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The Monsters Under My Bed Dreamcatcher x Reader

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The Monsters Under My Bed:

Part 4

"...do you need more proof?"

Her words made my throat go dry as I felt my eyes suddenly dilate before I stood up abruptly, dragging my chair across the floor. It created a loud screech, which surely made the entire cafeteria go silent.

"E-excuse me." I cringed at the crack in my voice, walking off to who knows where. I let my feet drag me out, not realizing the ominous shadow following me.

Going through the halls was akin to descending into a pit. The deeper I went, the more I realized that I was way too in denial to notice everything around me. While in a rush, I didn’t notice the man mopping the floor, accidentally bumping into him and knocking both of us to the floor.

Scrambling up, I had to apologize repeatedly, until I raised my head and realized that the man standing before me was instead just a pile of clothes floating in the air.

"It’s okay. Make sure to watch where you’re running off to." I watched with wide eyes as he tipped his hat, dragging along his cleaning equipment. My hands trembled before I turned, frozen in place when I saw someone limping across the hall, ripped clothes, and a staggering jaw. He stopped to turn towards me, raising his hand before an eyeball popped out, eliciting a yelp as I ran off.

Once again, I turn the corner and find my eyes widening again when I see the sea of people coming out of their rooms. My previous look at their innocent and stupid costumes turned into horror as I realized that none of these were some sick joke or trick.

A student walked with a pumpkin on their head, glowing ominously as another hooded figure stood by him, carrying a scythe.

A woman was walking with a large hat on her head, but as she adjusted her hat, I watched with horror as snakes peeked out, the faint sound of hissing ringing in my ears.

Behind her, I saw a small child, almost too small, with green pale skin, a pointy nose, shark claws, teeth, and ears. The number of monsters around me made my skin pale. Something was itching in my throat, and as I was about to scream, black smoke suddenly engulfed me.

The hallways disappeared, and I suddenly heard crickets as the dark skies greeted me. The hair on my neck stood up, feeling the cold wind graze my skin.

"I knew there was something off about you." Spinning around, I come face to face with the horned woman from earlier, seeing a smug smirk on her lips while she crosses her arms across her chest.

I was still a bit disoriented since I could remember coming from the crowded halls to suddenly being outside in the cool night. "A person who suddenly appears in the compound, someone who doesn’t know about me? Someone who I don’t know, and someone who seems like everything here is new to them."

The tall girl stepped forward, taking small steps towards me, "You’re not a zombie, not a pharaoh, not a vampire, not a demon, a shapeshifter? Perhaps. You’re not a wolf, and you’re not a ghost. Which must mean that you are a…human."

There was something about how she said it, as she got close enough to my face. I could feel my heart racing. Raising my eyes, I locked on to hers. The beautiful woman in front of me had soft pupils, contrasting the dark aura that she carried. She had a pair of brown eyes that were comforting.

"Interesting, so how did the headmistress find you? I could never imagine that, after all these years of hiding, she decided to drag you here." She maintained a small distance between us both. Her eyes cast a shadow over my very being, almost judging and assessing my entire life. "Unless she didn’t. There’s a reason why you got put in thirteen, isn’t there?" She smiled, walking forward, which led to me taking a step back.

"I-I don’t know what you’re ta--" Words were cut short, when I suddenly felt my stomach sink, falling backward as I fell against a hard floor. Opening my eyes, I recognized that I was back in the cabin, seeing Sua, Jiu, and Handong looking at me with worry. "Are you alright?" Their question came in a minute later. Were these people against walking? What is it with them and suddenly teleporting everywhere?

"I disappeared from the hall, and suddenly appeared on the roof. Then you bring me back into the cabin, ungracefully, if I may add. Then proceed to ask me if I’m alright?" I asked, sitting up to dust myself off, with a tone.

“Well, you suddenly ran off. Who knows what kind of trouble you might find out there? You’re lucky we found you. Yoohyeon can be a handful once she realizes that you’re not supposed to be here."

My eyes shifted, inhaling sharply when I heard Jiu’s statement. It didn’t go deaf to the ears when she paused, looking at me suspiciously. "What did you talk about?" I feigned not hearing her, whistling to myself. Due to my actions, it wasn’t long until she caught on to what I wasn’t telling her. "She knows, doesn’t she?" I nodded my head, hearing a sigh coming from her.

"We can’t do much now. We’ll just try our best to stay beside you." I glanced up at them in inquiry. "Yoohyeon is one of the popular monsters in this institute, Y/n. She’s gotten the title because of what she is. Her being the star player of the sports team boosted her a lot too." I had to thank Handong, seeing as the older girl explained it to me.

"Though she is nice, she likes to poke a lot of fun, sometimes going too far to maintain her image."

"Knowing her, she wouldn’t pass up this opportunity to poke fun at you. Figuring out what you are is going to entice her." Jiu added seriously, I glanced at the eldest girl and saw her brows furrow while she glanced outside the window. It seems like she wasn’t too fond of the tall girl.

