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With Jungwon, I always see us being more than friends in my imagination. But at this moment, my lips are hesitant to say it out loud because of everything that happened.

He closes his umbrella and steps under mine so that our faces can be inches away.

Jungwon takes one of my hands in his free one, saying,
"On Monday, when you go to school, you'll see everyone, Jay, Sunoo, Jake, Sunghoon and Niki will be there welcoming you as usual. Heeseung will be there to thank you for the birthday present. And I will be there to follow you everywhere you go in break times. You have us. You don't have to be alone."

The weather is cold. The drizzling bubbles around my feet. But my heart is warm by his words. The affection in his eyes and the love in his voice. All makes me see myself next to his friends laughing and messing around. And next to him as we share the happiest moments of our youth.

"Why would you have to shut yourself out of the people who were true to you just because of the one who wasn't?"

I stand there still and listen to him sound each and every word with solicitation.

"Please. Stay with us. Stay with me, Daffodil."

When he sounds my name, I feel a spark run down my conscience. It is light but precious. It makes me feel sound and insouciant. It makes me happy. Just like him; Yang Jungwon.

He's right. Why would I have to abandon all of them when they've been good to me?

"You are so persuasive." I mutter aloud.

A smile gushes down his lips, making me beam the same too.

"Who told you you can hold my hand?" I tease when I don't mind his skin on me at all.

He smirks, "it's you who aren't shaking it off."

He's right again. Why would I shake it off when it only calms me down, makes me feel loved and constantly admonishes me to return his gratitude?

I chuckle to myself recalling I foolishly told Daisy that I already had a hot boyfriend.

Well, Jungwon is hot.
But still, I'm not kissing him in the middle of the road, in open public.

"You'll have to take a long ride back to your place after you drop me off." I concern but he shrugs,
"Anything for you, you little spring flower."

Giggling, I turn him around by slipping my hand around his arm and wind my arm around it. It feels so nice walking with someone hand in hand.

Jungwon doesn't mind as we begin to saunter toward the bus stop.

We do look like a couple in the rain; young couple in love. For the first time in my life, I check what I feel for him. The feeling is strong, I realize, but it's yet to be as strong as 'love'. I do fancy him a lot. But we are still too young to be in love. We are still in high school.

However, glancing at his elated side profile, everything he's done for me and my state of mind renews in my head. That I'm sure is it won't be long for me to love him.

That I know is it won't be long till we fall in love. Because even right now, I can see the spark in his eyes every time our eyes meet. That spark, without a doubt, can be a trace of love.

I don't know how far that trace would take us or how long it would last. But with him together now, I have come to enjoy the present.

Tightening my hold around his arm, I decide to let myself fall for him for he has fallen for me too. That way, maybe we could be the only ones who can decide how much this little trace of love will impact us in the future.

And maybe, this trace of love I can see between Jungwon and I right now will no more be a trace as we go on but the whole of everything that we know.


- The End -
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@wonieyew
21st June, 2022


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