"That's the point, I'm not Yvonne, this isn't a book anymore so if you want someone who'll follow some predestined script of yours then find yourself a contractor and bring me back to my world!"
This finally shut the cotton-like creature up. I have been infuriated by it, constantly telling me to act like Yvonne. Yvonne this, Yvonne that, he just wouldn't shut up. It has been exactly 5 months since I woke up in another girl's body. I couldn't even process it and sat on the bed for 3 straight days. I was in my last year in med school preparing for the exams when the college elevator in the chemistry department broke. I was going down from the 14th floor when I heard a creak and felt the elevator halt and shake. After a few moments, I was falling 70 kilometres per hour. What bothered me was why there weren't any installed breaks for certain emergencies like that. The probability of me dying from a falling elevator is one in a million. It's more likely to get killed by a bear than an elevator.
I transmigrated here from some reason and a cotton ball, or a ball of floating wool was hovering over me and started obnoxiously explaining my circumstances. After a month I found out that he was the reason why I died.
"You what?"
"I-I would cease to exist if I didn't make that-"
"So you're telling, that you killed an innocent bystander who worked her *ss to have a better life...JUST TO SAVE YOURS?!" I was eating dinner on my own as usual during that time when it had a slip of tongue and revealed his intentions.
"How the hell did I become your contractor in the first place anyway? You need the other person's approval to form a contract." I grabbed its whole being and squeezed the life out of it.
"Wu wu wu, your blood." That's when I knew that my death was "my approval". It wasn't fair, the ball killed me. It was an upsetting fact, I felt conflicted and angry by this.
I decided to let him suffer for 4 months by not feeding him. He can't touch anything and communicate through anything but me since I was the only hold he has for him to exist. It was so weak that It can't affect anything. He promised that he would take me back once he was strong enough and would give me the luxurious life I was always asking for. It took him 3 tries before I gave in. I started seriously considering it. If I do what he wants in exchange for a lifetime of no financial problems, then it's a win-win situation.
Demi Seon (선 데미) who came from a poor family and had to work her *ss up from 4 part-time jobs when she entered high school. She only saw her mother when she was 5 and was living with her grandparents, she doesn't even remember her face anymore. What she remembers is that woman was the cause as to why her grandma and grandpa died. Grandpa worked in the fields while her grandma made candies and sweets from the farm for me to sell at school. She grew up eating strawberries and fruit-flavored candies the most, in fact, she has a sweet-tooth.
It was peaceful until she turned 13. Her grandfather died and after a month or two, her grandma followed. Their farm, without workers, was given to her aunt as well as the custody of taking care of her.
'She was good at the beginning, to gain my trust.' But she slowly turned against me as well as her two daughters. The small bit of money for my college was spent by them. I endured that abuse and waited until I turned 18. I packed all the money I earned and my belongings which all fit in one small bag. I lived at a Manga cafe (Manga Kissa) and lived there for 4 years. After graduating pre-med with BS psychology with the only small amount of money left in my savings. I worked for a year and entered medical school. Even with the money I earned from working in an asylum, I was still short of money. Luckily, I got a sponsorship from a medical practitioner. I spent 5 years studying medicine and was about to graduate when death came knocking through my door.
'I really have bad luck huh?' That was probably the main reason why Demi, unconsciously, became a hoarder and a cheapskate.
"You better keep your word and pay me back for mine and your life." The fluffy ball was gullible and was easy to trick. I never had any leverage to use against him. I decided to go with it, for now, there's nothing that I can do at the moment. The gullible cotton ball then started telling me to act like the original Yvonne Bella, the rich girl that the cotton ball put me in. My patience slowly ran out when he constantly tells me to interact with the main characters. In the end, I get to discover that the small cotton ball created the place I was in, even the people. The cotton ball was the youngest one in their species.
"I'm 9 billion years old and counting." I almost dropped my cup of tea when I heard this. Young? You call that young.
"You're older than Earth?" Tea started coming out of my mouth.
"You humans have a short time-span that it's almost fascinating how one goes while the others are just born." I started wondering what type of being he was, or if it even has a gender.
