"Not here" Jinwoo muttered as the boys started telling the story. "There are too many wandering eyes here" he said in response to the looks of confusion from the others.

They walked out of the dining hall and a short distance away, where they entered a bedroom similar to the one Bada was staying in. She figured it was one of the boys' room and sat down on one of the small seats.

"The night we disappeared, we were coming back home from a party and our car broke down on an abandoned road" Eunwoo began, playing with his fingers as he told the story.

"Our phones didn't have any signal and there weren't any cars passing by. We thought we'd have to spend the night in the car but then Eunwoo saw the lights of this hotel and we decided to stay the night here" Moon Bin continued as Bada listened intently.

"At first, the prices of the rooms made us suspicious because what hotel is that cheap? But we decided to stay anyway, since we didn't have any other choice"

"The next morning we woke up and decided to leave, but we couldn't find a way out. It seemed as if no matter what path we took, we always came back to the room we were staying in. When we couldn't go past the same six corridors, we started getting scared" Bin said. Bada got chills from how similar the story was to her own experience. She knew there was something wrong with the hotel.

"Then we got a phone call, from the reception. They told us where to go for our meals, and ignored us when we asked to leave. We decided to check out the dining room since we had run out of options. That's where we met the other guys" Eunwoo gestured to the four boys who were listening intently, even though they already knew the story.

"All of us shared what we knew about the hotel, and as it turns out, all of us got stuck here through similar situations. A broken-down vehicle in a stranded area, and having no other place to go to other than here"

"What year is it?" Eunwoo asked Bada while she replied "2019" with confusion.

"We realised that time flows here differently when we heard the guys' stories. All of them got stuck here in different years; Minhyuk in 1987, Jinwoo hyung in 2004, Sanha in 2006, Myungjun hyung in 2010, as you know we got here in 2017 and now here you are, in 2019" he explained, making Bada's eyes widen.

"Wait so why don't you call Minhyuk-ssi and Sanha-ssi hyung since they're older than you now?" she asked, making the boys chuckle at her childish question.

"Everyone prefers to be treated like the age when they first came in here, and Minhyuk and Sanha are younger than us in that sense" Bin explained, making her nod in understanding.

"Wow" Bada muttered as she sank deeper into the soft cushion of the one-seater sofa she was sitting on. It made no sense; how could a hotel like this one exist? It was unreal but at the same time, it made an awful lot of sense.

"How did you get here, Bada noona? I can call you noona, right?" The boy she remembered as Sanha asked, making her want to grimace and smile at the same time.

"Of course, Sanha. You can call me Noona." she smiled, before continuing: "As for how I got here? The same way you guys did. My car broke down and I couldn't fix it because my idiot brother has my toolbox. I had no cell phone reception and saw the hotel so I decided to stay here. They called me up to tell me where to go for lunch but ignored me when I asked how to get to the reception. So I decided to check the dining room out after I tried and failed to find my way back. There I saw you guys" she finished with a shrug, making the boy nod with grim faces.

"We guessed as much. We were hoping it'd be different though." Myungjun said, looking away with a slight frown before looking back at Bada.

"What was the receptionist's name when you came in last night?" he asked, making Bada look at him weirdly before she decided that the fact must hold some relevance if the boy looked so serious when asking the absurd question.

"It was Yeri" she replied, making all the boys' eyebrows shoot up.

"Yeri?" Minhyuk echoed, and Bada nodded, still as confused as ever.

"That's a new one. Do you think a new phase is starting, hyung?" Eunwoo asked Jinwoo, who shook his head with a frown. 

"It can't be a new phase. There's usually a five-year redundant gap between phases but you guys only came two years ago, according to Bada. Besides, the new phase just started two years ago, in 2017. It can't be a new phase." Jinwoo said solemnly, making the others nod their heads in agreement.

"But then what could this possibly mean?" Moon Bin asked Jinwoo, who shrugged in answer. Bada realised then that all the boys looked up to Jinwoo for answers as if he was their leader, which oddly enough, made sense because Jinwoo was the only one who didn't look like he was confused out of his mind. Instead, he looked deep in thought, as if he was putting the puzzle pieces together in his mind.

"Can one of you please tell me what you all are talking about? You're making no sense at all" Bada asked, looking at the boys pointedly. Before they could answer, however, the phone rang.

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Hi, I'm back. I finally got inspiration for this book. Hopefully, I won't quit it before finishing it this time.