Chapter 12: The Nightmare

He stood there behind the door of his room, fear spread on his small, innocent face. His shivering body intensified more as he stuck his little head out behind the door and saw his parents sitting in a kneeled position with a couple of bruises on their face.

He was terrified to look any further or what was about to happen. He ran towards his bed to hide under it.

BANG! BANG!

As soon as the two gunshots went off, the young boy covered his ears to avoid hearing anything further and soon giant teardrops rolled down his small chubby cheeks.

The fury but at the same time, fear in the eyes of the masked killer was still visible in his mind.

He lied under the bed on the cold surface of the floor, while covering his tiny ears with his small hands and tears were rushing against his cheeks, but he knew he had to stay quiet. He wouldn't have grown to be the man he is today if he hadn't stayed quiet at that very moment.

Soon everything went quiet. No yells, no cries of pain and no sounds of gunshots going off. He came out of under the bed and opened the door that leads to the living room, where he saw something he shouldn't have seen.

The surface of the floor covered in a pool of blood, all the decoration pieces that were so lovingly kept in their spots were now shattered into pieces and then he saw his parents, also covered in blood.

He hesitated to take a few steps forward but then approached his parents to see their eyes staring back at him, with no expressions. He couldn't bear to see his parents who used to be so cheerful, are staring at him with no feelings at all. He ran to his room as fast his little feet could take him and quietly sobbed with his face shoved into his pillow.

Suddenly the rooms started to fill with faint echoes that sounded like his parents. Those faint echoes then turned into louder ones making the little Taehyung confused and look around to see where the voice is coming from. The echoes grew louder and louder which hurt his ears.

"WAKE UP SON!"

"WE ARE DEAD MY SON. HE KILLED US!"

"YOU SHOULD AVENGE OUR DEATH, MY SON."

"HE IS NEAR YOU, MY BOY. GO! GET HIM. FIND HIM. AVENGE OUR DEATH!"

"GO!"

"WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"

Taehyung woke back up to the real world after the hideous dream he had which reminded him of the past. Beads of sweat were on his forehead and his shirt was drenched in sweat as he panted hard. He looked around but saw nothing and no one in his room. It was only him and his heavy breathing that filled the room. This was the worst nightmare he could experience, but what's more shocking is that it has been very long since he had a dream like this one again. These past weeks were the best ones he had but this nightmare made him freak out more than ever.

On his way to the house, he felt a burning compassion for Y/N. One he hasn't felt before. He just wanted her next to him no matter what. She is the only one who can comfort him at a time like this.

Finally, he arrived in front of Y/N's house where he saw her standing in the doorway. He didn't waste a minute and got out of the car with no patience. Taehyung ran towards Y/N and embraced her tightly without a warning. She was startled at first but then realized what had happened.

"He had that dream again.", she thought.

Y/N hugged him back and soothingly stroked her hand on his back to calm him down.

"Y/N please stay with me. No one other than you can fill my life with joy. Please...."

"Taehyung. I will always be here for you no matter what. You can be sure of that."

He pulled away to look at her with teary eyes.

"You promise?"

She wiped away his tears and smiled, "I promise. Now let's go. We don't wanna be late."

He nodded.

"Can we take your car today. I don't really wanna drive and besides, you know how to drive better than me.", he said the last part with his lips curved up forming a grin.

"Sure. We can take my car but you got the last part wrong, Tae. You are a better driver than me."

"Did you call me Tae?"

"Y-yes. Why? You don't like it?"

"No, I like being called Tae. My muffin."

Y/N blushed at those words but couldn't help to cringe at the situation right now. Thankfully Taehyung changed the subject.

"Is that the jacket I gifted you?"

"Yeah. I figured it would look good with my outfit today."

"You look good as always. Now let's go before we get detention together again. Not that I hate a detention when I'm with you.", he said while a smirk was plastered on his face.

"Let's go, pervert!"

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