My Boy [under editing]

Ch. 32

SECOND TIME

❝like the stars in the night sky,
I'll be with you for a long time.❞

—taeyeon, a poem called you

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hyemi

days passed, we did a lot of activities, with handcuffs, of course. filling my mornings with him beside me in the tent, having pillow talks before bed, without having any personal space—but it felt warm.

every time our eyes met, we both knew that we were still looking for each other. the whole activities were all about team building, stress relieving and bonding.

"alright, today is your last day. we will start moving tomorrow morning. so," one of the lecturer announced, "you can do whatever you guys want today and the best part," he raised a round metal with countless of keys attached, "no more handcuffs!"

everyone applauded and even I was excited about it because it was all what we wanted, everyone except for the person beside me. I turned to look at him and he looked back at me too.

he plastered a fake smile, "finally we're free," he muttered under his breath, and somehow, I heard the sad lining underneath his tone. "can your hold? for the last time?"

I stared into his eyes and without thinking twice, I intertwined his hand as he squeezed them tightly. "can't lie," I whispered, "that I miss you so much."

questions were appearing inside my mind—will we continue to speak up and get this close as if we were handcuffs or will we just go back to being silent?

"well what do we have here?" the lecturer approached us holding the key, he looked at the both of us with interest written on his face, "seems like both of you are in love?"

I couldn't help but to chuckle with his statement, "don't be ridiculous professor, can you just get this handcuff off now?" I released his hand and pushed our hand forward.

he looked at jungkook with the most concerned look, "i hope the both of you had a very great time with the whole boot camp." and when we exchanged looks, the three of us smiled for the same exact reason.

indeed we were.

"alright, you two are separated now. there will be a small last dinner, so if you guys have anything to perform; it'll be a pleasure for us."

after he left, both of us remained still and quiet. he had so much in mind, I thought because so did I. "well, I guess..." he swallowed his saliva before looking at me, "we better meet up with the others."

"sure, let's go."

they were all at the beach, which was quite far from the whole boot camp place. some of them were swimming and well others were just chit-chatting and eating.

I could see them sitting by the dock with their legs dangling, "care to join you guys?" jungkook asked as loud as he could. and then yoongi raised two glass bottles of coke for us.

"how are you baby girl?" yoongi asked before he wrapped me into a warm hug, "if he ever disturbs you again, please do miscall me quickly and I will be there as soon as possible."

"and where will you find her exactly?" namjoon interrupted his moment of being a protective friend. "just stick with us, if you ever want to go to the toilet or whatever, one of us will go with you, if you're okay with that?"