“But no need to worry about that! You’re safe with us…for the most part. Welcome to cabin thirteen!" Sua said enthusiastically, evidently shaking in her place.

Handong giggled, approaching me and patting my back, walking away towards her room silently. Jiu, who was staying beside the window, suddenly disappeared, almost like she had never been there. I shrugged my shoulders, dismissing her and going towards Sua’s room, which by now I should start calling "our room."

The next…day? I didn’t know what to call it. The moon was still high in the sky when Handong woke me up. I got dressed, eating a short meal before I was outside once again, walking toward the big institute.

Grasping this whole situation that I was in was difficult. The truths that I discovered yesterday changed my view on all of this. The duration of my stay here was indefinite. I didn’t know why I was here, but I guessed that I had seen too much.

However, I didn’t understand why they could have let me go the moment I was put into that office. From day one, I didn’t believe any of this. From day one, all of us could’ve gone our separate ways.

"This is my stop. I’ll see you in a few hours." Jiu waved goodbye, locking eyes with me and offering a small smile before walking away. I couldn’t help but sigh, following the two older girls who walked into the room.

My eyes scanned the room, seeing the rowdy students playing amongst their peers. I was lucky with the secluded placement of my chair, not to mention the quiet girl that was reading her book.

"Hey Yubin," I said, eliciting a small hand raise from the girl who remained silent. She didn’t look at me, but I appreciated her energy. It was something that I didn’t get much of around here. Peace and Quiet.

My observation of not getting peace and quiet was proven when the lights inside the room suddenly flickered before getting blown out completely. The whole room turned silent to the point where I could hear my breath. Then, all of a sudden, I felt something grab my elbow, eliciting a yelp as I jumped back, which caused a whole chain reaction when my foot got caught on something.

I could feel it the moment my face hit the hard marble floor and my hands failed to catch my fall. I could’ve stayed on the floor if it weren’t for the sounds of laughter catching my ears and a hand helping me to stand up. I dusted myself off, looking up to thank Handong, who was looking at me worriedly. "What was that?" I asked, but a voice from across the room made me pause.

"Yah!" I turned my head and saw…Handong?

Turning back I watched the same girl grow smaller until her whole appearance changed back into the serpent-eyed woman, Gahyeon. She smiled at me cheekily, squeezing my hand.

I jerked back from the girl, bumping back into something behind me. Turning around, I recognized the black horns, smug grin, and tall girl behind me. "Looks like our new kid is a little scaredy-cat."

Her jab made the whole class laugh, maintaining her smug grin before she winked at me, walking past to sit on her chair. I could feel my face growing a shade of red due to the embarrassment.

I sat down in my chair, lowering my face until the laughter died down. "Don’t let her get to you, she wants you all riled up." I heard a quiet voice beside me, making me turn my head to look at the girl who kept her gaze on her book.

Sheepishly, I nodded my head, waiting until a woman walked inside. She was similar to the bearded man that taught us yesterday. The woman wore a smile, approaching her desk and setting her things aside.

A quiet sigh left my lips, accepting my faith as the woman started talking in the front. Just how long is this going to last?

"Compared to yesterday, the classes don’t seem as bad." I yawned, stretching my arms. Today we had light classes, not like the long-drawn-out ones that we had yesterday. However, beside me, a scoff came from Sua, who was floating past and turned around to face us.

"Easy for you to say, I understood nothing that she was saying! I mean, who would guess that the guy who traveled the world was named Christopher Columbus?"

I chuckled at her exclamation, entering the cafeteria and separating ways with the others. The food today was pretty much the same, which I was happy with, getting all my food before walking back with Handong. I sat down with the others, though I noticed that one girl was missing. Looking around, I saw familiar green eyes across the cafeteria, sitting alone in her corner.

"Why is she over there again?" I asked, a pout on my lips, making the rest of the group glance at Yubin. "I can go get her!" Sua announced before she vanished, appearing beside Yubin. I could see the girl suddenly raising her head, looking at Sua, who kept saying something with a big smile on her face. Then I saw them both vanish, as a sudden puff of sand appeared in front of me.

"Hey, my food." I laughed when I turned my head to see Handong pouting over her food, a pile of sand on top of her soup. "Oh, sorry." Yubin apologized as the woman affected suddenly raised her palm toward her food, all the grains of sand floating up in the air and falling beside her tray.

That’s when my smile faltered, glancing back down at my tray and eating silently. It was the one thing that reminded me of where I was, that I was in this whole world that existed beyond anyone’s imagination.

I let the others talk, listening in to their conversation, unbeknownst to the pair of eyes watching me from across the cafeteria.

When the day ended, we went back to the cabin. I kept my lips shut, walking back with the others who, thankfully, didn’t notice my silence. "Yubin, you’re in Cabin Twelve, right?" I heard Sua ask all of us to pause as Yubin turned to walk to her cabin. The girl nodded, giving us a small wave before she left to join the rest of her peers going inside the cabin.

