Chapter 56 - Going Back Home

Jason got to the royal lake very early in morning. He had made the decision to go back home. Going over how he got there in his mind over and over again. 

He could only come to the conclusion that he arrived through sleep. But he had fallen asleep many times in the novel and didn't return home. So he figured that if he died in the novel then he would be safe back at home. 

His soul would leave the book and the real Nedryn would return to the body and write his wrongs. He just had to do it, it was the only solution that he could think of to end both his and the crown prince's suffering. 

And if he died then the author would have no choice but to fix the problems that he had created in the story between Davion and Sashina. 

Then the two lovers would get their happy ending and he will be back home cheering for the crown prince. While cherishing the memories that they made together. They weren't much but they were his and he treasured them. 

He jumped into the water.  A big splash formed around the area that he fell from, while his body slowly downed into the water. 

Jason didn't even put in any effort to get out of the water, the water entered his nose draining the air in his lungs. It was hard to see with all the water in his eyes, he decided to close his eyes and just go away. 

The shimmering smile of the prince from the day they met flashed before his eyes making him hurt over his loss. Seeing the beautiful smile that he would only get to read about and never see again was the worst pain ever. 

It stung more than anything else. Knowing that from that day, he would never get to see the crown prince in person ever again and would only read about his life on a piece of paper. 

The water started getting to his brain forcing him to struggle to swim up to save his life. He didn't want to rescue himself but their was nothing he could do. His body was moving by instincts trying to get him out of the lake. 

His leg cramped up keeping him from successfully swimming out of the water. His mind went blank before his body stopped struggling and he fell unconscious in the water. 

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"Uhhh," Jason gasped opening his eyes. He was startled as he didn't expect to survive that. He was only speculating that he would go back home if he died in the book but then he woke up. 

He sat up in the tub and wiped his face dry. 'Wait, bathtub,' he thought realising that he was seating in a bathtub. He got up from the bathtub and looked around, everything was just as he remembered them to be. 

Just the way that he left them before going to sleep the night he got trapped on the book. He wrapped a towel around his waist and stepped out of the bathroom, he looked into the mirror anf saw his old face. 

He had no idea that he would ever get to see this face again. He was so excited to be back home. To have his body back, he strode over to the bed and picked up his phone to check the time anf date.

He had been in the novel for so long that he couldn't tell how much of his life had gone by while he was in the novel. He opened his phone and realised that he had a lot of notifications from his favourite reading app. 

He clicked on them forgetting about the time and date. He needed to know about his author and whether or not she was aware that someone had stolen her work. 

If not then he could only imagine how happy he would make the author if he told her that he had found her book being stolen. 

<<The author of standing by you started a new novel, a bl version>>

He read and froze. That changed everything, his heart remained still, he couldn't breath. He had just gotten a sweet insight on why the story and setting had changed so much. And why the crown prince suddenly turned gay. 

He stood there stuck on whether or not to click on the new novel. It would hurt to see his tragic love story anf how everything fell apart. His running away instead of facing his defeat. 

"I will just take a peek," he said. 

He made himself comfortable and clicked on the new novel and read from it, the insights that he got from the novel was really eye opening. The author had only updated till chapter sixty and was taking a break.

He was surprised to see that he himself was the MC of the novel. The author had written the book as a dedication to him as a thank you for all the motivational comments, gifts and reviews that he used to give to her. 

It was to say thank you. 'That explains why my prayers always got answered,' he thought with a smirk on his face. 

He finished reading the latest chapter and was shocked to see that the misunderstanding he heard with the crown prince was all done by Sashina. He was beyond stunned. 

The novel ended at the part where he fell unconscious at the lake. He set his phone down, his eyes had been opened but it was too late. He was already out of the book and there was no way he could get back inside the novel and complete his story. 

The author had put the book on haitus which meant that she had no plans of updating the book anytime soon. It saddened him. He wouldn't get to see his crown prince get a happy not will he be a part of the novel along with him. 

All of it made his heart break into a million pieces. He had so many chances and like a fool he blew each one of them. 

He scrolled over to the comment section. It was flooded with comments from readers asking him to see Sashina for who she was. Others advised him to rethink his decision of leaving. Other we're telling him to take the first step and just kiss the crown prince to get him to stop being angry. 

The comments then proceeded to how stupid he was for letting the prince go. The fans of the book cursed at him saying that he wasn't good enough for the prince and that the author should replace him with someone who actually had the balls to grab what they wanted. 

As a reader, he got why they reacted like that but as the character he took offense. It was easy for them to judge him because they were in his shoes. If they were they would also see how the pressure would get to them and they too would make almost similar choices as he did. 

He checked his email and found a lot of curses and hate from fans of the book. Everywhere he turned their was hate, on his social media pages there was a lot on messages from the fans accusing him for being the reason that the author dropped the novel and was taking a break from it. 

He had no idea what to do. The author was famous and she had a lot of fans, he couldn't stand to see so many people hating on him because the book had come to a stop. 

It pained him too to see that the author was taking a break from her writting. Her books had saved his life and gave him purpose and now they gave him first love too. It wasn't fair for her to stop writing because as a character he failed her. 

"I will find the author and apologise to her," he stated determined. "I will get her to change her mind."

The truth of the matter was that doing that was harder than it sounded. One, the author wrote anonymously and didn't use her real name. Second, was the fact that he had no idea in what part of the world she was from since she never revealed much about her life. Third was that she always refused interviews and no one knew what she looked like. 

He had no idea where to find her. He got up from the bed and got dressed. He had a lot depending on him, the fans and his crown prince. Without the author both would be miserable and won't get to be at peace. 

And it would all be his fault. He just didn't know from where he was going to start with his search. He decided to look for a hacker and see if they can hack her account and find an address for him. 

"I will get you your happy ending Davion," he vowed.