Title: “He Was Quiet”
Date: 2013 July 11
Characters: Hyunyoung & Mir
Inspiration: “A Lack of Color” Death Cab for Cutie
Genre: Angst
Words: 538

If you feel discouraged
That there's a lack of color here,
Please don't worry, lover.
It's really bursting at the seams
For absorbing everything.
The spectrum's a to z.

Hyunyoung saw their relationship as the color black. It was plain and simple, yet very broad and mysterious. She never understood what was going on in his mind, but she accepted how he was never really questionable or witty. It kept them in silence, leading them into easy agreements between one another. She could almost say their relationship was bland. There were no spices. He made it very comfortable—too comfortable—and it kind of made her feel uncertain that there could be such thing as “love” between the two of them. She didn't feel the connection or the sparks between them, and she also didn't see the bond the two should have.

When she moved in with him, she thought it was the best day of her life. She was finally living with the man she thought she loved so much, but their sweet interactions and lovey-dovey gestures soon disappeared within the first week of moving in. She thought it was just that stage in a relationship when the strong affections between the lover