it's the last day of coachella. lisa and i decided to tag along with jaden and all his other crew today so we weren't really alone. but it sure feels like it. (in a good way)
for the past few days, lisa's always caught my eye, no matter what the situation. we always end up looking at each other, not until one of us looks away with a big, giddy smile on our face. she's been the one clinging onto me and holding my hand and wrapping her arm around my shoulders. i'm not saying i love it when she does those things, but yes i really do. maybe, just maybe, i would like to keep her with me and tuck her into my pocket at all times.
"chaeng-ah," my name rolls of her lips like ice on a sunny day. i turn to her only to be blinded by the sun as i cover the light with my hand. i hear a shutter go off and i'm met with a camera a few inches away from me, "ya!! lalisa!!"
she laughs delicately. it's like a melody that i'd do anything to let it be stuck in mind, repeating over and over again. i focus my vision back on her as she shows me her camera.
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"yeppeo (pretty)" she says, zooming in on my face. i can't help but smile as she zooms out, now giving her full attention onto me. "one more," lisa raises her camera and starts capturing more photos. this was her thing. our thing. she always takes pictures of me whether i'm aware of it or not. and i'm pretty confident she has a folder of just me on her phone. i don't blame her on that because i do too.
i pose click after click, shutter after shutter, as she moves around me. she even crouches down to get that angle as she keeps yelling, "you're so pretty, chaeyoung-ah," she says my name like that all the time that it doesn't even come out as my name anymore. now it's just two syllables, "chong" and "ah". it almost feels like that just became another thing of ours. and certainly, now it just feels like my name is chong-ah.
a few seconds later, i got too worked up on posing that when i opened my eyes, lisa has her arms wrapped around me and her camera is now in our manager's hands. she looks at me dearly, making me smile and hide my face away from her gaze. the way i blush when she looks at me is the definition of embrassing myself. not in front of all these people, nope! i'm not gonna be doing that today. nu-uh!
"okay... hana... dul... set!"
the shutter goes off and we suddenly hear jaden and his crew wooing and some whistles going around, making me even blush harder. lisa just laughs as she tells me to the pose for another photo.
"how may photos do you even want?" i ask her in disbelief. was she planning on making a photobook full of us together or something?
she just huffs and puts her hands on my shoulders. i look up at her, somehow with all the courage i have left, i manage to keep still. my heart's beating out of my chest, "photos are just moments you can keep looking back on, chaeng. moments you don't want to forget about..."
