Come To Me | A Park Hyungsik Fanfiction ✔️

Here Right Now

Early September 2017

(Seoul Musical Theater)

Although Hyungsik and I have both agreed to meet his parents during the Chuseok festival, often times, things do not work out the way we want them to.

It was the night for my musical comeback, and I've been told that all the seats have been sold out in less than an hour. The theater was packed on both the first and second floor, a privilege belonging only to Hyungsik's shows.

The fact that he wasn't part of the line-up tonight had to mean something.

Some of them were probably curious about my identity, others waiting to slam my overrated performance, and probably a handful of them wanted me to do well – mom, dad, Hyewon unnie, my brother-in-law, Soojin and Hyungsik.

It hadn't really occurred to me that I could include Hyungsik's parents into the list.

Slowing my ragged breathing, I looked straight ahead at the dolled-up woman whose pupils wavered back at me.

As pressure mounted on the top of my shoulders, I tried to disengage my worrisome thoughts by running through a song. Warming up my vocal chords once more, I let out a deep breath as I loosened my tight lips. Belting a tune, I searched for the right note, gradually adding words to the tune I was already humming.

Here right now, here right now
This is what we're living for
This is when we give into the moment and let go

Here right now, everything we're dreaming of
Is coming through if we step up and own it
Let it flow

One foot in front of the other
So much for us to discover still
This is why we...

I held my breath, finding myself repeating the same line again and again, save for the last word.

So much for us to discover still
This is why we...

This is why...

"Damn it. Pull yourself together, Moon Hyeyeon!" I cursed at myself, frustrated. This isn't the time to be forgetting something as important as the lyrics of the opening duet.

Closing my eyes, I tried again, filling the quiet dressing room with nothing but my shrill voice.

One foot in front of the other
So much for us to discover still
This is why we... make it everything we have and more

Unaware that the door had creaked open to allow a visitor, it was only when I heard an accompanying voice joining in that made me look up.

Knitting my incomplete lyrics with his, Hyungsik's crescent eyes were laid lovingly on mine.

Harmonizing as one reminded me of our younger days, where we sang side by side before the open sea.

And the lyrics that I'd forgotten found their way to my tongue with ease.

... Everything we have and more
As love as we stay together
We'll just keep getting better till
It really doesn't matter what comes after or before

Wrapping his solid arms around me, Hyungsik's voice was as pacifying as I'd imagined it. "There's no need to be nervous, Hyeyeon. You'll be just fine."

Eyes on the ground, I offered, "It's just that it's been a while. It feels like my first show all over again. I'm a ball of nerves."

Lifting my chin with his finger, Hyungsik unveiled his master plan. "Let's untangle that ball of nerves, shall we? Would you like a cuddle, a kiss, or the full package?"