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A smile stretched on your lips as you felt the soft sand on your bare feet, feeling content with where you are now; a small island that you couldn’t remember what it’s called. The visit to the island hadn’t been planned thoroughly, all you knew was that your savings are enough to last you a month in this island. You were blessed that you found a good stay-in with reasonable price.

The life in the city have been too rough for you. Too demanding that you decided to resign from your work. Your parents are certainly not happy with your decision, telling you that you just wasted a good promotion as you have been working with the company for three years. But you badly need an escape, badly need to know that your life actually worth something more than just work and money.

You heaved out a heavy sigh, gazing at the sky that was painted with hues of orange that indicated the sun is going down; a sight that you aren’t able to get if you were in the city as the tall buildings covered it.

Shifting your eyes to gaze at the sea, you couldn’t help but to spot a guy. He was clad in a swimming suit, the clothing hugging his body that showed his muscle and it lets your mind wonder how it would look like uncovered. It amazed you when he goes through the waves of the water with his surfboard, surfacing above it right before your eyes. You knew you’re mesmerized by him in an instance.

His black hair sticking to his face and soon his eyes catched yours, making your cheeks heated. He gave you a slight smirk but it was washed away literally when a big wave hits him making him stumble off his surfboard. You couldn’t help but to laugh at it, your feet unconsciously bringing you close towards the beach until the small wave of water hits your ankle. The man that you had been staring at surfaced, his arms was placed on his surfboard and you are able to get a clear sight of his arm muscles underneath his swim suit.

You assumed he was crinkling his eyes and scrunching his nose at you when he spotted you again, making you smile at him. Soon, you find him standing right in front of you, his surfboard placed by his side. Letting you able to see beads of water falling down from his hair to his face, you never want to wipe someone’s face dry so badly in your life.

“Hey,” you started slowly as you look up to find his eyes, realizing that his eyes hold way too many stars for you to count, “sorry for shamelssly looking at you.” Said you accompanied with a sheepish smile. He just laughed, sounding so out of breath that you found it attractive.

“It’s fine, it’s not everyday that a beautiful girl caught staring at me.” He was playful with his words, by now you know that you were blushing because of him.

“That is a lie, with how attractive you are people must have been looking at you.” You stated, you didn’t meant for a hint of jealousy to show, but you realized it did when he raised an eyebrow at you.

“Well, don’t be jealous, sweetheart. As I said, not everyday a beautiful girl stared at me. If you get the hint.” He said nonchalantly.

Oh. Now you get the hint. He was not implying that nobody stared at him; but he was implying that you were beautiful. Nobody ever called you beautiful, sure, more often than not people called you pretty. But never beautiful.

“Shut up.” You managed to say, pursing your lips at him due to embarrassment. He just laughed, again sounding so out of breath.

“Anyways, my name is Baekhyun. You are?”

Baekhyun. You tried to call out to his name, and the way his name rolled out your tongue sounded perfect. Telling him your name, you couldn’t help but to feel your blood rushing to your cheeks at what he said. “Beautiful girl with a beautiful name. Fitting.”

There was a comfortable silence after the short introductory as Baekhyun was running his fingers