"Kyungsoo, you told me before. You told me that you had to go back to the Real World. You said that you wouldn't be able to move forward if you didn't."

"Yeah..."

I awkwardly nodded back before hesitantly continuing. 

"But I don't know if that's the right thing to do anymore. Because... I know I'm being selfish here."

I prefaced the conversation with those words before telling him how I really felt.

"I don't want to be apart from you Baekhyun. It was so fun spending time together with you. Wonderland is a wonderful place and all, but... I've now realized that it was Baekhyun who kept my heart here in this world."

Baekhyun was at a loss for words as if he were stunned. I looked him right in the eye without looking away for even a moment.

"Thank you, Kyungsoo. I never even dreamed that I would hear you say that."

Baekhyun bashfully smiled, and I smiled back at him.

(At first, I thought he was a bit of a handful... Make that two handfuls... But after seeing how kind he was and getting a chance to see who he was as a person... I'm now closer to Baekhyun than anyone else in Wonderland.)

That was how I truly felt.

"Hey, Baekhyun. The Spinner of Tales really wants me to play the role of 'Alice', right? Alice is to live forever in Wonderland as the protagonist of this tale... But I'm not Alice."

Things were no different than before. I was Kyungsoo, not Alice.

"I don't want to play out a life that someone else decided for me. I'm me. I'm not a character in someone else's tale. You feel