The rest of us walked our way towards the cabin, though I slinked back when they weren’t paying attention, walking towards the edge of the forest. I made sure to stop near the boundaries, seeing a stitched man patrolling with his lamp. A sigh left my lips, a puff of smoke appearing from my lips, my warm breath contrasting with the cold air. I stood there for a while, letting the silence set in.

I closed my eyes, taking a deep breath.

Then I heard a twig snap behind me. I turned around swiftly, checking to see if someone was behind me. My eyes roamed the grassy surroundings. When I was certain that nobody was there, I turned around, only to jump back when a certain blonde was standing in front of me. "What are you doing?!" I clutched my chest, feeling my heart beating quickly.

The girl just smiled brightly. I was a bit shocked at first, the first time seeing her smile without any smugness behind it. "What do you want?" I asked after a while, seeing as she was just standing there without doing anything.

She reached for something in her pocket, taking out a piece of paper and placing it in my front pocket. She patted the paper through the cloth of my shirt, turning on her heels and walking away.

I watched the girl walk away, and my eyebrows furrowed due to her actions. I reached out to take the piece of paper, only to be interrupted when I heard a familiar voice behind me. "Y/n." I turned around, seeing Jiu with her arms crossed. "What are you doing here? We’ve been looking for you." She said it with concern, walking towards me as she placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Are you okay?" I heaved a sigh, nodding my head and giving her my best smile. "Sorry, I wanted some air." I reasoned, walking ahead of her back to the cabin, but I kept my attention on the paper in my pocket.

When I got back, Handong was already setting the pot on the table. Sua was standing beside the pot, looking over and smiling at what the witch had made, almost as if she was critiquing how the other girl did it. "Hey, you’re back. Let's eat up." Handong gestured me over, placing my plate and giving me a serving. I sat down and thanked her, eating our dinner whilst talking with the two older girls.

I kept to myself for the whole dinner, the other three noticing halfway into the meal. "Are you okay, Y/n?" Jiu pulled me from my thoughts, making me glance up to look at them. I swallowed my food, nodding in confirmation. "I am. Is there anything wrong?" I inquired, raising my eyebrows.

"It’s nothing bad, you’re just quiet, that's all," Handong explained, diminishing any worry that you might have. "I’m a little tired," I explain, earning an understanding nod from the rest, who suddenly kept their conversation light and quieter. I was appreciative of their thoughtfulness, finishing our meal and heading into our rooms.

I washed up and went up on my bunk. As I was folding my clothes, two pieces of paper fell out, making me remember my interactions with the two girls. I took each paper, opened the first one, and saw the words, "Cabin 1," written in capital letters. I would assume that this is the one that Gahyeon gave me.

Then the second paper was a bit bigger than the first one. When I unfolded it, there were no words, only drawings of trees surrounding a giant ‘x’ marked in the middle.

"Directions," I muttered, turning the paper around for any instructions. Behind the map were a few scribbled words: "After class, follow the arrows." Furrowing my eyebrows, I had a thought—there was a bit of suspicion as to where this was going, but I shrugged my shoulders, putting the papers away and deciding to put it off till tomorrow.

"Hey…Y/n…Wake up." I groaned at the disturbance, swatting away the hand that dared to wake me up from my slumber. There was a small giggle, followed by more shaking.

"You always do this, so come on, up. Breakfast is getting cold." I frowned, realizing that I had already been pulled away from my dreamland. Sitting up, I turned around, stretching my arms to yawn. "I’ll be out in a bit."

I finished dressing up, wearing my uniform, and started the night while eating with the others. On our way to the institute, I mindlessly walked into the room until I didn’t hear the others’ voices anymore. Turning around, I saw them stopping in front of the door, making me walk back. "Why are you not going in?" I asked them, dread already filling my chest when I realized what situation I was in.

"We already passed this class, it was pretty easy, so we won’t be joining you today. You’ll have to do it on your own." Handong explained, patting my shoulder before she gave a consoling smile.

I swallowed harshly, robotically turning on my heels and trudging through the door. "This cannot be happening." I cursed the thousands of moons that decided to bring this misfortune upon me.

I stood near the door, looking around until a sigh of relief escaped my lips when I saw a green-eyed girl sitting near the window. I walked through the aisle and slumped down beside the mummy, groaning beyond disbelief that I didn’t have either of my roommates near me. My eyes kept roaming around the room, looking at the door, manifesting that our professor would come soon.

Then another woman came darting inside. I think I remember her name…Siyeon? She came in with her bag, rushing to the seat in the middle before a man came inside, looking at the girl with an amusing smile. "Good morning class," the burly man walked in with a big grin on his face, placing his books and papers on his desk."

We greeted him in unison before he started writing symbols on the board. I recognized the familiar curves like the ones that Yubin was reading in our first class. I turned my head to the girl beside me. It appalled me to see her looking up and listening to our professor, maybe there was something about the symbols that were presented.

When we started our topic, I could say that it was a bit of a drag, but eventually, I got interested. It was interesting to read the different meanings of each symbol, scribbling them down in my notebook.

"Sh..Shukr-an,"

"Afwan."

