The Soloist Chapter 24
Over the Wind

 

Stars Over Me by Bolbbalgan 4
Wind by Jeong Seung Hwan

 

"Are you sure?" Hyerim said
"Of course." Yoseop said and his eyes looked so serious while he is looking to the lake. He has jumped to the lake and folded his jacket until his elbow.
"You said that you haven't out from that house right? How do you know about fishing?" She asked
"Just catch it well right?" Then he is clapping his palm and claps the water too.  "Fish .. where are you? Hello?"
"Pabo."(stupid)
"What? How..how could you..say that to me?" yoseop shocked
"You, get out from there, your feet was still in pain, and the wound hasn't healed yet, looking you to fishing without a proper way make me...uuh, i couldn't stand with it, come out, let me show you how." 
Yoseop is pouting
"Come out!" Hyerim puts both of her hands on her waist.
But Yoseop still sulking, then Hyerim is taking a deep breath before she gives her best smile, "oppa? Come here?" She said with a smile
"Hehe, that's better." Yoseop is smiling and walking towards Hyerim. "So, how to do it? Fishing?" He asked
"You are so hard to be expected, but okay! Follow me!" Hyerim holds Yoseop's wrist and drags him
They are walking to another side of the lake, where the ground was too wet and the soil was so loose. Then, Hyerim is squating down before she digs the soil by a stone.
"what are you doing?" Yoseop asked
"Looking for worms" she said 
"What?" 
"Aish, i will appreciate if you want to give me some help than talking non stop."
"You are so hard to handle, you are easy to be angry nowadays." Yoseop said
"Ah, i am sorry..can you help me? UAAA!" Hyerim yelled when she touched a worm.
"Yah! You are the one who comes with this idea, and now you are afraid with it?" Yoseop said
"I am not afraid just aaaah! Don't do that, put it down! Put it dooown! Oppa!" She said when Yoseop showed a worm to Hyerim by his hand right to her face. 
"Ahahahahah, so, what should we do with this worms? Hahahahaha." Yoseop laughed
"Let's fish-aaah, let's fishing! Don't do that! Don't do thaaaat!!" And Hyerim is running.

 

 

maybe it’s like a dream I see the stars over me
maybe it’s like a magic I know you you you’re my star
Saturday night, boring stories
no beer no cheers, it’s just us here

 

 

"What will we do?" Hyerim asked
They are laying on the grass as their mattress, feeling so great in front of the fire and feel so good after they eat their only one fish this evening. Night has coming closer and they should start to think because they couldn't be there forever.

"Hyerim."
"What?" Hyerim hasn't understood yet
"Where do you want to go?" He asked while his eyes were looking up to the sky. Hyerim really wants to say that she want to go home, but after all things which has been happened, she doesn't want to leave Yoseop alone.
"I..i don't know." She said then
"So.." yoseop hold Hyerim's hand "look! Those stars looked so beautiful, right?" He said pointing up to the sky
"Yes." 
"Which star do you like the most?" He asked
"Um...that one! The most brightest one!" She said 
Then, Yoseop gets up and smiling to Hyerim
"Shall we go to that star?"

 

 

Which star do you like the most?
You smile at me and ask, wanna go see the stars?
 

 

