Chapter 10
“So you're not gonna talk to him?" Koushi asked sternly.
Yoon Min shook her head.
Koushi turned towards Beomgyu, "How many days has it been?"
He raised seven fingers, indicating a whole week.
"Yah, Song Yoon Min! Are you crazy? It's been a week since that incident. Senior Guardian Jin has already forgot it. Are you seriously gonna hide from him the rest of your lives?"
Yoon Min sighed and closed her eyes, leaning her back against her locker. It wasn't like she was not letting him a chance but she was really embarrassed about her drunken action unlike others. Seokjin looked cool as he forgot about everything. But the victim can never forget.
"And, Choi Beomgyu, stop helping her. I saw you alerting her whenever Jin is around and you help her run away from him. This isn't necessary. We are guardians. We shouldn't keep a weird relationship among us. Who'll help us out if not each other?"
Beomgyu replied to Koushi, "Yoon Min doesn't need Jin or anybody to help her. I am here for her and no one cares if things are mixed up between her and Jin. Really, Koushi."
Koushi scoffed openly and said, "Yah, stop bragging about your friendship. This is annoying." she hand-faned herself.
Yoon Min decided to brush things off.
"Guys, let's not talk about this. Anyways, Koushi, can you tell me if we have any class in an hour?"
Koushi answered, "We have one in 10 minutes actually."
She sighed, as if she expected a different answer. Beomgyu was the first one to notice her sudden change of condition and put his hand on her shoulder with concern, "Yah, you okay?"
Koushi then asked, "Why? Are you ill?"
She shook her head lightly; grateful at the fact her friends were worried for her. She softly said, "I had too many calls today. And I just came back from Earth like 7 minutes ago. I feel tired, that's all."
"You should skip classes then. Let me take you to your room." Beomgyu already held her arm tenderly and took preparations to pull her with him.
But she strongly denied, pulling back her arm, "I'm fine, Beomgyu. I cannot skip classes. They are important for us. Let's go, don't worry about me."
She put up a smile and walked ahead so that the other 2 follow her eventually. They didn't do anything else further; so the three of them went to attend their class.
Yoon Min was stopped abruptly in front of the door, her eyes widening each second in surprise. The whole classroom was filled with too many guardians today. More than Seokjin's classes. As if the whole universe was attending this class. She wondered why.
She stepped inside the classroom, began searching for a seat. Hardly any seat was left for her since she came quite late. While going here and there, squishing her thin body among the crowd, bumping her head against so many guardians' backs, getting stepped on her foot several times, hair getting messed up; she thought she might run out of breath any time soon. But she didn't worry as she was already dead so it would be suffocating but not enough to kill her. She was going through so many hardships just to find a seat.
Suddenly, her hand got pulled; she let out a yelp and fell on a seat as if it was destined. Oh, so there was an empty seat. It's good she found it. Hold on, she didn't. Someone pulled her hand and made her sit. Who?
Yoon Min looked to her right and saw Seokjin sitting beside her, his eyes staring only at her.
Believe it or not, the Senior Guardians also attend classes. They like others have to learn many higher topics of suicide and humans for better improvement. Seok Jin, Yoongi and Nam Joon are the ones who taught students voluntarily. Among them, Seokjin is the one who taught most of the time. If anyone is wondering about Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung and Jungkook; they wasted their time goofing around and hanging out together. They didn't have to attend every class as they were already experienced in a short span of time. Once in a while, they just take the important classes in case there wre new topics, facts they didn't know yet.
Seeing Seokjin sitting beside her instead of standing at the front was odd for the time being. Yoon Min took a look around her, and like she expected she found the other senior guardians too. It will be her first class with them. A new experience.
"Yah..."
She looked back at him when he called her.
"Why were you hiding from me all week? It's suspicious." he let go of her hand like a gentleman.
She didn't find the necessity to answer him as by replying, she would only make this worse. So she just bowed a small apology and began taking her books out, an attempt to avoid him.
The class began after some time. Professor Antonio is known to be the most experienced guardian in Love Universe, also the first ever guardian to come here. He's been helping humans for millions of years and now, he resigned and just spend his time teaching others. Not because he's getting old, no one ages in Love Universe; because he was tired of repeatedly going back to Earth and sadly he had to come back from what once was his dear home.
So it was his class all were attending.
Yoon Min didn't stand a chance today at all. Every time, Professor Antonio asked a question, it was always one of the senior guardians who answered before anyone. In other classes, she and Myeong Jo would ace the answers but sadly she had to give up due to them. Now she finally realized how experienced these senior guardians were actually. They almost know everything without studying. It must be great to have so much knowledge inside your head, that's what she thought.
