Failed Experiments: II

Han Su Jin! Su Jin-a! Han Su Jin! Jebal (please)!!

From my subconscious state, I heard the voice calling out my name repeatedly, I could feel him tapping on my face, relentlessly he was shaking my body. I already could tell who it was, he was starting to sob slightly, I could hear it faintly, I thought there for a moment to let the catharsis flow, wake up then tease him with it later.

"Silly plays have a way of finding their route into reality",

That's what I heard in my head, I understood it immediately, I wasn't taking any chances.

Weakly, I opened my eyes, as soon as he saw my eyes open, he burst out in tears, for a minute I thought to myself,

"This silly yute, you didn't cry when you thought I was dead, buh you saw my eyes open and burst out in tears, what the heck mahn".

"Mandu"…., I muttered.

He turned to Dave sobbing slightly, "Yeah, this nigger is alright" wiping off tears from his face.

"Did you really cry because you thought I was dead?"

I asked him while still lying on the floor.

He denied it vehemently,

"Aniyo (no)". Why would I do that?".

He said as he continually wiped the tears off his face.

I let out a big smile and they both snickered at the same time, like they had a good rehearsal for it. I looked and saw Dave giving out the biggest sigh of relief, you could see beyond the rascals soft heart, he was about to tear down if I didn't wake up when I did, as he sat on the floor. He probably performed the CPR that pumped me back into consciousness, I might have been unconscious but somehow I felt the pressure of his hands (I just hope he didn't do the mouth to mouth before I woke up)".

I looked round the room and it was quite gruesome. The sight felt… nasty; all I could smell was blood and dead bodies.

As Daesang helped me sit upright on the floor covered in red thick blood, at that moment, I felt like I understood why people always threw up whenever they saw blood, the immediate feeling of the environment alone could make you lose appetite for the rest of the week, it felt "ewww"

Dave woke up before us all, thanks to him I'm alright"

Daesang said.

"Yeah! Looked for y'all both in a lotta rooms, for a minute I thought both of y'all was dead, till I saw you and Asian face here". Dave chipped in.

"Do you know what happened here?" I asked Dave..,

"You're in a black underwear and you didn't see nuttin", he turned to Daesang,

"He's in black underwear and he didn't see nuttin, I'm also in black undies, so what do you think?".

"You could have just said NO, what's with the waste of words, I have a headache already, your dramatic monologue just made it worse''. Daesang said putting his hands on his head. Not too long after they started arguing over what I really couldn't point out.

In the midst of their madness, I remembered that I felt blood at the back of my head a while ago before I passed out, I quickly turned to Dave,

"Take a good survey of the back of my head if you'd find any injury, I sure was bleeding from my head, I'm sure of it"

He held my head tight, looked and said…

"Nah… ain't nuttin here fam",

Perplexed, I told him to look at it again..

"Ohh…. yeahhh…. There is a little injury, more of like you hit it on suttin sharp". He said and let go of my head.

Weird! I wasn't feeling any pain from any of my injuries, I sure felt a lot of pain around my body earlier on, but now, it's as if nothing happened, it's all gone.

"He had the most injuries when I found him," Dave said to Daesang

"I counted like a billion marks on his back, just like your CSAT script, hella cancellations''

He teased Daesang and hastily he turned my back towards their direction to prove his point but to his surprise, they weren't any injuries there anymore.

"I've always termed you as MAD from the first day we met, so much for HELLA CANCELLATIONS'' Daesang said as he shook his head in disbelief

" I am telling you fam…"

"Where is it then? How did you even pass your GCSE, I guess you probably didn't, that's why you came to South Korea to study".

"He had a series of mad strikes behind…" Dave argued

"They're at it again"

I said weakly and shook my head. As they continued to argue, I tried to stand up, using the lab bed for support. My head was spinning and I could literally feel the world rotating.

Like a baby learning how to walk, I took two litty steps and sat down back, on my butt.

Suddenly, a flash of memories raced through my mind, it was so scrambled that I couldn't make any sense from it. It could have been anything, a movie or something I drew out sometime ago. I saw a staff made of bronze, it had inscriptions on it, I saw red, I saw black. Everytime I tried to force myself to remember what happened, a pin like pain pierced right through my chest causing my heart to ache and making me groan in pain.

I looked at Daesang and Dave; they were both still arguing about "HELLA CANCELLATIONS''.

"Would you guys just shut up! How do you even have the strength to argue 'bout stuffs like that at a time like this? We don't know where we are, what we're doing here, we don't even know how we got here, I literally have no memory of today, my last memory is me going to bed after you both talked me into having Kimbap (Korean-style sushi rolls) and Soju (Korean liquor) for dinner with you guys and that for sure was yesterday."

"That's true, I don't remember anything that happened, I don't even know what today's date is" Daesang said itching his head,

"Facts, me neither". Dave seconded

On hearing Dave second what Daesang said, I started to think,

"ulileul eodi (where are we)"?

"Yeogi mwon il iss-eoss ni (what happened here)"?

Those questions raced through my mind a million times over, those two are best of friends that hardly agree on things, so for Dave to agree with Daesang, something is wrong for sure. For the first time in forever I was afraid of the color - Black, it had this kind of eerie and devilish aura around it, as I looked at the underwear we were in, one thing became clear, "I was scared". My whole body began to shake and my voice started to quiver.