.one. 

"Minji, please pick up. I really need to talk to you." Hajin's distraught voice rang throughout the loud speakers on her cellphone. 

After getting home from work late the previous night, the last thing Minji thought to do was to check her phone. Over the course of the night there was a stream of texts, phone calls, and voice mail messages left by her friend Hajin. 

"I have nowhere else to go." Minji heard as she clicked on the next message. Her friend's was now sobbing uncontrollably as she said into the phone. "They betrayed me. They took everything from me, and left me with a huge debt. Two of the people I most trusted." She explained and Minji immediately knew who she was talking about. 

Hajin, Minji, and Gayoung had been best friends from their childhood. They had been like sisters, but when Hajin started dating a boy named Minjun. Gayoung had noticed several strange interactions between the two, but was never able to say anything because she had no proof of it. She also wanted to prevent any problems between them unless it were absolutely necessary. The three of them had never gotten into a fight before and in case of finally getting themselves into one, they would not know how to make up.

Now Minji doubted Hajin would even want to make up with Gayoung, not that Gayoung even deserved the forgiveness.

The next voicemail in her inbox was from Gayoung herself. "Minji, please talk to Hajin and explain to her that Minjun and I never meant to hurt her. Things just happened this way."

Minji felt her blood boil. 

How could Gayoung ask her to talk to Hajin, as though she had done nothing wrong? As though she hadn't seduced her best friend's boyfriend. It was wrong coming from him because Hajin loved him--but it was worse coming from Gayoung who had been like a sister to her. What would Minji even say to her? I know Gayoung and Minjun betrayed you, but you have to look past that? There was nothing that she could say to make her friend feel better. All she could do was stand by her side and support her in her time of need.

She hit the delete button on Gayoung's message and continued listening to Hajin's desperate cries over the phone. Minji felt bad that she hadn't been there in the moment that it happened. Now she was speeding down the road towards Hajin's apartment, where surely she would run into the two traitors instead of her friend.

But she needed to know where she went and there was a possibility that they would know.

"Please meet me at the park down by the lake." Hajin's voice came in the last message she sent hours prior. "I really need someone to talk to."

Now knowing where her friend was, Minji took a right turn at a traffic light and headed the opposite way. She didn't even have to say the name of the park for Minji to know exactly where she was. Hajin was at the park where the three of them often visited with their families as children. It was a place with a lot of meaning to them, since many of their best memories had taken place there.

It took her about fifteen minutes to get there and she parked her car in the familiar dirt lot. She hurried out of the car and ran towards the wooden pier that overlooked the lake with a magnificent waterfall. As she got closer, she saw Hajin standing by the edge of the pier. She seemed to be considering something and Minji's stomach dropped, fearing the worst. In the state she was in, she thought Hajin would have been capable of doing anything she would later regret.

She watched as her friend jumped into the water below and Minji cried out, "Hajin, dont!"

But it was already too late to stop her.

Minji cut the distance between herself and the end of the pier with running steps. When she was close enough, she dropped her purse on the pier and jumped in after her friend who was no longer visible under the lake water. It was hard to swim in the clothes she was wearing, and the cold water of the lake pricked at her skin like a thousand little needles. But she continued swimming towards her friend, who also seemed to be swimming in a fixed direction. 

In a matter of seconds, the sky darkened above them and Minji stopped to look up. There was an eclipse happening and she looked toward the direction where Hajin was in the water. Her friend was nowhere to be found. Minji held her breath and dove beneath the water in search of her friend. She was several feet below now and Minji was desperately trying to reach her. When she finally did, the eclipse had fully darkened the sky and she didn't know which way to go to reach the surface.

Little by little she began running out of air and her body slowly went limp in the water, losing consciousness. The only thing she held onto now and refused to let go was Hajin's hand.

The last thing she remembered seeing was the eclipse clearing up and the sunlight greeting her eyes for a last time.

-

When the two girls resurfaced, Minji felt something heavy weighing her down, but she ignored it. Instead, she looked around for Hajin, who was beside her, sucking in deep breaths after having been under water for an undetermined amount of time. Minji took in her surroundings, she remembered last being in the lake, where people were having picnics and having fun. This new place was nothing like that, and the water surrounding them was hot, with steam rising off of it. The area was enclosed by trees and rocks, but she could find no familiarity in them. She had never been in that place before.

