The Echoes Of Autumn | Minseok

Chapter Seven

I awoke to cold water being splashed over my body. The coldness hit me like wave and I jolted up from the bed coming face to face with Jongdae.

"What the hell was that for?" I said annoyed.

"Well I did call and shake you for nearly 20 minutes and you weren't waking up! It was like you were in some kind trance or something..."He explained looking at me in confusion.

The silky black sheets were now drenched in water and so were my clothes that stuck to my skin. I awkwardly got out of bed standing there with water dripping glaring at Jongdae.

"What date is it today?"

"It's the 24th January..." He simply stated.

"No No... I mean the year?"

"Okay but shouldn't you know what the year is already?" He asked slightly baffled

"Just tell me!"

"Okay fine its 2017..."

Relief washed over me and I exhaled a deep breath.

So it was all just a dream after all...But why do I remember it so vividly as if everything was so real?

Was I honestly going mad?

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Jongdae shoved a towel into my hands and pointed to the shower room.

"Go and shower, I'm taking you out to meet the boys today whether you want to or not. You need to get out of the apartment, start getting things back to normal."

I stood there on the spot for moment taking in Jongdae's words..

But what was normal without Sumi here with me?

~

I was walking alongside Jongdae towards the park we were going to meet the guys. The wind blew aggressively ruffling my hair causing me to shiver. If I was being honest I didn't want to go out, I wanted to stay at home and try piece together what that dream I had meant and whether everything I had experienced was actually real.

But I had to try and get things back to normal as Jongdae said and I guess the first step to achieving normalcy again was to meet up with the group again. I must admit it has been quite some time since I had seen them or even held a proper conversation with them.

They would all occasionally visit me once in a while but I never thought or cared to talk to them due to the amount of grief that had seemed to consume me these last two years. I gripped the cloth inside my pocket due to the nerves that seemed to build up in me when I spotted the group of boys in the distance.

They started jogging up to us and I was met with warm smiles from all of them.

But I knew behind all those smiles each one of them pitied me.

Felt sorry for me.

I looked at each one of their faces and saw how each one of them had changed since I had last seen them.

There was a rather awkward silence that seemed to settle between us where all we could do was hold the plastered smiles to our faces when suddenly Baekhyun spoke up:

"Okaaaay this silence is killing me..."

He then clapped his hands together and made a suggestion:

"So who wants to go bowling?"

Everyone turned their head towards him nodding at perfect way to break the ice between us and do something used to do all the time.

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We were in the middle of our bowling game and I was beginning to feel relaxed. Te boys were being there usual selves and it made me happy to see how they haven't changed.

How things haven't changed no matter how long we hadn't seen each other for.

I was sitting there contently just watching Chanyeol bowl and the other teasing him for missing when Junmyeon slid into the seat next to me.

"How have you been Minseok?" He asked clearly concerned.

"Coping..." I simply stated continuing to look at the boys bowling.

"Yesterday... I saw you."

My eyes seemed to widen in shock and I slowly rotated my body to face him.

"You were at the bar right? Look I don't understand why you even had a drink when your body can't tolerate it. But getting into fist fight, that isn't like you at all."

I opened my mouth to speak to be able to explain everything that I have experienced and how confused I was when I was called over by Jongdae.

"Come on its your turn!"

I quickly got up from my seat grabbing a bowling ball and stood a distance away from the lane before running up letting the ball roll towards the pins at a impossibly fast pace.

The ball hit the pins within seconds knocking them down.

Strike.

Although it looked like a normal strike to everyone else in the room I had felt a large force of strength take over my body to achieve that strike.

A sharp pain soon stabbed my head and I found that the whole room was swaying around me and laughs and cheers became faint echoes.

"I-I'm just going to the toilet.." I managed to say loudly enough.

I staggered my way to the bathroom before falling onto the floor in agony at the pain. It honestly felt like someone was drilling a hole into my head.

As I gripped my head in pain I heard deep male voice in my head:

"Tick Tock your time is up"

I froze at the familiar voice that I had heard in my dream and tried to fight off the pain...To fight off the darkness that was trying to consume me and to stop it from suffocating me.

Until an unknown but strangely familiar female voice cut through the pain

"Stop!" She screamed and the male's presence seemed to disappear abruptly.

But something was consuming me.. Pulling me and I felt the entire room shift in movement and I found myself back in the same park again just as I was before except this time a girl was hovering over me in worry.

I already knew what had happened and was beginning to accept the fact what I had been through before was no dream.

It was reality and for some reason I kept being pulled back through time.

"Oh thank god you're awake!" The girl said in relief.

Time just kept pulling me back to Sumi...

A/N: Okaaaay so things may start getting more deeper soon and maybe just maybe a few answers to the mysteries may just be on your way. But hey how are you all liking this fic so far? Oh and you guys must seriously be wondering why I use the word Cinnamon well lets just say its a nickname for me but I shall call all of my beautiful followers here Cinnamon Rolls because you guys are just too sweet!

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