worriedly at the confusion in the older male’s voice – Kibum was only starting to stir – and was about to ask when Jonghyun barreled him aside. He grabbed Kibum’s face between his trembling hands and rubbed at the pale cheeks almost tenderly. Minho seemed jolted by the impact but unexpectedly twisted his body only to easier wrap Kibum into his arms and press an equally trembling hand to the pale brow.“Key-ah—” “Kibummie—”
“Kibummie…”Kibum seemed to freeze in Minho’s arms. By then, Jonghyun had stood up, watching his usually composed best friend lose his composure in Minho’s arms. Jonghyun opened his mouth—
“Gwaenchana?” they ended in unison absently, still paying full attention to the paler boy before them. The rest of the males in the dorm watched in dumbfounded surprise at the obvious concern in their behavior. Kibum sighed softly before fluttering his eyes only to squint at the brightness of the room. He blinked tiredly at the staring faces in the room and smiled crookedly at them. His voice was hoarse with the lapse of disuse but still came out cheeky. “Take a picture…it’ll last longer.”
Something long and thin – a rope? – whipped out from a seemingly unseen direction to wrap itself around Kibum’s pale neck. The boy’s dilated eyes stared up at his other two friends and it was only then that they saw the blood pouring from Kibum’s right brow. It was only then that they could see that the rope – which wasn’t really a rope – was once a long intestine. Jonghyun stepped back in horror as his previous nightmare flared before his eyes. “Oh shit—”
Their collective worry changed to utmost relief at the return of the Almighty Key’s diva-like attitude – though Minho and Jonghyun seemed to sigh in relief at something else entirely. Kibum, still feeling impossibly tired, lifted his casted arm to press at Minho’s hand, his other injury-free arm pressed to Jonghyun’s. He smiled softly at them.
“Run.”It was all Kibum managed to whisper as he was yanked roughly into the darkness.
Jonghyun and Minho felt their blood turn cold as Kibum’s eyes shifted eerily to an all encompassing black to catch the gaze of the stunned crowd of males around him. His voice was only loud enough for both of them to hear.“Tag, you’re it.”