Dream Love : Dream Land - Chapter 151

Melanie opened her eyes at her real world in a state of exhaustion that day.

“Ugh! Look like the long journey take tool on me even in here.” She holds her head who is throbbing quite bad now. She then looked at her clock which showed it was only 3 am at that time. She did wake up a bit early.

With difficulty, Melanie got up, rummage through her handbag to find a painkiller for her headache and left the room to go to the kitchen to get some water. Looks like all the people in the house are not yet awake due to the time being that is still early.

Slowly, Melanie moved there so as not to disturb the others who were still asleep with the unpleasant noise. Once in the kitchen, she immediately took the cup and poured water into it.

While standing in front of the sink, she popped two tablets of painkiller in her mouth, then swallowed them while drinking water. After that, putting her cup in the sink, she massaged her head slowly there. Hope the feeling of unwell at that time, gradually recovers. She can’t fall sick now with so many things to be done.

“Huh!” Melanie gasped slowly right there when her body was suddenly pushed to the side and one large hand suddenly rested on her forehead.

“You got a fever.” Beom-Soo said while pulling his hand back and helping Melanie wash her used cup. Feeling no more shock by his sudden appearance, Melanie just decided to sit at the dining table while picking up an apple that was on the table to eat. Hoping that the apple can make her healthier after this. An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right? Except she is really a doctor.

“When did you get here?” Melanie asked him.

Beom-Soo quickly takes the apple in Melanie’s hand before she eats it.

“I am here since the very beginning. You just don’t notice me. And Melanie, you need to wash this first before eating.” He scolded her a little before doing it for her.

Melanie pouting there.

“Its not dirty.”

Beom-Soo hands the apple back to her on the plate. Already cut it with knife.  He also put a fork on the side to make it easy for her to eat them.

“Its exposed to dust that we don’t see because it’s not covered. You suppose to know that better as you are a doctor, not me.” Beom-Soo said that.

Melanie didn’t have anything to say about that so she just eating the now cutting apple in silence.

“You are working too hard this past few days. You need to take a proper rest Melanie or you will get sicker. You are not getting younger anyway.” Beom-Soo said there while sitting in front of her.

Melanie stares at him with her sharp eyes now. How dare he try to remind her about her age. Even she already forty – something, she is still young at heart.

“You ordered death for daring to say so.” Melanie is warning there.

Beom-Soo just chuckle.

“I can’t never rest before we can sort these things out. Too much to think, too much to do.”

“But you are sick today. Can’t you just slow down a bit?”

Melanie raised her eyebrows there. She knows this man means well, but she is just too restless now to even sleep. This time is like a critical time for her.

“I will get the rest later, but not today.”

“Something happen?” Beom-Soo wants to know.

“The girl that I mentioned before, was taken to Korea on a special plane from London since last night. She will get here, in my secret laboratory at 6. I need to go after this.”

“The one who is being injected with all of the rainbow meteor liquid?”

“That’s the one.” Melanie admitted.

“So you won by trying to blackmail that big company?”

“Not before spilling a lot of money, sweat and tears. But yes, we did get the girl which is more important.”

“That’s a relief. But what are you going to do now?” Beom-Soo wanted to know the plan.

“I just want to see her first before anything. We didn’t bring her in to do experiments with her. We wanted to save her. So, I didn’t really have a real plan for her yet.”

“What about the others that are also affected by the stone?”

“The princes?”

Beom-Soo nodded there.

“They are all in good care in their respective countries. I have my friend everywhere there to observe them. I have also thought of bringing them all here to make it easier for me to monitor them, but… I don’t think it’s possible. We are just a low key non government organization with tight budgets and low facilities anyway. ” Melanie looked at the clock on the wall at that moment.

“I need to get ready now so I’m not too late.” She got up and started squirming there.

“Let me drive you there.” Beom-Soo offered.

“But…” Melanie wants to decline, but seeing the man’s serious face and she also realizes that her body is still weak, she finally agrees.

“Fine… see you in 30 minutes.”

After exactly 30 minutes, Melanie and Beom-Soo left the house to go to the secret laboratory used by Melanie and her other professor friends. In the car, while driving, Beom-Soo breaks the silence between them.

“You know why Martin tries to find Jieun right?” He asks suddenly.

