[TaeNy] #nowplaying

Rainbows

#nowplaying: Weezer, Hailey Williams - Rainbow Connection

The rain stopped just a few moment ago, leaving only some drizzles rolling down the window. Taeyeon is sitting on her bed, inside the plain white room where she has been occupying for six months now. Her gaze falls upon the small window at one side of the wall which has some traces of the raindrops from the outside. Every time the rain comes she always looks outside, enjoying the melody that the water makes, watching every single drop of the rain making contact with the glass surface, while waiting for something she has always been waiting for: the rainbow.

Her lips curve into a small smile when her eyes catch the sight at the end of the highest building she can see from the window: hues of seven spectrums drawn beautifully in the sky.

"Rainbow..." she mumbles to herself.

"What's so special about you, rainbow?" She asks. "Why do people really love you to even make songs about you?" She throws the questions to no one in particular. The rainbow has always been something that intrigues her for as long as she can remember. For some people, rainbows are something magical. The rainbow promises something at the end of it. The myth she once heard tells a story that at the end of a rainbow is where leprechauns hide their pots of gold, which she finds silly. Do the leprechauns even exist?

The arch of colors start to fade bit by a bit and Taeyeon keeps her eyes upon it. Rainbows are magical. Even though they seems real, they are actually only illusions. They are only reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. Science explains it well, but people still hold hopes and wishes upon the optical illusion. And Taeyeon, just like most people out there, she holds on to the belief that there is something magical about rainbow.

Rainbows are hope. People also believe that rainbows promise better days ahead. There's always a rainbow after the rain. Being heard of a rainbow coming signifies a better future, directly telling a hopeful tomorrow.

"Is it true that you promise a better tomorrow?" Taeyeon asks indistinctly.

For as long as she remembers, she's been through the rain. The heavy one to be exact, and she has not seen any rainbows afterward. She has questioned herself, is it true that better days will come to her? The day when she will no longer feel lost, the day when she will no longer feel lonely, the day when she will finally live the life she used to live.

"Are you talking to the rainbow, Taeyeon?" A soft voice suddenly reverberates in the room.

Taeyeon turns her head and finds Tiffany leaning against the door, smiling her breathtaking smile that shapes her eyes into two beautiful archs at her, just like rainbows. The smile that seems so radiant in Taeyeon's eyes that she will automatically smile along when she sees the smile.

"Do you believe in leprechauns, Fany?" She asks as she returns her gaze to the almost invisible rainbow from the window.

"Leprechauns?" Tiffany raises her eyebrows, signing she is engross by the sudden, random question Taeyeon threw at her.

"Why do people believe in the magic of rainbows? Some say, they have leprechauns' pot of gold at the end of it, some believe that rainbow means better days ahead. Do you believe in all that?" Taeyeon keeps staring at the window even though the rainbow is no longer there.

"Do you believe in morning star, Taeyeon?" Tiffany asnswers with another question.

Taeyeon stops staring at the window and now put her full attention to Tiffany who still stands against the door. "Morning star?"