Because sometimes, the instances that alter our life occurs within a short time frame.

And love, well, it doesn't pick any victims.

When it strikes, it strikes.

And it hits you.

In ways that you never thought of, with people you've never acknowledged and in situations you could never have imagined. 

 Teasers

You've done it. You're at the top. You've already achieved everything that you wanted to. You were living your dream . But it's a no-brainer. For every achievement, there must be a sacrifice. And in order for you to chase your dreams, you had to leave the love of your life behind. It was a tough sacrifice yet it only showed how badly you wanted your dream. And eventually, no matter what a long battle you've fought, no matter how far you had to go; you have to go back home.

Back to the Memories, moments, your family, your friends.

And to the one you unmercifully left behind. 

Most of the time, childhood friends end up as teenage sweethearts and then get married. 

Two people who have grown up alongside each other would find themselves much more comfortable and at east with each other than with anyone else in the world. After all, who wouldn't want to be with someone you completely trust, right? However, would it still be the case if those two 'friends' go on their seperate paths and later on, found themselves in each other's arms once more.  

Will things go back to the way they were?  Or would it be a completely different phase?

Things end up being used for a different purpose than what they were originally made for. There's a fine line between things being used by people and people getting controlled by inanimate objects, like money for example.  If you don't blur that line, everything will go on smoothly. But what if you did? What if you commited the unthinkinkable and fell in love with someone that's treated like an 'object', therefore letting it control you completely?

What if you fell in love with a  gigolo?

Like most things in the world. It started out as an idea. An idea concieved by the minds of two close families in order to bind them even closer.  The idea to force two clashing individuals to marry each other. Everything about it was planned; what about the part where they fell in love. 

Was it planned, too?

A story of how things, impressions, and feelings could change in thirty one days.

I adore you. I love you. I think that you are wonderful. I'm attracted to you. I've fallen for you.

It sounds pleasing to read and to hear, doesn't it? In every girl, there's a part of her that craves to hear those words. And In every guy, there's a part in him that longs to utter those to the girl that he admires. Most of the time, love stories are a huge success because the guy confessed, too. And then you have the case of the hopeless. The ones that are too scared to speak up, the ones that get too nervous when they're around the person that they love. The ones that treat them like the world that they revolve around yet when they're in front of them, they just treat them like any other star in a cluster of galaxies.

Nothing special.

How could a guy who falls under the category of 'hopeless' manage to achieve the much-awaited happy ending if he can't even find the courage to express his feelings? 

There are different kinds of people with different personalities and different traits.

Everyone is different, but of course most of us have similarities. Almost everyone is kind, and has a sweet side and more than often, very lovable. It's easy to fall in love with someone who's nice, sweet, funny and over all; ideal.

That's the concept, isn't it? Fall in love with an ideal person.

But what if like Lay, you could never fall into the 'norm' and always end up adoring things that are considered 'nothing special'.

Just what if.. What if you fell for someone so bizzare and strange that no one even likes? Would it be magical? Or would it be the first step to the road of doom?

If you have a place to call 'home', if you have people you can call 'family', if you have a stable supply of food, then you're someone whom Tao would envy. An poor runaway, a misguided teenager; who else could be as hopeless as Tao? Never knowing if he would still be able to live until tomorrow,  he makes the most out of his remaining days. Yet 'no man is an island', right?

One day, you're going to find someone whom you're going to treasure and want to spend every day with.

And that one day might come sooner than you think.

It might come when you least expect it to.

You know what's the most difficult situation to be in when it comes to love?

Do you know what type? 

The type that a fan has for her idol. It's difficult and hurtful. No one could ever take that love seriously. Why is it that people believe in the love-at-first-sight that they see in the television yet they don't accept the idea of a normal girl falling in love with a guy whom she'd laid her eyes on inside the four-cornered television? Why is it difficult for others to accept the fact that you've been enraptured by someone just by merely hearing their voice in the radio or even get that 'butterfly' feeling in your stomach when you look through their photocards or posters? 

If everyone keeps discouraging the way you fell in love,  if everyone tries to tell you it's wrong.

Would you listen to them?

Or would you continue hoping for that 'love' to at least get a chance?

A picture.

That was what Kyungsoo had been keeping with him for years now. There was nothing special about it--just a picture of a young girl flashing an adorable cheshire grin. There was nothing special about it--just a picture that he had picked up from the street when he was younger. There was nothing special about it--just a picture that he kept looking at again and again until he had already memorized evevery curve of her face and the twinkle of her eyes. There was nothing special about it--just a picture of a girl whom he knew nothing about.

There was nothing special about it--just a picture that made him fall in love with that girl.

Just a picture, that was all he had. How would he find her in this vast city?  

She was the miracle that Suho and his wife had been waiting for. Their little bundle of joy. Their own flesh and blood.  Everything had been planned out for the arrival of their new family member. Suho was over the moon--ecstatic, excited and nervous. They're already married, they're expecting a baby soon; I mean, it's nearly the perfect love story right?

But what if in the midst of it, something goes wrong?

And what if it just might be trigger the couple to start blaming the other?

What if the bundle of joy turned out to be a bag of disgrace overflowing with a curse?

There's this magical feeling called being in love. It's a state in which you constantly feel like you're in cloud nine and you'll feel like your face will be ripped apart by the amount of insane smiling that you do, you'll feel like your heart's about to burst with so much love and happiness you want to scream it out to the whole world.

Love's like that. 

When you experience it, it's pretty viral. Like you just want to grab the person that you love and flash them for the whole world to see. Like you just want to hold their hand while walking everywhere so that everyone will know that they're yours and always will be.  

But not everyone accepts it. 

Falling in love with Sehun is hard.

Falling in love with Sehun who doesn't want to acknowledge you to anyone is even harder. 

Keeping love bottled inside like a secret hurts.

What are you supposed to do, then?

Not every story starts with the main characters being each other's first love. Sometimes, destiny has a weird way of unfolding things. It's not everyday that you met someone when they're at their breaking point. It's not everyday that you get a chance to comfort them. It's not everyday where you get a shot at falling in love with them.

Once everything had been left behind and scars had been healed, how will you go from there?

Where would fate take you?

(A sequel to- Bandage)