One Wish

CHAPTER 26

  After the fireworks show had ended we went back inside and sat on the couch. We sit facing each other. Seven is still holding onto my hand. He still looks kind of sad. "Hey, Seven. Can you tell me what's up?" "Umm..." he looks above him, "sealing?" and he laughs. I laugh too. "No, I mean why did you cry before?" He looks away. After a while he grins and looks at me, "I won't tell you, because I don't want to lie to you, haha," and he laughs. That was so fake and he knows it.

Without thinking, I jump at him and hug him tightly. He was now laying on the couch and I was on top of him, like some kind of a blanket. He's surprised about it, so at first he doesn't hug me back. "It's okay.. it's okay.. You don't need to push yourself if you don't want to." His breathing gets fast for a moment and he starts whimpering again. I then whisper to him, "I just want you to know something..." He puts his arms around me and hugs me tightly. "If you ever need somebody to talk to, then I'm here. I'm right here to listen to you." He hugs me tighter. Looks like he has needed this sort of a good hug for a long time now. Now he's really crying. I don't know how to make people stop crying. The only thing I do know is how to hug a person.

We both lay there for a while, till Seven stops crying. "Do you feel better?" I ask quietly. There's no response. I look to the side to see his face. He has fallen asleep. He looks so cute when he's sleeping. I try to get out of his embrace, but he's holding me pretty tightly. I want to move, because it's very uncomfortable like this. After a while I somehow got up. I went upstairs to get him a blanket and a pillow.

He looks so miserable. There are tear tracks on his cheeks and he has bags under his eyes from all the crying. Now that I look at him, he looks actually so sad. He looks like how he usually does, but... Has he always looked like this? I know he doesn't sleep a lot, but it never felt like he hasn't slept for days. I thought that Saeran was just joking, when he said that if Seven ever falls asleep he would remain in hibernation for a while. I take his glasses off and let him sleep.

I'm not sleepy though. What should I do now that Seven is asleep. I look around and see the dvd that Jaehee gifted me. Maybe I should watch that. I take it out of the box and play it muting the tv. Jaehee said it was good. I watch it and it isn't that bad. Well, it's weird to watch since I can't hear the vocals and only read the subtitles of what they are singing. The acting part is really good though.

I hear rustling. I look to the side and see that Seven has woken up. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I wake you up?" "No, no. Did I fall asleep like this?" "Heh, yeah. I didn't want to wake you, because Saeran said you don't sleep well. How do you feel?" "Oh, I'm fine, sorry," he rubs his eyes. He looks nothing like he usually does. "You look so sad..." "Hmm? Really? I'm like I usually am." I squint my eyes and lean closer to him. He does look exactly the same, but he looks sad. "W-why are you looking at me like that?" "Oh, it's nothing..."

We then sit in a silence and just look each other in the eye. He's eyes are still a very pretty yellow. "Hey, MC." "Yeah?" "You had to pause your movie, right? Wanna finish it?" I nod, "We should watch it from the beginning. I haven't heard any singing from it, haha." I restart the movie while Seven is sitting behind me again, pulling me on his lap. "You want to cuddle again?" "Yeah," and we both laugh. Just like last time, I put a blanket over me while Seven is holding me from the back and resting his head on mine. He's giving out his positive vibe again. Since we're both tucked in very comfortably we soon enough fall both asleep.

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