Minji turned towards her and ran her hands down her friend's arms with concern. "For fucks sake, Hajin. What did you think you were doing?" She gripped the sleeves of her friend's shirt and she shook her rather harshly.

Hajin was silent, still trying to catch her breath.

At the sound of her voice and having bumped into the back of Minji's legs, another person who had been in what they thought was the lake turned around. Upon seeing the two girls, he started screaming loudly, startling them and they yelled as well. 

"What are you doing here?" He yelled at the two girls, pointing at them with his index finger.

His yelling seemed to catch the attention of a group of other men who Minji could see in the distance. All of them turned around with concern for the one who was screaming about the two girls.

"There are two girls here! Brothers! Brothers!" He continued, his voice full of distress. 

He climbed out of the pool and ran up the steps that led into the bath house where the others were. Minji continued to look at their surroundings, not knowing where to go or what to do. She scanned over the rocks again and saw another girl, someone she didn't recognize. But she was beckoning and whispering them hurriedly for them to go to her. Minji eyed her in confusion and the girl called, "Lady Hae Soo!" She was looking right at Hajin as she called.

"Me?" Hajin finally croaked out the words.

The girl nodded and continued to wave her over, but both girls were frozen where they were. 

Now there were more voices accompanying the first boy's screams. "Brothers!" Another one of the boys pointed as he saw the two girls through the steam coming off the water.

It was a full minute before two of the boys jumped into what Minji now understood was something of a hot spring or a pool. Seeing the girl hidden behind the rocks as their only escape, she pushed Hajin froward and hurried after her.

"Hey, stop right there!" One of the boys called, his voice sounding closer as he ran through the pool to get to them. "Stop!"

Minji helped Hajin climb over the rocks and the other girl pulled her up the rest of the way. When her friend was already over the pile of rocks, she outstretched her hand for Minji to take. Minji grabbed her friend's hand and made her attempt to climb the rocks, only she felt someone grab her other arm and pull her back towards the pool. The force of his pulling her brought her back to fall on her knees in the pool at his feet. He stood over her, hand still firmly gripping her arm, and he easily pulled her up to standing.

"How dare you spy on the princes?" He hissed at her, voice laced with annoyance. As he asked the question, his grip on her tightened and he shook her to get an answer from her.

She looked up at him with confusion. "Princes? I don't even know who you are!"

"Minji!" She heard Hajin call to her from behind the rocks. 

Her friend was about to climb over them, back into the pool in an attempt to rescue her, but Minji shook her head. "Go, Hajin! I'll catch up to you later!"

The boy standing beside her scoffed. "You think we'll let you go after this? You deserve a punishment after what you've done."

Behind him, another of the boys arrived to stand by his brother's side. His eyes narrowed in recognition as he seemed to know who she was. "Hak Soon? What are you doing here?" He called her name like he was sure that it was her, but he didn't know why she was there. Only it wasn't her name. 

Trying to wrench her arm out of the first boy's grip, she said, "My name is Minji."

"No." The other boy shook his head, his words entirely convinced that she was the person he thought she was. "I know you. Your sister is Soon Duk, and your father is Grand General Park. We grew up together. Eun, you know her too." He nudged the boy who stood beside him. Eun's eyebrows were still furrowed in annoyance and displeasure at her.

"This is Park Hak Soon?" Eun asked, his eyes narrowing as he tried to remember what she looked like.

Filled with confusion, she shook her head. "I don't know you. I've never seen you in my life."

"We should call a doctor." His brother said in a voice now full of concern. "She doesn't remember anything."

"Of course I remember who I am..." She trailed off as she looked down at herself. 

She was no longer dressed in the jeans and blouse she remembered putting on that morning before she set out in search of Hajin. Instead, she was dressed in heavy metal armor that was what she felt was weighing her down from the moment she resurfaced in the pool. 

Where am I? She thought to herself.

-

first chapter for this story. its a bit of filler, but it ends with some action. thank you all so much for reading and supporting this story. there aren't many moon lovers fanfics on wattpad right now, so im very happy to be writing one and to see the positive reviews and support its getting.

thank you all so much for everything once more. and i know little prince eun is a little aggressive in this first part, but i would react the same if i thought someone was spying on me bathing. lol

so he'll go back to being his cute playful self in later chapters ^.^

-clary xx