20.

A Flask Filled with Memories

The bell has run and quickly they ran into their classrooms. As Usual, SHINee arrived to class in time and thankfully the boys were forgiven since they were singers. Infinite went to Japan once again for their concerts while Block B remained traveling around the world for their worlds tour. SHINee however were still here in Korea, still on their break until their comeback which were months away.

Taemin was still as peaceful as ever while the others had their own ego to carry out. As he sat down, he was about to greet someone who was sitting next to him. It was somehow a habit, thinking that someone he knew was sitting there but unfortunately, thinking that his mind was playing tricks, there was no one there to begin with. Shaking that away the thoughts that he was positive that someone used to sit there. 

Everyone felt weird, sometimes, they would look at that empty seat that was placed besides Taemin desk. For these two years, it felt somewhat strange, they were also sure that a certain someone used to sit there, but none could remember the appearance hence the name of the seat owner.

For a school that's connected to its University, the year 12 students had no problems in their heartbroken farewells since they knew that they'll see each other once again once University starts. Tomorrow was the day of graduation where all the year 12's will graduate from high school and will move onto their next stage in education, known as Seoul University.

School ended peacefully, and everyone walked home, for two years already, SHINee had gotten closer to Jay Park and Eve who moved into the school. When they talk and have fun, Jay and Eve would usually say something weird, mentioning a girl's name that none has ever heard of, whenever they do that, they would instantly cover their mouths and tears will start to form in the corner of their eyes. When anyone asks if they're alright, they'll nod before wiping away their tears with smiles on their faces.

Not knowing that someone was walking home along with them, the girl followed the group of people to her home, going home with Jay and Eve. Unfortunately, the girl had no recollection of her memories, the doesn't know her name, she doesn't know her family, she knew nothing. "What am I doing? I seem like a stalker" The girl said as she followed Jay and Eve home who had just separated with SHINee.

"Hey Taemin. Between us in SHINee, are we the only person who feels like somethings missing in our lives?" Jonghyun asked as he turned around, walking backwards. "I'm not sure hyung...But I do feel like you're right" Taemin answered. "I agree with Taemin there. For two years straight, my brain feels empty and my heart has a hole in it...Even I don't have the happiness to stare my my delicious chicken now!" Onew whined.

Once the five boys got home, the switched on the light and soon the five got an illusion of an unfamiliar girl turning around with a warm smile saying, "Welcome home guys!"

The boys shook their heads as they continued to deal with their ordinary lives, "And there it is again...A girl turning around saying 'Welcome Home'" Key complained as he dropped dead on the couch while turning on the TV. "Who's doing cooking?!" Minho yelled out from this room, "I think Onew is in charge!" Taemin yelled. "What about Key?! He's the so-called Umma in this group!" Onew detested. "I'm not cooking! I have to clean!" Key yelled out from the storeroom.

"Fine! What about some Pizza?!" Onew yelled out. "Sure thing!" The four boys called out.


While Taemin was cleaning his room, he bumped into his study desk which made something fall down onto the floor. Since Taemin was done cleaning anyways, he picked the falled book at looked at the cover, "Memory Photos..." Taemin read out. He shrugged his shoulder as he took the book out into the living room where all his hyungs lay.

"Hey, look what I found. A photo album from two years ago...I think year 10?" Taemin said as he sat down next to Minho. "Let's see! Let's see!" Key said in a childish tone. 

SHINee huddled over around Taemin as he began to open the book. Memories of the old days made SHINee laugh but soon as they continued to flip through the pages, they all noticed something strange in the pictures. "Ummm, Jonghyung...Why are you leaning against thin air?" Key asked in a curious voice. "I remember that I was leaning against someone..." Jonghyun said.

They continued to flip through the pages and they noticed that a certain space was made in their photos, as if there was someone there, they thought about it thoroughly. "Are we forgetting someone?" Minho asked. "I'm not sure, but I am sure that Jay and Eve should know something...They keep on mentioning the name _______ in our conversations time to time. Let's crash over their place!" Onew cheered. "Yea! Let's go!" Minho cheered.

SHINee notified their manager and asked him to drive them to Jay and Eve's place which he allowed. A few minutes later, they all arrived to their friends household and immediately, they felt like they've been here plenty of times, SHINee quickly thanked their manager before running over to their place. Taemin knocked on the door and slowly the door opened to reveal Eve peaking out. "SHINee?! What are you boys doing here?! It's like 8pm!" Eve said with confusion.

