LEILA COULD NOT SLEEP at all. She wanted to sleep early, but she can't. She already rolled around her bed a few times already, but no position seems to work. There's something bugging her mind.
A big part of her says to do it, while a small part of her says no. She's torn between the two decisions.
It's already been an hour since she laid down. She did practically everything like counting, drinking milk, putting a blindfold, listening to peaceful music. Unfortunately, nothing worked.
Leila tries to close her eyes again, but she kept seeing that woman who's looking at her and is saying, "Do it, please."
Suddenly, it seemed like her brain stopped functioning but her body has its own mind. Kinda like when Aurora is cursed to prick her finger on the spinning wheel to be asleep forever.
She can't control herself. It's as if it's really meant for her to drive and walk towards a building. The next thing Leila knows, she's in front of the building.
The building of Seokjin's apartment.
+ + +
MAX PARKS THE CAR in front of Rheanne's house. As he parks the car, he already notices a car not parked very far. The car isn't tinted so he recognizes the two people in the driver and passenger seat.
He pretended to not see it and steps outside and walk towards Rheanne's side and opens the door for her.
"Thank you," she says in a very polite manner that made her sound a little robotic, which made Max confirm his suspicion towards Rheanne ever since her nightmare.
Rheanne does not thank him like that at all.
Nevertheless, he still acted like nothing is unusual and accompanied Rheanne inside her home.
"It's been a great day, Max. You can go home now, I'll be fine." AND she's pushing him away!
Rheanne NEVER pushes him away. In fact, she'll let him stay for as long as he likes. And by how they act it really looks like they are together, but they are not... yet.
"No. I'll stay for a while until it's night time."
"Are you always like this?" Rheanne asks, her voice seemed darker and more serious from the past few hours.
It creeped Max out, but he didn't show it at all. Instead, he throws a question back at her.
"No, this is just the first time right?" Max says like he's not suspecting anything from Rheanne.
"Yes."
"Liar," Max says as he smirks. Before anything can happen, Gina, who has quietly got in with Rena, traps Rheanne and looks quickly in her eyes.
Gina sees the real Rheanne, asking for help while her body is fighting against Rena and Max's arms.
"Whoever you are controlling Rheanne's mind and actions, leave this body!! A soul like you should never control a person's actions! It's considered as possession and you do know that it's illegal!!" Gina shouted at whoever is controlling Rheanne's body but it just yelled back at her.
"Who let you in there?" Gina asks sternly, Rena and Max are still stopping her to attack.
"Satan. And he's coming..." The demonic voice said with a chuckle.
"Don't you get Rheanne, I swear I will curse you and let you go somewhere far worse from hell!" Max yells at the demon, but then Rheanne's head just turns to him as it said,
"He's not coming for this girl, you idiot." And that was the last demonic voice they had heard from Rheanne's body.
She passes out again. But this time, it's barely even 5 minutes or so when she finally recovered.
"What happened, noona? What happened to Rheanne??" Max asks who is feeling confused and troubled at what that demon said.
"Rheanne became a victim of demonic puppetry. It's almost as similar as demonic possession, but the difference is that the demonic puppetry won't kill you. It will only manipulate you to do or not do some things and that's just it." Gina explains as Rena appears with a glass of water and gives it to Rheanne.
Max can only sigh heavily as he hugs Rheanne tight and gives her a forehead kiss before letting her drink.
"I think I'm finally getting it." This made Max look at Gina again and waits for her to say something more.
"The past few days, you did say Rheanne felt weak for some reason." Max motions Gina to go on but Rheanne interrupts them by putting down the glass with force, making a sound.
"I know something, but i-it stopped me. A-and..."
As Rheanne was about to explain what happened, her eyes went wide as she remembers, "L-Leila!!"
"Wait, Rhei, what about Leila?—"
"I will explain everything later, but now we have to go!"
"What do you mean?"
"Why?—"
"She's in danger!" With just those three words, it's enough for them to leave using Gina's car. Max immediately texted June and the rest with this.
"Where to??"
"Jasper's Building, please faster!"
+ + +
BY THE TIME the four of them arrived, Jasper was by the entrance and the others have slowly arrived as well.
"Have you seen Leila?!" Rheanne immediately asks Jasper.
"No, I haven't seen—" Jasper looks around and finally saw a blonde girl going towards the elevator. Everyone followed Jasper's eyes and that's when they all lost it.
"Sh*t!" June was the first to respond as he starts to run to the entrance of the building.
"F*ck, how come I didn't see her there?!" The situation also made Jasper curse as everyone follows them inside the building.
The receptionist for the night shift hasn't arrived yet so no one is in the lobby except all of them.
They all kept yelling Leila's name, and it seemed like the blonde is not hearing anything at all and gets into the elevator.
"Leila no don't do it! It's dangerous! He will get you!!—"
But...
it's too late.
Before June even had the chance to stop the elevator doors from closing, Lisa has entered the elevator and is heading up towards the fourth floor.
She's playing the Elevator Game again.