"There you are, Donghyuck."
I took that moment to run, dragging Haechan with me.
"Hey—wait!"
We heard the man, Donghyuck, call to us.
But we ran towards the exit of the grocery store.
I didn't know why I did it, but I just had the urge to.
Something inside me tells me that he wasn't supposed to see us.
We were from the future, after all.
If I learned anything from the movies, people from the past shouldn't see people from the future.
Especially the ones who look like them.
When I turned the corner, the earlier non-existent staff suddenly appeared and I bumped into him.
The both of us fell to the floor with a loud thud.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry—" I told the staff, who was also wearing a mask.
Haechan quickly helped me up before running once again.
"Hey, you two! Wait!"
Haechan's double called up to us. He ran after us, leaving his push cart behind.
We ran up to the glass entrance where we came from earlier, the automatic doors sliding.
The extreme heat of the afternoon sun contradicted the coldness of the grocery store, and I regretted getting out of it almost immediately.
Since Haechan was the faster runner, he took the lead and gripped my left wrist, dragging me with him.
We went out from the parking lot towards the empty road, sprinting to the other side of the street.
"Hey! Wait!"
When I looked over my shoulder, the man was following us. The woman from earlier followed as well, albeit falling behind.
"Donghyuck! Donghyuck!"
I heard her yell.
In our haste, Haechan hadn't noticed the big tree root protruding on the sidewalk, making him stumble and fall to the ground. I tripped on his long legs, landing on the dirty asphalt as well.
We hadn't gotten that far when the man reached us, dirt all over our clothes and struggling to stand up.
"Calm down, please. I just wanna talk." He had said. "Elizabeth?"
Haechan and I glanced up with a skeptical look at the sound of that name again. The woman, who chased after Donghyuck, had caught up to us.
Her black mask was down by her chin, revealing her face.
And I couldn't believe my eyes.
The woman looked exactly like my best friend Seohyun. But just a little older, like Haechan's double.
"Are you two alright?"
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Our Summer || NCT DREAM
FanfictionA hundred years into the future, Moon Haneul thinks the universe works only in one way: forward. But when she encounters Lee Minhyung, the mysterious guy whom her dreams refer to as "Mark," she soon finds out that the world she lives in is not what...
