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nightmare_material

The cultural gulf between the East and the West is very wide. Even though Jaeha—no, Jake, he needs to get used to calling himself that in his own head—even though Jake had a lot more contact with the West than most of his classmates, he still did not actually expect that kids daring each other to go visit haunted houses after dark was, like, a thing. It sounded too much like made-up ragebait for teen flicks, you know? Like, who would do that? It's so—undignified.

But here he is, undignifiedly recording himself on his phone to prove that he did, in fact, come to the haunted house. He's still not steady on his social feet, and it was not hard to see that actually most of the other kids at his new school were in actual fact terrified of the haunted house and even the ones who claimed they'd come didn't, actually. So here's a way for him to acquire some cred and get taken more seriously despite being foreign.

He's also got to act for the camera, though, and he knows exactly how to act.

"And here we have the so-called 'haunted house'," he says in lightly- but noticeably-accented English. "So terrifying, I'm shaking in my designer shoes," he says dryly, pointing his camera at his shoes that are just regular Nike sneakers and not designer at all. Camera back to his face, an artful eyeroll and a smirk. "Now why don't I enter and find the ghosts? Sounds like a wonderful opportunity to me. I'll make sure to draw a lot of attention to myself so we don't have to waste any time looking for each other, why don't I?"

(There could be living people here, who could be a lot more dangerous than ghosts, and that is where his nervousness lies. But he's got a butterfly knife he knows how to use and self-defence training so unless someone uses a gun on him he can hold his own.)

(He hopes no one has a gun. That'd be a really stupid way to die, and Westerners are crazy about guns.)

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nightmare_material

Being in good relationship with his parents... still sounds sus... but Jake is not going to question it. He gets up and—

"Oh. You were offering me your arm all the time to lead me around the more stable parts of the house weren't you." When he guessed that it was—a bit less extreme than literal illusions.

So what's the rest of the house look like then?

and-I-will-lose-it

"I was, yeah. - This bit here doesn't look that bad but I'm really careful about structural things that could affect my room; please walk on that side past it. You might want your flashlight—or I can probably illusion one? Or, hm..." After a moment it's as if the lights come back on, but the house remains visibly decrepit.

There are not any actual holes in the floor of the stairway, but some of the boards look really sketchy, and there is an actual hole in one side of the kitchen. A good several feet wide. Jeremy floats about, hovering both literally and metaphorically to keep Jake off of the weak and broken spots.

nightmare_material

"...what happened here?" he wonders of the hole.

and-I-will-lose-it

"I think water damage, fundamentally? And maybe the wood expanding and contracting with the seasons, or something. I didn't know a lot about construction before I died and I haven't been able to figure out that much since then either."

nightmare_material

"This might take like a couple of weeks to fix. Although it's not like I know anything about construction either and Park Jipyeong-shi is magic."

Out he goes.

and-I-will-lose-it

"Though presumably not as much so as this." And he levitates Jake a couple of feet again. Gently up; no sudden changes.

nightmare_material

"No. It's actually really hot that you can do that. —the stuff I was bumping against was because you're a ghost and ghost sex is complicated, right, or are you separately still uncomfortable with the topic?"

and-I-will-lose-it

Jake's ascent pauses for a beat or two before resuming. "Uh, let's... I don't want to drop you." Jeremy fidgets with his hair. "How high do you want to go? I'm feeling pretty good on gas for the moment; if you want to go high I think we should do it at the beginning."

nightmare_material

"With you, Jeremy, I'll soar all the way the moon."

and-I-will-lose-it

"You'll soar all the way to the border where I am magically prevented from going any higher, is what you'll do." But he starts sending them up a bit more quickly.

nightmare_material

"That's so romantic."

and-I-will-lose-it

He drifts them to a stop somewhere that's solidly more than twice the height of the house but probably less than four times it. It's a little hard to guess at the scale. Jeremy keeps himself half a foot higher than Jake, even on top of their height difference, and stops rising a moment before Jake does.

It's windy up here, and the wind pushes on Jake's hair and any loose clothing, but doesn't affect his flight path at all. Which feels a little weird.

nightmare_material

It's a shame they're not talking about sex yet because Jake suddenly wants to give Jeremy a blowjob. Inconvenient.

"I should've probably brought a jacket but this was totally worth it, it's so wicked."

and-I-will-lose-it

"We can do it most days, I bet, if you want. —Oh shit, someone might see you, though. I forgot, because—you know—maybe we don't want to risk half-breaking the news like this and should mostly save it for once we've told the world about ghosts?"

nightmare_material

"Why, what's the worst that can happen? They freak out a bit? They're just gonna assume we're filming some movie with special effects or something."

and-I-will-lose-it

"Do you think??"

nightmare_material

"No one ever looks up, no one looks away from their phones, and everyone always assumes there's a logical explanation for everything because there always is."

and-I-will-lose-it

"I don't know if I want to make a habit out of it but it seems like probably it's safe to make out up here for a few minutes." He floats them close enough to reach each other and then pulls Jake in the rest of the way with his arms.

nightmare_material

It's not a blowjob but it's still awesome, he's totally down.

and-I-will-lose-it

Jeremy doesn't stop the makeout to bring them back down. His grip gets a bit firmer when he sets Jake on his feet, as if he's not sure whether Jake is going to start balancing on his own.

nightmare_material

He's got good reflexes but being gripped more firmly is definitely very welcome, at least judging by the slight moan that escapes his throat and the way he presses his body against Jeremy's.

and-I-will-lose-it