Car Keys [Sope]

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Excerpt: About a boy and his boyfriend who get into a car crash, one rainy night.

One night, Hoseok and his boyfriend Yoongi were driving down a deserted country road. They were returning home after spending their date night. Listening to the sound of the rain drumming on the car roof, Hoseok began to doze off.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang. Yoongi struggled with the steering wheel but the car skidded off the wet road and slammed into a stone wall.

After checking that his boyfriend Hoseok was uninjured, Yoongi got out of the car to survey the damage. Both of the front tires had large punctures and the right fender was crumpled against the wall. The rest of the car had survived unscathed.

“We must have driven over something on the road,” Yoongi explained to Hoseok. “Whatever it was, it blew out both of the tires.”

“You can fix it, right?” Hoseok, somewhat shaken by the accident.

“No,” replied Yoongi, shaking his head. “I’ve only got one spare in the boot. I’ll have to walk back into town and find somebody to tow the car,” he said. “It isn’t that far from here. You wait in the car while I’m gone.”

“OK,” Hoseok said, reluctantly. “But please don’t take too long.”

The boy could see in his boyfriend's eyes that he was frightened.

“Sit tight,” replied Yoongi as he slammed the car door. “I’ll be back as soon as possible.”

Hoseok watched him in the rear-view mirror as Yoongi trudged off down the road in the pouring rain and disappeared into the night.

More than an hour passed and Yoongi still had not returned. The boy began to wonder what was taking him so long. He was very worried because he should have been back by now.

Just then, Hoseok glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw a figure in the distance, walking towards the car. At first, he thought it was Yoongi, but when he turned around to take a closer look, he realized that it was a strange man. He was dressed in overalls and had a big bushy beard. He was carrying something large in his left hand, swinging it back and forth.

Something about him made Hoseok very nervous. As the mysterious man approached, Hoseok stared out the back window and squinted his eyes. In the dim light, he could just make out what he was clutching in his right hand. It was a big, sharp butcher’s knife.

Thinking quickly, Hoseok locked both doors in the front of the car, then jumped into the back seat and locked the rear doors. When he looked up again, he saw that the strange man had stopped in his tracks and seemed to be staring directly at him.

Suddenly, the man raised his arm and Hoseok let out a blood-curdling scream. In his left hand, he was clutching his boyfriend, Yoongi's severed head.

Hoseok just kept screaming and screaming. He couldn’t stop himself. His heart was pounding and he struggled to breathe. The grotesque expression on Yoongi's face was horrifying to behold. His mouth was hanging open and his eyes were rolled back in his head.

When the man reached the car, he shoved his face right up against the window and glowered at Hoseok with his crazed, bloodshot eyes. His hair was wild and matted with dirt. His face was covered in deep scars.

For a moment, he just stood there, in the driving rain, grinning at Hoseok like a madman. Then, he reached into his pocket, took something out and slowly lifted his left hand.

He was holding his boyfriend’s car keys.

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