His gaze was set to the ceiling… hands continuously caressed his lover’s head that was resting on his chest… many times he had already tried to close his eyes and wished for slumber to hit him… but no matter how many times he tried, he always failed… feeling something’s lacking… making him feel so uneasy…
He glanced down, carefully checked if his lover’s now sleeping and upon seeing she already is… he again, carefully shifted her on her bed… resting her head on the pillow and tucking her inside the blanket…
He glanced at her one last time… brushed her hair away from her face before he sat down on the edge of the bed…
He sighed… resting both of his elbows on his thighs… hands rubbing his face… he glanced over the clock on the bedside table… it’s already eleven in the evening… eventually dropped his gaze before he sighed once again…
‘Is she waiting…?’
Words that's been bothering his mind for a while now…
His gaze then landed to his phone on the bedside table… the next thing he knew were his feet were dragging him towards it… then eventually seeing himself seated on the sofa inside Taeyeon’s room…
He stared on his phone for a while… battling with himself if he would call ‘her’ or not…
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Had her eyes directed on the window… watching the night inside ‘their’ bedroom… still having her hopes that ‘he’ would come back… she waited…
She rolled herself on the bed… now staring at the empty space beside her, she sighed… thinking if he will not really come home…
‘Don’t be ridiculous Dara…’
Scolding herself… hand reaching for the space beside her…
‘You won’t love me back… won’t you…?’
Her long lashes fluttered in sadness… lips trying to curve out a bitter smile… in the end she let out a long deep sigh…
She rolled herself again… facing ahead as she closed her eyes… reminiscing everything that had happened the entire day… finally, a smile curved on her lips… remembering those smiles of his… those warm hugs that he had given her… his voice that sounded better than the music itself… oh how blissful it is yet bittersweet for it ended miserably…
She opened her eyes as she placed her hand on her chest… felt her heart beating so fast…
‘Why are you being stubborn…?’
Scolding herself once again only to receive nothing but still the loud beats of her heart…
“Now I’m talking to myself...”
She mumbled… only to be distracted when she heard the ringtone of her phone echoed inside the room…
She lazily stood up from the bed… glanced over the clock on the wall seeing it’s already eleven in the evening… wondering who would be calling her in the middle of the night… she picked up her phone on the vanity table and without checking who’s calling, she quickly answered it…
“Dara…?”
She immediately went stiff on her spot upon hearing that voice… she then checked her phone if she’s really hearing the voice of her husband… and her eyes went big upon realizing she really is…
“Are you still there..?”
She hastily put the phone back against her ears as she went back to the bed… sitting on its edge stiffly…
“Ye… yes… why… what made you call…? Do you need something…?”
She stuttered… biting her lower lip for she really doesn’t know what to tell him… a long silence was heard from the other line that made her brows slowly connected in worry… after a while she heard him sigh…
“Why are you still awake…?”
His voice was a bit husky… sounded whisperingly… her hand then moved on its own, reaching for her chest, clutching on it and once again feeling the hard beats of her heart…
Her eyes blinked for a couple of times when he answered her with another question and upon realizing what his question is about…
“Ahm… I was…”
“Were you waiting for me…?”
She gulped down… bowed her head down and now her hand reached for the end of her shirt… playing with it…
A smile crept at the side of his lips... hearing silence in return… thinking that she really was waiting for him made him a bit happy inside… he leaned back on the sofa he was seated at… and turned his gaze outside the window watching the night as he waited for her to speak…
“I was worried… about what happened earlier… I’m…”
“Don’t be…please don’t think about it… I’m sorry if she acted that way earlier…”
And just then…silence got in between them once again…
“Dar-..”
“Ji-..”
They spoke in unison making them both stopped from what they were about to say… Jiyong let out a slight giggle making ‘her’ insides quiver upon hearing it over the phone…
“Have you eaten dinner already…?”
Dara’s brow raised a bit with his odd question… he probably forgot about the time… she thought…
“Yes… and you…?”