Yubin replied beside me, almost a certain tone of happiness when she was able to hear me whisper to myself in an attempt to read it. I gave her a small smile, a bit joyful to see another side of the silent girl. For the rest of the class, I quite enjoyed the hours of lectures that our professor taught us. Yubin was nice enough to help me with some things, further enhancing my understanding and enjoyment of the class.

When it was time to leave, I was a bit joyful, walking with Yubin along the halls until we entered the cafeteria. Amongst the different monsters, I could see and hear Sua’s laugh from the doors.

"You can go ahead. I’ll grab my food and join you." I told Yubin, rushing towards the food stalls. However, on my way there, I was stopped when I suddenly bumped into someone. Luckily for them, they were able to catch themselves.

On the other hand, I came into contact with the cold side of the floor. "Oh, I’m sorry!" I heard the other person before they helped me up, and then I was able to catch a glimpse of her, recognizing the girl that was always barging in late to our classes. "It’s okay, Siyeon, isn’t it?" I asked, the girl nodding while she helped dust me off.

"Yes, and you are Y/n, correct?" I nodded my head, a bit flustered when she was suddenly so close to me. Why were there so many good-looking people?

"Sorry about bumping into you, I wasn’t looking." I apologized, looking at the floor before walking away to get my food.

As carefully as I could, I made my way through the maze of occupied tables, arriving at our table where the rest were already eating. "Hey," I greeted them, garnering smiles and greetings from the others.

This time I chose to join their conversation, having had a good start to my day. "By the way, I think we still have two more classes when you finish Y/n. You can wait for us at the library or go home early. We’ll go right after." Jiu said to me before we parted, making me nod in acknowledgment.

When my classes ended, I was left wandering the halls, waiting for Jiu and the rest to finish their classes. I had already bid my farewell to Yubin, who went back early. She did offer to walk with me back to my cabin, but I wanted to wait for the others instead since I think a cabin without anyone home is a boring situation to be in.

"This is way more boring than staying in the cabin." At least I could’ve stayed in the confines of my bed. Amid my boredom, I chose a nearby wall, crossing my arms and glancing down at my shoes. My eyes observed every detail that was on my shoe, each line and speck of dirt that randomly flew on top during the day.

Then my eyes landed on my pocket. Seeing a folded piece of paper before, I was reminded of the instructions Yoohyeon gave me. I took it out and unfolded it, once again seeing the drawing of trees and the large ‘x.’

"I guess it wouldn’t hurt to see," I muttered to myself, following the mysterious diagram by myself.

It started with a drawing of what I assume is the back of the school. Then arrows lead straight forward towards the foliage of trees. I looked around, not seeing any Franks nearby, which allowed me to walk through the trees undetected.

From there, I had to raise the paper towards the moonlight, since the darkness made it harder for me to see anything. I turned left and right, forwards and backward. I’m pretty sure I took a few wrong turns, but eventually I was able to see a patch of light.

Through the various thicknesses of the leaves, I pushed through until a beautiful scene was presented in front of me. There was a large lake in the middle, with an old, worn-out wooden deck stretching by the side of it. I didn’t know how deep I was in the forest, but the scenery contrasted the thick bushes with beautiful flowers, whilst the bright moon reflected on the surface of the water. It was a sight to behold.

A smile spread on my face. I always had a knack for beautiful scenes like this, and it was always a serene feeling whenever I was able to see the wonders of mother nature. But then, the reason for me finding this place suddenly came into mind. I started looking around until I saw a group of people near the docks, talking and laughing around.

I stepped back, causing a snap of a twig, alerting one of the people who whipped their heads in my direction. I turned to run away, but a hand on my elbow prevented me from doing so. I was pulled into the clearing, coming face to face with a familiar girl who gave me a big smile.

"You came!" My eyebrows furrowed at her remark, but I was unable to give a retort when Gahyeon suddenly pulled me towards her group.

My eyes managed to catch a glimpse of those black horns, my eyes rolling when I realized who they were. "Yoohyeon, I brought a guest!" the cheerful girl announced. Yoohyeon, along with another three turned towards me, their eyebrows furrowing when they caught sight of me.

The tallest among them, however, held a smug smirk. There was surely a plan brewing in her head. After all, she was the one who led me here.

"Well look who it is." Yoohyeon drew it out, crossing her arms before she tied her hair into a ponytail. "You’re just in time, Heejin. Let’s start the game." Yoohyeon commanded the blonde girl, who nodded, facing the lake and spreading out her palms.

A white mist appeared on her palms, muttering something only she could hear. Then, within a few seconds, most of the lake had frozen up, a circular ring forming in the middle.

"Since you’re already here, join us." Yoohyeon offered, maintaining her smug grin as she stepped onto the ice.

"The rules are simple. We have a ball and two goals. The first one to throw it in the goal wins." Gahyeon squealed before she pulled me towards the dock, letting go of my arm and jumping on the ice, giggling to herself as she slid across slowly.

I was left standing on the dock with five people on the ice looking at me.

