Dreaming Of You // MK.L

j e o n y o o b i n

Everything around me was shiny, my vision was slightly blurred, I couldn't smell a thing. Looking around I saw a boy sitting at a swing in a playground. He was swinging ever so slowly whilst looking down at his feet. Slowly, I walked over to him. His features started to look more clear to me the closer I got to him. Seeing him from my point of view, he seemed confused. "Excuse me" I asked, slowly coming to a stop in front of the boy. He looked up at me in shock, like he's never seen a person before. "Uhm, are you alright?" I asked the boy. He stood up from the swing. He looked at me in shock. He didn't say a single word to me, he just stared. "I'm gonna go now if you're alright" I started to back away. 

"Please don't go" the boy spoke up. "You're the only person I've seen here. I was feeling lonely, but then you showed up" He smiled. It was a bright, pure smile. The corner of his eyes crinkled, his pearly whites shined under the moonlight, and his cheeks looked like they were glowing. He had a cute smile, one I could stare at for hours. He looked up at the shining moon. "Where did you come from?" he asked without taking his eyes off the moon. One would think he was talking to the moon. He looked at me when he noticed I didn't answer him. He tilted his head to the right. It was almost like I was looking at a puppy.

I pointed from where I came from. "Over there" I was confused. Where's the white room I was just in? The boy was laughing. He found me cute. "The white room disappears after a while" he somehow knew why I was lost. I stared at the boy some more. He was charming. He had blue hair that was messy, it looked like he hadn't fixed his hair from when he woke up this morning. He had boba like eyes and lips that were quite small. He was wearing a black t-shirt and grey sweats, he had black and white high top dunks. His hands were slim too. This boy in front of me was my ideal type just from his visuals. I want to get to know him more. 

"Are you alright?" I snapped out of my trance as the boy spoke up. I nodded. I felt my face flush with redness. I'm for sure blushing. "Can I-" before I could finished an alarm started going off. It was loud. "Do you hear that?" I asked him. "Hear wha-". 

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I turned off my alarm immediately when I woke up. I groaned. The time was 7:45 a.m., I have school now. I sat in bed for a while thinking about the dream I just had. Do I know him? I've never seen him before. I noticed I had been sitting in bed for fifteen minutes now just trying to remember if I've ever seen that boy before. I rolled out of bed finally and got ready for my class. I threw on a knit v-neck sweater and skinny blue jeans, my hair was loose like everyday. I grabbed my bag and left to the college. 

Before classes I met with my best friend Chan, he's a psychology major. I told him about the dream and that I've never seen him before in my life. "Are you sure you've never seen him before? It isn't possible for the human brain to make up a new face. It can even be hard to just remember a face you see everyday" he explained to me. It got me thinking, have I seen him before? I tried to think long and hard where I've seen him from but I couldn't. I had nothing. I sulked in my seat as I drank my banana milk that Chan had brought me from the convenience store. 

Classes started, luckily I only had two classes today. While I took my notes I kept hearing the sound of a squeaky swing going back and forth. Ignoring it I continued writing notes in my iPad. Soon the squeaking came to a stop when the classroom door opened. I couldn't see who it was since I sit in the back and I'm literally blind. I forgot to put both contacts this morning since I was running late. I ignored them. How could you be late to a class? Especially 40 minutes late. My friend Jeno who was sitting next to me wrote a note. 'Let's go to karaoke with everyone later today' the paper said. I nodded and he smiled. 

After classes I went home for a bit before meeting with the boys. I was quite excited actually since I was going to see Haechan, Jaemin and Jisung. I don't see them often cuz we have different majors. I see Jeno, Renjun and Chenle more. I put my second contact lens in before leaving the house and finally meeting up with Jeno who had waited for me outside the house. "Hi Yoobin" he greeted me with his lovely smile. "Jeno" I hugged him even though I had just seen him an hour ago. We started to walk over to where we were meeting everyone else. In front of me was five boys. They all greeted us and Haechan ran to me giving me a tight hug and kissing my cheek. I let out a small laugh. "I missed you guys, It's been so long" I said and the three agreed. 

We went inside the place and got our room, the boys instantly started ordering food and drinks. I've known them since high school. They're all younger than me but Haechan's closest to my age. We all started hanging out because of detention. We were told to stay after school to clean the cafeteria and that's how we all met one another. I got in trouble for being late, Haechan got in trouble for cheating on a test and then crying because he couldn't get away with it, Jaemin got in trouble for talking back to the teacher, Chenle for being too loud and not listening to the teacher when he said to lower his voice, Jisung got in trouble for dropping a beaker in science class and injuring a classmate, Jeno because he was cutting class and Renjun was because he was yelling at other classmates to be quiet, Renjun also cursed at them. Honestly they were all dumb reasons. 

We started singing, some fun songs and some ballads. Haechan, Renjun and Chenle did ballads, Jeno did some rapping with Jaemin, Jisung and I were the back up dancers for everyone. The boys made me sing at one point too. They said if I didn't sing they would tell Doyoung I have a crush on him, which I don't...anymore. I had a crush on Doyoung in high school and my first year of collage, I don't like him anymore though. So, I sang something's wrong by Kwon Jin Ah. It's a ballad song. I've never sang a ballad in front of the boys before so I thought I'd show them something new. When I finished singing the song The six boys looked at me in shock. I looked down and hid my face with my hair from embarrassment. 

"Yoobin you can sing!?" Haechan asked me. I nodded. The other boys just stared at me in shock with their jaws dropped. 

"Ah, anyways let's move on" I said and the boys continued. 

After karaoke with the boys it was pretty late so we all agreed to go home. Jaemin offered to take me home so we separated from the boys and made our way to my house. On the way it was quiet but it wasn't uncomfortable. It was the type of silence that was comforting. When we arrived at my house Jaemin stopped and looked at me. I smiled at him. "Thank you for walking me" I smiled to the boy that had light brown hair. "Yoobin, I've been meaning to tell you something for a while now" he sounded serious. "What's up?" he scratched the back of his nape. "I like you" he spat out. My eyes widened, I never thought I'd hear this. "I know it's sudden but I've liked you since senior year. I wanted to tell you but you liked Doyoung and I knew I would get rejected. I know I might still get rejected now but at least now I might have a shot" Jaemin kept talking, fast. Sometimes I didn't even know what he was saying. 

That night I went to sleep thinking about Jaemin and his confession. I couldn't get him out of my head.