“Ah… yes…”
Silence… another awkward silence surrounded them… as if she even forgot what she wanted to say earlier… too absorbed in just hearing his voice…
“Those ice creams that we bought… you didn’t eat them all… didn’t you…? It could give you stomach ache if you did…”
Dara finally managed to curve out a smile… twirling the fabric of her shirt on her finger…
“No I didn’t… I was thinking of eating it together with you once you come home…”
Her voice trailed off with her last statement… mentally hitting herself to even mention it to him… forgetting her words once again…
“Of course… I’ve been missing the taste of it already…”
She sighed in relief… and smiled to herself once again… not noticing herself blushing because of his words…
She opened her mouth only to close it after… hesitating to open a conversation with him…
While he… on the other side… waited for her to speak… first time having such long conversation with someone over the phone… not even with his lover once… his lips pursed, brows rose in wonder if she already fell asleep on the other line… he was about to speak… ask her if she’s still there only to be beaten when she finally spoke…
“Jiyong-ah…”
His eyes widen a bit upon hearing her gentle voice speaking of his name… he gritted his teeth… biting his inner cheeks upon feeling his heart beating so fast and loud… he didn’t respond, instead waited for her to continue…
“This is my first time hearing you not shouting at me over the phone…”
He was stunned for a bit… before his expression softened and another smile crept on his lips…
“And now, I even like your voice like this better than in person…”
He laughed a bit… dropped his gaze upon hearing her voice starting to break…
“I was really waiting for you… because I thought you’ll be back… I got worried as to why you’re still not here that’s why I’m still awake… and now, hearing your voice seemed like you’re fine… so….”
“I’m sorry if I can’t go home...-“
“No… It’s fine… I mean… I was just worried that something might happen to you that’s why… and she… she needs you… Jiyong…”
His brow twitched with her last statement… bit his lower lip for lost of words…
Upon hearing his silence… she cleared her throat… regretting to even telling that to him… she just pouted her lips for ruining the mood… after a moment of another silence… she sighed in disappointment which he heard from the other line… with that he smiled once again…
“Let’s go out again next time… it was fun…”
She immediately sat up straight upon hearing him say that… felt the hotness of her cheeks and couldn’t even find words to answer him back…
“It’s late now… you should already be sleeping… plus there’s still school tomorrow…”
“Ah… yes…”
“See you…”
“Yes…”
She heard him let out a low laugh on the other line… how many times did she hear him laugh tonight...? she thought... while she could only bow her head and continued to blush…
“Good night…”
“Good night…” she whispered back… waited for him to hang up the phone first and upon hearing him… she looked at her phone dreamingly… smiled to herself and threw herself back on her bed…
“Good night…”
She mumbled once again… clutching the phone on her chest… she closed her eyes... wearing a sweet smile n her lips... she could finally sleep in peace…
--
He looked at his phone… even had second thoughts about hanging up earlier… mentally scolding himself upon acting like a school boy a while ago…
He shook his head… gaze then landed on the sleeping Taeyeon… he sighed… but then smiled upon remembering ‘her’ voice… it was so clear… so close as if she’s really there… yet in reality… too far to even reach her…
“Good night…”
He mumbled one last time…looking down on his phone with a slight smile on his lips…
He glanced down, carefully checked if his lover’s now sleeping and upon seeing she already is… he again, carefully shifted her on her bed… resting her head on the pillow and tucking her inside the blanket…
He glanced at her one last time… brushed her hair away from her face before he sat down on the edge of the bed…
He sighed… resting both of his elbows on his thighs… hands rubbing his face… he glanced over the clock on the bedside table… it’s already eleven in the evening… eventually dropped his gaze before he sighed once again…
‘Is she waiting…?’
Words that's been bothering his mind for a while now…
His gaze then landed to his phone on the bedside table… the next thing he knew were his feet were dragging him towards it… then eventually seeing himself seated on the sofa inside Taeyeon’s room…
He stared on his phone for a while… battling with himself if he would call ‘her’ or not…
--
Had her eyes directed on the window… watching the night inside ‘their’ bedroom… still having her hopes that ‘he’ would come back… she waited…
She rolled herself on the bed… now staring at the empty space beside her, she sighed… thinking if he will not really come home…
‘Don’t be ridiculous Dara…’
Scolding herself… hand reaching for the space beside her…
‘You won’t love me back… won’t you…?’
Her long lashes fluttered in sadness… lips trying to curve out a bitter smile… in the end she let out a long deep sigh…
She rolled herself again… facing ahead as she closed her eyes… reminiscing everything that had happened the entire day… finally, a smile curved on her lips… remembering those smiles of his… those warm hugs that he had given her… his voice that sounded better than the music itself… oh how blissful it is yet bittersweet for it ended miserably…
She opened her eyes as she placed her hand on her chest… felt her heart beating so fast…
‘Why are you being stubborn…?’
Scolding herself once again only to receive nothing but still the loud beats of her heart…
“Now I’m talking to myself...”
She mumbled… only to be distracted when she heard the ringtone of her phone echoed inside the room…
She lazily stood up from the bed… glanced over the clock on the wall seeing it’s already eleven in the evening… wondering who would be calling her in the middle of the night… she picked up her phone on the vanity table and without checking who’s calling, she quickly answered it…
“Dara…?”
She immediately went stiff on her spot upon hearing that voice… she then checked her phone if she’s really hearing the voice of her husband… and her eyes went big upon realizing she really is…
“Are you still there..?”
