707 Dreams (707 x Reader)

One

You're wandering an unfamiliar street, lost and confused until you hear your phone buzz with a new notification: a text. Reading it, you discover this person is chuckling at something you had said earlier, mentioning how they're waiting for you. You were headed to the park, you remember now, to meet up with Him. It made your pulse quicken and your face flush in nerves, and you smile as you approach the empty park to see no one but a single, red-headed male awaiting you on a swing. He grins at your arrival, and you sit in the empty swing beside him and stare at your feet. You suddenly feel the swing move, and you look back to see him pushing you gently, his fiery red curls cascading in front of his closed eyes. The wind whips by, and you turn away to shield your eyes from dust, only to turn back and discover Him missing, only a pair of striped glasses lying where he once stood.

You stand quickly, confused and searching for your beloved. But there is nothing but emptiness. Emptiness, and the sound of faint chuckling riding on the breeze that rustles your skirt and blows your long brown hair into your eyes.

"He's never coming back you know~" a voice echoes around you. It sounds demented, twisted and creepy. "He abandoned you. Left you alone. But didn't you ask to be alone? Why now would you wish to see him? Perhaps that's what happens when you ask to Reset." the voice goes on, teasing you. "You will never see Luciel again!"

With those last words, the wind whips up around you, leaves and dirt swirling up into a vortex that blocks out all light from above, trapping you in darkness. You close your eyes and find yourself cowering in a small ball, trying to cover your ears. You don't hear the panicked voice trying to call your name until it's too late.

You wake with a start, sitting up in your bed and breathing heavy. It was just a dream... It felt like you had been having that same dream every night now. It's becoming eery... And yet, there's something about it that makes you just as unsettled as it does curious. But as your alarm goes off not two minutes later, your thoughts are quickly swept away as you sigh and change your attention. You have school today, and since you awoke from a dream instead of your alarm, hopefully that meant you were awake enough to get ready at a decent pace...

Your name is Mari, and you are currently quite bored with your situation. University certainly wasn't all it was hyped up to be. You finished high school only to go and willingly attend even more classes, many of them being rather distasteful lectures. At least it was a life though, you guess. Sure it sucked, and at times you wondered if any of it really mattered, but you weren't on the streets or anything begging for your life. This was often a thought that kept you going, though lately you began wondering if even that would be better than this boring routine of get up, go to school, go to work, do homework, sleep, repeat. It truly was becoming quite the drag, and every fibre of your being cried out for a saviour, to either end your life or pull you to a better place. Honestly, either sounded good to you at that point.

At least you had one person to occupy your spare time between classes - and sometimes in classes. Yoosung Kim was a sweet and kind boy who shared many of the same classes as you. You two first met when partnered for an assignment in your first year, but he was just so sweet and fun that you two became instant friends. It helped you two felt you had a lot in common and rarely ran out of things to talk about. It helped create a tiny break in your suffering. Though lately one thought had been crossing your mind more and more: what if you weren't there? You knew Yoosung had other friends - a fair amount by the sounds of it - and it made you believe that he would be perfectly fine if you were to suddenly disappear. It's not like you two were the closest in the world anyway. The way he talked, there was someone else closer to his heart. Not that you minded. It would make leaving him easier if it happened, and you often felt he deserved to have someone special in his life. He's just such a sweet and innocent cinnamon roll...

Today's classes consisted of writing, mathematics, and Yoosung's excited ramblings concerning a round of gameplay he enjoyed on LOLOL the previous night. You'd tried LOLOL once thanks to how often Yoosung raved about it, and while you found it mildly interesting and entertaining, your lack of quickly-improving skill level simply didn't make it worth your time. You certainly didn't stack up to the likes of Yoosung or most other online players, so other things ended up taking precedence in your life, like homework and your part time job. Though you have no real idea what you want to do for life after University, you'd often thought about a secretarial job somewhere like the large company C&R or working full time at the bookstore near your house. Both seemed rather stable and simple jobs. You could perhaps live with a job like that.

You see a hand waving in front of your vision and glance over at the source. Yoosung's eyeing you curiously, a frown crossing his lips faintly. "You okay, Mari? You seem to be zoning out like crazy. And that's saying something considering how little sleep I got last night!" he comments energetically. Honestly, if it weren't for the rather dark circles under his eyes, you never would have guessed he had only gotten three hours of sleep. He was just as awake as ever.

"Oh, yeah," you reply, still half in a daze. "Sorry. Just thinking I guess. You know we don't have that much longer left in school, right? So I guess I was just thinking about my future."

Yoosung nods, before thinking himself. "Future... Well, if I can't be a professional LOLOL gamer, I'm not sure either. Honestly, I hadn't thought about it in a while. I have an offer at C&R, but I'm not sure if that's where I want to go." he replies honestly. He sounds serious as well, and you offer him a weak smile at his thought.

"We could always be C&R buddies together," you joke half-heartedly. "But, I think if you have something you're passionate about, you should go for it. Having a passion... You're lucky to have that. You are in a lot of science classes right now, aren't you? Why don't you follow that?"

"That's very true... I could! I guess I just haven't had the right drive lately. Since, you know..." he trails off slightly. Of course you know. He was in quite the mourning period for the first six months of University when you two first met, and he still mentions it quite often. Not that you blamed him. By the way he spoke, you would have been in mourning forever if it had happened to you. His cousin Rika had passed at the same time as his Highschool graduation, and he claimed to never have been the same since. He misses her a lot, but at least he seems to have cheered up and become a relatively happy person for most of University now. At least you were happy about that.

"Yeah, I know." you reply quietly. "All up to you.."

The two of you fall into a small gap of silence as the teacher continues droning on and on about the lesson.

And just like that, another day had passed, your class finishing after what you believed to be an actual eternity. Man, classes are so boring. As you gather your books and stand from your seat, your mind begins wandering back to the dream you've been having. It's so strange, you think, to have a dream revolving around someone you don't even know. Or, do you? You can't be certain, because just as you get lost in your mind, Yoosung interrupts your thoughts again with a question.

"Hey Mari. If you don't have too much homework tonight, wanna join me on a game of LOLOL after dinner? I can set up a server with just you and me if you want!"

You think it over. It had been a while since you played a good game, and considering how lost in thought you'd been that day, you think that maybe one round or two just between you and Yoosung might not be that bad. You nod along slightly and offer him a small smile. "Yeah, sure. Why not! Just you and me though, okay? And try to go easy on me!" you tease slightly.