𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉? 𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉! || 𝘖.𝘥𝘦

Parallels

I wake up feeling anxious about what happened yesterday.
I feel very tired, so I think about checking the time before getting up.
I start moving my hands in the darkness to find the lamp but there's no way to find it.
"Come on! I'm already in a bad mood..."
I feel the bed table and take my phone to use its light.

My heartbeat stops as I see my room.
My real world room.

"There's no way..." I look around in disbelief as I keep repeating this sentence.

I light up the screen just to see that is still night, and the time here was frozen.
No days have passed since I slept here the last time, the two weeks spent in the Heroes world were in fact... a dream.

I knew it right? I knew since the start that it wasn't real.

Then why does it hurt so much?

I cry my heart out endlessly, without being able to make any noise to not make my parents worry.

I can't accept it and I try everything. I lay down, hoping to wake up in my dream again.
But it never works.
I look at my phone, search for my chats with the Heroes but there's nothing. My last pictures with them are gone too.

"I shouldn't have gotten so attached to the members in that dream... I knew I'd come back here soon or later."

I keep thinking about everything and somehow fall asleep.

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An annoying sound wakes me up the next day. It's my alarm.
I take my phone to turn it off, then look around with hope. Even though deep down I already knew that I didn't go back.

I completely forgot about school, I quickly check my backpack to see if I brought the right books for the day and exit my house.

I feel like a ghost right now, it's like I forgot who I was before my dream.
I manage to take my bus, when I arrive at my school desk my friend Maya looks a bit worried about me.

I feel her hand on my shoulder. "Did something happen?" She asks me.
My mouth feels like it's locked, no words come out.
"...Moonie?"
As I hear my nickname I get reminded of the day Seungmin used it for the first time.
I bring my hands to my eyes and sob again.
"Oh my! Moon what's the matter! Please tell me..."
I look at her with a desperate look, would she think I'm crazy to cry for a dream?

It takes some time, but I calm down for a while and I try to explain the situation.
"So that dream felt like reality..." She looks impressed.
"It would have been better if I didn't dream it at all..."
"But how did it even start?"

I think for a sec, my eyebrows raise as I remember that it all started after I wrote my fanfiction's introduction.
I immediately search it on my phone, but when I try to open the page, the app crashes.
"I can't show you," I sigh, "but it started after I wrote some pages of my fanfic."
She rubs her chin as she thinks "It's common to dream about something you saw the day before, I sometimes dreamed about film or series I saw before going to bed."
I look away, shaking my head lightly. "Yes but... this wasn't a normal dream. It was the same as the real world! I could feel the things I touched, flavours, smells, everything!"

We keep thinking about that, but it feels like Maya isn't understanding how impactful the dream was.

After school I take a walk to distract myself.
I stop in a bar, looks like lots of people are waiting to see a football match in the little tv on the wall.
I watch the news and one of them catches my attention.

— It's a magical landscape the one found by the old owners of the Joy Lake Camping in South Korea.
I leave the word to Mister Park, the owner of this peaceful place.
"I was checking around my flower field as usual, but then I found a special flower near a tree, away from the field. I looked around the area and was amazed by seeing the amount of similar flowers!"—

The place looks familiar but my jaw drops as I watch the next images.
The man is showing a little area in the woods, full of a single type of flower.

"That's..."

— "Lily of the Valley!"
"This flower never grew in my field before, so I'm very happy with this discovery"—

I think about the images I just saw.

"That's the place where I went camping with the Heroes, the lake, the Lily found by Jungsu... but how could I imagine a place that I've never seen before?"

As I get home I feel like I'm hallucinating.
I keep getting a sensation of deja-vu, I do things and I feel like I have done it before in the dream.

My thoughts get interrupted by a sudden notification, Seungmin is live on Instagram.
My face darkens as I remember that now he's just an idol again, he's not my friend anymore.
After a few minutes I decide to enter the live to see him again.
I'm not used at hearing him speak Korean anymore, since in the dream we speak English naturally.

Even if it's ridiculous, I spam a message in the comment section:
- Do you remember me? I'm the villain that lived with you for two weeks in your dream. I like candies lol.

I giggle as I read my silly message, some other fans are asking what's my problem.

"Do you remember me? I'm... mh?"

I pay attention to Seungmin as he reads my comment.

"What? He's really reading it?!"

"My dream?" He looks a bit confused, says something in korean and laughs a bit.
I get a bit frustrated. "Nooo I need to know what you're saying!"
With my heart in hand I exit the live and immediately text a friend who knows korean, asking her to translate that section of the live when it ends.
I wait for around an hour but I finally receive the message.

- My dream? I don't remember telling you that dream, haha this comment is funny.

As I read the translation I can't understand what he's saying.
"What do you mean my comment is funny? He doesn't believe me?"
But if he said that, it means that he dreamed something too?

I receive a Bubble notification from him.

🦊 Everyone asking about the dream ㅋㅋㅋ
🦊 Didn't I tell you about it before?
🦊 It was fun
🦊 That person comment
🦊 Acted like a person in my dream, that was funny
🦊 Why are you saying that I haven't told you the dream before?
🦊 How could that comment know if I didn't tell you ㅋㅋㅋ
🦊 Let's move on~

I stare at the messages in disbelief.
Did we really had the same dream?
But how's that possible? I know him but he doesn't know me...
He's probably talking about another dream he had, afterall my description wasn't that detailed so it could be a coincidence...

Before going to bed I think about the weird coincidences that happened today: first the camping and the Lily, then the dream thing.

I listen to some music before going to bed. Meanwhile my initial confusion blends into a delusional scenario.
"What if we really share the same dream?" I giggle.
"If I was able to dream about a place I haven't visited... maybe he's able to dream about a person he hasn't met!"
Deep down I know that it's not true, but imagining this made made my day better.
I smile even more as my fav song starts playing, I always play Again?Again! before going to bed but I never played it in my dream.

I replay the song multiple times before ending that weird and tiring day with a good sleep.