Unexpectedly Regular | Kim Namjoon

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"Is he really coming, Nara?" Angie asked through a text message.

Angie had been working for six months as a lawyer on the Brazilian office of a multinational German company. Because of her top position in the company, she was Nara's only friend who owned a car. She was kind enough to borrow her car so Nara could get Namjoon at the airport. Angie's only condition was to keep her posted on every step the couple would take. That was predictable, although Nara thought the other girl was much different from the over romantic dreamy girl she met two years ago when both of them studied in Korea.

The German girl was now living in São Paulo too and although her accent would always reveal she was not Brazilian, she already felt at home at the streets of the biggest city of the country. In fact, she was more used to the lifestyle of the metropole than Nara, who had moved to São Paulo right after returning from Suncheon. Seeing her mother daily was the thing she missed the most, and although she had left the town without many real friends, she missed the familiar faces of everyday people. The way the city was so big, modern and everything was so far to get to made Nara miss her place, where she could walk or cycle to every distance she needed to. She missed that more than Namjoon.

It was not like she didn't miss him. It's just that he had always been so constantly present in her life in so many ways that she didn't have a chance to really miss him. His mother was always traveling or taking part in so many of her social activities promoted by the church she was part of. With Namjoon, things were quite different. She could not spend the weekends with him like she did with her mother, but the boy was always texting or calling or video calling her.

Under the layers of her scarf, she touched the key hanging from a long necklace. It was hard for Nara to believe Namjoon would finally touch her again. "Nem acredito que ele vem mesmo!", she read Angie's new message. It's not like her friend didn't believe he would come. It's not that she didn't support the couple. In fact, she was always encouraging Nara to believe and trust that love, no matter how hard it was for them. Angie truly believed in the magic of love, but as she thought everything was so magical when people were in love, she couldn't understand how Namjoon and Nara was so in love yet only now, two years after meeting, he finally took a really long flight just to see Nara for barely a month.

She had visited Gabi in Brazil constantly before she finally got a job and moved to São Paulo. Gabi was still in transition from Rio de Janeiro, where she came from, to São Paulo, but at least they were closer than before and every now and then they were seeing each other, as Gabi had also been to Germany during the same time Namjoon and Nara had been apart. But Namjoon and Nara were both aware of how hard it would to be together. Their case was a little more complicated, but both of them were aware of that, so they had to learn to deal with distance because that was all they had for now.

Time was already generous to bring them together after that long time and as they had promised before, things were slowly changing so they could arrange to have a life as closer as possible. Before that, they had to adapt, so they found their own ways of being together, even though they were apart. They had to try the unusual ways of loving each other. At the top of Namsam tower, Nara wrote a letter to Namjoon letting him know that the horizon ahead of them was too wide for them to stare at just one mountain, when there was a whole lot of other views to be seen out there as well. She was giving him the freedom to explore whatever possibilities of involvement they could have with other people while they were apart, because she believed that would be fair to both of them. With her words, she also set herself free.

However, the connection they had from the start made her emotions bond with him stronger, no matter how far the possibilities of being together could be. She never knew from his side if he had a chance to discover those options, but she believed he couldn't hide much from her now, even though they were really far from each other, their minds were close enough for both of them to read each other very well. They also never stopped talking to each other, and she could see he was almost never busy with things that were not work or, sometimes, friends and family. She wouldn't blame him or feel jealous if anything happened, though. She had no guilt but she knew she couldn't give the attention a relationship required at that moment and she never regretted having unrestrained both of them.