With the utterance of her real na, i turned to the culprit.
There, she saw June standing in the middle of the rain, his clothes stuck to his skin and his hair nearly covering his eyes.
However, even then, she couldn't find it within herself to move.
June, on the other hand, knew that he had to run to where i Ling was and pull her under the shade.
But at that mont, sothing compelled him to stay still.
Voices.
Suddenly, there were voices inside his head.
"Run!"
"Run away and hide it!"
"We need to save him!"
June's mind raced with mories that weren't his.
It was dark, cold, and rainy, like the mont he was currently in. However, it felt like he was in a different body.
The scene now and the scene in his mind glitched, showing the present reality and what seed to be a distant, forgotten mory.
"You need to take this," a woman said, her voice young and beautiful.
"You need this, right? I heard you talking to your friend and saying that you need it."
"So, take it before they take it away from my brother."
With that, the girl handed sothing to him.
He looked down at it but didn't find anything—almost like the item vanished right before his eyes.
Then, she started screaming once again.
However, at that mont, her face beca clear.
A month.
A na.
A beauty under the rain.
"May?" he muttered.
"Run now!"
"They're coming!"
"You need to make it quick!"
With that, the scene went back to reality, and June now realized that the beauty under the rain might have been i.
...and that maybe, just maybe, i had sothing to do with the past Joon-ho even before all of this happened.
With June snapping out of his daze, he went over to where i was. The car was getting nearer and nearer to where they were, but it seed like she had no plans of moving.
With that, he ran even faster and dragged her away just as the car entered the parking lot.
June ignored how cold i's body felt as he pulled her toward a secluded spot. Then, he faced her, appearing to be upset.
"What are you doing?" he couldn't help but exclaim in a loud voice.
i looked into the distance as her eyes watered up.
June sighed as he raked his fingers through his wet hair, trying to calm down.
"What are you doing?" June repeated in a calm voice.
i finally looked at June, but her eyes showed that she was still afraid.
"What are YOU doing?" i asked, her voice filled with disdain. "We don't even have anything to do with each other! So, why the hell have you been on my business ever since I entered the show?"
"In fact, you've been on my business ever since! No matter where I went, you're always there. I wanted to beco an idol because I wanted to make other people happy, but they keep comparing to you!"
"I don't care if we look alike. You're a different person, and so am I!"
"Yes, I started this late, but who the hell cares? I'm the one suffering. I'm the one practicing. I'm the one working hard for my dreams."
"However, I'm still here—trying to figure out why I'm so broken. I can't even stand in the rain without thinking of soone that looked awfully like you," she ranted.
June listened intently, trying to digest her words.
"Maybe it was ," June finally said, holding onto the visions he saw just a while ago.
"What?" i asked in exasperation.
"I haven't been out of the country before. There's no way I've seen you if you haven't been where I'm from."
"I've been to Shanghai," June muttered. "A year ago, before I even joined Rising Stars—I was there."
"So?" i snapped. "Do you think we've t when there are so many people in Shanghai?"
"I believe we t that day," June continued, searching his mind for the answer. "The day you had an accident."
i closed her eyes as she felt a headache coming in.
"The accident," she muttered.
"Can you really tell what happened that day?" June asked, stepping closer to her.
i clicked her tongue. "I don't know, okay? I genuinely don't know."
"After the accident, everything beca hazy in my mory. I don't know who my friends were. I don't know where I grew up. All I knew was that I was running and running until a car hit ."
"I thought it was the end of it all, but I woke up in the hospital with my parents waiting for ," she explained.
"Gosh," she said. "Why am I even sharing this with you?"
"Co on. Think," June said, ignoring her latter statents. "There must be a reason why you were running. Were you running away from sothing...or perhaps, soone?"
"No," she shook her head. "Wait, I don't know. It felt like I was chasing after soone. However, the car accident happened after the chase had ended. Does that make sense?"
"So, maybe it was both?" June asked.
"You were running to soone before running away from another?"
i closed her eyes and concentrated, trying to rember that day.
For so reason, all of her past mories never ca back to her—except for this—the day of the accident.
It was still pretty hazy in her mind, but with June's presence, she felt that it was showing more vividly in her dreams.
"I was running," she said in a soft voice. "I was also holding onto sothing."
"I felt...anxious—almost as if sobody's life was on the line if I didn't manage to give away what was in my hands."
"Then, I finally found him—the person who could help . He walked swiftly, but I didn't give up."
"Despite the cold rain, I kept pushing through."
"Then, he finally stopped," she said, a small gasp escaping her lips as the scene before her finally turned clear.
Her surroundings were more apparent.
She was outside of what seed to be a warehouse.
However, the man before her was still unfamiliar—almost as if there was a shadow occluding his face.
"Finally, I gave him sothing," she said, dictating the story that was painting itself in her mind.
i gasped loudly as she opened her eyes, finally looking at June.
"It's you!" she exclaid, pointing at him.
June's breath got caught in the back of his throat.
Sohow, he already had a hunch. However, it surprised him nonetheless.
It seed like the story ran deeper—much, much deeper than he had imagined.
This web that they were entangled with—it was almost impossible to think that all of it was random.
It was like fate.
"I gave you sothing," she continued.
The two of them shared a thoughtful look before saying the next words simultaneously.
"A briefcase."
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