While I Sleep? ? ?

22: The Nightmare

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"Are you hearing this?" Jimin whispers in a shaky way, looking at Taehyung. "It's....it's eerie."

"But who is singing it?" Taehyung questions, frowning.

"Is it perhaps, the girl who lives upstairs?" Jimin suggests — or actually asks.

"She left the apartment a week ago, how can it be her?" Taehyung says, getting up from his place.

He turns off the television and looks at Jimin with unsurety and confusion written all over his face.

‘ But one soul lies anxious, wide awake ’

"There it is again." Jimin says.

It is a voice, a thin, creepy voice of a female. She is singing, and it is a lullaby. A creepy lullaby that can put anybody to sleep. A deep sleep.

‘ Fearing all manner of the ghoul that had lived ’

"A ghoul?" Taehyung mumbles under his breath, "–a soul."

He is still standing in the living room, his hands in the pockets of his track pants.

"Shall we check on Jungkook?" Jimin suggests.

"I think we should." Taehyung replies, heading over to Jungkook's bedroom.

As Jimin and Taehyung stride towards Jungkook's bedroom, the voice gets louder, and the words of the song get more lucid.

‘ For the little boy, sleep has flown ’

‘ Don't dare let him, tremble alone ’

"Little boy?" Jimin repeats.

‘ For the witches, are after him ’

‘ He feels heartache and woe ’

Before one of them can open the door to Jungkook's bedroom, Jimin whispers to Taehyung, "The voice....it's coming from the bathroom."

Not thinking for even a split second, Taehyung slowly tramps towards the bathroom — at the very end of the hall.

Jimin's heartbeat is racing and his breathing has become a little shaky. His hand is clutching the bottom hem of his shirt as he follows Taehyung towards the bathroom.

As Taehyung turns the doorknob and opens the door to the bathroom, the voice stops singing for a while.

Taehyung tries to switch on the light, but Jimin stops him, "Do not." 

Both Taehyung and Jimin peer into the bathroom, trying to see if there is anybody in there. (A little light from the hall radiates into the bathroom.)

There sits a girl, her back facing the door. Her hair fall over her shoulders, parts of her hair blonde. She is wearing an off-white dress that reaches her calves and she has a tiny miniature doll in her hand.

"He talks about me, doesn't he?" Her thin and spooky voice resonates in the house.

"Who are you?" Taehyung asks.

"I like to call myself Polly," she answers, "Everyone calls me Polly."

Her back is still facing the door but her grip around the doll is tightening.

"How did you come here?" Taehyung puts another question to her.

"Jungkook brought me here," she simply shrugs.

"When? We didn't see you at all." Taehyung says again, demand in his voice.

"Tonight, when he went to bed." She slowly turns.

A smug and creepy smile is plastered on her face, her lips of a shade called ‘blood-red’. Her hair are extremely straight, almost too straight for human hair.

"Tae..." Jimin slightly nudges his friend's rib, "–look at her eyes."

Shit.

The girl sophisticatedly sits on the edge of the bathtub, her hands placed in her lap with her little doll safely between her hands.

Her eyes are not black, neither are they brown. They are not of any other color either. They are white. Completely white.

"Wake him up." Jimin whispers into Taehyung's ear, tension in his tone.

"Go wake Jungkook up," Jimin repeats. "Now."

Taehyung immediately shuts the door.

After what seems like a split second, there is a loud bang from the other side of the door. Within a snap of a finger the banging turns louder and harder and scratches start to appear from the other side of the door.

"Open." A growl is heard from the other side.

"We need to wake Jungkook up, right now." Jimin almost stutters.

When they enter Jungkook's room, a weepy and abject sight greets them.

Jungkook's laying on the bed, hyperventilating. Shaky breaths, sweat dripping from the forehead and body shaking. He is muttering something in his sleep, but Taehyung and Jimin have an other problem to focus on.

Taehyung rushes over to Jungkook, hastily sitting next to him.

"Wake up." Taehyung nudges the younger male.

But no. Jungkook's not waking up. He is just shifting on the bed, changing his positions due to an odious discomfort.

"Goddamn Kim Taehyung, wake him up now!" Jimin shouts.

"Get a glass of water!" Taehyung says as Jimin rushes over to the kitchen.

It saddens Taehyung to look at Jungkook suffer so much. But Taehyung has no idea of how to help Jungkook.

Jimin returns with a glass of water and hands it to Taehyung as he says, "I don't know what you are going to do with this."

Without any hesitation, Taehyung splashes the water in Jungkook's face.

And luck favours.

Jungkook springs up on the bed, almost at a loss of breath.

The banging on the door subsides and Jungkook's state slowly normalises.

"Are you okay?" Jimin places a gentle hand on Jungkook's shoulder.

"D-did she go?" Jungkook asks, burying his face into his hands.

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A/n:
Unedited.
I suck at writing intense and serious chapters. I've established that.
❤️BG