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it was a gloomy dark night and all the ATEEZ boys were standing outside with 14 of their fans that decided to come along.
"okay so are we ready?" seonghwa says looking over at everyone.
"can you even be ready for this?" Giselle asked looking over at seonghwa. Wooyoung chuckled.
"tell me again why we are doing this" yeosang spoke as he looked over at the one boy who brought them all here.
"Oh, come guys, people have been saying this is haunted, you really believe them??" Jongho said.
"YES" Kat screamed out. “I've seen a lot of videos and movies and none of it ends well," she said.
"Kat nothing will happen, I promise you, there is nothing to be scared about" Jongho walked over to her and patted her on the arm.
"you better be right about this" hongjoong spoke up before he started walking towards the house.
Everyone slowly followed. this house was pretty big and very old so everyone was a bit on edge, well except for Jongho. they all walked inside, everyone brought out their flashlights and turned on them on. Every step they took the floor creaked, from time to time they could even hear stuff falling or creaking on it's own. It made everyone be on edge the whole time.
"okay so how do we do this? Do we split up or do we keep in one group?" Mingi asked. Everyone stopped and looked at hongjoong.
"Why are you all looking at me??"
"you're the leader" hope said. hongjoong sighted.
"we stick together" hongjoong decided. being in this place it's not a good idea to split up. "where should we start, it's a big place" he was about to move but then he heard something fall. "what was that??" he asked.
"Something probably fell, it's an old place after all" Sheila said. She walked over to the fallen object. “nothing to be scared about."
“this place is haunted, how are you not scared??" Carley suddenly spoke. she had a petrified look on her face and every now and then she would shiver in fear.
"Ghosts aren't real Carley," Sheila chuckled. at least that's what Sheila believed.
The group continued to slowly make their way further into the house. it had gotten darker, and some of the batteries had run out during their lengthy walk.
“My flash stopped working," wooyoung mumbles as he slaps his torch a few times.
“Mine too," Mouna sighed.
"Oh wait, hold up, I think i have some spare batteries in here somewhere..." Han says as he crouches down to take off his bag.
"Han, stop fucking moving," Mingi says, and Han looks up.
"why?" Han asks and then looks down. There was reddish brown goop in lines covering the floor. the source? unknown, but it was enough to freak everyone out.
"Okay, I no longer want to continue," hope whines.
"guys it's okay. it could just be a prank," Han shrugs and continues to grab the batteries. He gave everyone that had a flashlight their own pack so that they would have enough to last them.
"we should carry on, shouldn't we?" san asks.
"I mean it's too late to turn back anyway. and what's the worst that could happen?"
“um, I don't know san, what about we carry on and then we all get plucked away and are never found again?" sah whisper-yells to make sure she doesn't worry anyone.
"guys it's okay. look, we'll do it this way. the ones who are scared the most stay in the middle, and the ones who are scared the least surround them. that way if we see something worrying and it turns out to be nothing, the people in the middle don't have to know about it," Han suggested. seonghwa nods and hongjoong watches Everyone’s reactions to the new proposal.
"okay, that calls it. everyone who is currently petrified, get in the middle. the rest of us will protect you from the outer side," hongjoong says and they all arrange their positions.
Han, Sheila and Jongho were all at the front, hongjoong and seonghwa on one side and san and anna at the other. at the back stood Mouna and Elise and everybody else were cramped into the middle.
“I do not want to be at the front," mumbles Jongho under his breath.
"dude you're our strongest asset, it'll be fine," Sheila smiles and they carry on walking. It wasn’t long until they ended up in a room and something jumped out at them, making them all jump out of their skins.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!” Mingi screamed, he his behind Yunho. Jongho directed his flashlight towards where the thing jumped out. He walked over to it and softly nudged it.
“It’s just a cardboard cutout, people really tried to make this place a haunted house, it’s not very good though” Jongho walks around the carboard ghost, kat joins him.
“it’s not very high quality if I do say so myself” she looked at back at everyone.
“if this is all it is then why shouldn’t he continue, let’s see what they tried to make out of this.”
