The Only

viii

Junmyeon’s POV

“I want to be with you always”

Junmyeon watched Joohyun smiling so brightly, walking around so perfectly  in the streets of the city Santorini. Junmyeon didn’t look elsewhere, he didn’t want to look anywhere else but her. They were headed to eat lunch but they took their time to walk around the city.

Taking pictures together, most of it were Junmyeon’s candid shots of Joohyun with the polaroid they bought together at a vintage shop they stopped by earlier, and when they arrived at the restaurant it didn’t stop there.

They settled themselves at the table where they could enjoy the view of the sea beside the restaurant. Waiting for their order Junmyeon kept on taking pictures of Joohyun. He stopped for a moment to stare at her sitting and looking at the sea beside them at the other side of the table, he watched as the sunlight touched her skin and the sea breezes strong enough to blow her hair, everything was perfect it was as if they were just there to make her look more ethereal.

He was just so deeply in love with her, “he had to control himself, stop himself” he thought. He tried to divert his attention by taking more pictures of the view around them. When Joohyun noticed this, she got a bit of annoyed.

“Ya!” Joohyun called for his attention trying to pretend to be aggressive but it only ended up making her sound cuter, he smirked and continued to take one more shot of the view beside them. “You’ve only been taking pictures of everything around us, take pictures of me too” Joohyun gave up and whined at him with a pout.

He looked at her and couldn’t stop himself from giving in. He took pictures of Joohyun and after a while Joohyun moved their seat closer to each other to take pictures together, when they finished, they didn’t bother to move their seats back and continued to eat their meal side by side with the view of the sea just in front of them.

From time to time Junmyeon would pull out his phone quickly to take more pictures of her.

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They were supposed to go sailing on the waters of the Aegean Sea but they had a change of plans when Joohyun said she wanted to experience the famous streets of Oia. She had always wanted to visit Santorini ever since she saw the movie “The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants” with her family. They had planned what they would do together just weeks before, at that time Joohyun was confident she could go sailing without panicking about anything that might happen, but in the end she couldn't.

She felt guilty, she knew how excited Junmyeon was to go sailing with her but he didn’t really care all he really just wanted was to spend time with Joohyun after a year of staying in the states. Wandering in the streets of Oia they didn’t talk that much, Joohyun took her time to enjoy everything they passed by constantly looking at Junmyeon showing him her brightest smile.

Junmyeon didn’t bother to take pictures anymore, he was just looking at his girlfriend trying to contain himself from bursting out of love every time she looked at him so happy with everything. They were walking up on the stairs Joohyun was ahead of him excited to wander more into the streets.

When she reached the top, she turned to look at Junmyeon. She was waiting for him and smiling so brightly at him. He kept his pace on approaching her, looking at her he imagined just how his life would be if he’d see this smile every day in his life, when he wakes up, goes home, eat his meals and before he goes to sleep. “control yourself Junmyeon” he repeated to himself.

When he was 2 steps away from the top, he stopped in front of her, now Joohyun was taller than him with a huge gap. He looked up at her, she looked down to stare back at him. They were silent for a while then Junmyeon buried his face on her stomach as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

“Why are you being like this hmm?” She asked him softly, hugging him back with her other hand disheveling  his hair. “Why are you being quiet all of a sudden” she pushed him away to look at him, he looked at her and close his eyes, just listening to her and feeling every touch. Joohyun comb away with her fingers some of his hair on his forehead.

She stopped and look at him then reached down to press her lips against his. She felt Junmyeon’s lips curve into a smile as they kissed. She pulled away Junmyeon opened his eyes and looked at her, he stared at her intently. Joohyun slightly tilted her head, amused then gave a light smile.

“This was it” He couldn’t control himself anymore, he wasn’t thinking anymore when he walked up 2 steps more. He turned her to face him. She was confused, he pulled out a small brown paper bag from his pockets and pulled out the ring inside it, he knelt down on one knee

“Yes! Yes! Yes!” Joohyun answered before he could even say anything.

He tried to contain himself and smiled pressing his lips against each other. When he tried to say something Joohyun interrupted him repeatedly with her ‘Yes’. Junmyeon laughed at this

“You have to make me say something” he looked up at her still on one knee.

Joohyun took a step closer to him, holding his head lovingly, smiling “Yes” she said this again but this time her voice was soft.

Junmyeon stared at her, so in love “Marry me, smile at me every day, every morning, every night, everywhere”

Joohyun laughed lightly and took her time before she answered “Yes”

At this Junmyeon stood up and slid the ring on her finger. He just bought it last night they were walking around the mall when a particular ring in a certain shop took his attention, he couldn't let the ring out of his head. Of course, he couldn’t buy it with her so before they went home, he made up an excuse to go back inside the mall quickly buying the ring he had spotted just earlier.

He didn’t need to look around more, somehow, he just felt it was the one he needed. He had always thought about spending the rest of his life with her but he never had any thought of proposing yet, but that night he was already buying a ring with no plans of how and when he would propose and now there, he was with her the girl he had long for all his life with the ring on her finger. Junmyeon could see the tears forming in her eyes, the tears fell and Joohyun pulled him by his nape and kiss him.