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"Hyung!"

"Hyung! Wake up!"

I shot upright, being awoken from my sleep, after hearing Jaemin and Jeno suddenly calling for me to wake up.

It was around midnight.

I was breathing heavily and I was in a complete state of panic, with continuous tears streaming down my face.

"Hyung, what's wrong???"

"What happened??? Please calm down!"

Jeno and Jaemin were both perplexed and worried because of my condition.

"I-I don't know... Was I crying in my sleep??"

They both nodded.

"Not only that, you were squirming and kicking a lot"

"And you kept repeating "No" and "Stop" over and over"

They both looked exceedingly worried about me.

"I probably just had another nightmare again. It's nothing to worry about..."

I sniffled and wiped my eyes, trying to reassure them that I was fine.

"Are you sure hyung?"

"You looked really scared and sad..."

I pet them both on the head and nodded.

"I'm fine. L-Let's just go back to sleep"

I laid back down in between them, insisting on going back to sleep.

They both finally complied, and decided to go back to sleep.

Thank goodness...

-

The Next Day
Noon

-

To say that Jeno and Jaemin are worried about me is an understatement.

They're extremely perturbed by my distant attitude today. Ever since what happened last night, I've had a bad feeling.

I didn't tell them that I remembered what I dreamt about. I've had that same nightmare many times before, but this is the first time it's resurfaced since I took them in.

The nightmares have always been repetitive, reminding me of my sad childhood. It reminds of how I became so lonely. It reminds me of how my parents died.

The nightmares keep putting me in the scenario that I was in when I was very young: the night that my parents got killed.

I don't remember the event or my parents very well, but from the scenes continuously played out in my nightmares, they didn't die by natural causes.

The two beings that killed them in the dream were fairly tiny, around the height that I was when I was a kid-.

Wait...

Somethings doesn't add up...

Jeno and Jaemin... They both got turned when they were still kids, and probably attacked their first victims around that time...

No... It couldn't have been them..., could it?

-

I got up from my lonesome bed and went to go find the two, eventually finding them on the couch together.

"Hey guys. Can we talk for a minute?"

"Yes please hyung!"

They both happily complied, wanting to help me feel better.

"So... Do either of you remember the first person that you may have killed??"

They both thought about it, and soon nodded.

"I killed a man around his middle age before"

Jeno confessed.

"And I killed a lady around that same age range..."

Jaemin sadly confessed after.

Well, that proves part of my theory.

"Were the two of them together???"

"Now that you mention it hyung, they were together. I think they might've been married or something"

"Wait. So that means that we were both there are the same time hyung!"

Jaemin realized that they attacked the exact same couple on the exact same night.

"Wahhh?? Really?? I never noticed!"

"We were probably in too deep to notice each other!"

They started talking amongst themselves, which kind of annoyed me a bit.

"Hey! Hold on a minute! Was there anyone else there? Or is there anything else that either of you can remember about that event??"

I interrupted their conversation, and they started thinking again.

"...I think there was someone else there. A little kid or something"

Jeno responded.

"Oh yeah! But he must've fallen or something because his head was bleeding"

Jaemin continued.

Wait...

My head was bleeding that night...

I was sitting on my dad's shoulders, but something attacked him. I fell off and hit my head, directly onto the concrete ground.

They started talking amongst themselves again, and I started getting mad. I was going to say something, but I stopped after hearing them say something, that made me realize why I had a bad feeling.

"Didn't the kid keep muttering something before he ran away?? I think it was "No" or "Stop", or something like that"

Jeno added.

"...I think so. I don't remember, but it sounds familiar"

Jaemin contemplated.

The kid they were talking about kept repeating words like "No" and "Stop", just like I do in my nightmares...

At this sudden realization, I covered my mouth and felt tears welling up in my eyes again.

Jeno and Jaemin looked really concerned now.

"Hyung??? What's wrong??"

Jeno asked.

He was about to touch my shoulder, but I immediately got up and backed away.

"Hyung???"

Jaemin looked very concerned, while Jeno looked very confused by my reaction.

"Y-You... I-It was you t-two..."

My tears began to fall, and I started hyperventilating.

"Hyung, what's the matter??? Did we do something wrong??"

Jaemin got up along with Jeno and tried to hug me, but I backed up into the wall.

"Y-You..."

I suddenly felt a mix of sadness and rage.

I pushed Jaemin into Jeno, and felt myself heating up.

"Y-You two killed my parents!!!"

"What?!"

They both shrieked.

"You were the ones who killed my parents and ruined my life!!! I have no one thanks to you two!!"

I started yelling at them, and they both started looking sad.

Jeno's ears and tail dropped, and Jaemin's eyes started welling up with tears.

"Hyung..."

"W-We didn't know... We're sorry.. W-We couldn't control oursel-"

"Just shut it!!"

I snapped, making them flinch.

"Don't give me that bullshit!! I'm sick and tired of hearing that same old fucking excuse!! Why'd it have to be me, huh?!?! Out of all the living things around you, why'd you both just have to kill MY family?!?! I WAS DOING JUST FINE UNTIL YOU BOTH FUCKED EVERYTHING UP!!!"

They both went silent, not knowing what to say.

I felt nothing but pain in my heart as my tears resurfaced, and my rage was replaced with grief.

"W-Why...? W-Why'd it have to be m-me...?"

Jaemin slowly walked towards me, but I suddenly felt a wave of fear and backed away again.

"H-Hyung, please... W-We didn't mean i-it..."

Jeno held his head down, while Jaemin still tried to reason with me, tears running down his face.

"S-Stay away from m-me..."

I ran out of the front door, not daring to look back.

"H-Hyung! W-Wait!"

I heard Jaemin yell.

I looked back to see that Jeno had grabbed him, to stop him from coming after me. Jaemin continuously called out my name, sobbing harder the further away I got.

I kept on running, wanting to get as far away from them as possible. I know somewhere I can stay with someone I can actually trust, for the time being.

But as for those two, the ones who took my life away...

I hate them..., so much...