𝟓. 𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟒

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by adairvale

by adairvale

Jihyeon POV

My eyes feel too heavy to be opened as I tried my best to open these eyes. Once I opened it, I find out that I was surrounded by a group of weird dresses people. No, it's not weird, it's just they didn't wear the clothes we wear in our daily life. Why are they dressed like people in Enola Holmes movie or any of those old movie?

Am I still in the museum? Or are they attending a cosplay event. The room design and look also featured historical or something? I don't know. I'm terribly clueless right now. "Miss Jihyeon is finally awake?" a loud woman shrieks surprised me. 'Wait, they know me?'

"Where am I?" I asks, confused as I saw them look at each other with questionable look. Did I say something stupid? Okay, I'm not because I am asking them my whereabouts. "This is your house, miss." A woman with blue dress replied. Wait, my house? What kind of nonsense is this? "This is not my house." I stated as all of them gasped in disbelief.

"I can't believe this! I can't believe this! And this is all your fault!" A man, who's likely sounded like Lumiere, you know, the candle man in Beauty and the Beast? that is what he sounded like, pointing at another man who's a bit shorter than him. "This is a disaster! Master will kill us when he come back, knowing his daughter is insane!" the man shouts hysterically, cupping his cheeks.

"Hey, I'm not insane!" I shout. "Then, do you know who I am?" the man looked at me firmly. "No, I don't know you and I don't know why am I here." I'm stating the truth tho. "We are totally doomed." Another woman in her 50's muttered under her breath. "Hey, Gukil, why are you being so careless that you drove that carriage and hit a cow?!!" another woman nearby the door shouts.

"I told you it was an accident!" I think that man is Gukil, the man that the Lumiere kind of guy pointed just now. "Look what happened! She has lost her mind!" the soft pink dressed woman exclaims. Hey, I'm completely sane and my mind is completely in the right state. The whole room now is filled with noises and they seemed to arguing with each other.

"Silence!" that Lumiere man shouts as the noises begin to fade away. "I've got an idea." he exclaims confidently. "And what is it?" Gukil furrowed his eyebrows, I only know his name since they kind of say it. "Well, we're going to help Miss Jihyeon to regain herself back like she used to and we're going to help her to recover." The Lumiere man suggested. "And how exactly are we going to do that?" a woman asked.

"By showing her what stuff did she likes, how she acts normally and her daily routine." That Lumiere guy speaks. "Excuse me, what's your name Mister?" I interrupted him. "Call me Dongpil, Miss." A smile curled on his lips awkwardly. Good, finally I know his name. They continue with their discussion, literally ignoring my existence. In that moment, I decided to run out of here. I need to go home.

The people realizes what she did and began to chase me. "Miss Jihyeon!!" They called out, ignoring the calls, I look around for an escape. I ran down through the spiral staircases. Damn, is this castle? I gasped for air, I'm never be an athletic person and I've never run this far and fast. "Get her!" I could hear Dongpil's voice shouting not too far away from me.

I continued on running until I arrived downstairs, I look around. This place is huge and I can see many old portraits are hanged on the wall, I'm positive, this place is a castle. Wasting no time, I opened the door in front of me. As I run out, I looked around. This is a view that I've never seen before. I don't know where am I. How am I supposed to go home? Panic and anxious started to boil inside of me.

In the moment, a man in armor grabbed my hand as I tried to let go. Dongpil and the others also arrived at the scene. "Sir, please let me go home." I cried out, trying to pull away from the man's grasp. "This is your home, Miss." Dongpil replied. "I-I never live here." I exclaim. "Miss, please get back to your old self." He pleaded.

"I wanted to go back to home in London, please." I begged desperately. Mom and Doyoung probably will be worried about my disappearance. "This is London." A woman replied. My eyes widened in disbelief. How could and I think I've never see this place before. Out of the blue, a memory flashed in my mind as I look around the place around me and the house in front of me and it somehow familiar.

Finally, I remember where I saw this place. It's just like the house replica that I saw in the museum days ago. No, it can't be. "W-what is today's date?" I questioned, fear crawled inside of me. "15 July 1884." Dongpil replied, that moment, I felt like my whole world is falling down. I fall from the man's grasp to the ground.

"Miss." A woman called out of concern, my head feels so dizzy and my heart beats rapidly. "N-no, it can't be." I gasped, this must be some kind of prank that Moonbyul played on me. But, it's impossible for her to play this kind of trick. Wait, am I becoming like Hae Soo in Scarlet Heart drama? But, I'm not drown in some kind of lake. This is nonsense. This craziness makes me feel so dizzy and my lung felt like it's out of air.

'Wait, is this what Moonbyul told me few days ago at the museum?!' My sight goes blurry, as I could hear worried voices around me, calling my name. And the last thing I saw is the whole world fall in pitch black.