The Artemis Daughter

Chapter 56

>> >> Vany's POV << <<

"This... this... can't have happened. How... how did this happen? No! I must be dreaming. This is not true. I don't believe what I see. How can I love this man this much? Vany! Stop thinking of him. You'll never have him. You don't own him. You've already let him go. You broke all the bonds you had with him." I kept telling to myself. I was surprised a lot when I saw him emerge in front of me. 

I was stuck in time and space as I burned my soul. Even tho my body is still alive... my soul isn't in my body anymore. Time and space are somewhere that are so hard to understand. It's like a big box made of water or something liquid. I can go through those walls but end up entering the same box-like room I was in. There's no end to this box-like room. 

I felt time passing, but I cannot say how much. I don't know if one second I spend is equal to a second in the human world or a year. I spend time in this small box room made of liquid like water.

It was amazing that Jungkook suddenly appeared from where I was. Did this boxy liquid room read my mind? My head was full of different thoughts. Sometimes Jungkook appearing next to me made me happy but it scared me.

I burned my soul to emerge in this box. I don't know anything that happens in the human world. Jungkook... I don't know if he's still safe, living there. Did he know the truth about me? Does he remember me? I don't know any of that.

It is the nature of the world for any young woman to fall in love with some young man. I gave my heart to him not to take it back. I feel myself in three places. My body was in the human world, my soul was in this crappy box-like room, and my heart was in Jungkook whom I always loved.

"Vany...?" He called me back. His words of love brought tears to my eyes. It was him. I began to realize that what I was seeing was not some kind of dream. Those eyes looking into mine said that it would be the same. I always loved those eyes and they could never lie to me.

"Jungkook... is this true...?" I whispered. It took only a second to dry my tear-stained eyes. The dark cloud of fear covered my eyes. I felt as if my heart was being pierced by a sharp arrow. My heart ached with pain. Pain spread throughout my body. My eyes, transformed from tears to fear, began to depict pain. That cruel pain that started from the heart started to hurt all my cells. It was like burning every part of my body. My hands gripped my chest tightly.

I fell to my knees with the excruciating pain spreading through my body. I can't believe this. I am no longer attached to my body. So I cannot feel physical pain. I was overwhelmed with pain.

My pain didn't feel like pain anymore. But I was drowning in that pain. Everything around me was covered in darkness. I tried to breathe. But it was a failed attempt. I was sinking deeper into that pain. I don't have a life anymore. Others will soon forget me. I no longer tried to breathe. I closed my eyes which were open to the darkness.

Suddenly, I felt something warm touch me. I was attracted to that warmth.

"Vany, are you okay?" I was mesmerized by that sweet voice. Jungkook's voice no longer sounded like a dream. It was truly his own. But his voice was filled with worry. "Will!!! Please tell me what's wrong with her. She's scaring me."

"I don't know... I... I'm trying my best..." I heard Will's voice as well.

Someone grabbed my hand. My mind told me that it was Nico. Those cold hands belong to him. Those hands were never warm. So those hands are unique to him.

Besides the three of them, I could tell by the sound of footsteps that there were other people there. Am I hearing this in a dream? If this is a dream why does this feel so real? I can't understand this. Isn't everything a lie? Am I delusional?

I tried to breathe again. Surprisingly... I feel more comfortable than before. I could feel the pressure around me diminishing. I started to feel like I was floating up from the pain I was drowning in. Everything is out of the truth. None of this was believable. I burned my soul. So how can I still survive?

Amidst all this I sat in whatever position I was with a deep but easy breath. My eyes opened and the surrounding light beams oppressed my eyes. Blinking my eyes a few times, I drove away the pain and some blurriness in my eyes. Realizing that someone was around me, I took a good look at my surroundings. Those swaying beams around me were real people. But who are they?