The transformation

It was a beautiful day, so Yaël decided to go for a walk. The fall leafs had fallen to the ground.

Red, yellow and orange filled the entire park.

She was listening to music.

“Every night I try my best to dream

Tomorrow makes it better

And I wake up to the cold reality

And not a thing is changed

But it will happen

Gotta let it happen

It’s just a spark, but it’s enough

To keep me going

And when it’s dark out

No one’s around

But it keeps glowing”

The lyrics of Paramore’s “Last Hope” always inspire her.

 As the wind brushed through her hair, Yaël started to softly sing along.

Although she sang softly her voice sounded loud.

Loud enough for someone to overhear her.

She heard a beautifull voice shamelesly singing along with her.

Yaël turned around to take a look at the singer with the voice of an angel.

She stood in front of a handsome young man with a fluffy face.

Shocked to suddenly stand in front of a beautiful girl who had just overheard him singing, the young man blushed a little and then got a big smile on his face.

“Sorry to disturb you, I just love this song, I couldn’t help but sing along” the young man said.

“I really don’t mind, you have a great almost angelic voice” Yaël said “I wish I had a voice like yours, so I wouldn’t emberass myself everysingle time I sing along with my favorite songs”.

“Well actually your voice isn’t as bad as you think, you just need more confidence in yourself” The young man said.

Yaël took a better look at the young man, his smile was contadious.

“ Do you do happen to have a job in the music industry?”

“Not really, it’s more a hobby. I do work at a local music store though”.

The young man looked at her, he took a breath to say something, but was interupted by a cheerful young man.

“Youngjae! You have to come check out this elevator in the bank! It goes up and then it goes down again!” The cheerfull young man said.

 “Don’t all elevators go up and down?.....” Yaël said.

“Really?! I thought it differs per city.”

He said with a shocked face expression.

“Who are you anyway? Youngjae’s new girlfriend?” the cheerfull young man asked.

“Jongup! Don’t be rude! And no, she’s someone I just met.” “What’s your name anyway?” Youngjae asked as he turned to Yaël.

 Yaël introduced herself. “I love your name, but doesn’t your name mean goat?” Jongup said as he laughed.

“How do you know that?” Yaël asked. “Sometimes when I can’t sleep I look through old namebooks.” he said.

That guy named Jongup is a strange guy, but he’s funny, Yaël thought.

But she enjoyed talking to Youngjae and Jongup.

Yaël shiverd, it was cold outside.

“Are you cold?” Youngjae asked.

“I would like to have some tea, let’s go to a cafe!” Jongup said, still as enthousiastic as ever. “I know a good one” Yaël said.

Yaël led Youngjae and Jongup to the Americano.

“Welcome to the Americano, the cafe with the best coffee of. Oh hey Yaël! Good to see you again. And who are these two people, are they friends of yours?” Himchan said.

“Hey Himchan! My friends and I where a bit cold, so we decided to stop by.” Yaël said.

Youngjae, Jongup and Himchan greeted eachother and introduced themselfs.

“Please take a seat, eat and drink as much as you like.” Himchan said with a warm smile.

After they orderd something to eat and drink, Himchan walked to kitchen. He started preparing some coffee and tea.

“Himchan seems nice.” Youngjae said.

 Yaël and Youngjae talked about a lot of different things, while Jongup would listen and occasionaly would have a random response.

“What’s your favorite animal? Mine is a koala” Jongup said.

“eh…. Jongup we were talking about our schooldays, how did you get to talking about koalas?” Youngjae asked. “Well when I was little, I used to be in a dance group named the koalas”. 

Yaël started laughing.“Why the koalas?!” 

“Because they’re cute and smell fresh because they eat a lot of eukalyptos” Jongup said, as if it speaks for itself.

 Youngjae facepalmed himself and Yaël couldn’t help but laugh.

Suddenly Yaël felt a hand on her shoulder, she jumped and landed straight into someones arms.

“I’m so sorry!” Yaël said and as she looked up at the man’s face, she recognized it was Daehyun. “Daehyun! Why did you scare me like that!” Yaël said.

Daehyun smirked “I just wanted to say hi, I didn’t think I would scare you like that.”

“Back for your annual cheesecake visit, huh” Yaël said.

“How did you guess!.”Daehyun said as he laught.

“Please come join us, these are my new friends, Jongup and Youngjae.”

Daehyun introduced himself.

“Feel free to join us” Youngjae said.

The waiter entered the room carrying our drinks and food.

To Yaël’s shock, the waiter was Yongguk!

He was wearing a maid’s costume.

Yaël burst out in laughter.

 “You also do cosplay?” Jongup asked Yongguk

 “Personally I like to dress up like a princess” Jongup said.

Youngjae’s jaw dropped in shock as the rest, including Himchan, who just walked in, were dying laughing.

I having a feeling that I’m going have a great time hanging out with these people, Yaël thought to herself.