Sky lifted a small bottle above his mouth, filling up his mouth with water to quench his thirst. He then set down his hand to cover the lips of the bottle with its cap. His cheeks formed puffs as his mouth puckered. Swallowing the water, he looked for a chair he could sit on.

He saw an unoccupied chair where Han sat before. He sat on the chair as he took the book on the small table that the leader had left. He read the back cover briefly before opening a random page to read. It was not even a novel for him to read from the beginning.

Sky used his brief break to read Han’s book. If it wasn’t for their full group shooting afterwards, he could have used his phone to interact with their fans on a social media. But at this time, he needed to stay away from his phone. Seeing memes of the other members could be addicting. The humors that their fans made and shared on social medias never failed to make him smile.

While he was reading the book, he felt a sudden blow on his ear. It startled him, so he swiftly turned his head to the back to see who blew his ear. However, no one was behind him. He rubbed his ear to relieve the ticklish sensation and continued his reading.

Unfortunately, he could not continue the read as there was another blow on his ear. He swore he felt as if a human blew his ear behind him. It could not be wind form outside since there were no windows behind him. The nearest window was a few meters farther than him.

He checked everywhere on his sitting spot, just in case it was the three younger members who played a prank on him. Nonetheless, none of their presences were around, none of a prank item found as well.

What could that be though?

Sky began to feel uneasy. He did not want to complain to his manager, even if it was a smallest trouble. This was the moment he wished he could be as fearless as Joonwoo.

The youngest did not seem to be worry about the school. For a boy who was only seventeen years old; sure he had so much curiosity and bravery about the world.

As one of the older members in the group, it had been an alarmed in his mind about the younger members’ safety. He did not want anything dangerous that happened to any of the members.

Due to excessive consumption of water during the shooting earlier, he felt the urge to find a toilet. He got up from his seat, putting down the book and his phone on the table. He walked out of the area, passing one of their manager and stylist.

As he found a female standing under a door frame – she had a sleeveless gown, the skirt reached her knees, long hair and her skin was paler than his – watching Han, Dongmin and Jisung shooting their scenes, Sky thought she was one of their stylist. Without doubting anything, he asked, “noona*, where is the toilet?”

Although there was wind or portable fan available at the hallway, the atmosphere became chill after he asked the question. The anonymous woman slowly faced him and pointed to a direction without a word.

Sky thought she was a strange woman, though he thanked her and walked away. As he walked farther from the area he started to confirm something was – indeed – peculiar. Hairs began to stand on his neck and the atmosphere around got colder than earlier.

Instinctively, he made a slow turn to look at the woman.

The woman stared at him deadpanned. He did not smile or bow or do something for that constant, creepy stare. Due to the chill surrounding, he walked out fast to look for the toilet.

Meanwhile, the woman earlier was nowhere to be seen.

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Once Han, Dongmin and Jisung finished shooting their parts, they went to their own ways. Han went to grab a bottle of water, Jisung went to change his costume while Dongmin went to get his phone.

Dongmin clicked the home button and the light flashed to show its home screen as the four digits with a colon in between two numbers caught his eyes.

It was getting late. The sky was pitch dark, grey clouds made their appearance slowly in his sight as they moved passing through the half moon. The air was chilly, enough to cool down the warmth that he had due to the heat and running in a scene they had to shoot earlier. He let out a sigh before dropping himself on one of the chair nearby.

Dongmin stared at the ground blankly to relieve his exhaustion. There was a loud noise coming from Hyun and Joonwoo playing around. But, slow, heavy breath became the noise that rang in his ears instead. His nostrils flared as he tried to catch his breath.

While he was daydreaming, the sources of lights in the school that they installed inside suddenly went off. Dongmin jumped from his seat. His eyes were everywhere, looking for a small hint of light where he could follow and felt safe.

He heard Jisung’s cry and calling out for the leader. “Taehan! Don’t leave me!”

Han shouted back, “you’re clinging on me already!”

The whole situation had the rest of the staff pandemonium as well. Manager Park Heeseong told the boys out loud to stay at their places, some management staff rushed to fix the light stands with a phone’s torchlight mode turned on.

Dongmin stayed calm on his seat while watching the staff fixing the lights. On the other hand, he heard one of the cameramen told Manager Park that his camera’s battery drained. He found it peculiar since he changed the battery less than thirty minutes ago. Manager Park hummed deeply after that and told the cameraman that it was okay.

It took the crew less than ten minutes to fix one of the lights. Brightness returned to flood the room once more.

Manager Park looked around at the time, checking every corner of the room. He then asked, “is everyone okay?”

Everyone nodded their heads.

However, Dongmin realized something was missing. He looked around, looking for someone. He asked, “manager hyung, where’s Sky hyung?”

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