"We need to ask you something anyways, are you letting us in or not?" Onew whined. "Fine, fine, come in" Eve said opening the door wider, allowing them to enter. "Sorry for coming over this late" They all said with a bit of guilt in their voices. "No worries, just make yourselves at home in the living room" Eve said, closing the door behind them before running upstairs to call Jay.


"So did you want to ask?" Jay asked. "Well, we have this album..." Minho said, handing over an album to Eve. As they opened the the album, their eyes widen with shock to see a space missing and weird poses in the album, Jay let out a fake cough to cover his shock as he closed the book before handing it back. "We wanted to know, do you two people know about this? We're not accusing you but you two seem to know something that we don't...." Taemin said with a concerned face.

"It's something difficult to explain...." Eve said quietly. "So you do know what's happening?!" They all asked in shock. "W-W-We don't know anything..." Jay spurted out. "Sure, Sure! Please tell us. We need to know what's happening!" Onew said. "We don't know what you're talking about!" Eve reasoned with a forced smile on her face. "We know that you're lying. Having dances with a partner but no one in the crew knows, illusions of a girl in our dorms, saying 'Good Morning' to an empty seat. Just tell us already!" Jonghyun shouted.

Eve flinched and looked over to her brother who gave her a slight nod. "Well you see. We're not normal people...We're people who were born with magic. In that photo album, there should be a girl in it named _______." Eve explained. "She plays a big role in our friendship. If you all can't remember then it's because, all of her existence were erased from this world. Nothing about her now exists in this world, only me and Eve knows since we've used magic to seal our memories" Jay said.

"Can you describe her?" Taemin asked as he felt a throb in his heart. "Well, ______ has brown hair, a bubbly personality, a lovely singer, a beautiful girl and an energetic person...To tell you the truth, she was Taemin's girlfriend. She died once by bullying, her body was severely injured by the tricked students here at school. Having an unknown chemical flow inside her body, she died. ______Then returned back into this world as a living person, carrying out a job that she accepted from God. We, close childhood friends noticed that this day would come, came to Korea to help her, ______ being a strong girl fought against evil as she strived to collect purified hearts in a glass jar. It was said that she had to fill up her jar in within the four seasons...In other words a year -" Jay explained.

"_______ was a bit short on hearts on the last day of her agreement and because of that, she was erased from this world and everything about her was taken away from us. Taemin's heart filled up her bottle but unfortunately she was too late, she was gone, the princess of the Celestial World had vanished. We, who knew that day would come, didn't make it on time...We never found the sealed magic that could save her life. Her spirit is wondering around the world with no recollection of her memories...Poor girl, she was such an angel to us" Eve continued her explanation.

"So this _______ is someone who died two years ago...Taemin's lover and a close friends of ours?" Key asked. Eve and Jay nodded their heads. "Allow us to give you what we remember, but you guys must remember about her yourself..." Eve said as the two got up and walked to each of them, placing their hands on their heads which then glowed a warm, yellow pastel color.


"What have we been doing for all of those two years?...." Minho asked with tears in his eyes. "I don't believe it...I believe that she's here! Right here with us!" Taemin shouted in frustration. "She must be alone and cold...She would never leave our side! She must be here with us!" Taemin continued with tears flowing from his eyes. "We made a grave for her nearby. Go and visit her sometimes..." Eve said with a forced smile.

"Sorry for disturbing you two, we're going now..." Onew said as they all headed to the door heartbroken.


"Are you sure that we've done the right thing?" Eve asked as she cried under her brothers embrace. "I'm sure she's still out there looking for us. I'm sure that she'll return soon...She loved this world, she wouldn't just leave it and float in space" Jay said with tears strolling down his cheek.

"Jay, it hurts...My heart aches when we talked about ______. I miss her!" Eve cried out. "We all do Eve, we must believe in her and continue our search..." Jay said.

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Maria_Maraki
#1
Chapter 24: was beautiful story!!! :)
Andreaaa06 #2
Aaaah! TAEMINNIEEEE~ ❤️❤️❤️
iinnoccentAzn
#3
Chapter 24: Hello! The renewed version of this series is now up. Please click here! : http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/825014
Sakura_24 #4
Chapter 23: Please come back and make a sequel where they have children!
silversorbet
#5
Chapter 23: I;m glad you're continuing to write fanfics, no matter what they're about. :)
sauvignon #6
Chapter 23: glad you're back (:
silversorbet
#7
Chapter 22: So adorable!!! I LOVE IT.

50 carats is kind of big though, don't you think?
Kcymmi
#8
Chapter 22: T.T such a cute ending i loved it
silversorbet
#9
Chapter 21: Wonderful...what did Taeminnie remember??? I feel so sad for her, not remembering anything.