The way which the wind blows

Your POV
I didn’t think all eleven members would arrive to eat pizza, but they have. I sit with them around the dinner table as we eat the delicious pizza. Three candlelights stand on the table, lighting parts of their faces. I check the time on my phone. It’s already 6:33pm. Where are Sehun’s parents? I decide not to ask because the last time I did all the members seemed troubled. “What are we going to do after we eat?” asks Jongdae swallowing his food. “I don’t know. I guess it’ll be a bit boring without electricity…and lights…” says Luhan. A thunderclap startled me and I almost drop my pizza slice. “Since it’s dark, we could try telling ghost stories.” I suggest. Yixing shakes his head. “Tao will cry.” “I will not!” Tao retorts. The crew laugh. “Telling ghost stories will be fun!” say Minseok and Jongin at the same time. “Ghost stories it is.” I say with a smile.

After our pizza dinner, we quickly wash up and run up to Sehun’s room. We sit in a circle on Sehun’s bed and Yixing is the first to tell a story. It isn’t a very scary story. Something about a ghost girl living in a clock tower. It’s my turn now. Since everyone says Tao will cry, I aim this story at him. You see, the story itself isn’t that scary, but at the end I will suddenly scream “YOU!” and scare the crap out of everyone, especially Tao. So I start:

There once was a beautiful girl named Johanna. She was so pretty that she was really popular and she had a lot of friends and all the guys liked her.
There was this one guy in particular that freaked her out; Brian. People said he had something wrong with his brain, but she chose to dismiss it, until he started stalking her.
He would always follow her and tell her he loved her. She didn’t think he actually did because of his mental state, and chose to ignore it.
One day, she couldn’t take the stalking anymore and confronted him. She obviously rejected him lightly. But he didn’t take it too lightly.
He followed her to her beach house and murdered her.

Lightning flashes across the window, making everyone jolt.

Because of his mental state, he chopped her up into little pieces and put them in a large garbage bag, leaving the head at the top. He tied the bag and threw it into the sea.
Two weeks later, two fishermen come across something really really really heavy. When they real it in, it was a big garbage bag. They opened it up and saw the head. They thought it was a costume or a fake. The picked up the head and made jokes with it. One of the fishermen held the head and asked ‘Hello! What’s your name?’
But to their shock,
the head said.
‘Johannaaa~~~~’
Because they thought it was a fake, they told each other to sell it at the local museum for a lot of money and pretend it was a real head.
To their surprise, it was a real head and they got a lot of money for it.
Reporters and journalists from all over the world came to see the talking head.
Anything they asked the head, it would reply with a low:
‘Johannaaaa~’

Right about now, I can see Tao inching closer to Kyungsoo. Everyone stares at me attentively. I continue:

News about the talking head spread fast. It was all over the news and newspapers.
Brian received the newspaper one day and saw an article about the real talking head.
‘JOHANNA THE TALKING HEAD’ the headline said.
‘This can’t be Johanna I killed could it?’ he asked himself.
That midnight he snuck into the museum. He approached the talking head.

Here is comes Tao.

He asked it questions:
‘What is your name?’
the head said:
‘Johannaaaa~’
‘Where are you from?’
The head said:
‘Johannaaaa~’
“Which school did you go to?’
The head said:
‘Johannaaaaa~’
‘How old are you?’
The head said:
‘Johannaaaa~’
He finally asked:
‘Who did this to you?’
And the head said:
‘YOU!’

I shout in Tao’s face and he jumps onto Kyungsoo. The other members are also startled but Tao breaks down in tears. “You’re all so mean to me.” He wails. We break down into laughter, but Tao remains pouting. “I’m sorry Tao. It was just a joke.” I try to comfort him. “It’s always just a joke, Tao just takes them too seriously.” Says Kyungsoo rolling his eyes. Tao punches Kyungsoo in the arm. Kyungsoo jerks back and falls off the bed. Then my phone rings. “Hello?” I answer. “Hello honey! I’m just getting out of work now, where is this boy’s house? I’ll pick you up.” Says my mum. I ask for Sehun’s address and explain to the boys that I am going home soon. My mum informs me that we need to hurry and get home before the storm becomes stronger. “I understand, drive safely.” I say and hang up. Lightning and thunder fill the sky. I shiver. Baekyun wants to tell a story next. He’s sitting next to Tao and I just have a feeling I know what he’s gonna do. He starts to tell his ghost story, something about a little boy who drowned in the lake when on a camping trip at school. As the story progresses, the boy haunts anyone who goes to camp near the lake. “I know you did this~~~~” Baekyun moaned, voicing the boy. This story was more the paranoia story compared to my jump scare story. But from where I am sitting, I can clearly see that Baekhyun is creeping his hand behind Tao. “The girl looked around the room and screamed, hoping to scare away the ghost boy.” He said. She backed in to the corner of the room and hugged her knees. Suddenly, she felt something on her shoulder. She turned. A hand!” The lights flicker on and Baekhyun lays his hand on Tao’s shoulder; Tao looks at the hand on his shoulder and freaks out, jumping onto Kyungsoo again. “YOU GUYS ARE SO MEAN TO ME!” shouts Tao. I laugh, but I also feel sorry for the guy. “The lights are back on. That means the electricity is back!” smiles Joongmyun. “Now Tao doesn’t have a reason to be scared anymore.” Chuckles Wu Fan. “Yeah. And now he can stop crushing my legs every time you guys scare him.” Sighs Kyungsoo. We all crack up again. Once we have all calmed down, my phone rings. “I’m right outside a big double story house. I hope it’s Sehun’s house.” Says my mum. “Hurry out please, the wind is picking up.” I say goodbye to the guys and Sehun accompanies me downstairs. “It was nice having you around.” He says shyly. “I’ll look forward to hanging out with you guys again.” I reply with a smile. He stands stiff for a minute with his eyes darting around. I wonder what he’s thinking….

Sehun’s POV
I really want to. But what if she doesn’t want to? What if I make things awkward between us? I can see uncertainty in her eyes; I can tell she wants to know what I am thinking. Right now there are two voices in my head; one telling me to go for it, the other telling me to say goodbye now. What do I do? I can’t…
“Well, bye Sehun.” She interrupts my thoughts and turns to open the door. My body moves on its own. My hand snatches her back and pulls her into a hug. Her head rests on my chest and my arms are around her shoulders, linking behind her neck. My mind is blank, but my body knows exactly what it’s doing. “Bye. See you later (Y/N).” Croaks my throat. I can feel her arms crawl up my back and her hands rest on my shoulders. She sinks deeper into my chest and oh god I hope she can’t hear how fast my heart is pounding right now. “We still on for hanging at lunch times?” she asks. I nod. My arms let go of her. NO! I don’t want to let go of her. My feet take a step back. NO! I want to be close to her. “Yes we are.” A monotone voice escapes from my mouth. She smiles at me and runs into the car parked in front of my house. I close the door and lock it. I can finally breathe. My breath comes out shaky and I turn around to go back into my room. I turn to see all of the Exo members’ heads peeking from the side of the stairs. “Guys. Spying again?” I say, stressing the word ‘spying’ to let them know I’m irritated. “Congratulations.” Says Baekhyun with a devilish smile. “You have reached level two of a game called Love.”

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