The Echoes Of Autumn | Minseok

Chapter Twelve

Sumi POV:
25th January 2015 – The past

I scurried out of the park quickly, leaving Minseok near the autumn tree and walked along the path to head home. I tugged on my scarf slightly where a smile formed on my lips as I recalled the moment where Minseok had adjusted it for me.

Imagined his brown hair fluttering away in the wind and the slight pink tint he had on his cheeks when he had stepped close to me. I remembered his eyes, which were the shades of the acorns that tumble around during autumn, but his eyes were bright enough even to shine within the shadows or darkness. But visibly behind those brown eyes I could see a boy trying to mask pain and had a mind full of thoughts and worries.

With Minseok I had this sense of familiarity with him, as if I had seen him before. In other words I felt a deep connection with him somehow that I couldn't seem to pick up. It was baffling me, confusing me in ways where I couldn't sleep anymore, where I was beginning to feel out of place like I did not belong here.

I shook and pressed my finger tips to my head as I tried to make sense of these things I was feeling.

'Maybe I'm just being paranoid?' I mumbled to myself as I walked.

The breeze of the wind began to get stronger and the leaves blew violently across the street I walked on and the trees swayed back and forth shaking the leaves off as they tried to grasp on for dear life.

I looked up to the sky, seeing that the sun had been swept away and filled with dark clouds in its wake.

'Is there a storm coming?" I thought squinting my eyes at the clouds as darkness began to move across the streets as if the all the light had been had been stolen away. It surrounded everything.  It ate up everything in its path.

I hurriedly began to walk and dizziness had entered my body and the world seemed to sway as if the ground was being swept from underneath me. I began to stumble planting my hands onto anything I could find to prevent me from landing flat on my face.

"Why is this happening again!?" I gasped out in panic.

My steps became slower as a mass amount of pain shot through my head and a blurry memory sped by. I gripped my head in pain and agony trying to look up to see a blurred figure rushing towards me. My legs could no longer support my body and my hands went limp, leaving the support from the wall I had.

I fell forward expecting to hit the ground, but instead landed in someone's arms. My vision was fading out and his face was clearly hidden so I could not see him.

I let unconsciousness overtake my body, no longer having the power to fight it off and the world around me vanished as darkness clouded my vision.

Before I went limp I heard a voice echo around in my head:

'meminissete oportet' [You must remember]

'nolite prohibere pugnae' [You must not stop fighting]

***

'Come on!' I shouted in the distance running off.

'Sumi, wait I can't run that fast!' A voice called back at me.

"You have to catch me!" I playfully teased.

I kept running and running towards the wide field with my hair whipping through the wind. I could hear the same voice calling after me leaned against the large oak tree staring up at the blue sky full of puffy white clouds that were merging together, creating different shapes and pictures for us to interpret in our own way.

My eyes fluttered close as the heat from the sun projected onto me and I stood there in pure bliss at this peaceful moment.

I jumped when warm hands wrapped around my waist, pulling me into his chest and chuckled.

"Gotcha..." The familiar voice said in a low tone.

I smiled and placed my small hands on top of his that were securely on my waist, relaxing into his embrace as I looked towards the beauty of the landscape that just screamed autumn. We stood there in pure silence where the leaves blew around us.

The silence was broken by three simple words spoken warmly and fondly by the man who was standing behind for the first time...

'I love you...'

I felt a swarm of butterflies flutter around in my stomach as I felt my lips tug upwards into a smile of pure happiness as I spoke again...

"I love you too..."

***

I woke up in my bed where the sheets were a tangled mess and I stared upwards at the ceiling.

That was not a dream... That was a memory. This is the third time it has happened. I am recalling memories that I do not even remember having.

The whole situation is beginning to become rather strange. Everytime I have passed out unconscious I have always had these dreams or memories if that's what they are... This figure, this man is always there but I can't see him.

But I know him.

I feel happy with him.

Safe with him.

I sighed dramatically and flung my arm out across the bed and then hauled myself up heading towards the kitchen cuddling my pillow in my grip.

I froze when I looked towards the sofa seeing a figure lying there. Their face was buried deep within the pillow so I could not see them so I cautiously wet towards the sofa and lifted my pillow smacking the figure harshly..

I kept hitting and hitting...

Until the voice yelled;

"Sumi, stop!"

The pillow stopped in mid air upon hearing my name and I looked over to the sofa to see who exactly I was hitting.

"Oh god...Woojin I am so sorry!"I rushed to his side making sure he was okay.

"No biggie... Maybe I shouldn't have fallen asleep on the sofa?" He chuckled and I grin appeared on my face.

"What are you doing here anyway?" I asked confused.

"Ah well... You fainted yesterday? Don't you remember?"

Of course, I remembered, I also remembered the words that had echoed through my head.

I had to remember, I had to keep fighting?

But what the hell was I supposed to remember?

My jaw slacked open when realisation hit me.

The dreams/memories... I need to remember my memories?

"Sumi.. Sumi?" Woojin waved a hand in front of my face.

"I have to recall my memories... I have to remember someone... Someone who means a great deal to me..." I whispered.

Woojin looked at me stuck in thought.

I scrambled up to my feet stumbling slightly before another piercing shot of pain went straight through my head.

Not again.

I feel on top of Woojin on the sofa where I heard his voice before passing out again:

"Fight against it Sumi! You must!"

The voice was shut out out by a cold one entering my head:

"You need to stop remembering him... You need to stop calling to him, because in the end you will only be mine...Once he has gone my world shall begin."

A/N: Sooo I wanted a Sumi POV to show that she is also having some weird effects and symtoms in this alternative past but she also had this familiarity with Minseok and her dreams are not exactly dream but memories that she needs to remember. But Oh Sumi of course plays a huge huge part to this alternative past..

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