Novellas. (One Shot Collection)

[A/D] Imaginary - SHINee Onew

I exist when you believe that I was real
Even though everything around us shouts out unreal.

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My eyes opened and stared at the blue sky. Birds were chirping early in the morning and the wind blew as it brushed on my cheek. I looked to my left and saw Jinki sleeping peacefully. His chest rose up and down each time he breathed. His figure shouted a unique kind of ethereal aura as the sun glowed upon him. He fluttered his eyes open as he covered the sun with one hand.

"Well good morning lazy pants. It's about time you woke up, you we're drooling for minutes!" "I WAS?!" His head shot up as he wiped the invisible drool off his mouth, he glared at me after checking that there wasn't any drool at all. "Just kidding." I giggled and ran away as far as I can from him. He chased me out in the field where we always hung out since we were little.

His arms circled around my waist as he finally caught me within his grasp. "Gotcha!" He lifted me up and I laughed louder as I felt my heart beat faster. I always had a crush on him ever since we were kids, but I never confessed even until now. I'm too scared to confess, because he might not love me back, or worse-realize that all of this wasn't true.

Once he let go of me, he tickled me as hard as he can while I laughed uncontrollably. "Jinki! Stop! Okay I give up! I surrender!!!" He stopped and laughed. "You should've seen your face! 'Ahhh I surrender jinki!'." He teased me while I pout. I watched his laughing figure and couldn't help but feel so speechless. He looks so breathtaking even though he was just laughing, am I that too deep in love with him? I can't be! I shouldn't... It's not right.

"Helllooooooooooo~ Earth to summerrrrr! Wake up from your daydream!" Jinki clapped his hands in front of me and it broke my wandering gaze. Once he knew that he was successful, he sat down beside me and laid his head on my shoulder. "You know, we've been friends for like more than 20 years I think? and I still don't know your last name." I looked down to the pouting boy between my neck and rolled my eyes as back as I can.

"You don't need to know." He shot up from my shoulder and looked at me. "But that's unfair! You know mine but I don't know yours, what would people think when they knew a boy doesn't even know his own best friend's last name?!" Best friend huh? I scoffed and flicked his forehead. "Ouch! What was that for?!" "Yah lee jinki! You're 27 years old for sake and you're still acting like a child!" He pouted at me and I just turned my head away. He was so cute and I was so sure that I would melt under his aegyo and stare.

After a few minutes of playing and teasing like kids, we laid down on the field again and looked up at the blue sky. We awwed at our surroundings and watched as spring leaves the season and summer enters the scene. "Hey" Jinki nudged me. "Do you remember the first time we met here? It was the start of summer and it was beautiful like this, maybe much more." I smiled at what he said.

I remembered everything, clear and bright like it was written behind my hand. And he was right, it was much more beautiful back then because we met at night, the time where fireflies begin to shine. "Yeah I still remember, we were like 7 years old back then? And you even swallowed a firefly!" "Hey! It flew into my mouth! It's not my fault the firefly was drunk back then." We laughed as we reminisced the good ol' days.

<<< flashback -

"Mom look! Floating lights! Can I go out and play?"
"Honey, those are called fireflies, and they're as fragile as a baby's hand, so once you go out and play, be careful on not squishing one hmm?"
"Yes mom!"

He ran in circles on the field with his arms flailing around. 'I wish I have a friends to play with.' He thought as he watched the fireflies fly freely in the air. He stepped back to take in the view, he stepped back until he tripped on something.