Chapter 2 - Touch

Knock. Knock.

"Is anybody here?" I pushed the door slightly open. I saw one side empty, the room silent. But then, it hit me. The melodious humming that I heard the other day. I pushed the door all the way open now and saw someone sitting in the corner with a yellow beanie on.

At first he didn't look up, so I carefully closed the door behind me. "You can slam it if you want you know. It won't bother me at all if that's what you're worried about." I heard from behind and it made me jump.

"Uhm... Oh, I thought you were sleeping." I lied. I perfectly knew that he wasn't. I don't how I knew that. I sat down in front of the piano which was the farthest seat from him. I had the instinct to sit beside him like it was meant to be, but I fought it. It was hard.

My hand wandered on the keys of the piano. It had been so long since I touched them. I used to play you know, but after my parents divorced, I never touched one ever again. I missed it to be honest.

"Play something then." I heard him said. "Huh?"

"The piano. You miss playing it right?" He looked up and and our eyes met. Electricity ran down my spine and made me shiver. The next thing I knew there was a strong gust of wind that blew and put my hair into a mess. I looked at the window to see if any windows were open, but all of them were tightly shut. I looked at Hyunmin, I think his name was, but to my surprise he's standing right beside me.

"What... How... You were over there. How?"

He laughed. "What are you talking about?" He laughed. He actually laughed. It really sounded nice too... Like the melody he always hums. I want to hear it again.

"Come on." I looked at him, confused. Admiring his beautiful face at the same time. "What? Don't you wanna play?" Impatience showed on his face as he sat on the chair I'm on and slightly pushed me to the side. "Aigoo." He sighed. His hands went up and landed on the keys. He started playing.

The familiar melody seeped in me. All of me recognized it without trouble. But my mind can't seem to find where I first heard it. I seeked my mind, dug through the murky depths of unforgotten memories. Nothing. But my mouth opened and I hummed the melody like I know it by heart. It felt that way to me.

I closed my eyes, and images flashed before me. I couldn't make them out. They were old, unclear, and confusing images. It made my head hurts. I opened my eyes and saw Hyunmin looking straight at me. His gray eyes boring to my skin, my soul. I shivered and he stopped playing. My head getting better every second passed.

Our eyes, still locked on each other, like seeing someone different from the other. I saw him, Hyunmin, but I saw deeper. A person. Who was completely different from him. My heart ached. My hand went up to touch his face, in contact, my head throbbed again.



Her skin felt so soft, so good on my cool skin. My hand instinctively placed itself over hers. Our hands fit perfectly with each other. My cold hands on her made me feel something unexplainable yet familiar. I held her hand and put it in front of my lips. I placed a kiss on it without breaking our gazes. My other hand touched her cheek, felt her flawless skin.

Our chests heaved, like we ran a thousand miles, but we didn't. We were just sitting there, facing, looking at each other. My hand trailed down from her cheek to her chin and brought her face closer to mine. Our breathes mingled with each other, both hot from each others touch.

I inched closer. My breath, something I lost a long time ago, got caught up in my chest. Or something like it. I felt suffocated. I stopped an inch away from her. Her face changed from innocent to knowing. I saw something flashed across her eyes. She wrapped her around my neck and pulled me closer. "Hold on..." I breathed.



It's like I've been slapped on the face when I heard him say 'Hold on." Why? I didn't know why. Then I noticed the throbbing of my head got worse. "Ugh." I unwrapped my arms around him, like being close to him seemed to cause the headache. I rubbed my temples, then everything went dark.