The Garden
[Choose Your Own Adventure]: Seoul High SchoolYou get back to your room and want to take a shower but it seems that Heechul is still using it. He's singing and rapping really loudly too.
Pshh. He's not done with his 3-hour concert yet. He's pretty good though. I wonder if he wants to be a singer in the future?
You go out of the dorm to the bonsai garden. It is chilly and you rub your hands together to make them warm. The path is lit by small ground lamps glowing faintly in the dark. In the distance, you see firefly. You decide to take a closer look.
Because it's too dark, you can't really see your surroundings well-- only the path in front of you.
As you keep getting further away from the dorm and closer to the firefly, you see that it is actually not a firefly, but rather a flashlight. Through the dark you see a figure sitting on the ledge of a little gazebo holding the flashlight towards a book.
You go forward cautiously until your feet step on wood flooring instead of the loamy earth. The figure stops and hurriedly flashes the flashlight at you.
"Aish, too bright," you say.
"Woah, I thought it was some Slender man or something," the figure said.
"Who are you?" I asked. "Are you a student here?"
He put the flashlight under his chin so that it lit up his face in a very eerie manner. He smiled (though in that position, he didn't look very reassuring).
"You disturbed my silent reading," he said with the flashlight still under his chin. "But because you gave me such a vivid experience, I will not think bad of you."
"What were you reading?"
"It's a horror book called Goosebumps. It's the kind where you get to choose what to do and your choices affect the outcome of the story. It's like a game."
"Oh really? That's cool," you say as you sit down on the ledge beside him.
"Are you a new student?" he asks.
"Yes, I am," you answer. "Although I haven't really gotten off to a good start..."
"Did you bump into Cho Kyuhyun?"
"Is he that famous for being notorious?"
"Yes," he says, "and being the son of the school's owner, he believes that he can do whatever be want because he feels that he is sort of the second boss next to his father, of course."
"I wonder what it's like being room mates with that guy. I'll bet no one can take him."
"Well, speaking from experience, he is pretty quiet by himself and as long as you mind your own business and keep out of his way, things will be fine."
"You're his room mate?"
"Yep. Because I'm always out of the dorm reading wherever I feel like reading, he can't try to bully me or anything."
"Ohh..." A moment of silence. You hear a rustling in the nearby bushes.
"... What was that?" you ask.
"I don't know. That's the first time I heard something like that here," the guy answered, a bit nervous.
There was a fierce snarl and the guy gets off the ledge. You are startled by the sound and you lose your balance and begin to fall backwards. The guy catches your arm at the last second.
"Careful, it's a big fall from up here," he says as he helps you get back on the ground.
"Thanks..." you say, with your heart beating fast.
"Phew. You sure are accident-prone. Well, it's getting late. I'm going to go somewhere to fix some stuff."
The creature snarled again, but this time it was much closer and there was the sound of more rustling.
"RUN!!!!" the guy shouted. You run back towards the dorms.
Crap, I forgot to ask for his name. I didn't see his face clearly either. Tsk. And I thought I had found someone I could talk to in school. Oh forget about that. JUST RUN, KIM HANEUL!!!!
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