"Eh?" Hyerim couldn't understand "what do you mean?" 
"Hehe, Hyerim ah.." yoseop is laying again
"What?" 
"This is my first time to feel....really happy." Yoseop is closing his eyes and smiling
"I've been through those lies, and i don't want to find another lies in the future..i wish." He continued
Hyerim is wandering around, she just realized that she hasn't told thim everything about her.
"Um...i am sorry" she said
"Why?" Yoseop is looking to Hyerim from her side
"To be honest..there are something..something which you need to know." Hyerim is playing with her fingers
"What is that?" 
"But, promise me that you will not get angry, after i tell you everything."
"It depends on what you.."
"Promise me..! Please..i am afraid to see..that side of you..again." She said 
"Okay, i promise, but you should tell me everything, okay?"
"Deal." They did a pinky swear 
"But, let's get up, and tell me everything while you were looking straight to my eyes, so that i will know, when you tell me the truth or lies." 
"Is that works?"
"Usually, but not often. So, let's sit and facing at each other." He suggests
"Right, then hold my hands and i will hold yours too..okay?" 
Hyerim is doing everything that he told her to do
"Ready? So, Speak up, what is that?"
Hyerim is take a deep breath.
"So..first, this is about my name, i was born with Jung Hyerim, but my parents changed it because they have different thoughts about my name."
Hyerim is looking to Yoseop before she continues
"Are you .. angry?" She asked
"No, go on." Yoseop said
"So, when i entered my school they changed my name into Jung Eunji."
Yoseop is looking to her
"Oppa.."
"So..your name is Jung Eunji?"
"Yes."
"And i should call you as Eunji from now on?"
"Um..y..yes"
Yoseop is sighing. "Why did you tell me that you are Hyerim?"
"You are a stranger after all, my mother said that we couldn't tell our identity to a stranger, we could be kidnapped." She tried to give an explanation
"And you've kidnapped." Yoseop is smiling
"Hehe, right."
"So, Jung Eunji..ah i am still not used to call you with that name." 
"Hehe, take it easy." 
"So, another truth?" Yoseop asked
"Um..." Eunji is thinking "but are you really okay? I mean, i am lying after all." She is looking down
"It has happened, what we are going to do? If i was angry, it will not change everything, right?" Yoseop said
"Hehe, right. Ah! Why don't you tell me about yours too?" 
"Like what?"
"Um..everything, but if only you are okay with it." 
"Let's see...i was born in...i don't know, i have no idea about it, but..i remember that..it was a bright place, so much people come and eat. But i couldn't recall any of it. Then, i grown up at this place as Yang Yoseop."
"Did he give you that name?" 
"He?" 
"Um..that man who hurts you." She is looking to Yoseop's calf
"Ah, i knew my name before i met them." 
"So, you basicly kidnapped too." She said
"Do you think so?" 
"Do you think otherwise?" 
"I don't know either." 
"Seems that something goes wrong with your memory." 
"Hehe." Yoseop is smiling and Eunji couldn't count how many times she sees his bright smile today. 
Suddenly they hear fireworks from a far. Enough to make Yoseop amazed with that
"What is that?" He asked
"Fireworks. Is this your first time to see it?" 
Yoseop is blinking his eyes for several times, as a sign that it was really his first time. 
"What??! Really?" 
"Yah, Hyeri..ah Eunji, let's go to that place." He pointed on the fireworks "you said that you like that brightest star right? I will bring you there, let's go!" 
"But this is a forest and darkness is everywhere in case you forget about that." 
"It's okay! I will be with you! Believe me.." 
"We could wait till the morning rises."
"Let's go after we turn this fire off okay?" Yoseop is grabbing her wrist and walk towards the fire to turn it off by splashing water around it. 
Yoseop was too excited with the fireworks and He doesn't even listen to Eunji. 

 

 

 

we drive away, stars start to spill over the grand ocean
can’t you see the stars?
they called it milky way, it spills out above our heads

 

 

"Are you tired?" Yoseop asked, they have walked so far from the lake
"A bit." 
Then he stops and looking at her 
"I am sorry.." he said "i am too overboard." 
"It's okay, don't worry..we need to go right?" She said
But Yoseop doesn't let her to walk any further. He grabs her wrist before he is turning his back and squating down in front of her.
"Let's go." He said 
"Piggyback? No, your calf is.."
"It's okay, it doesn't hurt." 
"But.." 
"It's okay." 
He forces her, so that Eunji doesn't have any choices. 
"Do you know why we leave the lake before?" Yoseop said when he starts to walk
"You want to see the fireworks more closer right?"
"Not exactly.."
"So why?"
"Because .. seems like you want to go somewhere.."
Eunji shocked, she doesn't expect that Yoseop could realizes it.
"You .. why don't you tell me?" He asked
"Tell you what? I've told you about my name."
"No..this is..not about your name."
"What do you want to know then?"
"When i asked you..where do you want us to go, you didn't answer me right away, why?"
Eunji couldn't answer him directly, so they are walking with no sound around beside Yoseop's footstep and the trees.
"Eunju..you've through so much things already.." he said
"You too, and it was more than me." Eunji said and embracing his neck tighter from behind.
Yoseop doesn't say anything after that, Eunji knows how hurt his feeling is. When everything shattered in front of his eyes. Eunji knows, but she doesn't know how to make him better. She is afraid that she might be wrong. But she will never leave him at this moment.
"Oppa.."
"Eunji.."
They call each other in unity, and it makes them chukling for a while
"What is that?" Yoseop asked 
"You first." She said
"Really?"
"Hm."
"I...i am forget, ahahaha."
"Ya! How could you?" She is hitting Yoseop's shoulder
"Ah, it's hurt! So..what are you going to say earlier?"
Then, Eunji is caressing Yoseop's shoulder from behind before she embraces him.
"Everything..will be all right, don't worry..it's okay to lean on me."

