[ tw: mention of fake death and fake murder !! they talk about a fictional horror story in which a boy d1ed and haunts others. ]

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the group of friends returned with full baskets of sweets to chenle's home, wearing bright and satisfied smiles on their faces.

going for trick or treat went well for all of them, however, it was quite messy and chaotic.

mark and haewon were always almost tripping due to their impractical costumes or clumsiness - hard to tell apart.

both of them had at least once rolled down a hill on accident but they had survived the candy haunt without breaking anything.

yejoon was always close to bark at random children and was ready to scare them off if jaemin and renjun didn't stop the boy from doing so.

chenle had even started a fight with a five-year-old child (it was the same child from chapter 17) when the young kid insulted his outfit and declared it as 'ugly and boring'.

gramps lele was ready to throw hands with the rude child but luckily, grandma ji prevented 'his husband' from doing that. plus, the friend group started to run away from the parents of the five-year-old who wanted to argue with chenle.

nevertheless, they moved from house and house, knocked on the doors and asked for sweets. even though they were highschoolers, the adults appreciated that 'older kids' still pursue this tradition and gave them the desired treats.

"i still can't believe it that chenle wanted to fight a child", mark chuckled in amusement and placed his basket on the floor before dropping himself on the large couch.

"me too, it was hilarious", sooyun agreed laughing, "yejoon was hilarious too when he wanted to bark at a kid."

"poor child", jaemin replied worriedly and grabbed a sweet from his basket to eat it, "i hope he didn't scare them."

"i hope i did", yejoon answered quietly and received a smack from renjun. "OUCH, BITCH."

the boy dressed as a fairy grinned at him in amusement. "you're welcome, furryjoon", renjun commented teasingly and pretended to be fully innocent. yejoon rolled playfully his eyes in response, shaking his head.

afterwards, everyone sat down on the couch except for the youngsters. they were taking seats on the two fancy armchairs which were 'only reserved for cool vip oldies grandparents called chenji' according to chenle.

"anyways, we should eat dinner. it's getting late", jeno suggested and leaned back in the couch, "but we can't just only eat snacks and sweets, right? we should eat something properly."

"i got your back", chenle smirked widely and in that moment, the doorbell rang. powerpuff girl jen was absolutely confused and observed gramps lele getting up from the armchair and going to the door.

everyone stared in anticipation when chenle opened the door and revealed the person who had rung the door.

"JOHNNYYYYY", donghyuck screamed excitedly and made his seatmates deaf for a second.

"AYYY, PIZZA JOHN AT YOUR SERVICE", the delivery guy answered back in the same energy as hyuck and matched his vibe. he moonwalked into the house when the host of the party stood aside to let him in.

"i have ordered in advance at pizza 127 and texted johnny to come over when we were heading back", chenle explained to his friends while paying the diligent, chill delivery guy.

"do you want to join us, johnny?", mark inquired with a joyful smile on his face. unfortunately, the young man shook his head.

"sorry, i can't. i have already planned to celebrate halloween with my friends slash colleagues after we're done with work", johnny declined, hearing mark and donghyuck sulking.

"but thanks for the offer tho, really sweet of you guys", the older guy thanked and cracked a sweet smile.

"omg but i have to tell you what happened at work today. something odd, something scary", the delivery guy changed the subject and closed the door behind him.

"spill the tea", jeno encouraged curiously and watched chenle helping johnny carry the pizza boxes to the living room.

"alright, listen up guys", the delivery guy commented, put down the boxes on the large table and took a seat on the floor.

"before i came to visit you guys, i had to deliver pizzas to other people. it was all good and chill until i had to bring over the orders to an odd group of people", the young, tall man began in suspense, all eyes were glued on him.

"the previous customers lived in an old, outdated and dark house which seemed utterly spooky in the mist", johnny narrated.

"i felt like i was in a horror movie, nevertheless, i had to do my job, right?", he mentioned and everyone nodded in anticipation.

"so, i knocked on the door and a girl has opened it. i noticed four other girls standing behind her and they were all wearing red dresses", the delivery guy continued in suspense, "it was... truly odd to me but i thought that it would be their matching halloween costumes."

"after i had given the girl the boxes, i asked her to pay and she told me that her wallet is in her living room. i should follow her since she was still carrying the boxes. nonetheless, i felt extremely observed since her friends were watching me silently from the back the whole time", johnny recalled his memory and felt a cold shiver running down his spine.

"wait, why haven't the other four girls helped her carry the boxes so that she could pay the pizzas?", sooyun inquired confusedly and the delivery guy shrugged his shoulders in response.

"no idea, that had irritated me as well but anyways, i had followed them and saw a circle shaped table standing in the center of the room. the edge of the table was decorated with roses and lighted candles", johnny stated.

"what the duck", chenle whispered disturbedly. "this sounds like some fucked-up ritual cult shit", haewon commented concernedly.

"it really was and guess what", johnny expressed, "the four other girls forced me to sit in the middle on the table and then the five of them started to walk around the table while singing an unknown song. i was creeped out because i felt like a strange cult sacrificed me for a ritual. i seriously thought i was going to die."

jisung's face became pale at the thought, he was a scaredy cat and he was afraid of actual, creepy cults. chenle giggled at the sight of his best friend and wrapped one arm around his shoulders to comfort him.

"how did you get out of this?", renjun asked while eating one pizza slice, eyes were glued on the narrator.

"funny story", he replied with a small smile, "i told them that the pizzas were on me and that they didn't need to pay anymore. afterwards, they let me go but observed me all the way long."

donghyuck and yejoon bursted out in laughter while confusion was written in renjun, chenle and haewon's face.

