Breaking Down Barriers
Summer Night's DreamHe stretched out his body to relieve his tired and aching muscles in the cramped airplane seat. With his dark tinted sunglasses still on, he looked around the first cabin to see if any fans or paparazzi were snapping pictures of him. To his surprise he let out a sigh of relief, everyone was quietly sleeping from the Shanghai to Seoul night flight. For the next few hours he can relax in peace, he knew that being an actor meant giving up some of your privacy but he never thought that in a million years he would have to give up all his privacy and have fans stalking his every move and people auctioning items he touched and used online.
His head slowly fell back into the headrest of the seat, his mind in deep thought missing her sweet voice that brightens up his rainy days, her sparkling eyes that shines like the light at the end of the tunnel and her warm embrace that gives him energy to subject him to the abuse of overworking himself to prepare for their future together. He’s lost count of the number of times he’s been on a plane in the last month, but one thing hasn’t forgotten is the last time he spoke to her. It was at 4pm to be exact, right before he needed to board the flight.
‘Shin Hye ah, I miss you. Did you miss me too?’
‘Hmm…let me think about it’
‘Yah! In that case, I won’t give you your souvenir’
‘I miss you as much as I miss chocolate.’
‘Chocolate? How can you compare me to food? Aissh I don’t know if I should take it as a compliment or a critique?’
‘100% compliment! I really like chocolate but I cut it from my diet to prepare for the upcoming movie filming. So in the meantime, you can be my replacement chocolate. All this talking about chocolate is making me want some, hmm…maybe I can cheat for today.’
‘Cheat day, I like how you think. You can eat me tonight!’
‘Yah! There you go again, every moment you get. I will be sleeping at Park Se Young’s place by the time you arrive’
‘Shin Hye ah! I gotta run they’re doing last call for my flight. I got on an earlier one, I will be back by 8. Text me where to pick you up for dinner. I miss you.’
Before she could contest, he already had hung up.
He drifted off to a sweet slumber with a smile smitten over his face. If there wasn’t for his phone he would have gone crazy, better yet, depressed from being so far away from her for the past few months working non stop on endorsements and commercials. He looked forward and counted the minutes to the 3 times he would talk to her a day 1 before he had lunch, 1 before he had dinner and 1 before he slept. Facetime is definitely one of the top 3 inventions of all time, the thought of him not seeing her face makes his heart ache, if Facetime didn’t work he probably would have turned down all his international jobs to stay close to her.
‘Min Ho, it’s time to go’ the rough shake of his manager to get him to wake up and prepare his mind and face for his fans was all so familiar.
Don’t they realize that there are some days I just don’t want to smile. I might be an actor but I’m human too, I have feelings and I want to be able to express them freely like just the average Joe. Don’t they get sick of putting me on a pedestal to admire at the beckon and call? Sigh, here we go again…Min Ho remember to smile for the cameras.
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She kept looking down at her watch, it was ten past 8, she had been in an all day photo shoot with a perfectionist photographer. What was suppose to be a 5 hour shoot turned out to be a 10 hours because of his attention to detail. While she was sending eye signals to her manager to help her get out of there, the photographer was doing one last review of the final round of photos he took.
‘Ok everyone, it’s a wrap! Shin Hye thanks for being so professional and staying double time. Until next season’ He walked up and hugged her.
‘Gwamo for making me look so beautiful. Sorry I have an 8pm appointment, I have to run as I’m already late. Sunbae I’ll treat you to coffee next time.’ She bowed quickly to the crew to express her gratitude for their efforts and rushed out the door waving bye to her manager.
As she was getting ready to leave the building, she took a black cap out of her bag and lowered it onto her head to hide her face under it to prevent people from recognizing her. She quickened her pace and didn’t want him to wait any longer for her. Right when she opened the building’s door, she spotted his black tinted sports car without any hesitation she began to sprint towards his car. The feeling of seeing him in person than through her phone screen had her smiling from ear to ear. He religiously Facetimed with her 3 times a day, hey she’s not complaining, but after his prolonged period away from Seoul she was starting to miss his scent, touch, warmth but more importantly simply being around him. His giggle and laughter is her pill to cure her from a tiring or bad day. She knows its bad to be greedy but for once she just wants to be greedy and selfish for herself.
‘Park Shin Hye! Park Shin Hye! Park Shin Hye! Congratulations’ he clapped loudly like he was cheering for his favorite football team at the moment she open his car door.
‘Congratulations for what?’
‘Congratulations for missing me so much that you sprinted across the street in less than a minute to see me’ he held up the paused stopwatch from his phone to some more.
‘You know what I can do that is faster than that?‘ one hand still holding onto the closed door’s handle and the other teasingly touching his right arm.
‘I can think of a few things but they involve using our lips’ without hesitation he puckered up his lips.
She moved her body closer to his teasing him to think that she was going to kiss him, ‘I can leave’ she now puckered her lips in an o shape.
‘You wouldn’t dare break my heart’ without any hints, he went in for the kill and planted a peck on her lips.
‘Stop acting cute, you’re too dangerous. Lets go I’m starving’ she pursed her lips and let out a silent giggle while intertwining her left hand with his right hand
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