"No, I'm what you guys call 'Non-binary'. I'm neither a girl nor a boy." That's when we started talking seriously about where he came from. Their species were the oldest in time and space, and he said he was the youngest. When I asked who the oldest was my brain couldn't function half of what he said. He recited a word that I couldn't comprehend. When I asked him to translate it to English, it was like he was reciting pi...in trillionths of digits. I stopped him before he continued and opened up a new topic.
"How come you all know every person of your species?"
"Unlike most of you guys who have 7 billion people existing, there's only 30 of us. That's the thing I like about humans, even though they have short life-spans they have a happy life surrounded by the ones they love." He began explaining in more detail about where he lived and how he lost his spiritual power.
I replaced- no, more like placed in a body. Bella, according to earth, was comparable to cannon fodder. She was only mentioned in the script twice as "rich girl A". First was when she had a crush on the male lead in elementary and second was during middle school. The cotton ball started showing me what the people's destiny are, or what he had written for everyone here. He explained that destiny can always change based on certain factors, one new factor is me.
The body I was in was currently in senior high school together with the female leads and male leads. It was a cliche type of wealthy private schools that the rich control instead of the teachers. I have been roaming around and missed classes just to find good spots to see scenes unfold from the written script (destiny). There was one under the rooftop stairs, on the top of a tree in the school courtyard, and on top of the thick bookshelves that can be accessed by stepping on the unused table on the corner of the library. The library wasn't used at all, no one comes here, the only time it became occupied was when the female lead was brought here by the school female queen bees in the senior year. Dust was actually occupying the unread books which I pitied. There was only a female librarian that comes from time to time and actually became familiar with me as "The only girl that likes reading". It was the end of summer when I came here to this world and it has been five months since then, It was the 7th week of school already. I collected spiritual energies in school, they were only a total of 6.
"You told me that your main female lead's going to enroll today?"
"She isn't a female-lead, she's just a person with high morale." I didn't know when I began calling them as if they're part of some book. The little ball was said that certain "people" stand out, whether in terms of high morality, strength, or wrath. Only a few people "stand out" according to this fluff-ball. Certain celebrities, world leaders, innovators. Only a selected few are considered "leads".
"I'm going to call them leads anyway." The little ball just sighed and gave up.
"What do I call you? It's been more than a month and I still don't know what to call you." The small ball coughed and seems to prepare itself to say something.
".̶̡̨̪̰̤̜͈̗͐̍̿́̃̕̕͠.̶̧̞͖̫͖͊̉͛̄̃̚͘͠.̷̧̬͈̳̤͕́̇͒̎͂̓̐͗̋á̶̪̮̇̐̒̋͒̂͊��̨̤͙̪͜ͅs̴̨͎̙̖̞͎̲̏̌ͅb̷̖̪͉̰̏c̷̢͓̹̞͋̿̄i̷̻̼͈͖̮̖̘̎̈́̐͆͋͒l̴̐��͍̘͒̀̔̄́s̵̖͔͔̯̀̀́̆̆͋͝͝ą̴̱̺̤͈̣̈̍̅͛̉u̶̫̩̳͙̤̾͊.̶̧̞͖̫͖͊̉͛̄̃̚͘͠.̷̧̬͈̳̤͕́̇͒̎͂̓̐͗̋" I just stared at him with a dumb face.
"You actually expect me to say that." I just rolled my eyes and continued sipping on my strawberry milk.
"Oh...hehe, well it means the innocent one." The ball of cotton started thinking of a name for himself. The girl with black hair and black eyes remained seated staring out the library window as she sipped the last bit of her strawberry milk.
While the little ball was thinking of what language to use, the girl noticed a pair of women walking through the school gates. The girl wearing a uniform had brown-light hair and a petite figure with adorned blue eyes. Next to her was a woman who looked to be in her forties, a tall lady in an office wear with glasses.
As if there was stage light directly shining above the girl, everyone's attention was all on her. She's the type of person that naturally attracts the eyes of the people around her.
"Nova." The little ball suddenly called out.
"Nova...you can call me Nova." I finally understood what he meant.
