Do you believe in reincarnation? In fate? Destiny?

Well, I actually don’t…

 

Not before I’ve encountered that diary I magically found in my and Chen’s shared room,

 

Not before I’ve seen…her.

 

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Flight VC1018 please proceed to the boarding station. The plane will take off by 10 minutes. Thank you.

 

“Well Fan, I have to go now. I had a good time here in Seoul, thank you.” Mrs. Li smiled, hugging her celebrity son.

“I’m glad you did mom, and thank you for coming here. I’m sorry I can’t come myself, Canada’s too far from Korea.” Kris rolls his eyes at the last sentence and laughs.

“It’s alright, I understand. Also, take care of yourself okay? I’m really proud of you, Jiaheng.”

“Ma, what’s with the use of different names? Besides, my name is not Jiaheng anymore. I’m now Wu Fan aka EXO-M’s Kris.” He grimace and Mrs. Li only smiled.

“I know, but you were born with the name Li Jiaheng. Learn to treasure that name, your name.”

Kris seemed to be puzzled at what his mother had meant, but he was brought back to reality when the intercom’s voice spoke again.

“I really have to go, the plane might leave me,” Mrs. Li chuckles. “Thank you for the great time, Fan.” The blonde male nodded, smiling as he kissed his mother’s cheek before the middle aged woman waved him goodbye.

“Take care mama!” he shouts and the woman waved back again in response.

 

“Let’s go?” a voice spoke behind him. Kris nodded, taking a last glance back to where his mother  disappeared to and turned around to follow his manager back to their van.

 

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“Hmm? What’s this?” Kris mutters to himself, eyebrows furrowed in curiosity as he stared down at an old looking notebook lying on his bed.

‘Mom must’ve left it.’ He thinks and immediately gets his phone to call his mom.

 

‘Hello? Fan? Why’d you called?’ his mom’s voice spoke from the other line.

“Well, did you happen to forget an old looking notebook here in my bed?” Kris immediately asks, taking the notebook in his free hand and raising it up in the air.

‘oh….Oh! That notebook? Nope, I intentionally left it, that’s yours right?’

“Huh? But I don’t remember having any notebook like this.” Kris says in confusion, sitting on his bed and putting the notebook on his lap.

‘I think it’s your diary, since I’ve seen a ‘Dear Diary’ thing on it.’

 

“Eh?”

 

‘But don’t worry! I’m not nosy enough to read anything in there…oops! Gotta go, I have so work to do, bye! I love you!’

“Okay bye mom, I love you too.”

 

Kris sighed as he put his phone down and stood up once again, the notebook occupying his hands. He inspected the cover as he paced around his and Chen’s room.

“My diary? But I don’t recall keeping anything such as diaries.” He said incredulously, opening the notebook and stopping on a certain page that caught his eye. On it was an inserted old photo of a beautiful woman with big curls, her lips and nose were like drawn perfectly by God and her eyes seemed so alluring. He took the photo to look at it more and when he did, an uncertain feeling rushed inside him. His heartbeat became fast and weird things churned inside his stomach.

He felt that he had already seen this girl somewhere, but he doesn’t know when.

‘Kris hyung? Are you in there?’

 

Kris looked down at the page where the old photo was inserted and to his surprise, the entry was written down in his own hand writing.

6th of November 1875

Dear Journal,

      I’m thankful to the heavens that it’s my birthday today. I’m already 21 and my birthday wish was to have more health and prosperity in the future years. But this is not the main reason why I’m here.

 

Kris suddenly felt his head ache, but he decided to ignore it and continued reading.

 

                Just a while ago, while I was on my carriage on my way to the city, I saw this beautiful woman. No, she’s not just beautiful. She’s alluring; her beauty is beyond words. She’s perfect, like an angel sent from the heavens above, and even though I found her completely soaked under the rain, her beauty continued to shine more.

 

‘Hyung, I’m coming in okay?’

 

She has a very beautiful name, her name is—

 

Everything went black.

 

 

“Kris hyung?”

 

“Hyung? Wake up!”

 

“Duizhang,”

 

“Wake up!”

 

 

 

‘Jiaheng, I can’t wait to see you again….’

 

 

 

 

 

Author’s Notes:

• Carmen is a Romantic Period Opera that was made by Georges Bizet in 1875.
• I was inspired to write this story when we started having our lesson in our Music Class about the Romantic Period thus, this story is not a ‘Carmen’ based one, rather, I used the opera to elaborate how the story will flow which means it is only a medium. 
• Also, things that are in this story are all fictional except for some parts where the opera, Carmen will be mentioned.
• I did an accurate research between the timeline clash of the Romantic Period (1815-1910) and the Victorian Era (1837-1901) so I hope that there will be no miscalculations about the timeline or whatsoever. If there is then, I beg your pardon.
• The setting is in London, starting the timeline of October 1875.
• I do not own any of the KPOP idols that will appear in this story. Only my own characters and of course, the plot. Thank you and enjoy reading.