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Divination [2/2]
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"By the way... Something weird happened last night. I heard that weird voice again. Remember when we had the seance the other night? There was this weird voice that kept echoing 'Bunshinsaba' in my mind. I thought I was not the only one who heard it. I think it has something to do with Zitao's death."
Something to do with Zitao's death.
And now that it's Sehun who keeps on hearing it, it may have something to do with Kris's possible death.
"Shit..." Sehun said to himself. His breath panting for every step he's taking. "Are we there yet?"
"Just... A little more." Luhan said, trying to run faster than he normally could.
Kris found himself wandering at the park nearby, kicking an empty soda can off the pavement. He first met Zitao in this place and could clearly remember the kid awfully crying while practicing some awkward kung fu moves. Or was it taekwondo? He's not sure but he found Zitao quite annoying at that time, his sobs are deafening to Kris's ears. He pushed Zitao to the ground just so that he could shut the kid up, but in his dismay, the kid cried louder, only making Kris irritated even more.
But as he stared at the boy, he felt a little guilty rather than triumphant, so-even though if his whole mind and body's stopping him to offer a hand to help the boy up, he still did it. He offered the annoying kid a hand which the latter gladly took. After standing up, the boy wipes off his tears and sneezed some disgusting thing off his nose.
Kris's mouth turned into an awkward smile with the sudden rush of nostalgia. It seems like it was just yesterday when they first met, but yesterday was the last time they've seen each other. He wanted to shout, to curse, to make a scene, just anything to release all of his frustrations out. But there wasn't any frustrations kept in his heart, it was emptiness. Zitao's already gone, and now he's left alone with nothing. With no one.
The sound of footsteps approaching cuts off Kris from his thoughts and sentiments.
"Kyungsoo?" his brows furrowed. Didn't he give this kid a lesson earlier? "What are you doing here? Do you want to break another arm?"
Kyungsoo just stared at him, unmoving.
Kris let out a sick laughed, got annoyed at the arrogant-ish attitude of the boy and leaned closer, looking down at Kyungsoo's face. "What do you want?" he whispered in a threatening voice.
"Kyungsoo did not answer, Kris stares intently at his eyes. Noticing how big those orbs are. And somehow, Kris thinks Kyungsoo's eyes were like his heart. Empty.
Somehow, Kris found himself unable to process a single thing in his mind. Nothing seems to be moving. Not even him.
Somehow, Kris found himself completely hypnotized.
"Kris!" Luhan and Sehun shouted in unison once they've reached Kris's house. They've repeated shouting outside his house but no one responded. They stayed there for a minute, tried to find Kris if he'd been hiding inside. But they didn't see a single drop of his shadow.
"Shit." Luhan muttered.
"Where did he go? Where can he possibly go?"
"I don't know..."
"How about in Zitao's house? What if he barged in and-"
"I'm not really sure but that happening has a big possibility so let's go."
Luhan completely forgot that Kris had never been to Zitao's place.
No one knows how Kyungsoo managed to put a metal chain up on the metal bar of the swing. No one also knows how and where he got a black plastic bag and a silver padlock.
None of them was in their consciousness when Kyungsoo gave the plastic and padlock to Kris, no one was watching when the latter stepped his feet on one of the swing seat, both hands gripping on the swing chain for support and balance. A hand let go of the chain and puts the plastic bag on his head. Kyungsoo watched as Kris put the metal chain around his neck, then sealed it with the padlock he had given him.
No one was able to see as Kris pulls a Cartier lighter out-a gift that Zitao gave to him on his twentieth birthday-and lights up the plastic bag.
When the polybag started to burn, Kris's senses came back, he struggled to get the burning thing off his face but he'd lost his balance on the swing seat and failed. His burning head is hanging on the metal chain as he tries to free himself.
Kyungsoo walks away.
"Wait..." Luhan stopped to catch his breath. They have been running for more than ten minutes now and Luhan thinks he'd already sweated out all of the liquid he'd intake since birth. He's already thirsty and if sweat tastes good, he'd be more than willing to drink his own sudor. "I just... need... five seconds... of... rest... just... ugh." He groaned. This is getting a lot bit tiring and he thinks Sehun's persistence will be the cause of his death.
"We can't waste a single second Luhan! Kris may be in danger right now!"
Now that is the fucking point. Maybe. He may be in danger right now. May be not. There are too many possibilities of Kris just wandering somewhere and they're wasting their energy for nothing.
Luhan rolled his eyes but something caught his eyes. "What the fucking hell is that?"
Sehun looked at the direction Luhan has been staring to and his eyes widened at what he saw. It was a thick black fume. Coming out from somewhere near them.
