March 23rd, 2o09

Spring came.

But Autumn stayed inside.

While everything seemed to be calm outside,

Hearts were reaching out inside

Perhaps, even in the most intense storm,

There was calm because of love

*****

“Is that a new nest?”

Kyuhyun pointed to one tree which one of its branches was encircled by many birds. Joohyun followed his finger and nodded.

“It seems so.  The old branches on that one were cracked on last winter.”

She appointed another tree on their left side.

“Resilience. Those birds must have defensive patterns against all the changes on their environment.” He suddenly was decreasing his voice. “I guess they were better than we are.”

She lifted her head from his left shoulder and turned her body around so she could look at his face clearly.  He smiled and turned his face to meet her eyes.

“What?”

“You’re losing weight, Oppa.” She put her right hand in his left cheek and it softly. “You should eat more. I hate to see this protruded cheekbone.”

His eyes widen, he was not anticipating this kind of intimacy from her after their ‘break-up’ last year.  Let alone touching, he was not even dare to call her ‘Baby” because he was afraid she would be fuming again.

“Hyun....”

She blinked her eyes and her body got stiff as if she just realized what she had done. “Oh!”

But before she could retrieve her hand from his cheek, he had caught it and brought her fingers to his lips and kissed them softly. She blushed and bowed her head, but she did not yank her hand of his li