Until The End of Time | Wonho [√]

DYSPHORIA: AN UNWELL FEELING

I scratched on the back of my head. The afternoon sun was bathing us in mellow light, the kind of light that appeared an hour before the sunset. What was there to ask about time travel? What could I possibly ask?

"I don't know why you're asking me though." Jooheon let out a boisterous fit of laughter after staring down at my hesitant face for a good while.

"Why, we did have a fantastic discussion on this topic last day!" Minhyuk beamed. I corrected him in my mind, it was a lecture, not a discussion. Chankgyun and I only gulped down his words without putting our two cents in it, cause we didn't have any.

"Dude, you're from the physics department! I'm a history and philosophy major!" Jooheon exclaimed dramatically, his words oozing with amusement.

Minhyuk looked confused for a second. "Ah..," he stammered, "I thought you and I had talked about this before."

Jooheon frowned turning his lips upside down. "We did? I don't remember."

"Why are you so stuck on this idea of time travel?" Chankgyun commented from my side, his tone said he was slightly annoyed.

Hanbyul peaked her head from his side. "Are you writing a story of some sorts?" After a brief pause, she spoke again, "Do you plan to write a fictional blog, or did a guy suddenly showed up at your door and told you he was a time traveler?"

I blinked at her, my throat going dry all of a sudden. "How did you know?"

She was still smiling playfully as if to tease me but seeing my deadly serious expression her smile faded away. "I was joking? Why? You-" She just gave me a very puzzled look and I quickly shook my head to the sides.

"Yeah, I was joking too."

I didn't want them to think I had gone completely bonkers. Hanbyul didn't look convinced. She was still staring at me, confused at my unironic way of claiming the joke.

Chankgyun was fingering a tall grass that somehow had escaped the wrath of the lawnmower. "I don't get why this conversation is happening. You two should've been fanfiction writers instead." Chankgyun eyed us both turning his head to the sides.

"It is indeed very interesting. When I was a kid I was obsessed with this novel called the time machine." Shownu leaned his head a bit forward as he said.

"By H.G Wells?" Jooheon said, "that's said to be the very first fiction book based on time traveling."

"Really?" Shownu beamed with a surprised look on his face. "Yeah, it was old and hard to read! A scientist traveling to the future then back to the present and the past really amused me!" The tan male had nostalgia on his dark eyes. He was smiling to himself.

"It's kind of crazy how the idea of time travel has been around for hundreds of years. In Mahabharata, an ancient epic poem written in Sanskrit, there was a king who met the Brahma and came back a day later to see that hundreds of years had passed. There had been similar stories in Japanese and Jewish folklore," Jooheon said with a knowing look on his face, everyone listened with great intent, even Kihyun who acted like he was detached from the group.