Chapter 5:

Opening your eyes, you found yourself in a room deprived of any type of furniture or decor. It was just blank walls. But one certain wall caught your attention. It had a door. It was pink with silver accents. It gave you some sort of comfort, so you decided to discover what was behind it.

With curious yet hesitant steps, you walked towards it. Something at the back of your head was telling you to stop in your tracks and go back. But then again there was this other small part of you, the curious one, that kept you going forward.

You reached for the metal doorknob, and with shaking hands, you opened the mysterious door.

Entering the small space you were greeted by the cries of a baby. Looking around you, the room looked like one of a hospital. There was indeed a hospital crib sitting in the middle of the room, a baby laying in it.

You carefully approached the crying baby, you couldn't help but tear up at the sight of her. You sobbed, both hands going up, covering your mouth to muffle your cries.

You softly caressed the baby's head, trying your best to soothe her down. "It'll be fine sweetie, I'm with you. Your mom is here, I'm not giving up on you again. Your mom will save you." You muttered, your voice cracking with each second.

"You're not going to save her Yn. You never did and you never will." You turned around, suddenly faced with a mysterious person. Their face was hidden by the shadow so it was hard to tell who it was at first, but there was no denying to who the voice belonged.

"Christopher?" You exclaimed, not believing who was on the other side of the room.

He slowly stepped out of the shadows. He was exactly like you remembered. Blond curls falling down his eyes, those deep brown orbs of his, they used to be your favourite thing about him.

He approached you with dangerous steps, his siren eyes staring you down like prey.

Suddenly all the agony you were feeling completely dissipated from your body, leaving only rage behind.

"You have no right saying that about me! You were the one who left, you left me alone dealing with such a big responsibility and what do you do now? You blame it on me?" You scream at him, hitting his chest with each word spilling from your mouth.

"If only you had stayed. If only you kept your promise. She wouldn't be suffering now, she would survive." You kept telling, the cries in the background accompanying you.

"Oh, but she's already dead darling." He said, holding up your wrists, and pulling you to him.

The cries suddenly stopped, making the pain on your face contort into numbness.

You slowly turned around, but immediately regretted it after seeing the horrific state your daughter was in. She was spitting blood from her mouth, and her skin was a deep blue that you could confuse it with purple.

You let out a screeching scream, falling to the ground with Christopher still holding onto you. You kept crying and crying, your sobs muffled by Chris' chest.

The numbness took over you again, and you felt everything from around you disappear, including Chris.

"Excuse me?" You heard. Leisurely lifting your head, you were met with a kid. You recognized her. It was Nyla.

"I can't find my mother." She said with a small voice.

"She can't find her mother Yn. Why can't she find her mother?" Coming from behind Nyla, was Peter.

"You killed my soulmate Yn, and now you can't even help the little girl find her mother? How inhuman of you." He muttered every word so cruelly, that you felt each of them cut through you and pierce your heart, shredding it in small pieces.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry Peter. It's all my fault. Please… I am so sorry." You kept apologizing, looking at him with pleading eyes.

But it was no use because next thing you know, Peter approaches Nyla with a knife in his hands. You kept watching the scene unfolding before you, not quite knowing how to react.

It wasn't until he slit Nyla's throat with that sharp knife that you realized what was happening.

"No!" You moved towards the lifeless body of the girl, on your fours. Crouching beside her you held her head in your hands, which were soon stained with blood. Staring into her vivid eyes, you felt as if they were sucking you in.

"I hate you Yn."

No!

You jerk forward into a sitting position, you were trembling and sweating. Your eyes were teary and you couldn't help but choke on a sob.

Looking at the clock on your nightstand, you saw that it was only 3:47 PM. You stood up from your bed and went to the bathroom to take a quick shower, hoping it would help calm you down from the tough sleep you had.

The warm water washed off the dried tears from your face.

How could I dream of her again? It's been years.

When 30 minutes passed, you turned off the shower and got out of the bathroom with only a robe on.

You put your hair up in a hair clip and let it dry on its own, knowing full well you would probably get a cold if you stayed like that, but you didn't mind. It would give you an excuse to call in sick and not go to work for a week. Especially since yesterday wasn't the best, you shuddered at the single thought of it.

You walked down to the kitchen, thinking about drinking a bottle of soju. But when you opened the fridge, you remembered that you went shopping with Judy the other day.

You reminisced the words you always keep telling yourself. "I need to get my life together. I can't keep living like this."

You looked through the fridge and the cabinets checking the different ingredients you were equipped with. From pasta to vegetables and drinks, red wine is one of the many choices. "Judy went all in."

You suddenly craved some ravioli but you didn't have all the ingredients. You decided to make a quick run to the closest grocery store. But you couldn't quite go out dressed like that and you were too comfortable to change into outing clothes so you ended up just ordering everything you needed.

You took your phone while waiting for the groceries to arrive, and you decided to look up this new law.

"The authorities come up with a new law that will solve the soulmates revolution"

You click on that link and immediately start reading:

Hello everyone, after deep consideration and contemplation of the current soulmate situation, the government has made a new law that will provide a safe and organized life for all individuals.

  Soulmates between the ages of 25 to 30 who aren't married yet, have to do so by the end of this year.

  Individuals under the required age, are permitted to be with their respective soulmates, with the condition of not endangering or breaking away from them to be with someone else.

  It isn't allowed for any anomalies to take place, if so, the concerned individuals will be punished by the authorities.

  Any attempt of escaping, hurting, or killing your soulmate to avoid the law, will face consequences, and the concerned individuals will be severely punished by the authorities.

  Note that there will be additional changes to this new law in the future, so stay alert.

  Again, this law was made for you to live a better life, with fewer suicide thoughts, more air for a reunion, security, and justice.

You couldn't believe that this law was a thing. It was kind of absurd to you that the authorities were now controlling marriage. They were already controlling so much it's starting to become suffocating. At least you weren't concerned, seeing as you were considered a non-marked.

Looking up from your phone when the doorbell rings, you put the device down on the couch and get up to open the door, expecting it to be the delivery man.

Checking yourself in the mirror to see if you were at least presentable, you pick up your credit card and finally greet the guy outside.

Locking eyes with the delivery man, your hands went to cover your mouth.

It can't possibly be him, no…

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A/N: Hello guys, I know this chapter isn't as long as it's supposed to be, especially since I told you last time that "present events" 's chapters are the ones that are gonna be long, but for this chapter and the last one the tables turned. So I guess there isn't an exact word count for each chapter, but it won't be under 1k words, that's for sure.

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