Chapter 1
Bae Yoobin
She abruptly sat up, the unfamiliar tone of an alarm pulling her out of her sleep.
One of her hands busily patted her bed sheets to find the source of the noise, her other finding the thick frame of her glasses on the bedside table.
As she swiped up, the blaring alarm that sent panic down her spine suddenly stopped.
She frowned, noticing how her phone's wallpaper had changed. Not once in years had she ever changed it, a group picture of Oh My Girl from their debut had always decorated her home screen.
That's weird. She thought.
A loud knock shocked her out of her stupor, accidentally making her drop her phone on her lap.
"Bae Yoobin! Get up now or you'll be late to school, what's with you today? Are you sick, you're never late!" The familiar voice of her mother pierced through the door, sending her deeper into panic and confusion.
School!?
She looked around, only now realizing that she wasn't in her room in Oh My Girl's dorm. She was home, in Chuncheon.
That's weird. The last thing she remembered was dropping tiredly on her bed after a long day performing at an event and rehearsals for their upcoming comeback.
She looked around, suddenly noticing the little differences to how her room was normally decorated.
Gone were the polaroid selfies that she glued to her wall, gone were the box of letters that she had collected from fans, even the calendar with her schedules had disappeared.
Now her room was full of books and notes that a normal student would have, equations that she vaguely even remembered now plastered on her wall.
She shook her head, thinking that everything was just a dream. But the yelp that escaped her mouth when she pinched her thighs told her that this was all real.
Her head spun, not liking how suddenly nothing was making sense.
No. She had to calm down first and do what she can.
Yoobin quickly opened her phone with shaky hands, scrolling through her contacts to find the person she always contacts whenever things went out of her control.
The panic she felt inside her increased at not finding the number in her contacts.
Why wasn't Choi Hyojung in her contact list?
She scrolled from top to bottom, repeatedly. But with no luck, she found none of her member's names in her phone. Yooa, Mimi, Arin, Seunghee, Jiho, even their manager's number were all gone from her phone.
As if someone had wiped out her life and replaced them with unfamiliar and new ones.
She didn't like this. Not one bit.
But she couldn't do anything about it, not yet anyway. She needed more information, she needed to find her members.
But for now, she could only do one thing.
She needed to go to school.
.......
She pulled her backpack tighter over her shoulders, not used to wearing them. She walked through the familiar streets of her childhood home, thankful that she knew how to go to her own school because she loved to walked around when she was little.
Thankfully Yoobin, the one who lived this life, was exactly like her in everything besides the fact that she wasn't an idol and she didn't like singing.
A color coded schedule was written in her notes, with corresponding subjects and room assignments written on it. Thank god for other Yoobin.
"Yah, Bae Yoobin!" A loud voice made her halt in her steps.
Her eyes immediately went to the girl's name tag, happy that their school required everyone to wear them.
"Oh, S-Sooyoung-ah." She weakly muttered, silently hoping that she wasn't so awkward.
The girl frowned at her as she narrowed her eyes, Yoobin tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear, suddenly feeling conscious.
"You finally cut your hair short! Wow, it suits you so well. I always knew that you'd look great with that length but I didn't expect you to look this good!" Sooyoung complimented her.
She's had this hair for years. Apparently, this Yoobin didn't.
"Y-Yeah, I got a haircut yesterday." She stuttered, slightly taken aback when the girl suddenly jumped beside her to link their arms together.
"It suits you so well! You pulled your skirt higher up too, you're really changing everything. I've told you for years that you look like a nun with how long your skirt was but you're always saying that it didn't suit you!" The girl exclaimed as the two of them walked.
The Yoobin in this life really was like her, she thought. Before debuting, she hated wearing short skirts that revealed her skin but as she promoted with her members, she somehow got used to it.
"I guess I needed the change." She shrugged her shoulders, going with the flow for now.
Maybe by the end of the day she'd know enough of what was happening and get back to her own reality.
.......
For some unknown reason, her new haircut had created quite a buzz in her school. Apparently, Bae Yoobin, the known shy nerd who barely talked had suddenly transformed.
She silently grumbled, knowing to herself that if she wasn't an idol that this was what her life would have been.
Thankfully, the lessons that her teachers were teaching her were quite easy since she's studied them before. So she let her mind wander as her professor talked about a lesson that she's gone over years ago.
