사랑시 (Twinkling Watermelon ff)

81. Bye bye sadness

Oh Yi-joo

On the day of song camp

"Isn't the moon lovely?" Hyunyul cooed, looking at the full moon as the sky miraculously cleared after it rained cats and dogs in the evening. My heart raced as I heard his words. I wasn't sure if he knew what it meant but even if he didn't, I was sure blushing like crazy.

"I think you are like a moon in my life-," he continued but paused when he turned his eyes from the moon to me. "Why are you so red? Did you catch cold-"

I cut off his question by kissing him, when I pulled back, I could see his flustered and clueless face. I laughed at his reaction before explaining to him. 'Isn't the moon lovely?' is a poetic phrase used to tell someone that you love them.

His mouth turned into an 'o' as a line formed about his eyebrows, "But why would I use any code word? I can just say it. I really love you, Yeon Yi-joo", he held my face between his palms while smiling from ear to ear, that his eyes disappeared.

"But do you know?", he continues.

"What?"

"The moon is pretty, but my moon is the prettiest", he softly kissed my cheek and continued, "I love you in all your forms. I love all of you. I'll love you when you are bright and happy like this full moon, but I'll also love you when you are gloomy and blue like the new moon. I'll love you my whole life, my love".

My eyes began to blur because of his confession, but I cleared my throat and spoke, "Whole life? Won't you be bored?"

"I would like to be yours in all of my remaining next lives too".

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Present

"Please don't go just yet"

The memory I have with moon and Hyunyul were priceless. And now, I was scared that his voice, his smile, his warm hugs, his sweet words and everything about him inside my mind might fade away because I had nothing but a photograph left with me. I was terrified because as the moon was fading away my hopes were fading too. Was this the end? The closure and my last effort to find him?

The half moon was almost invisible now as I was thinking about Hyunyul's confession from that night. I was not sure if I'll be able to be bright and happy as a full moon anytime soon. Sure the half moon was pretty on its own, but the full moon was the prettiest.

"Isn't the moon lovely?"

I heard a voice from my back. I recognized it right away, and I turned around to see someone I was dying to from weeks.

"Aren't you doing too bad after telling me to get over you?"

I held my trembling hand forward to touch his cheek to check if he was real or just my illusion. He was real, so fucking real.

"I'm sorry for being late", his arms pulled me into a hug as I wrapped mine around him, sobbing in his chest. I still couldn't believe that he was really back. We pulled apart as I cupped his face, "Let me look at you". I caressed his cheek while staring at his dark brown eyes for god knows how long as he leaned over my hand.

"You can look at me forever, Yijoo-ya. You need to eat something before you faint for the third time", he rubs his thumb over my hand. But instead of listening to his nagging I hugged him again. Listening to his steady heartbeat, with the warmth of his hug, was an antidote for all my tiredness and all my sadness.

"I was a mess, wasn't I?", I whispered, still hugging him. He replied with a hint of playfulness in his tone, "Does that matter? You won't be a sad anymore since your knight in shining armor is back". Even though I couldn't see his expressions, but I was sure he had his cheeky smile on which made me chuckle.