STOLEN

twenty five

❝and now we're not talking.❞ mark says while walking behind me.

❝i wanna go to eiffel tower.❞ i tell him quietly. i must say i meant for him to walk with me and we'll go together.

❝at this cold night?❞

❝the lights look good from here.❞ i say as i watch its twinkling colors from a few miles away. i wanna go near it and feel romance with the city i wanted to be in many years ago. of course with mark who i feel romance with whenever i go.

he pulls me and faces me with a sad face. ❝i'm sorry for what we did.❞

❝i know you're sorry,❞ i carefully lay my hands on his. ❝it's fine now. i really just... forgot everything and everyone after feeling pain.❞

it took him quite a span to reply. he says,  ❝what are we supposed to do now?❞

i point at the tower. we're not too far but not too near either. i really wanna be under it, with mark. it'll make me feel happy and giddy for sure.

❝okay, let's go.❞ mark utters with a smile. he intertwines our hands and let my cold one be warmed with his.

❝have you ever been here before?❞

he nods. ❝couple times. we went with your dad too.❞

it's nice to hear memories of my dad.

i ask once more. ❝where do you usually eat?❞

❝he likes paris’ bread so anywhere with bread. he likes to eat it under the tower too.❞ mark also smiled at the thought of my father. ❝i remembered someone talked to him one night. she’s very pretty and that night, she was dressed very nicely. but he turned her down, saying he can't, just not until he finds you.❞

❝really? who knows if she might've been the love of his life?❞ i laughed.

❝she might've been.❞ he shrugged. then it was our moment to stop below the tower.

it's so fucking beautiful.

❝they say if you kiss someone under the eiffel tower, they will end up together.❞

i frown at him. ❝that girl and dad didn't kiss, did they?❞

he said no and added, ❝but we will.❞

i feel his heat on my lips as he grasps everything in one peck. my wide eyes became shut when he forces to deeply kiss me. i could feel my hands shiver while having the thought of many people watching us.

❝f-fuck you...❞ i gasp for air and looked around. what the hell. ❝d-did you have to do it now?❞

❝haechanah...❞

❝shut up!❞ i hiss. ❝i'm fucking embarassed, what the fuck...❞

mark grinned. ❝let's spend a lifetime together, hmm?❞

❝we're too young to know that.❞ i speak the truth. mark lifted my chin and cautiously captured my cheeks.

he says, ❝i love you.❞ his words melt me.

he said it so genuinely that i feel my heart racing and my stomach wriggling in an unfamiliar way.

it's the first time he ever said something like that to me.

❝how'd you know when you love someone?❞ i ask breathlessly. ❝does it usually feel this way?❞

❝what way, hmm?❞