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Chapter 2 - Strange and Chaos

"Sungho, stop drink-ing." Wonjae says while trying to take away the alcohol bottle Sungho holding. He feels so much dizzy due to drinking. He didn't know it will be this much fuzzy even he just drink half a bottle and other two are ending all of them.

"Nah, gimme mah bottle," Sungho cries out as Wonjae pulls the bottle away from his hands. Sungho is leaning on the tree, half-consciously. This ain't his first time of drinking this much, but it doesn't change the fact that the boy gets dizzy.

"Sungho-ahh, just stop drinking," Wonjae says, but no use in saying that. Because Wonjae sips some alcohol into his mouth while saying that, increasing the chance for Sungho to take bottle to his side again.

"Whe-where is tha girl?" Sungho says, leaning his back on the trunk of the tree even more. Wonjae starts to pat Sungho's back as he starts to keep coughing nonstop.

Yeseul on the other hand just as Sungho mention, she is totally out of consciousness, even out of unconsciousness, her state of mind at the moment is totally strange, literally no brain nor anything is in her head. She must have lost few of her important brain cells, because right now she is shouting crazily while walking around, even now had stop walking because the dizziness.

She is at the opposite side of the tree to the boys, but as she hears the voice of the boys, she responds in a chaotic manner, "Wha-ay?"

She couldn't even stand straight, at least stand somehow, her dizziness is at another level when considering with Wonjae's dizziness. Wonjae is just getting used to it, but Yeseul. She was the first to introduce alcohol (somewhat) to Sungho too, who is now has became the most addicted one in the whole city.

Yeseul's father had use to drink and there were many of bottles in her house. As she is an only child, there was no any relative or close person to get after the death of her parents, and because of the anxiousness and fear of living alone and fear of public, she tried to kill herself by drinking alcohol and cutting her arms by a blade deeply, and ended up catching by Sungho's parents and had to stay in a hospital for several days, which she seriously hate. Yes, she hates hospitals. There is no specific reason for that.

She was mad at her own words so much those days, she was blaming herself that she was the reason for their death, but it totally isn't her fault that her parents died due to an accident. She knows that now, but when all those happen, she was unaware about many things, she was just a child of 11 years old who can't understand the world.

Even back on those days when her parents were alive, she wished they would disappear into air, but all people know that it is not good to loss the people who are the closest to someoneone. All the negative emotions started to attack her mind rapidly and merciless those days. But this is the present anyway. She don't care about them now, and has learnt to enjoy her life without parents.

"Yeseul, come-" Sungho again coughs, and Wonjae keeps patting him lightly as he is tiring up too.

"On ma way," Sungho hears Yeseul saying from the other side of the tree. She starts to walk, holding the tree trunk for keep her balance.

And she starts to get a unfamiliar headache while walking, keeping her hand on the trunk. It is normal for people to get headaches when drink, but this, it is different. Yeseul has drunk many times before, but this headache is unusually unfamiliar.

She holds up the trunk from her hand, trying to keep balance, and ends up sitting on ground. She hears a high pitch siren in her ear, echoing in her whole brain, making her feel like her head would explode on any minute passing through. She tightens her hands towards her ears, trying to stop hearing the siren, but all happens is just increasing the sound, making the girl shiver in pain.

"Ah," She groans, tightening her hands even more.

"What is it?" Wonjae says with a fuzzy tone, walking with Sungho to Yeseul, who is on the ground. Both Wonjae and Sungho could see her on the ground as she has moved some distance towards them somehow before fall.

"What happened?" Sungho says and keeps his hand on her shoulder,

"It hurts," Yeseul cries out, without opening her eyes to see him. Her eyes are at the point of tearing up.

"You need-" Sungho starts saying, but he too stops when he also start to feel the strange headache and hear the siren just as Yeseul.

Sungho feels like floating in space, he couldn't even breath breath properly. He just struggles for breath, he is at the point of choking which he never experienced before in his whole life, he holds his neck as he could not breath, and then, all goes silent.

He isn't floating anymore and is on the ground, he keeps breathing heavily and opens his eyes. There are several tears trailing down along his cheeks.

He looks around, the surrounding, it is strange. And it is changing. It means that, changing. The tree is there without moving or changing, and other things so around are changing. There is a scene of some pale colour unclear buildings for some seconds, and next, the ground, the meadow which he was staying before.

He looks around, he could not adjust to the incident he has fallen into. He feel like he is living inside a real horror sci-fi movie.

He hears a growling sound behind him, at the right side. And he turns, but sees nothing.

"What the hell is-" He starts to say, but stops because of the voice of Wonjae he hears in brain.

"Sungho,"

Sungho's eyes wide opens, and he starts to cough rapidly. His eyelids are again closed tight onto his eyes and his eyes are tearing up.

"Sungho," Wonjae is saying, patting Sungho's back again. "I know it is hard, but we should leave, right now."

Sungho opens his eyes after he could stop coughing. He looks around, his vision is unclear due to the tears. Yeseul is laying on the ground, her face has turned pale, and looks like a real ghost alive. It is obvious that she has vomited before.

"Come on," Wonjae says, helping Yeseul to stand up, and pulling her arm over his behind neck.

"You can walk?" Wonjae asks, looking at Sungho, who has turned pale too.

"Yea- yeah," Sungho says, not sure about what he saying, and they starts to walk, along the road slowly.

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The wind keeps hitting the tree, some of the leaves brakes from the branches and falls. And there is a glow on the trunk at a side, which anyone doesn't know about. No one really knows what is happening there at the midnight, and will anyone too.