She hastily put the phone back against her ears as she went back to the bed… sitting on its edge stiffly…
“Ye… yes… why… what made you call…? Do you need something…?”
She stuttered… biting her lower lip for she really doesn’t know what to tell him… a long silence was heard from the other line that made her brows slowly connected in worry… after a while she heard him sigh…
“Why are you still awake…?”
His voice was a bit husky… sounded whisperingly… her hand then moved on its own, reaching for her chest, clutching on it and once again feeling the hard beats of her heart…
Her eyes blinked for a couple of times when he answered her with another question and upon realizing what his question is about…
“Ahm… I was…”
“Were you waiting for me…?”
She gulped down… bowed her head down and now her hand reached for the end of her shirt… playing with it…
A smile crept at the side of his lips... hearing silence in return… thinking that she really was waiting for him made him a bit happy inside… he leaned back on the sofa he was seated at… and turned his gaze outside the window watching the night as he waited for her to speak…
“I was worried… about what happened earlier… I’m…”
“Don’t be…please don’t think about it… I’m sorry if she acted that way earlier…”
And just then…silence got in between them once again…
“Dar-..”
“Ji-..”
They spoke in unison making them both stopped from what they were about to say… Jiyong let out a slight giggle making ‘her’ insides quiver upon hearing it over the phone…
“Have you eaten dinner already…?”
Dara’s brow raised a bit with his odd question… he probably forgot about the time… she thought…
“Yes… and you…?”
“Ah… yes…”
Silence… another awkward silence surrounded them… as if she even forgot what she wanted to say earlier… too absorbed in just hearing his voice…
“Those ice creams that we bought… you didn’t eat them all… didn’t you…? It could give you stomach ache if you did…”
Dara finally managed to curve out a smile… twirling the fabric of her shirt on her finger…
“No I didn’t… I was thinking of eating it together with you once you come home…”
Her voice trailed off with her last statement… mentally hitting herself to even mention it to him… forgetting her words once again…
“Of course… I’ve been missing the taste of it already…”
She sighed in relief… and smiled to herself once again… not noticing herself blushing because of his words…
She opened her mouth only to close it after… hesitating to open a conversation with him…
While he… on the other side… waited for her to speak… first time having such long conversation with someone over the phone… not even with his lover once… his lips pursed, brows rose in wonder if she already fell asleep on the other line… he was about to speak… ask her if she’s still there only to be beaten when she finally spoke…
“Jiyong-ah…”
His eyes widen a bit upon hearing her gentle voice speaking of his name… he gritted his teeth… biting his inner cheeks upon feeling his heart beating so fast and loud… he didn’t respond, instead waited for her to continue…
“This is my first time hearing you not shouting at me over the phone…”
He was stunned for a bit… before his expression softened and another smile crept on his lips…
“And now, I even like your voice like this better than in person…”
He laughed a bit… dropped his gaze upon hearing her voice starting to break…
“I was really waiting for you… because I thought you’ll be back… I got worried as to why you’re still not here that’s why I’m still awake… and now, hearing your voice seemed like you’re fine… so….”
“I’m sorry if I can’t go home...-“
“No… It’s fine… I mean… I was just worried that something might happen to you that’s why… and she… she needs you… Jiyong…”
His brow twitched with her last statement… bit his lower lip for lost of words…
Upon hearing his silence… she cleared her throat… regretting to even telling that to him… she just pouted her lips for ruining the mood… after a moment of another silence… she sighed in disappointment which he heard from the other line… with that he smiled once again…
“Let’s go out again next time… it was fun…”
She immediately sat up straight upon hearing him say that… felt the hotness of her cheeks and couldn’t even find words to answer him back…
“It’s late now… you should already be sleeping… plus there’s still school tomorrow…”
“Ah… yes…”
“See you…”
“Yes…”
She heard him let out a low laugh on the other line… how many times did she hear him laugh tonight...? she thought... while she could only bow her head and continued to blush…
“Good night…”
“Good night…” she whispered back… waited for him to hang up the phone first and upon hearing him… she looked at her phone dreamingly… smiled to herself and threw herself back on her bed…
“Good night…”
She mumbled once again… clutching the phone on her chest… she closed her eyes... wearing a sweet smile n her lips... she could finally sleep in peace…
--
He looked at his phone… even had second thoughts about hanging up earlier… mentally scolding himself upon acting like a school boy a while ago…
He shook his head… gaze then landed on the sleeping Taeyeon… he sighed… but then smiled upon remembering ‘her’ voice… it was so clear… so close as if she’s really there… yet in reality… too far to even reach her…
“Good night…”
He mumbled one last time…looking down on his phone with a slight smile on his lips…
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ReplyDeleteFound your blog(s) hehe But why you have not updated chapters 37-38 here?
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