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Class was over before she could realize it and she was determined that she's gotta study more to have the same amount of knowledge as them. Passionate young woman, wasn't she?
Shoving her books inside her bag, she stood up and mentally prepared herself to leave as fast as she can to avoid any sort of interactions with the man with broad shoulders.
But her plan got flopped as soon as she got away from her seat; as Seokjin held her arm to stop her from running away. Biting her lip and sighing silently, she had to look back at his face. Okay, now memories were coming back of that drunken night.
"What? Running away again?" he asked.
Yoon Min put her lips in a straight line and lowered her head.
Seokjin then said, "Follow me."
Before she could decline, he was already out of the class. Without thinking, she ran after him, ignoring her thoughts who were wondering what did he mean by that.
As she followed him quietly like a mouse, she came across many parts of the school she didn't see yet. It's been a long time since she went out on a tour with her fairy in this beautiful universe. Speaking of Ella, she claimed that night, she had fallen asleep in a tree back at the forest and gave thousands of apologies. Yoon Min found no reason not to accept her apologies.
Yoon Min actually was thinking inside her mind of his intention. Where was he taking her? What is the reason? Was he gonna kill or kidnap her? Or maybe do something worse? Or was he gonna take revenge for taking away his jacket? So many nonsensical questions grew in her mind and she was trying to give an answer to them.
After which seemed like eternity, Seokjin finally stopped at a certain spot, making her stop too. Now that she was stopped, she recognised the place as she's been here before too. The Bridge that connected The School and The Department. And she did not have a good memory here.
He turned towards her which made her froze in place because of his cold stare. If she had to describe him, he was standing, hands inside his pockets and his forehead hidden with his bangs that seemed so breathtaking. There were many expressions written on his face as a result she was unable to judge him.
She kept thinking why he brought her here. Did he want to show her something?
Seokjin seemed to collect his thoughts first, arranging them in order to create a sensible question. A question that will have an answer.
He finally asked,
"You saw me that day, didn't you?"
At first, Yoon Min wasn't aware of what he was talking about. She practically saw him every day so she didn't know which specific day he was talking about. Hearing his question, she tried to recall if there had been any unexpected encounter between them in the past few weeks.
Now that she thought carefully, she recalled that both of them actually met here a week ago. That dream. That weird dream she had. A dream that ended so suddenly and felt so freaking real.
Speaking of which, wasn't it a dream?
Seokjin added to clear her confusion, "That day, when I was behind you, you turned back and clearly looked at me. Didn't you?"
"Y-yeah." she managed to say.
"Did you think it was a dream?"
Sometimes Yoon Min wondered if he could read her mind or something.
She replied, "It wasn't?"
Seokjin shook his head which surprised her.
"I see you have that power as well."
Power?
"What p-power?" she asked, confusion growing slowly.
He began to explain in an easy way so that she could understand,
"Since I was the only one experiencing this, I named it Dream Travel. It happens once a week and so far, it was only me who went through this. Until you..."
Yoon Min remained silent. It was a sign for him to continue.
"It happens suddenly. When you go to sleep, your soul wakes up from your body and you can spend your time inside the universe without letting anyone see you, touching you or feeling your presence. Except they can hear you. It's like you're invisible. Your sleeping body is back on your bed. But your soul can travel here and there for some time."
She still couldn't understand him fully.
Seokjin showed an example, "Pretend I am on my bed and now I think it's time for me to sleep. I go to sleep, a few minutes later, I arose from my sleeping body and become invisible in everyone's eyes. I can go to anywhere without anyone noticing. And then if someone wakes you up, your soul comes back to your body and think it was all a dream. Also, if your soul sees something surprising or shocking for you, you immediately wake up from your Dream Travel. I think that's what happened to you."
She clapped her hands together as she understood everything.
So basically that day, she fell asleep under the tree. Her soul rose up from her body and went to this bridge unknowingly, found Jimin and Myeong Jo quarreling who were really present at that time. That time, Seokjin must've fell asleep and came to roam around as well. He found her hiding behind a pillar and decided to prank her. He had no idea she was also in Dream Travel like him. As a result, she saw him and it was too surprising for Seokjin. So the dream travel ended suddenly for Seokjin and as for Yoon Min, she was woken by Beomgyu.
Now everything made sense.
She began laughing because things turned out to be more crazy and extra than she thought. Of course, it was hard for anyone to believe it at first so Seoknin didn't question her action. She replayed each scene again in her mind, it made sense. She could travel around without anyone's notice.
"It's too crazy." she said after her laughter came to a stop.
