World Between Pages

Episode 1

- Episode One -

"Vita! Vita!"

What was going on? She could hear someone calling out to her, but her eyelids were too heavy for them to open. Really, who was calling her?She hadn't made a mistake lately that would have angered Mrs. Giggles. She couldn't remember a day when he forgot the orphanage's clock rules. Her world slowly began to darken again at the moment that she felt that she was too tired to even think about it.

***

Vita woke up out of breath. For a moment she could not perceive her surroundings. Her head ached like it was going to c***k, every bone in her body ached. Her whole body was convulsing with pain. He thought as he stared at the unknown ceiling through his blurred memories.

"In god's name, what's going on?"

In the last memory of the young girl, she was painting a picture as usual. She was completely focused on the canvas so that the canvas she bought with the money she had saved would not go to waste. While she was drawing every point carefully, her carefully frowned eyebrows gave her a cute air , unlike her usual serious stance. Just as she was making the final touches, she suddenly felt a painful and heavy pressure in her chest.

The young girl remembered that she had collapsed to the ground from the pain. All of the paint in her hand had splattered on the painting he had just carefully painted. As always, Vita had waited for the pain to torment her for a while and then go away. However, this time, things didn't turn out the way she expected, the only thought in her mind as her eyes darkened, drenched in pain.

"Oh, my picture is ruined."

***

From the moment Vita awoke, she could not understand what had happened. When she woke up, the first thought in her mind was that she had managed to overcome the upcoming crisis again. But the fact that she had survived a crisis didn't explain why she woke up in a room that she didn't recognize , and she was in a body smaller than hers. Her heart started beating wildly. For a while she thought that the children in the orphanage had been abducted by the organ-stealing people who they always told about, but even that wasn't enough to explain how her body was getting smaller.

She took a deep breath to calm down. First, she decided to look around to understand the situation, but it was a mistake to try to stand up despite the tremendous pain and exhaustion in her body. And she rolled off the bed with a thud. A worried voice was heard from outside and the door swung open. A very beautiful and well-groomed young woman hurried into the room.

"Vita! Vita, baby are you okay?"

Vita looked at the woman with concern. Who was this woman and how did she know her name? Why was she calling him in such a frightened way? Thinking that she should be calm for now, Vita put all the questions in her mind to the back of her mind and looked at the woman. Then she slowly opened her mouth.

"Excuse me ma'am, have we met?"

***

Vita carefully studied the elegant woman who was talking to the doctor in front of her concernedly. She looked quite different from the woman who had just hysterically claimed to be her mother, clutching her arms. She was listening to the doctor with a sad and worried expression on her face. After Vita had asked the woman if they had met, the woman had left the room in fear and had come back in with a man who was said to be her father, and the doctor. Since then, Vita hasn't opened his mouth and focused only on following what was going on around her.

My God, what was going on in what world? She thought about what she had determined so far. Okay, first of all, this wasn't a dream, as her whole aching body showed. She also realized that even though he was still sick, the pressure she had felt in her heart all his life was gone. She was using a language he had never heard before but could understand and speak in a way that she didn't know how. And she was with people she didn't know but who claimed to be her parents in a large and spacious house that was quite different from the orphanage. For now, the situation didn't seem so bad. So she remained silent, turning to listen to the doctor talk to understand what was going on.

"Calm down, ma'am, I suspect temporary amnesia. It is probably a side effect of high fever. For now, there are no other problems."

"Are you sure it's nothing serious, doctor? Ah, my Vita looked at me in such a strange way."

"Don't force her to remember, she'll slowly remember as she gets better. You have to be patient and patient with her during this process."

Trying to hold back her tears, the woman thanked the doctor and walked towards Vita as her husband escorted the doctor to the door. He calmly sat on the edge of Vita's bed, as if afraid to startle her.

"Oh Vita, did I scare you? Sorry baby, your mom was scared too. You know I would never hurt you, right?"

Not knowing what to do, Vita looked at the woman in front of him. The woman was watching Vita with timid eyes, as if she wanted to be comforted by the person in front of her, but was afraid of wearing out the other person. There were other emotions in her eyes that Vita couldn't make sense of. But she had a hard time describing these feelings she hadn't experienced before. She only smiled faintly, for she was afraid to reveal something by speaking. As if that was all she needed, the woman replied with a big smile and unexpectedly took Vita in her arms. Then she hurriedly broke away from her, as if she was afraid of hurting her.

"Your mother is leaving now. But you don't have to be afraid. Someone will be waiting in front of the door, so you should get some rest. Your mom and dad will be here the moment that you call them, so you should get better carefully, my Vita."

Vita was holding her heart, which had been beating since the embrace she'd just been sucked into, as she hurried out of the room as if she couldn't contain herself any longer. Was she getting sick again? Why was she so hot in her inside?

***

For the next month, the Vita struggled with constant nightmares. In her sleep, memories of the previous world and this world are constantly mingling. Her mind was becoming too fuzzy to know where she was. The woman who claims to be her mother and the man who claims to be her father have stood by her throughout the whole process. Every time he woke up from her sleep, someone would definitely be there, hugging him and trying to calm her down by saying nice words. She could not count how many times during this whole process he was amazed by this woman who cried more than she did when she saw her tears, and how many times she tried to understand this man who was looking at her with a helpless and bitter expression as if he had encountered a problem he could not solve.

Among all these nightmares, Vita realized one truth. She had not entered the body of another child. In fact, in her previous life, the heart condition that was suddenly triggered while painting had really killed her. Later, the Vita was reborn in this world. Unlike her previous world, she had a family that supported and loved her very much. Then one day, during a family picnic, she fell into the lake and became seriously ill. During her illness, she regained the memories of her previous life in a way that he could not understand why. However, her body struggled to balance the memories of the two worlds, which caused her to lose the memories of this life for a while. For a month her mind dragged her through dreams to consolidate and recall these memories.

The second fact that Vita realized was that this second world, to which she migrated, was a world of novels that she followed fondly for 3 years. [Inside the Canvas]. She started reading this novel because the heroine had the same dream as her. To be a great artist. While reading this novel, Vita was happy when she saw that the heroine struggled and achieved something despite the impossibilities in her life. Maybe she dreamed that one day she could be successful in the same way, and was happy inside. Vita has been loving this book, even though the subject went away from the light with the male protagonist who was later included in the story.

However, there was a problem. In the novel, Vita pretends to be her own by stealing the painting of the female character, who is excitedly preparing for her first exhibition, and then she was destroyed with her entire family by the male leader. Of course, Vita wasn't sure exactly how this demolition was going to happen, as she only had one cannon fodder in the book. Everyone knows that cannon fodder is only there to be ruined and to advance the story. Extras that don't have a background or even an ending. Vita thought calmly and smiled sincerely. She had the opportunity to paint and a family that loved her. Moreover, she knew that she was destroyed along with her family for this reason in the story. I mean, did she really need to steal the female character's painting? Vita thought with a mischievous smile.

"Poor me. Ah, well, I guess there will be some trouble. Let's just forget about the book."