Spontaneous
Cry Out With My Heart and Soul
I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. I crossed the room to where I'd stripped my shirt and answered the phone without even looking at the caller ID.
"Hello?" I said groggily.
"Wookie! I've been trying to get ahold of you for ages! Where are you?" Said the voice on the other end of the line.
"Who the hell is this?" I rubbed my eyes sleepily and began looking around for Yesung. I could've sworn he had slept next to me… "Yesung are you playing a prank on me?"
"Yesung? Who the hell is Yesung?"
"Well you should know, it's you!"
"Um… Wookie… this is Henry. I don't know who Yesung is."
Suddenly, I was wide awake. "HENRY??" I yelled, almost loud enough to wake the dead. I heard a thunk from the other side of the room. I put my weight on my right foot so I could lean sideways to see what it was. "Yesung? That you?"
"Dammit, Wookie I told you it's Henry!"
"Shut up for a second!" I said to him.
"Oh wow… that hurt." Yesung moved his way into a sitting position with his legs crossed. I bent over him as he was rubbing his head. "Oh… you don't know, do you?"
"Know what?!" I said, startled.
"I can't really sleep in the same place for more than like, twenty minutes. I get up and go to another bed, the floor, or in this case, under a dresser…"
I paused at first, then started laughing. "What?" Henry said on the other side of the phone. "What's so funny?"
"You're a weird one, Yesung." I smiled and ruffled his shaggy black hair.
"Wookie! Talk to me!"
"Dammit what do you want Henry?" I stood up and began pacing the room.
"Who the hell is Yesung?"
I eyed Yesung, who was brushing his teeth in the bathroom. Where he got a toothbrush, I don't know. Maybe Carol brought some up after seeing we had no luggage. "He's…ah… He's my boyfriend."
"WHAT?!?" His scream almost knocked me to the ground. I switched ears.
"That's my ear…"
"I dumped you yesterday and you already have another boyfriend?! Had you been cheating on me?!"
"What if I was?"
"Where the are you?"
"How should I know?"
"Hmm. I don't know, just tell me the name of the damn town!"
"No can do."
"Why's that?"
"It doesn't have a name."
"Come again?"
"This town doesn't have a name."
"What kind of bastards don't name a town?!"
"The nicest people you've ever met in your entire life."
"The hell?"
"I quite like it here, actually, now that I think about it."
"I will find you. And I'm going to bring you home and away from that bastard, Yesung."
"Aw… Don't be so mean to Yesung. It makes me cry." Yesung looked over at me when he heard his name, then he finished brushing his teeth and began brushing his hair.
"That er doesn't deserve you. I do."
"That why you broke up with me?" Yesung looked over again.
Henry paused at this. "Look, Wookie… I… I'll come get you. We can make up, and –"
"No."
"What was that?"
"Did I stutter? I said no."
"Don't you miss us?"
"Of course I do. But you ended it, so that means you've moved on, right?" I didn't give him time to answer. "So that means it's my turn to move on, too. Goodbye, Henry."
"Wookie, wait…" I hung up and tossed the phone on the bed. Soon after, I felt a set of arms wrap around my middle, holding me in place. Yesung rested his head against my back. It felt nice… his arms holding my own in place, his bare chest against my back… I felt his heartbeat, he was so close.
"Wookie…"
"Yesung…?" Suddenly, his name rolled so perfectly off my tongue. I could almost believe the lie I'd told Henry about Yesung being my boyfriend.
"He's not worth it."
"Wha…?"
"I could hear… the way you talked to him… it seemed like you loved him. Not by the words you said, but by your tone of voice. I don't want to tell you who you can and can't love, though, because I've barely known you a day. But please don't go chasing after a guy like him."
I found myself shocked at Yesung's words. He'd known me a day and he already knew me well enough to detect the slightest change of tone in my voice? I had to admit, I was impressed. "Yesung… I promise I won't go chasing after him." I felt him nod against my back, and then I realized he was crying. He loosened his grip on me and I turned to face him.
Then… I don't know where it came from.
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