Second Chances

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When Wooyoung opened his eyes, he was back in the wedding reception room. He looked at the screen, where the photo had changed from the beach to the university rooftop. Taeyeon was also posing with a peace sign and held the Nameko soft toy Wooyoung had given her in her other hand. When he was busy looking at the photo, Junho came up to Wooyoung and put his hand on his shoulder.

"Even though you went back, it was of no use huh. I collaborated pretty well with you back then, didn't I?" Junho sighed, and indirectly praised himself.

"Don't talk as if you know everything!" Wooyoung leaned near to Junho and hissed through clenched teeth.

"Well, it's definitely not so easy to change everything, right?" Junho said, giving Wooyoung a pat on the shoulder before going off to get a drink.

The picture on the slide show then changed to one where Leeteuk and Taeyeon were in a restaurant, and they were doing a toast.

"Hey, isn't that Wooyoung behind in the photograph?" He looks like a ghost that follows people around... so scary!" Taecyeon exclaimed loudly. Junho quickly covered Taecyeon's mouth to shut him up because he was so loud.

Wooyoung's point of view

This day was one that I will never be able to forget. It was the day Taeyeon stopped calling me Youngie. I really missed her calling me that.

"Even though we have been so close to each other for so long, you don't understand a thing, Youngie. You don't understand at all."

Those were the words she uttered to me, before meeting Leeteuk. She accepted his proposal then. Up till this day, all I've done is nothing but useless.

The lights suddenly went off, and the familiar bright light shone, and I used my hand to block my eyes from the piercing light.

"So you've chosen to take the most difficult path," Minjun spoke, as he appeared beside me.

"What?"

"You tried to forget and do things on your own, distancing yourself from her and your friends. But in the end, you still chose this future where you still see her in her wedding dress," Minjun said, before turning away from me. "I regret to tell you this, but your long journey is coming to an end soon."

"Wait. What do you mean?" I said frantically.

"The next slide is the one of the last ones and it is extremely significant; it was the day that she received the wedding proposal." Minjun paused to look at my reaction. I was too stunned to hear of that news to even have a reaction.

"Do you really think everything you did was useless? I gave you these chances to go back again so please don't make me regret this." Minjun said with a sad look, looking at me straight in the eye. "Ask, and it shall be given."

I gave a bow, before saying, "Hallelujah chance! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

End of Wooyoung's point of view

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Wooyoung opened his eyes and found himself doing a 90 degrees bow.

'What am I doing?' he thought, as he tried to get up from his bow. Someone beside him pushed him back down again forcefully and spoke, albeit unclearly, "Wooyoung here is our newest employee.By buying it, it would be a great encouragement to him! Please buy it and help us!"

Wooyoung looked at the person beside him in confusion and realized that it was his supervisor, Gary, at the company he was working at, even in the present. They were in a sales team for a water filtration system which targeted other corporate companies.

Wooyoung looked around in confusion, before he spotted the name card on the table in front of him. 'Oh... so this is when I first joined the company. What am I doing? I don't have much time left!'

Without a word, Wooyoung got up from his bow, gave a nod to the client and left the room, leaving Gary calling out for him in vain.

Wooyoung quickly pressed number 1 on his speed dial and waited for an answer while walking towards the exit.

"Hello?"

"Taeng, where are you now?"

"I'm at the university research room doing some work. There's a project I need to finish. Why?"

"Stay there okay? Don't leave."

"Why?"

"I'm going there to meet you now, so wait for me. Okay?"

"O-okay. See you then." Taeyeon said, a bit taken aback, before hanging up.

'Right. It's the second last chance. I can't be too tardy anymore!' Wooyoung thought as he walked down the steps from the entrance of the building he was at.

"Yaaah! Wooyoung-ah!" Wooyoung heard someone call him from behind, and turned around to find Gary lagging behind with a tired expression on his face. "Are you just going to abandon me like that?"

"I'm really sorry, but there's something I need to do first." Wooyoung said apologetically and gave a bow.

"Ah, st-ress!!!" Gary said, putting his hand against his forehead. "You can't do this to me! What can be more important than finishing our quota?"

"It will affect my life and happiness! I must do it!"

"Fine, go. Go! Leave me alone to die. My death won't be your fault at all. But what will happen to my children? I won't be able to provide for them anymore. All I will be able to do is watch my children suffer from heaven. Aigoo, the thought of it really makes me want to cry..." Gary said dramatically as he fell to the floor with a pitiful expression.

Wooyoung bit his lip, and knew that he could not bear to leave his supervisor behind like that. It's just his personality.

Wooyoung put his two palms on his head and said in frustration, "I'm the one who wants to cry now! ST-RESS!!!"