Chapter 1

Imugi

As the bell rang midnight the 10 friends were settled in front of the TV watching one of the many horror movies Minghao brought with him. While Seokmin, Mingyu, and Sabse were cowered in the corner, hiding behind their knees to prevent any ghosts from scaring them. The others were comfortably sitting on the couch or on the beanbag either laughing or flinching on the movie. It was a quiet comfy setting. The room was completely dark you almost couldn’t recognize that all 9 were in the room if you didn’t know Zoa made herself almost invisible under the blanket, Yugyeom laying on his back halfway under the bed, watching the movie upside down. Wonwoo matching the black bean bag perfectly, you could literally only see his face in the darkness. BamBam was anxiously making a wall with pillows around him getting “bored” of the movie, more like he was just too scared to pay attention anymore, but you know bored sounds cooler. So he fished around his school bag that was well hidden by the feather pillows on guard, for his phone to distract him. He was finding his books, pens, wallet but the phone was nowhere in sight. Instead an old board was found at the bottom of the bag included with some old sock. He pulled out the bored curious mustering the edges, it looked old really old, like it was made hundreds of years ago, some of the letters were almost not visible anymore, but since it was ordered like the alphabet you still could recognise what each letter was suppose to mean. The only disturbing thing was. He didn’t remember that he ever put it inside, hell he didn’t even know he had something like that, as far as he recognised it as a Ouija board, thousand ideas came through his mind to scare the others that the “where the does it come from” thought were long forgotten. After a quick glance on the screen, were a women with long black hair, blood drenched eyes and a body posture that didn’t look healthy at all was displayed. He almost screamed for a second, the corner group was quicker tho. Seokmin tried to hide behind Mingyu while Mingyu tried to hide behind Seokmin, what was a pretty interesting scene, meanwhile Sabse was almost emotionlessly flinching on the screen, even if she looked calm you could see the pure terror in her eyes when you looked close enough. On the other hand Yugyeom his best friend was laughing like an idiot, Minghao who already knew the movie was literally just watching the reaction of the others instead of watching the actual movie. While Jungkook was low key hiding behind Sera but high key acting like that didn’t just get scared the out of him. Zoa flinched back as she was hiding behind her arms like that could protect her in any away quietly cursing under her breath. Wonwoo was quietly sitting on a the bean bag without any reaction on his face but a quiet “ ahh that scared me” as a comment. While Jungkook was very obvious with his subtle hiding but to his bad he touched Sera’s shoulder what made her flinch and slap him in the face. Of course she apologized right away but couldn’t stop laughing at the scared expression he was now completely showing. Anyway BamBam decided his façade was gonna break if he keeps watching this movie even just for another minute. So he stood up right in front of the screen what earned him a groan from his white haired friend. “This is the best scene get down” Minghao complained as a pout was forming on his face as he looked over to Mingyu who was already getting relaxed even tho the next scene would have made him cry in fear for sure. Minghao’s disappointment wasn’t hard to spot. Still even Minghao became curious as he recognized the board on his friend’s hands. Out of nowhere Jaehyun had come back with the promised popcorn no one payed attention he announced he was gonna get.  So of course Mingyu screamed as the door surprised him what obviously made Seokmin scream in the highest note possible, what made Sabse a little deaf but not screaming any less. In the end it was a big chain reaction that left everyone screaming even Minghao, so that Jaehyun was so surprised that he dropped the Popcorn on everyone. Following right away Mingyu groaned “I’m not cleaning this up.” Everyone knew he still would since he couldn’t stand dirt and he was kinda the reason Jaehyun dropped it in the first place but were not playing the blame game. Except no one gave that news to Minghao who was instantly in a fite me position glaring Mingyu down “You damn know you’re gonna clean this up since you’re the reason for it.” Before they even could start fighting Jaehyun was taking the blame on him since he dropped it. You could still see that Minghao wasn’t finished with that subject at all, he was so done with Mingyu dropping things even tho it wasn’t directly him who dropped it, but BamBam was already complaining that no was gonna listen to his announcement. The movie in the back was long forgotten as everyone’s eyes were on BamBam who waved around with the Ouija board. “I wanna talk to some spirits” he said in a goofy scary voice, a big grin on his face. Without anyone agreeing he turned around to switch off the TV. To his bad the creature from before was now right in front of his face, ripping the cold white skin from her face, revaluing a bloody key between his teeth, her blood was dark red so dark it almost looked black you could see every damn bone and that was it. BamBam let out the most embarrassing scream as he fell on the floor in an embryo position. No one was serious any more everyone was laughing at the reaction of their friend especially Minghao who was