Chapter 5

Once again Jimin found himself in the basement he remembered he was laying on the couch struggling to not fall asleep but as usual, his attempt had been failed. Fear ran through his veins his heart pounded faster and he became drenched in sweat when he heard a strange noise from the depth of the darkness.

He picked the lightened candle from the floor and proceeded to the voice. He was afraid that either he will see a girl or he will end up to see Dong Hyun. He was following the voice but couldn't understand where it was coming from suddenly the same girl grabbed his attention but unlike the previous time, she was in a different condition.

Usually, whenever Jimin saw that girl she would lay down on the floor and ask for help but today she was standing near the wall holding a sharp knife in her hand she was carving something on the wall.

"I was waiting for you Jiminie," The girl said, stopped carving on the wall.

"Jiminie," The nickname reminded him of his old friend Sunmi and all the flashback wandered in his mind. How long it had been since he even had thought about her. Lost in his thoughts he looked at the wall, His eyes were widened the words she had carved on the wall had astounded him and he couldn't believe why she was carving the name he had forgotten a long time ago.

"Lee Sunmi"  Jimin murmured. "But why did she write her name?" The question was bothering him and Jimin wasn't able to find the answer as the girl was silently sobbing in pain while staring at the wall.

"Who are you?" Jimin finally asked when his curiosity reached its peak.

"You still don't recognize me?" She asked in return, turned back toward him and it was the first time she had exposed her face. Pale white skin her lips were dried her big round eyes were filled with enormous pain. Jimin's heart ached so much after seeing her eyes but he couldn't understand why he was sympathizing with her.

"No, I don't know who are you why you're appearing in my dreams I don't know anything about you," Jimin replied in an exhausted voice.

Jimin stepped back, he looked startled when the girl started walking towards him while limping on her feet. He walked backward until he collided with the wall behind his back. He gulped, his throat became dried his body was shivering in horror as the girl was now standing closer to him.

"I'm sorry Jiminie," The girl said and put a knife on his neck.

His heartbeat was shallow and fast, He was too frightened to make any move against her and ask her why she wanted to kill him. The girl slide his neck from his left side and a deep sharp cut appeared on his neck.

Now she extended her hand holding the two dolls. Jimin remembered these dolls very well. It was Sunmi's doll he would love to play with.

"Lee Sun–Sunmi, You're Sunmi" Jimin called her name carrying the dolls from her hand. Her sorrowful eyes shed tears and the corner of her lips moved in a smile carrying a pain as she was waiting for this moment.

"You finally recognized me Jiminie, Now you have to help me," She said, in a shivering voice but filled with hope.

"But Why you're doing this to me?" Jimin asked groaning in pain as his neck started to bleed.

"Because you're the only one who can help me," Sunmi said, Suddenly Jimin felt as his vision is getting blurry and his body has to get weaker. He made himself sit on the floor saw her walking back towards the darkness and then he closed his eyes.

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Jimin woke up after sleeping for the entire day. He got up on the bed looked at the clock tells 8 pm he got up from the bed but felt a sharp pain in his neck., He realized that he had a bandage on his neck but he couldn't remember when he got injured as his last memory was his nightmare.

Jimin was still trying to figure out the situation suddenly his eyes stuck on the dolls beside him. He remembered Sunmi had given the dolls in his dream, She was the one who had to attack him with the knife. Fear ran through his veins and he rashly came out of the room.

Taehyung got worried when he saw Jimin drenched in sweat, getting afraid of something. Namjoon Seokjin and Chaerin seemed concerned about him.

"Jiminah what happened?" Taehyung asked walking towards him.

"T–that dolls," Jimin said pointed his fingers towards his bed.

"Jimin calm down we are all here for you, okay, You don't need to be afraid," Chaerin said, She walked towards him caressed his shoulder to calm him down but Jimin was too scared.

"Chaerin–ah bring the water for him," Taehyung said made Jimin sit on the couch. Jimin was constantly staring at the room as he had seen a ghost of someone

Namjoon and Seokjin walked towards the room found the two dolls on his bed.

