ι ℓσνє уσυ, мσηѕтєя | LK Adaptation

8

At Diamond City Amusement Park.

Jungkook’s eyes, though hidden, was actually slowly getting narrowed the moment he realized where they are. However, he could only stand there and wait for his wife’s next move.

On the other hand, lisa was currently holding herself to focus on her mission. It’s been such a long time since she and her brother last visited an amusement park that’s why she just couldn’t help but felt nostalgic as she watched the colorful towering palaces in the park.

So after a short while of looking around, she then took a deep breath, switched instantly into mission mode, then smiled brightly at the man beside her.

’Step #04: touch him,’ lisa remembered what Jennie told her; ’Don’t make it too obvious, do it naturally’.

Lisa knew that she need to do all sort of different strategies for her to know what will make her husband reacts. She has to do some experiments and observe his every reaction. And to do that, she has to be alert and mindful at the same time.

"Do you have any place you want to visit first?" she asked even though she already know what he’ll say.

"Up to you."

"Okay! Let’s go!"

Lisa casually held his wrist then happily pulled him towards the route to the dancing fountain. However, one thing was off, the moment she touched him, she felt like she was the one who was affected instead. Touching him suddenly made her heart flutters. Making lisa instantly lose her mission mode. ’Why the hell am I feeling like this? I’m just holding his wrist, for heavens’ sake!’

Lisa couldn’t believe herself.

She couldn’t even manage to look at him at the moment because she was desperately trying to calm herself, not knowing that she was already walking too fast and heading towards a route that wasn’t on her plan.

Meanwhile, apart from Jungkook’s narrowed eyes due to the overwhelming crowds, his brows started to furrow as well. It’s because the girl who was happily talking to him just now was suddenly walking at full speed while dragging him. Thankfully, the crowd were voluntarily opening a way for them, simply because they were just too catchy as if they were a special celebrity couple hiding behind a bunny mask.

And while obediently following her wife, Jungkook was occasionally glancing at his wrist her wife was holding. He could feel that she was suddenly exerting such strength that’s as if she was making sure that he will not get separated with her. As if he was a kid getting dragged by his mother.

...

In the middle of their full speed walking, a lady in uniform suddenly stopped them. Lisa snapped right away as if she was suddenly awakened in her short but taxing dream.

"Welcome to our haunted mansion, we’re actually giving a 50% discount to the tenth couple who will get in and you two are just too lucky because you are the tenth. Please enjoy your discount ma’am and sir and good luck!"

The uniformed lady spoke too fast and she was now giving them the tickets which was suddenly accepted by Jungkook.

Lisa was surprised because of what Jungkook did but she was even more stunned when she realized where they are at the moment. ’Wait, what? How did we end up here? Aren’t we just heading to the dancing fountain just now? And what?! H-haunted house?’

"Let’s go," Jungkook finally spoke.

It was supposed to be a good development because it seems like something finally caught Jungkook’s attention. ’But why? Is Jungkook’s interest actually about horrors?! My god! This monster, I don’t want to get in!’

Lisa's greatest weakness was her brother and actually next to him was ghost. She was phasmophobic and still can’t handle horror movies, much more a haunted house.

"I-is it okay for you to get in?" she asked and he just nodded at her. So she couldn’t do anything but just bite her lip and follow the man before him. She breathed really deep as she was convincing herself that her mission was much more important and that this man before her was a much terrifying monster than any ghost around.

Meanwhile Jungkook was a bit curious. He thought that Lisa must have been so excited to bring him in the haunted house to the point of walking at full speed nonstop. He thought that lisa must have been chasing that 10th couple discount so he was wondering why was the girl suddenly looking so tense as if she doesn’t want to get in.

Time passed by and Jungkook’s uneasiness kept rising as they move further inside the haunted house. The house was pitch black and all sort of scary things were inside it. Even though, this was his first time entering this kind of place, he could tell how skilled the maker of all the things inside. It’s because everything was looking realistic, even the sounds, and the ghosts in disguise.

However, jungkook’s expressionless face slowly changed. His brows were knitted as he kept glancing at the girl behind her. It was because the girl who was just looking excited just now suddenly turned amazingly quiet ever since they entered the house. She was tugging Jungkook’s shirt tightly from behind as if she wanted to rip it into pieces as she leaned her head in his back as though she was hiding from someone.

Jungkook then halted the moment they reached a dim lighted room surrounded by little candles looking like a room where rituals of witches were held. He turned towards the girl and his eyes turned slightly wide upon seeing her pale face. Her mask was hanging on her neck and the girl’s eyes were tightly closed. Her forehead down to her neck was wet with sweat.

And seeing the girl in that state, Jungkook decided to go back.

He then held her shoulders.

"Let’s go back," he said and his voice instantly made lisa’s back stiffened. Her mind wasn’t even working properly anymore because she was busy forcing herself to imagine pleasant things yet Sei’s voice was like a bang that startled her. Her grip in his shirt loosen.

And she suddenly opened her eyes, however, the first thing she saw was a wooden thing that looks like a wooden coffin surrounded by candles. Her eyes instantly turned wide and she was about to cover her eyes when the coffin suddenly opened while a hand of rotten corpse appeared.

"Ahhh!!" Lisa screeched and she instantly hug the man in front of her. She was shivering as her loud piercing scream still echoed inside the house.

Jungkook was speechless. He was dumbfounded.

He could tell that the girl was scared to death. So he raised his hand and patted her back as the girl was still hugging him as if she’s trying to squeeze him.

"That was just a ghost in disguise," he said but the girl didn’t stop shivering. She didn’t even loosen up her intense grip.

At that very moment, lisa remembered her young self, sitting alone while hugging her own knees in the corner of a dim room. She was just ten that time when she experienced that traumatic event in her life. It wasn’t even a month yet when she found her mother hanged herself in her room, it wasn’t even a month yet since her burial and yet the evil people who was after her wealth were now attacking her as if she was a rabbit being chased out by wolves. They did all sort of dirty things to drive her insane and drive her out of her own home. They scared her every night, turning their huge family mansion into a horrifying place, filled with blood and ropes akin to what her mother used to kill herself. That time, lisa was just a child and she was alone in a huge house. She found out years after that those ghosts and horrors she had witnessed were all fake and were made just to make her leave the house on her own accord. However, the scar and the emotional trauma never went away even after many years. And that cruel memory remained fresh in her nightmares, leaving her horrified every single time she remembers it.