"Why Nova?" I asked
"Well. In human language, it means *new beginning*. I met you right after I decided to start again." The little ball didn't specify what and how it happened to him, his weakened state.
"I, Nova, pledge to accompany you through thick and thin, to always trust you, and to bring you back your lost life with privileges added." The little ball, with a high pitch voice, talked in front of me genuinely and sincerely. It must've been his gullible personality or cute innocent appearance, whatever it is, I knew in my guts that I can trust this being.
"I, Demi, promise to accompany you through thick and thin, to trust you, and to revive your strongest state of being with all I can." I offered my finger for a hand-shake and pledged sincerely.
Even though he was the cause of Demi's death, he was also the cause for her to escape the boring life she has and introduce her to a new one...a life of fun.
This pledge... made behind the bookshelves of an unused school library, not heard by nor seen by anyone, was the reason for a strong bond of friendship, love, and trust between two beings that came a million of light-years away from each other.
Chapter 1 - Says the one who paid someone to take her board examsAfter arguing and compromising on the subject of "Act like Yvonne", we finally agreed on something. The main reason why The little cloud wanted to stick close to the "leads" is that they provide so much spiritual energy when each of them interact. So I don't necessarily need to get close to them, they're just the nearest "significant characters".Since Yvonne wasn't a significant character, or what you call a "lead", we settled on with staying neutral on important scenes, collecting spiritual energy and hoarding! I was never a spender, the idea of spending my money on such luxuries was never possible for me. What satisfies me is earning money and hoarding cheap items. I smiled sincerely as I lay on the disgusting princess bed. I painted the walls in navy blue and white. I also repainted the antique cheap desk and bed frame I found in the market. I slowly replaced e
Chapter 2 - Fountain episode"What?! That's impossible." He was also about to pop his eyes out from shock. How could his sister even achieve this?"This was six months worth of her certificate." His father said."Six months?!" She was able to win a thick stack of certificates within just six months!? He didn't know how to react. She has been acting weird these days, but he didn't expect such a change!"Father, are you sure this wasn't made up? Maybe she paid the professors?" Victor entered his room and Michael followed behind."I asked that question to her adviser as well but she just congratulated Yvonne for her change, she thought that she changed for the better." Both Michael and Victor were very skeptical, but the evidence before them was solid. As they continue to argue whether it was real or not, a girl was already sleeping in her room soundly.Demi woke up at the usual time and wore her re
Chapter 3 - Arrogant Bastard"Look at them!""So the rumors were true?""That's impossible, Prince isn't even looking at her.""But he's not denying her though."A lot of gossiping has been going around lately about the new student Natalie and the "Prince". An through their interaction, Nova and I have been profitting a lot. Nova has become fluffier and his fur has become smoother.They were currently in the cafeteria eating lunch, we were in a spot way back so that we can still hear and see them but the two can't.Natalie has been following this "Prince" for the past month and has been consistently showing up in front of Lucas. Natalie was a naturally clumsy girl, so there were a lot of times that situations turn awkward, I couldn't help but laugh. There was a time when She spilled paint on his uniform, our year was doing an art activity t
Chapter 4 - Why is this place filled with arrogant twats?"A-arrogant what?! Did she just call me bastard?!" The young man felt his heart drop for some reason, he didn't know how to reply and was stunned. He didn't really think of her as an admirer, he didn't know how to approach her, thus, he came off as arrogant towards her. He didn't know that he came off as arrogant and that's why he didn't expect that kind of reply. Lucas was stunned in his spot unable to move.Demi couldn't wait to tell Nova what had happened, she was infuriated by the guy's narcissism. The audacity! Demi walked towards the courtyard outside the cafeteria with her arms crossed, she couldn't wait for Nova to come. She sat down on the bench behind the tree in the corner and tried calming herself down. Ten minutes had passed when a figure cast a shadow on her. She opened her eyes and saw the guy that often goes to the library.
