Min-Sun wished in some way that she could properly explain the predicament that she found herself in. She couldn't even begin to rationalize it no matter how hard she tried.
"Hey Min do you happen to know where this book might be? I need it for the project I'm working on but I can't seem to find it." Bang Chan looked up from his phone that he was showing her and his eyes were focused on Min-Sun. THE Bang Chan from the group Stray Kids. Min-Sun blinked at him making sure that her eyes were working right and that she wasn't dreaming. This couldn't be real though, she had to be rational. Bang Chan was in Korea, she was in the U.S. There was not a U.S tour going on right now, so how is this man standing right in front of her.
"Um Min, are you okay?" Bang Chan waved his hand and glanced over at her with concern. She stared at the way his kind dark eyes stared at her and the way his dark hair laid against his forehead and she looked away. She had to stay focused and figure out what the heck was going on. She finally looked back over to him and glanced back at the phone before looking at him to give him an answer.
"Huh? Oh yeah um let me see that picture again?" She said leaning forward to look at his phone. He showed her the picture and she nodded getting up from her position behind the desk to walk down a couple isles before reaching the shelf where the book should be. She spotted the book and reached up and grabbed it before pausing. How did she know her way around the library so well? She looked down at the book before handing it over to Chan.
"Thanks Min you are a lifesaver. Are you sure you are okay though? You seem a little out of it today." He looked over to her and showed a genuine amount of concern. She didn't know how to feel at that moment. She couldn't figure out what was going on, where she was, and why he was even in front of her in the first place. She looked away from his brown eyes and nodded to his question even though in this moment she felt like she was going crazy. Any other day she would be getting home from work, reading a novel, or walking her dog for goodness sakes. She wouldn't be helping and idol look for a book for some kind of project. She must have hit her head and gone into a coma is all she could come up with.
"Do I? I kind of feel weird today." She felt her cheeks and forehead with the back of her hand. Maybe she had caught a cold and was hallucinating. That couldn't be it though she rationalized, maybe she just needed to go to a clinic or a hospital and make sure she wasn't crazy. With her train of thought somewhere else she flinched at the cool sensation that touched her forehead. She looked over at Chan and realized he had placed his hand on her forehead.
"You don't feel warm even though your face is a little red. Maybe you just need to rest. You don't have to come with us all tonight to eat if you don't feel like it you know, you can skip out." Chan took his hand away and she stared at him confused.
"Eat?" She asked lost. She couldn't remember the last time she had anything to eat. It had to be the middle of the day at least and if she was honest she was starving.
He nodded pulling out his phone. "Yeah with the group? Did So-Hee not tell you?" Chan showed her the text messages between him and someone named Sony. She glanced at the text for the restaurant and time then looked up back to Chan. "Can you just send me the information, you know how forgetful So-Hee can be sometimes." She smiled up at him trying to make it seem like she knew who So-Hee was.
Chan nodded and smiled sending me the message. She pulled out her phone and saw she got the message before they both walked up to the front where she helped him check out his book. Before he left her he gave her one last smile and told her to get some rest if she was't feeling good and that it was not a big deal if she didn't show up tonight. She nodded listening to his instructions before finally taking a seat at her position behind the desk and reliving what just happened.
"Did I seriously meet Bang Chan of stray kids? In a library of all places?" She said to no one in particular as she looked around the expanse of library. It seemed like a university library judging by the amount of students and the way the name was plastered on almost everything in sight. She looked down at where she was sitting and scratched her head, her mind running with so many questions.
Why was she working in a campus library? Why is she here in the first place? Last time she remembered, she was in a car driving home from work. How hard did she have to hit her head to create a narrative as complex as this?
Finally she sighed glancing over to the pile of books beside her and decided she should probably go back to what she was doing before she was interrupted. She picked up the book and was about the scan it before realizing that it was all in Korean. She blinked before looking inside the book and reading a random page. She closed the book and looked at the title. It was all in Korean, but what was crazy was she understood every word she saw. She picked up another book and again it was in Korean and she could understand every word. She looked up from her book and stared around the library before hearing the ding of her phone.
She pulled it out to see a message from Chan with more detailed directions to the restaurant in case she wanted to go. She stared at the Korean textbooks beside her and then back to her phone. She stared at the address for the restaurant before deciding that she might be able to find more answers if she goes. She clicked on the address and the map pulled up the restaurant. When Min-Sun zoomed out a little to get more oriented she noticed the amount of Korean names on the screen and zoomed out even more.
She set her phone down and looked around and suddenly it all made sense. She looked back at the phone to see that it pinged her in South Korea. That was why Bang Chan was here, but that still didn't answer any questions as to why she was there. She zoomed back into the restaurant and saw that it was a 15 minute walk from where she was. She closed her phone and put her head on the table trying to make sense of anything.
She shot up quick though realizing she didn't know one important thing.
"What time do I even get off work?"
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Second Time Around
Fanfiction'Welcome Home' She could feel the bile rising in her throat. She had to get out, she needed to get out. She took a few cautious steps back worried that the person behind this was still there. __________________ Lee Min-Sun gained consciousness in...
