Kyuhyun – Yoona

It’s been three years already since she left me and not even a single day I missed without thinking about her, I realized now that I can’t –really—lived without her. Not literally like those people said on tv, because you know you can live without depending on somebody else ‘cause you got oxygen to live. Which means, Yoona is my oxygen. Everyday I passed with some blank thoughts and also my hopes of going to Sydney, to go up to her and to tell her the truth.

First lecture

“Good morning class, today I wanna give the discussion about the water crisis in Sydney. What’s causing it and how to fix it, I need you to write a report about this and if you can attach some pictures that would be so much better. I  expect this to be done by the end of semester, which will come soon.” The lecturer explains briefly, seems like he doesn’t take a single breath.

Kyuhyun stares blankly to the whiteboard and like he’s been stung, he raised his hand abruptly and asked, “Wait a minute, sir. Sydney??”

The lecturer, whose writing on the whiteboard so seriously, turn his back around and looked at him as if he’s in a mental sickness or something, “Yes, now do I have to repeat myself, Mr. Cho?”

“That’ll be unnecessary, sir. Thank you. But one more question, do we have to go there to do research about the water crisis?” asked Kyuhyun carefully, he keep his hand up and his mouth is opened, curiously paying attention to what the lecturer will say.

“Well if you want, you can do that.” Answered him, and after that the whole class went quiet again, and left Kyuhyun playing with his pen instead of writing the discussions down, blankly, and confused.

Sydney, Australia 9.50am

Phone rings, signed that someone texted her and she didn’t bother. All she cares about is her time of sleep, sleeping has been a very rare thing that happened to her since the last seven days in her busy end of semester. Yoona forced herself out of the bed and check her phone out.

Text Message. Sender: Strcft guy
Hey it’s me. I know it’s been a long time—wait, a reaallllly long time since we’ve last met, and I don’t have any idea if this is still your number, or maybe you deleted mine from your contacts so you can’t recognize me, but anyway, I just want you to know that I’ll go there this Friday.

Deleted him? Deleted his number. Funny thing, since she’s always remember and will never forget about it, she’s keeping whatever related to him. She even remembers how he smile and how his clothes smells like peppermint when she left for Sydney that day. It’s all clear in her head, she never forget. And whom she never forget will come to Sydney, within Friday. This three years she’s been through made her realized that maybe she can’t move on even one single step and figure that it’s the time to forgive somebody.

***

Kyuhyun arrived in Sydney on a very bright Friday morning. He’s rarely going out of country since the last time he had was in the junior high school with his parents. He got a nice hotel near the opera house, he really planned this all. Not too long after he’s checking in, he went outside to go for a library, he knows that this is not a vacation—at all. He walked down the streets seeing everybody linking arms to each other some seating on the benches and eat ice cream together, he feels like everybody is cheating on him, teasing him. When he found the library he immediately went inside and look for the environment section. “Water Crisis, The Impacts on Sydney”  a book with an interesting cover and seems not so hard to read looking by its pages. Minutes later he found himself drowning in that book, focusing on everything seriously.

“I heard someone will come by.” Said someone, a female voice, behind his back. He was as surprised as he can be, when he know that voice is a familiar voice from somebody he loved, somebody he missed so much after all this three years. He turns around and sees Yoona holding her phone, smiling at him.

He didn’t do anything first, he just stares surprisingly towards her, still holding that water crisis book. “Didn’t you want to hug me? We haven’t met for three years, you know.” Yoona melts the awkwardness and Kyuhyun gets up and hug her tightly, “I thought you will never show up. How did you found out I was here?” ask him behind her hair, he absorbs all the oxygen around her as if he became alive again, as if Yoona is the real oxygen he’d been waiting for all this time. “I know you like books and I know you’re on your way to the end of semester so I figure that you’re totally not on vacation in here for sure. How are you?” she said, her voice is trembling, mix of the happiness and also sadness from the epic meeting with Kyuhyun again.

“I’m fine. How are you? I missed you. I missed you, so much.” Everybody around them starts noticing and some starts teasing them but Kyuhyun doesn’t care at all. He missed her, it’s all that matters. “I missed you too.” Answered her, and they let go of each other and sit together. “Kyu?” she calls shyly and start pretending to focus on the book in front of her, “What is it?” he grab her hand and stares at her, paying his full attention. “I will come back. Right after I finish this all.”