Time and Fallen Leaves :: jeongcheol

TAFL :: 92

*jeonghan*

our eyes had remained locked to each other and i know he witnessed how some tears had started to fall once he had uttered those words. he was still smiling but you could see something like pain or guilt in his eyes while still showing me the fallen leaf that looked like a maple tree. and my tears just cascade through my eyes as my heart shrink so hard when he looked down and the next thing i know, he held my hand that made me looked down also to see what he was doing. . and there, just like he did before, he placed the fallen leaf on my palm.

with that moments. . the memories from the past had ricochet inside my head. how we met each other, how he introduced himself and even how he held my hand before to gave me the fallen leaf that had fell on my hair. it was exactly what happened before, the only difference was, it was way more painful that it did before and it had me nothing, but to remember how i admitted to myself that he wasnt just some guys that i knew, because ever since then, no doubt in my mind he would become this special. . this important in my life.

i swallowed hard then i slowly shifted my gaze to him and he was still looking at the fallen leaf that was on my hand and yes, he was still holding it. . like how he held it before. i know i should have pushing him away already because the more that our both skin was in contact with each other, the more that i was wanting this specific feeling i had been missing for four long years. . that warmth, that spark and even how i wanted to pull him closer to me because i had missed him this close.

those didnt change. . it doesnt change. its only for him, its only because of him.

"jeonghan! seungcheol!"

thats the only moment i finally had to get back myself to reality that i pulled back my hand forcefully and looked away from seungcheol after hearing my aunties voice blending with how sejeong and dami had called our both names in chorus. when i jerked my head in their direction, the three of them was already walking across this highway towards to our direction and even though sejeong was still meters away from me, i could see that she couldn't wait to hug me and asked me if im fine.

i was never aware they've been looking for me.

"mygod i thought we lost you hanhan!" sejeong had greeted me with her wide open yet warm hugs like as if i had been missing two days ago now.

"where have you been, both of you?. . and why are you crying, jeonghan?" auntie eunhye asked as he pushed sejeong but not that force for her to have her way to checked me and she even cupped my cheeks. "what did seungcheol do to you huh? sinaktan ka ba nya?"

oo tita. . iniwan nya ko.

i shook my head. "n-no. . i-im fine."

i told them i wanted to rest already so they could stop asking, dami was asking seungcheol where we have been but just like me, he was also zoning and was prolly trying to get himself back to reality kaya tango lang din yung naisagot nya maski kay tita. auntie had bade her goodbyes and thank yous to seungcheol before the three of them had dragged me with theiir paces so that we could get back to the guest house already and rest.

once we had reached the other side of this highway, i looked back again to see seungcheol and he was still standing there. . staring at us prolly watching how we walked away from him. i swallowed hard and blinked then i turned my head in front, not wanting to see him anymore and just walked away from him.