"So what do you say? Care for a little game?"

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minachuuu · 3 years ago

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The Monsters Under My Bed - Dreamcatcher x Reader

Part 1 🎃 Part 2

The Monsters Under My Bed: Part 3

To be a place filled with crazy people pretending that every single day is Halloween, the floors and walls of this building were nowhere near what I imagined. I was expecting cobwebs, purple and red lights, scary decorations of those that pop up when you come near them and instead I got something way worse.

A fully operational functioning school.

Classrooms, halls, teachers, students of all kinds. The jocks, que preps, I would say the goths too but everyone was dressing up as halloween monsters so maybe everyone here kind of classified as a goth. All the guards were named Frank, apparently that tall and mesmerizing lady was the head mistress and I just kept trying to figure out why people would do something like this.

It has to be some kind of cult right that just absorbed me? Right? Like, if my fair share of true crime documentaries have told me something about cults is that they always treat you right and inviting to reel you in.

Sometimes even using the good looking members of it to have you captured easier. And well I’m not saying it was working, but my roommates were definitely not hard to look at.

“So, here’s where I’m leaving you.” Minji stopped her tracks at a door. I scanned it from top to bottom as other people in different costumes entered the room. “Handong and Bora will stay with you for now.”

“And where are you going?” I raised my eyebrow, definitely not intending to know more about this mysterious girl with an addiction to dressing like the Victorian times. Even her uniform was the Victorian equivalent of my new clothes.

“To my class?” She chuckled. “I already passed this course.”

“Let me guess,” I sneered, a smug smile growing on my face, “Monstering 101? History of Trick or Treating?”

“Literature.” All the girls answered in a chorus, visibly confused.

“Oh.” I cleared my throat, losing the tone.

“Yeah, I flunked this one last year.” Bora shrunk in her place, shrugging. “It’s kinda hard to grab onto books and stuff when you’re-”

“A projector?” I raised my eyebrows, plucking my mouth.

“Death.” She answered.

I rolled my eyes at her insistence on that. I had to admit the technology was impressive. Back in the world of normal humans, holograms were barely starting to pop out, still looking pretty glitchy. And here she was.

“Fine, I should get going or I won’t get to class in time.” Minji smiled before turning around. “You guys have fun!”

“Sure...” I scoffed while the other two waved enthusiastically. “Cause it’s been very clear how much fun I have been having lately.”

Bora just went through the wall instead of the door and Handong took my hand and dragged me inside the classroom. I knew I was putting up a bit of resistance, enough to still make clear how much I didn’t want to be here but not enough to make Handong fight against me.

And it looked like a pretty normal classroom to me, except for the strange amount of different plants hanging from the tall ceiling. I thought plants need sun to grow so… lusciously.

The tables were for two people and were placed in rows from the front to the back, with some of them already occupied and different people in their own costumes talking and moving between them.

A knot formed on my throat, taking me back into my own years of being in school. Not the best memories and definitely not something I would do for fun like these people.

After quickly scanning around, I chose the seat besides Handong just to not go too far from the very little that was already familiar to me.

“Hey!” Bora’s scream made me bolt up from the chair startled.

“Bora what the hell?!” My hand bolted to my rapidly rising chest.

“This is my seat!” She complained right back to me.

“You don’t even need to sit!” I motioned violently with my hands while I tried to even my breath. “You don’t even have a body!”

“But I have feelings!” She furrowed her eyebrows, pouting her lips. “And they get hurt very easily, you know?”

“There’s a lot of seats available around Y/n,” Handong broke in before things scaled even louder. “Just find another one.”

“So you’re going to make me sit with complete strangers?” I mumbled, Both Handong and Bora nodding back at me.

A groan escaped my mouth as I moved through the room, trying to find a different place to sit. Any table close to Handong and Bora was already occupied so I had to look even farther from them.

Until I saw one that was close to the door, not that I was planning to escape, but if the occasion arrived where I could consider that an option, it wasn’t a bad idea to be prepared for it.

I just approached and sat down, crossing my arms. But the entire room went silent when I did, even some gasps here and there. I was so eerily silent and heavy on my shoulders that I had to turn around to discover the reason for the sudden silence.

Everyone’s eyes were firm over me, wide and concerned. And I squinted my eyes at them trying to decipher the reason for their stare.

“What?” I faced the whole classroom. “You’ve never seen a completely normal h-”

“Y/n?” Handong whispered.

And just when I turned to her, everyone’s eyes changed their target to someone behind me. I was just about to turn around when I heard someone clearing their throat.

“Excuse me,” Another voice taunted behind me. “What are you doing on my seat?”

“Sitting? What does it look like I’m doing here?!” I turned to face them while complaining loudly. “Does everyone have an assigned seat in this class?! Where are we? Elementary School?!”

“You’re new, aren’t you?” Two girls were looking back at me with their eyebrows raised and their arms crossed over their chest. The one who spoke back to me had black, shiny, horns growing out of her forehead, while black and purple veins were visible through her pale skin.

“Against my own will.” I scoffed.

