7 Chp 6 - Dreamlike Reality

Maybe I could ask Vincent to stand in front of the mirror? Though he would be a bit confused it would be easier to just ask someone instead of going through the trouble to look at someone's reflection without just waiting in the bathroom or something.

People's reflection looking different when they looked in the mirror was this something out of a book? What if...My reflection also looked different? I quickly pushed the thought away, it wouldn't help to think about things such as my reflection. As I had promised myself to never look at my reflection.

I opened the door and went outside with my bags since Vincent was my neighbour if he was still here should I ask him to walk with me? I walked up to his door and lightly knocked on it with my hand.

"What...?" A voice that sounded confused quietly said.

I heard footsteps coming towards and the door opened. Vincent looked a little dishevelled and he had dark eye bags under his eyes. He let out a little yawn and slowly looked up to me.

When he took a double take he jumped. I was glad I hadn't gotten the wrong door. Luckily I knew my other neighbour so I didn't get the wrong door.

"You look a little tired are you okay?" Had he gotten enough sleep?

"I just forgot to sleep that's all no big deal," He tried to play it off.

"Don't try to play something like that off, you should take a day off and rest,"

"No, it's fine I'm used to myself doing things like this," He waved his hands

"So what did you need me for?" His words trailed off and he lightly blushed.

"I had been wondering if you wanted to walk to school together,"

"Well that would be nice, if you just wait for a second I'll be ready,"

"No, you should rest today I think," I rejected

"No, really I'll be fine, I'd rather be with you then rest," That was so sweet~. I think I was getting a bit too attached to him.

"If you say so," I didn't think I would be able to convince him to rest.

"Okay just wait a moment," He disappeared behind the door, and after 10 minutes he came out looking completely normal. Nothing close to how he had looked like before.

I couldn't help but let out a little gasp of admiration. Just in a few minutes how could one look so different? I moved out of the way and he walked out of his room with his bag then he shut his door locking it.

"Sorry for the delay," Vincent apologized

"It's fine, it wasn't that long,"

"By the way, I have a little favour to ask of you," I mentioned it, hoping to make it not seem like a big deal.

"Sure, anything that's the favour?" He enthusiastically replied

"This may seem weird but could I look at your reflection in a mirror?"

"I guess it is kind of weird, but since I'm able to do it, I'll be happy to do it for you,"

"Actually I have a mirror on me," Vincent put his bag on the floor and took out a pocket mirror.

He opened it and pointed it at his face, his face gradually became redder.

"Y-you can look now,"

"Thanks," I carefully looked at an angle where I wouldn't see my own face.

He looked normal in his reflection, so I blinked. I opened to see a different reflection on the mirror, as it had been with Dae-Hyun. Silver hair and red eyes, he had large pointy white fangs in his mouth.

His skin was even paler than Vincent's skin was right now it seemed almost like it was white. Instead of seeming like a completely different person, it seemed more like a different version of him? Vincent looked kind of like a Vampire in the reflection.

"I'm finished now," It would make him uncomfortable if I stared at his reflection for too long.

I didn't think anyone would even begin to get close to knowing why I wanted to look at their reflection. It would probably be a mystery forever.

"Let's head to school now shall we?" Vincent gave a little smile and we went on our way.

We walked down the steps but on the last step, I suddenly felt like I was falling thousands of feet. My body felt heavy.

My foot touched the ground and everything went back to normal. I blinked a few times, that was a bit weird. Not being able to control myself I clenched my chest reaching for my fast-beating heart and my legs gave out under me.

I kneeled on the ground, I tried breathing slowly to calm myself down. My body shook, I always tried to deny it but I was pretty scared of heights. This kind of fear couldn't be faked.

"Are you okay?" Vincent worriedly watched from the side. His eyes were full of anxiety.

"Yeah, just give me a second," After a bit, I felt a bit better.

"Maybe you should take a day off?"

Oh how the tables have turned, he was asking if I should take a day off now.

"Why should I rest, if you're not going to rest?" I asked

"W-well...I-," He struggled to come up with a response.

"But, I'm fine now no need to worry,"

"Maybe you should go to the hospital for a check-up, that kind of thing doesn't just happen suddenly," Vincent was stilled worried.

"I just... Remembered a bit of a nightmare," It was like experiencing a short bit of a nightmare while awake. The feeling of plummeting to the ground didn't feel good.

It was terrifying actually.

As far as I knew I hadn't ever fallen from any great heights, but it felt like I had experienced it before.

"Really, it must've been a really scary nightmare then," Actually I didn't remember my dreams most of the time.

But maybe that had really been a snippet of one of my dreams? If I eat with Reo and Kai again I could maybe ask to look at their reflections. I felt a gaze on my neck.

"Is there something on my neck?" I questioned

"No, I just thought your neck looked nice, heh," Vincent looked away and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Ok," Wasn't that something a vampire might say? Maybe Vincent was really secretly a vampire?

