𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐒𝐄 | jaemin nct

16

"I'll be your forever"

~~~•❦•~~~

I flipped through the pages like a lunatic, the words hitting me like a bullet even when I did not understand a single sentence.

It did not make any sense. Why would I write about Moon, at the age of five?

Did I see him before?

If then, why dont I remember anything about us?

I recalled nothing, absolutely NOTHING. My mind was a blank page.

"I called him Moon...." Those words were like the lyrics to a song. Come to think of it, I did feel quite connected to Jaemin when I first saw him. He didn't look like a stranger. Maybe I had met him before.

Perhaps we were friends....

"Moon is really stupid, he said there are stars on our ceiling...." words scribbled by the five year old me.

I smiled a little looking at it when I noticed a pair of eyes staring at me. I turned around to see Haechan rubbing his eyes.

"NOOOOO!" He suddenly jumped on me and I almost shouted,"LEE DONGHYUCK ARE YOU CRAZY?"

"why are you reading about my embarrassing moments?" He tried to take the book but I placed my hand on his face, shoving him away as I said,"No you idiot! I wasn't even reading about you."

"Then what were you reading?" He removed my hand from his face, and sat cross-legged on the bed.

"This..." I showed him the page where I had written about Moon.

"Have I ever told you about him?" I asked.

Haechan looked at the paper, reread the sentences, then said,"He only visited you at night?"

I nodded.

"You don't remember anything about him?" He raised his eyebrow.

"Not really..."

"You have NEVER told me about him in detail. " He flipped through the pages again.

"Must have been your childhood friend whom you have forgotten..." he said.

"I don't think so....I mean...I dont remember him very well but whenever I think I about him it bring a really warm feeling." My lips were curving into a smile, perhaps I was even blushing.

"Warm feeling huh?" He looked at me with sly eyes and by reflex I punched him on the arm."STOP THAT!" My voice turned to a higher pitch.

"I didn't even say anything....why are you so violent ?" He rubbed his arm and I mumbled,"sorry...."

"Well then..tell me about him..." he sounded interested.

"Okay...."I smiled," His name is Jaemin...but I call him Moon because...."

"Wait a minute..." Haechan stopped me." You said you don't remember him..."

"Well....um....he comes at night nowadays."

"Since when?"

"A week?"

"Okay....."He said.

"Hey loosen up, you sound like a counselor..." I shrieked.

"No...it's just.....I have never seen him, and when you did write about him....he sounds..."

"He sounds?"

"Never mind...what were you saying?"He said.

"No...you complete your sentence!" I said.

"Nah.." He sighed, "You see him nowadays, right?"

"Yeah...Haechan come on..."

"Well...I was a kid back then too, so don't take it too seriously...."

"You are scaring me." I rushed through the sentence.

"He sounds more like an imaginary friend...you know.."

"What? No!" I yelled at his face startling  him."no way...." I mumbled.

"I'm sorry...." he said.

"Of course he is not imaginary! You mean all the time I have spent with him, it's all fake?"

"Em! calm down....it was just my assumption when I was a kid...."

"Its just an assumption..right?" My fingers were turning cold, I was slowly shaking.

"Calm down Em..calm down...." He came towards me holding my trembling arms.

Moon was my happiness, my everything, and he just cannot be fake, a fragment of my imagination. He cannot....

~~~•❦•~~~

"We wrote our fairy tale, it's name Eclipse."

"But  fairy-tale's do not exist in real life, do they?"