LAKEHOUSE [ON-HOLD]

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐞𝐣𝐢

I left my friends and started to look for Heeseung as soon as we finished taking the photos. There are at least a hundred pictures on our phones, since after the group photo, they've decided to take pictures by pairs.

I walked down the path and saw the row of sunflowers from a distance. They were planted at the outermost part of the farm, near the fence. With every step that I take, the flowers get closer, and I can see how rich their color is. The flowers are still blooming well until now even if it's the start of autumn already.

Well, there are flowers that grow during fall.

When I arrived, I didn't find him anywhere. There was silence, I could only hear the soft breeze coming from the hill before me. I searched for him but I didn't find him.

Did he disappear?

Heeseung said that if he steps into a place that he's never been to when he was alive, he disappears and finds himself back in his house. I sighed when I realized that it's probably the reason why he's not around right now. I turned away and decided to go back to the group, but I had a sudden change of mind.

What was I thinking? Heeseung said that he's never gone outside the farm. That means, if he steps out of the fence...

I had a gut feeling and I followed it. I turned around and jumped over the fence. The ones in this part wasn't as high as the others. People can definitely step in and out of the farm if they came from this way.

The wind blew harder, the hair I tied into a bun got undone. The locks of my hair almost got tangled with each other but I let it be. Even if I try to fix them now, with the blowing wind, it'll just get messy no matter what I do.

I climbed up the elevated part of land and was met with a beautiful scenery. It was an open space, a meadow full of baby's breath flowers on one side. There were no houses in the area, but there was a maple tree in the middle and someone was sitting under it.

“Heeseung!” he turned around and when he saw me, he waved both of his hands, "I thought you can't go beyond the fences?"

He looked at me with a wide smile, “I asked myself the same question.”

“Then how?”

There was something with his mood just now. He doesn't seem to be in a bad mood, this is definitely not what I expected. He's smiling even after that conversation with Miss Jina? I guess I underestimated him. He's in fact, really optimistic.

“Thank you, Saeji. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be able to remember anything,” what? “Come on, The first person who gets to that tree will have one wish. Loser grants the wish!”

“What? You remember some of your memories? Hey!”

He says the loser grants the winner's wish... the prize is totally one-sided.