narrations for my au

jeonghan malia exhibit

it was the day before the exhibit and malia is contemplating whether she starts right away, she remembered the same scenario a year ago but not that she was expecting someone to come... but she actually does and she kept roaming around nagbabakasakali na madaanan niya yung taong inaabangan niya, but no luck.

later on she saw joshua on the hall of memories as he waved at her with a comforting smile, "start ka na? i'll help you na." joshua got some materials that can help support the frames to stick on the walls as malia also called some helpers to help them place the pictures below to its designated positions.

as they were silently fixing the metals that has the names of the pictures, joshua started the conversation, "sorry kay jeonghan ah, mukhang tanga i thought he'd help you on your first day but turns out he kept chickening out hay nako." joshua says tiredly, you shook your head and softly laughed.

"okay lang, hindi ko rin naman alam gagawin ko if ever we see each other and besides baka busy—" malia was cut off by joshua's snort, "anong funny doon, shua!!" malia whines as joshua shakes his head.

"busy your face, he's been pacing back and forth yesterday sa condo namin ni junnie after the outing, i don't know what's up with him." joshua mutters as he fixed of the tags.

you just ignored his last statement as you were now busy cleaning also the edges from the frames of your pictures as joshua excused himself as someone texted him.

later on malia felt a presence at her back as she did not even turn around to get a glance at the person beside her because she thought it was joshua. she was reaching out for her hand until she felt a hand on top of hers, "yung tape kas—" as she looked up it was jeonghan standing there holding her hand and smiling awkwardly.

malia removes her hand immediately as she got the tape herself and looks back on the wall.

"you know you can't just ignore me the whole night" jeonghan mutters behind her as she felt his steps near her. she looks on her peripheral view and saw that jeonghan was also fixing the name tags of each pictures.

while they were just silently doing their job side by side, malia started walking away to finally start putting up the frames as she felt jeonghan trailing behind her. later on, she heard jeonghan reading the names on the tags as he also translates it in english, malia bites her cheek on the inside trying herself not to smile.

she coughed softly, "i didn't know you're still learning italian words, great job though." malia mumbles as she puts the name on the wall, "i never stopped learning kahit nakapunta na ako italy last year." jeonghan replies as he continues reading the names while walking,

"...Bello come il fiore... As beautiful as the flower" she heard jeonghan mumble, "ang familiar ng title i don't know—" malia softly laughs and at that exact point they stopped in a familiar frame in front of them as jeonghan almost tripped and looked up.

"Bello come il fiore." malia says as she carries the big frame and slowly puts it on the wall, jeonghan was standing there looking amused as he looks back at malia fondly looking at the frame and that made jeonghan smile as well, "my favorite photo out of all photos i've exhibited." malia mutters.

"should i be fluttered?" jeonghan teases as malia fixed the tape and puts out her hand, "you can be." as jeonghan puts the name tag on malia's hand and let her do the rest of the job.

as they just continue placing all the frames on the wall jeonghan thoughts that after this he should really talk to her so after everything, she can go smoothly these days not minding anything— hopefully.

jeonghan was just admiring malia's face while she keeps pouting as she focuses on putting the frames on their right angles. the man can't help but to smile sometimes at how malia drops other things and almost tripping to some wires while they're walking— at least jeonghan's right there catching her. sometimes they would just casually talk about other things normally not trying to bring up the topic about them but sooner or later they should be.