Yoseop is smiling, he never knows that he could feel so peacefully safe like this. His days with Eunji clearly changed the way he sees. 
"Ah, oppa! Is that the highway? Is it the end of this forest? We finally leave this cursed place! Thank you fireworks!" Eunji said excitedly "put me down!" She continued
Eunji is looked so happy, her eyes are so sparkling while Yoseop was too amazed by everything he seen, there are so much people across the street, so much lights and laughter from the kids. There are fireworks and ... happiness which he never had before.
"Let's go! " eunji grabs Yoseop's wrist so they could across the street and be a part of the crowd.
His heart is beating uncontrollably, he never be in a crowded place before, something strange surrounds him. He tried to breathing normally but ....
It's hard
"Oppa?" Eunji is holding his hand and looking at him closely "Are you okay?" She asked
Yoseop knows that his hands are trembling before, his breath feels so suffocating and he suddenly feels so weak, but when she hold his hands everything were gone, and he could be sure that he is obviously okay.
"I am...okay." he said
Eunji is smiling to him warmly
"I will not let this hands go." She said and Yoseop never know that her words was magically powerful. No words could describe what he feels when she looks at him. Her smile is bringing those lights to come between the darkness inside him. It was so simple yet so impossible to understand. He is so thankful because she is with him at this moment.

They are looking around and they couldn't hold their desire to see one of the performance there. It was a mini theater which performed well by a group of musicians.

 

 

Yesterday rain fell from morning til night
Descending in thick cloud through the dust
Your delicate voice that filled my ears
Vanished into the rain

 

 

"It was so amazing! And your voice is woah..." Eunji said while give Yoseop a thumbs up after the performance ended
"I...i didn't do anything." Yoseop said
"Liar, you are singing along with them, how could you know about that song?" She asked
"I...i..just ever heard that before..at my house, from a radio." 
"Ah, so.." 
"Hello!" 
They stopped right away when someone joined them all of sudden. 

"Who are you!" Yoseop asked to a boy beside him. He is a boy who seems older than Yoseop.
"Who..who are you?" Yoseop asked him again
"Aah, i am Huh Gak, and i am a part of a festival group." He is smiling "that group which just performed just now." He continued
"Are you...a part of my dad's friend?" Yoseop asked suddenly
"You dad? What the hell you are talking about? I don't know your father and suddenly you asked me that i am a part of them? I've told you, i am a part of a festival group." He insisted
"If you are really a part of them, why do you stay here then? Are you hiding?" Yoseop couldn't believe him
"I am not hiding! Ah it doesn't like the way you think, i am looking for something." 
"I can't believe you...stay away from.." 
"Oppa." Eunji is interrupting him, she hold Yoseop hand to reassuring him
"It's okay, i think he is not that bad, believe me." 
"Eunji..we don't know if.." 
"Believe me.."
Yoseop is take a deep breath before he is nodding his head "okay."
"Excuse me, i am Eunji..Are you really a part of them?"
"I've told you, i am!"
"And what are you doing here?" She asked
"Ah, i am looking for something.."
"Hm? What is that?" She couldn't hide her curiousity
she asked him, but he doesn't answer her right away, he is looking at them closely and smiling, indeed he has his own reason for that.
"I want both of you join us in our troupe."
"What?!" Eunji said
"I've told you, we shouldn't let him near us from the first place." Yoseop said while grabs Eunji's wrist and drag her to walk away.
"Aah, wait wait wait.." huh gak blocked their way
"I am not a bad guy, believe me." He continued
"Let i tell you the whole reasons and you could leave me after that, okay? Pleasee? Eunji, you believe me right?" He asked desperately
"Oppa..let.."
"Don't tell me that you believe him so easily." Yoseop said
"Just ... a little while, let'