【Ruijin】Escape

Everything is like a too long dream.

They were discovered by the janitor who came to open the roof door in the early morning of the next day. At that time, the two of them were huddled together against a wall, in a state of distress, half asleep. Fortunately, the weather was close to early summer. Apart from low-grade fever, no other symptoms were caused.

When they returned to the real world, for others, they were two students who ran away from home due to adolescent rebellion. They acquiesced to this statement, went to the hospital together to treat their wounds, and asked the school for a week to recuperate their injuries. Fake.

It seems that nothing has changed, and they will soon return to their normal life track, but only Gray and Kim know what has changed.

That change is subtle, internal, and undetectable to others.

When the roof door was opened, the two woke up together, and at the same time they clung to the wall reflexively, their bodies with low fever were tense, and they subconsciously prepared to fight or flee.

Smelling the smell of disinfectant in the hospital and seeing the nurse who came to help them treat the wound, they subconsciously held their breath, and even opened the other party's hand uncontrollably when the nurse's hand accidentally touched their arm.

On the way home together, the shadows of people reflected in the shop windows on the street were enough to make their scalps tingle.

Passing by the supermarket and wanting to go in to buy some food, but getting chills down the spine at the sight of strangers behind me while queuing.

They have all become "abnormal".

In other words, their mental state is extremely bad.

Even if Jin is like this, he has to work hard to adjust his mentality. He can't imagine what Grey's heart is like at the moment, maybe even more terrifying than his, but he is firmly suppressed under the pretending calm surface.

But they can't tell anyone about this experience, no one will believe it, and they don't want to tell everything that is too heavy. Whoever thinks that they can kill people simply and neatly—even if it is not human—who You know, a broken mop stick with wooden thorns can poke skin and flesh, an ordinary broom on duty can poke straight into a person's throat, and a piano cover is enough to grind your hands bleeding.

What is the sound of a heartbeat when death is near?How does it feel to be trapped and see no hope?How about trying to stay awake no matter how tired you are?

Only Gray knows.

Only Kim knows.

Only Gray understands.

Only Jin understood.

Just like two injured animals who need to lie down together to warm each other and lick their wounds, after they came out of the hospital, they got very close, not caring about the eyes of other people on the street, they held each other tightly, step by step Walking towards home, as if the warmth of the palm is the only trustworthy reliance.

During the week of leave, the two lived together tacitly. They lived close to each other. Jin packed the simplest things and ran to Gray's house.

No one opened their mouths to mention what happened in that teaching building in the past. They all wanted to forget it, and even pretended that everything had passed.

During the day, they nestled in the house, turned on the noisy TV, played games and listened to music, Jin would talk and laugh loudly, but Gray didn't say "too noisy"; at night, they turned on the lights in all rooms The lamps, the curtains of every window were tightened, and they had to stay up until they were too sleepy to open their eyes before they washed hastily, and they were squeezed into a bed and fell asleep leaning on each other.

Even so, the night light had to be turned on, and neither of them could sleep deeply. Sometimes they dreamed that they were still in the dark corridor, with scary ghosts in front of them, and the sound of the piano was endless... Finally, they woke up in a cold sweat.

The only good thing is that the other party is lying next to him, and after waking up, he will subconsciously raise his hand to touch the other party's cheek to confirm that it is warm, slowly remember everything, and reconfirm that they are safe—— Fell asleep in a daze.

Waking up again from a nightmare, Jin's eyes widened and his heart was beating fast. It took two seconds before he realized that it was not gems that shone with a little purple luster in front of him, but Gray's eyes.

Gray woke up too, maybe never fell asleep, and was watching him quietly at this moment.

"...Grey."

Gray raised his hand, bent his knuckles and gently wiped the cold sweat on Jin's cheeks: "Don't be afraid, it's okay."

That touch was very reassuring, and Jin subconsciously pressed Gray's hand on his cheek: "Did you sleep just now?"

"Sleep."

"Stop lying to me, you weren't asleep at all."

"........."

The two looked at each other wordlessly for a while, and finally Jinding couldn't hold back and laughed first. When he smiled, a small gap was opened in the stagnant air, and a tiny vitality squeezed in and began to flow.

"I can't sleep either," Kim said, his blue eyes warm in the soft light of the nightlight. "Gerry, let's talk."

"........."

"If you don't talk about it, I really can't take it anymore... It's really hard not to talk about it, Grey, are you too? The more you don't talk about it, the better you remember...I'll tell you, you tell me, If you say it, it will be gone, how about it?"

"...you didn't need to know that."

Perhaps because under the same light, Gray's eyes looked much softer than usual.

"It's okay! Tell me Gray, I want to know what's going on when you're alone, I've always wanted to know."

They nestled under the quilt and chatted slowly about the past three days. Unlike most of the time, this time most of the time it was Gray who was talking, and Jin was listening carefully.Gray spoke slowly and understatedly, but he didn't need to say a lot for Kim to imagine what a horrible scene it was all about.

Yet they came out, safe, alive, so alive that those three days now seemed like a long dream, and even some kind of huddling together in a warm bed. talk.

"How did you hold on... ah..."

After hearing this, Jin was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, his upper and lower eyelids were stuck together, his lips were moving, and he asked in a very soft voice.

It seemed that something soft was attached to his lips, and it was easy to touch it, gently.

"I thought, you are still waiting for me to come home from school together."

This time Jin slept very deeply, nothing eerie and terrifying appeared in the dream, and he seemed to be sleeping peacefully in the dream, with someone's heartbeat in his ears, calm and powerful.

When he woke up, the sun was already shining brightly through the curtains. He froze for two seconds before realizing that he was sleeping in Grey's arms—half and half of this matter. Grey's arm was around him, and his hand was light. It rested lightly on the back of his head, while one arm was around Gray's waist, and one hand was still around Gray's neck.

Gray hasn't woken up yet. Judging from the sound of his regular and long breathing, he is still in a deep sleep. The sun shines on his face, making him look very good-looking.

Kim just stared at it for a while.

Then, by a strange coincidence, he poked his head forward and kissed the corner of Gray's lips lightly.

Just passing by, it was almost a real kiss.

And when Kim looked at his hair with a new look, he didn't know that Gray had actually been awake for a little while.

Later, they returned to school, made up the missed courses step by step, and soon began the cycle of study and life again.

Maybe they haven't been fully mended yet, who knows how long the scars of those horrific experiences will last - but now they'll quietly hold hands, get closer, and exchange where no one will see A kiss or two.

After the final exam, Hungry Ghost Festival is only a few days away.

Gray and Jin bought some paper money on purpose, squatted at the intersection near their home on the night of the Ghost Festival, and slowly burned the paper money together.

——To all of you... May you all rest in peace, get out of there, and reincarnate.

Jin folded his palms together and meditated in his heart very devoutly. Gray burned the paper money one by one, watching the paper money gradually turn into black ash, and smoke rose up, and was swept away by the summer evening wind.

All the paper money was burnt, they stood up and were silent with each other for a while, no one spoke.

Until Gray said lightly: "Go home."

"Well, go home."

Jin took Gray's hand hanging by his side, and he knew that hand was waiting for him specially.

Everything will pass.

Everything will be fine eventually.

——End——