mute ; junhao

TWELVE

It was three years ago on a Saturday, it had rained and the roads were busy.
I was out with my little sister, she really wanted to go to a toy store to get a new teddy bear.

Minghao paused briefly and laughed quietly, but still seemed sad because he didn't like to remember that day. Then he continued writing:

All the time I held her by the hand so she wouldn't run away or anything would happen.
She was overjoyed when she finally had her teddy bear and together we wanted to go home again.
In the meantime it had started to thunderstorms and she was scared when it suddenly flashed.
She was shocked when she dropped her teddy bear, who fell on the street.

Minghao once took a deep breath, taking a short break and wiping away the tears as Junhui stroked his back again to calm him down.

I didn't notice it when she ripped off my hand and tried to get her cuddly toy back and ran onto the busy road, and...

From then on Minghao broke off and started crying for the second time, it was too much for him, this day had shaped his life and it was a terrible experience.

Junhui reacted quickly and took the younger one in his arms again, only then did he really start to cry.
"Hey, Minghao... Calm down again.  It's all right, we'll go on another time, okay?"

Carefully he stroked the tears from his face and smiled at him, then the smaller one nodded and snuggled up to the other one.

A little further Junhui had already come, he knew that the girl in the picture was Minghao's sister and that it had something to do with a road...Was she run over? But why didn't the younger one talk, it didn't quite fit together yet.

But he would still find out the rest, that was certain and at the same time he would also try to get closer to him, because this day alone had shown him that he really had feelings for Minghao, now he was sure.

Hopefully that would be something, even if it would take some time, they would make it, together.

"Everything all right again?", he asked after a while and received a nod.  Nevertheless, the smaller one did not detach himself from him. So now they sat cuddling on the sofa, while Minghao slowly fell asleep and Junhui went through the complete story again in his head and tried to think the end for himself.