He actually wanted to ask her a long time ago, but now he felt it was the safest and most appropriate moment for him to ask. Because only the two of them were there.

Melanie, who was watching her cell phone, checking all the emails and messages, is now focusing her attention on Beom-Soo.

“Why do you say that?” She just excused herself for a moment.

“When Byung-Hun questioned why Martin wanted to find Jieun while Jieun didn’t have any rainbow meteors with her, I saw your eyes trail at Jieun’s necklace.” There’s nothing to hide between them as they are one team anyway, so, Beom-Soo just said it directly to her.

“When did you know about that?” He asked next.

“The first time I saw her.” Melanie said that, but she actually means that ‘the first time she saw her at Dream Land’. She still didn’t tell anyone here about her being Queen Anna in there, also about her being injected with the red liquid by Martin before.

“And you can know it just by seeing? I do a pretty good job hiding that from people.” Beom-Soo seems to know that Melanie is hiding something from him.

“I just have a good intuition. I ask Jieun before about the necklace and she just said that it makes her healthy and not get sick when wearing the necklace. I didn’t know the real story behind it. Do you want to share with me? ” Melanie asks him if he wanted to open up to her.

Beom-Soo was silent for a moment there.

“I actually didn’t know what Jieun is wearing is one of the rainbow meteor at first. The guy who gave that to her said that it will probably make her healthy. She got a heart problem since birth and it turned out after the man gave the chain to Jieun, she is not sick anymore. But if the chain falls from her, she will get sick back instantly. That’s why I didn’t want anyone to know. I’m afraid people like Martin wanted to stole it and making Jieun life at risk. Seeing he wanted to find Jieun, he probably know about that.”

“The guy… who is he?” Melanie asked curiously.

“I don’t know who he is until I started living at Byung-Hun’s house recently.” Beom-Soo looked at Melanie for a moment there. He sighed deeply.

“Is he…” Melanie tried to guess.

Beom-Soo nodded.

“I saw the picture at Byung-Hun study room. It’s him. The man who gave Jieun the necklace is Alex.”

Melanie gaped there. She didn’t even think that Alex is the one gave it to Jieun to help her.

“I’m glad that he gave it to her and not someone else.”

“Are you going to take it back?” Beom-Soo asked with a bit of fear.

Melanie frowned a little there.

“Of course not. I love Jieun just like she is my own daughter. I will never want to risk her life for anything. But let just both of us know about that. The rainbow meteor is not that important in here anyway for us to worry about. I’m sure the only solution is in the other world there. And only Jieun can do that. ” Melanie said.

Beom-Soo breathed a sigh of relief now.

“I’m sorry. I just …”

“Its fine. I know you more than you think I am.”  Melanie didn’t want his sorry.

“We are here now. Lets get in.” Melanie invites.

“Is it fine for me to come in?” He just wanted to drive her in the first place.

“It’s fine. You need to drive me back home anyway. Come.” Melanie and Beom-Soo immediately walked in the relatively remote area. Until they reached a building that looked old, full of bodyguards outside, but as soon as they entered the building it turned out that the building looked modern and new.

“Professor Melanie, you are here.”

One of her colleagues greeting her.

“Dr. Rin, is Professor Do-Yun already arrived?” Melanie asks her while wearing her lab coat.

“He is already inside.”

“Stay in my office for a while. You can have some snack and coffee while you are there.” Melanie said to Beom-Soo as she handed him the key to her office. Beom-Soo immediately went there after Melanie showed him the direction.

“The girl?” Melanie ask question again.

“She arrived in safe.”

Then Melanie and Dr. Rin starts rushing into the lab that houses the girl.

“Professor.” Melanie nodded to Professor Do-Yun there. Greeting him.

He also nodded back.

Facing the girl there, Melanie froze in her place. Her face clearly show that she is really have a good shock.

“We try to fine her identity, but like we already know since before that she is never being registered since birth and just become the lab experiment. Thankfully, she is in a good health. It’s just a pity that she didn’t even have a name.” Professor Do-Yun said with regret.

“No… she has a name.” Melanie said that softly while walking closer to the girl.

“What do you mean?” Professor Do-Yun asks because he doesn’t understand.

Patting the girl’s head gently, Melanie said in a whisper.

“Sorry I’m late… Lia….”