ALWAYS BEGIN WHERE YOU STOP!!!
"Princess. . ."
Someone is shaking her gently. She opened one of her eyes and noticed that the room was cold and dim.
"Still dark!"
She barely open her eyes and closed it again.
Her urged to sleep was way too powerful and her subconscious is pulling her deep down. So, Instead of getting up she flip on the other side.
"Princess. .princess. !"
This time, whoever calling her name was shaking her badly. It seems like she was so desperate to wake her up.
"Princess—!"
"Princess? Wait—whats going on?"
Upon her realization, She open her eyes slowly and waited for a moment. Her brain is in a mess, it took a little while before it works properly and sort things out.
"What on earth is going on?"
When everything registered to her brain she suddenly got up. She was in the weird place infront of the weird girl.
"I must be dreaming!"
She yawns lazily and was about to sleep again, when the girl suddenly yelled at her.
Startled! She realized that she was not dreaming at all.
"What the heck? You're scaring me to death!"
She shook her head wildly and all her sleeps went away.
"Princess—we have to get out from here!"
The girls voice was in haste. Why?
"Princess? Wait! Who— me?"
She gives a bark of laughter.
"I don't have time for jokes, help me get up. I need to go to school!"
"School—"
The girl's jaw drops.
"What is school?"
and asked her in confussion.
"What's wrong with you?"
She asked confusedly.
Repeating what the girl said in her own makes her realized that something is awfully wrong.
Now! It makes her confused as well.
Why suddenly I become a princess? What on earth was going on? Where the heck am I?
Looking at the girl infront of her makes her tummy jolts in motion and felt like she wants to throw up, but even if she puke her brain out still everything doesn't make any sense.
"Where Am I?"
"Princess, you— you forget what happend last night?"
What did happend last night?
"Did I got fever last night then I,—I sleep walked?"
The girl was studying her expression. For her, she may look like a psycho or something but she doesn't really know what the hell is going on.
She look at herself, the nice bed she was lying down over night is all gone, and now she was squatting awkwardly in a dark room?
"Last night? What happend last night?"
The girl pointed the broken ceiling right above her. She looks at it but still she could not find any clues.
"What is the connection with me and that broken thing?"
Then a vivid flash of memory comes in her vision, she saw someone fell down right through the tiles and landed exactly where she is sitting.
"Seriously. ! Did I really come down from there.? Ahhhhg. . I was probably hit my head hard and now my brain becomes dead!"
She tap her head and unconsciously massaged her butt.
"What is this place. ?"
No matter how hard she cracked her brain still she could not find any clue.
"Do you mean I am sleeping here the whole time?"
"Princess. .I don't know what exactly happend last night but someone from the palace send a private message to me this morning—"
Xin'er look at her and studied her expression, She looks so worried and hesitant for a moment.
"After you woke up last night—" She paused again and look into her eyes.
"Last night. .You suddenly disappeared!"
There was a trace of uneasiness in the girl's face. Who is she?
"Where is this place?"
"The imperial Library!"
"Library?"
She suddenly stood up and look arround, through a spot lights that comes from above where the girl said she fell down, she managed to see everything.
Yes. . she's indeed in the middle of a long and tall shelves filled with books.
Books?
Oh Yeah, I was in the library yesterday! She thought while remembering what happened yesterday.
"Library?"
The only word that registered to her brain was the word LIBRARY the rest was completely ignored.
"Imperial academy!"
"Imp— imperial academy? Whoa. . bloody hell! Is this the place where royal members study?"
The girl nod that makes her bark into laughters.
Imperial academy? Royal member? Woaaah this prank is gone to far!
She suddenly stop laughing when she realized that none of this really makes sense.
Her eyes wonders arround the place and thats the only time she realized that the place she's standing in is unfamiliar.
"Tell me what happened?"
The girl was taken aback and become pale, she suddenly sank in the floor as if all her strength were gone.
"Princess—"
Why she's hesitant? What is she hiding? She thought on herself while looking at the girl's uncertain expression.
"Last night, you woke up for the first time since you were in com— and when I came to checked on you, you just disappeared! We were all looking for you but— "
She sob.
"What do you mean—?"
Her brain wants to explode. She's started to have a goosebumps. She really had no idea what on earth is going on.
"You've been in—in bed for quite sometimes, you been sleeping all this time!"
The moment she heard it, she felt like being hit by a bomb.
"Bed? Sleeping for sometimes? I wasn't sleeping I was—"
She looked into the girl's eyes.
Through her eyes she herself saw something, it was fear and in her clouded mind she somehow saw a blurry vission, but she could not sort those scattered pieces in her memory, on how she ended up in the library.
One thing she knew, she is a person in this world. when realization hits her, everything that arrounds her seems to move closer and closer until there was no space and air to breath.
"How did I forget?"
She was down on her kness clutching her chest. The defeaning sounds of silence and the loud sound of her own heart beating is the only thing she could hear.
"This is impossible— impossible. !"
She felt the pain she could not describe.
"Princess!"
She look at the girl blankly with tears in her eyes.
"If I was sleeping all this time then all I see, all I experienced in that world is just a dream? But why everything seems so real? Why I still felt the pain— the accident?"
What about the accident? It was too real to be just a dream.
Her tears fell down in her cheeks. Her chest hurt so much as if there is something stuck in there.
"Always begin where you stop!"
Those words were keep on repeating in her mind, She covered her ears and sob.
She heard a beep. .she just barely heard it in the beginning until it become louder and louder and louder.
"Princess we have to get out from her!"
The girl infront of her was shaking her that pulled her thoughts back, the deafening sound that she heard in her subconscious was gone.
Without a word she run away!
Inside the library was dark and still. Running towards the door seems like a longest run she ever had in life. It was as if she was running for eternity.
With her unstable emotion she bearly find the door through the glimpse of light, she open it. The rays of the morning lights touch her skin and temporarily blinded her.
She stop and automatically raised her hands to cover her eyes.
She suddenly saw herself doing the same, She was sitting in her bedroom and the rays of light pass through the blind venetians and make her temporarily lost her sight.
"Always begin were you stop!!"
Now she'd recognized the voice it was the old man in the library.
"Mr. Henrick!"
She clutch her chest and felt the famillar pain and sadness inside, but she could not explained, why?
Before she could even step forward the girl that chase after her accidentally knock her off.
She fell and hit her forehead on the ground, she then saw a tiny lights incircling above her head before everything went black.