The Echoes Of Autumn | Minseok

Chapter Sixteen

Minseok's POV - The Past

I gasped jerking awake abruptly at the sound of my alarm thrumming in my ears. I fished out the mobile phone out of my pillow and turned off the alarm.

I took note of the room I was in and the surroundings and realized I was still in the alternative past. I felt a small smile tug at my lips as I remembered the events from last night.

I was deep in reminiscing in my memories when a wave of nerves crashed into me. I threw my head back into the pillow burying myself in it. I heard a faint thud and familiar presence in my head and did not even have to look up to see Shinwon.

"Hey Shinwon..." my voice sounding rather muffled as I lifted a lazy hand up to wave.

'Hello Minseok, I trust you did not do anything stupid whilst I was not here yesterday...' He questioned seriously inside my head.

I lifted my head to speak more clearly.

"Nope course I didn't..." I flopped my head back down into the pillow.

"Minseok, what exactly did you do?"

"Oh, you know, just asked Sumi out without planning anything and now I'm nervous just like I was the first damn time and maybe I should of waited longer maybe I'm not ready for this and maybe-"

My rambling was cut off by Shinwon.

"Breath Minseok..." He stated inside my head and I paused before groaning pushing myself deeper into the pillow.

I heard Shinwon sigh before he spoke wisely again..

"You love her, do you not? Tell me Minseok what is the point in saying maybe if you don't try."

"But what if she doesn't love me... She can't even remember me and I have all these insecurities that I once felt a long time ago... What if I'm not good enough for her? Maybe that's why she was taken away from me, why she cannot remember.."

"Minseok we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but, learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... If Sumi could love you in a time before this who is to say she cannot do it again. The time we have Minseok is limited and there is only one thing more precious than time and that is who we spend it on... So go spend every moment you get with her for time is not measured by clocks but by the moments that become engraved in our hearts and take our breath away."

I felt a tear slide down my cheek as I visualized my happiest memories with Sumi before feeling a warm sensation embrace me.

As if to comfort me like they knew the ache I had been feeling.

"Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur." [We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving.]

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I was kicked out of bed by Shinwon about an hour later who had forced me to have a shower. I jumped inside the shower, letting he water flow on top of me, causing my body to relax. As I washed myself up I heard Shinwon's voice shout excitedly inside my end almost making me to slip.

"Finally, you actually got real food!!"

Once again, it amazes me how this man can say such wise things at one moment but then get excited over food and laugh endlessly every time he tripped me up. 

I twisted the tap and the water came to a stop allowing me to jump out of the shower wrapping the towel around my waist when an idea hit me.

I began to hastily tug my clothes over myself and dashed out of the bathroom whilst scraping my hair down in the process. I spotted Shinwon sitting on the couch with the leather binder placed to one side about to tuck into his food.