immeasurable obsession

C2: Child prodigies

Child prodigies

Lee Sun Hee

I must be going crazy, I thought to myself and headed to the kitchen to get some water.

As I turned around "YOU AGAIN!?" I looked at him in disbelief-

I rubbed my eyes to check if I'm not hallucinating or something. "Are you okay?" Sunghoon asked and raised an eyebrow.

"I really am seeing things, aren't I!?" I utter under my breath. "I'm not sure what you're talking about, but could you just get me some water, I'll be around Ni-ki." I just took a deep breath and nodded.

Sunghoon was one of Ni-ki's many friends. Ni-ki, Sunghoon and Jake are the most popular guys at school. Especially because Ni-ki and I have skipped 2 years due to outstanding performance in our studies.

I guess you could call us child prodigies (except for the fact that we get in trouble almost everyday and somehow get grades good enough to be promoted to higher grades).

I brought the water to Sunghoon and spent some time around Ha-rin, making her feel loved and important on this special day.

It was nearly 12am, and all guests were gone by now except for me, and Ni-ki. We stayed with her until her birthday ended and then left. Me and Ni-ki are too tired to even walk back "Yah, jib-e gaja (let's go home)!" I said when I noticed Ni-ki changing routes.

I have something to show you, he took my hand and we ran towards our old elementary school's ground. "What're we doing here?" Niki didn't reply but instead turned on all the water pipes, and in seconds, water was flowing everywhere.

"This is so fun!" I jumped up with joy and practically destroyed my beige dress. Ni-ki joined me and both of us were drenched in the water, screaming with thrill.

Ni-ki squeezes me tightly and turns my back in the direction of the pipe so that the water hit me. He then lifts me up in his arms and we're both squealing with delight.

We both enjoy all this for a long moment, but then I suddenly realised that I'm swinging in Ni-ki's arms for too long. "Yah! Put me down!" I uttered, still unable to control my laugh.

"What if I refuse?" He said loudly, enough to shut me up. "Yah!" I scream with an intense tint of red filling both my cheeks. Even though the water was cold, my cheeks were burning, at the realisation that I'm swaying in Nishimura Riki's arm.

His 6 feet tall body lifted me high up, enough for me to feel the cold breeze as well as Ni-ki's warm hands wrapped around my waist.

Quite a while passed by and comfortable silence was filled between us, as we sat by the large tree. "I prepared towels for us." he said and pulled out new towels from behind the tree. I reached for the towel, but instead he came closer. "What are you-" I began to speak "Shh... let me cover you up, you wore beige silly." He cut me off and smiled brightly.

As he began to put his arm around my shoulders, I realised that there's inches in between us. He shifted his gaze from the towel, to meet my eyes. I stared back knowing exactly what this can lead to. I waited to see if he'd do something or if I'm just imagining things.

Thankfully he shifted his gaze, but that pabo (fool) dropped the towel and cleared his throat. "Put it on yourself" he blankly said and tried not to make eye contact.

"What's up with you today Riki?" I chucked at his poor state. He remained quiet and didn't answer, fidgeting with his hands.

"Dry yourself too, let's head home now." I got up as Ni-ki was violently rubbing his hair to dry it.

Ni-ki's always the one looking after me. He's often the one giving me company, hanging out with me at school, studying, walking me home, dropping me off, picking me up, taking all three of us out to eat, and bits and pieces of everything.

I'm very grateful to have him, I can't even imagine about how I would've recovered from my past experiences, if it weren't for him.

We ran out of the elementary school and started walking on the soothingly calm streets. I stopped my steps to stare at the moon "Isn't it pretty?" I commented and sensed Ni-ki taking steps closer to me.

There were inches between us again, "It's very pretty." he uttered in his deep raspy voice and stared at me from a dangerous distance. I closed my eyes in order to not look at his scarlet coloured lips.