❝ So you become their source of oxygen, and they become your source of light and everything in between is water and fire ❞
In which two lost souls that once knew each other find themselves together in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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❝ Yeah, I believe things will change. No one is perfect. Even this moment has its own meaning. And we are connected by sound, woah ❞— Lights, BTS
C H A P T E R T W E L E V E
A YEAR PASSES, AND THE TAXI DRIVES PAST THE BUSTLING CITY, BRING BACK MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD WONDERS, and dreams of singing and dancing onstage like the inspiring K-Pop Idols.
Kevin pokes his head out of the window's taxi, and the corner of his mouth raises as if an invisible string must have done it. The city explodes into vibrant colors of blue, and skyscrapers soar up. The scorching sun cascades across his face like a waterfall.
He won't lie. He's missed the balmy sunlight and the busy roads, traffic signals turning red every so often. Grabbing a snack at the convenience store or playing at the arcade with his friend after school.
Friend? Which friend?
As soon as the taxi makes a right turn at the green light and parks in the familiar quiet neighborhood he's grown to since he started going to school in first grade, he gets his answer.
It's loud and merry and energetic.
"Kevin!"
Youngjae runs to Kevin and hugs him in a moment of reunion, pulls away, and smiles.
It's quiet for a second until they hear Kevin's dad call out to him.
"Are you boys going just to stand there?" Siwoo holds the taxi's trunk and shakes his head, a knowing smile spreading across his face.
A smile cracks on the boys' faces. "Go help him, Kevin," Youngjae emphasizes his name and grins mischievously. Only when Kevin isn't looking does he push him forward.
Youngjae runs away, laughing in amusement. Kevin notices after a second and grimaces.
"You need to help too, you know?" Kevin runs after Youngjae. He remembers them being young, wild, and free like the old times, and he embraces this moment because he knows it may not last forever.
Kevin and Youngjae will go different ways after graduating college.
The chance to see each other again all depends on what their world will look like.
Kevin moved back to New York during middle school. Youngjae also studied abroad.
Youngjae was in Los Angeles when Kevin was in New York. They planned to meet one another and go to university together, for their hearts were in Seoul, beating rhythmically as the drums.
Kevin's phone pings and he slides the phone out of his jeans pocket, brown eyes widening.
The mysterious random person messaged him after so long? He still remembers when they messaged each other on the bus about the uniform he was wearing and how it wasn't his.