"I had come to check him just a few minutes ago but these dolls weren't there," Seokjin said taking the dolls in his hand.

"Jin hyung throw these dolls out right now," Namjoon said.

Seokjin came out of the room looked at Jimin shivering in fear Taehyung and Chaerin were astonishingly gazing at the dolls as well Seokjin threw the dolls in trash cans outside of the apartment and now they all were sitting in the living room.

"Jimin tells us to please what happened with you?" Namjoon asked Seokjin and Taehyung were gazing at him as well as Chaerin she was crying as the things were happening with Jimin had frightened her.

"The girl who always appears in my dream is Sunmi," Jimin started to speak gazing at the floor. "Usually I would see her laying on the floor drenched in blood but today she told her name to attack me with the knife and handed me these dolls" Jimin resumed.

They all were shocked after hearing about Sunmi and because of the incidents that had happened today. But they had no clue why she was doing this with Jimin why she was hurting him everything seemed strangled to them.

"Jimin we will figure out this okay, " Namjoon said patting on his shoulder.

"Yes, You don't need to worry about we all are with you" Seokjin added.

"Jimin we will find the solution okay," Chaerin said.

"I think you should go home now uncle and aunty would have been waiting for doe you," Jimin replied getting up from the couch.

"But I can't leave you as this" Chaerin said.

"You don't need to stay here I have them to take care of me," Jimin said walked towards the restroom. "And don't tell anything to them," He said before shutting the door.

"I think he's right you should home, Mom already called me ten times to drop you at home," Namjoon said.

"Okay then let me update you about him," Chaerin said while walking towards the door.

On the next Jimin was sitting in the doctor's office waiting for Hoseok as Namjoon had sent him to ask for anti-sleep pills so that he could save himself from Sunmi's attack in his nightmare but his mind wasn't ready to give up on Sunmi's thought even though it was bothering him. The long wait of almost an hour finally became an end when Hoseok entered the room with such positive energy and a cup of coffee in his hand.

"Good morning Jimin," Hoseok said patting his head, he then made himself sit on the chair.

"Morning hobi hyung," Jimin replied in a low voice.

"What happened in your neck?" Asked Hoseok worriedly.

But Jimin silently stared down and started to play with his thumbs Hoseok could estimate that his treatment isn't working as it had worked the previous time as Jimin seemed hopeless and exhausted, He took his notepad and pen waited for him to speak.

"What if I tell you I got injured in my nightmare," Jimin finally started to speak after a few minutes of pause.

"Pardon me?"

Hoseok was shockingly staring at him as it was unexpected but rather being a psychiatrist Hoseok was more like a great friend to Jimin who always listened to him and usual today he hadn't given him any strong reaction which could make him uncomfortable.

"You'll call me crazy right? But I have witnesses who saw me getting injured, I even brought the dolls with me?" Jimin was speaking without taking a breath and Hoseok was listening to him with his eyes widely open.

"Dolls, Jiminah I don't get it what you're trying to say," Hoseok replied in bewilderment.

"Even I don't get it what I'm saying everything is so weird, It'll be easy for you if you talk with Namjoon hyung he will explain you everything," Said Jimin, then he became silent, Hoseok didn't insist him to ask any further, He got up from the chair and came out of the room, He took out his phone and called Namjoon.

"Hello, Namjoon speaking," Namjoon said.

"Namjoon–ah it's hobi," Hoseok replied.

"Oh did Jimin visit you?" Asked Namjoon.

"Yup, actually that's why I called you," Hoseok said.

"You must be shocked after hearing about what he told you," Said Namjoon.

"Of course I am, I don't get it what he's talking about, I think he didn't take a good sleep that's why he's talking like this, but don't worry I'll prescript him some new antibiotics I'm sure he will be able to sleep properly," Hoseok said.

"Jimin is right Hobi, Something weird happened with him last night," Namjoon replied, "He was sleeping when he suddenly got injured Chaerin saw it by herself," Namjoon said.

"How is that even possible," Hoseok said shockingly caressing his pointer finger on his forehead.

"Anyway, Give him some anti-sleep pills He can't sleep right now," Namjoon said.