"How could I forget?" Luhan said to himself. "That's the playground!"
Sehun wonders what the hell is Kris doing at the playground though.
They ran towards the playground but stopped when they saw a petite figure of a man walking towards them. And it was too familiar to Sehun to not recognize the face of the boy.
"Kyungsoo!" Sehun called out, but the boy keeps on walking with a normal pace.
"Let me get him back to his senses." Luhan said, taking a step back to get a little force then runs into Kyungsoo. The poor shorter one was pushed on the ground and landed on his right arm.
"Oh god my ulna!" Kyungsoo cried out in pain.
"Kyungsoo!" Sehun went beside Kyungsoo, expression painted worry all over his face. He glanced over at Luhan who's trying his best to not laugh in front of Kyungsoo. Sehun gave him a warning look. "Are you okay?"
"I just broke my fucking ulna and you're asking if I'm okay?" Kyungsoo shouted then sat up.
"Don't worry, you still have your Radius though."
Luhan looked dumbfounded. He never liked biology to comprehend those... things. But he's sure they're talking about some part of the bones. Or probably something near the topic?
"Wait... why are you guys together?" His gaze changed from Sehun to Luhan's direction. "Why are you guys here?"
"We'll explain later okay?" Said Sehun. "We need to find Kris first."
Kyungsoo's brows furrowed but runs with them anyways. They went toward the playground and stopped when they saw where the oozing smoke came from.
It was Kris's head, burning, and the fire was starting to spread to his clothes. His neck was hanging on the metal chain of the swing's metal bar-lifeless and unmoving.
"K-kris!" Luhan screamed, wide eyed and mouth agape. Tears started to prickle his eyes when he looked over at Kyungsoo, giving him a deadly glare and suddenly run towards him. "What the fuck did you do to Kris?" He tried to strangle Kyungsoo by gripping tightly on the collars of his uniform. "What the fuck did you do to my friend?"
"I-I don't know!" Kyungsoo defended, his eyes widening at the sudden attack of Luhan.
"Luhan stop it!" Sehun managed to separate the two, but the deadly glare Luhan has been giving Kyungsoo was never removed. "We need to call the police."
"I-I'm going to.. g-get my phone." Kyungsoo stuttered. He opened his backpack but his eyes widened more at what he saw inside. "S-sehun... D-did you... P-put something i-inside my bag awhile ago?"
"No... why?"
"Then why is this here?" Kyungsoo pulls out the notebook from his bag, and there was it. The notebook that they used at the seance.
Sehun grabbed the notebook from Kyungsoo then flips at the page where they wrote the names. And there was it. Kris's name was already inked with a cross mark.
"Why the hell is my name written on that fucking Ouija pad?"
Sehun and Kyungsoo exchanged nervous glances.
It took Sehun and Kyungsoo a lot of effort to calm Luhan down when they told him about the seance they organized against the three of them, after reporting to the police about Kris's death. They were interrogated for ten great minutes, Kyungsoo almost pissed on his pants for not remembering a single thing. Good thing Sehun was there to save his ass. That seemed like the ten longest minutes in Kyungsoo's life.
"So that was the weird voice you keep on hearing a while ago?" Luhan asked once they reached Kyungsoo's home. They decided to drop Kyungsoo off and explain every peculiar thing that happened while walking.
"I've heard it too. The exact same time when Zitao died. I don't really know why it keeps on echoing in our heads, Baekhyun's probably hearing things too. But we won't know until we talk to him tomorrow." Kyungsoo said.
"Oh yeah, you'll finally come to school tomorrow right?" Sehun glanced at Luhan.
Luhan nodded, his gaze lingering at Kyungsoo's house.
"I don't think it's safe for you to attend your classes tomorrow." said Kyungsoo. Two furrowed brows looked at him in return.
"What do you mean it's not safe?" Luhan asked.
"Your friends died.... In two consecutive days. And since Baekhyun's coming back tomorrow too-which he, is the only one who wasn't hypnotized or possessed or whatever you call that thing that happened to us-he might be the one who will kill you. I mean... I think this Bunshinsaba possessed the three of us."
"We all opened our eyes during the spirit call, didn't we?" Sehun remembered that when he opened his eyes, the two older guys already have theirs widened.
"Can't help it. I might piss on my pants."
"So Luhan.... I think it's better for you to stay in your apartment."
"I won't die, okay? Baekhyun would fall off our school building first before he gets to touch me again." Luhan said smugly.
The two gave him deadly looks.