“I don’t see why not, if it’s gonna be like this then there is nothing scary about it” yeosang spoke out. He walked over to Kat and linked arms. “shall we?” He asked. Kat nodded and then they both started walking with the rest of them slowly following.
Room after room these cardboard cutouts kept popping out but none of them scared them anymore since they knew it was gonna happen. It was a very big house, so they had a lot of room to cover. All the windows were covered so they had no idea if it was bright or dark outside, made no difference. They ended up moving into another room and the same thing happened but this time it was a little late so it accidentally smacked Jongho in the face, not awfully hard though.
“You, okay??” Han asked him, walking closer to him.
“I’m fine, it didn’t hit me that hard” Jongho reassured them all. They continued walking through so many more rooms, they even ended up walking up the stairs and started walking around there. Alex looked at her phone they had been in this house for about 2 hours now.
“Okay I’m all for the adrenaline rush but I need sleep,” Alex huffed as she sat down on the floor.
“I may be lanky but that does NOT mean I wanna carry this thick ass around all fucking day” Yunho whines whilst doing a mini twerk to show off his body.
“Yunho- now is not the time to be twerking” Ame laughs and then decides to join in.
Around 5 mins later, everyone was either positioned against a wall, lying on the floor or just standing up and twerking to zero music.
“I can’t twerk for shit but I’m making the awkwardness work” Han giggles as he awkwardly pops his body in and out.
“you look like a broken chicken” wheezes Mingi and he flops on the floor.
“wait everyone show me your best chicken dance!” Giselle yells and everyone lines up.
“okay me first!” San screams and all the flashlights get pointed at him to create a spotlight as he does his best chicken dance. Everyone was crackling and wheezing as they watched him flop his limbs around in a chicken dance.
“okay okay, I’m up next” sah gets into position with the spotlight and begins her version of a chicken dance.
This carries on for a while before it begins to reach the end of the line.
“wait let me add, like, a chicken noise with my dance okay” Charline grins and begins her dance. She began squawking at the top of her lungs as she was moving her neck, resulting in people rolling on the floor and crying with laughter as they wheezed.
As they were wheezing, fog came seeping into the room making them all cough. They thought it was the amount of laughing at first until one of the realized it was suddenly getting cloudier and harder to see everyone.
“was it already foggy in here?” Kat asked and Wooyoung shook his head whilst biting his lip and looking around. Hongjoong stood closer to the group, not wanting his tiny frame to be out in the open so much.
“guys come on there’s probably just a smoke machine here or something somewhere, this fog wouldn’t have just magically appeared” Jongho scoffed and he picked up his torch to search for the machine to turn it off.
“uh, Jongho, I don’t think there’s a machine. Wouldn’t we have heard it? Smoke machines make noise you know…” mimi says whilst darting her eyes around the room in anxiety.
Suddenly a loud bang vibrated against the floors making the group jump and screech in shock.
“okay I’m not one to be scared but What the f-“
“language” Yeosang tuts with his hand over Han’s mouth. He then pointed to Jongho. “there’s a youngling here.”
Jongho looks at him with his brown furrowed eyes and breathed out, “dude.”
“what? I’m just looking out for our maknae” Yeosang shrugs and Seonghwa rolls his eyes.
“whatever you were doing, we should probably get moving and find a place to rest which isn’t so… dusty…” Seonghwa grumbles in disgust as he swipes a finger across the desk to his right and rolls around the clump of dust his finger collected.
“okay let’s go then” Sheila shrugs and the rest of them nod.
“same formation though, right?” Ame asks and Han nods.
“I’ll lead us!” Jongho exclaims before linking arms with both Shelia and Han. The three of them giggled before they all begin to make their wat out of the current room in search of a new one.
It felt like the smoke was following them all since it didn’t want to disappear. They walked through the hallway before finding a room that they thought would be a good one to rest in and the smoke finally disappearing. They all started separating and some of them started sitting down. It has been a long night and it was nowhere near done yet. Wooyoung looked around and noticed something was missing.
“guys…” Wooyoung said. Everyone looked at him.
“where is yeosang?”