"But it could be harmful to him he could have digestive problems, headache, muscles weakness, I can't give him something like this," Hoseok denied.

"But you don't know his life is in danger, he needs anti-sleep pills until I found someone to help us," Namjoon insisted.

"Okay, let's meet at lunchtime, I want to know about him in detail," Said Hoseok then he cut the call.

Jimin was standing near the window staring at the outside view. He recalled the memory when he was just seventeen and had come in the hospital at that time Hoseok was a medical student, Jimin was afraid that he might end up in the mental hospital for the rest of his life but Hoseok had taken good care as like an older brother, He gave hope to Jimin to start his life in a new way. He taught him to love himself that's why Jimin had ditched all the senior psychiatrists Mr. Kim had suggested him but chose Hoseok as he had trust in him.

Lost in his thoughts he was gazing at the blue sky he often would do in the old times, The morning chirping of the birds, the dangled blossom trees in the cold wind, and the cologne of the greenery in the garden always calmed his anxious soul and he felt healing. But his serenity couldn't stay more than a few seconds as suddenly Sunmi appeared in the garden and he got frozen at his place. "Am I having the nightmare again? Jimin thought. "Did I fall asleep again" He crooned.

"Help me Jimin please help me," Sunmi said, She suddenly started to cry and with every second her voice was getting louder and louder, Jimin put his hand on his ears but her painful cry was still echoing in the wind.

"Stop crying, your voice is bothering me," Jimin said but she continued to cry.

"Why don't you help me Jimin," Sunmi asked. Raised her hand toward him.

"Because I don't wanna help you, did you get it, I will not help you so just leave me alone," Jimin yelled.

"Then I won't leave you alone," Sunmi said and a suspicious smile appeared on her lips.

Resting his head on the table Jimin was blabbering when Hoseok came back into the room, shaking his shoulder Hoseok pulled him out of his dream, "Are you alright Jimin," Hoseok asked.

"What a silly question you asked Hobi," Hoseok thought, extending the glass of water towards him.

Jimin took the few sips and put back the glass on the table. He looked at his surroundings and realized that it was a dream but a very vivid dream. "Did you talk with hyung?" He asked.

"Namjoon told me everything, He asked me to give you anti-sleep pills," Hoseok said.

"So what you thought about?" Jimin asked.

"Of course, I'll prescript you anti-sleep pills but I think you should take help of someone," Said Hoseok while prescribing him.

"Are you having dreams during the daytime as well?" Hoseok asked.

Jimin nodded, "I had a very vivid dream this time," He replied.

"It's common, when you have the same dreams constantly at one point it became Lucid," Hoseok replied, "Anyway take these pills at night and visit me if it shows any side effect," He said.

Jimin bought the medicines from the pharmacy then he came out of the hospital walked toward the car and sat on the driver seat. He was about to start the engine when he noticed something on the passenger seat and the fear clutched his heart, His body became cold and he start to shiver, "It's impossible, It can't happen, Jimin you're having a dream again, you must fell asleep" He crooned tried to calmed him down.

But it wasn't the dream at all. It was the harsh reality Jimin was facing at the moment, It seemed as the world of his dream had emerged itself with the real world, "Is he being haunted by her?" He was constantly asking the question himself. "Perhaps yes, I am being haunted by her, that's...that's why these dolls are here" The voice inside of him answered.

The thing that had trembled him in fear and he ended up thinking that he might be being haunted by Sunmi were those dolls which Seokjin had thrown the last night, He had a very clear memory of the last night but then how they came in the car and why she was doing this to him, Her dad had already trampled his life once and he was still paying for the mistake he hadn't even done and now he was being tortured by her.

He choked back the tears, His face contorted with rage his eyes became red expelled the hatred for Sunmi, He held those dolls in his hands and came out of the car then he walked towards the woods. He walked until he reached the depths of the woods threw the dolls on the ground and took out his lighter and burned the dolls. Gazing at the burning dolls he decided to move forward in his life without being haunted by the cruel memories of the past. Without thinking about Sunmi and without sympathizing himself. He decided he will live an ordinary life like others and he will succeed.