Our Secret - 우리 비밀

26. Wake Up

"I'll buy it." She said.

I was surprised by what she said and just nodded. What could I say? I just let out such an unnecessary comment.
But it seemed to influence her decision.
We looked at some more stores together before we went to buy some drinks and sat close to the dancing plaza.
They organised an area specifically for dancing.
I watched Lisa eyeing the couples dancing, how she hummed and moved her head with the beat. I wasn't a good dancer at all, but I wanted to dance with her. But who was I to ask her to dance with me. I was merely her friend, the one she came to talk about her love problems, not the one she would fall in love with. Before I get my hopes up more I should stop. There was Lukas and the other guy she was having feelings for. I could not interfere, she is irritated already.
"-yeol.! Chanyeol! Chanyeol!"
I snapped out of my thoughts, Lisa looked at me concerned.
"Is everything alright? I've been calling you many times, didn't you hear me?"
"Uh...sorry, I was in thoughts."

"I wanted to ask you... would you dance with me too?... I mean you don't have t-to.! B-but if you-you'd like it would be-"
Cute.
"Of course I'd like to."
But crap, what did I get myself into?! I can't dance for shit.
Lisa got up and I got too, I grabbed her hand so confidently but with each step to the dance plaza I got more nervous.
"Do you mind if I take the lead?" She asked.
"No! I mean, no I don't mind! Actually, I'm glad."
Pathetic. I'm so pathetic.
It was an upbeat song, it sounded kinda like Spanish music,
I held her hand but my other hand was supposed to be on her hip, but I was somehow hesitant to do it, was I, Park Chanyeol, being shy?

"Y-you can touch me, it's fine." She said and looked at me with her big brown eyes. How could she do that to me. As if it wasn't hard as it is to resist her.
When I didn't move my hands she grabbed it and placed it on her hip.
We started to move with the music, within the beat. I looked at Lisa who seemed to have a lot of fun, she was guiding me silently, she took the lead. I still wasn't a pro but at least I didn't step on her feet. We both chuckled as the song was almost over but I made a mistake and we almost fell.
"Not Bad Chanyeol," she chuckled.
"Thank you for your patience, teacher Manoban."
"Oh please, don't talk like that.!"
The mood between us was playful and easy going, it wasn't as awkward as before.
"One more song! No matter what kind of song, okay? I'm not a pro either." Lisa said and her eyes were gleaming, they were basically sparkling, who could say no to that?

"Alright." With that being said she already had my hand in hers again.
The song we danced to before just ended as she had my hand in hers and a suddenly a slow song played.
Lisa seemed startled and surprised but somehow I found a way how to take the lead.
So we danced and danced and naturally we became closer. And at some point I couldn't hold it back anymore.
"Lisa."
We didn't stop dancing.
"Hmm?" She Hummes as answer.
"What would you say, if I told you that I like you?"
She blinked a few times before she smiled and said.
"I'd say I like you too."
"And what would you say, if I said...
that I...

That I love you."
Lisa stopped as we stood in the middle of the dance floor.
It was as if my whole work held on.
Lisa leaned closer to me and whispered:
"I'd say that I love you too."

And it felt like my world stopped for real.
The world did stop for real.
I saw how the people stopped dancing how the insects stopped flying in the light of the lanterns, how the smoke of the grills stood still, how kids who were playing stopped moving in the middle of their motion.

"You passed." Lisa said in a voice that wasn't hers.
She disappeared and everything became dark. I opened my eyes and laid in a car. With all the memories I've seemed to lost, in a body that felt more like mine than ever.
I knew who I was now, where I came from and most importantly, who the girl was I loved,

Lisa was gone and I knew it. Reality came back to me. It was as if all I dreamed was just a big hallucination, but it all felt so real, how we were together in school and how she already loved me since then.
But it was another universe, something that happened in my dream, while I was unconscious in the car.
" I love you." I whispered as I looked at the sea.
Then I passed out again.
It was all too much.

Would I die now?
Now that Lisa is gone.
Will I ever see her again?