Prologue:

Bright lights, dazzling from above; shining solemnly on stage.

He stares into the crowd, cheers erupting for him but yet so distant. There was a pause in his heartbeat as his eyes accustomed to the fame that he had so longed for.

And then, a still silence.

A sound ringing in his ears, desperate; like the movies he saw when he was younger. As though of a man getting out of a coma, continuously ringing and resuscitating him back to life. It doesn’t stop there, the sound crawling deep within his mind and tingling his nerves.

It went on and on and felt like a never ending journey to hell. His eyebrows twitched and he felt the sinking in his heart ever so deeply. Swayed by the falling motions of the light shining down, he felt as though he could fall anytime from now.

Then soft hands patted his back and the man found himself back into reality.

The cheers erupted louder and louder, fans screaming his name and he allowed himself a simple apology in his own mind. He turned around, finally face to face with a worried looking expression staring him down. The man gave a small smile of reassurance but the worried look didn’t once disappear.

Jinwoo wanted to cry.

He didn’t know love could be this horrible and bitter.

Just like the tears he tasted from her eyes.

A/N! I’m not able to find the long WIPs I had for my other fics. I was supposed to be uploading a new MarkDy oneshot for Markdy Day last year but I still have yet to finish it. It’s a super long one, whilst this was shorter so I uploaded this instead. To be honest, I don’t have the luxury of time to be uploading many things anymore since work takes up 90% of my free time but I’ll try to drop by once in a while if there’s some random musings. I especially do want to upload the oneshot that I promised for Markdy Day. Please don’t hate me for this lol. And always, thank you for reading.