Siwoo realises that people are running towards him after the car crash, but his vision starts to blur until it goes completely dark. Sometime later, Siwoo regains consciousness and slowly wakes up, opening his eyes to find himself in a kind of white room. A very bright light appears and Siwoo closes his eyes reflexively, but when he opens them he sees absolutely nothing.
"Welcome ❚❚ ❚❚❚ Park Siwoo"
"Who are you and where am I?" Siwoo looks around for any human figure but finds nothing but the colour white.
"Hm... you can call me Ti and you are ❚❚ ❚❚❚ ... but I don't think you can understand our language" Ti transforms and appears in front of Siwoo.
"Are you a cat?" Siwoo looks at the animal confused.
"Not really, this is just one of my forms. However, we're not here to talk about that. Park Siwoo, you weren't supposed to have any accidents in your life, your destiny was... I guess you could say it was stolen, so I am here to make an offer." The cat speaks seriously looking at Siwoo.
"A talking cat…this can only be a dream..."
"Park Siwoo, in the human world ❚❚❚❚❚, we are forbidden to change things, but for humans is different. If you want to have a second chance to live again, I just need a favour from you." The cat closes its eyes and smiles a bit menacingly.
Siwoo is confused, this all seems like a dream but the pain he felt when the car hit him was real. His only option was to believe this... cat? Well, it doesn't seem like a bad idea to go back to the past... before everything happened…
"What needs to be done to go back?" Siwoo looks at the cat like he finally accepts that all this is not a dream.
"You need to find out who caused all these accidents in the human world, and prevent that person from causing these problems again" As the cat is about to finish speaking, it is interrupted by the sound of walls that are turning from white to grey and black. "We're running out of time, I need to send you right now."
"But you didn't finish talking!" Siwoo looks at the cat.
"Don't worry, I'll send someone to help" The cat smiles and everything goes black.
"Siwoo wake up!...SIWOO!!!" A familiar voice was shouting when Siwoo opened his eyes in shock, he saw Kyungho, his brother at least 10 years younger.
"I woke up, no need to shout."
"I'm just waking you. You have school today, don't you? It's already 9 am"
"Wait...school?... oh! What day is it today Kyu?"
"Day xx/xx/xxxx... why? Did you forget about your school because of the dancing class??"
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Siwoo looks at his brother in panic, then looks at his hands... it seems smaller, he gets out of bed and goes to the mirror in his room. His brother thinks he's gone crazy and leaves the room, while Siwoo looks at himself in the mirror and sees that he's 12 years old again. A few minutes later, he stops staring at the mirror and realises that he's walking normally and that he's not feeling any pain.
"So walking is really like riding a bike, once you learn it you never forget! Haha" Siwoo laughs at the situation, he can't believe he's walking again. "Okay, I need to focus!" He looks in the mirror and slaps his cheeks, getting back to reality. "If my memory is right, today's dancing class is fake. It's today that the scouts will watch our performance and choose whether to recruit anyone." Taking his hands off his face, he adjusted his posture. "Before anything, I need to test my current abilities"
Siwoo leaves his room, closing the door carefully trying not to make any noise. Then he tiptoes to the living room trying to leave his house without his brother noticing, and well… his plan fails when his brother appears right behind him.
"What do you think you're doing?" His brother looks him up and down, crossing his arms and smiling slyly. Meanwhile, Siwoo is now panicking.
"Hahaha... Nothing... just going to..." Siwoo tries to deceive his brother, but Kyu is not stupid enough to fall for those silly excuses.
"I don't care where you're going, but you need to eat something first, I don't want you to starve on the way and die. I know about that habit of yours, not eating in the morning is bad for your health." Kyu says all this while pulling his brother by the ear and taking him to the kitchen.
"Okay, okay, let go of me now. You're pulling too hard!!!" Finally, when the two of them are in the kitchen, Kyu lets go of his brother's ear.
"Sit down and eat your food."
"Yes sir!" Siwoo, terrified by his brother's irritated and serious aura, just does as ordered.
"Did you like it?"
"Yes, you were always good at cooking." Siwoo smiles at his brother Kyu in a nostalgic tone, remembering memories of the two of them and how his brother Kyu gave up his dreams to take care of him.
"If I wasn't good, I wouldn't open the restaurant." Kyu pats his younger brother's head lightly, making him stop having negative thoughts. "Finish your food and get out before I change my mind, after all, you have school today and they've already complained about your absences." Siwoo looks at his brother immediately and opens a huge smile.
"You're the best!!" Kyu strokes Siwoo's head and leaves the kitchen to get ready for work. Siwoo finishes eating, goes straight to the door with only his cell phone in his pocket and heads to the dance studio.
His brother returns to the kitchen to see if he has finished eating and only finds the empty plate and a note that says: "I'm going to the dance studio and meeting Tae. I'll be back for dinner!" After his brother finishes reading the note, he gets annoyed.
"That little shit even dared to talk about dinner. I swear I'm going to kill him one day."
. . .
Siwoo never thought he would miss running, but since the accident, he has never spent a day thinking about the pain and energy that running brought him. Now that he can run again, he is anxious to dance, for this little body may be just a few hours without dancing, but mentally it has been over 20 years since he has moved his leg freely. Arriving at the dance studio, Siwoo stops right in front of the door, staring at it.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" A strange voice questions Siwoo. When he looks back, his eyes shine with happiness and sadness. Since he stopped dancing, he has refused to see anyone who was connected to his life through dance. He didn't want to be reminded of the times when he could still dance and especially feel his envy towards the people that are doing things he couldn't... Yes, quite selfish, but who in the world would be happy to see other people doing something you love and feel powerless to do without help? You can blame him for being selfish, but you will never know his suffering... After all, we only feel our sufferings.
"Aren't you going to answer me?" The person speaks again, pulling Siwoo out of his thoughts.
"...My brother let me skip..."
"I can't believe this, hahaha. You are always like that! Should we go in then?"
"...Yes Eunjin…I mean, Mrs Kim"