"what the hell, that's so random", mark commented laughing. "indeed, it felt like a fever dream to be honest", johnny answered honestly and let out chuckles.

"the moral of the story is to keep yourself safe and don't enter strangers houses, especially if the owners of the house look like cult members", the delivery guy ended his story and stood up.

"now enjoy your food and have fun. happy halloween, kids", johnny wished kindly, giving his younger friends a bright smile.

"bye bye and please be careful on your way back", jaemin advised worriedly when chenle accompanied the delivery guy to the door.

"have a great halloween", the second youngest mentioned smiling and bid
goodbyes with johnny.

afterwards, chenle joined his friends and they all began to discuss about the story that johnny had just shared with them while eating pizza.

"we, as the drama cult, are much better than this weird ass cult", yejoon commented and took a bite of his slice.

"we're not a cult", jaemin denied his statement and drank from his coke.

"i meaaan-", chenle started but never got to finish his sentence since the pink haired boy (who is now wearing an orange wig) silenced him.

"yeah, just a regular drama club", sooyun agreed grinning and sipped from her drink.

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after they had finished eating dinner, they realised that it would be more convenient to get changed since some of their costumes were fairly exhausting to stay in for the night.

therefore, everyone headed to their rooms and took off their disguises, wigs or masks. they changed into comfortable clothes and gathered in the living room again.

since they had already gone for trick or treat and had eaten dinner, they decided to play various games - from card games like uno (the rounds were ungodly terrible, you won't believe me how much betrayal, competitiveness and twists contained in the gameplay) to games like mafia game (even more betrayal, drama and twists).

to sum up, there was a lot of chaos. the crackheads were so loud while playing that to a certain point, they received complaints from several neighbours.

after the fifth complaint, they had realised that they should stop playing games for today.

so, they decided to share horror stories in honor of halloween. they turned off the light and lit some candles on the table to create a spooky atmosphere.

everyone made themselves comfortable, either sitting on the couch or in the armchairs with a blanket wrapping them around and cuddling with their friends.

the narrator had the option to hold a torch in their hand so that the attention was on them.

"once upon a time, there was a boy who was playing around with his two siblings. they were having lots of fun and did silly challenges... however, they weren't careful enough and always went further... more extreme", yejoon narrated in suspense while holding the torch in his hand.

"the kids played around too carelessly and acted too recklessly... they went so far that the siblings pushed accidentally the boy down the stairs. the latter fell down the stairs, crashed his head and broke his neck", he continued and observed how tense some of his friends became.

"the boy died instantly and the siblings felt utterly guilty", he mentioned and noticed how jisung was holding tightly his best friend who seemed to be unfazed by the story.

"they were haunted by their dead sibling in their dreams. however, they were haunted by him in real life too", the boy with curly brown hair stated when a loud thunder was heard from outside, making the atmosphere scarier.

"omg bro, this is such a perfect timing", yejoon smiled proudly before continuing. "uhm anyways, back to the story: one day one sibling wanted to go down the same stairs their brother fell down on that day."

"oh hell nah", haewon muttered, having a bad feeling about it.

"that sibling felt someone pushing them down, resulting them to experience the same, unfortunate destiny like their brother."

bright lightning was seen on the sky, followed by loud thunder. everyone felt shivers running down their spines.

"one week later, the last and remaining sibling followed his dead siblings and went through the unlucky incident as well...", yejoon uttered and the thunderstorm outside didn't seem to calm down.

"the parents moved out and sold the house which was cursed since the day the boy passed away...", he expressed quietly.

"legends say that the soul of the boy haunts every person who steps into the house he died in. every single person would relive his unfortunate death..."

jaemin took a glance at the stairs of the house and imagined the scenes in front of his eyes, feeling a cold shudder afterwards.

"the case of the boy remained a misery for humanity while the death of his siblings remained a mystery... rumors say that the dead boy is behind the death of his brothers as a sign of revenge", with that yejoon ended his story and earned applause from his audience.

"lele, i'm scared... pick me up", jisung whispered anxiously and didn't want to let go of his friend.

"ji, i'm right next to you. i got you", chenle chuckled in amusement and patted his best friend's head.

"it's fictional anyways", donghyuck laughed and consumed chips. "exactly, i've just made up everything right now", yejoon approved grinning and ate some sweets.

"yeah, you don't need to worry, jisung", haewon reassured the youngest while wearing a soft smile.

"let's stop with the horror stories for tonight", mark suggested thoughtfully as he didn't want the ash haired boy to be in distress.

"i agree, i don't want to end up being paranoid", sooyun commented half-jokingly and snickered, "or else i won't be able to sleep at all."

jeno turned on the light before sitting next to mark again. "what should we do then?", the blond haired boy asked the group.

"let's watch a movie?", renjun asked and since no one had a better idea, everyone complied to the suggestion.

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[ author's note ]
OMG I'M SO SORRY GUYS I FORGOT TO UPDATE LAST WEEKEND </3

i was literally thinking about updating but my dumbass forgot about it 💀
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o so sorry guys 😭😭

anyways tomorrow is halloween and i'm kinda hyped for it because i will have a halloween sleepover at my friend's place!!

i want to dress as vamphyuck (the iconic favorite haechan vampire) and i hope i can pull it off without having the perfect wig for it BUTTTT i have the perfect (broke) cape for it HAHAHAH

funfact: i wrote the halloween chapters in summer and i find it hilarious HAHAHAH

but the timing for the halloween chapters is actually perfect since it's just around the corner ay-yo ⁉️

are you going for trick or treat this year? if yes, then i wish you lots of fun!! <3

another funfact:

HOW MANY COMMENTS ⁉️🗣🗣🔥🔥