“Ugh... what was that?” I said as I groan in pain and sitting up from the bed

The dreams were becoming more and more vivid the past night and it causes so much headache. Like my mind had been trying to figure out the meaning or remember who that other girl in my dream was

The more night passes, the more the surrounding get clearer but the only thing that doesn’t clear up is the girl. The girl wearing a grey fox colored coat with a beret hanged on her head

“You’re committing the same mistake” was what myself had said inside my dream

What does she mean by that? I’m getting more confused by that... what are they trying to convey?

I heard the bed of Sinb move and creak and I looked at her rubbing her sleepy eyes and her voice sounding hoarse “What happened?”

“Nothing. Just a nightmare” I said as I weakly smiled at her

“Again?” She then sat up from her bed and looked at the time from her phone

“You’ve been having nightmares frequently. Also... occurs usually in the same time” She raised her phone and flipped it’s screen to face me

It says 12:35AM and remembering the times that these nightmares usually happen to me, it seems like it always occurs in midnights

Sinb had also noticed this. Not once. Not twice. But a multiple of times she had woken up because of my grunt and uneasy movements while dreaming

There was one time, that I woke up screaming. I woke from because of a big truck coming at me, it wasn’t stopping despite of me standing in front of it. Like it wanted to crush me, to kill me.

I don’t know what exactly happening nor if someone is controlling my mind as I sleep and making me dream such terrible things.

But one thing’s for sure the dream is delivering me a message. It’s sending me a message but I just can’t decipher it due to how unfamiliar it all are

“I... I... I’ll just go outside and have a fresh air” I told Sinb as I stood up from the bed. She offered to come with me but I rejected it and told her that she should sleep to be energized for the next day of the school trip

I went to the pool side of the hotel and there was no one in it... except... for the familiar figure that was facing backwards

She looked somewhat familiar so I narrow my eyes, trying to get a clearer vision as I slowly walk towards her

As soon as I was a few meters away from her, she turned around with an expression like she was expecting me

“I’ve been expecting you, my dear Cupid” Her voice was so smooth and a little bit husky

I tried recalling if I’ve met her already—apart from us passing at the streets—but there seem to be no memory of me and her meeting nor talking in the past

“E-excuse me. Not being rude but, may I know who you are?” She nodded and walked closer 

“Ah! Of course, so rude of mine to not introduce myself to the one and only Kim Sojung”—She reached out her hand—“I’m the head of the grim reapers department. Sunmi”

As I’ve laid my hand on hers, I suddenly felt shivers and my head turning side, my veins popping out and I had a hard time breathing, like her touch was poison itself.

I immediately removed my hand while gasping for oxygen. She chuckled softly and sat at the nearest foldable chair

“I almost forgot that our touch are like poisons to others. I must apologize for that”

“What are you doing here exactly?” I asked  as I rotate my arm that was feeling numb due to her touch

She just looked at me, examined me from head to toe in amusement. She crossed her legs and put both of her hands on top of her knees, she looked at the night sky as she answer

“Nothing, really” 

“What?” She turned her and had a smirk on her face that made me anxious

“Nothing important. I’m just visiting the forbidden couple”—she pointed at me—“that would be you and”—slowly shifter her point towards the floor which Sinb and I share—“that mortal up in the floor”

I clenched my jaw along with both of my fists. She was talking like as if she was only playing... threatening or more like giving me the signal that she’s here for something more

“Oh, my dear, no need to be anxious. I’m not gonna take her life yet. So relax, no need to be tensing up during such a wonderful night” She then tapped the seat beside her, telling me to come sit down

“Then why would you come here? For what reason?” My stare to her was sharp as a knife and my tone was stern to show that I would not be messing around

“I would tell you that, of course. But first, sit at either beside me or on the floor if you wouldn’t like to be close to me”

I stared at her for a while but eventually sat because she doesn’t seem to be the kind who would talk unless she gets what she wants

“Good girl...” She said it in manner where it got on my nerves. She sounded like I was a puppy which she was trying to train

“Let me repeat my question. Why. Are. You. Here.” I said every each word in a manner where I was threatening her but it seems like she was unfazed. Her expression was still calm and blank

“Short tempered are we? Fine, I was here because I’ve discovered that you’ve been being haunted by a nightmare every night. Am I right?” My eyes widened by the knowledge she had said about my nightmares

“How did you know?” I hesitantly asked which made a curve on the tips of form

“I just know it. But well, I know very well the reason why it haunts you like a ghost”

I didn’t say anything but just waited for her to continue

“It usually happens around midnight, there’s two woman inside it. One appears to be you and the other one is a blur faced girl. Am I right?” She said sounding so confident making my brows furrow in uncertainty and doubt

“How do you know that?”

“Stop with the same questions. It’s irritating”

“Then why does it haunt me?” I said with my voice slightly raising

“The reaper made the sacrifice around midnight. That’s one of the reason”

“What does that have to do with me?” I asked but she just sighed and muttered something that I wasn’t able to hear

“She’s giving you a warning to turn your back now before the bad things happen”

I scoffed in disbelief because why would I turn my back on Sinb? I love her and I would never turn my back from her. I wouldn’t be able to see her in pain

“You wouldn’t be swayed by just a mere dream, aren’t you?”—she fished out an white envelope with a red stamp on its front—“But take a look at this and maybe you’ll get swayed and guilt will devour you”

She them handed me the envelope and as I pull out the paper inside it. It was a photo, a photo taken during the medieval era. The photo was as old as it’s supposed to

My eyes widened and my hands tremble as I see the persons inside the photo. Not want to believe what I was seeing was real, I kept mumbling “No, No, No” repeated times like a machine

“But unfortunately, what’s inside that photo is true”—She checked upon the time on her wrist and stood up—“Even though I want to be the one to explain that, I believe it’ll be your uncle Kyung’s responsibility to do”

She started taking steps forward until I shouted “Wait” making her stop but didn’t turn her head

“How... just how is this possible? To be exactly the same as the one inside my dream?”

“That would also be Kyung’s work, not mine. My task was just to hand you that confidential photo from the reapers’ community” 

Before I could stand up and reach for her, she was gone. Just like how she vanished into thin air at the street

“Impossible”—I laughed hysterically—“Living twice and loving the same person twice... just unbelievable”

Tears started to form with no particular reason, I wiped it off using my sleeves and my voice cracking inside me as every missing pieces come together inside my dream

“How?... Just how did this happen?...”

”This is impossible...”

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Author’s Note: I didn’t really elaborate but I think some of you would already catch the meaning of the chapter but also maybe some won’t and be confused on what is happening. I would elaborate what that meant on the next chapters // But do comment what you think about what just happened between Sojung and the photo haha ^-^ Giving a hunch is also a good thing :) // I just named her Sunmi and it’s up to u if you’ll think of her as Sunmi or another person you imagine