Dark night, almost midnight, three young men with backpacks and cameras walk around abandoned hotel to find a way in.

Mark POV

They told us it's dangerous but I knew he wanted to do it anyway. That's why we're here now, in supposedly haunted, abandoned place that once was a very beautiful hotel.

Satang went in first, we only followed him. I hate such places, they always make me feel uncomfortable, but today since the very beginning I feel that we're being watched by someone... or by something. We can't rule out any possibility, it can be even a demon or at least a ghost and honestly if I had any choice, I'd prefer it to be just a ghost. Ghosts are the least scary of all possibilities.

“P', do you think we will meet something or someone?” — Fourth asked me. I looked at him and noticed how excited he was. Opposite to me Fourth Nattawat always loved such places, such adventures.

All of us have cameras, I have go-pro on my head and phone in my hand, Fourth uses a SLR camera with an LED panel to illuminate our path.  Satang is equipped with an infrared camera.  We also have a magnetic field sensor with us, which contains four diodes: green, yellow, orange and red.  The green LED is always on and does not indicate any paranormal activity, but if the red LED lights up, it is better to run away.

“I hope we won't meet anyone” — I admit and try to come closer to Fourth. He smiles at me.

“P'Mark, are you scared?”

“Me? Scared? No, I'm not a chicken, I'm not scared, I... I just don't like it, that's all”.

Fourth laughs and Satang tells us to be a little bit more quiet.

“Sorry, sorry bro! I'll be quiet now” — Fourth patted Satang's arm.

“Let's go. We have big mission today. We're going to prove if there's something strange or not”.

“Yeah, I know. Go ahead, we need to find the room 278, the haunted one” — Fourth reminded us. He was the one who made all the research about this place. He read somewhere that room 278 is haunted because there were 3 people killed. History says that one man found his wife cheating on him with his best friend and killed his own friend in front of her, then killed her and at the end commited suicide. It has been told that all three of them are still strolling through the corridors and waiting for someone who will set them free from feeling guilty and let them go away to the place where they belong.

I hate such stories. It gives me goosebumps.

Satang tells this story to the camera he's holding. I try to not run away but suddenly I feel someone's cold hand touching my back. I turn around to see what it was, but there's nobody who could do that. Both Fourth and Satang are in front of me, I'm the last one.

“FotFot, Tang, there's something. I felt something” — I try to be calm, but my voice is shaking.

“What? What did you feel?”

“I felt as if someone touched my back. It was something cold, like someone's cold hand”.

“No way! So the legend is true?! How cool!” — Fourth isn't scared, he looks happy. I don't understand, how can you be this happy where something so terrible is happening around you?!

“Fourth, Tang, please, let's go. I don't feel well” — I try to warn them but they don't listen to me.

“Oh come on, P', that's nothing! Ghosts are not scary, you said it yourself, didn't you?”

“Yeah, there's something more scary... Humans and demons”.

Both Satang and Fourth laughed as if I said something very funny, but I don't feel like laughing at all. I look at our SLR camera and I freeze. There's something there, some dark shadow in form of a human with... With cow's horns?! Wait... What?! I point at it to my friends.

Suddenly Fourth fell on the dirty floor.

“He's completely unconscious!”  — Satang says, completely surprised.  We don't know what is happening or what we should do in such a case.  Tang tries to wake him up, but in vain.  I feel for a pulse in his neck, but I feel nothing.  I feel like my heart, and the whole world around me, also stops.  Suddenly we are suspended in time with no way to escape.  I'm lost.  I look at Satang, but he just spreads his hands helplessly.

“What happened?”

“I don't know but whatever is here, clearly doesn't want us to be here”.

And then...

We both hear loud voice as if it was coming from inside the building.

“WE HAVE FOUND OUR MISSING MASTER! KHUN NATTAWAT JIROCHTIKUL COMES WITH US. HE'S OUR LORD AND KING”.

