It’s a very beautiful and sunny day in Seoul. The intense bright rays of the sun give everyone this some kind of positivity. Plus, the mid autumn season is perfect to take a walk outside and feel the cool breeze of the approaching scent of winter. Restaurants and Cafes are already full with customers who are already having their lunch.
TOP is still in his cosy and soft bed, Sleeping. His head rests on a white pillow while his left arm embraces a very cute stuffed toy of himself. Other than reading books, he really loves sleeping unlimitedly during his free time. Actually, he’s been sleeping for more than 8 hours now. He really needs to get recharged since; he’ll be shooting again for the whole night until the next day.
Few minutes had passed and still he’s lying and completely asleep but his body clock started to wake him up. He carefully opened his eyes and stretched his lean long arms. On his right arm, he checked his wrist watch and saw that it was already a quarter past 12nn. He immediately got up from his bed and went inside his walk-in closet.
“Chin, aren’t you going to take your lunch?” my co-librian asked.
“No, thanks. I’ll just eat outside after my duty.” I replied.
My three-hour duty will about to end at 12:30nn. At my very hectic schedule, I commend myself for budgeting all my activities in one day. I go to my first class every morning, attend to my other two night classes every other day, work as a librarian during my free time at school and be a house keeper at afternoon.
“I think it would not be a big deal if I come to Mr. Kim’s condominium 10 to 15 minutes late.” I told myself as I have my light lunch inside the bus.
At the last bite of my sandwich, the bus stopped. I checked the time and found that I’m right. I would be late for a couple of minutes. Despite of knowing that I would be late, with my tumbler in my right hand, I ran my walk to Mr. Kim’s condominium. Using my key, I instantly unlocked Mr. Kim’s door and went inside. As the door closed, I checked again the time. Thank, God. I broke my estimation. It’s only five minutes past 1 pm.
From the entrance, I directly went straight to the dining room to check, if Mr. Kim ate what I’ve prepared yesterday and found that the table was clean. With curiosity of where the dishes went, I walked towards the kitchen and saw a pink sticky note secured by an apple magnet on the fridge. I went near to see, if that was the sticky note that I sticked on the bowl where the Adobo Bibimbap was contained. To my surprise, Mr. Kim wrote something on the bottom of my note. I really can’t understand some of the words that he wrote other than the words : Mashi-e-sawyo (It’s delicious) and Kamsahamnida (Thank You).
“I guess that he liked it.” I told myself and grabbed my phone and opened an application that could translate a Korean phrase to English.
I typed the words on my phone and in no time the translation flashed:
‘I liked the food. It’s delicious. Thank you.’
These words made my day. I can now say that I’m a certified cook. Just to change my house keeping routine, I decided to finish first the laundry before washing the dishes.
It’s been half an hour since TOP went inside he’s walk-in closet particularly, in the bathroom and until now, he’s still there. Actually, he’s already done taking a bath and he’s now busy fixing his hair and applying some moisturizers on his face wearing a very thick black bathrobe.
“Okay, Chin, time to do first the laundry.” I told myself as I walk inside the walk-in closet.
“Whoa, I guess not...” I again told myself seeing that the ‘mirror wall’ that leads to the bathroom is covered with moist.
I went out to get a pail and a wiper which were placed inside the utility room near the kitchen. After having them, I returned to the walk-in closet to start cleaning the ‘mirror wall’.
TOP was busy fixing his hair inside the bathroom until he got disrupted by a squeaky sound. He turned his head to the ‘mirror wall’ and saw a familiar face of a woman. Just to inform, from the outside, the ‘mirror wall’ looks like a mirror where you can only see your own reflection but if you’re inside the bathroom, the ‘mirror wall’ looks like a clear glass where you can see the view outside the bathroom. Going back to the scene, TOP got shocked why this woman ‘is following him?’
“What a con artist, huh?! Do you think that we’ve fallen under you’re trap?!” TOP shouted in his mind as he slowly moves closer to the ‘glass wall’.
TOP was about to unlock the ‘glass wall’ but he didn’t know why his sight led his to eyes to the innocent face of this woman wiping the opposite part of the ‘glass wall’. From this woman’s hair that was done in ponytail, TOP closely stared at her small face, her light eyebrows, her almond shaped eyes, her pointed nose and her pink thin lips... For the entire time, TOP gave this woman a kind of gaze, a gaze of a man that was mesmerized... For him, it seemed that the time stopped until this woman sneezed right in front of his face.
“Aheeemmm...” TOP cleared his throat and giggled. He was halfly on his self now and continued to give his stare to this woman.
As I was cleaning this entire ‘mirror wall’, I sneezed. This might be because of the cold weather, since winter is about to approach.
“Few more wipes then you’re done.” I told myself and start to slide the ‘mirror wall’.
“Weird... the last time I went here, It’s opened... Maybe, I’m not allowed to get in... for this day?” I told myself as I slowly removed my hands on the ‘mirror wall’.
TOP got nervous when this woman started to slide the ‘mirror wall’ but he was relieved by the fact that it was locked and saw the thin fingers of this woman moving away from it.
It’s exactly 2:30pm and I’m already done washing the dishes and cleaning everything that needs to be cleaned except for doing the laundry. I might look greedy, if I stay here for the next one and a half hour without doing anything. While I was thinking of what else to be done, my phone alerted for a text message. When I checked it out, it was from Seung Joon...
‘Chin, can we meet much earlier before 4pm? Because, a day won’t be enough to wander around Lotte.’
Oh no, I totally forgot that I would see him this day. Good thing that he texted me not just to remind me but he also saved me from guilt of staying much longer in Mr. Kim’s apartment without doing anything.
BINABASA MO ANG
Love Dust
Fanfiction“I’m TOP, who the whole world knows as a rapper, a ‘bad boy’ and an idol. But now, I'm here in front of you. I'm here to tell you that I'm simply Choi Seung Hyun, not an international artist,not your boss but just a man that is deeply in love and as...