Chapter 5 - Mr. English man, I gotta go.'They're going to appear here Demi.'Nova and I are currently sitting on a mall bench and waiting for an opportunity to collect energy.Today's events would unfold like this: Natalie's childhood friend (also her childhood crush) visited the city. Lucas, who was also at the mall, bumped into Natalie whilst her lead cousin was searching for clothes. There will be a tense atmosphere, Natalie wants to tag along with Lucas but his childhood friend was with her.'Ha~ I feel bad for the guy.' Nova stated with a heavy sigh.'I mean, why would you inviting a guy to hang out but leave him alone to join another guy?' He complained about how Natalie was fickle-minded and all that.'I don't know, ask the one who made it?' I raised a brow and rolled my eyes. He's the creator, why complain?'Oh~ yeah.
Chapter 6 - "Because you were never a father to begin with.""Why, am I not allowed here?" I raised a brow and looked at her. I saw a figure standing alone and peeking. For some odd reason, I knew that it was that smirking girl. I felt irritated once again just thinking about her."You know what? Never mind." She was about to fight back but just sighed, did something happen? I unconsciously started peaking out the corner when she suddenly walked away."Wait, where are you going?" I said out of nowhere. She looked at me with a defeated face."Out.""Out the mall?" I asked"Where else, genius?" She started getting annoyed for some reason, I almost laughed out loud because of her face. She was furrowing her brows and slightly pouting. I looked back at the corner again and saw a familiar girl laughing with a guy. My mood suddenly went do
Chapter 7 - Little thief'Why did she give up an argument that easily.' Whenever he comes back from college during holidays, she would never back down from an argument, especially from him. Even if she was wrong she would always state her opinion and say that she was right. If it's about something against her, she would prove her point until the end, she was that strong headed."You pampered her too much." Victor told his father as he started slicing the piece of steak on his plate."Indeed." his father agreed."I-It wasn't the young miss." Two maids were standing beside the serving trolley. One spoke shakily."Mrs. Beth caused it all." The second maid in front supported the first maid's claim."And how do we know you two weren't bribed?" Victor raised a brow and looked at the two maids. He was skeptical as to why the two would speak
Chapter 8 - "It's long, thick, and hard!""Alastair."Even after I checked all of the returned books, the name 'Alastair' was still in my mind. I'm sure I've heard it before, but where? I returned to my class and waited for the class to pass by, I was never enthusiastic in school anyway. And 'I've been through this this once, why would I want to go through it twice?'It was Physical Ed and we had to change into sports wear. 'I don't have energy for this.' I sighed and went to the girl's locker room late, I was napping in class and no one woke me up. I was already 3 minutes late when I woke up. I rushed towards the gym and towards my locker.*CLATTER*"What the-" A pile of empty juice boxes, empty chip bags, and rolled up paper fell. My shirt and pants were wet with water. I picked up a paper roll and opened it. "WHORE". I felt Nova peek out from my hair
“I’m more than positive that she likes me…she has, for a long time.” Lucas paused in the middle of his sentence.[…] Mr. Wells on the other hand, was speechless.‘Oh darn, what did I expect from this young man?!’ He didn’t think that his young master would just assume that he’s liked by the lady. Well, Mr. Wells couldn’t really blame Lucas since he has grown up being admired by many women.The old driver remembered that a 30-year-old woman came to the residence with a marriage contract in hand. The old man of the house (Lucas’ father) thought it was for the woman’s child, but it was for her!
