Midnight Tales | ✔

13

Jaehyun

Just like you, I have no idea how I got here too.

I would not know what the house had become by the time you read this, but in my time, this house was a small guesthouse in Gangwon-do. I was on a trip to visit my friend, Kang Eun Oh and I needed a place to stay so I stayed here. I'm very fond of books, I love writing. So it was the study I checked first upon arriving. You might have also noticed it—or not, but most of the books are all well-known classics written by English poets and authors. Except for one.

The Fairy and the Woodcutter.

I just reached for it, touched its spine, pulled it out then I'm suddenly standing in front of a wide eye Soyoung. I don't know how to explain this but Soyoung's reality has seemed to stop in this place. A reality stuck within our reality. There are a lot of unexplainable things in the universe, and Soyoung was one of them.

Anyways, I will not talk about my stay here. That would be rude of me. But instead, I will talk about someone else, I will talk about someone who's very important to me and might be to you too. I will talk about Kim Soyoung.

I believed Soyoung has lived before, just in another time where you and I haven't existed yet. Something must have happened to Soyoung and the skies decided to keep her in this small bubble. This reality can be very depressing and lonely for someone like Soyoung. Everything's stuck in a never-ending cycle, the same day every day. But Soyoung made it a better place. She never questioned everything, she never hated this place.

I know, I am just wasting your time but please, do read everything in here. There were words that I wasn't able to tell her and words that you should know. This is going to be my last visit to this place, I won't be able to come here again due to some circumstances I have in my reality.

But please, whatever you read in this journal, do not tell Soyoung.

See you at the end.

Jung Min Seok.

I closed the journal before me. Maybe the way home is written inside these pages. I just have to finish reading everything. Until then I'll stay here.

But for how long?