originally planning to scare Mingyu, but who was he to ignore this iconic moment of his friend. He only was here to laugh at people anyways. As BamBam gained his posture back he quickly turned off the TV breathing a little heavier than he wanted. “Shut up” was the only thing he brought out as he glared at his friends trying to catch his breath. Some time passed as all of them calmed down from laughing. Yugyeom was sitting down next to his best friend and had thrown his arm around him. “I missed hearing you scream” the biggest smirk was on his lips. BamBam was so close to throwing him out, so close. Even tho its not his house. The rest was gathering around the Ouija board with big grins some teasing words, except for one. Sabse wasn’t having it. “Nope Nope Nope haven’t you been attentive, We are living here this is our home I don’t need a freakin demon in it. This is what the movie was all about. This is how a horror movie starts” She was not all to happy about this, everyone just either kept reassuring her or made fun of her there was no in between, while Jaehyun quietly pulled her into the circle next to him with a soft smile. Jaehyun’s hand on hers made her be quiet real quick. BamBam was setting up the Ouija board mumbling curse words in Thai still frighten and a little embarrassed from the scene before. “So everyone knows how this goes” he asked into the round. “Yeah of course we gonna ask some question and someone will either prank us or we will get the answer that everyone is thinking of” Zoa smiled sarcastically. She knew damn well how all this works being a psychology major made life in this situation a lot easier. Before Zoa could continue explaining what exactly was happening in our minds while playing games like this. Minghao’s hand covered before she could ruin the fun completely. What only gained him a big as pout and a bitten hand. “Yahh you bit me” he exclaimed shook AF. “You put your hand there” a light smirk played on her lips as she turned back to the board in front of her. Leaving a shook Minghao. Meanwhile Sabse was explaining that before anyone asks anything they should check if it’s a nice spirit like her life depended on it. if there had to call a demon into this it should be at least a nice demon you can make cookies with or something. Of course no one listened to her. So all of them put one finger on the planchette, except for Sabse that only followed after a soft tap from Jaehyun. It was quiet at first, no one really sure what to say or to ask. They looked around mustering each other facial expression, searching for the right words or someone to prank. It was so quiet and tense at the moment you could probably cut the air around them. Till Mingyu decided to speak up “Are there any Spirits here?” he looked around for agreement on the question earning a small smile from Zoa. If he was truthful he felt a little stupid asking this. I mean they were talking to a board. After a few seconds that soon turned into minutes nothing happened. BamBam repeated the question, eager that something would happen. Still nothing. They were quite disappointed so Seokmin tried again. Only now they could feel the small heart shaped wood move under their fingers. It smoothly glides over the board onto the answer “yes”. No one looked away from the little board, either shook, excited or not surprised one bit. No one noticed the curtain flutter, with the windows shutting close. or the icy cold air that was freezing their breath. after all it was cold before because someone aka Zoa didn’t want to pay for extra heat. Before Sabse could ask if it’s a nice spirit. BamBam asked the next question right after it stopped on yes. “Who are you?” At first the wooden planchette didn’t move, but as if it was forced to answer, the planchette slid to the letter “I” followed by “M” then “U” then “G” and at last “I” than it stopped moving completely signalling that It was done. Their eyes were glued on the board following its every move. As Jaehyun whispered “Imugi” to confirm it in his brain the planchette abruptly got on “yes”. It literally pulled BamBam, Jaehyun and Wonwoo after it. They didn’t even had a chance to put their finger away. It seemed like they were glued on it. The tension was getting extremely uncomfortable. Sabse finally was able to scream her question out “Are you a nice spirit” she was shaking by now the answer would change everything. It moved into the direction of No, Sabse was sure her heart was gonna stop any second, She could hear her heartbeat loudly as if it was pondering her ear. Instead of finishing the answer it stopped between yes and no. No one was saying anything all of them waiting for it to continue answering. After a few more seconds that felt like hours. “Why are you here?” Jungkook asked in a small voice starring on the planchette. Again it didn’t move for a few seconds as if the message was transferring into the paranormal world. As it moved it simply moved to goodbye while the candles they had on were out by now. BamBam groaned disappointed “I wanted to ask if the world will finally bow down to my dabbing skills” Laughter filled the room again. No valid question was answered but no one really care. Actually the atmosphere was more tired than scared. so without even turning the light on they went to their sleeping positions. what they didn’t know were that from this night there would be someone watching there sleep.

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GamerArtGirl
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Chapter 1: Oo, I hope no one gets hurt at least!