Hide Me (On Hold)

connection

"Everyhing happens for a reason, everything is connected by a pattern. That's why you're here, aren't you?" He laughs at my words. "You were talking about the butterfly effect, weren't you?" I take a sip from my drink as I take in his words. We were talking in the café, the boy and I.

"It has been a long time since I last saw you and yet you didn't change a single bit." "I saw a butterfly the other day, I had to think of you. It was a simple blue winged butterfly, I can recall that it was your favorite color. Am I wrong?" The young man continued after almost completely ignoring what I had said. He really didn't change over the past years. "It is, still." "You haven't changed as well. My little butterfly."

Ten years had passed since the girls disappeared. No traces, no bodies. "Dont call me yours please. It's been ages that we saw each other, specially been together." I smile politely, but deep inside I still want him to call me his. I just want to cry and lay in his arms. After four years you would think I would be over him, thought wrong.

"Baby, please don't be like that now. I know you still like me, do you think I forgot about you?" I started to get angry. "Do you even know how I felt after a year not talking to you and seeing that picture with him!" I shouted at him, the angry tears rolled down my cheeks. I see him looking down in shame. The people in the café were looking at us now, no. They were looking at me. Like I just completely lost my mind. Perhaps I have. Not that I care that much.

"I don't want to see you again. Not hear from you again. Ever. You broke me and if you think you can make it right... you're so stupid." I laugh, just to get the tension, the sadness, the anger out of my system. I knew that I had to leave now and don't had to turn back. He had cheated on me with another and it was my own fault, I knew that. He tried to speak, but I turned my back and walked away. I didn't have to look back to know the look on his face, the sadness in his eyes. It was the same as mine when he told me he would go away, away from me.

"And scene! Great job boys! This must've been a rough one, you two good? Good. This was it for today go home and I'll see you two tomorrow." The director says trough his megaphone. I run back to my boyfriend and hug him tightly, even though it was acting I still feel bad for yelling at him. "Please remind me why we film dramas again?" I sighs and feel him wrap his arms around me as well. "So we can act together in a love story, over and over again. so I can fall in love with you, over and over again." he says softly and kisses my head. I giggle softly, because I know he had to bend down to do that. "Lets go home" I look up at him and nod. We go to the dressing room and change into our casual wear quickly, wanting to go home as soon as possible.

At the exit of the building I jump on his back and he carries me laughing softly. The security guards walk with us till we reach our car as the paparazzi followed us, taking way too much pictures for our liking. We shrugged it off and got into the car. "The fans keep asking us to do some horror movie. It's called 'flower crown' do you think we should play in it? it's going to be recorded in the same village we grew up in." My boyfriend starts the car and starts driving before answering. "Sure, I don't see why not. The movie is about those girls who disappeared right?" I nod, forgetting for a second he can't see me nod. "yes, it's about them. But for a mysterious reason they want male actors to lay the roles, hoping for better reviews as there aren't any female actors who want to play the roles." I respond.

We get home and lucky for us there is no paparazzi nearby. I check our mailbox, finding two scrips. "Dae? they send us scrips." I take them out and look at them, there are two cards. One with a blue and one a yellow butterfly on it. I take them with me inside and put them on the table. "I'm in the livingroom baby. I think we should just order sushi or something and then look at the scrips they send us." I walk into the livingroom, suddenly not feeling that well. "Baby, are you okay? You're really pale." Dae says and walks up to me. He hugs me leading me to the couch and into his lap. I just nod, feeling too nauseous to speak. I snuggle close to him and close my eyes. I feel his strong hold around me and his soft kisses on my cheek from time to time. I feel safe and protected in his hold. There isn't any other man I would want to spend my life with. I hear him talk sweet words to me as I drift off to sleep. Much like the human version of 'did you try turning it on and off again?'. Dae keeps holding me close even as I sleep, I don't know what it is that causes these things but it's already the fifth time it happend. We went to the doctor, but even he couldn't figure it out what was happening.

It scared me, even Dae was scared. I just hoped it would go away with the new medicine I got. Many times I wonder how life would've been without the curse of the girls. That's how they call the story of the seven girls that disappeared by sunrise in our home village. Seven girls; Magazi, Hana, Nabi, Hikari, Simjang, Umi, Mú. All of them disappeared when they were just sixteen years old. No one has found them till this day. Me and Dae are around twenty years old now, we have been together for four years. I know what the horror movie is about, I'm just not sure me and Dae are suited for the roles. Thinking about our age and all. There are plenty of good looking sixteen year old actors. The movie is about what would've happened during their time away, where they could've possible gone to and all. I'm excited to play the scenes with Dae, even though I hate horror movies.