October 27, 2017
Halloween wasn’t a holiday that was unfamiliar to him, it had been catching on back home in Korea, so for Seung to go out shopping for decorations wasn’t to odd really. He’d gone out decoration shopping last year anyway, and that had been a bit of fun, this year though he was getting a few things for his and Terry’s room as the rest of the house had already been decorated.
He wasn’t planning on anything too insane, they shared a single bedroom so it wasn’t a lot of space, he didn’t want to wake up every morning to something too over the top and dramatic - just simple but did the job. He wanted something which said Halloween.
This was the reason he was bundled up and walking through the subway station, just having gotten off the subway he’d taken to the nearest party city to their home. The load of people moving around wasn’t anything new, he’d grown up in a city with how many people who all seemed to use mass transit, so he knew how to get around people and not get elbowed in the face...at least most of the time. There were still the odd times a person would do something he didn’t see coming and he’d get bumped, banged, and hit.
Looking over his cell phone, again, he had a list of what he was hoping to get on his phone. Seung was hoping they had everything he wanted, that he wouldn’t need to go elsewhere, but he was doing this a bit last minute so he might be a bit out of luck and have to find another store.
Sighing he dodged another person, with ease, but stopped dead in his tracks when he spotted very familiar greyish silver hair and watched in silence, as if watching a horror movie, as the owner of that hair turned around.
It was his own face….his own dark eyes and the same glasses he was wearing today.The same piercings -everything the same. Everything but that smirk...it was something which didn’t belong on his face, a look he didn’t think he’d ever worn on his face. It was...creepy and it left him feeling cold and scared. This wasn’t normal, not in the slightest, and he was scared and felt a shudder race up his spine as he watched the figure turn away from him and vanish amongst all the bodies moving about.
That had been him...right? He’d seen himself - right? He wasn’t hallucinating….at least he didn’t think so, there was no reason for that. No...the goosebumps on his arms and the feeling of dread, and fright, were nothing he could just manifest. There was a reason for it and the reason had gotten away...which might be a good thing, he didn’t understand it and he didn’t want to make a scene here - too many people.
Shaking his head, and getting walked right into, jarred him from his thoughts and had him hurrying for the sidewalk and party city. His fingers, the whole while, flying over his keyboard as he sent a text to his family - everyone but his own parents. His elder and younger cousins and Terry and Matt. he let them all know something was up and told Terry, and Matt, to tell their parents. He didn’t need them to encounter this doppelganger of him, there was no telling what it may or may not do to them if they approached it. It hadn’t looked friendly.
“I don’t like this….this holiday isn’t good...not here.” Not in this city.
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