It was a cold and breezy day when Yerin decided to read the book she bought yesterday. It was one of her collections and she's pretty excited to read its content. It's her favorite story titled 'Astilbe' that she read online and she can't help but giggle. 

Even though she already read it online, she wants to read it again. 

 

'Hwang Eunbi'

 

The main character of the story and developed feelings for her even though she's merely fictional.

 

She never thought that reading this kind of book makes her heart flutter. Not just because of the good plot but also because of the heartwarming personality of Hwang Eunbi. She's painstakingly good and just effortlessly cute. 

 

 

"I wish I can meet you Hwang Eunbi so that I can tell you how much I like you," she murmured to herself as she flipped the page of the book. 

 

With her immense imagination, she thinks Hwang Eunbi has a pretty meek face with red hair, her cade hands that will make her feel at home when it reaches her hands, her burning eyes that will look at her and will tell how beautiful she is. She already thought of some of the fake scenarios where she and Eunbi were happy with each other's embrace.

 

 

No one can tell even herself the day when she fell in love with this character. She just woke up with a desire in her eyes when seeing Eunbi's name in the story. 

 

 

Because of her nonstop enchantment towards Eunbi, other people think that she's weird for liking someone who doesn't exist. 

 

 

"Look what you made me do, Hwang Eunbi. I've gone crazy over you," she muttered while burying her face on the pillow and tumbled on her bed after reading the part where Eunbi helped a lot of people from a monster in their kingdom. 

 

"Waah~You really have a good heart, my Eunbi~! I'm so soft!" 

 

She continued rolling on her bed while giggling without knowing that she has exam on College Algebra today. 

 

 

With her, she didn't care about her grades. She pretty excels in many fields that's why many of the students admire her at Jeongshin University.

 

 

All of a sudden, the vibration of her phone from the bedside table startled her. She quickly gets up and took the phone. 

 

She saw Eunha's name flashed on the screen.

 

"Yeoboseyo~?"

 

[Yah~! And when do you plan to come to school huh? Teacher Lee will be here in a few minutes and the exam will begin. Come here quickly and don't be such an asinine again!]

 

 

Eunha refers to the time where Yerin being late in class and she drastically ran until bumped into the maintenance personnel so all of the craps spilled on her school uniform. 

 

"Aish, yeah I know. I'll be there in a few minutes." 

 

She ended the call and fixed her things. Before going out into her room, she fixed her bangs and put some hairclips at the side of her hair. She kinda looked pretty and cute with the slight make-up. She also took her favorite brand of lipstick and applied it to her lips. 

 

She pouted as she looked at the mirror while mimicking some of the famous endorsers of her favorite lipstick. With her being pretty cute, she's also known as the kissing monster because she always kissed her close friends in the cheeks, despite the fact that others are kinda annoyed by her deep affection towards them and also because of the kiss mark that she always left in their cheeks, Yerin didn't stop to show her affection and not bothered by the rumors that she encountered in her daily life. 

 

Luckily, all of the luck this day went on Yerin because she didn't bump into maintenance personnel while running briskly.

 

Upon entering the room, she almost stepped backward when she saw that Teacher Lee was already giving a test. All of her classmates looked at her including Teacher Lee. 

 

"And you're late again Ms. Jung!" Teacher Lee walked in her direction while her hands were attached to her waist. 

 

"Uh yeah obviously," she sarcastically said that made some of her classmates laughed while resisting, afraid that Teacher Lee might catch them while the others shook their heads thinking that Yerin was really insane.

 

"What did you say?!"

 

"I don't know if you're deaf or just acting dumb as you are," she uttered and walked towards her seat. Eunha gave her a worried look as if she caused so much trouble. 

 

"Ms. Jung Yerin! Why are you acting like that?! Where are your manners?!" 

 

With Yerin being a stubborn brat, she ignored Teacher Lee and just played SuperStarGfriend on her phone.

 

"JUNG YERIN!!! I'M TALKING TO YOU! YOU PISS ME OFF!"

 

All of her classmates weren't able to continue answering the exam because of the tension between Yerin and Teacher Lee. 