“Only in your dreams!” — I yell back at this something. It's scary but thought of losing Fourth forever scares me even more. I gain the courage I never knew I had. Temperature in whole building becomes lower and lower and we feel like we're freezing to death.

“Try to fight me, loser called Mark. I know everything about you. I know your biggest fears. Oh, right, your biggest fear is death of this boy, isn't it?”

This something now has very familiar voice. I try to remember who this voice belongs to and suddenly Gemini's face appeares in my mind.

“Gemini?”

“Don't listen to this! It only wants to weaken you! It's not our real friend, it's not Gemini” — Satang warns me. I look at Fourth's body. He looks like sleeping but scary thought hits back of my head. He's not sleeping, he's dead.

“No, you shitty weak ghost-like dumbass, he's not dead and he won't go with you to anywhere!” — I scream and at the sign given me from Satang we both start to pray. Satang takes out holy water from his backpack.

And the fight beginns. We leave our fears behind. There's something more important: our friend, his life and his soul, we must protect it and save it.

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Half an hour later Fourth finally woke up. Seeing him alive and safe makes me so happy. I come to him and hug him. He's my everything although I never said that loud. I never felt I have right to feel anything for him. We met through our work, all three of us are youtubers, we create content for YouTube, although I have different kind of channel. On my channel you can watch me talking for hours about F1, F2 and F3 races or WEC. Satang and Fourth have channel with scary content, they create episodes about ghosts, haunted places or urban exploration(urbex). Fourth has very famous boyfriend, musician called Gemini Norawit Titicharoenrak, although it's all his fake name. His real name is Phuwin Tangsakyuen but only the closest people to him know it. I'm Fourth's friend so of course I know it.

“I saw something very beautiful” — Fourth looks me in the eyes. My heart beats very fast and loud. I feel that he has something important to tell me. I'm not wrong. He smiles and continues. — “I saw you and me being a couple. I saw you holding my hand, kissing my forehead and asking me with tears in your eyes to not die. Did this really happen?”

I'm so stunned that I can't say even one single sentence, luckily Satang is here.

“Yup, Fourth, I guess we know the truth now. You're about to have your own boyfriend because this silly loves you very much” — Satang points his finger at me.

“You love me?”

“Mhm”.

“But you know I'm officially with Gem?”

“Yes, I know. That's why I didn't want to say anything. I didn't want our friendship to end. Please, forget about this, okie? I don't expect anything from you, you're not responsible for my own feelings. Please, can we be friends?”

“If you say so... But don't you want to give it a try?”

“No, FotFot, you belong to Gemini, how could I do this to my own friend?”

“P'Mark, you're really dumb sometimes”.

“Yeah, I know that. I am dumb, stupid idiot who fell in love with someone else's boyfriend. I'm sorry. Please, forget it. We can be friends. I don't want to lose you. I prefer you to be with him than to not have you at all”.

These words are painful for me to say but I know I'm going the right thing. We were never meant to be, even tho I love him. Sometimes not every love ends well. Maybe this is the case? We're just friends.

Suddenly Fourth takes my hand, he intertwines our fingers and says something that will probably remain in my memory and heart forever.  A huge stone falls from my heart and I feel a relief so overwhelming that I can hardly breathe.

“Gemini is straight, P', he will never be my real boyfriend. It's only work. We only work together, you know, he's about to have his first world tour, he'll have concerts aroung the world, even in Europe so P'Earn decided that I'll be his fake boyfriend to prevent any big drama”.

“B-but... But what about all these cute moments between two of you?!”

“It's only work, baby. To be honest I also fell in love with you, but I thought you don't feel the same for me, you were always acting like older brother more than anything else, so I didn't say anything. If I knew, I'd speak about my feelings earlier”.

“You both are dumb” — Satang laughs at us as he packs his bags.

It was long night full of adventures and surprises but I'd never imagine that haunted place can give me a boyfriend and make my wildest wish come true.

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