𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉? 𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉! || 𝘖.𝘥𝘦

Questioning reality

I yawn as I slowly open my eyes. I'm still on Seungmin's body.
I try to not wake him up when I move to turn on the little light.

I come back to my previous position and admire his sleeping face, with his long eyelashes and his messy hair. He looks incredibly fine even like this.

I cross my arms on his chest and rest my head on them.
"I really kissed him... this can't be the real world's Seungmin. But if he's not, then what was the dream that he talked about in the live?"
I try to think about the possibilities. "If he started dreaming at the same time as I did, how could he know about the initial part that I wrote in the fanfiction?"

But as my thoughts keep wandering around, I look at his wrist and I get reminded of something.
"Wait... when was the last time that I saw him wearing the bracelet that my alter-ego gifted him?"

The moon bracelet. I was so focused on my life here that I forgot about what happened in the story. "He said he would always wear it... but did he even wear it once?"

"Sumiii it's time to wake uuup!" I gently shake him. Impatient to ask him about the bracelet.

He opens one eye, followed by the other. "Good morning..."
He covers his mouth as he lets out a big yawn.
"Is it late? I need to go home and take my equipment before coming back here."

I leave my question for later and just let him get up. We walk back home and go directly to his room.
"Can I ask you something?" I say as I see him choosing his accessories for the day.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Are you ever wearing the bracelet I gifted you?"

He quickly touches his wrist. "Wait... where did it go?"
He starts searching through his jewelry boxes with a nervous look on his face. "When did I lose it..."

"He doesn't have it anymore?"

"You can't remember the last time you saw it?" I anxiously ask.
"I wore it right after you gave it to me... I thought I never took it off since then..."

I rush into my room as I think about something.
"The dress he gifted me the same day, do I still have it?"
He follows me. "What happened?"
"I can't find the dress you gifted me that day..."

This seems strange to me, neither of us got the items we bought there.

"Moonie I'm so sorry but I'm late for work... I'll try to remember where did we leave the gifts okay?" He gives me a quick peck on my cheek and rushes outside.

I keep searching around but there's no way to find that dress.

"What's the matter?" I see Junhan looking inside my room from the door.
"Oh Hyeongjun! We need to talk."
I explain about what just happened.
"So the bracelet and the dress only appeared in the book?" He thinks.
"It seems so... my alter-ego and Seungmin exchanged gifts the day before I woke up in this dream..."

We start imagining scenarios. Junhan quickly looks at me. "Maybe I got it. The gifts physically disappeared because you didn't actually give it to him, it was an action made by your alter-ego. And probably it's the same for him... the only mistery left is when and how did he start dreaming..."

He crosses his arms, immersed in his thoughts. But then looks back at me. "Wait!" He pauses, "What if the real Seungmin woke up here in the same moment as you?"
"I thought about that too... but then how can he remember about how we first met if that only happened in the story?"

I think about some other options. "It seems a bit crazy to me... but what if the real Seungmin has read the chapter I posted?"
"Are you saying that he started dreaming after he read the start of the story?"
"Think about it, that's exactly what happened to me. I woke up here right after I posted the part where the main character went to sleep with Seungmin."
He giggles. "An idol that reads a fanfiction about himself..."
"That's the only thing that comes to my mind right now. If that's really the truth, I wonder if he comes back to reality in the same moment as I do..."
"I think so. You two are connected, there's no other explanation. Fate has brought that story to him, it wanted you to meet him."
I push him lovingly. "Come oooon! You're so poetic about that!"
"But what if I'm right?" He teases.
"Deep down I hope so, how incredible would it be?"