Deception • Woosang

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BANG

Wooyoung quickly sits up, whimpering, he had almost fallen asleep, but now he's way too scared to even blink. He wonders where that noise came from, it had startled him so much his heart skipped a thousand beats. He frantically looks around the dark room, trying to find the source of the sound.

He hears it again. A loud bang coming from the other side of his wall, his neighbour's house, which was weird because he could have sworn no one lived next door to him.

Wooyoung widens his eyes as he quickly gets up from bed, scrambling out the door and into the living room and turns the light on. He grabs a fistful of hair, trying to calm himself down "I can't do this" he says as he grabs his phone, video calling Yunho. It's not that late in the night so hopefully he and San should be awake.

Thankfully, Yunho answers straight away "Wooyoung! I thought you'd be asleep by now... are you ok? You look like you've just seen a ghost"

Yunho is in bed with San, who is cuddling the taller. Hearing Yunho's concerned tone, San removes his face from his boyfriend's chest and looks at his friend. "Wooyoung, whats wrong? You have tears in your eyes, did something bad happen?"

Wooyoung lets out a shaky breath, "I'm just scared, alone, whoever's in the house next to mine is making scary noises and I'm so scared I cant sleep"

"Oh Wooyoung, don't worry, we'll stay with you until you fall asleep, even if it takes the whole night, we're always here for you" Yunho says while San nods enthusiastically and Wooyoung feels like crying. One because he's scared shitless and two, because he's so unbelievably lucky to have friends like this.

"Thanks guys" Wooyoung says, lying down on his sofa, not wanting to go to his room again.

"Do you want to do anything? Watch a movie?" San suggests, but Wooyoung shakes his head "Just want you guys in my presence"

San giggles "don't worry Wooyoung, we're always in your presence, here" he says, poking Yunho's chest. Wooyoung giggles and with that, he quickly falls into a peaceful sleep with his friends by his side, or, in his hand rather.

When Wooyoung wakes up, he discovers that this house isn't at all less scary in the daytime. Whoever lives next to him apparently loves to listen to very scary music. No words, just eerie music, like if you went to a huge ball but you were the only one there.

He misses Hongjoong, this new neighbour keeps giving him heart attacks and high blood pressure due to his fight or flight being active all day. He doesn't know how long he can take this anymore, its only been a day and he's going crazy. How is he supposed to write revolutionary articles when he's not in the right state of mind because he's scared senseless. He needs to leave.

Wooyoung shuts the front door and takes a well needed walk, which fortunately manages to clear his mind a bit. He purposely takes a long route, just to delay going back to his supposed home.

His calm mind is destroyed once he gets back to his home, the music is still playing and Wooyoung doesn't know if he's going crazy but it sounds louder. He shakes his head

"I'm not doing this." He says and drives to a nearby hotel.

~

Yeosang hates dinner, not the food, but the fact that he's required to eat with his parents every day. The large dining table makes it hard to even see their faces because they're so far away, but his father insists that he eat with them. His parents are nice to him, yes, but the problem was that they are annoying. His older brother is already training to take after their mother and become the next CEO of their modelling company.