“You’re funny.” The other girl was smaller, and looked almost completely normal if it wasn’t for her serpent like pupils and spiked ears. She put her elbows over the table, resting her head over her hands. “Who are you?”

“I’m Y/n”, I side eyed her, increasing the distance between her face and mine. “Who are you?”

But instead of saying her name like any normal person would, of course why would I expect her to do that in this freak place, in some kind of amazing display of technology way beyond my comprehension, she turned into me.

My face, my body and my expressions, like looking into a terrifying mirror that refused to follow my movements.

“I’m Y/n!” She repeated in her own voice but came out of my body.

And I could only watch her completely with my mouth dropped and eyes wide open as she cackled at my terrified face.

“C´mon Gahyeon!” The other girl chuckled at the scene, rolling her eyes. “You had your fun with the new student, let me have some for myself.”

She closed in slower, licking her lips as she scanned me from head to toe. She waved her fingers around the air, creating dark puffs of smoke. And inhaling them just made the inside of my nose start burning, a strong sulfur smell coming out of them.

I coughed my lungs, my hand volting up to cover my nose and the other fanning the air in front of me. I stood up from the chair, trying not to give in to her provocations.

“Wow!” I complained, “Would you like me to introduce you to the concept of showers?”

All the people looking around chuckled at my comment, making a slight smug smile appear over my own lips.

“What the-” She jumped back, squinting her eyes, “What kind of monster are you?”

“Again with that stupid question!” I growled making the laughter around die quickly, “I’m not a monster, I’m a normal and completely not deranged h-”

“Zombie!” Bora blasted up from the desk below me, putting herself between me and this other girl.

“I’m not a zomb-!”

“These new cases are totally weird, don’t you think Yoohyeon?” She chuckled as the other two girls raised their eyebrows, looking at each other and back to a rambling Bora. “Practically no decomposition and a lot of denial for someone with no brain.”

“Yeah, one would think they lose care of everything when they get buried.” The smaller girl scoffed.

“Right?” Bora giggled nervously. “That’s what we were thinking too! But anyway, I think we have bothered you too much, I’ll be escorting them to their seat-”

“No! Wait! Bora!” But it was Handong’s hand that dragged me away from the two girls, who looked back at me with their eyebrows raised.

“Bye Y/n!” Gahyeon waved back at me with certain coquetry as she watched me.

“Oh and, if you would like to hang out with some real monsters,” Yoohyeon winked back at me. “Hit us up.”

“Some what?” I whispered only for me as they both took their seats on the table I was occupying previously.

“Y/n!” Bora’s eyes opened wide as she faced me, trying to get hold of my arms.

“What?!” I furrowed my eyebrows at her expression. “She started it!”

“Good morning class!” A tall man with a very particular white mustache and large robes entered the room, prancing happily.

“Morning?” I stammered, looking at the dark sky through the window behind me.

“We’ll talk later!” Sua mumbled after rushing away and back to her seat.

Leaving me alone in the middle of the room, I only turned around to find an empty seat beside another girl completely covered in tarnished and stained bandages. Some of them hanging loose from her arms and legs. She was reading from a book from which I couldn’t understand the letters or engravings. They looked like drawings? Hieroglyphics even?

I took the seat beside her, huffing as I settled into it. She just turned around with her eyes wide at me, looking from head to toe. And I had no intentions on getting on to another fight so I just sighed.

“Is this seat taken too?” I muttered, signing to where I was sitting.

She shook her head, even a small smile growing over her also tarnished and kind of dry lips. With her hand she let me know I was in a good spot for now and returned to read her book.

The bearded man still took his time to settle onto the desk in the front of the classroom, the volume on the room slowly lowering as he did.

“Dope mummy costume by the way,” I exhaled, with a small smile growing on my own face. “What did you make the bandages with? Coffee?”

She turned back to face me with one of her eyebrows raised, her lips pierced in curiosity.

“You don’t talk much do you?” I chuckled, resting one hand over my chest.

The girl shrugged, shaking her head.

“That’s perfect.” I sighed. “It’s just that everyone else here seems to love to talk over me so this is good for a change.”

The bearded man started talking in front of the class, his voice strong and booming enthusiastically through the room as he expressed with a smile. But my mind couldn’t focus on anything that wasn’t Blah, blah, blah and blah.

My eyelids started weighing a bit too much, and my head was just starting to fall off my hand when the door slammed open, bolting me up.

Another girl was standing on the arch, mostly disheveled, like she had just woken up and decided to come to class with the same wrinkled and even a bit ripped plaid shirt over the stained uniform. She was breathing heavily as her hand bolted up, trying to fix her own hair.

Her eyes were strong, piercing. But right now full of worry as she looked at the professor with something I could only describe as puppy eyes.

“Miss Siyeon, but you’re ten minutes late!” The bearded man looked at a watch he had gotten out of one of the pockets in his large gown.

“I know Professor!” She panted, holding herself from the archway of the door. “It’s just that yesterday’s moon was a full one and-!”

