✔broken compass (the sequel) • stray kids✔

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Another sharp pain shot through my head. I opened my eyes, only just realizing that they had been closed for quite the while. Did I manage to fall asleep after all? The next thing I noticed is that my vision was moving. "Hey, look, isn't that a car?!" Jisung's voice ringed in my ear. Good, that means at least I was with the right people. While my eyes were still adjusting to the light, it wasn't hard to feel that I was resting on someone's back. They must not have been wanting to wake me up.

"Here, I'll hold her so you can get in," Chan called out, from the sound of it already in the car Jisung was talking about. I took one arm off the guy who was holding me, rubbing my eye. "No worries, I can get in myself," I muttered sleepy. I could hear Hyunjin chuckle from up close, closer than any of the other guys. Ah, so he was the one carrying me. I could finally see what was going on around me. Jisung and Chan were in a jeep, spacious enough for everyone to fit, easily.

"Not with that ankle you aren't," Jeongin remarked from next to us, giving Hyunjin a nod to indeed lift me in there together with Chan. I let out a sigh, still too tired to actually argue. Chan jumped out of the jeep, taking me off of Hyunjin's back to hold me in his arms. It'd be easier to get me in that way, probably. I finally got the chance to look at my ankle, seeing it was completely swollen and blue/yellow ish. Yup, Jeongin is gonna nag on me for sure again. Should have just listened to him in the first place.

When Hyunjin had climbed his way up in the jeep, once again taking me back from Chan, sitting me down as well. In the meantime, Minho already found his way to the driver's seat. The car started as soon as everyone was seated, all looking quite optimistic, though Hyunjin and I both couldn't help but disagree with the others. While they all seemed excited to go, we seemed to be the only ones weary.

Another feeling of a shot in the head, my vision once again switching. I closed my eyes, but it seemed like the vision only got stronger. Sitting in chairs, tied up. There were people around me, blindfolded one by one, I was only waiting the be next. I could see syringes, shots, everything bad you could imagine. A person came up to me, tall, broad, his face turned completely blank however.

I let out a scream, as my eyes shot open. "Y/N?" Jeongin questioned, his hand instantly taking mine. "What happened?" he continued. I couldn't help but look at Hyunjin, was he experiencing the same I was again? He too looked disturbed, but I couldn't tell what it was. "I just... thought I saw a bug falling down on me, that was all," I answered. A lie, obviously, and Hyunjin knew it too. The others... even if they didn't buy it, they didn't really have the ability to get it out of me, knowing I'd just say I'm fine again.

"Look," Seungmin called out, spotting the beautiful view of the sun rising in between the trees. He quickly whipped out his camera, already standing up. "Stay down," Hyunjin answered, already pulling him down again, maybe hastier than normal. "What? Why?" Seungmin questioned. Minho had already continued driving, the view disappearing in front of his eyes. "Oh come on, now it's gone," he whined. "It could be dangerous," Hyunjin simply answered monotonously, not wanting to give too much detail about the actual reason.

He saw something again, didn't he? I couldn't figure out what it was, if it was the same as I saw or something completely different, but whatever he saw was enough for him to be wary. "I'm sure it's fine Hyunjin," Chan tried to calm him down. It made me think back about last night. The questions Jeongin asked and all probably didn't give them much news, judging how they still didn't seem to believe him. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him, it couldn't feel great to not be believed about something this serious. All the more reason I couldn't bring myself to tell the others what I kept seeing.

Though we had first lost quite some time, we easily caught up now, arriving at the yellow tree within just an hour. Perfect time for a break, Minho decided as he stopped the car. "Need me to help you out?" Jeongin nudged my arm. Surprisingly he hadn't given me yet another lecture yet. Luckily though, with my headache only increasing the closer we got, the yellow tint coming and going increasingly more than when I first got out of the elevator. The vision too kept coming back, but so far nothing of my surroundings actually seemed different like at the bus.

"I think I'm just gonna stay here, I don't wanna bother you guys with having to carry me and support me all the time." Jeongin shook his head, already holding out his hands. "As your medic, I force you to touch some grass. Just sitting still all day isn't gonna make you happy either." I could definitely argue with that, but knowing Jeongin it would definitely be pointless. I gave in with a grunt, taking his hands, a mixture of hopping and sliding off. I eventually sat down in the grass, leaning against the tree with Jeongin joining me.

Seungmin once again took out his camera, taking a picture of a fence with a no entrance board on it. Right at the tree, where the road should continue, it split in two. Which was one of the reasons Minho stopped in the first place, to discuss what we were supposed to do. What seemed out of nowhere, Hyunjin got up to Seungmin, snatching the camera out of his hands, shattering it on the ground. "I told you it was dangerous!" he shouted angrily. Seungmin stared at him blankly for a good second, pushing Hyunjin backwards, outing all his annoyance. Hyunjin instantly pushed him back, the members running up to them to stop them, while Seungmin started shouting at Hyunjin.

"I don't know what has gotten into you ever since that elevator, but I'm completely done with you. I'm not leaving this place before you tell me what the heck is going on with you!"