Warnings: short mentions of car accidents & memory loss but it’s nothing major, a lil bit of creepiness but again nothing major
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a/n: and so it begins, one of the softest, most comforting stories i have ever written :(
Three years ago you were living a different life. You have no memory of this life, but you were told that you were.
You were living in the big city, where people didn’t know you and millions of stories lived out collectively at the same place and the same time. You had a job at one of Korea’s biggest banks, something along the lines of director of finances. At least that’s what they told you in the hospital.
You had a big apartment, so big that your mouth fell open when you returned to it once your rehab was over.
You also had lots of friends, so you were told, but in the countless months you spent in the hospital just two of them visited you. Strange for someone with supposedly dozens and dozens of friends. At least with the memory loss you didn’t feel heartbroken about the fact that the majority of them didn’t want to see you. You couldn’t really blame them either. You can’t even imagine how you would have reacted if you had gotten a call that your friend was in a car accident and that the chances of survival were at twenty percent. You did however survive, waking up after two months in a coma, totally confused and unable to remember your own name.
Walking was hard at first, actually, everything was hard at first. Your fingers weren’t used to holding things anymore and even breathing was hard on some days.
But with time and the loving care of your nurses, you learned to be human again. The doctors called you a miracle and that you must have been given a second chance by the universe.
And so you took that second chance and decided to leave your past life behind. You left the big city to instead move into the little cottage on the countryside, which your grandparents had apparently left you. You quit your job, knowing fully well they wouldn’t have taken you back either way and with just the essentials stuffed into a little moving van started the journey to your new life just one month after being released.
Sometimes I wish we can have this kind of courage to just up and leave ➡️ start anew and have no regrets. Having no memories or attachment to a lifestyle or possessions must be so freeing too. The opening reminds me of that scene in Beauty & the Beast (the “provincial life” with all the other townsfolk appearing) and I find that part really charming. The whole small town vibes feel comforting? But, a part of me is thinking Yoongi actually knew her from before hence the frozen and shocked moment when he got to see her. Will be keeping tabs of this series to see how their relationship unfolds. =)
