The Echoes Of Autumn | Minseok

Chapter Eleven

25th January 2015 – The past

I continued to watch Sumi draw and sketch underneath the large autumn tree and could sense that Shinwon was getting bored, partially because he kept poking and prodding me.

'Will you stop, we haven't even sat down for long!' I thought in my head.

I jumped slightly when Shinwon's voice loudly whined in my head.

'This isn't fun...!'

'Wait wait wait, you heard what I said?' I questioned inside my head.

'Yes, I did since I can voice myself through your head don't you think it makes the tinniest sense that when you speak I can hear it." He explained rather sarcastically.

I scoffed. 'Well, there's no need to be sarcastic about it. Also, you were the one who insisted on tagging along... So what's stopping you from leaving?'

I heard Shinwon clear his voice rather excessively in my head.

'Well, let me remind you. I can't leave you unattended in this time because I am afraid you will end up doing something stupid.'

I simply shrugged at him and turned my attention back to Sumi only to see that she was putting everything back into her bag. She stood up and I automatically did as well stumbling slightly in the process causing a chuckle to erupt from her. I looked at my watch only to see that an hour had passed.

'That can't be, the last time I checked it had only been 10 minutes?!" I thought and flicked by head up when I heard Sumi's mellow voice.

"It was nice sitting with you here today Minseok! Honestly, Woojin never sits with me in silence whilst I sketch. It was nice to have some company for once...Maybe, you could join me more often?" She shyly looked to the ground and I saw her shiver slightly from the harsh breeze of the wind.

I moved myself closer to her, catching her attention she looked up. I placed my hands on her knitted scarf adjusting it so it was higher up to keep her warm as I knew she would also catch a cold rather quickly. I slowly brought my gaze up to her face where her nose was pink and her cheeks were slightly flushed.

I backed away a step removing my hands from her scarf.

"I uh I had a, um... I had a..."I couldn't seem to get the words I wanted to say out from my mouth until Shinwon flicked the back of my head.

"I had a nice time with you too Sumi!" I blurted out and rubbed the nape of my neck.

She began running off into the distance before turning back towards me

'I'll see you soon Minseok!!!" She shouted as she walked backwards.

I stood there under the tree watching her run off and become smaller and smaller until I couldn't see her anymore. The leaves blew and rustled around be and I took a step forward only to be tripped up by Shinwon again.

His laugh echoed in my head and it suddenly felt very familiar. As if I have heard that laugh before.

I was about to get back up from the ground again when an overwhelming feeling of coldness overpowered by body making me go stiff.

It was him.

The man in my dreams was inflicting this pain onto my body.

Only this time there was no warm sensation to counter back at it so the coldness ate through my body and black spots were beginning to cloud my vision.

Shinwon had rushed to my side and was shouting, name but the echo of his voice seemed to fade out and darkness consumed me.

'She is mine and only mine...'

***

25th January 2017 – The Present

I gasped deeply, taking in oxygen and let the warm flood back into my body. I lay there on the cold tiled floor panting hard, but still kept my eyes shut. I heard a murmur of familiar low voices around me as I tried to find a regular breathing pace.

"Maybe he needs mouth to mouth resuscitation?" I clearly heard someone suggest and immediately opened my eyes, forcing my body to sit up bumping into someone's forehead!

"Owwww!" Chanyeol yelled gripping his head in pain stumbling back.

I rubbed my forehead gritting my teeth as Chanyeol did the same...

"Hyung!" He whined at me.

I sheepishly smiled at him whilst he just sent me a glare and pouted.

I looked around taking in my surrounding's, realising that I was back in the present in the bathroom I had stumbled into.

'Did no time pass whilst I was away?'

I brought my focus back to the seven boys circling around me staring at me as if they were anticipating some sort of explanation.

"So I'm guessing mouth to mouth resuscitation isn't needed anymore?" Baekhyun broke out into the silence and we all looked at him.

"What?" He shrugged.

I was about to say something to them when the door to the bathroom flung open and Jumnyeon stood there looking at me in shock whilst Jongdae quickly came over to me with hot packs.

"You're freezing Minseok!" He said as he placed one of the hot packs down my back catching me off guard.

"Do you know how worried we were?" Jongin ran a hand through his hair, looking directly at me as everyone else seemed to mumble in agreement.

Jongdae helped me get up from the floor and I stood in front of the nine boys who were all looking at me with concern and worry.

"Sorry guys I didn't mean to make you worry. I think it's just lack of sleep that made me faint...I'll head back home now though..." I explained and everyone seemed to relax.

"Yeah Minseok, get some rest!" Kyungsoo said with a warm smile.

"I'll drop him home..." Jongdae said, gesturing me to the door.

I slowly walked over to the door and the boys patted by back as I followed Jongdae out. Jumnyeon who was standing near the door stopped me abruptly and lowly said:

'Minseok, we need to talk not now, but soon."  He moved away, letting me go and I looked at him blankly before catching up with Jongdae

***

I arrived home and practically kicked Chen out,although he did whine, but I needed time alone because now I knew that this unknown voice was linked with Sumi, he had branded her as his and only his.

I knew I wasn't wanted in the past, but this has made it clear why... I'm not wanted because this man see's me as a threat not just to the entire alternative past but to Sumi.

I suddenly had a thought... If this man had shaped and designed this so called past that means he must have shaped the people in there too. What if he has created Sumi as a blank slate?

She was someone who doesn't remember anything because that isn't really her. I suddenly thought back to the tingly and warm sensations I had felt the night before I traveled back in time for the first time and arrived at her grave.

What if Sumi was the one summoning me?

A/N: Soooooo I spent soooo long planning TEOA yesterday and I'm proud to say I finally know ehre the hell this fic is going! Anyway soooo is Sumi summoning Minseok? Why did no time pass when he arrived back to the present? Finally what does Jumnyeon need to talk to Minseok about....

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