If so was Dae-Hyun a merman, just as I had seen in the mirror. Or maybe their inner self, was him saying that a side effect of seeing him in the mirror. Would he eventually turn into a vampire because of his reflection? Though it was a bit early to jump to conclusions wasn't it? Vincent just probably thought my neck looked nice… Right?

"Thanks," I could take that as a compliment right?

"You're welcome," He stammered a bit flustered

Vincent always seemed a bit timid, or shy? Socially-awkward? Well, I wasn't one to be good at guessing people's personality traits. I got up onto my feet with Vincent's help.

"Well, I guess we should continue walking to school now?" Vincent questioned

"Yeah,"

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Reo POV

I really liked how everyone had separate dorms it allowed me to sleep peacefully, the only thing stopping me from having a long good night's sleep was myself. I just couldn't seem to stay asleep waking up at random times during the night.

Sometimes after waking up, I couldn't fall back asleep it seemed almost impossible. It was easier to fall asleep when I'm not supposed to such as during classes.

I was pretty the teachers in the morning period had pretty much given up. Luckily I still did my work, after class. My grades were pretty average. Actually maybe a little under average? Heh...

Sometimes it was hard to differentiate from dream and reality sometimes, had it actually happened, or had I dreamed about it? Falling asleep was easy, after waking up falling asleep again was the hardest.

Maybe my mind adapted to be able to absorb so much information so I would actually be able to get enough sleep to function. If I didn't sleep during class maybe I would get nothing done because of trying to get caught up on my sleep after school.

If I decorated my room like a classroom would it be easier to stay asleep at night? Maybe I should ask Kai to help me redecorate my room. But I didn't really want my room looking like that.

I had already spent so much time decorating my room and it looked just fine. Kai had recently made some new friends who were now also my friends now. Anyone who made friends with Kai was also my friend.

If I pay Kai enough money he sometimes does the work that I already understand. Kai liked getting extra practice, because he doesn't exactly have the best memory and along with it he also got some money.

The money was just an add on though. I knew he wouldn't have minded even if I didn't pay him, but that would feel wrong to me.

Kai was very big on saving money, after graduating he wanted to do so many things. To be able to do that he had to save up money. I was saving money as well I just wasn't as good at it, money was just so useful?

It could do many things, which was pretty amazing. I couldn't help but use my money on buying plushies my bed was full of them. I also had a pretty expensive pillow, it was worth it though it was just so soft and comfortable.

My waking up at random times was probably due to Akuma waking me up at ungodly times because of his nightmares when we were younger. Of course, I didn't mind even though he was the older brother, it was only by a little.

Since we didn't look exactly the same most only thought we were only brothers and not twins. Akuma was much taller than me and had a sharp jawline. I had a bit of baby fat, sometimes he liked to pinch my cheeks to calm him down.

It really hurt and my cheeks had pink marks on them after getting pinched. Also of course he had black eyes while I had purple eyes.

Now Akuma based his stories off them, maybe it helped him get over them. I didn't know how it worked, describing your terrifying nightmares in great detail.

But it worked for Akuma, so it didn't really matter. The confusing was what were these nightmares based off, weren't dreams just mixed up memories from your mind?

Or maybe I was wrong I would always forget to search up what dreams were exactly. I would do it someday.

For some reason, Kai never really said anything about me sleeping in class. If I asked him what he thought about it he would say

"Isn't it just one of your personality traits?" He would be the kind of person to think that sleeping is a personality trait I think.

Sleeping wasn't a personality trait but being lazy was. Being lazy was kind of a big no-no in my family my parents were big workaholics, instead of parents we had a full-time maid and butler that looked after us. Well right now they were only looking after the house since we lived in a dorm.

As well as a personal chauffeur. The other workers just did things such as maintaining and guarding the mansion and making food. I and my brother's rooms were next to each other so he was able to sneak over to my room without being discovered it wasn't very far.

My parents were very adamant about following your passions just as they had. Since they were passionate about their work they found it easy to do lots of it. But even if they were passionate about their work they should pay more attention to their children, or spend more time with them.

They didn't really feel like my parents, more just birth-givers? If that sounded right. Although they made a lot of money and gave us a big allowance, I would much rather spend some time with them. Get to know them a bit, grow closer. Of course, this would probably never happen, unfortunately.

Though it was nice to think about, having actual parents. Instead of some people who gave me money, and hired workers. They just felt so far away. They only occasionally sent us texts, right now they were working on a big project that would take a long time overseas.

But didn't they ever have a thought to visit us at least once? It had been so long since we had seen them.

Though I guess this had allowed me to get closer to my brother. We weren't as close now though. I was closer to Kai now, right when my brother started to stop waking up in the middle of the night. I and Kai met and became friends pretty easily, we just connected. I knew we would be best friends forever and for life.