CHAPTER #24:Dream...?

"Get up Stephanie Lee. Until when are you planning to sleep?" I felt someone call me out rudely.

I groaned as I woke up."Bring the basin for me, nanny."I called out.

No one replied. I slowly opened my eyes to the overbearing silence.

"This....!" I gasped in alarm. Looking around the familiar room. It was the same apartment. The same room, the same rude caretaker my mother sent me when I entered high school.

"W-why?...T-this can't be!" I kicked the white quilt away and ran to the window. Yes, it was the same scenery with tall buildings with tinted glass reflecting the sunlight.

"I'm...back in Korea?" I grabbed my phone to check the date.

An even greater shock for me was that it was the same day when I was killed.

"April twenty. And it's the morning...of this day?" I pondered over the possibilities of whatever I saw was just a long-term dream I had. "Or maybe..."

"I'm going out. So eat."I heard the caretaker shout as I came out of the bedroom.

" Hold it right there, "I called out in a stern voice.

I still remember how this hag took advantage of me and verbally abused me in the past. This was one of the reasons why I vented my anger. She used to lie to my mother about me bullying her.

" What?"She asked annoyed.

-"Look at the attitude for someone who works for others."I grinned.

"Where are my breakfast and uniform?" I folded my arms and leaned against the wall.

"What...breakfast?Uniform? I don't know what you're talking about. Go take something from the fridge and eat. And press your clothes yourself. It's not my job to do laundry."

"Really?" I slowly moved against the wall and approached her.

Without a second thought, I raised my hand, and with full swing, it hit across her face.

"Ahhhh, You bitch!What do you think you're -?She held her cheek and slowly looked at me with shock.

" It isn't my job to listen to some lowly trash like you."I grinned menacingly.

I loomed over her as the air turned cold and my face grew darker yet calm.

-"What is this? She was submissive like a puppet to me."

"I-Ill tell everything to the madam." She shrieked.

Unable to keep up with her barking I landed another blow on the face and continued until her face was no longer recognizable.

"Ah~!This is blissful..." I exclaimed with excitement.

"To be able to taste the sweet revenge." I looked up.

I heard her groaning from where she lay on the ground nearly unconscious.

"A pity you can't even save yourself...Oh and get L.O.S.T" I smiled brightly and threw her stuff out charitably.

I laid down on my bed again and stared at the ceiling and closed my eyes until my phone rang.

Irritated by the buzzing of the phone I picked it up without looking at the screen.

"Who is this?" I grumbled.

"Sofie? Ah! Why won't you pick up?" I felt a chill run down my spine. My eyes widened with fear. My hand started to tremble. That sharp voice that once was a melody and now it could make my ears bleed.

"Hello? Sophie?You there? I'm in front of your door. Open up."

"I-I'm not at home. Go to school."My voice trembled. His appearance scared me more. My blood boiled with hatred and rage.

" What's wrong Sophie? You're acting weird-"

"Don't call me by that name!" I screamed on the phone. Before I realized I had ended the call and was drenched in a cold sweat.

I tried to stabilize my breathing in coordination. I had breathing problems since I was an infant in this life.

-"Was all of that a dream? I becoming Luna Vanderberg. My family.Father, mother, Lucien, and Eirlyn."I bit my lower lip and looked at the screen. I watched in horror, as the date and the day changed on the screen. I looked at the time once again showing four in the evening and a rainy day.

"T-This!What's going on?" I threw my phone on the bed and jolted in fear. Looking back at the window through which I saw was not a rising sun anymore, but a sun setting in far west.

I heard laughter behind me. Yes, the same mocking laughter at the school.

"Stop! What's going on?" I screamed in anguish.

I turned away from the window to run. But to find out myself having to face my bitter enemies.

"Are you still craving for your useless unrequited love?" I heard a shrill voice sneer at me.

"You!" I growled. I lost my sanity just after one look at her.

"Ah! Jonathan help me. She's going to hit me." I watched her fake act in disbelief.

Once again I felt the same sharp pain in my abdomen. How could I forget this pain? I coughed blood the same way as I did that day...no it was probably this time of the same day.

-" I don't know anymore..."I dropped to the ground with the knife still sticking out of my abdomen. Blood covered the floor changed to a river of blood as I saw my body lifelessly floating on it.

"No! Why is my body there?," I screamed in horror. A broken mirror appeared in front of me showing my half reflection and my other self of the novel 'The cursed villainess.'

"This isn't what I wanted!" I heard a voice despairing. I abruptly turned away from the mirror.

The one I cursed for so long was in front of my body. Yes, my murderer! So you finally dared to show yourself again. Unable to hold back my rage any longer I let my anger take over my consciousness. Roughly pulling out the same knife from my dead body I charged at him without giving it another thought.

But to my dismay the moment I stabbed him I heard the same voice of judgment.

"You have disappointed me yet again. This is your final chance. Do not disappoint me yet again." I felt a sudden jerk in my body and my

eyes opened.

The breathing got heavier. My chest hurt as if my organs would explode out of my ribcage at any moment.

I screamed as intense pain overtook my entire body.

"Aaaaaah~!" My mouth tasted of blood and I could feel the fluids of my body making their way out of my eyes, nose, and mouth.

"Luna!" My mother cried out terrified.

"Dear, what's happening to her? My girl! Please do something."My mother roughly shoved my father who woke up from sleep startled by the situation.

"Call the doctors, physicians...every kind of medical expert hurry!" My father frantically ordered the servants who were scared of my state.

My mother firmly took me in her embrace.

"Luna!Please baby girl.It'll alright...She was just fine until last night." Tears rolled down her rosy cheeks.

I turned paler while my eyes were completely red.

I screamed yet again as the pain intensified until I lost my consciousness.