We began to feel a bit anxious. So we stopped goofing around and followed the boy quietly.
After some time passed, the boy finally stopped in front of a house.
"This is my house."
The moment I heard that, I got goosebumps. The house was clearly a deserted house.
I took a peek into the house since the door was ajar. It didn't look like anyone was living there.
We couldn't dare go inside, so we were hesitant.
Sung Chul who was the bravest one of us said, "Come on. Let's not just stand here. Let's go inside and make sure the kid is alright."
"Is anyone inside?" He said and walked inside the house. But the kid still didn't go inside the house. He was standing outside.
"Why aren't you going in?" I asked him.
"What is it? Is something wrong?"
"I am scared." He answered. "The ghost is waiting inside the house."
"Gosh, it's all right. We are here with you." Sung Chul said. "We will talk to your parents. Come with us."
We walked into the house at last. The house was in worse condition than we saw from outside. The lights weren't working. The house was broken down. And the floor was covered with mysterious powder.
"Hey, kid."
"Are you sure this is your house?" Ji Hoon asked.
It was impossible for anyone to live in that house. But at that moment..
"Hey, I found something weird here." Ji Hoon was looking around the living room and said he found something. We quickly went to him.
There were frames hanging on the wall. They were flipped around, so the photos couldn't be seen. Or they were covered up, so we couldn't see the photos.
All of a sudden, I remembered the family photo the kid had around his neck. I carefully walked toward one of the frames and flipped it over.
I saw the kid smiling broadly in the photo. Nothing seemed weird.
"I see. So, this is his house." I thought and was relieved slightly.
So I started to flip over the rest of the frames one at a time. But..
Suddenly, I couldn't hear any of my friends talking. When I looked behind, it was only me in the living room.
"What? Where did they go?"
When I thought I was alone, I suddenly felt overwhelmed with fear. So I thought about getting out of the house. And at that moment, "Hey!" the kid called for me.
"Yes, I am here. Where are you?" I shouted.
I called for my friends too.
"Ji Hoon !"
"Sung Chul !"
I checked the house thoroughly. But I couldn't see any of my friends or the kid.
When I was frantically looking for my friends, I opened a door to a room.
"What is this smoke?"
I tried to clear the smoke with my hands and looked closely into the room. It looked like someone was under the blanket.
"Hey, kid!" I called.
But the feet were too big to belong to that kid.
For one second, I thought my friends were playing a prank on me.
"Is that you, Ji Hoon?"
"You are Sung Chul, right?"
"Stop goofing around."
I removed the blanket to see who it was.
I couldn't make out the facial features. It looked as if the face was burnt in a fire. At that moment, I felt someone groaning behind me. I looked back. It was some woman. Her features too were unrecognizable.
She was crawling on her hands. Her eyes looked like as if the eyelids had melted and shut the eyes.
She was trying to say something to me but I got so scared that I couldn't bear to stand in that room for a second more. So, I ran out of that room.
Just then..
I had spent so much time looking for my friends earlier. But they were standing in the corner of the house just there, looking pale. They looked as if they were in some kind of a trance.
"What are you doing? We have to get out of here now!"
"Look here, I am not seeing things right?" Ji Hoon asked all of a sudden.
He showed me a photo that wasn't burnt by a cigarette. The year that was stamped in the photo was 2002. But the kid's face in the photo looked like the kid who was standing next to us. We were perplexed by the photo.
"Was there no shadow of him earlier too?" Sung Chul looked over to the boy and said.
The boy was standing two steps ahead of us facing the wall. After hearing Sung Chul, he looked behind and said, "I told you there was a ghost in this house."
All of us ran out of the house immediately and didn't turn back. We all went back home.
The next day, the three of us went back to the house again in broad daylight. But the house we saw last night was gone. We were flustered.
Luckily, the boy didn't show up in front of us anymore. And that was the last of our bizarre incident.
(YOU CAN CHECK OUT MY ORIGINAL STORY. ITS TITLE IS 'THE REDDEST RED')