Flawed Perfection

|➵ rain's warmth

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❝Let's risk it all, risk the fall tonight.❞

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It was raining; thunders rolling and huge masses of onyx clouds floating. Zuki sighed as she continued to fold yet another pair of pants and placing it on top of a pile of folded clothes. She had nearly escaped the crises with picking up the drying laundry earlier than planned. Had she lazed around and put off the task, the clothes would have been taking a bath in the rain. Thus, she was rightfully feeling proud and productive and she mentally praised herself.

Thankfully for her, Zuki's warm socks and fuzzy sweater had kept her warm against the day's frightful cold and she started remincing her memories of summer when the sky is a bright blue and the breezes are loving and free. That is what its like to live; you desperately miss things when they are no longer there.

Her mind wandered back to her school. The spring break was inching closer and closer to its end and the thought of joining a new college was giving her nightmares. School was fun and all but she hated her classmates. More than that, she hated her studies. On a second thought, school was not fun at all. It was an endless circle that started with trying and ended at failing and then, started again at trying to only end, again, at failing.

"I wonder if Taehyun is good at studies. Should I visit him?"

Then she remembered his scheduled "appointment" and shook the thought off. Zuki carefully stood up, balancing the pile of clothes on her arms and made her way to her room, humming the tune of a forgotten song's chorus.

Zuki decided that it was time for her start on her resumes that she was supposed to complete during the days she wasted away in learning make up skills. Clicking her pen, scribbling and scratching on the paper, cracking her neck and fingers occasionally, sighing and releasing frustrated groans was what went on. After a tiring and long journey of long hours filled with sighs and small breaks, she finally shut her laptop, concluding that she was being dangerously productive.

"Rainy days are meant to be admired from one's window! Definitely not spend in doing work."

With a jump Zuki flopped on her bed and wrapped herself in her blue blanket. She sighed, yet again while staring at the moving hands of the clock that hung on the wall on her left and before she could make sense of her thoughts, she fell into a slumber of plotless dreams and warm feelings, hugging her blanket closely.

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His parents had been on a journey to locate the hubs of markets and grocery stores around the area so that they could find the most convenient ones for their daily or monthly use. With time, some hard work and quite a bit of compromise, his family was settling down like sediment that he wished would become invisible in this new land with scattered population.

Thinking of his parents didn't always brought warmth to Taehyun's heart. Not all are meant to be parents and not all are meant to be children. Terrible parents and terrible children do exist. As Taehyun huddled closer in his bed, head laying on the cold window pane, he realised what warmth is.

It's not when you're sweating and hot or warm. It's simply the lack of coldness in ones mind and soul. It's when he is liberated from the shackles of bending his will in the directions of instructions continuously against his wishes. He's warm when he's not being evaluated for his performances into which he poured his being out and when he's not guilty of having some free time.

Back at his old house, rainy days were the worst. Taehyun hated nothing more than having to pull his ass up and get moving through his busy schedule while it rained. Having to move from one studio to the other, hustling his way through school and extra classes, running through the rain and the cold air to reach his ever changing destinations. His life had been annoyingly exhausting and rainy days never did help.

Now, as he sat in front of the window of his room, a small blanket draped on his shoulders and a rock pop song flowing through his earphones, rain didn't seem too evil. Taehyun liked its pitter patter, the coolness refreshed him and the nonstop water drops that fell from the dark sky with a promise of continuity calmed him. The scorching and bright sun was no longer chasing his dull eyes to burn them, in its place, the darkness of rainy clouds sheltered his insomania and caressed his tired soul.

"Today looks like a good day"

A smile resided on his lips as he swayed his head from side to side, singing along to the song that hummed in his ears.

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