 

Still, Yerin ignored her and continue playing on her phone.

 

"BECAUSE OF THAT, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE MY EXAM! MS. JUNG YERIN, STAND UP!"

 

Yerin looked at her and stood up while the phone is still in her hand. Teacher Lee's voice was really freakish that's why all of the students were really scared of her except Yerin. 

 

"What now?" She asked in a monotonous voice.

 

 

"When two rows of determinants are interchanged in position, the value of determinant will be........?"

 

Yerin just chuckled and gave Teacher Lee a sweet smile. 

 

"Multiplied by -1," she answered.

 

One thing that almost all of the students won't let Teacher Lee mad is because they don't want her to ask them questions about Algebra. Only Yerin has the urge to do it because she can easily answer it. Stubborn brat as she is. 

 

 

Teacher Lee is completely annoyed after seeing that smirk on Yerin's face for answering her question correctly so she just dismissed Yerin and didn't let her take the exam.

 

While walking on the school grounds, her hair was blown away by the wind that's why it kinda looked so messy now.

 

"Aish! My hair!" She quickly fixed it. 

 

After fixing her hair, she went to the school library and she planned to just spend the whole day in the library while reading ASTILBE.  

 

"Aigoo~! Good thing that I did that, I now have so much time to read my favorite novel. Hihi!" 

 

She positioned herself at the very end to not be bothered by anyone.

 

She flipped the page of the book and began reading the part.

 

But while she was reading half of the book, she was shocked when the words and letters in the book are missing slowly. 

 

She blinked her eyes hoping that it will turn back but it didn't. She also noticed that the words on other pages vanished as well. 

 

Her heart is now beating so fast. She doesn't have a clue of what's happening right now. Been nervous of what's the reason behind it. She really wanna know the mystery behind this horrible circumstance.

 

She was about to stand up when the book suddenly produced a blue light and it feels like it absorbed her whole energy, she can't even talk or move. She wanted to scream and ask for help but she can't do anything but stare at the blank page of the book that produces blue light. 

 

The light of the book captivates her and she wasn't able to move her eyes. It leaves her in' frozen and seems paralyzed. She's really scared to death. 

 

Little by little, she noticed that the book almost took all of her energy and everything went black.

 

 

***

Jung Yerin woke up from a sudden headache and tried to stand up. She barely opened her eyes and upon looking around, she felt distraught while realizing that she's lost. 

 

 

"Where the hell am I?!" She snorted while looking around. She completely remembered that she's at the school library while reading ASTILBE and now she's at the place that she doesn't even know. And obviously, she doesn't even know if this place exists.

 

 

Being perplexed, she started walking around to enlighten her. All she could see is a blue light, a nonstop and never-ending blue light. She feels like she's in a black dimension, the only difference is that she's being surrounded by blue light. 

 

 

She couldn't hide her fear when she suddenly remembered the blue light produced by the book she's reading.

 

'No it can't be, I'm not being dragged into another world, right?' She said to her mind.

 

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

 

 

She was totally shocked when she noticed that the blue light slowly fading and there she saw a silhouette of a guy running in her direction carrying something sharp. 

 

Because she was shocked, she couldn't move her body and didn't able to avoid him. She just closed her eyes and expecting that the guy will stab her but it didn't happen.

 

She abruptly opened her eyes and there she saw the guy already slumped on the ground. 

 

She gulped and quickly looked away when she saw the pool of blood of the guy flowing on the ground but she suddenly stopped and her eyes widened when she noticed a red-haired girl standing right beside her holding a swiss knife. She can still see the blood at the tip of it. 

 

She can't see the face of the girl because of the remaining blue lights that invade around.

 

She was a bit startled when the mysterious red-haired girl went closer to her. She thought that the girl will attack her so she stepped backward but she grasps Yerin's wrist and began running while still grabbing her hand.

 

 

They ran and ran to the never-ending blue lights and Yerin was really confused about what's really happening and why the heck she's running with this mysterious girl.

However, she can't deny the fact that this girl reminded her of the look of Hwang Eunbi having red hair in her imagination.