Knee Deep Water Part 1

An Chaeyoung sat on the carpet knee's up, back against the sofa behind her.

Different prompts floated in front of her. Each showed individual memories of Chaeyoung, The Real Chaeyoung.

Chae, The one with me, Stepped closer to the one looking at the memories before kneeling, taking a closer look at the prompts that were floating.

She touched a prompt and, it began to fall apart.

Like before, When she snapped her finger and, Everything changed.

The same thing began to happen. Everything around us began to change.

She got up and turned around looking, as the thing's changed as the surroundings transformed and constructed themselves around us, Bright white light.

We were in a completely different memory of hers.

Classroom, In a High School.

"An Chaeyoung, An Chaeyoung"

A Person, screaming her name as she listens, her head hanging low.

"Are you even listening?"

"Telling you is useless."

"Go!"

Some guys laughed in the background.

As she left the room, tears flowed down her face. She quickly wiped them away and ran her footstep echoed through the corridor before crouching down in the vacant staircase and crying.

As she heard some girls talking as the voices got closer, she wiped her tears before getting up and disappeared into the girl's washroom, where no one would see her.

The surroundings began to change again, and we were back at where we started. In An Chaeyoung's apartment with all the floating prompts displaying individual memories as An Chaeyoung sat in front of them.

An Chae standing next to me said,

"These are all incomplete memories."

There were hundreds of prompts that filled the room, from wall to wall, ceiling to floor, from my left to right.

An Chaeyoung, the one sitting in front of them, was closely looking at those memories, with her eyes lit up with curiosity.

Before a noise, Much like static noise, that was deafening.

Both I and the An Chaeyoung with me covered our ears.

One of those prompts had formed a crack,

She moved frantically in front of me along the prompts left to right, Right to left, Lost in her thoughts.

"This can't be happening right now," She uttered.

All of those prompts began to form cracks.

An Chaeyoung stopped in front of me.

Turning towards me, Looking me in the eyes for a moment.

Before turning towards the prompts again

The moment An Chaeyoung touched one of them, all of them simultaneously fell apart, turning into particles that looked much like powdered glass brightly glowing white.

Everything was as if we were, Suspended in the time. The movement of the An Chaeyoung of the memories and the surroundings had come to a halt.

Before the surroundings begin to shake violently, As cracks began to form in it, As the cracks grew wider, It revealed an absence of light beyond it.

If one were to look closely at the cracks, They did be able to see nothingness. It was just dark, Nothing. The surroundings began to break into pieces, Much like a mirror or glass. Those pieces fell.

Even before those pieces could hit the ground, An Chaeyoung jumped, Trying to grab my hand, maybe cause she knew what was about to happen.

But it was too late. The ground shattered beneath my feet and gave in.

I fell deep into the nothingness.

She was unable to grab onto me.

There was no light. I couldn't see anything.

I don't know what happened after that. I don't know if I actually fell or not? or what?.

When I Woke up, I had a buzzing headache.

My vision was hazy.

My ears were ringing.

I woke in an underground chamber with 100s of giant concrete pillars.

Red lights that flickered were the only light source. They were awfully bright in the dark and hurt the eyes.

Those red lights were on every other pillar.

When I woke up with my hazy vision, the first thing I saw was the red lights. That hurt my eyes.

I was lying on the ground in inches of water.

I tried to get up, But I couldn't.

When I raised, My head I immediately felt dizzy nauseated and ended up throwing up. Due to the ringing in my ear, I felt disorientated. My head was killing me.

I remained laid there as the chilling coldwater caressed my back, my clothes soaking wet, staring at the flickering bright red light on the pillar above my head.

The only sound there was the sound of water dripping, echoing.

That cold water started to get in my ears. That's when I realized the water was slowly rising. Gathering my last bit of strength in the disorientation and dizziness, I pulled myself together.

Dragging myself to the pillar, That was above my head.

I leaned on it. The system nor it could find any signs of An Chaeyoung. Nor, it could connect to my companion.

Although we both were, connected by the pact.

It only showed me,

[Connection to An Chaeyoung. Can't be Established]

I looked towards the pillars around me to check if there were any signs of where I was.

When I looked down at myself, There were red stains on my shirt.

They were hard to notice in the red light and the water. Maybe that's the reason I didn't saw sooner.

I rubbed it with a finger to check what it was,

[Blood]

'Am I Wounded?'

[NO Injuries detected]

At that moment, Right in front of my eyes,

I saw a drop of blood fall right in front of me, on my shirt.

As I looked up

[EVENT]

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"HEHEHEHEHE"

A female voice,

"Best of luck"

"Survive"

Prompt Floated in front of me.

[EVENT BEGINNING IN 10 SECS 9...8...7...]

Suddenly The light turned off. I looked up, As glowing red eyes stared at me.