‘Why would he reserve a seat for two? Unless…’ Mr. Wells thought of the young lady that his master helped.‘The young master is taking her on a date?!’ The old man Wells couldn’t stop his excitement for a lot of reasons.One, being that his master has “grown up” and two, his master has found someone he likes. Mr. Wells couldn’t stop himself from being surprised as he knew the young man a long time already.On the other side of the phone, Lucas was thinking.‘The young master is taking her on a date?!’ The old man Wells couldn’t stop his excitement for a lot of reasons.One, being that his master has “grown up” and two, his master has found someone he likes. Mr. Wells couldn’t stop himself from being surprised as he knew the young man a
‘Why is he here? He’s not supposed to be here.’ Nova’s eyes went wide and looked back and forth from Natalie and her cousin. I was shocked to see Benedict here as well. Our encounter from months ago wasn’t supposed to happen, and him being here isn’t supposed to happen as well! Yvonne never met Benedict, they never crossed, seen, or heard from each other and besides, Ben’s scenes in the book happens in another ten years or so!I decided to let him suffer for 4 months by not feeding him. He can't touch anything and communicate through anything but me since I was the only hold he has for him to exist. It was so weak that It can't affect anything. He promised that he would take me back once he was strong enough and would give me the luxurious life I was always asking for. It took him 3 tries before I gave in. I started seriously considering it. If I do what he wants in exchange for a lifetime of no financial problems, then
"Six months?!" She was able to win a thick stack of certificates within just six months!? He didn't know how to react. She has been acting weird these days, but he didn't expect such a change!"Father, are you sure this wasn't made up? Maybe she paid the professors?" Victor entered his room and Michael followed behind."I asked that question to her adviser as well but she just congratulated Yvonne for her change, she thought that she changed for the better." Both Michael and Victor were very skeptical, but the evidence before them was solid. As they continue to argue whether it was real or not, a girl was already sleeping in her room soundly.Demi woke up at the usual time and wore her red blazer, this wa
Third POV[Reserve right now sire?] A certain drive’s voice can be heard from the phone.‘Why would the young master reserve a seat in an Italian restaurant?’ He wondered why the young master Lucas would do such a thing, and late at night.‘Why would he reserve a seat for two? Unless…’ Mr. Wells thought of the young lady that his master helped.‘The young master is taking her on a date?!’ The old man Wells couldn’t stop his excitement for a lot of reasons.One, being that his master has “grown up” and two, his master has found someone he likes. Mr. Wells couldn’t stop himself from being surprised as he knew the young man a long time already.
Draft Chapter 34‘What’s the reason Lucas wasn’t able to attend in the first place anyway?’ I asked Nova. I don’t know the reason, and the book doesn’t say it either. So Nova, who’s the creator, must know.‘He didn’t like the food.’ Nova said.‘Well…he’s allergic to seafood.’ Nova continued his sentence.‘He is?’ I said as I thought back to what happened a few days back.‘Oh~ that’s the reason.’ I thought to myself as I remembered how he showed symptoms of an allergic reaction.‘That’s his weakness.’ Nova continued to explain how Lucas can only intake a small portion of seafood. It got worse when he graduated to the point that he wouldn’t be able to breathe because of his throat ti
‘Is she talking to herself again?’ Lucas saw Yvonne resting outside and zoned out.He has seen this habit of hers whenever she’s on her own or if the atmosphere becomes quiet. Lucas didn’t know when he started noticing it, but he did. She would space out and sometimes talk to herself.‘Cute.’ He thought to himself. He didn’t find it odd or weird, rather, he found it amusing.Yvonne was unbothered. She ignored the gossip about her, more like she didn’t really care. He was amazed at how uninterested she is in most things, but would show enthusiasm easily in things like food.Lucas didn’t know when, he didn’t how, but he slowly noticed every little thing about Yvonne.
Chapter 32 – Women tend to fall in love with their ears, and men are good with their words. Third POV [Reserve right now sire?] A certain drive’s voice can be heard from the phone. ‘Why would the young master reserve a seat in an Italian restaurant?’ He wondered why the young master Lucas would do such a thing, and late at night. ‘Why would he reserve a seat for two? Unless…’ Mr. Wells thought of the young lady that his master helped. ‘The young master is taking her on a date?!’ The old man Wells couldn’t stop his excitement for a lot of reasons. One, being that his master has “grown up” and two, his master has found someone he likes. Mr. Wells couldn’t stop himself from being surprised as he knew the young man a long time already. &nbs
Chapter 31 – His weaknessChapter 31 –‘So how do we make Lucas attend the celebration tomorrow?’‘Yeah, about that…’ I don’t really know how to make him attend.‘It would be odd to just tell him to come when the whole class doesn’t even know about the dinner yet.’ Nova said.‘What’s the reason Lucas wasn’t able to attend in the first place anyway?’ I asked Nova. I don’t know the reason, and the book doesn’t say it either. So Nova, who’s the creator, must know.‘He didn’t like the food.’ Nova said.‘Well…he’s allergic to seafood.’ Nova continued his sentence.‘He is?’ I said