Chapter 17: RABID SQUIRREL
"There's an intruder!!!"
The man who opens the storage screams at the top of his lungs. Dexter quickly put me down, grabs my hand and we begin to run.
Not having time to think, we run towards the woods which I must say it's a bad idea. If this was a movie and a character acted like this, I'll be furious and start looking for ways to slap the character.
After a while of running, it seems the men have stopped following us and gone in another direction. I look down to see Dexter holding my hand but I don't say a word.
~I mean, when next will I get to hold hands with a pretty boy and one who likes distancing himself from people at that?~
I smirk at myself looking at Dexter checking out our surroundings to ensure we're not being followed. Maybe the look on my face only looks sexy in my imagination but Dexter has an upper-case WTF look on his face.
He looks down on our hand that's entwined and in a second his hand is gone from mine.
"You were the one who grabbed my hand first, why are you acting like it's a big deal?"
He shakes his head from side to side and starts walking ahead of me. Now I'm paying attention to my surroundings and I must say it's really beautiful.
It's an open field with little grass everywhere, a place that might be filled with flies in the afternoon but maybe it's because of the moon and its shine that everything looks beautiful. I suddenly feel something drip on my head and the drip soon became uncountable in a matter of minutes.
Dexter walks back towards me with his hand over his head.
"Let's quickly head back or you'll catch a cold."
Maybe it's because I'm already showered in the rain, it doesn't seem that cold for a sudden rain in November.
"Do you want to stay in the rain for a little while and live out the moment you've dreamed of a million times?"
I say to Dexter who isn't bothering with covering his head anymore.
"Huh?"
He replies.
"I know of a world where people call you crazy for walking or dancing in the rain even though they want to do the same. "
"Since no one is watching except you, I might as well do what I've always wanted to do."
"Don't be bothered about me catching a cold, I don't get sick easily."
I start running away from where Dexter is standing looking at me. I probably look like a rabid squirrel trying to dance but, this is more fun than I thought. This is the most free I've felt since I got here.
I look up to the moon and say;
"It would be nice to go back."
I start laughing at my own word and start jumping around in the rain with Dexter witnessing my whole bizarre performance.
~~~~~
The room filled with posters and fan gifts echoes with laughter as the people in it clink their glasses and alcohol bottles together again.
A man in a blue shirt laughs and walks away from the room.
"Editor Woo, where's writer Kwon?"
One woman asks noticing the absence of the man in the blue shirt minutes after he's left. Editor Woo looks around the Livingroom and heads up the stairs to the writer's room.
.....
I come back to my room after I decided the congratulations party is boring and I should walk on drawing more chapters. My story And So It Begun is getting a Season 2 and I don't want fans to be disappointed after I've got Best Storyboard of the Year in TOONLY AWARDS.
I switch on my pc and go to my character's page to see which character needs improvement when I see something weird. I rub my eyes and put on my glasses but it's still there.
"What's this? I don't remember drawing this character."
There's a light sketch of a female character that if you don't look closely, you'd miss it.
"Did someone mess with my pc?"
"No, I'm the only one with the password."
I zoom in on the character very well trying to remember when I drew it.
"Maybe it's a side character I drew?"
The door suddenly opens and Editor Woo comes in.
"What are you doing here? Today is the only break you have so you had better drop that pen and come outside."
Editor Woo removes my glasses and drags me out of the room...
As soon as the people left the writer's room, the character's page he had previously closed opens again and the barely seen sketch of a female he had previously seen becomes bolder.
~~~~~
I should have listened to Dexter last night. It seems I've temporarily forgotten I'm no longer in my own body and she's got quite a weak immune system.
*ACHOO*
I sneeze again for the hundredth time as I mop the floor of the care home. Evalyn has come back from her trip and she bought a lot of food and medicine that the storage is almost filled up.
Even though they need an extra hand, I can't help since I'm like this so I'm mopping the floor to make everywhere clean at least.
"Even Dexter and Leon are helping and here I am mo.. *ACHOO*ACHOO*"
*ACHOO*
On the third sneeze, it felt like my soul left my body and my whole body becomes jelly as I feel myself falling.
...
What's this hard surface?
"It's very uncomfortable."
Wait... That voice doesn't sound like Vivian's even though I just talked.
"it sounds like..."
"Me!!!"
My eyes spring open as I sit up to see I'm back in my dining room. I stand up and pat my body from head to toe and it feels and looks exactly like me.
I run to the bathroom to look at the mirror and there I am, Ji Hye Rin staring at herself in the mirror like she's looking at a stranger.
A big smile comes to my face.
"Finally I'm back!!!"
I start pouncing around running back to the living room to look for my phone.
"I really did well not going crazy for the past three months."
"Now that I'm back, I'm going to live my life as honestly as I can."
During my rejoice, something suddenly dawned on me.
I'm wearing the clothes I had on when I disappeared and I woke up in the position I fell face flat.
"Did no one check on me at all?"
I pick up my phone from the couch in the living room to see if I have any missed calls or texts but there's none.
"The date is June 6 2023 and the time is 00.09"
Then this means...
"I've only been gone for an hour, not 3 months."
A sudden wave of sadness hit me as I make my way to the couch and take a sit.
"If I've only been gone for an hour then was it all a dream?"
"Even if they are fictional characters...Ruby, Mary, Margret, Dexter and all the other people and memories are just a dream?"
Sometimes I have dreams of making a whole family and the wave of sadness I feel when I wake up to see it's not real is nothing compared to what I'm feeling right now.
I look around my house now that the energy from before had left and tears pour down my eyes.
"Even if it's sad, it's nice that I'm back."
"Back to reality."
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
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