"Okay! Okay!" Luhan raises his two hands in defeat. "I'll just... avoid him tomorrow. Don't expect me to be absent, I've missed too much already." Even though Luhan's a jock, he kind of likes studying. He's the kind of student who'll be alive at the first few hours of classes then will slack off at the rest.
"Whatever happens... I won't let you die." said Sehun. Kyungsoo gave him a teasing look.
"Class." their professor caught all of their attentions. "Each one of you must have heard this by now, but another news of a student's sudden death surprised the whole faculty department. As you all know, Wufan from the same section of Zitao, committed suicide yesterday. The Guidance Office will also start accepting cards and donations for Wufan's family."
The teacher repeated all of the unnecessary statements all over again. But this time, Kyungsoo and Sehun aren't listening. They're passing a paper to each other, planning on how to make Baekhyun avoid Luhan the entire day. But what they forgot to avoid was to get seen by their adviser who was too busy eyeing them.
"Sorry, Sir." both apologized but the man went towards them, holding out his hand and Sehun gulped.
"Give me the paper." Sehun handed him the white pad.
The paper contains of everything about Kris and Zitao's death, about their theory with Baekhyun killing or hypnotizing Luhan later on and the seance and just EVERYTHING. Sehun and Kyungsoo would probably be dead next if their teacher reads the paper.
Sehun and Kyungsoo let out breaths of relief when their teacher crumpled it and tossed it in the trashbin, but he awfully missed it.
"Sehun, detention."
"But why me? Why only me?" he groans to himself.
"Kyungsoo, you're acting really weird." Baekhyun stated once they stepped outside the room. They can't talk to him since his seat's too far away from Kyungsoo and Sehun.
"I am not... W-Where's Sehun?" Kyungsoo tried as hard as he can to avoid the topic about his peculiar and nervous movements, so far, Baekhyun doesn't know anything about the effect of the curse.
"Detention room. Now I wonder how lucky you were since Sehun's the only one who was punished by Mr. Kim." stated Baekhyun.
Hell yeah, If I were to stay with Sehun inside the detention room then Luhan might be dead at this moment. Kyungsoo wanted to say but that would mean a long explanation, it may probably last longer than Sehun's punishment. "Let's... just go grab some snacks. I want some tuna sandwich."
Baekhyun didn't respond.
"Hey"
Still no respond.
"Let's go to the restroom first." Baekhyun said, which calmed Kyungsoo down. He almost thought Baekhyun had lost his senses. Thankfully, not.
Not yet.
Kyungsoo should have known better. He really should have known from the voice of Baekhyun earlier, he should have known from the sudden change of the mood and tone. And now he's stuck inside the cubicle. He's stuck inside the goddamn cubicle and he'd be so dead to Sehun because Baekhyun just fucking escaped and was now on his way to kill Luhan.
He means, to hypnotize Luhan and kill himself.
He shouted for help. For someone to help him. For someone to open the fucking door.
And he should have known that no one uses the restroom in the fourth floor of their school building.
"Sir, I really need to go to the restroom right now."
"No."
"Oh come on!" Sehun stomped his foot.
"Luhan!"
Luhan stopped from walking. Eyebrows creasing into folds as he turns back and finds Baekhyun waving at him. The weird thing was, It was Baekhyun. Waving. At him.
"Sehun's looking for you." Baekhyun said as he approached him.
"Isn't Sehun in the detention room right now?" Luhan asked, puzzled.
"No, he's in front of the school building. He asked me to call and fetch you for him." It was weird that Baekhyun have that sweet voice but there was no emotion at all. It reminded Luhan of how he used to mock him.
"Is Kyungsoo with him?" he asked.
"Kyungsoo?"
"Uhm, yeah, Kyungsoo..." There was a voice that kept on whispering to him to stop listening to Baekhyun. To not obey Baekhyun, but he trusted his instinct and he wanted to see Sehun anyway.
"Oh, he's with Sehun. Yes." Baekhyun nodded then smiled. "Shall we go now?"
"Sure." Baekhyun led the way.
"Time's up. Hope that served as a lesson." said their Teacher to Sehun. "You can have your lunch now."
That didn't serve as a lesson that made Sehun waste an hour of his life. Who devised such punishments anyway?
Sehun immediately went straight to the nearest restroom, only having him wide eyed at what he heard.
"Someone help me get out of here!"
That voice sounded really familiar.
"Please! Anyone! Get me out!"
Too familiar for Sehun to not recognize.
He barged inside the restroom, and found the second cubicle on the right was locked with a padlock. And that padlock almost looked too familiar. Probably the padlock from Kris's death scene. His eyes widened at the sudden hit of reality.
The fucking padlock. Kyungsoo was inside the restroom. Baekhyun's fucking gone too.