“Oh, right!” The professor nodded. “Just go splash some water on your face and come take a seat darling!”

“Thanks sir!” She bolted away as my eyes tried to follow her out.

And I didn’t realize that I kept my eyes over the door until I saw her bolt back in after a minute or two, with her hair slicked back with water and her breath even more controlled.

She had her sight low as she walked through the tables and everyone paid barely any attention to her. My eyes followed her even as she chose an empty seat in the back of the class, plummeting down and rushing to get her books out of the old backpack she wore.

And I just couldn’t get my eyes off her until maybe she felt the weight of my gaze upon her and looked in my direction, making me snap away.

But how could I not pay attention? She was just another girl in the class. And in a room full of people with costumes and crazy makeup, how could I not notice the only other normal looking girl in the room with me.

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“I can’t believe you made me sit through all of that!” I wanted to rip my scalp out.

Three hours straight of lectures, classes, and all those types of things that I had already gone through long before coming here. Jiu, Bora and Handong just looked at me as I kept ranting through the halls, other students just side-eyeing me as I passed beside them.

“I know I was never the best student back home but c'mon!” I spat, looking at the ceiling, “That doesn’t mean I have to go through it all over again!”

“What do you mean you were not the best?” Bora cut me off, her eyebrows furrowed as she moved backwards. “You were answering those questions incredibly fast!”

“I’m more surprised that you guys didn’t know the answers!” I scoffed. “Like Sheridan Le Fanu? Wrote a novel about vampires even before Bram Stoker. Vampires, you know? The monster Jiu is always dressed as?”

“We don’t talk about Bram Stoker.” Minji side-eyed me, completely serious. “He was a traitor, a very good friend of my grandma was killed because he sold us away.”

“I’m sorry, what?” My thoughts halted at such a statement.

“But don’t talk down on yourself!” Bora’s hand tried to pat my shoulder but went straight through it. “The professor even gave extra credits for one of the questions!”

“Yeah, one about Mary Shelley!” I sneered. “How could you not know about the writer of Frankenstein? Considered the first modern science fiction novel? The reason why every security guard is named Frank?!”

“I told you I flunked this one last period.” Bora just pouted, looking down.

“Wasn’t Mary Shelley a good friend of Dr. Frankenstein thought?” Jiu raised her eyebrows, mumbling. “I remember an uncle telling me about the times he used to hang out with them over in the UK.”

“Minji, what-” I had to let out a huge huff of air out of my mouth.

I preferred shutting my mouth and just keep walking behind them. There was no use fighting someone so intent on acting her own narrative. In fact I guess it was just easier ignoring this weird thing they had going on.

They weren’t bad to hang around when I forgot the whole Halloween facade.

We got into a busy and moving cafeteria, with people holding trays full of food and sitting at wide tables. They were chatting and playing among themselves while eating food that some I recognized and other I didn’t.

And based on my experience here on the first day I wasn’t really interested in knowing about them very thoroughly.

Minji and Bora started walking towards one side and Handong to another, leaving me standing in the middle, completely confused.

“You really won’t like going with them.” Handong extended her hand towards me, and remembering today’s breakfast… or dinner as they called it, I was gonna take her advice.

I sprinted towards her with the tip of my toes, grabbing her hand. It only lasted one second before my cheeks blushed and I retrieved my hand from hers.

As I scanned through the food stands there were a lot of things that looked incredibly tasty and… alright. But could I really trust everything I was looking at? I grabbed a tray for myself and went for the things that waked less suspicion in me. Almost copying what Handong was grabbing for herself.

Following Handong through the maze of occupied tables, I scanned all the other people in the room. I found Siyeon, sitting beside other students, talking and laughing loudly. Once again I wasn’t able to take my eyes off her and how normal she looked in comparison to everyone else. And she looked my way making me face my front again.

We got to where Jiu and Sua were already sitting and waiting for us. Well, Sua was just floating on top of the bench, but by now should I really be describing it in detail? Jiu had a tall metal glass still with her usual deep red liquid and she sipped it as Handong and I sat down in front of her.

But as I raised my head I noticed the girl that sat beside me on Literature sitting by herself on another table far from us. I wanted to call her to invite her with us but just then I realized I had no idea what her name was.

“Hey…” I called the girls beside me while pointing at her. “Do you know that girl’s name?”

They looked around to glance at her before turning back to me glancing at each other with disoriented gazes

“Not really.” Handong answered. “I don’t know anyone who knows it.”

“Me neither,” Bora shook her head.

“How come no one does?” I questioned.

“Well, it’s not like she’s very communicative.” Jiu replied.

“Touche.” I stood up from the table, walking her way. Neither of the girls on my table put any resistance to the idea. “I’m gonna go invite her over.”

And as I closed in, she raised her eyes and met me with a light smile and a gentle wave.

“Hello again!” My hands fidgeted, playing with the sides of my uniform. “Would you like to come sit with us?”

She tilted her head, looking over my shoulder at the girls back at my table. And they also waved pretty shyly back at her. Timidly, she nodded, grabbing up to her tray and standing up.