"I know." he replied softly.
"So we; you and me, can go anywhere, can do anything...when we are in Dream Travel?"
He thought for a second, "Yeah."
She nodded, didn't know what reaction she should give. She also didn't know if she should be happy or sad for this ability. Of course, to anyone, it would be a golden lucky chance. But going anywhere without anyone's eyes, sneaking around in the universe, hearing other's conversations; were they really golden?
Seokjin noticed her being off so he asked adorably, "Why? Aren't you happy?"
She looked at him and smiled faintly, "I don't know."
Then Yoon Min asked, "But Senior Guardian, you said it happens in a week?"
He nodded, "Dream Travel happens with me once a week. Since it happened a week back, possibly it will happen to me today as well. Maybe with you too."
"Wow, I was alone during my long stay here and now I found a partner to give me accompany in Dream Travel." he shot finger guns at her cutely.
Yoon Min scoffed playfully, "What company? I'm just gonna sleep."
"Hey, think about it. Both of us can go inside the castle and discover its history, secrets, hideouts, hidden doors. It will be so fun!"
Now that he mentioned it, it doesn't sound too bad.
"That's right, I guess..." her voice faded away.
He smiled brightly, "Told you."
Suddenly, a beautiful majestic voice cleared her throat right behind them.
Both of them looked behind at the same time and their eyes went all wide, also being extremely surprised by her presence. Yoon Min's jaw dropped shamelessly and she immediately bowed 90° at her while Seokjin kept his back straight,
"HELLO, PRINCESS AEREUM."
That's right. It was really unexpected to find Princess Aereum standing behind them, looking all gorgeous and pricey at the same time while Secretary Baekhyun just stood behind her like a servant. Oh wait, that's his job.
Princess Aereum didn't answer back or did any gesture that will show poor Yoon Min that she could stand properly now. Seokjin sighed a bit at her silliness and pulled her up by holding the back side of her dress. She was of course startled but stood properly, hands in front of her stomach and faced the floor. Meanwhile, Seokjin was doing exactly the opposite. He stood freely, no respect shown in his face, and was directly staring at the Princess...with a smirk?
The Princess finally opened her mouth to say some words,
"Hello, Senior Guardian Kim Seok Jin."
Yoon Min almost thought she was singing as her voice sounded so musical.
"Long time no see, Princess Aereum." he replied by smirking more.
Wait, they know each other?
"It's rare to see you outside of your castle." he added after a second.
"As you can see, I have to give a tour around the universe once in a while as the whole universe is under my control as of now." she replied back confidently.
Baekhyun decided to butt in, "We were actually going the opposite way but Princess Aereum had seen you and she thought to say hello."
Why?
"Baekhyun-ssi, I thought you weren't allowed to talk until I tell you." Princess Aereum's attitude was higher than seemed.
He quickly bit his lips and mumbled a soft apology.
Seokjin exclaimed which clearly looked like an insult, "Oh, it's an honor to have the Princess wasting her time and coming here to say Hello to a fellow guardian like me. I wonder what made her do that. Right, Yoon Min?"
Why drag her into this?
Yoon Min, suddenly being in the topic, didn't know what to do so she nodded her head vigorously though she didn't want to.
Princess Aereum replied, her lips seemed as if they are the Richest Lips in the whole space,
"Don't be foolish, Senior Guardian Jin. I had to come over and say Hello; especially when you are laughing your heart out---" she paused.
"With this young guardian here." she suddenly shifted her eyes towards Yoon Min.
She became flabbergasted by those sudden pair of beautiful eyes on her, causing Yoon Min to act really anxious as she lost control of her body organs. God, she looked like she was standing in front her long-time crush!
Seokjin smirked again and unexpectedly placed his hand over her tiny head. He did it before too so she wasn't affected that much but doing this in front of the Princess?
"Ah, you're talking about this cute, pretty, bright guardian here? She's Song Yoon Min. You know her, don't you?" he clicked his tongue.
Why is he acting so open in front of her? And HOW is Princess Aereum supposed to know her??
Yoon Min hissed at him slightly, telling him to stop.
Princess Aereum replied, moving her gaze now at his palm which was resting over her head, "Of course. I know every guardian."
Why did her eyes look...envious?
"Kim Seok Jin...mind if we have a private conversation in my office?"
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Ooooooo I wonder what Princess Aereum wants to tell Jinnie😆😁
If there's anything you didn’t understand about Dream Travel, please do comment and I will clear your confusions.
Suga is perfect for a snowman, isn't he?⛄
Anyways, Happy Holidays, probably the last person to wish you all.💕
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