ESOTERIC | ˡʰᶜ

1.2

"a-aeyoungie?" 

one word.

it took one word to bring haewon down to the ground, battling her migraine. the whole world seemed like it will suddenly pop out, well to her at least.

the pain is unbearable, she kept tugging onto her hair harshly but nothing works. she just hoped that the pain stopped, she could no longer face it.

she felt like crying, the pain was no joke. it felt as if her mind will blow up and its pieces will be scattered.

soon, everything turned blurry. haewon's vision turned everything to being blurry and unclear. then she saw nothing but black.

"haewon? haewon?" mark said as he shakes her body, hoping that she'll wake up. but to his dismay, the girl never opened her eyes.

"check her breathing" taeyong demanded to the medics as they ran up to haewon, checking her breathing and her pulse.

"her breathing's normal" renjun clarified as he looked up to taeyong who was looked really worried.

"renjun, bring her to her room and check her" he told renjun and renjun furrowed his eyebrows.

"which is her room?" he asked, picking her up in bridal style.

"pick any room, just get her checked" taeyong said as he looked at doyoung, who looked profoundly confused.

"doyoung hyung," jisung paused "aeyoung as in your sister aeyoung?"

"yes, my sister aeyoung" doyoung answered, refraining to look at jisung's gaze.

"i thought she was dead" jaemin retorted as he looked at doyoung, frustration evident on his face.

"i thought so too" doyoung as speechless, the resemblance was too much. from her smile to her eyes and to her nose, the voice was similar as well but it changed a bit.

"hyung, why did you call haewon aeyoung?" mark asked as he looked at doyoung, who was obviously avoiding his stare. 

"they look exactly like each other, i never killed her that day" doyoung muttered the last part but mark heard him clearly.

"k-kill her?" mark asked, why would someone as sweet as doyoung, kill an innocent girl?

"i'll explain later" doyoung gave mark a reassuring look before frantically going to haewon's room.

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"i'm sorry mother" and a gunshot was heard, aeyoung was scared, she didn't know where to hide, where to hide from her brother.

he loved his family, so why? why would he do this? why would he kill his own family?

without any other choice, aeyoung hid in the closet, panting, she placed her hand on top of her mouth to make her breathing less audible.

"aeyoung, where are you?" her brother yelled, his tone made him sound like a madman.

her breathing became much more harsh than before, she was too nervous, she didn't want to die, she wanted to hug her brother and figure everything out with him, but seeing him kill their parents, she lost all of her hope.

footsteps became louder as time goes by, signifying that he was near, near to kill aeyoung.

she was refraining herself from crying, her lips were trembling, her body was shaking, and her skin was pale as ever.

and without sparing any other second, the closet doors opened, revealing doyoung with a gun and a tear-stained cheek, he didn't want to do it, he just had to.