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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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and-I-will-lose-it

"Is there one that's closest to your room, or wherever you hang out the most, that's obviously the one that's most useful to you? —Do you keep a cup of water by your bed overnight; that would be a clear frontrunner, wherever you fill that—"

nightmare_material

"Probably the one closest to my room would be the one I use most often... Or, hmm, maybe the one near the sports court actually? ...I don't know, I drink more water per, like, hour, when I'm exercising, right, and I exercise almost every day, but not every day—I don't know. Do you have a way to tell which one works best if I bring you water from different places?"

and-I-will-lose-it

"No. But it's not how much you use it per se; it's which one is most a part of—your home base, I guess. If you were barely ever in your room I would say that's the sports court, but it sounds like that's not true, is it?"

nightmare_material

"No, it's not." If nothing else he brings lots of boys over to his room. "Probably the one nearest my room, then."

and-I-will-lose-it

"Okay. And then, a clear wine glass, just, y'know, a clean, plain, unchipped, stemmed wine glass from anywhere—and a hunk of ice small enough to fit with room to spare in the wine glass but bigger than a cube that's an inch on all sides. And the chalk, but you got chalk already, right? —There it is. Cool."

nightmare_material

"Those are very specific," he comments, writing them down. "But easy enough to acquire? I should be able to bring them over tomorrow. —oh, tomorrow's a Saturday, I don't have class, so I could come over earlier. If you wanted."

...Kang Jaeha you're acting awfully clingy. You need to play a bit harder-to-get. "I need to check whether any of my friends scheduled anything in particular tomorrow, but..." That's better.

and-I-will-lose-it

"That would be great! I really, really meant to spend more of tonight getting you up to speed on how the world works. Like I've been rehearsing lesson plans for the last, I don't know, two decades at least. But I guess it was probably dumb to imagine everything'd go exactly according to plan, once I was actually able to interact with anyone."

nightmare_material

"Well, I did appreciate putting my mouth on you. And putting you in my mouth. Despite everything."

and-I-will-lose-it

"You should eat, and I'm not feeling so high on energy myself, but probably we could go make out a foot above the yard for like. A minute. Before you go."

nightmare_material

"I would love that."

and-I-will-lose-it

Then Jeremy will levitate-scoop Jake into a bridal carry and—well, probably they should go around turning all the lights off, so no one sees them and decides to check out the ghost house now full of shiny new electronics—but then they can head outside and Jake can get tossed six feet in the air to land, upright, at the correct Jeremy-kissing height.

nightmare_material

oh okay yes sir he likes that

and-I-will-lose-it

Mmmmm.

and-I-will-lose-it

"Maybe that was a bit much for right before you leave..."

nightmare_material

"Bwah?"

and-I-will-lose-it

"I said, maybe that was a bit much for right before you leave."

nightmare_material

"No, sir."

and-I-will-lose-it

"Oh. Okay, then."

He—sets them both down.

nightmare_material

And now Jake will kiss him some more. Because uhhhh reasons.

and-I-will-lose-it

—Oh! Okay!

nightmare_material

No okay actually he should—stop—it can take a minute or two but uh. Yeah. Eventually he pulls away. "—I got too distracted by the idea of kissing you and I forgot to set up the music to play for you, should I go do that now?"

and-I-will-lose-it

"...Oh, I thought you were skipping it on purpose for tonight because it was going to take a long time? You should eat, if you're hungry."

nightmare_material

"Getting one of your CDs to play on repeat would take less than five minutes."

and-I-will-lose-it

"Okay!" They can fly back upstairs, then. On the way: "You should bring extra food with you tomorrow. Something you really like; the spell might make you hungry." Here they are. "...It's not part of the spell that you have to really like it, just, you'll probably want something appetizing, right."

nightmare_material