SINB’S POV

I woke up this morning with my eyes bloodshot again. There’s something I can’t seem to identify about that woman and why I am having that kind of dreams about her. And when she vanishes, I feel my heart clutching and I felt like I lost something. As if she was a part of me

A part of me which I never knew that existed in the very first place. Because every time she vanishes and every time I wake up, I felt like she took a piece of me with her.

And last night, that woman in front of me who was wearing a black jacket, I couldn’t help but feel this uneasy yet familiar aura that surrounds her.

I felt like I’ve known her even though I haven’t been able to see her face nor even just a glimpse of it. And when she suddenly disappeared from my sight, the disappointment in me couldn’t be hidden and no matter how much I turn my head and my body to find where she had gone... she just vanished. Like a ghost.

I just felt like she was the one whom I was looking for this whole time. I know it’s weird but there’s just this sudden thing that made my heart race when I saw the stranger’s back. Her figure, the way she walks, her movement, it all seemed familiar to me. Like she reminds me of someone, but I just don’t know who it was.

My head was aching because of the tears that that kept shedding nonstop when I woke up at midnight and because of how I was forcing myself to think and think of any reason why this was happening to me.

“Eunbi” I heard a familiar voice shouting my name until I felt an arm crash onto the back of my neck making me choke as I stumble and almost lost my balance due to how strong her arm was

I glared at the person who did and saw a friend of mine, Dahyun, looking panicked and worried at what just happened. I sighed as I remove her arm around my shoulder and said “What do you want now?”

I wasn’t being rude or anything because she knows how my personality works. But if she was another person who doesn’t know me then... I’ll probably look like I was agitated or angry at them

“Sorry about that...” she softly said as she rub her neck and I only nodded in response and continued walking

“Where are you currently going?” The guilt in her face now vanished and the way she said that question was in her enthusiastic manner

“Library”—I said timidly—“Gotta study for my exam at Physics tomorrow. I don’t want to fail that stupid subject”

She let out a soft chuckle despite of her having that subject as her favorite. I don’t hate the subject, in fact I just find it plainly weird and stupid. I mean I won’t eve use it in the future for my business

“Yeah. I heard that for about a million of times already. You should stop badmouthing Physics because who knows? You might need it in the future specially when you least expect it” She winked at me and jogged towards the library door to open it. She went in first but didn’t close the door for she had waited for me to also come in

I looked around the find a place where we could sit at and once we found it, I dropped my bag at the extra chair and sat. I took out my notes and my laptop to start studying but Dahyun here kept calling out my name in a ghostly manner. You know the sounds which ghosts to creepily call for you in horror movies?

I dropped my pen and stared at her unamused. I crossed both of my arms as I lean my back on the head of the chair and sighed “You do know I’m studying. And why are you even here in the library if  you’re just gonna nag and make those creepy yet not creepy noises? It’s a place where silence should be kept” I said as if I was lecturing her but knowing how she doesn’t care about the rule in this place... I doubt she’ll keep quiet unless I let her talk what’s in her mind

“Fine. What’s going through your mind?” I rolled my eyes and surrendered which made her softly clap her hand and a grin formed on her lips

“Well I’ve heard our department will have a new student—a transferee from California”—I nodded and gestured her to keep going even though I have no interest in that transferee or whatsoever she has in mind— “Remember what you told me about the girl in your dreams?”

The boredom in my face was soon replaced by interest upon hearing her last sentence and curiously asked “What about my dream?”.

A huge smirk formed in her face as if she was gonna tell something big and I was becoming more anxious while waiting for her to say something “It appears that I find some similarities with them. I saw the transferee I while ago at the administrator’s office and... she was around the height you told me and her voice, it was the same as you described it”

I stared at her as if I was trying to process all of what she had just said about the new girl. But upon realizing that it may just be a coincidence and the way I describe the girl in my dreams was not that accurate and I know almost nothing about her. I even don’t know her face

“I doubt it. Plus I barely know anything about that woman inside my dream and it may just be an imagination. Just like what Yerin had said” Despite of me saying those words, I was hoping that if that transferee really looks like the one in my dream, I hope that she will let me see the vague and blurry things inside my head become more clearer and gives answers to it

“I heard the admin say her name a while ago and it appears that it’s Kim Sowon if I heard correctly. Plus....”—she leaned closer and flapped her hands telling me to also come near. Which I did, obviously—“She’s a real beauty”

Kim Sowon... not a bad name I guess. I stood up from my chair and excused myself from Dahyun because I need to get a book from the Physics section. And as I approach it, I couldn’t remove the transferee and the woman in my dream away from my mind

“It couldn’t be. Just no way they look the same and even if they do, I don’t even know the face of the mysterious girl” I muttered before searching for the book.

Once I found where it was placed, it was at the top shelves making me groan out of annoyance. How am I supposed to get this? I tiptoed on my toes and stretched my right arm while the left was holding on the cabinet for support.

