1 New World

"Why are you even here?!" Yura yelled at me as soon as I stepped inside the office.

"Yeah, you really had the courage to come here?!" Lori second motioned.

The sharp gazes from their eyes tell me that I shouldn't have survived that night. That I should be the one who's lying inside the coffin right now and not my boss. Well, I can't blame them. After all, even I think it's my fault.

I am Iris Lee, a worker under Fucus Corporation. The one that caused the accident on one of my bosses.

I was on my way home when the accident happened that night. Something happened in my family and my mind was full of suicidal thoughts. After giving it some thought, I decided on killing myself by getting run over, but things didn't go as I expected.

The car that was supposed to hit me deliberately tried to stop by going in a different direction and it hit a tree. At that moment, I immediately regretted what I tried to do. I hurriedly went near the car to see if the driver is okay. When I got near, I saw my boss and his head was bleeding. I dialed 911 as fast as I could. I shouted for help so if anyone can hear it, they can help me.

I thought everything would be fine if he was brought to the hospital but it wasn't as easy as that. When we arrived, the doctor announced him as dead on arrival.

"I wish you were the one who died!!!"

"I wish you were the one who died!!!"

"I wish you were the one who died!!!"

Those words repeated inside my head as I went home. What's keeping me from dying anyway? No one wants me here. Not even my parents. How can I say so?

I'm an illegitimate child of my father. My mom abandoned me when I was a baby and left me in an orphanage. My father can't take me in because her wife won't accept me so he makes me stay in a hotel.

Before I knew it, I was standing beside my balcony tightly holding onto the railings. I'm looking down at a pool where I would surely fall. If I hit its surface then I would surely die.

I started to reminisce my happy memories though It was only a few. I want to die with a smile on my face. I closed my eyes tightly and faced my balcony so my face wouldn't change and would still be the same if I die.

I slowly let go of the railings I was holding onto and of course, I am now finally falling. I can feel the cold breeze of the wind as I fall. After all, these happenings everything would finally be over.

I heard how the water splashed. I can also hear people screaming on top of their lungs. I can feel the loss of breath but I can't feel the urge of wanting to have air. I can feel my body sinking but I still didn't open my eyes.

After a couple of seconds, I decided to open my eyes because I still can't feel the surface of the pool. Instead of seeing the tiles of the pool, I saw... I think it's sand? Wait, what?!!

Sand!!!!!!!!

I swam up to the water's surface and saw no one. There were supposed to be a lot of people here but there's no one!! I'm supposed to be at the hotel's pool area but all I can see are big rocks and sand.

"Where am I?" I asked myself while still floating on the water.

I swam to the shore as fast as I could and when I reached it, I stood there looking around.

"Where in the world am I?" I asked again.

As I was looking around, I saw a man lying on the shore. He was soaking wet when I got near him. I tried to tap his face three times to see if he's conscious but he didn't respond. He's unconscious.

I started to get worried and started doing a Cardiopulmonary resuscitation but it didn't work so I had no choice but to do a mouth- to- mouth. After a few seconds, he spits out water and started to cough. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw him open his eyes. That moment I knew I saved someone.

But that joyful moment didn't last that long. Why? Because of this:

"What's the meaning of this?!!" I was startled because of the eardrum- breaking shout.

"Stop shouting!" I shouted back at him. He stood up and stepped back so I stood up too.

"D- Did you just kiss me?" He stuttered.

"What?!!!!" I asked, "Can't you even determine which is a kiss and which is not?!"

"What do you mean?!" He asked while holding his lips.

"Look," I said, "I didn't kiss you. I just had to perform a mouth to mouth operation because you weren't conscious and you looked like you drowned."

He cleared his throat and stood up straight. Now I could see his amazing height and built. His beautiful face as the sunlight hits it. He looks so... so perfect and... expensive.

OMG!!!!! God had given me another chance to live, again! Maybe this is why I haven't died yet. It was to meet this man! My gosh! HE looks sizzling hot!!!!

"What a wonderful sight!" I whispered.

I saw him take something out of his pocket so I was alarmed. I thought it was a knife but it was just his phone. I saw him do something with his phone before placing it beside his ear as if he's calling someone.

"Is it still working?" I whispered again.

"Hello?!" He asked aggressively.

"Yeah it's working," I said under my breath, answering my own question.

"Wait, so you're telling me that that is my name?!" I was confused with what he asked the other person in the other line.

"He doesn't remember his own name?!" I asked myself quietly.

'Huh! the moment he opened his eyes, he didn't even bother to ask a question about himself?! He just went crazy yelling at me that I kissed him?! What a great human!' I thought to myself

I looked around again. 'Where am I?' It seems like I am in a different world but I also think it's still the same. EH?! Even I myself can't understand what I'm thinking.

Am I really in another world?!