Chapter 10,

The run in with Sejong left me with even more unanswered questions about him. I started to second guess everything now. What if there were lots of other people like us out there?

What was our purpose?

That night when I got back to Dohwan's I was extremely out of it. He noticed as soon as I came through the window. 

"Are you alright? It took you a while to get back?" He asks.

I shake my head. "I'm fine, just tired that's all."

"Okay." He heads out into the hall and comes back shortly after with a plate full of food. He hands it off to me. "Eat."

So I do but my mind is still caught up on Sejong and how I'm not the only weird person anymore.

-

Sunday flies by with Dohwan and I just lounging around the park, he had noticed I wasn't my usual self but he chose not to comment on it as I kind of gave him a roundabout answer anytime he tried to last night. We sat on the swings, his swing was still while I pushed my legs back in forth to make the swing sway a bit. The silence between us wasn't awkward nor was it weird it was just calm. I think he will always understand that there are things I won't tell him about right away which I was grateful for.

"You're staying at my place tonight too right?" Dohwan finally breaks the silence.

"Yeah it'll be my last night though, I don't want to burden you anymore. Plus I don't want your Grandma being upset that a girl is sleeping in the same room as her grandson." I glance at him, he was staring at his feet at first but his head turns towards me after a few seconds.

He laughs. "Yeah she might have a heart attack walking into my room and seeing you there. I've never brought a friend home before, let alone a girl. She'd like you though."

I smile, "Don't forget to bring up the idea of moving in together to her, you don't have to talk about me until I meet her though."

He nods, "Of course."

I move my head to face the sunset and my eyes squint upon seeing a figure walking closer to the park. It was Sejong, I bite my lip as I glance at Dohwan who's also noticed him.

Dohwan stands quickly. "What are you doing here?"

Sejong comes to a halt in front of us, he was wearing his backpack he wore to school and casual clothes. "I came to talk to Taeran for a bit." Sejong glances at me and I let out a low sigh.

"Taeran?" Dohwan asks, I think he was expecting me to turn the offer down because he seems confused when I agree to talk with him.

"Dohwan, I'll meet you back at your place." I glance at him. Dohwan eyes me with wide eyes, his mouth opens to retaliate but I shake my head at him. He lets out a loud sigh before he finally stalks off.

-

Sejong and I ended up moving to sit on the bench nearby, coincidentally it's the same bench from the other day.

"Did you have another dream?" I ask him, my hands grasp together in my lap at the thought. Sejong may be the one to give me the answers I've been looking for, I needed to keep him close.

I hear him take a breath. "No but my skin is tingling and I have a killer headache coming on, which can only mean one thing, your death dream is coming within the next few days."

I swallow. "How long do you think I have after you have the dream?" My eyes stay frozen on how my fingers dug into the backs of my hands.

"I'd say at least twenty-four hours, I think the reason I have the dreams is so I can stop the death from happening. I think that would mean I'd know a bit in advance in order to try to save you." The bench creaks as he stands, he steps forward staring into where the sun had almost disappeared. Him standing with his back to me, the sun's rays flowing around him made him seem like an angel. "I still find my ability weird, I can only save you from the death in my dream but if I do save you all that will happen is you'll die sometime later in life, sometime in which I won't be able to prevent since I won't see it because everyone dies, it's inevitable."

I push myself into a standing position, I move around him to stand in front of him. I turn to face him, I glance down noticing our shadows were one, this was the only way Sejong and I could touch.

"That's where my ability differs from yours." My eyes move back to him. "Even after I save someone the next time I touch them I just see them die in a different way. It's hell so consider yours a gift, mine's a curse."

He shrugs. "I wouldn't say that, we both have the wonderful ability to save others."

I shake my head. "I can see where you're coming from but I'm not sure I can see it as a gift."

-

The next day Dohwan was quieter than usual, he was already lying wrapped up in the blankets when I returned to his house last night and he was already gone this morning when I woke. He was clearly peeved about Sejong and why I wasn't explaining anything but I couldn't bring myself to tell him yet. I don't know if I wanted him to know I'd die soon, I know from experience that there is nothing more painful than knowing someone is going to die and not being able to help them. I experienced it with my brother before I knew what my ability was.

So I turn my eyes away from Dohwan who's head was face down in his arms on his desk. My eyes move to Sejong's empty desk, he wasn't here and it was weird. But then again I didn't know a whole lot about him. Just that he can see death just like me.

My hand rests on my desk, I reach into the space where I had left the notes o