“A little more Eunbi” I mumbled as I was already reaching the bottom tip of the book until I felt someone’s presence at my back and heard a low yet soft voice—a voice with so much familiarity in it “I’ll get it for you”

Then I felt electricity suddenly surged as the tips of our fingers touched and my head suddenly ached. Visions of me with someone suddenly appeared out of nowhere

I saw myself at a beach with a woman—the same place and person appearing inside my head—but now, her face was visible. I can see it very clearly. She was kissing me so tenderly and passionate and I saw her having wings and seeing the mission she was given to do... a locked file which soon opened once the bobbed-hair girl said my name and Yerin as the couple that needed to be matched by her

“Cupid, I love you.... please don’t leave” I kept repeating it but every second, I felt my hand passing through her as if she was disappearing

“I won’t leave you. I will always watch you from afar and be at your heart. I won’t forget you and I will never stop loving you” Her words were barely understandable due to how it kept cracking and shaking and with those words... it became her last words and before I even knew it, she was gone from my sight and from my hold.

The next thing I knew was that my vision turned pitch black

I felt teardrops touch my cheeks as I regain and remember all my memories with her, Cupid, the one who was making me crazy for these past two years and made and still continues in making my heart race.  I was hesitating to turn around to see who made me remember all of this. Afraid of feeling disappointed if it was another person whom I will see and not her

Kim Sojung. Or should I say Cupid. The woman who had been haunting me during my sleep and made me realize was really is the meaning of love and what true love really feels. The very first and only girl whom I wanted to give my all to and whom I wanted to love and stay with the rest of my life

I clenched my fists and closed my eyes as I turn around, my heart kept beating fast due to how nervous I was feeling. Hoping that it’ll be her once I open my eyes... and when I did...

I felt speechless and more tears started to drop from my eyes. It was her... the same face with Kim Sojung. Everything about her was the same except for her hair which has pink highlights on it. I also have noticed that the same black hoodie that I have seen last night was wrapped around her waist...

She smiled at me—the smile that lights up my mood and the smile which was my favorite of all and wiped off the tears on my cheeks and said “A beauty like you shouldn’t cry And a smile coming from you would suit more”. And those eyes. Those brown orbs felt so familiar and so inviting, as if I was seeing her once again.

I stared at her, trying to figure out if what I was seeing was real and not just a mere imagination just like what had happened in the past. I placed my hand on top of hers which was placed on my cheeks

“Cupid?...” I said softly and she didn’t respond with any word but just smiled at me...

I raised my shaking hand to reach for her cheek but a sudden voice called out—probably for her—which made her turn to the direction of the voice which made me not able to touch it

“Miss Kim, I believe you went here to get the book that you needed and not to flirt with someone you don’t even know” she chuckled softly as she smiled at the professor who just called for her

She turned her head back to me and reached out for a book which was on the same layer as the book that I got. She was so close to mine that we were almost touching and I could sense that she was feeling my hot breaths as she reached for the book. After she got the book, she safely distant herself from me and the tall girl heavily breathed before saying “Well I guess I’ll see you around, gorgeous”—she lightly tapped the book that she was holding onto my head—“It’s nice meeting you by the way”

She leaned closer to me ear and whispered “Call me Sowon”—she leaned away and gave me that warm smile once more—“And I’ll probably be seeing you more often in this department”. She winked at me then jogged towards the professor who was waiting for her

I was left at awe and left speechless by how much she resemble Cupid, Kim Sojung, so much. Not knowing if they were even the same person or she was just some kind of doppelgänger of the girl who I fell in love with

As I watch her walk towards the exit of the library, I felt my heart skip a beat at the image of Sojung appearing right in front of me. They resemble so much that I was starting to question if Cupid survived after she vanished to thin air or do they just really look alike and are two completely different persons and identity.

But I felt something as I saw and had an interaction with that Sowon, I felt this tingling sensation as if butterflies were flying in my stomach. And I suddenly felt the missing piece that Cupid took away from me slowly coming back to its right place because of that meeting with her duplicate. Was it because she looked exactly the same as the girl that I had loved? Or.. did Cupid survived the pain?

the hope of thinking that Sojung had been alive this whole time, watching me from afar suddenly appeared because of the girl a while ago...  And I would gladly take the risk to deeper look through that girl even if heartbreak would come if she, indeed, is not the same girl that I had loved

it’s now or never. Hwang Eunbi

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Author’s Note: This is the last chapter and yes, an open ending haha. Leave your theories below, would love to read them ^-^

Thank you for supporting this story. I don’t really know how it turned out but to be honest it’s my favorite out of the stories I had worked and been working on so far *I enjoyed writing this story the most* and I hope you also like it :))

And will I make a sequel for this? Well it depends actually. Depends on how high would be the demand and how the rating of this story would turn out + the feedback ofc. But as of now I have no plans yet. And I hope you had enjoyed the journey on this story :)) // Leaving down your theories or how you felt for this finale and the whole story itself  is highly appreaciated ^-^