“By the way,” I chuckled, rubbing my nape. “I never really asked for your name.”

“I’m Yubin.” She answered in a soft and low voice, making me snap my head towards her in surprise. “You can call me Dami too.”

“Dami.” I was still kind of shocked by just hearing her talk back to me. “I like your name! It’s pretty.”

She chuckled, nodding back to me. While we walked I was able to take a look at the food she had picked and it also looked pretty normal to me. A fair assortment of fruit, bread, honey and a glass of some kind of yellow beverage that smelled like beer. But it couldn’t be beer right? Beer in a school? I decided to eat my question about it for my own sake.

But before we could arrive at our place, I was cut by someone on my way, stepping way too close to me for my confort.

“Oh hey! I didn’t see you there!” Gahyeon honeyed her voice.

“Really?” I rolled my eyes. “It looked kind of purposeful of you to step in front of me.”

“You’re really funny!” She chuckled to my own confusion, playfully slapping my shoulder. “Anyway, good thing I found you, Yoohyeon and I talked about it and we wanted you to have this-”

She slipped a folded piece of paper on the front pocket of my shirt, tapping it lightly. I looked at it without getting it out, furrowing my eyes.

“What is that for?” I asked, looking back at her.

“We heard that you were assigned to cabin thirteen.” She raised her eyebrows, crossing her arms in front of her chest. “So it’s in case you ever need a… backup plan.”

“What is so bad about cabin thirteen?” I squinted my eyes, shaking my head towards my frien- They weren’t my friends yet, but they at least treated me alright.

“It’s not about what’s bad! It’s about what could be better.” She sneered, winking back at me. “Well I’ll see you around Y/n!”

She sprinted away, being stopped and greeted by a multitude of other monsters in the cafeteria. And that was something that didn’t happen with Jiu, Handong and Sua. Less even with Dami, who was the only one I was certain that I liked because she didn’t talk much.

Deciding to ignore that interaction, I sighed deeply and signed Dami to keep walking towards our table. The girls received me with confused and perplexed looks as we sat down on our seats.

“Hey, I want you to meet Yubin.” I introduced her to the rest of the girls as she waved timidly.

“Yubin?” Bora hit her up with her enthusiastic self, “Your name is pretty! How come I never heard it before?”

“Well, nobody asked before.” She answered, shrugging.

Sua, Minji and Handong all jumped surprised at hearing her talk back, but quickly just accepted it, continuing with their meals.

“Y/n-” Jiu closed in on the table towards me, whispering as if to make this a secret between both of us. “Do you know Gahyeon?”

“Ah, yeah. And Yoohyeon too.” I scoffed. “I sat on their apparently assigned seats in literature and they made a big fuss about it.”

“Yeah, you know how they are.” Bora added, closing in too. Jiu rolled her eyes at her words, making me think there was more history between them than I thought. “We even saved Y/n from outing themselves as a human.”

“You almost did what?” Jiu almost choked on her gulp of wine.

“Well, Yoohyeon asked what kind of monster I was and I was about to answer honestly,” I frowned towards Bora, “Until someone interrupted me.”

“I believe the words you’re trying to say are ‘Thank you’” Bora’s smile grew on her lips, genuinely proud of her action.

“Thank you?!” I scoffed back. “You keep calling me brainless and you still want me to go and thank you? Why would I want to be associated with you?!”

“Because we’re trying to protect you!” Jiu growled between her teeth. “You can’t be around telling everyone that you’re human Y/n!”

Yubin snapped her head towards me, her eyes widening.

“Why do you guys keep insisting on this charade!” I scoffed. “I’m aware that a lot of you may not like me because I don’t like this either! Halloween is a complete waste of time to me and for you it’s like a religion okay? I just want to get out of here and if everyone has to know that I don’t care!”

“Well you should!” Jiu snapped back at me. “We don’t really know why you are so insistent on making this a lie. But there are monsters like Yoohyeon and Gahyeon here that would kill you if they knew your real identity.”

A loud laugh burst out of my body, making me twist with my hands over my own stomach. Other students even turned their heads towards our table.

“Yeah sure! And I fly with white glistening wings when I jump down from the bunk bed.” I chuckled, still trying to keep my laughter in. “You don’t even drink blood, it’s just a cheap wine you carry around.”

I grabbed her glass with the thick liquid, now half full and tilted it to my mouth.

“Y/n!-” Jiu reached for my hand and barely missed.

But the liquid smelled way too far from the grappey smells of wine and was thicker than it. Upon touching my lips I was met with a metallic and sour taste. In the shock, I swallowed the bit of liquid that entered my mouth and it covered all its way down to my stomach.

Slamming down the glass on the table, my other hand bolted straight to my mouth. My eyes widened as I gazed upon Jiu, trying not to make a scene in the middle of the cafeteria.

“You can’t say I didn’t warn you” Jiu whispered, taking back her glass and drinking a big gulp out of it, cleaning a droplet of blood from her lips. “Or do you need any more proof?”

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