"Shit! Hold on Kyungsoo! I'm going to save you!"
And then he heard it.
"Bunshinsaba...."
"Where's Se-" Luhan stops when his eyes locks with Baekhyun's. It was pretty lifeless, his expression blank, and eyes all empty. Luhan was mesmerized, unable to move a limb, unable to process a thing in his mind. It was as if the whole world has stopped moving, including himself.
He took the plastic bag that Baekhyun handed out to him along with the box of matches.
He covered his head with the black plastic bag, making the entire scenery dark. He lights it up, his head up, burns himself up. Only waking up to a spreading fire on his body.
Baekhyun walks away in the midst of students fussing over Luhan's burning head.
Sehun and Kyungsoo were too late. Luhan already collapsed when they get to find him. They didn't find Baekhyun though.
"Oops, sorry." Baekhyun's senses came back when a freshman bumped into him.
"I-It's okay..." Baekhyun said, massaging his forehead. What was that aching headache just now? Probably his migraine?
"I'm really sorry, but, did you see the incident just now?" asked the freshman with perfectly sculpted cheekbones.
"Incident?" Baekhyun's eyebrows furrowed. "What incident?"
"A student just burned his head."
His eyes widened.
The classes were suspended due to the incident that happened a while ago. Luhan's body was sent to the funeral and the police are currently investigating about Luhan's case. Baekhyun had been interrogated but he can't answer a single thing, the only thing he remembered was asking Kyungsoo out for lunch then suddenly bumping into a freshman student.
After an hour of pushing Baekhyun, the police still didn't get any information from him.
The case was considered suicide. Assisted suicide in Baekhyun's case.
Baekhyun was too shocked when Sehun and Kyungsoo explained everything to him. Everything he missed. Every single thing that happened.
"I've been hearing the voice too." he said. So that explains everything. And he just killed Luhan. Maybe not with his own hands, but he is one of the reasons for Luhan's death.
"I just hope it will stop here." said Kyungsoo,
"Yeah."
When the three of them arrived at Baekhyun's house, Sehun and Kyungsoo wasn't surprised when they found the worn out notebook in his bag. A red ink marking a cross mark on Luhan's name.
"Sehun, Kyungsoo. It's Friday anyways, so I think it would be better if you two guys would spend the night here." said Mrs. Byun when she visited the three of them in Baekhyun's room.
"Is it okay, Mrs. Byun?" asked Kyungsoo.
"Of course. This day has been pretty hard for the three of you. I want to give you guys some good time." she gave them a warm smile then left.
"Another geek club late night meeting?" asked Sehun.
Baekhyun nodded. "This is yet another geek club late night meeting."
It seemed ironic how the three of them laughed in unison.
The last thing Baekhyun, Sehun and Kyungsoo remembered was they were sleeping on Baekhyun's queen-size bed, snoring their life away. Not sitting in front of the table, facing each other, while their hands are intertwined on a red ballpen, all tied up. They've burned up the notebook a while ago, but it was a complete shock for them to find it beneath the pen they're holding.
There's a piece of duct tape that covered their mouths too.
Three dead bodies came towards them, covering their heads with black plastic bags as they try to struggle, but failed miserably.
No one saw as the whole place lit up, burning the three boys down. Asphyxiating them to death.
No one noticed the burning abandoned building until the next day, and no one was able to identify what happened.
No one also saw the remnants of the notebook.
"What the hell is that, Jongdae?" asked Minseok, when the boy picked up an awfully worn out notebook from the ground.
"I don't know. Probably a death note?" his eyes twinkled at the mention of his favorite anime.
"Stop with those jokes. Maybe someone owns that. We'll be dead if-"
"We won't be dead. I think this is finally our call from the Gods of Death to get rid of those bullies." Jongdae said. Talking about Jongin, Suho, Yixing and Chanyeol, the four freshmen turned freshmen again.
"Just look if someone owns that first. We may get into trouble getting something that we don't own."
Jongdae obeys and flips through the pages of the notebook and stops at a particular page. "Isn't this...."
"The Bunshinsaba curse." said Minseok.
"Cool. So shall we-"
"Divination is not a game okay!" said Minseok. "It may have some extreme consequences."
"We won't play, Minseok." said Jongdae while he kicked off a dry leaf. But it was blown back by the wind. "We'll be commencing our revenge." he said then stepped on the leaf.
Until it crushed beneath his shoes.
Soon, it would be those four guys.
Soon.
This is too long and have to be splitted into two parts ;A;
and if you guys were wondering what happened with Kris, my friend helped me with the uhm sketch, now look here!
this was quite hard to write and I would appreciate feedbacks! ♥