Hanging by a Moment Here With You

Chapter 23

"This is amazing!" Mouth full of food, Leeteuk wiped his mouth as he and Eunice walked down the sidewalk in Central Park. After finishing his last bit of the hot dog, he wiped his hands and took Eunice's hand in his own. "You know what else is amazing?" He looked at her for a response.

She smiled up at him and shrugged.

"Being able to walk around with you and not be recognized by anyone."

Eunice giggled to herself. "But you love being in the spotlight."

He smirked. "Yeah most of the time. But right now, the only person who I want to notice me is you." Stopping in place, he turned to face her and took her other hand in his, stroking them gently.

Blushing Eunice gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I can't believe I'm finally here, with you." She spoke quietly, a little embarrassed.

Leeteuk squeezed her hand. "I'm sorry I didn't plan anything for today. I didn't know I would be with you. I wasn't planning to see you until we got to Los Angeles." He looked over at her. "I'm glad you came."

"Me too. But thank Heechul."

"Oh, I already did." He laughed. "What should we do?"

"I don't think we need to really do much. I'm enjoying just being in your company. I have waited so long just to be by your side. So doing this, just walking together, is perfect."

Leeteuk pulled Eunice closer and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Then let's walk and see what we find."

After ten minutes of walking around Central Park, Eunice spotted something going on out of the corner of her eye. "Ohh, a play! Let's watch!"

"I won't understand all of it though." Leeteuk reminded her.

"That's ok, we can make up our own scene while we are watching. I think that will be more fun anyway." She pulled him over to where the performers were standing and chose a spot on the grass near the back of the audience.

Unknown to them they were watching this month's Shakespeare in the Park. The play was Macbeth. Eunice didn't recognize the play and while she could figure out what was going on, she couldn't understand most of the language they were using, despite it being in English.

She pointed to the actress who was currently on the stage. "So she's upset because he," then she pointed out the actor who stood beside her. "Forgot to do the dishes last night. She said, 'I work so hard every day and you can't just do the dishes for me? Now the food is stuck on, so I have to scrub it really hard!'" Eunice laughed.

Leeteuk took the que from her and pretended to be the actor's voice. "Woman, you know I haven't had time to clean. I just got home a few minutes ago. I was busy practicing the choreography all day with my medieval dance troupe."

Eunice giggled, making Leeteuk's heart swell. "Now you made me mad. I don't care about your dance troupe. I work hard all day too, making sure the horses we have know how to go grocery shopping. Do you know how hard that is?" Eunice replied with something just as ridiculous.

Leeteuk chuckled loudly, drawing the attention of a few people in front of them. The people angrily glared at them, making Eunice and Leeteuk shrink back, trying to hold in their laughter.

They decided to let everyone enjoy the rest of the play in silence. Leeteuk scooched closer to Eunice, putting his arm once again around her waist. Still unsure of showing public affection, Eunice blushed under his touch. That made Leeteuk want to move even closer to her. As he did, he reached his hand up and brushed some stray hairs behind her ears. She shivered at the small movement and let out a small, wistful sigh. Leeteuk knew by her reaction that this was one of many perfect movements they would share together.