Chapter 5

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Chou stood with her new "friend", Jeon Jungkook, on the edge of the metal platform overlooking the open cells of the patients. She mentally noted the height of the platform- it wasn't high enough for a person to die jumping from. Disturbing. Definitely note-worthy. Below them, various boys, all older than Jungkook, either wandered around, talked to each other, or acted in rather unusual ways.

"Who are they?" she asked.

"All of them?"

She nodded.

He took a deep breath. "There are altogether seven- now eight- of us. The oldest is twenty-three years old; I'm the youngest at eighteen."

"Tell me about all of you."

He looked a Chou, his devilish grin back on his face. "Why? Are you scared?"

Don't tell him too much, Chou. "Or maybe I'd just like to know. Seeing as we are now close neighbors."

He gave a small laugh at the comment. "Very well."

He pointed to one of the boys using a piece of concrete to scratch some words onto a wall. The boy had extremely light skin and dark hair, much like Jungkook, but this boy was much skinnier, almost to the point of gaunt. "That's Hopi," Jungkook told Chou.

"Why is he here?"

"Are you going to ask that for everyone?"

"You said all anyone cares about is why a person is in here."

"Yeah, but... okay." He cleared his throat while shaking his head slightly. "Hopi was caught after years of drug abuse and selling to people- most notably kids. When police caught his scent he took so many pills no one really has any idea how the hell doctors kept him alive. When he could talk, he said he did all of it because voices in his head told him to. Landed him the golden ticket into this heaven on Earth. He's got a talent for finding unique ways to kill oneself... for example, a few weeks ago he broke a lightbulb and attempted to cut his wrists using it. What's strange is when he's not freaking out he's actually quite nice. "

Jungkook then pointed to a brown-haired boy. "That's Park Jimin. He's in here for sororicide."

Chou's eyes widened. "As in the killing of one's sister?"

Jungkook nodded. "Yeah. Apparently when Jimin found out some things he'd rather not have known about his family he decided the best course of action was to fill a bathtub with water, drown his little sister, and then die the same way. However, Jimnie also found out that day that it's a lot easier to drown someone else than yourself. People had heard the girl screaming and called police, who got there before he could successfully make himself stop breathing."

The boy gestured to two boys, both with strangely colored hair who were talking to each other. "Min Yoongi and Kim Namjoon are our firebirds."

"Firebirds?"

"Meaning what they did to get in here involved setting something on fire."

He pointed to the white-haired boy. "Namjoon was working at a gas station one night when one customer in an SUV was rather rude in that he threw the payment out the window. Well, now, Namjoonie didn't exactly appreciate that."

Silence.

"Okay, what did he do?"

"He grabbed the nearest fire extinguisher, caved the guy's head in, and then lit a match in an attempt to blow up both the gas station and himself. The for

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hikari0415
#1
Chapter 21: My third time reading the whole thing again and it still blows me away. Beautiful. ?
halfprince #2
Chapter 21: what a great and beautiful story!!! the plot twist is incredible unexpected! Although it was short but it was very satisfied....^^ thumb up!
marilyn01 #3
Chapter 21: Opened my eyes to something great. Thanks!
restless_maknae
#4
Chapter 21: Oh wow! That was such an impressive story with so many twists! Especially the ending got me like wow because I definitely didn't see that coming. It was the best kind of creepy and all of their crimes and disorders were so well-thought and connected to their MV theories, I really loved that! I read your story in one-sitting because I was just too curious to read until the very end. I totally loved that you used the butterfly symbols in such different ways like on the wall in the institute, when Chou was waking up from her coma and even her name meant butterfly. It was really good.
I would like to thank you for raising awareness for mental illnesses, as one who's struggling with one, I'm always happy when someone doesn't romanticise them. Thank you so much for sharing this story with us! It was an outstanding read. <3
lionroars
#5
Chapter 21: Damnnn, I remember subscribing to this a while ago and i finally found some time to read it all in one go! It's actually really good! At first I was a bit doubtful about how you portrayed some of the mental illnesses, but im glad i stuck through it because this has been one hell of a ride! Btw, As jungkook was recounting of everyone's crimes, i was like 'this sounds familiar' and realised you were inspired by one of their mvs hahaha (as you can see i havent kept up with bts for a while), but anyway, back to the story.
It's really sad how these 'patients' were treated; i loved how every chapter was short but there was a lot of content, which, in my opinion, is so much better than a really long chapter where nothing is happening lol. The story is quite simple, but you've really managed to pull the emotions of your readers in the right places like omg, especially near the end.
One thing i didn't really like, is the alternate ending (it is an alternate ending, right?) because it's basically telling me that everything was just a dream, so it feels like my emotions were toyed with for nothing. Although it was a plot twist, i think im going to pretend that the story ended on its first epilogue; im not by any means the person who loves sad endings, but felt it was the most appropriate compared to the second. BUT, i did appreciate about the awareness for mental illness you were trying to portray; it did hit home a little, but thats another story to tell haha. It's been a while since ive read something angsty so im just a bit of a wreck right now; this angst is too overehelming for me to handle! Haha
ButtercupRainbowdanz #6
Chapter 21: the last part is ing creepy but the whole story is amazing like why. y u do dis.





wondering if you can come up with another sequel XD
Klunicorn-_-
#7
Chapter 21: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH STOP KILLING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO KILL SOMEONE THIS MANY TIMES WITH WORDS????????
ahhhhhhhhhh I have no more energy left to do anything

Ok but seriously that was such a plot twist, where did that even come from? I'm trying to think of how you're thinking all this up in that brain of yours but at the same time Chou's brain is doing all that crazy "you won't understand what I truly am now but when you do and I tell you what I am, you'll feel rather stupid because your brain can't do this" thingamajig with the BTS members in her head and then the coma thing and how she was in a car accident which was also linked to Tae's incident AND JUST EVERYTHING IN GENERAL.

SERIOUSLY MIND IS EXPLODING INTO MILLIONS OF TINY USELESS THINGS RIGHT NOW

I am so done with you and your writing and this story and myself but I can't even pull myself away because IT'S TOO DAMN GOOD

I AM BINGING ON ALL YOUR STORIES NOW AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME
romione_han #8
Chapter 21: This stories is too damn Unrealistically BEAUTIFUL! Im a mess. An official mess. Authornim u should take action.
hikari0415
#9
Chapter 21: Damn beautiful. This just staright out penetrated me.