She didn't really mind her current situation. There wasn't an impending schedule that she should've been rushing off to right now, she wasn't even trying to rehearse the new choreography sent to them the day before to learn.
Everything was calm and less stressful for once. But somehow, it wasn't right. Af if something was missing.
She missed it. The tiring schedules, dance practices, vocal lessons. She missed the managers who took care and followed them wherever they went, heck she even missed the smell of WM Ent. Building.
But most importantly, she terribly missed her members. She missed the tired laughs and groans that they shared with each other after a long tiring session of dancing.
Yoobin missed the jokes, the warmth, the familiarity.
Before she even noticed it, a lone tear had escaped the corner of her eyes. She quickly wiped it away, thankful that no one had noticed her.
.....
"Hey, wanna go get ice cream at assishi?" Sooyoung asked, her eyes twinkling.
She nodded her head, slightly feeling out of it. Maybe a tub of ice cream can make her feel better.
By the look of excitement on the girl's face, it seems like the normal Yoobin would have declined her offer. But oh well, nothing was normal for her today after all.
The two girls walked side by side, her still holding her phone as she searched through the internet for anyone who knew of Oh My Girl.
Apparently no one did. Searching her group name just gives her a result of 'did you mean 'oh my god?''
She sighed, knowing that she would have gotten that result. For some reason, every trace of her group had disappeared from the face of the earth.
Weirdly, WM Entertainment was still a building in Seoul. Even their seniors B1A4 can be searched online, it was only them who disappeared. That slightly gave her a little bit of hope.
Hope that her memories weren't fake, that what she was living in right now wasn't her reality. That she didn't just imagine years of promoting as an idol, meeting fans, bonding with members, practicing.
It gave her hope that she'd find them. That she'd find home.
"What's up with you today?" Her friend, curiously asked.
"Huh?" She asked back, slightly panicked.
Sooyoung opened the large door to the market, the ringing sound of wind chimes filling the store. It gave her a sense of familiarity.
"I mean, I know that you changed physically and everything but you're somehow behaving weirdly? Don't take this the wrong way but you usually decline whenever I ask you to get ice cream. Something about you always wanting to study for an imaginary pop quiz that never even gets given." The girl continued talking as she eyed all the snacks on their way to the ice cream freezer.
Yoobin scratched the back of her head, thinking of something believable to say.
"It's nothing, just feeling out of it that's all." She answered, hoping that the girl would somehow believe her and let it be.
"You know that you can always talk to me about anything right? I know your mom always tells you to hang with more friends because you study so much but you can always come over and study in my house to avoid her nagging." She offered, handing over a bar of ice cream over to her.
Yoobin smiled gratefully as she followed the girl to the counter.
"Thank you." She knew that technically, it was her first time meeting the girl that day but she could tell that Sooyoung was a really great friend.
It relieves her to know that she had someone to count on even if she didn't decide to take that bus to Seoul. Even if she didn't decide to be a singer.
She reached for her pocket to take her wallet, only to be stopped by her friend. "It's on me."
She grinned as she ripped open the packet and stuck the cold bar of deliciousness in her mouth, "How'd you know that melon was my favourite?"
Sooyoung looked at her confused.
"What do you mean, you always eat that whenever we buy ice creams in the cafeteria no matter what flavour I force you to try." She halted in her steps.
Yoobin awkwardly chuckled, turning around when she heard the wind chimes ringing as it signaled the arrival of another customer.
"Oh, y-yeah. I forgo-" She suddenly froze in her steps, taking in the bright hair and similar shocked expression on the girl's face.
Tears suddenly blurred her vision as she felt emotions crash into her in waves.
"Binnie."
The relief and warmth that she felt when the girl said the name that no one had called her the whole day made her feel giddy and emotional at the same time.
"Seunghee unnie."
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Author's Note:
Hello, everyone!
I'm a month old baby miracle and this is my first time writing a fic about Oh My Girl. They've taken over my heart so hard and fast that it shocked me. They're such wonderful girls and I wondered why there isn't much stories written about them so I decided to write one instead:) (Tho their real lives are so crazy that it already sounds like fiction but oh well)
I hope that you liked this short bit and that you pardon my typos and mistakes as I only wrote this in the spurge of a moment. (Took like an hour or less so I wasn't able to proofread)
Thank you for reading this and I hope you leave a kudos or a comment if you liked this:)